Novell and the Linux Professional Institute (LPI) are moving in one direction in certificate solutions: Anyone holding a LPIC certificate will now automatically qualify for the CLA.

The leader of the Gnome accessibility team, Will Walker, has until now worked for the Accessibility Program Office from Sun, which after the Oracle take-over melted into the relevant APO at Oracle.

Linus Torvalds's foundation is doing a sequel this year of its creative community ad campaign for Linux with a second video contest. The winner will receive a laptop loaded with Linux and a trip to LinuxCon in Boston in August.

Ubuntu's Community Manager, Jono Bacon, has announced the Opportunistic Developer Week, to take place from March 1 to 6, 2010. The distance learning course will deal with the speedy creation of applications on the Linux desktop.

Spanish company eBox Technologies has released version 1.4 of its Linux server for small to medium sized enterprises.

Grsync, a graphical user interface for the rsync synchronization tool, is now available in version 1.0.0 for Maemo.

The embeddable database Berkeley DB is available in version 4.8.26 with new APIs.

The Symbian Foundation has released its mobile platform of the same name as free software.