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Events

Report from the Embedded Linux Consortium meeting. The Embedded Linux Consortium, celebrating its first birthday, held a meeting at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose. LWN's Forrest Cook was there, and has sent in a report from the gathering. There is much optimism in the embedded Linux community...

O'Reilly's P2P Summit. Summaries of the O'Reilly sponsored Peer-to-Peer summit are now online. The summit, held in San Francisco on September 19th, was designed to discuss technologies similar to Napster. " The music industry is positioning peer-to-peer as if it were an attack on copyright, when in fact, it's a technical approach that is fundamental to the architecture of the internet. "

Real-time applications with Linux. Karim Yaghmour, author of the Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT), will talk about real-time applications development (in French) using the Linux Real Time Application Interface (RTAI) and LTT. The technical differences between RTAI and RTLinux will be addressed. Wednesday October 11, 2000 at the École Polytechnique de Montréal.

ApacheCon Europe 2000. Here's an announcement (in French) about ApaceCon, happening October 23 - 25, 2000 in London.

Software Development Conference & Expo. Presentations by Kevin Mitnick, Larry Augustin, Gloria Gery and Martin Fowler are scheduled during SD 2000 which runs October 29 - November 2, 2000 in Washington, D.C.

October/November events.

Date	Event	Location
October 3 - October 7, 2000.	NetForum 2000	New Zealand.
October 5 - October 7, 2000.	LinuxWorld Conference and Expo	Frankfurt, Germany.
October 10 - October 14, 2000.	Atlanta Linux Showcase	Cobb Galleria, Atlanta, Georgia.
October 15 - October 19, 2000.	2nd Annual Linux Storage Management Workshop	University of Miami, Miami, Florida.
October 16 - October 18, 2000.	Wireless Developer Conference	Santa Clara Conference Center, Santa Clara, CA.
October 23 - October 25, 2000.	ApacheCon Europe 2000	Olympia Centre, London, England.
October 27, 2000.	Embedded Linux Expo & Conference	Wyndham Westborough Hotel, Westborough, MA.
October 29 - November 2, 2000.	Software Development Conference & Expo 2000 East	Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
October 30 - October 31, 2000.	Open Source Database Summit	Hayes Mansion Conference Center, San Jose, California.
October 30, 2000.	First Annual Federal GNU and Linux Users' Conference And Awards Presentation	Washington, D.C.
October 30 - November 1, 2000.	Linux Expo Canada	Metro Toronto Convention Center, Toronto, Ontario
November 7 - November 9, 2000.	Embedded Systems Conference Europe	Maastricht, Netherlands.
November 13 - November 17, 2000.	LINUX Business Expo	Sands Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.
November 25, 2000.	Australian Open Source Symposium	Adelaide, Australia.
November 28 - December 1, 2000.	IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing	Technische Universität Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany.

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net in a plain text format.

Web sites

Sensiva's new Web site. Sensiva launched Sensiva.com, a free content and information portal, that also links to the company's multi-platform software. Sensiva's new Web site is offered initially in English, French and Japanese; with more languages to follow.

User Group News

The Linux Users' Group of Davis. LUGOD announced that they will be demonstrating the Linux operating system on Saturday, October 7th and the following day, LUGOD and the UC Davis Computer Science Club will be hosting an Installfest in Davis, California.

Long Island Linux Users Group. LILUG announced a LAN PARTY on October 10, 2000. So bring computer, bring a hub, plug in and have fun.

LUG Events: October 5 - October 19, 2000.

Date	Event	Location
October 7, 2000.	Roanoke Valley GNU/Linux Users Group, Virginia Tech Linux/Unix Users Group and Red Hat, Inc. host a Linux Installfest	Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia
October 12, 2000.	Boulder Linux Users Group	NIST Radio Building, Boulder, CO
October 12, 2000.	Phoenix Linux Users Group	Sequoia Charter School, Phoenix, AZ
October 12, 2000.	Linux Introduction	Delfzijl, Netherlands
October 15, 2000.	Omaha Linux User Group	Omaha, Nebraska.
October 15, 2000.	Beachside Linux User Group	Conway, SC.
October 16, 2000.	Linux Users' Group of Davis	Z-World, Davis, CA
October 17, 2000.	Bay Area Linux Users Group	Four Seas Restaurant, Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
October 17, 2000.	Kansas City Linux Users Group	Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO.
October 18, 2000.	Linux User Group of Groningen	Groningen, Netherlands
October 18, 2000.	Arizona State University Linux Users Group	Tempe, AZ
October 19, 2000.	Rice University Linux Users Group	Rice University, Houston, TX

Additional events can be found in the LWN Event Calendar. Event submissions should be sent to lwn@lwn.net in a plain text format.

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