Novell will be merging 3 forum sites (suseforums.net, suselinuxsupport.de and the openSUSE support forums at forums.novell.com) to a new official openSUSE Forums at forums.opensuse.org. This will give openSUSE users a one-stop shop for their problems and ideas.

Although the awareness of open source appears low, the lack of Internet-based apps poses an opportunity to bolster open source penetration.

"Just a reminder to all the Gentoo users out there that you don't have to know anything about ebuild writing to become a Gentoo developer. To become Gentoo staff for things like GMN, PR and Devrel you only need to take the staff quiz and of course in general you don't even need to be developer to help out..."

In recent months, Zimbra deployments have more than doubled in higher education. For Exchange and Lotus Domino/Notes VARs serving higher education, it might be time to give Zimbra a look.

We are reaching an exciting time for Open Source in UK education as government interest is increasing and many teachers, support and management staff are using Open Source to greater effect in schools, colleges and universities.

OpenOffice 3 should be released in time to be included in Ubuntu 8.10, but you can try the recent release candidate right now in Ubuntu 8.04 (or another Debian-based distribution) without disturbing your existing version of OpenOffice (you can even run both versions at the same time).

Twenty-two organizations across 60 countries are taking part in DocumentFreedomDay (DFD) to raise awareness about what happens when formats are no longer supported by proprietary software.

Help raise global awareness of Free Software by adding markers on the new google maps website I've just set up at gnuworldorder.info. It would be great to get as many links geocoded as possible so people can see what's going on where, so take a look and spread the word.

Novell’s recent news about China [1, 2, 3] is pretty significant because this shows what tricks Microsoft and Novell hope to make more widespread and prevalent around the world, not just in Asia. It’s a symbolic start that illustrates just why Novell has become dangerous to GNU/Linux adoption (contrary to common belief).