05/11/2008:
UKUUG Linux Conference 2008
This years conference is at the Manchester Conference Centre, T
he University of Manchester. The event consists of a two-day conference over the weekend,
preceded by a full-day Python Web Workshop on Friday 7th November.
29/05/2008:
Irish Open Source Conference
The speaker list is now available for the Irish Open Source Technology
Conference 2008. The conference is being held at the Cineworld Complex in
Dublin and runs from the 18th to 20th June.
29/04/2008:
LUG Radio Live 2008
LUGRadio Live 2008 will be on 19th and 20th July 2008
in Wolverhampton, UK. If you are interested in speaking then now is a good time
to submit talks.
14/02/2008:
FOSDEM Reminder
FOSDEM is on the 23rd and 24th of Feburary in Brussels (that's a
quick train trip from the UK nowdays). Tracks include Gnome, KDE, Mozilla,
OpenOffice, Drupal and more.
19/11/2007:
Open Rights Group
The Open Rights group has been fighting for digital rights and sensible
government policies on things like BBC iplayer, DRM and electronic voting
trials. Its their second birthday and they've published a summary of the
first two years.
06/11/2007:
LinuxTag 2008
LinuxTag 2008 will take place on May 28th - 31st in Berlin.
02/10/2007:
FOSDEM 2008
Although we usually carry just UK conference events, FOSDEM is well worth a look.
With London only two hours from Brussels by train nowdays its almost a local event.
This years FOSDEM continues the intense two day format, and volunteer
organisation policies that have made it so successful.
Provisional dates for next year are the 23rd and 24th
of February.
11/09/2007:
Linux World 2007
Linux World Conference And Expo London 2007 has been postponed until
spring 2008. It isn't at this point clear how definite the Spring 2008 event
is.
25/05/2007:
LUG Radio Live 2007
People of the world, prepare yourselves for LUGRadio Live 2007 on the
7th and 8th July 2007 in Wolverhampton, UK. In its third year, the
community driven LUGRadio Live event brings together the
some of the finest minds in Open Source and free software. Oh and because
it is community driven the entry free is £3-£5.
29/04/2007:
3rd International Conference on Open Source Systems
The goal of OSS 2007 is to provide an international forum where a
diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and public
administration can come together to share research findings and
practical experiences. The conference is also meant to provide
information and education to practitioners, identify directions for
further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology
transfer.
13/04/2007:
LinuxConf Europe 2007
In conjunction with the Linux kernel summit the UKUUG and GUUG
(German Unix Users Group) will be running a new technical conference drawing
upon the traditions of both the Linux Kongress and UKUUG conferences.
13/04/2007:
LinuxTag Berlin
Linuxtag will be in Berlin from the 30th May to 2nd
of June. For updates see the LinuxTag web site.
05/02/2007:
MSC in Open Source
Sheffield Hallam university, in conjunction with Novell are launching an MSc
in open source software, including Novell certification training.
08/01/2007:
Skycon 2007
Skycon is a three day event celerbrating the fifteenth aniversary of Skynet
the University of Limerick computer society. It will be held on the 16th
to 18th of February, at the University of Limerick.
03/10/2006:
Linux World 2006
The 25th and 26th of October sees the annual Linux World expo
and conference at Olympia 2 in London. This year there is a technical conference
thread as well as master class streams including a two hour session on Xen by Ian
Pratt, and one on kernel porting by Jon Masters, as well as many other sessions.
Note that the conference sessions are separate to the exhibition. The expo itself
is free if you remember to sign up in advance, the conference sessions however are not.
11/09/2006:
WineConf 2006
The annual Wine conference is taking place September 16th and 17th
at the University of Reading.
It is an opportunity to put names to faces and to talk about projects that are
too crazy to think about discussing on wine-devel! It is also an opportunity to
share knowledge and to share some drinks.
17/08/2006:
Guadec 2007
Next years GUADEC 2007 will be held in Birmingham, UK from 15th to
21st of July 2007. The venue will be the
Conservatiore, Birmingham,UK
The planning committee has done what was in its power not to choose the
same time period as other conferences. If it is still the case we are
very sorry. However we are quite constrained with the chosen dates.
02/08/2006:
Scrambling For Safety 8
"Scrambling for Safety 8" will bring together representatives from
government, industry and human rights organisations to discuss plans to give the police
powers to require the production of decryption keys and of plaintext.
05/07/2006:
LUGRadio Live 2006
Wolverhampton Student Union will be hosting LugRadio Live on the 22nd July 2006
with speakers including Bastien Nocera, Christian Schaller, Matthew Garrett,
Michael Meeks, and Danny O'Brien.
16/06/2006:
aKademy: KDE Conference 2006
aKademy is the annual meeting of the KDE community. The venue (Trinity
College Dublin, Ireland) and the time (Sept 23th-30th)
are now confirmed. A call for papers is in progress so if you have something
you want to present now is the time to submit an abstract.
12/06/2006:
UKUUG Linux Conference 2006
The full details for the UKUUG conference including the initial program of talks
is now available on the web site.
