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Resources

A Quantitative Profile of a Community of Open Source Linux Developers. A paper has been posted on the ibiblio.org site which attempts to quantify some aspects of the open source development community. To that end, they looked over thousands of software map entries at the Metalab site. "Our results confirm a very broad participation at this level in the open source software associated with the Linux Archives. A strong bias towards European developers is revealed, reflecting the European roots of Linux perhaps, as well as a balance between .com and .edu contributors."

LinuxUser Issue 4 is available. The articles in LinuxUser Issue 4 can be downloaded at http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/articles/.

Events

ApacheCon Europe 2000. Here is a wrap up report about ApacheCon Europe 2000 which ran last October in London, England. The report also contains some information on upcoming conferences.

Toronto Linux Expo, Day 3. Stefane Fermigier has sent in his day 3 report from the first Toronto Linux Expo. This report covers clustering and high availability. An interesting statistic shows up from the talk by Jim Reese of Google: "6000 servers. 500 TB storage. 1 Google day = 16.5 years. 33 machines die on average every day."

Reports from the LINUX.org pavillion at IT.COM, Bangalore. Atul Chitnis has sent in a couple of reports on the Linux.org pavillion at the IT.COM event in Bangalore, India. "Meanwhile, the 'powered-by-Linux' stalls at the Linux.Org pavilion at the IT.COM have been drawing a wide range of curious computer professionals, students, engineers and users. Special volunteers are demonstrating the various capabilities of Linux in home, development, multimedia, educational and other settings."

Hispalinux Conference in Madrid. The Hispalinux Conference will be held in Madrid, Spain from November 10th through the 12th. Hispalinux is the Spanish Linux Users Group. Speakers include Richard Stallman and Miguel de Icaza. Note: the web site is in Spanish. English speakers can contact congreso@hispalinux.es for more information. (Thanks to Alfonso Baciero)

LinuxUser Conference - London. The program for the LinuxUser Conference in London, December 5-6, is now online. Speakers will include Larry Augustin of VA Linux and Dirk Hohndel of SuSE and XFree86.

Applied Computing Conference 2001 Call for Papers. The Applied Computing Conference and Expo announced a call for papers. The conference will be held May 14 - 17, 2001 in Santa Clara, California.

November/December events.

Date	Event	Location
November 4 - November 10, 2000.	SC2000 - SuperComputing	Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, TX.
November 5 - November 11, 2000.	LinuxPark at Systems 2000	Munich, Germany.
November 7 - November 9, 2000.	Embedded Systems Conference Europe	Maastricht, Netherlands.
November 10 - 11, 2000.	Linux Meeting 2000	Rome, Italy.
November 12 - November 15, 2000.	XML DevCon Fall 2000	San Jose, California.
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.
December 2 - December 3, 2000.	LinuxCertified's Linux for beginners	Cupertino, CA.
December 3 - December 5, 2000.	Wireless DevCon 2000	San Jose Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, CA.
December 3 - December 8, 2000.	LISA 2000	New Orleans, LA.
December 5 - December 6, 2000.	LinuxUser 2000 Conference	Chelsea Village, London, England.

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

User Group News

LUG Events: November 9 - November 23, 2000.

Date	Event	Location
November 9, 2000.	Boulder Linux Users Group	NIST Radio Building, Boulder, CO.
November 9, 2000.	Phoenix Linux Users Group	Sequoia Charter School, Mesa, AZ.
November 9, 2000.	Linux Installation	Delfzijl, Netherlands.
November 9, 2000.	The autumn conference of the Unix User Group - the Netherlands	"De Reehorst", Ede, Netherlands.
November 11, 2000.	Route 66 Linux Users Group	La Verne, California.
November 14, 2000.	Long Island Linux Users Group	SUNY Farmingdale, NY.
November 15, 2000.	Arizona State University Linux Users Group	Tempe, AZ.
November 15, 2000.	Linux User Group of Groningen	Groningen, Netherlands.
November 17, 2000.	Rice University Linux Users Group	Rice University, Houston, TX.
November 18, 2000.	Silicon Valley Linux Users Group Installfest	Computer Literacy Bookshop, San Jose, CA.
November 18, 2000.	Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group	Eugene, Oregon.
November 19, 2000.	Beachside Linux User Group	Conway, South Carolina.
November 20, 2000.	Linux Users' Group of Davis	Z-World, Davis, CA.
November 21, 2000.	Bay Area Linux User Group	Chinatown, San Francisco, California.
November 22, 2000.	Linux User Group of Assen	Assen, Netherlands.

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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