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SourceForge.net Names Finalists for Community Choice Awards

SourceForge, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNUX), the leader in community-driven content and media, today announced the finalists of its third annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. The Community Choice Awards allow the open source community to recognize its most innovative projects through an open nomination and voting process. This year, projects outside of SourceForge.net are eligible to win, ensuring that the voice of the community is heard broadly and without limitation.

SourceForge.net Names Finalists for Community Choice Awards

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Jul 3, 2008 -- SourceForge, Inc. (NasdaqGM:LNUX - News), the leader in community-driven content and media, today announced the finalists of its third annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. The Community Choice Awards allow the open source community to recognize its most innovative projects through an open nomination and voting process. This year, projects outside of SourceForge.net are eligible to win, ensuring that the voice of the community is heard broadly and without limitation.

Community-Powered Open Source Awards Just Got More Open

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--May 15, 2008 -- SourceForge (NasdaqGM:LNUX - News), the leader in community-driven media and e-commerce, today announced the opening of nominations for the third annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. For the first time, all open source projects -- not just those on SourceForge.net -- are eligible. The awards recognize open source projects that have the most supportive community following, and those that the voters believe are built with the highest quality, creativity and ingenuity. There is no panel of experts involved; the Community Choice Awards are truly the "people's choice" awards for open source software.

Compiere Launches Community Wiki to Promote Open Source ERP Collaboration

REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2008--Compiere, Inc., the global leader in open source business solutions, today announced the introduction of the Compiere Community Wiki to facilitate collaboration and information sharing across its worldwide 45,000-person community. Compiere’s community is composed of customers, users, IT and financial professionals, authorized partners, independent developers, and employees from 195 countries. The company has made available the complete Compiere User Documentation at no charge via the Community Wiki.

SourceForge.net Names Finalists for Community Choice Awards

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- 07/03/08 -- SourceForge, Inc. (NASDAQ: LNUX), the leader in community-driven content and media, today announced the finalists of its third annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. The Community Choice Awards allow the op..

2008 LinuxWorld Hosts Open Source Community Days

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. --(Business Wire)-- IDG World Expo has announced that this year's LinuxWorld Conference & Expo(R) will host four open source community events, providing an ideal opportunity for people involved in major open source projects to join other community members and share notes, discuss code, learn from each other, and work. The four projects represented by these individual "Community Days" include Moblin.org, PostgreSQL, openSUSE, and Ubuntu. LinuxWorld(R) is scheduled to take place August 4-7, 2008 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

openSUSE's Brockmeier sees distro coming into its own

Of all the community distributions, probably the least known is openSUSE. After two and a half years, the distro is not only still working out details about how its community operates -- including how its governing board is elected -- but also struggling to come out of the shadow of its corporate parent Novell, much as Fedora has emerged from its initial dominance by Red Hat. With the pending release of openSUSE 11.0, community manager Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier suggests that the distribution is finally starting to get the recognition it deserves. In the middle of preparations for the new release, Brockmeier took the time to talk with Linux.com about the priorities within the community and its relation with the larger world of free software.

Vector Graphics Lead Wish List For Future Browsers

Coach Wei writes "Community voting results and a summary report have been published from OpenAjax Alliance's recent "community wishlist for future browsers" effort. When the voting closed on July 13th, 222 people participated in this open community initiative, with 143 people voted, 55 feature requests being written up, and contribution from many industry leaders. The voting indentified and prioritized 37 features. The top 10 are related to vector graphics, security, performance, layout, rich text editing, Comet, audio and video. Among all the feature requests, 2D Drawing/Vector Graphics is clearly the most desired feature by the community. It received most votes (110 people voted for it), and highest total score (over 10% higher than the second feature request).

Install WAS CE V1.x on Linux

Learn how to install the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition V1.x in a Linux® x86 environment for use by multiple users. IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition is an open community application server based on the Apache Geronimo open source application server. Download WebSphere Application Server Community Edition for the Linux x86 platform or a Windows® environment from developerWorks.

Dimdim Uncages Open Source Eagle

Dimdim (www.dimdim.com), the world's free open source web meeting company, today announced a new release of its web meeting software specifically for the open source community. The new version, called Dimdim Open Source Community Edition Version 3.5, nicknamed "Eagle," is completely free and available for immediate download. Dimdim "Eagle" is the world's first unified communications platform specifically created for and by the open source community. To date, this community has downloaded Dimdim's free open source web meeting software over 230,000 times.

Ubuntu community head tests music economics with open content

Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon, an independent musician and prominent figure in the open source software community, is starting a new solo music project through which he aims to explore the challenges of distributing music under a Creative Commons license. He hopes that his efforts will bring some clarity to the copyright debate and provide real answers about how open content might change the economics of the music industry.

