See also: last week's Announcements page.

Announcements

Resources

Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS)? Look at the Numbers!. Are you still trying to convince your boss or co-workers to accept Linux and other OSS/FS? Try pointing them to this paper by David A. Wheeler, which emphasizes _quantitative_ evidence for the value of open source software / free software.

WIDI - Who Is Doing It?. The WIDI project seeks to gather empirical data about Open Source / Free Software developers. The project is run by a research group at the Technical University of Berlin which has developed a questionaire aimed at Open Source / Free Software developers to gather data about their social, cultural and professional environment. Anybody who has been involved in Open Source / Free Software development is kindly asked to donate five minutes of their precious time for filling it out. More than 5000 developers already have.

Tip Of The Week: That's Some od Data You Have. LinuxLookup.com shows how to use the od command for a flexible way to look at binary data.

A review of the Abit Siluro MX400 (Duke of URL). The Duke of URL takes a look at Abit's Siluro MX400 with NVIDIA's drivers on both Linux and Windows drivers. Benchmarks are included.

Events

Summaries of past events, LinuxTag, Linux Expo UK, LSM, Debian Conference. Aschwin Marsman has provided a view of LinuxTag including a number of pictures.

This report from Linux Expo in London shows that the grassroots events are still quite popular. Also includes lots of pictures.

James Bromberger has posted a large set of pictures from the first Debian Conference, held in Bordeaux, France.

Here's another view of the Debian Conference.

There's also a brief report from Libre Software Meeting and a set of photos from LSM too.

LSNet Hosts Third Annual Linuxfest. The third annual LSNet Linuxfest takes place July 14, 2001 in Galax, Virginia. Sounds like quite a party with live music and dancing.

Open Country Announces Open Innovation. Open Country announced Open Innovation, a conference to be held at the Santa Clara Marriott on July 31 and August 1, 2001.

LinuxWorld San Francisco to Showcase Embedded Linux Solutions. IDG World Expo announced that the upcoming LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, to be held August 26 - 30, 2001 at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, will feature an Embedded Linux Pavilion sponsored by the Embedded Linux Consortium (ELC).

Call for submissions: XFree86 Technical Conference needs KDE talks. Keith Packard has put out a call for talks to the KDE community to be given at the XFree86 Technical Conference scheduled to be held in conjunction with ALS in Oakland later this year.

Events: July 12 - September 6, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
July 12, 2001	Embedded Systems Conference	(Navy Pier Festival Hall)Chicago, Ill.
July 12 - 13, 2001	SAGE - AU 2001	(Grosvenor Vista Hotel)South Australia
July 12 - 13, 2001	European Zope Conference & BBQ	Berlin, Germany
July 14 - 15, 2001 August 4 - 5, 2001	LinuxCertified Linux System Administration BootCamp	Cupertino, California
July 14, 2001	Linuxfest	Galax, Virginia
July 16 - 21, 2001	The Open Group Quarterly Conference	Austin, Texas
July 16 - 20, 2001	The Open Group Real-time and Embedded Systems Forum	Austin, Texas
July 16 - 21, 2001	The IEEE PASC (POSIX) System Services Working Group meeting	Austin, Texas
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 25 - 28, 2001	The Ottawa Linux Symposium
July 28 - 29, 2001	Rocky Mountain Software Symposium 2001(RMSS 2001)	(FourPoints Sheraton in Cherry Creek)Denver, Colorado
July 31 - August 1, 2001	Open Innovation	Santa Clara, California
August 2 - 4, 2001	Yet Another Perl Conference Europe 2001(YAPC)	(Hogeschool Holland)Amsterdam, Netherlands
August 13 - 18, 2001	IPsec Interoperability Workshop (Bakeoff)	Espoo, Finland
August 14 - 16, 2001	Embedded Internet Conference 2001	Santa Clara, CA
August 14 - 16, 2001	LinuxWorld China	Beijing, China
August 20 - 24, 2001	HP World 2001	(McCormick Place)Chicago, IL, USA.
August 20 - 21, 2001	JabberCon 2001	Keystone, Colorado
August 23 - 25, 2001	LinuxWorld Hong Kong	Hong Kong
August 26 - 30, 2001	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	San Francisco
September 2, 2001	Erlang Workshop - Firenze	Italy
September 4 - 7, 2001	Embedded Systems Conference	(Hynes Convention Center)Boston, MA
September 6 - 7, 2001	Open Source Health Care Alliance(OSHCA)	(The Posthouse Hotel Kensington)London, UK

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

UNESCO open source information. Apparently, UNESCO is very interested in open source. They have added a free software portal of important open source links which includes a a brief history of open source, types of licenses and a collection of useful developer texts.

