The North American Fedora User and Developer Conference (FUDCon) was held on Arizona State University campus in Tempe Arizona from January 29 -31, 2011 and proved to be the largest FUDCon to date with over 200 people pre-registered to attend and final attendance numbers estimated around 175 people.

"The decision to be open to Qt is in no way a criticism of GNOME. It’s a celebration of free software’s diversity and complexity," says Ubuntu founder, Mark Shuttleworth in his blog.

WANdisco, makers of Enterprise Subversion, announced its acquisition of SVNForum.org, an 20,000+ Subversion user community, today.

Jaspersoft 4, a commercial open source Business Intelligence Suite designed for web applications, is now available.

The KDE Windows team continues their progress in bringing KDE applications to MS Windows.

Written in Java, OpenGrok is a source code search and cross reference engine that helps users search, cross-reference and navigate their source tree in a fast and efficient way.

Avian 0.4 is a portable virtual machine (VM) that utilizes subsets of Java's features.

Google announced that Chrome is ready for business and the wait to deploy Chrome and Google Apps for Business is over.