Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has recommended reigning in edits of entries to the free-access online encyclopedia. The result has been an extensive dialogue in which the German Wikipedia community has provided some guidance based on its experience.

In an effort to reduce costs, municipal authorities in the Veneto region around the Italian city of Venice, will change to open source.

Sun cofounder Scott NcNealy has submitted a paper to the new U.S. administration about the cost savings and security benefits of Open Source software.

The Open Solutions Alliance (OSA), a consortium of commercial Open Source providers, sent its members a survey as to the challenges ahead for free software and received some optimistic responses.

Foomatic is now released in version 4.0. The software creates PDFs, describes external drivers better and includes PPD extensions.

Nokia will offer its Qt widget collection software under less restrictive LGPL licensing and has opened up its repositories.

The e-book reader FBReader 0.10.0 has been released for Linux and now supports more languages, including right-to-left and bidirectional.

Linux kernel developer Jonathan Corbet has just previewed the features of the upcoming Linux Kernel 2.6.29 that includes Btrfs, which he claims is the filesystem of the future.