Fwd: [TECTONIC] PCLinuxOS, Sun on patents - First Joomla Day South African Event

Hi Folks

In case you don't know yet, here is an issue of Tectonic with the announcement of the First Joomla Day South Africa, which we have been awarded the rights to arrange and steward, for the next year, with options on the following year.

What this means is that you should be seeing Joomla! Day South Africa events across Southern Africa.

We have registered the domain www.joomladay.co.za, and there should be a Joomla site up and running, once we stop running getting the inaugural Cape Town event together.

Should you be interested in partnering with us in your City / Town, please contact us with your expression of interest.

There is always some room for a sponsor or two, who wants to promote Joomla related products or services on the day.

Presenters are also welcome to suggest topics of interest that they would like to present, so do let us know if you are keen to present a topic.

We are also open to requests for topics that you need to know more about, so do suggest a topic that you would like to hear about from a Joomla expert.

Joomla is set to explode in Southern Africa and beyond...

Cheers, Sean

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From: news@tectonic.co.za <news@tectonic.co.za>
Date: 28-May-2007 01:00
Subject: [TECTONIC] PCLinuxOS, Sun on patents
To: sgrant@pan.uzulu.ac.za

TECTONIC NEWS - 27 May, 2007
Tracking the shifts in technology
www.tectonic.co.za

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SUN PLEDGES PATENTS TO DEFEND LINUX
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1540&s=news
Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz says he is ready to use the
company's extensive patent portfolio to help defend Red Hat and Ubuntu
Linux against Microsoft's patent offensive.

SHUTTLEWORTH SAYS MICROSOFT NOT THE REAL THREAT
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1535&s=news
Mark Shuttleworth yesterday posted a blog entitled 'Microsoft is not
the real threat'. In it he stated that he believed that Microsoft and
the Linux community, as software producers, would ultimately find
themselves on the same side, fighting against the current software
patent system and those who seek to abuse it.

PCLINUXOS 2007 FINAL RELEASED
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1536&s=news
This week the PCLinuxOS community have proudly brought out the final
release of PCLinuxOS 2007 which comes with all the latest versions of
several popular open source programs.

SUPERCOMPUTING FOR SA RESEARCHERS
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1542&s=news
Do you need the processing power of several thousand desktops to
carry out your research? If so, look no further. The Centre for High
Performance Computing has been established to allow researchers access
to supercomputer level processing.

'SUE ME FIRST!' OSS USERS TELL MICROSOFT
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1538&s=news
Taking a new approach to Microsoft's patent threats, a wiki has been
set up to allow users of free and open source software to invite
Microsoft to sue them first. A local company, CompUnite has joined,
mustering support to take Microsoft to court.

NOVELL AND EFF TACKLE PATENT REFORM
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1541&s=news
Novell and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have joined
forces to take on patent reform by lobbying governments and
international organisations. The partnership will also add impetus to
the EFF's Patent Busting project, which attacks patents that overly
restrict software developers and Internet users.

TELKOM CUTS INTERNATIONAL BANDWIDTH COSTS
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1537&s=news
Fixed-line operator Telkom has cut its retail price of international
bandwidth to all destinations by 30 percent retrospectively from May
1.

FIRST OPENOFFICE.ORG VIRUS?
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1539&s=news
Virus company Sophos says it has possession of the first-ever
OpenOffice.org virus able to run on Microsoft, MacOS X and Linux. The
chance of it being spread, though, is fairly remote.

SPEED UP SURFING WITH SPLIT BROWSER
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1534&s=news
Split Browser is a Firefox extension that lets you take the
versatility of tabbed browsing even further than usual.

STILL MANY CHALLENGES FOR COMPUTERS IN SCHOOLS
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1530&s=news
Thirty percent of South Africa's schools use computers as teaching
aids but only two percent have access to the Internet.

FIRST SOUTH AFRICAN JOOMLA! DAY
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1531&s=news
All users and developers of Joomla!, the open source content
management system, will have an opportunity to meet in Cape Town on
June 16.

TEXT FREEDOM WITH RED HAT'S LIBERATION FONTS
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1532&s=news
Linux company Red Hat has released the Liberation font set which can
be used to replace the Microsoft core truetype fonts installed on most
PCs.

MYGATE EASES SHOPPING CART INTEGRATION
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1533&s=news
South African payment gateway company, MyGate, have released snippets
of code that make for easier integration between the shopping cart and
the payment gateway.

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