"logfeed is a Perl script which generates custom-filtered, templated Atom
feeds from Apache access logs. Feeds are defined by simple configuration files, fragments of Perl code, which define the metadata (the title, URI, etc.), filtering rules, and (optionally) a template for the resulting feed entries. You can literally filter on anything you can write a regular expression for and it’s simple to format the results however you like—it’s pretty easy to get creative..."

"FSFE's Freedom Task Force was launched in November 2006 to help support individuals, projects and businesses with Free Software licensing. The initial phase of the FTF was possible thanks to support by the Netherlands based philantropic organisation NLnet foundation. NLnet's support allowed the FTF to provide training, consultancy and to work in partnership with gpl-violations.org to resolve licence issues in the European area. The FTF also formed networks of technical and legal experts to foster cooperation between lawyers, projects and businesses with licensing concerns. Now, after just over twelve months of continual growth, NLnet is providing a second round of financial support to this innovative legal project..."

For Sun Microsystems, the acquisition of open-source database vendor MySQL is a positive step, giving Sun its own database and a growing, loyal community of open-source users and developers to add to its portfolio. So what's the upside or downside for the MySQL community itself?

his morning Sun Microsystems announced that it was purchasing MySQL AB for $1 billion, $800 million of which is supposed to be paid in cash. This is a huge deal in the open source community. Two minutes after I heard the news, I begged an invitation to the "no press" MySQL company meeting at which the announcement had been made, drove two hours to Orlando, and sat down for lunch with Sun vice president (and Java creator) James Gosling and MySQL AB cofounder David Axmark. After lunch I corraled MySQL CTO (and original MySQL creator) Michael "Monty" Widenius and MySQL chief database architect Brian Aker, and got their opinions about how the acquisition might work out and what it means for both companies.

Opportunism and a disregard for the facts are both on display in Walter Bender's letter about our rift with his One Laptop Per Child Association ("Intel Is on the Outside of One Laptop Project," Letters, Jan. 11).

"Large documents are almost impossible to write without outlines. There’s just too much to fit in your head. Outlines help you work with a structure, so that you can see the big picture and how sections fit together. Outlines are also surprisingly useful when brainstorming. You can work with varying levels of detail, starting with a high-level overview and successively refining it, or starting with the details and then letting the structure emerge as you organize those details into groups. Emacs has one of the most powerful outline editors I’ve come across. Although word processors like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.org Writer support outlines too, Emacs has a gazillion keyboard shortcuts, and once you get the hang of them, you’ll want them in other applications as well.

What is the most frustrating part of being the most powerful corporation in America? Finding another corporation that you cannot control or influence.

"...Does the Foundation currently exist? Yes. [...] What happened to the SFLC? Weren't we going to consider joinging the Software Freedom Law Center's Software Freedom Conservancy (http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/)? Yes, and the SFC was, and still is, interested ..."