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I’ve blogged in the past on the possibility of using a USB key to store senitive information like passwords. In the post, I was refering to using LUKS. I had not taken time before today to test that setup.
I’ve tested it and it seems to work nicely, beautifully integrated in the Gnome environment (relying on HAL, etc.).
Continue reading “cryptsetup and LUKS beautifully integrated in Gnome on my Debian (testing)”
Next november, GET will most probably host the phpGroupware Conference 2006 in Paris.
Stay tuned for more details.
Update : the website is online at : http://conference.phpgroupware.org/
During CISIS in Dalian (China), was recently held (June 23), the “2006 Sino-French International Cooperation Forum” subtitled : “Perspectives of international cooperation on open source software”. This forum was organized by the ObjectWeb and Orientware consortia, both devoted to developping middleware.
The forum was made possible by the Dalian IT industry international exchange association, the French Ministry of Industry, and MOST (Ministry of Science and Technology of China).
The fact that such a forum received some endorsement by both Chinese and French officials is a very positive sign. I hope that such cooperation will continue in years to come, maybe in other areas than middleware technology.
Anyway, for now, one perspective for such cooperation is through collaboration of OrientWare and ObjectWeb. Whereas ObjectWeb components are fully open source, it is not the case of most of OrientWare’s elements, as far as I can understand. But the Chinese seem to be interested in gaining worldwide audiance for their software, through publication as OpenSource. Also some components seem pretty complementary. Most of ObjectWeb technology is compliant to the JCP standards, whereas OrientWare seems to be much more of the OMG side, so adding all this in a cooperative space seems to provide a great coverage of middleware technologies. Please correct me if I’m wrong 😉
The presentations made at the forum are now online on ObjectWeb’s website (including my presentation of the Calibre project’s results, also available here).
I’m back from Dalian (China), where I’ve presented the Calibre project during a joint one day workshop organised by collegues in France and China, namely mainly by people from ObjectWeb and OrientWare (two consortium developping middleware), during the CISIS IT fair. Here’s a link to the program.
Here is a link to my slides : “Some results on the Calibre project”
I’m back from the (last) meeting and workshop of the Calibre project which was just held in Madrid (Spain).
Once again, some very interesting talks and speeches by Calibre participants and other spanish guests. You will find the slides of the various presentations on Calibre’s website.
One very good piece of news : the Calibration forum which is the place for big European industrials to talk about libre software is going to survive after Calibre’s termination, since it will be hosted by the ITEA COSI project. For more details on Calibration, see the presentation made by its chairman.
It was also nice to have discovered Madrid although the weather was not so good… anyway, we got some happy time in the tapas cafés and in a Museo del Jamon 😉