Drupal is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering content management for all purposes on the web. Additional screenshots show examples for websites built with Drupal.

Open Mapi is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, dedicated to groupware interoperability through the API.

Scribus is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering an professional Desktop Publishing under Linux.

Deepamehta is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering a Java-written platform for knowledge management.

Amarok is among the 15 projects that will present their work at CeBIT, offering an open source audio player.

The French international competition Trophees du Libre is again offering cash prizes for the most innovative open source solution for 2009, and the smaller the project, the better the chances of winning.

IBM's motto for the upcoming CeBIT 2009 trade show in Hannover, Germany in March is "Smarter Planet": "You'll see that transistors will be everywhere -- animals, people, clothing," says Martin Jetter, CEO of IBM Germany, in his keynote at yesterday's conference preview in Munich

Linux.conf.au came to a close Friday after dozens of excellent talks, great social events, and the unexpected shaving of Bdale Garbee for the Tasmanian Devil.