Boston, MA – OASIS has formed a new group to help implementors create applications that conform to the OpenDocument Format (ODF) OASIS Standard. ODF defines a genuinely open XML file format for office productivity applications, including text, spreadsheets, charts, graphs, presentations, and databases. The new OASIS ODF Interoperability and Conformance (OIC) Committee will work to ensure that the growing number of ODF-compliant applications are able to interoperate and conform to the standard.

BOSTON, Mass – The GNOME Foundation has said that Motorola and Google are joining the GNOME Advisory board and sponsoring the GNOME Foundation.

The KDE Community has launched the new KDE Forum. The new forum uses the bulletin board software MyBB offering users, developers and people interested in KDE a place to help each other, discuss KDE-related topics and exchange ideas. The KDE Forum complements KDE's UserBase, the home for KDE users as a valuable support resource.

The KDE Community has announced the immediate availability of "Codename", (a.k.a KDE 4.1.2), another bugfix and maintenance update for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. Codename is a monthly update to KDE 4.1. It ships with a basic desktop and many other packages; like administration programs, network tools, educational applications, utilities, multimedia software, games, artwork, web development tools and more. KDE's award-winning tools and applications are available in more than 50 languages.

BROOMFIELD, Colo. – The Open Source Census has said that in just six months more than 300,000 open source package/project installations have been discovered.

Amsterdam, Holland – Zarafa has said that it will turn its popular groupware solution open source. Zarafa will introduce and maintain a dual licensing strategy. The company will license the full core of its software under the Affero GPLv3 license.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – As software developers the world over prepare to mark the 25th anniversary of the GNU System, Silicon Graphics has said that it is releasing a new version of the SGI Free Software License B. The license, which now mirrors the free X11 license used by X.Org, further opens previously released SGI graphics software that has set the industry standard for visualization software and has proven essential to GNU/Linux and a host of applications.

BOSTON, Massachusetts – The GNU operating system is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary by releasing "Happy Birthday to GNU," a short film featuring the English humorist, actor, novelist and filmmaker Stephen Fry.

Birmingham, UK – Following six weeks of intense voting, Packt can now exclusively reveal the Content Management Systems that have made the final of the four different categories. With the final voting stage opening on September 1, the competition is likely to be strong with new CMS's joining some of the more established names in each category to compete for a share of the $20,000 prize money.

London, UK – OptimaNumerics has brung its mathematical libraries to the NVIDIA Tesla GPU platform.