Jul 24, 2008 GMT
On Tuesday night, Drupal's Angela Byron won Best Contributor at the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards. Allison Randal presented the award and Angela hopped on stage to accept the award and thank her colleagues and the Drupal community. Congratulations goes out to Angela for winning this well-deserved award!ROSE Blog: Rikki's Open Source Exchange
Jul 22, 2008 GMT
If you make it to OSCON this week, be sure to swing by our booth to say "Hi!" and pick up a copy of Linux Pro. See you there!Jul 22, 2008 GMT
WITI announced this year's inductees for its Hall of Fame: Deborah Estrin, Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, Professor, UCLA Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, M.D., Professor of Epidemiology, The University of Texas School of Public Health Mary Lou Jepsen (formerly co-founder and CTO of One Laptop Per Child), CEO, Pixel Qi Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University Jian (Jane) Xu, Ph.D., Distinguished Engineer, CTO, China Systems and Technology Labs, IBMJul 21, 2008 GMT
Congratulations to Dorcas Muthoni, one of the winners of this year's Anita Borg Change Agent awards, which will fund her trip to the October Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference. According to a post on the Women in Science blog, Dorcas is a busy, busy woman. She is the founder and director of Openworld, which offers open source consulting, training, products, and support; co-founder of the African chapter of LinuxChix; and she encourages girls and women to get involved in computer sciences.Jul 21, 2008 GMT
When I started this women in open source-focused blog, I never imagined I'd have a reason to mention Kathie Lee Gifford. But I saw the opportunity, and I'm taking the leap. I start each morning with Matt and Meredith on The TODAY Show, but I'm at the office by the time Kathie Lee and Hoda take over, so I missed the "Nerd Girls" topic last week. Actually, I've been thinking about this topic a lot – it seems that there have been a series of articles about attractive, intelligent women lately, which I find rather irritating. I don't want to hear criticisms about what people wear in their non-fashion-industry careers, or that you can be "sexy" and intelligent (as if...Jul 21, 2008 GMT
Although I wanted to go to BlogHer this year – and last year, for that matter – it just didn't work out and I'm a little bit jealous when I hear about everything I'm missing. For example, I missed out on Angie Byron and Marianne Masculino's talk about how to get involved with WordPress and Drupal. The good news is that Angie posted her slides at: http://www.webchick.net/node/33. Also, you can read a live blogging version of their talk at: http://www.sparkplugging.com/marketing/blogher-2008-open-source/Jul 16, 2008 GMT
Over at the .51 site, Ubergeeke is calling for forum moderators and sponsors. She plans to have her forums up and running by September 1, so if you're interested in helping out, let her know.Tag Cloud
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Google and NASA Partner in Quantum Computing Project
Vendor D-Wave scores big with a sale to NASA's Quantum Intelligence Lab.
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Mageia Project Announces Mageia 3 Linux
Many package updates and Steam integration highlight the latest from the Mandriva-based community Linux.
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FSF Outs the World Wide Web Consortium over DRM Proposal
Richard Stallman calls for the W3C to remain independent of vendor interests.
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Debian 7.0 Debuts
The new release supports nine architectures, 73 human languages, and zero non-Free components.
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Alpha Version of Fedora 19 Released
Fedora developers release the first alpha version of Fedora 19, known as Schrödinger’s Cat, for general testing. The final release is expected in July 2013.
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ack 2.0 Released
ack is a grep-like, command-line tool that has been optimized for programmers to search large trees of source code.
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SUSE Studio 1.3 Released
New features in SUSE Studio 1.3 include enhanced cloud integration, VM platform support, and lifecycle management.
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Xen To Become Linux Foundation Collaborative Project
The Linux Foundation recently announced that the Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project.
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RunRev Releases Open Source Version of LiveCode
Open source version of LiveCode is now available for developing apps, games, and utilities for all major platforms.
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OpenDaylight Project Formed
OpenDaylight is an open source software-defined networking project committed to furthering adoption of SDN and accelerating innovation in a vendor-neutral and open environment.

