News in 2007
- 2007/12/08:
CACert receives additional fundings to
complete its security
audits, which will enable it to become formaly recognized as
"trustable organization".
- 2007/12/08:
The initiation of the OpenDoc
Society is supported, which will actively promote the use of ODF
-and other Open Standards- to existing organisations, like government,
health care, and educational institutes.
- 2007/12/08:
The GO-FOSS initiative, aims to develop
a group of skilled professionals on FOSS within the community of
SMEs and NGOs.
- 2007/12/03:
The new Bricophone project,
aims on the creation of a community-oriented mobile phone infrastructure
built on cheap hardware.
- 2007/12/03:
Unicoms in Utrecht will start with an investigation into the
feasibility to connect Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS)
with Open Source PABX systems based on
Asterisk. The project is
named OCS-Asterisk.
- 2007/11/30:
The new project OpenMSRP(2) aims to
implement an open source MSRP multi-party IM chat server that
works seamless with the MSRP relay
implementation, already under development.
- 2007/11/09:
The Parrot developers released design
documents PDD24 (Events) and PDD26 (AST), as can be read in the
project status update.
- 2007/10/09:
The successful CodeYard project
moves into phase two: growing into a self-sustained organization.
Status Report
- 2007/10/09:
The sponsor contract with FSFE,
on the Freedom Task Force, has been extended.
Status report
- 2007/10/09:
"Improving Access to Public Services", a world-wide thematic conference
organized by the Center of Government Studies of Leiden University.
Details.
Sponsored by NLnet.
- 2007/10/03:
Ambulant participates in the process
to finalize the SMIL 3.0 specification, and its implementation
commences. Read more in the
project status report.
- 2007/09/18:
The Parrot developers released design
documents PDD15 (Objects) and PDD17 (PMC), as can be read in the
project status update.
- 2007/09/14:
GNU AGPLv3, GNU FDLv2, and GNU SFDL are still underway,
Microsoft challanges GPLv3, and video tutorials planned.
More about the project
status of GPLv3.
- 2007/09/14:
The legal network of the Freedom Task Force (a project by
FSF Europe) continues to grow.
A conference on European law concerning Open Source is being planned.
More about the project
status.
- 2007/09/14:
CodeYard has demonstrated to be a very
successful concept, and is aiming for persistence.
More about the
project status.
- 2007/09/14:
The CAcert organization sees many
changes:
The equipment moved to Holland, a new intermediate board got elected,
and plans for new regulation are made, to be discussed at TOP Hackathon.
Read the project status.
- 2007/07/20:
GPL and LGPL version 3 were released,
but the Free Software movement cannot rest: continuing with pro-free
and anti-DRM campaigns, as can be read in the
project status.
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The `Freedom Task Force' by FSFE
has grown various legal networks, as can be read in its
project
status.
- 2007/07/20:
Ambulant reports
the publication of a final working draft for the SMIL 3.0
specification and an initial implementation of the new features
in its project
status.
- 2007/07/20:
With a growing acceptance by the KDE community, the Decibel project is nearing completion,
as can be read in its latest
project status
- 2007/05/07:
Two students from the 'Koninklijk Lyceum Antwerpen' won the Capgemini
Open Source Award 2007, the programming contest for secondary schools.
In the second edition of this CodeYard
event, 15 teams demonstrated their results.
Full report
- 2007/04/03:
NetworkWorld has an
interesting interview
with Olaf Kolkman, director of NLnet Labs,
who was elected chairman of the Internet Architecture Board
(IAB) in March 2007.
- 2007/04/03:
Project Decibel organized a hackathon
on March 17 and 18 in Darmstadt, Germany. Read more in the
minutes.
- 2007/03/09:
The CAcert servers are
being relocated from
Australia to a new secure facility in The Netherlands.
- 2007/02/05:
Carl Malamud's LOAP project resulted in
an eye-opening
poster
series picturing the differences between politics and technicians in the
realm of internet governance. He also gave a
presentation on the subject at OSCON 2006:
10
Government Hacks
(Hackzine's version)
