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From: "Georg C. F. Greve" <greve@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Issue #25 of Georg's Brave GNU World, the monthly GNU forum has been released.
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:55:17 GMT
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Issue #25 of Georg's Brave GNU World,
the monthly GNU forum has been released.
-- Georg Greve
*** now also available in Portugese ***
Hi !
Issue #25 of the column is now online and it can - as usual - be found
on the GNU Webpage and its mirrors. Otherwise just follow the links at
the end of this posting.
Georg's Brave GNU World is a monthly column which is being released
simultaneously in seven languages (English, German, French, Japanese,
Spanish, Korean and Portugese) on the web and printed in the German
"Linux-Magazin" as well as the "Linux Magazine" U.K. and the "Linux
Magazine France." This makes it the monthly column with the widest
distribution worldwide (afaik).
If you would like to receive mail about new issues directly, you can
subscribe to the "Brave GNU World" announcement mailinglist. Just
send mail to <brave-gnu-world-request@xxxxxxx> with "subscribe" in
the *body*. The mailinglist is only for announcements that are related
to the "Brave GNU World" and is of very low volume (between 1 and 2
mails a month).
The 25th issue covers the following topics:
* GNU-Darwin ( bringing Free Software to the Mac )
* get_file ( a bourne-shell file-selector )
* GNU GLOBAL ( organizing & documenting your source-code )
* HeaderBrowser ( documenting header-files )
* GNUTLS ( a GNU SSL 3.0 & TLS 1.0 implementation )
* GNU.FREE ( e-democracy with Free Software )
This column intends to provide a forum for all GNU maintainers,
friends and associates and I am always open to suggestions. So if
you
* have questions about the GNU Project that might be of general
interest
* have a GNU Project and would like to improve its profile
* would like to start a GNU Project you are looking for people to
start it with
* think something doesn't get the publicity it deserves
* would like to see something made public
send mail to:
"Brave GNU World <column@xxxxxxx>"
This column is for everyone with an interest in Free Software,
so donīt hesitate to contact me if your project is under a Free
Software license and youīd like to see it introduced here.
The 25th issue can be found at
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-25.en.html
[ English version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-25.fr.html
[ French version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-25.de.html
[ German version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-25.ja.html
[ Japanese version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-25.es.html
[ Spanish version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-25.ko.html
[ Korean version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/issue-25.pt.html
[ Portugese version ]
or via the "Brave GNU World" homepage
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.en.html
[ English version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.fr.html
[ French version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.de.html
[ German version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.ja.html
[ Japanese version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.es.html
[ Spanish version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.ko.html
[ Korean version ]
http://www.gnu.org/brave-gnu-world/brave-gnu-world.pt.html
[ Portugese version ]
Thatīs it for now...
Regards,
Georg Greve
- --
Georg C. F. Greve <greve@xxxxxxx>
Free Software Foundation Europe (http://fsfeurope.org)
Brave GNU World (http://brave-gnu-world.org)
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From: "Keith Donaldson" <keith@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: WANTED: Volunteer Board Members Wanted for the Plex86 Software Foundation
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:55:40 GMT
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Volunteer Board Members Wanted for the Plex86 Software Foundation
The Organizing Committee of the Plex86 Software Foundation is looking for a
few talented and diligent volunteer board members to help us provide
organizational, legal, and financial support for Plex86 open-source software
projects (www.plex86.org).
The goal of the Plex86 project is to create an extensible open source PC
virtualization software program that will allow PC, and workstation users to
run multiple operating systems concurrently on the same machine. What makes
it challenging on the PC, is that the x86 processor is not "naturally"
virtualizable. That is to say, it was not designed to run multiple operating
systems concurrently. However, with some manipulation and use of system
level features, this can be done. The Plex86 environment makes the processor
virtualization more flexible and controllable than commercial products where
developers do not have access to the source code, such as VMware.
If you can contribute one evening a month and have skills or contacts that
can aid us in the management of funds, intellectual property, accounting,
publicity, fundraising or allocation of resources to projects, please
contact Keith Donaldson at 617.576.9555 or keith@xxxxxxxxxx to find out more
about whether this volunteer opportunity is right for you.
kd
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From: David Sugar <dyfet@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: WANTED: Bayonne call for volunteers
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 23:54:52 GMT
Bayonne is a fairly established and ambitious free software project who's
goal, along with that of the larger GNU Telephony Project, GNUCOMM, is to
provide community supported scalable free software based telephony
solutions that are useful for individuals, for the small office and large
commercial enterprise, and for commercial carriers, that can displace the
proprietary solutions commonly used in the telecom industry today. In
addition to being a GNU package and a part of GNUCOMM, Bayonne is also
represented within the GNU Enterprise project.
Bayonne primarily focuses on voice response and what is commonly called a
telephony "application server". Bayonne is written in C++, has a fully
threaded architecture, and is bound together by a common scripting core
and DSO plugins. Other parts of GNUCOMM will focus on many related and
useful areas in providing a complete free software telephony solution.
Bayonne has recently reached release 0.5.17. This release represents a
fairly stable and functional multi-line voice response telephony server
that already works with a fair number of single and multi-line analog (and
soon digital) telephony cards available under GNU/Linux, and that can be
made to support Voicetronix hardware under FreeBSD. However, there are
still many areas of development that have not yet been addressed.
While Bayonne is useful today, we are certainly looking to extend Bayonne
functionality in many additional areas. Since we already have an abstract
interface for "telephony cards", support for entirely softswitch based
sessions will be added alongside traditional multi-line telephony cards
for use in the next generation telephone network, using projects like
openh323 and vovida as the base for these new services. This is just one
of many areas for potential and original development available within
Bayonne.
In issuing a call for volunteers, we are looking for more people to
contribute to development of the Bayonne package, both in specific niches
that have been identified, and in any other places people may identify and
wish to contribute on their own.
Currently, we both have, and need, people to volunteer with development in
several broadly defined areas. Some of these areas are already covered to
a limited degree, but certainly can use help and input from additional
people, and in all areas new contributors can still have a substantial
impact on Bayonne development.
Current active areas of development include redundancy and telephony
cluster server farming, XML scripting, Bayonne plugins, integrating FAX,
TTS, and ASR services, CORBA, more telephony drivers, and IP trunking.
Other areas that we need volunteers for include documentation, packaging,
web development, porting, application development, and voice library
management.
This list is not fixed, but represents how I currently divide Bayonne
development. If people have something different and interesting to
contribute to the package, or even wish to take on a specific challenge in
the broader GNUCOMM project, that would always be welcome as well.
Those interested can start by joining the Bayonne mailing list by sending
e-mail to bayonne-devel-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the body of
the message being "subscribe", or by sending e-mail to me directly,
dyfet@xxxxxxx