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First issue of Free Software Magazine available. The first issue of Free Software Magazine is now available. It contains a number of articles on a wide variety of free software topics, and a lead editorial from Richard Stallman. "Today the free software community is large. Our movement has had substantial success, and we hope to have more. But success for free software does not mean 'world domination', as boosters of the kernel, Linux, like to put it. Success for free software is world liberation!"

Revolution OS, the Movie. A new movie that chronicles the development of Linux is in print. " REVOLUTION OS features Linus Torvalds - the creator of Linux, and Richard Stallman - the ideological godfather of the movement, and contains interviews with high-tech luminaries like Bruce Perens, Eric Raymond, Brian Behlendorf, Michael Tiemann, Larry Augustin, Frank Hecker, and Rob Malda."

Embedded Linux 'Cool Devices' Quick Reference Guide. LinuxDevices.com has released a new version of the Embedded Linux 'Cool Devices' Quick Reference Guide.

No Starch Press announces game contest winners. No Starch Press has announced the winners of its SDL Game Development Contest. "Michael Speck won first place with 'LBreakout 2,' an Arkanoid-genre game. Andreas Roever came in second place with 'Tower Toppler,' a tower climbing game. And Bill Kendrick won third place with 'Vectoroids,' an incarnation of Asteroids."

LPI certification 101 exam prep (IBM developerWorks). IBM's developerWorks has two more LPI preparation tutorials available, Part 2: Basic administration, and Part 3: Intermediate administration. Registration is required.

Events

Linux Expo/Linux World Paris. Linux Expo/Linux World Paris Will be held from January 28 through February 1, 2002 in Paris, France. (Thanks to Jeff Mesnil)

YAPC::America::North 2002 Location Decided (use Perl). Use Perl has posted an early announcement for the upcoming YAPC::America::North 2002 Perl conference in St. Louis, MO on June 26-28, 2002.

Also, a call for participation is available for YAPC::Europe::2002, to be held in Munich, Germany on September 18-20, 2002.

Latest GUADEC 3 news. There are 69 more days until the upcoming GUADEC 3 conference. The latest news on the conference includes travel info, venu photos, submission dates, and available tutorials.

The O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference. The web site for the ongoing O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference lists all of the latest developments from that event.

LinuxTag 2002 Call For Papers. The LinuxTag 2002 conference to be held June 6-9, 2002 in Germany, has issued a call for papers.

Two new Mozilla developer events. Mozilla.org has planned two developer events, the first is at FOSDEM in Brussels on February 16 and 17, 2002. The second is at Carnegie Mellon University on March 1 and 2, 2002.

Events: January 31 - March 28, 2002.

Date	Event	Location
January 31 - February 1, 2002	LinuxWorld	New York, NY
January 31 - February 1, 2002	Linux Expo/Linux World Paris	Paris, France
February 1 - 3, 2002	Linux Event 2002	Livorno, Italy
February 3 - 6, 2002	Embedded Executive Summit	(Ritz-Carlton)Half Moon Bay, California
February 4 - 7, 2002	10th International Python Conference	(Hilton Alexandria Mark Center)Alexandria, Virginia
February 5, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Amsterdam
February 6, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Brussels
February 6 - 9, 2002	linux.conf.au	Brisbane, Australia
February 7, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Paris
February 8, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Madrid
February 13 - 15, 2002	1st CfP German Perl Workshop	(Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Sankt Augustin)Bonn, Germany
February 16 - 17, 2002	Free Software and Open Source Developer's Meeting(FOSDEM 2002)	(Brussels, Belgium)Brussels, Belgium
February 18, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Milan
February 19, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Zurich
February 20, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Munich
February 21, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Vienna
February 22, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Budapest
February 25, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Prague
March 4 - 6, 2002	International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technologies(ISART 2002)	(Dept. of Commerce, 325 Broadway)Boulder, CO
March 5, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Helsinki
March 6, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Stockholm
March 7, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Oslo
March 8, 2002	OMG Information Days Europe 2002	Copenhagen
March 12 - 16, 2002	Embedded Systems Conference	(Moscone Center)San Francisco, California
March 21 - 22, 2002	Annual Conference of Open Source Content Management Systems(OSCMSC)	(Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH))Zurich, Switzerland

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

New website for Linux Applications. The BankHacker site features over 300 GNU/Linux applications with an emphasis on gaming, multimedia, and educational software. The original site is in Spanish, an English version has recently been added.

Section Editor: Forrest Cook.

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