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Blue Drop Awards Celebrate Achievements in Open Source Web Development

Katherine Druckman — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:22:01 +0000

The first ever Blue Drop Awards for excellence in Drupal development were announced yesterday. Organized and led by Ben Finklea of Volacci, the awards were both a community effort to celebrate the great work of Drupal Developers, and also a vehicle for Drupal and open source evangelism. more>>

The Future Web at DrupalCon Denver

Katherine Druckman — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:39:36 +0000

It's DrupalCon season once again, which means Drupalers from all over the world will converge next week on Denver, Colorado, to educate each other about their favorite CMS and platform, and this eternal debate about CMS vs. platform seems to be at the heart of this year's event. more>>

Munich Linux Migration Project LiMux Reports Success

Michael Reed — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:22:09 +0000

LiMux, a project to convert local government institutions to Linux and open source software in Munich, has exceeded initial expectations. The project has done slightly better than projections of 8,500 and now boasts 9,000 Linux migrated workstations. The progress and evolution of this project that began in 2003 is well worth examination. more>>

Linux Heavyweights Develop Secure Boot Strategy

Michael Reed — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:33:49 +0000

Canonical and Red Hat have issued a joint statement regarding Microsoft’s plan to make UEFI Secure Boot a requirement of Windows 8. Simultaneously, The Linux Foundation has issued a similar statement. more>>

SCALE 10X to host SCALE Kids Conference

Katherine Druckman — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:56:07 +0000

Very cool news from the organizers of SCaLE: more>>

SCALE Call for Papers Opens Today

Katherine Druckman — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:09:38 +0000

From the SCALE organizers (you might recognize one of them from our August cover): more>>

LibreOffice Developer Glimpse Proves Balance

Susan Linton — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Florian Effenberger recently posted statistics of the number of developers contributing to the LibreOffice project. Several months ago, Cedric Bosdonnat offered data on the number of contribution and contributors from the various sources. more>>

OSCON Will Stream Keynotes and More Online

Katherine Druckman — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:32:20 +0000

Can't make it to OSCON this year? You can still catch keynotes, interviews and news via live streaming video.

Check back right here during the conference July 25-29, 2011 to enjoy some great content virtually.

Keynotes are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 9am Pacific. more>>

Mageia 2 Release Details Revealed

Susan Linton — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:00:00 +0000

After an extensive discussion with the community on the Mageia developmental mailing list, Anne Nicolas revealed the results concerning Mageia release and support cycles as well as the release schedule for Mageia 2. The consensus was to use basically the same cycle used in Mageia 1. more>>

Bitcoin - I Hardly Knew Ya

Susan Linton — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 13:00:00 +0000

I first heard of Bitcoin when the Free Software Foundation announced they would start accepting it for donations. Before long another story about Bitcoin appeared in my news feeds. Then another. And another. more>>

The Open Source Office Software Sector Heats Up

Susan Linton — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 13:00:00 +0000

The world of LibreOffice and OpenOffice(.org) has been heating up recently with several exciting and, at times, bewildering developments. The Document Foundation remains very active as is LibreOffice development, but Oracle has given up on OpenOffice and slapped LibreOffice in the face by giving it to Apache. Perhaps the most important announcement was the release of LibreOffice 3.4.0. more>>

Ubuntu 11.04, Unity Released to Mixed Reactions

Susan Linton — Fri, 06 May 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Ubuntu 11.04 was released on April 28 with a brand new interface and a couple default application changes. But all the talk is about Unity, that brand new interface. As one might predict, reactions are all over the spectrum. more>>

Fabulous Virtual Window Manager Sees First Release in Five Years

Susan Linton — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 13:00:00 +0000

After five years, a new stable release of FVWM has finally been announced. FVWM is a lightweight and fast window manager still used by a few distributions and offered as an option on several. This landmark release brings several new and improved features.

Some of the new features include: more>>

LibreOffice 3.4 Beta 1 Available, Oracle Unchains OpenOffice

Susan Linton — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:00:00 +0000

April 15 brought some interesting developments in the office suite front. more>>

Torvalds Honored by Gaggle of Lawyers

Susan Linton — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:00:00 +0000

Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux and hero to many Open Source users, might not be the first person one might think would be honored by an organization of lawyers, but that's exactly what's happening. The International Technology Law Association will award Torvalds its ITechLaw Achievement Award at their upcoming 40th anniversary celebration. more>>