27/03/2006:
UKUUG Linux Conference 2006
This summer's UKUUG linux conference will be held in Brighton
with tutorials all day Thursday 29th June and the conference
all day Friday 30th and ending early afternoon Sunday 2nd July.
27/02/2006:
UKUUG LISA Conference Reminder
The large installation systems administration conference will be in Durham on 21st
to the 23rd March. Bookings must be in by the 15th. While not a Linux
conference the event offers an all day Samba tutorial and a large number of talks covering
general Linux/BSD/Unix topics. If you are also interested in Free or OpenBSD then there
is an entire track of BSD related talks.
31/01/2006:
Another EU Patent Consultation
The European Commission is soliciting views on harmonisation, improving the
patent system in europe, and on the longer term goal of a community wide
patent system and patent law. While not directly asking about software
patents the questionaire does deal with related matters, including problems
with the patent system, and also has a question trying to find out more
about SME experience with the patent system.
16/01/2006:
GPL v3 First Discussion Draft
The first discussion draft of the GPL v3 has been published today on the FSF website.
Major changes include clarification of the fact that source code includes the keys that
may be neccessary to use it (such as DRM keys), updating of the copyright and
information message to cover not just command line but programs with an
"interactive user interface" (so the GPL will now protect License/Author
information in GUI programs and Web interfaces, and gives the authors the rights
to modify the license more than before - in particular they permit the authors to
choose different warranty terms, preservation of legal notices and public use of
contributors names for publicity purposes. This latter change makes the
combination of GPL and non GPL software easier. The license also permits the
use of 'patent retaliation' clauses by GPL authors but does not make any
such arrangement mandatory.
16/01/2006:
GUADEC UK 2007 - perhaps
A discussion is under way on the posibility of holding GUADEC 2007 in the UK. If you
are interested and would like to get involved in doing a considerable amount of
hard work (real hard work) on organising a conference in the UK then let
Thomas and others know.
16/01/2006:
The Linux Emporium
The Linux Emporium has changed ownership. Fans will be glad to know it is still
up and running and still owned by strong open source supporters. It's now a sister
company of Clocksoft, producers of the open source Paythyme payroll software.
14/01/2006:
Sheflug
February 4th includes talks from Megan Larko of NASA who runs the award
winning Linux Land Information Center Cluster, and also from Alan Cox.
08/01/2006:
FOSDEM 2006
FOSDEM 2006 is the weekend of 25th and 26th February in Brussels. If you are going to travel
by Eurostar remember to book soon to get the cheaper prices. This years
conference has tracks on the desktop, development, security, systems and
voice over IP.
01/01/2006:
Ottawa Linux Symposium
The 2006 Ottawa Linux Symposium conference dates and call for papers are now out.
The conference runs between July 19th and July 22nd this year. If you want to
submit a paper then a 1000-1500 byte abstract should be in by February 1st.
14/09/2005:
WSFII
The World Summit on Free Information Infrastrctures (WSFII) will be held on the
1st and 2nd of October at Limehouse Town Hall in London
E14. It is timed to occur in parallel with the UK hosting the pan-European Creative
Economy Conference and includes sessions on free wireless networks, open hardware,
open mapping projects and open civic information (Including well known projects like
They Work For You and
Public Whip.
08/09/2005:
Conference Season
A whole pile of events for the diary.
Linux World Expo is on the 5th
and 6th of October at Olympia in London.
FUDCon London is side by side
with Linux World Expo. Eleven days later is EuroOSCON
in Amsterdam with a wide range of Open Source and technology topics although its
certainly not cheap.
On the less well known side (but longer running) September 21st to
25th is the
Oldenburg Linux Developers Meeting a four day hacker get together aimed
at non-x86 platforms. This year it will also combine with a Debian-java and
Debian-installer meeting.
Finally there will be a set of lightning talks hosted by
South Wales Linux User Groupon
September 14th.
15/07/2005:
Patents: Attack Plan B
No it's not all over. The EU patent directive may be dead but the next scheme
from our beloved friends in the EU lurks in the "Directive on the
enforcement of intellectual property rights (2004/48EC)". While this has some
good points like enforcing copyright more strongly, so we can go and sue all
the companies ilegally using Linux code, it also does so blindly and seeks to
make patent violation or even "incitement" a criminal matter. Given the murky confused mess that
the EU patent system is in, due to the total failure to regulate the EPO, this
would be an even worse recipe for holding small companies to ransom than just
software patents. Combine it with the EU arrest warrant and a university
lecturer who inadvertently set a problem involving a claimed patent (invalid or
otherwise) could find themselves extradited to Greece, Lithuania, who knows where for a criminal trial.
The Patent Office is holding a consultation on this. Please see
the
patent office web site, read the material and make up your own mind. If you
send feedback to them please post a copy and letter to your MP.
As followers of the ID card fiasco will have noticed, the truth about
consultations is often withheld from the elected bodies when the results
don't suit the unelected parts of government.
06/07/2005:
European Union: Software Patents
RTE Business is now reporting that the software patent bill rejection vote was
carried by 648 to 14 with 18 abstensions.