ES.TOOLINUX.com announces new partnerships. ES.TOOLINUX.com, the Spanish language portal, announced new partnerships with Planeta Linux Argentina and Lunix, an Argentinian enterprise from Santa Fé.

User Group News

Linux Enthusiasts And Professionals of Central Florida. LEAP-CF will hold its regular meeting on July 19, 2001, at DeVry Institute in Orlando, FL. Steve Litt of will present a talk on Regular Expressions.

New Hampshire LUG activities. MELBA, the Nashua chapter of the Greater New Hampshire Linux Users Group, announced it's July meeting at Martha's Exchange on July 27, 2001.

LUG Events: July 12 - July 26, 2001.

Date	Event	Location
July 12, 2001	Boulder Linux Users Group(BLUG)	(Martin Park) Boulder, CO
July 12, 2001	Phoenix Linux Users Group(PLUG)	(Sequoia Charter School)Mesa, AZ.
July 12, 2001	Kernel-Panic Linux User Group(KPLUG)	San Diego, CA
July 14, 2001	Consortium of All Bay Area Linux(CABAL)	Menlo Park, CA
July 14, 2001	Route 66 LUG	La Verne, CA
July 14, 2001	GalLUG Installfest	(Connecting Point Computers)Gallup, New Mexico
July 14, 2001	KPLUG Installfest	(National City Adult Center)San Diego, CA
July 15, 2001	Beachside LUG	Conway, South Carolina
July 15, 2001	Mesilla Valley Linux User Group(MVLUG)	(Village Inn on El Paseo Rd.)Las Cruces, New Mexico
July 16, 2001	Linux User Group of Davis(LUGOD)	(Z-World)Davis, CA
July 16, 2001	Haifa Linux Club	(Technion CS dept. bldg.)Haifa, Israel
July 17, 2001	Bay Area Linux User Group(BALUG)	(Four Seas Restaurant, Chinatown)San Francisco, CA
July 17, 2001	Kansas City LUG Demoday(KCLUG)	(Kansas City Public Library)KC, Missouri
July 17, 2001	Linux Stammtisch	(Bandersnatch Brew Pub)Tempe, AZ
July 17, 2001 July 24, 2001	Kalamazoo Linux Users Group(KLUG)	(Western Michigan University)Kalamazoo, Michigan
July 18, 2001	Central Iowa Linux Users Group(CIALUG)	West Des Moines, IA
July 18, 2001	Arizona State University LUG(ASULUG)	Tempe, AZ
July 18, 2001	Washington D.C. Linux User Group(DCLUG)	(National Institute of Health)Bethesda, Maryland
July 19, 2001	St. Louis LUG(SLLUG)	(St. Louis County Library, Indian Trails Branch)St. Louis, MO.
July 19, 2001	Omaha Linux User Group(OLUG)	Omaha, Nebraska
July 19, 2001	Linux User Support Team, Taegu(LUST-T)	Taegu, Korea
July 19, 2001	South Mississippi LUG(SMLUG)	(Barnes & Noble)Gulfport, Mississippi
July 19, 2001	Gallup Linux Users Group(GalLUG)	(Coyote Bookstore)Gallup, New Mexico
July 19, 2001	SSLUG: Hyggemøde på Niels Bohr Institute	Denmark
July 19, 2001	Belfast Linux Users Group(BLUG)	Belfast, Northern Ireland
July 19, 2001	Linux Enthusiasts And Professionals of Central Florida(LEAP-CF)	(DeVry Institute)Orlando, FL.
July 20, 2001	Rock River LUG(RRLUG)	(Rockford College)Rockford, Illinois
July 21, 2001	SVLUG Installfest	Silicon Valley, CA
July 21, 2001	LUGOD Linux Demo	Davis, CA
July 21, 2001	North Texas Linux Users Group(NTLUG)	(Nokia Centre)Irving, Texas
July 24, 2001	Hazelwood Linux User Group(HLUG)	(Prairie Commons Branch Library)Hazelwood, Missouri

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

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