Summer is getting closer, Google Summer of Code 2008 also, and like every year, PHP is taking part of the GSoC. A list of project's ideas is already available at PHP Wiki including :

- PECL, Website Improvements, Windows Build support improvements
- Automatic Code Checker
- Zend bytecode to LLVM bitcode converter
- Algorithm Optimizations
- Implement Unicode into PHP 6
- Replace auto* with CMake
- Build Infrastructure and macro bindings for writing extension in D
- Put Ilia's Optimizer in APC
- Rewrite the run-tests.php script
- PhD: The PHP based Docbook renderer
- PHPUnit
- PHP-GTK
- Pave the way for One-Bugtracker-Rules-Them-All
- Anonymous functions and closures and other missing object oriented features

Students are always welcomed to suggest other new ideas for project or application. Over the past three years, the Google summer of Code has brought together over 1500 students and 2000 mentors from 90 countries worldwide, all for the love of code.

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Adobe efforts in the Open Source world are not new at all, but now they have better : a new open source website to keep you up to date on Adobe open source activities. Adobe projects already in the open source website include mainly :

BlazeDS : server-based Java remoting and web messaging technology that enables developers to easily connect to back-end distributed data and push data in real-time to Adobe® Flex™ and Adobe AIR™ applications for more responsive rich Internet application (RIA) experiences.

Flex 3 SDK : Adobe® Flex™ 3 is a cross platform, open source framework for creating rich Internet applications that run identically in all major browsers and operating systems. The Adobe® Flex™ SDK is the foundation of Flex, providing the core Flex compilers, component library and debugger. Using only the free SDK and an IDE of your choice, you can build and deploy rich Flex applications.

Adobe Media Gallery : The Adobe Media Gallery (AMG) is a Flash web photo and video gallery whose appearance and behavior can be customized via XML files.

Tamarin : The Tamarin project, which is based on code contributed from Adobe, is designed to implement the upcoming version of the ECMAScript 4th Edition language specification. Tamarin will be used by Mozilla within the next generation of SpiderMonkey, the core JavaScript engine embedded in Firefox®, Mozilla's free Web browser, as well as within the ActionScript™ Virtual Machine within Adobe® Flash® Player.

Webkit : The WebKit library is used to render HTML and execute JavaScript in Adobe® AIR™. Adobe AIR allows web developers to deploy rich Internet applications on the desktop.

An interesting open source experience from Adobe to show the power of Adobe products. The new website is available at opensource.adobe.com. products released under different open source licenses including the Mozilla Public License (MPL) and the LGPL v3

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Brussels, 13 December 2007 – Faithful to its aim to foster the development and use of Open Source Software (OSS) to help industries in the global race for growth, on 16 and 17 January 2008 the international QualiPSo consortium is organizing its first international conference: "Fostering trust and quality of Open Source Software systems".

Organized in Rome, under the patronage of the European Commission, the QualiPSo 2008 conference will bring together international authorities and experts on OSS trends, reveal the first results of research carried out by the QualiPSo consortium, and be a forum for debate about the drivers for encouraging trust in OSS. It will approach Open Source from three complementary angles: political, economical and technological, covering:

- Business models and strategies in OSS
- Legal issues in Open Source
- Trustworthiness of OSS products and processes
- Interoperability in the area of Open Source
- Networks of OSS Competence Centers
- Next-generation software forges.

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At 12 noon EDT (4pm GMT), the Free Software Foundation will officially release the GNU GPL version 3. The most awaited version of GNU GPL is finally going public after many drafts that helped highlight vital issues for the community of free software users. There will be live footage of Richard Stallman announcing GPLv3 from Noon EDT at www.fsf.org, less than one hour remaining from now. We'll keep you updated as soon as we have more information.

Update : The fsf website wasn't updated as expected, but the GPLv3 is officially released now. Below the press release :

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA-Friday, June 29, 2007-The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world's most popular free software license.

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In a recent press release Adobe announced its plan to open source Flex under the Mozilla Public License (MPL). With this new decision, developers from all over the world will be able to contribute in the development of Flex, the industry's most advanced framework for building cross-operating system rich Internet applications (RIAs) for the Web and enabling new Apollo applications for the desktop.

"Open source has been pivotal to the rapid growth of Alfresco, and it's great to see Adobe take a similar approach to Flex technology," said John Newton, CTO of Alfresco. "We've been very interested in using the Flex SDK to put a more usable and engaging face on enterprise content management, and this move by Adobe makes that all the more attractive."

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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA---Wednesday, March 28, 2007---The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the third discussion draft for version 3 of the most widely used free software license, the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL).

Today's draft incorporates the feedback received from the general public, official discussion committees, and two international conferences held in India and Japan. Many significant changes have been made since the previous draft, released in July 2006. In recognition of this fact, the FSF now plans to publish one additional draft before the final text of GPL version 3.

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