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+ - linux.conf.au 2011, shaping up to be stunning!->

Submitted by Dante_J
Dante_J writes "In the proud tradition of being one of the best "grass roots" FOSS conferences on the planet and just weeks away, linux.conf.au 2011 in Brisbane Australia, is shaping up nicely. Keynote speakers include Vint Cerf, Eric Allman, Mark Pesce & Geoff Huston. Many impressive Miniconfs, Presentations, Tutorials and an Open Day are included. Everything from FOSS rockets to kernel hacking, haecksen to Meego. This is one of those rare occasions of the FOSS community gathering in one geographic location, expressing both breadth and depth. A week of geeky goodness. Regos are available now, but time is limited."
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Comment: Re:great app, lousy implementation (Score 1) 79

by cranos (#34347284) Attached to: Google Wave Looking To Join Apache Software Foundation

Fair points. Wave may indeed be successfully used in collaboration products like Pulse, and that would be good. But for me that would still be a very disappointing outcome and is what I had in mind when I wrote 'languishing in obscurity'. The great promise and potential, which sadly won't be fulfilled, was for collaboration and communication across broader communities beyond one company or group of friends.

There's nothing stopping someone from setting up a service similar to Google Wave using the open source implementation. Let us get version 1.0 out the door and we'll see what happens :)

Comment: Re:great app, lousy implementation (Score 2, Informative) 79

by cranos (#34347100) Attached to: Google Wave Looking To Join Apache Software Foundation
Well there are certainly a number of smaller and bigger organisations still looking into Wave. Novell is using Wave based tech for Pulse (no federation as yet but you never know) and at the summit we had a number of people keen to ensure that wave survives so they can build on it and make money.
Software

+ - Automated Document Generator Released for ODF->

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christian.einfeldt
christian.einfeldt writes "Lone Wolves, a Netherlands-based non-profit, has announced that it is releasing an XSLT documents generator that will allow users to automatically create complex, powerful documents from templates without human intervention using cron jobs. Lone Wolves claims that its project, simply called the "ODF-XSLT Document Generator" project, allows reports to be generated with any ODF-compliant office suite, not just OpenOffice.org, as is the case with Sun Microsystems' Report Builder, and with any ODF document type, not just OpenDocument Text, as is the case with JODReports. Lone Wolves acknowledges, though, that Sun's Report Builder and Mirko Nasato's JODReports are easier to understand. Still, it appears that Lone Wolves' project brings important extensibility and interoperability to ODF-compliant office suites at a crucial time, as critics are voicing concerns with interoperability of Microsoft's competing OOXML specification, which will be seeking ISO standard status in a vote at the end of February, 2008."
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Operating Systems

+ - Open Solaris Round Table

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cranos
cranos writes "For this fortnights Open Source On The Air, I've gathered three people for an Open Solaris Round Table. With the upcoming OpenSolaris Governance Board elections I thought now would be a good time to talk to two of the nominees and a community member to see where the project is at, and the future plans each has.

The episode can be found here: http://localfoss.org/OSOTA/Episode_17"
Graphics

+ - Open Graphics Round Table

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cranos
cranos writes "In this fortnights episode of Open Source On The Air, I sit down with three Graphic Artists who have based their entire work flow on Free and Open Source Software.

We talk about the state of the current FOSS graphics toolset, how this has affected things like barriers to entry, as well as discussing the growing interaction between the audience and the graphic artists.

You can find the full show here: http://localfoss.org/OSOTA/Episode_16"
PlayStation (Games)

Journal: Podcasts Ahoy

Journal by cranos
I have launched the Linux Australia Update, a fortnightly podcast concentrating on the Australian and Oceanic Free and Open Source Software community. It can be found here

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