17/05/2005:
Birmingham Open Source Desktop Trial
While Michael Dell is seeing little demand for Linux on the desktop
Birmingham Council are seeing things differently and have launched a 1500 PC
pilot using Linux, Firefox and OpenOffice to look at cost savings and
effectiveness of Linux systems.
09/05/2005:
BECTA Open Source Report Leaked
The Times is reporting that a leaked BECTA report into open source concluded
that open source could halve the cost of computing in primary schools. The
report officially gets released on the 13th May. For more online
reporting on the matter see the linked ZDNet article.
11/04/2005:
Mandrakesoft Change Name
As a result of the merger with Conectiva, and also a long ongoing trademark
argument over the Mandrake name Mandrake have now changed their name to
Mandriva. Expect the name change to take time to ripple through the various
Linux websites and vendors.
07/04/2005:
Open Source Academy
A UK government-funded initiative aims to accelerate the use of open source
software within the public sector, through various activities including the
creation of a government-specific code repository and a directory of open
source providers.
20/02/2005:
UKUUG Summer Conference
This summer's UKUUG linux conference will be held in Swansea
with tutorials all day Thursday 4th August and the conference
all day Friday 5th and ending lunchtime on Sunday 7th.
If you wish to submit a paper then abstracts should be submitted by the
18th March.
07/02/2005:
Software Patents: Patent Workshop
At the 14th December meeting Lord Sainsbury promised further
discussion on the question of 'technical contribution'. In other words what
specific properties of something that is software implemented would make it
patentable. While this ignores the larger reality that software patents are
fundamentally a bad idea getting such a definition right is important if the
European Union fails to see sense.
The government is therefore holding a set of workshops to explore this
definition and to test ideas against possible innovations.
02/02/2005:
EU Patent Update
The Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) of the European Parliament decided today
to apply the article 55.1. of the Rules of Procedure and ask for
a new first reading on the Computer-Implemented Inventions directive. The
decision was reached with an overwhelming majority of the Committee, and
with the support of all major political groups.
27/01/2005:
Mandrake Corporate Server 3.0
Mandrake Corporate Server 3.0 yesterday achieved
LSB certification.
Although Mandrake is perhaps better known for its community oriented products than the
enterprise it does produce both Corporate Desktop and Server products with a
five year life cycle. The LSB certification provides an important guarantee of
compatibility between LSB standard applications and the Mandrake business server.
24/01/2005:
Linux.org.uk
The web site has had further updates to improve accessibility and to address
problems with phone and PDA devices. Rather than compromise the layout there
are now two views of the data. The mobile
device view should work well on any device and is
Bobby AAA rated for
accessibility. The conventional view is problematic on a few very small
devices such as Nokia phones and only rates 'A' and S.508 on the Bobby
accessibility tool. Once I've fixed the search and finished importing the
consultant data I'll also take a look at WAP support.
24/01/2005:
Intel Virtualisation
Intel have published the specifications for their upcoming virtualisation
technology ("Vanderpool"). This is designed to allow real virtualisation of
PC systems in much the same way as the mainframe can run multiple operating
systems at once. There are a variety of fascinating uses for such
virtualisation and partitioning beyond the obvious abilities to run multiple
copies of Linux (and maybe even Windows) on the same system. Consider for
example untrusted applications being run in their own virtualised
environment which is controlled by a very thin Linux kernel forwarding most
requests and blocking anything that might harm the host environment.
24/01/2005:
More Fishy Patenting
Our fiends at the EU commission are busy again now it seems trying to sneak
the patent vote through on the 24th January through the fishery agenda
again. If something smells funny - it is not the fish. This appears to be
solely an attempt to stop the EU parliament (the small democratic part of
the EU) voting to restart the process from scratch with the new members
properly considered and included. Maybe future overthrowing of undemocratic
regimes should start in Brussels.
21/02/2005:
Get on D-BUS
D-Bus is one of the upcoming desktop technologies, not directly visible to
users and intended to stay that way it provides the backbone for unifying
the communications between desktop applications, and making them aware of
external events such as device hotplug.
Red Hat Magazine takes a look
at the world of D-BUS.
17/01/2005:
Fedora 4 Schedule
The Fedora Core 4 preliminary schedule is now online. New features are
likely to include gcc 4.0, Xen virtualisation and new desktop releases.
Although not part of the news so far we are doing a "real English" locale
translation for the Fedora configuration tools. If you are sick of
"256 color" displays, know the difference between "less" and "fewer" or
are just a language pedant and want to help please drop a note
to alan@redhat.com.
16/01/2005:
SuSE 9.2 Download
SuSE (or Novell nowdays) have made SuSE 9.2 available for free download. This
is the full DVD iso not a time limite demo like previous free SuSE downloads.
14/01/2005:
FOSDEM 2005
The fifth Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting is on
the 26th and 27th of February. This two day event in
Brussels is organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread use of Free
and Open Source software.
14/01/2005:
UKUUG 2005
The UKUUG Linux conference for 2005 will be held in Swansea from August
4th-7th. Anyone wishing to submit a paper should
submit an abstract by 18th March.
