In this issue:

  The Linux User & Developer magazine has featured an article by Richard Smedley, from the Midlands Open Source Technology (MOST) project, where he profiles the changes taking place in the voluntary sector as it meets with the free software community. http://foss.ciac.org.uk/article36.html

  Feedback from the East of England FOSS participants : We would like to thank all of the participants who have taken the time to write a short feedback of their experiences so far. A compilation will be published on the East of England FOSS in the VCS website in a few days. (Apologies for the delay!)

  Legal Case Management releases version 0.6.4: The legal case management (LCM) system is software aimed for use by not-for-profit legal advice centres in order to make better follow-ups of their cases, including client consultations and court events. This version is the first official release resulting from the ongoing collaboration of the LCM developers with the Cambridge Independent Advice Centre (CIAC). http://foss.ciac.org.uk/article33.html

   The Voice over IP project (VoIP) pilot project is now live. CIAC is hosting an Asterisk server which is acting as a replacement to commercial services such as Skype. It allows 10 organisations to make phone calls between each other for free, participate in conference calls and includes voice mail. The system also provides a personal extention on a fixed line Cambridge phone number.

   As part of the FOSS project, Chris Bailey and Susie Halksworth (normally based at CIAC) have been working with organisations to develop web pages for them. The web pages are created using Joomla, a free, open source programme which produces high-quality interactive web pages. Joomla is based on modules, and allows the user to install whatever modules they wish on their site: for example, users may choose to have forums, have password-protected areas of the site, have user polls or events guides, or many more. http://foss.ciac.org.uk/article37.html

  The FOSS newsletter goes for the general public : Due to the growing interest in the evolution of this project by voluntary and community organisations in various UK regions, we have decided to allow the general public to subscribe to this newsletter (whose archives are also available from our website). If your colleagues are interested in keeping up to date with the project, they can subscribe from our website. http://foss.ciac.org.uk/listes.php3

  There have been two important security issues involving Ubuntu GNU/Linux (the operating system used on the computers) since the last newsletter. Both issues do not affect the configuration you are using, so there is no need to worry. More specifically, one involved the KDE graphical interface, which was not installed on your computers (you are using the Gnome graphical interface). The other security issue is a bit more technical, but it affects only Ubuntu version 5.10, but you are using Ubuntu 5.04.

A full list of Ubuntu security notifications are available on the Ubuntu website (www.ubuntu.com/usn), you can also subscribe to the security annoucements mailing-list.

Please note that we are monitoring those mailing-lists and related security forums. If any important security issue is published, we will quickly notify all participants, so there is no need to worry!

As usual, do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: foss-admin@ciac.org.uk.