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Disney Launches DGamer Community For DS Gamers [05.16.08] Disney Interactive Studios has launched DGamer, its online community developed exclusively for Disney gamers and accessible through the Nintendo DS. The service will be included with all of Disney's Nintendo DS titles, including this week's release of The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Linux Community Should Plant Seeds for Consumer Demand

Free and open source software has come a long way toward widespread acceptance over the years, and that can be attributed in no small part to the strength and dedication of the community behind it. Only through growing and nurturing this community can open source software thrive in the future, writes LinuxInsider columnist Jeremiah T. Gray.

Linux Community Should Plant Seeds for Consumer Demand

Free and open source software has come a long way toward widespread acceptance over the years, and that can be attributed in no small part to the strength and dedication of the community behind it. Only through growing and nurturing this community can open source software thrive in the future, writes LinuxInsider columnist Jeremiah T. Gray.

Announcing: Community Games on Xbox LIVE Beta

Today, we delivered on the promise we made at GDC to democratize game development with the launch of the newly designed XNA Creators Club Online Web site and the highly anticipated beta of Community Games on Xbox LIVE. When we announced this new service at GDC 2008, it was met with great excitement around the world. Now we’re pleased to offer you an opportunity to interact with this new site and test out the distribution pipeline to Xbox LIVE! If you’re a already a premium member, you will be able to join us in the Community Games on Xbox LIVE Beta immediately, where you can submit your games and review others games, and enjoy playing them on Xbox LIVE! If you are not a member, sign up today and get involved in making game development history.

Schools, community celebrate the arts

During the first full week of May, the students of Dufferin County schools had the opportunity to participate in the 11th annual Dufferin Youth Festival of the Arts. This wonderful event, organized by Wendy Carter, Marilyn Logan and Kathy Ayliffe, along with an army of volunteers, provides an exciting forum for our young artists (musical, visual and dramatic) to showcase their talents in a community-sponsored event. It is unique across the country and says so much about our collective commitment to the arts in this community.

Compiere Launches Community Wiki to Promote Open Source ERP Collaboration

Compiere Inc. announced the introduction of the Compiere Community Wiki. The company has made available the complete Compiere User Documentation at no charge via the Community Wiki.

New Online Community for Information Security Industry www.infosecurityadviser.com

The team behind the popular Infosecurity Europe show - held in London every spring - has launched an online interactive security forum for the Infosecurity industry with advice, forums, blogs, career path, ask the experts, Q&A and other resources for everyone involved in the challenges of information security. The key difference from other sites is not about the latest news, it is a community where all the content is created by and for the benefit of the global infosecurity community.

New Online Community For Information Security Industry

Europe - July 1, 2008 - The team behind the Infosecurity Europe show - held in London every spring - has launched an online interactive security forum for the Infosecurity industry with advice, forums, blogs, career path, ask the experts, Q&A and other resources for everyone involved in the challenges of information security. The key difference from other sites is not about the latest news, it is a community where all the content is created by and for the benefit of the global infosecurity community.

New "Columbus Circle West" Community Graced With New Arts and Culture Center

NEW YORK - Nestled in the center of a new community of over 3,500 condos, "Columbus Circle West" is the brand new state-of-the-art facility, the Manhattan Movement & Arts Center, or MMAC. It was designed by the architects who created some of the country's most acclaimed theatre spaces, including the Joyce and Arena Stage. Located in Manhattan at 248 West 60th Street in the midst of a brand new luxury condominium community called The Element, MMAC's aim is to offer the best dance and fitness classes available to the public, while also acting as a multi-purpose arts center.

eBay Sets up Shopper Community to Conduct Market Research

eBay is using a service called Communispace to set up and gather data from an "online community of curious, active, and informed online shoppers." An AuctionBytes reader forwarded an email that said Communispace would manage and facilitate Shoppers Connection on eBay's behalf. The email said potential participants in the community would:

Q&A: XNA's Boyd Multerer Talks Xbox 360 Community Games

Q&A: XNA's Boyd Multerer Talks Xbox 360 Community Games [05.28.08] At GDC, Microsoft announced its Xbox Live Community Games project, aimed to get amateur projects onto Xbox 360 with an intriguing peer-based rating system. But how will it actually work in practice, and what are the possible pitfalls? XNA's Boyd Multerer sat down with Gamasutra to discuss the state and future of the project.

New workplace violence prevention DVD for health and community care sectors

TORONTO, June 23 /CNW/ - OSACH, the Ontario Safety Association for Community & Healthcare, today releases the first workplace violence prevention video developed specifically for the province's health and community care sector. The DVD was achieved in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care's HealthForceOntario strategy to support, identify and address Ontario's health human resource needs.

Disney Launches Online DS Community

Disney has apparently launched "DGamer", a service designed to allow Nintendo DS users to create online profiles, track accomplishments, and connect with other users. First announced back in February, most every Disney game going forward will be completely integrated. "'DGamer was built around the vision to connect Disney video game fans in a secure, fun environment and it is truly the first integrated online community of its kind to do so on multiple platforms,' said Graham Hopper, executive vice president and general manager for Disney Interactive Studios. 'We recognize the importance of delivering unique experiences to our consumers and how crucial it is for parents to feel confident that the community is secure for their kids.'"

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