General

Last year, Dokeos Latinoamérica, with the agreement of Thomas, made a deal with Macro Editorial in Peru to edit a series of primary school syllabus under the name "Dokeos Kids". We also later launched http://www.dokeoskids.com/, which has served to host a few ressources since then.

Ana Elena, from Uruguay, sent this video to Dokeos Latinoamérica the other day. We first discussed in a blog comment on the Dokeos Latinoamérica's blog, then I wanted to know more about their project, so this was their answer... [youtube url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bjkEUjA5gM] Cute, isn't it?

Regular readers will start to think that I like giving delays that I cannot respect. To be on the *safe* side, I'd like them to know that customers always have priority over the software, which gives me a good excuse to be late on delivering the public version of Dokeos 1.8.6 :-) Alternatively, customers are the ones investing into Dokeos and allowing us to develop a great product. So thank you, dear customer.

There's an interesting document from Pentaho about Open Source Business Model. I like the link at the end.

A huge number of you might get a very big surprise when updating your Dokeos platform to 1.8.6 soon. As much as we generally try to help users (not to confuse them, keep them by the hand), there are sometimes when a large, influent group of people think a change is needed, and so this change is operated without having a particular consensus. This is what happened here. Dokeos "courses" will now be called "trainings", starting from 1.8.6. The same will go for French, where "cours" will become "formations".

After a few weeks of struggling with the dilemn of releasing a third BETA or go directly to the Release Candidates, we finally chose to release a last quick BETA, for a few reasons:

1. I had introduced a mistake in the code in the BETA 2 package
2. we drastically improved web services (although this is still very badly documented) and in particular the way the system can connect to external systems
3. we have fixed a lot of bugs in the new social network section
4. we have fixed an annoying bug with user images
5. we have introduced an important change in the m

Let's talk about non-computer stuff for once... I don't know if you read about the Danton (a French military boat sunk during the first world war by a German submarine) discovery last week... Quite interesting. A friend of mine sent me a link to this article about the possible discovery of the Atlantis today.

The pen-test mailing list (see http://www.securityfocus.com) has a short thread going about security certifications, which basically gives two possibilities for security certifications in the case of watching the information security: http://www.giac.org/certifications/security/gcia.php http://www.giac.org/certifications/security/gcih.php That's a personal bookmark for later. There's also an Ubuntu Professional Certi

One of our antique servers at OVH, ns21589, is expiring during the next hour. Making a little bit of cleaning, I see that my oldest file on this one is dated May 2005.

There is an interesting article (with plenty of links, but I haven't investigated it fully so I don't know about the real sources of all this - probably not much usable legally) on "Boycott Novell", a website apparently talking about the underground conspiracies of the mighty against Linux. http://boycottnovell.com.nyud.net:8080/2009/01/30/microsoft-intel-anti-linux/ I thought it would be nice to share. We learn about anti-Linux actions,  Gartner reports alteration, etc.