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Announcements

Resources

Speech: We are the new guardians of the world. Here is the text of a speech by Tony Stanco, one of the founders of FreeDevelopers, on why free software is an important part of freedom as a whole. Worth a read. "The world has fought a lot of wars to make regular law open, democratic and available to the governed. We shouldn't let technology take us backwards to a time when a few people have the arbitrary power to create whatever law they please and have everyone else just subject to it. I found that technologists discount these ideas more than they should."

LinuxUser issue 9. The online version of LinuxUser, Issue 9, is now available for download in PDF format. This issue includes a cover story on Samba, "The NT Killer", and stories on the OSDEM conference, a comparison on Linux and BSD and real time operating systems.

Events

Wizards of OS 2. The second Wizards of OS conference has been announced for October 11 to 13 at the House of World Cultures in Berlin. The event appears to have gotten more ambitious; free software is still high on the agenda, but issues like peer-to-peer, public knowledge, and biotechnology are there as well. Speakers include Bruce Perens, Rusty Foster (of Kuro5hin fame), Lawrence Lessig, and others. It looks like a seriously interesting event.

Australian Unix User Group's Annual Conference. The call for papers has gone out for this conference on Open Source, Linux and BSD. Deadline for submissions is June 15.

Events: May 31 - July 31, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
May 31, 2001	II Forum Internacional do Software Livre	Brazil
May 31, 2001	The Unix Users Group the Netherlands Spring Conference	(De Reehorst)Ede, the Netherlands
May 31, 2001	MontaVista seminar	(Irvine Hilton)Irvine, Calif.
June 5, 2001	MontaVista seminar	Chicago.
June 6 - 7, 2001	Linux Expo	Milan, Italy
June 7 - 8, 2001	Second European Tcl/Tk User Meeting	Germany
June 7, 2001	MontaVista seminar	Toronto.
June 11 - 14, 2001	Hot Springs Educational Technology Institute conference	(Hot Springs High School)Hot Springs, Arkansas
June 13, 2001	Linux@work	Paris
June 14, 2001	Linux@work	Brussels
June 15, 2001	Linux@work	Amsterdam
June 20 - 21, 2001	Linuxdays 2001	St. Pölten, Austria
June 25 - 30, 2001	USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Boston, Massachusetts
June 25 - 27, 2001	NCSA Linux users' and system administrators' conference	(University of Illinois)Urbana, IL
June 29 - July 1, 2001	Linux 2001 Developers'' Conference	Manchester, UK
July 3 - 5, 2001	Enterprise Linux Institute Conference	Olympia, London
July 4 - 9, 2001	Libre Software Meeting	Bordeaux, France
July 4 - 5, 2001	Linux Expo Exhibition	Olympia, London
July 5 - 8, 2001	LinuxTag 2001 - Stuttgart,	Germany
July 9 - 12, 2001	Embedded Systems Conference	(Navy Pier Festival Hall)Chicago, Ill.
July 9 - 13, 2001	SAGE - AU 2001	(Grosvenor Vista Hotel)South Australia
July 19 - 25, 2001	Networking Event 2000(ne2000)	Nuenen, the Netherlands, South
July 23 - 27, 2001	O'Reilly Open Source Software Convention	San Diego, California
July 23 - 27, 2001	1st annual PHP Conference	San Diego, California
July 25 - 28, 2001	The Ottawa Linux Symposium	Ottawa

Web sites

Penguinista's first year. The Penguinista! news site is celebrating its first anniversary. Congratulations, and we wish you many more!

Geeknews.org on hiatus. This time, it's not the economy's fault. It looks like the realities of college life are taking their toll on the founder of geeknews.org. "It is with a great deal of regret that I report to you all that I have decided to put Geeknews.org on a bit of a hiatus. As of May 28th, 2001 Geeknews.org will cease to have a web presence. However email for the site will continue to work normally."

User Group News

LUG Events: May 31 - June 14, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
May 31, 2001	Bergen Linux User Group(BLUG)	Bergen, Norway
May 31, 2001	The Unix Users Group the Netherlands Spring Conference	(De Reehorst)Ede, the Netherlands
May 31, 2001	AaLUG: Generalforsamling i AaLUG	Denmark
June 2, 2001	Twin Cities LUG(TCLUG)	Minneapolis, MN
June 2, 2001	Sheffield LUG(ShefLUG)	University of Sheffield, UK
June 4, 2001	Baton Rouge LUG(BRLUG)	Baton Rouge, LA.
June 5, 2001	Linux User Group of Davis(LUGOD)	(Z-World)Davis, CA
June 5, 2001	NorthWest Chicagoland LUG(NWCLUG)	(Harper College)Palatine, Illinois
June 5, 2001	Missouri Open Source LUG(MOSLUG)	Kirkwood, Missouri
June 6, 2001	Silicon Valley LUG(SVLUG)	San Jose, CA
June 6, 2001	Southeastern Indiana LUG(SEILUG)	(Madison/Jefferson County Public Library)Madison, IN
June 6, 2001	Kansas City LUG Demoday(KCLUG)	(Kansas City Public Library)KC, Missouri
June 7, 2001	Edinburgh LUG(EDLUG)	Edinburgh, Scotland
June 7, 2001	Gallup Linux Users Group(GalLUG)	(Coyote Bookstore)Gallup, New Mexico
June 9, 2001	Consortium of All Bay Area Linux(CABAL)	Menlo Park, CA
June 9, 2001	Route 66 LUG	La Verne, CA
June 9, 2001	GalLUG Installfest	(Connecting Point Computers)Gallup, New Mexico
June 11 - 14, 2001	Hot Springs Educational Technology Institute conference	(Hot Springs High School)Hot Springs, Arkansas
June 12, 2001	Victoria LUG(VLUG)	(University of Victoria)Victoria, British Columbia
June 12, 2001	Long Island LUG(LILUG)	(SUNY Farmingdale)Farmingdale, NY
June 13, 2001	Toledo Area LUG(TALUG)	Toledo, OH
June 13, 2001	Columbia Area LUG(CALUG)	(Capita Technologies Training Center)Columbia, Maryland
June 13, 2001	Silicon Corridor LUG(SCLUG)	(Back of Beyond pub in Kings Road)Reading, UK
June 14, 2001	Boulder Linux Users Group(BLUG)	(Nist Radio Building)Boulder, CO
June 14, 2001	Phoenix Linux Users Group(PLUG)	(Sequoia Charter School)Mesa, AZ.

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