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Your friendly neighborhood Linux systems admin here with a post about the Linux Foundation web infrastructure. The web site has grown organically one piece at a time. The existing main application for www.linuxfoundation.org is Mediawiki. This was put together as a temporary web site when the Free Standards Group and Open Source Development Labs were in the process of merging into the Linux Foundation. That was in December of 2006.

Since this time many other needs have come up. We added Wordpress MU for our blogs. We added a Phorum installation for OpenPrinting discussions, forums.openprinting.org. Our events site is run on Drupal and CiviCRM.

The issue has always been how to meet all the technological needs with a bare minimum of staff. Many of you out there could code solutions in place to glue the applications together. Since, I am not a strong developer I have ...

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During the Linux Foundation's Collaboration Summit back in April we had many of the keynote and panel sessions as well as several interviews filmed with the intention of posting them online.

We had asked the third party company we were working with to provide both completely open OGG and mostly open Flash FLV formats as the final product. Unfortunately, they did not have the in house skills to produce the open OGG format.

In the interest of getting the video's out to the public sooner rather than later we went ahead and published the FLV files in the LF Video Gallery. Youtube for better or worse has mad FLV the de facto standard for online video. Needless to say we have gotten many complaints about our lack of an open codec version of the videos like here and here.

First, let me say that audio and video codecs ...

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Yesterday I reported to the LF members and Jim Zemlin at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit closing session that the State of the Linux Desktop is strong. Based on the work of many open source communities, 2008 continues to be a break out year for the Linux desktop. We had 8 distros talk about their 2008 accomplishments and preload agreements. The OEM hardware panel reached an inflection point where the vendors are encouraging component and chipset vendors to deliver open source drivers as part of their procurement processes. KDE and Gnome desktop environments continue to innovate on the desktop user experience and improve the usability of the Linux desktop for broader user segments. The joint sessions with the OpenPrinting, LSB, Mobile and Driver Backport workgroups demonstrated the strong partnerships we continue to build by working together under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. I particularly enjoyed many of the Lightning ...

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The Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey is now available in German. Many thanks to Jutta Kreyss from the IBM Linux Integration Center for assisting with the German translation.

German users are invited to take the LF Client Survey

Survey participants can review the aggregate German results after completing the survey.

We want survey feedback from the broadest number of organizations. The Linux Foundation Desktop Workgroup will use this information to prioritize the 2008 LF desktop initiatives. It also offers Linux ISVs, OEMs, the LF membership and broader community new insights into how businesses are adopting Linux and their Linux desktop requirements.

To be inclusive of the global Linux user communities, we are excited to offer the survey in additional languages. With our recent additions of Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and now German translations, the Client survey is available in eight languages.

John Walicki

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Announcing that the Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey is now available
in Chinese.

Take survey

John Walicki
Desktop Linux Workgroup Chairman

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Announcing that the Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey is now available in Brazilian Portuguese as well.

Take Survey - Brazilian Portuguese

Have your say on what desktop Linux really needs! Please Join us in the Third Annual Desktop Linux Survey, at:

Survey start page

The survey will take only few minutes of your time, and your feedback is essential in helping us to focus our development efforts and accelerate the global adoption of Linux desktops and clients. For example, past surveys highlighted the need to address printing and wireless issues, so we set up focused workgroups and conferences to help developers and vendors work out common solutions to these requirements.

The survey is open now through November 30, 2007. Survey results will be made publicly available shortly after the close.

Thank you,
Linux Foundation Desktop Linux Workgroup

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Ed Trager has recently announced the 2007 Text Layout Summit in conjuction with aKademy in Glasgow (July 4-6).

Here’s the official 2007 TEXT LAYOUT SUMMIT ANNOUNCEMENT:

2007 TEXT LAYOUT SUMMIT AT AKADEMY JULY 4-6 IN GLASGOW

The 2007 Text Layout Summit is scheduled to take place in conjunction with aKademy 2007 this summer in Glasgow, Scotland. The dates for the 3-day Summit are Wednesday July 4th through Friday, July 6th which coincide with the aKademy’s scheduled “BOF” sessions and coding days.

The 2007 Text Layout Summit Wiki pages are started at:

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout — General Info
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/TextLayout2007 — THIS YEAR’S PAGE

Please help out by adding information. This is your chance to put all issues important to you onto the agenda or to volunteer to present a session paper or moderate a discussion.

I am also very pleased to announce ...

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Nice reaction from our press release on the LSB update and new testing tools available here. My favorite from SearchEnterpriseLinux:

According to a report from Saugatuck Technology Inc., new testing standards contained in the latest version of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) server specification could boost the confidence of IT managers looking to integrate Linux applications into their data centers.

The research report is titled: New Testing Standards May Accelerate Linux Data Center Growth

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