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The below news is very important in Linux/Open Source awareness/Competncies and adoption  Details: The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world’s premier Linux certification organization (http://www.lpi.org), announced with its affiliate organization LPI-Spain (http://www.lpi.org.es/) that a program in public schools in Spain to promote Linux education and certification has achieved successful results in its first six months of operation. This public education initiative with Proyecto Universidad Empresa (PUE) has recruited close to 20 training partners. PUE is Spain’s leading agency in the development of IT training and certification and provides academic programs for such major IT organizations as Microsoft, Cisco and Sun. For more information on PUE’s initiative with LPI please see: http://www.pue.es/lpi “This impressive result early in this program initiative with PUE demonstrates the growing recognition of the need for professional Linux skills and knowledge within...

Software Freedom Law Center is a non profit that offers direct services to nonprofit FLOSS developers without charge, as well as publications for everyone that publishes the results of its legal analysis of various FLOSS-related legal issues. Software Freedom Law Center site is h3r3 .

Organizations that are interested in using open source in their own products but are worries of intellectual property issues might want to examine a new, mostly free, assistance program just launched by the non-profit Linux Foundation. The Open Compliance Program includes an assessment checklist, training programs and software tools to monitor open source software usage. Especially in the growing field of mobile device and consumer electronics manufacturers, software development often involves use of multiple programs -- many open source -- in a single stack, said Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation. - "You have a really complicated supply chain, where you might get source code coming from lots of different places, whether it is a chipset vendor, a mobile handset provider or embedded software vendor," he said.  - "Managing open source license compliance is complicated." - "What we were looking for is [a way] to solve this complexity a...

WayFinder is a navigation software that Vodafone Paid 31Million USD since two years “Given our decision to stop developing turn by turn location based services as part of our core business, it seemed an obvious choice to make the code we own open source,” Voda’s internet director Pieter Knook, who led the original acquisition says in the announcement. “We look forward to seeing its continued use in all sorts of different applications in the future.” The New Open Source Navigation Software WayFinder website is h3r3 Project is released under BSD License  and available on GitHub, Open Source WayFinder Source code could be h3r3 Vodafone was planning to use WayFinder for location aware marketing services

Adobe has announced that its partnering with Sourceforge to expand its open-source offerings and have more flexibility with the related programs. Basically, all of Adobe’s open-source and standards efforts will be hosted and managed on Sourceforge through the site’s new developer platform. Adobe is actually the first customer of the newly launched platform. Adobe has grouped all of its ‘openess’ programs, source code hosting, specifications and contributions to standards organizations, under the Open@Adobe banner. The new site is now live over at sourceforge.net/adobe .  List of Adobe Open Source Projects is h3r3 Reference URL is h3r3

USE OPEN SOURCE is UK government officials' answer to Prime Minister David Cameron's request for ideas to cut expenses, suggesting that the civil service stop buying Microsoft software in favour of free alternatives. Last month Cameron asked more than a half million UK government workers for cost-cutting suggestions to help trim Britain's looming fiscal deficit. Over 56,000 ideas were submitted and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne published a sample of them on Friday 9 July. Details are h3r3

The Ubuntu Manual Project just released "Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04" it is free to download Ubuntu Linux Tutorial/book/manual Site could be found h3r3 .