Forum LAMS Newsletter: Newsletter 50, 19th Nov. 06

By: James Dalziel

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LAMS Conference Draft Program available

The LAMS Conference draft program is now available at:

http://lamsfoundation.org/lams2006/program.htm

In addition to the keynotes, there are great presentations across all areas, from primary and secondary school education to introductory and advanced university courses.

LAMS Conference Awards due this week

If you wish to submit an entry for the LAMS Conference Awards, these are due this week (Nov 20th). If you can't make Monday but are planning to submit, please email us to request an extension for a few days - but all submissions are due by the end of this coming week. For further details, see

http://lamsfoundation.org/lams2006/awards.htm

LAMS V2 Official Launch - December 6th at LAMS Conference

Although test versions of LAMS V2 have been available since October, the official launch of the finalised version of LAMS V2 will be at the welcome drinks for the LAMS Conference, starting at 6pm on December 6th, 2006 at the Sydney Conservatorium. At this time we'll put out revised versions of both the code and the installer programs, as well as update the demonstration site at
http://demo.lamscommunity.org/

If you haven't yet tried LAMS V2, you can easily sign up for a demonstration account at the address above.

And there is a rumour that the LAMS V2 launch will include a viewing (only the second ever in public) of the original LAMS V1 launch video, which includes me in a full length lamb costume

Sun goes Open Source with Java using GPL

Some time ago I mentioned that Sun Microsystems had indicated they would release the Java programming language (the basis of LAMS and many, many other applications) as open source software. Sun have now officially taken this step, and not only that, but they have chosen the most widely adopted open source license (the GPL - the same license as LAMS). This is great news for LAMS, and for the whole open source software community - our hearty congratulations and thanks to Sun for this important step! For further details, see:

http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/story.jsp

Posted by James Dalziel