The German LaTeX site goLaTeX.de has opened its wiki, as stated by J. Aehling yesterday evening. LaTeX users are invited to contribute. The long-term objective is to provide a language reference, useful tips and docs and answers to frequently asked questions.

The wiki has been published under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Its address:

        http://golatex.de/wiki/

The Software Freedom Day is a worldwide celebration of Free and Open Source Software. The goal in this celebration is to educate the worldwide public about of the benefits of using high quality free and open source software in education, in government, at home and in business. The non-profit company Software Freedom International coordinates this event at a global level, volunteer teams around the world organize local SFD events. Already over 500 teams in over 90 countries all around the world have announced to celebrate the SFD.

One event will take place September 20th, 2008 in Berlin, supported by FSFE and FFII Berlin. You can find more details here: Team Freie Software Berlin.

CQF.info, a forum on maths, finance and LaTeX was down for one week, today I noticed it’s back up. Currently the most recent post dates from Wed Jun 25, 2008. Good to see that it’s up, it would be a real pity to loose its content. Reading the message about the last unplanned downtime 1 month ago I expect the forum to be supported further on.

On June 13 2008 jtin informed in the LaTeX Community Forum that he started a new webservice: mathurl.com. This site turns standard LaTeX input with amsmath extensions into png images that can be embedded other websites. Permanent links to LaTeX expression and output bitmap are created and can be used inside emails or on websites for the exchange of formulas.