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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Congress Must Investigate Electronic Searches at U.S. Borders (EFF)The Electronic Frontier Foundation is asking the US congress to hold oversight hearings on the Department of Homeland Security's search and seizure of electronic devices at US borders. ""Our computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices hold a vast amount of personal information like financial data, health histories, and personal emails and letters," said EFF Staff Attorney Marcia Hofmann. "In a free country, the government cannot have unlimited power to read, seize, and store this information without any oversight.""
2008Q2 TPF Grant Proposals (use Perl)use Perl covers the latest Perl Foundation grant proposals. "On The Perl Foundation weblog are a set of posts with proposals received by the Grants Committee during the second call for grant proposals for 2008. Although not usual, the rules of the TPF Grants Committee are changing and we hope to make this a rule. Proposals are accepted during one month and after that period, they are posted for public discussion. This is important to make the Grants Committee more aware of the community interest on the project, and to help opening the grants attribution process."
Latest Samba volunteer job postingsThe Samba project has posted a request for volunteer help. "The Samba Team is looking for people to help keep our user community information current, covering development news, releases, general news, and events."
Welte v. Skype going to trialHarald Welte lets it be known that there will be a hearing on May 8 in his GPL-enforcement case against Skype, which is shipping Linux-based phones without making source available. "Interestingly, Skype is arguing against the validity of the GPL as a whole, asserting that it is violating anti-trust regulation and similarly strange claims."
Commercial announcements Adobe's Open Screen ProjectAdobe has announced the "Open Screen Project," which seems mainly oriented toward getting flash players onto everybody's phones. One of the outcomes, though, is that the licensing restrictions on the Flash specifications (which prevented people from using those specifications to make competing Flash players) have been lifted. The Flash 9 specification can now be downloaded from this page.
Continuent announces uni/cluster 2008 for PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDBContinuent, Inc. has announced the availability of Continuent uni/cluster 2008. "This newest version of Continuent's uni/cluster software provides the highest levels of availability and scalability for database applications built using PostgreSQL and EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus databases. Continuent uni/cluster offers a multi-master approach to replication. Data is committed and available to all nodes in the cluster simultaneously, effectively eliminating data latency and providing increased reliability through redundancy."
Mozilla selects MindTouch as future platform for developer communityMindTouch has announced the release of MindTouch Deki Wiki v8.05, the latest version of its open source enterprise collaboration and integration platform. The Deki Wiki v8.05 release was driven in part by the requirements of Mozilla, which selected MindTouch for the upcoming re-launch of their Mozilla Developer Community.
Motorola demonstrates MOTODEV Studio ToolsMotorola, Inc. has announced the expansion of their MOTODEV Studio development platform for mobile phones. "Based on an open framework enabled by Eclipse, MOTODEV Studio is an integrated development environment that provides the necessary tools for the application development life cycle -- from requirements definition to testing and deployment -- across all Motorola platforms. MOTODEV Studio and its associated toolsets are designed to enable developers all over the world to create platform-specific applications for Motorola devices -- even before they are available on the market."
SDG Systems Announces Linux-based TDS NomadSDG Systems, LLC has announced the immediate availability of their Linux-based TDS Nomad rugged mobile hand-held computer. "The Nomad provides a high level of device integration including Bluetooth, 802.11, GPS, Camera, Barcode scanning and USB host and client ports. All Nomads also include a high-resolution screen (480x640 portrait VGA) for sharp, clear images and a 806 MHz PXA 320 processor. The USB host port has been tested to support mass storage, keyboard, mouse, Ethernet and RS-232 serial adapters."
New Books Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs--New From O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs by Duane Wessels and Matthew J. Weaver.
Programming in Python 3 released by Safari Books OnlineMark Summerfield has announced the online availability of his new book Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language. "The online version contains about half the book so far and is about six weeks behind my working copy. It is accurate for Python 3.0 alpha 4. More text will be added and updates made as the book and Python progress. The book began life last year once it was clear that Python 3 was going to come out this year. The printed version should be available in October in the U.S.---but it will only go to press once all the examples and snippets have been tested against Python 3.0 final, so the date will slip if Python's release date slips."
Education and Certification OpenEMR HQ to offer second online training session (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews notes that OpenEMR HQ will offer online training on May 27, 2008. "OpenEMR HQ, Inc., announced today that it plans to offer a second online training session for those interested in the OpenEMR software but who aren't able to attend an in-person event at their Tulsa facility."
Calls for Presentations Deadline for Akademy 2008 Presentation Proposals Extended (KDE.News)The deadline for submitting a proposal to Akademy 2008 has been extended until Monday, May 12, 2008, 23:59 UTC. "Tell the world about your contribution to KDE. Tell the community what cool things you have done with KDE."
OpenOffice.org: what can you share with the community?A call for papers has gone out for OOoCon 2008. The event will be held in Beijing, China on November 5-7, 2008. The submission deadline is June 20. "The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential speakers to submit proposals for papers for the OpenOffice.org annual international conference, OOoCon 2008. Whether you are a seasoned presenter, or have never stood up in public before, if you have something interesting to share about OpenOffice.org - we want to hear from you."
OSDC 2008 Sydney call for papersA call for papers has gone out for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2008. The event will take place in Sydney, Australia on December 1-5, 2008. The submission deadline is June 30.
PyOhio call for proposalsA call for proposals has gone out for PyOhio. "PyOhio, the first annual Python programming mini-conference for Ohio and surrounding areas will take place Saturday, July 26, in Columbus, Ohio. The conference is free of change and will include scheduled presentations, Lighting Talks and unconference-style Open Spaces." The submission deadline is June 1.
Upcoming Events Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, CAThe Linux Users' Group of Davis will hold the next Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, CA on Saturday, May 17.
PyPy sprint - BerlinThe PyPy sprint will take place in Berlin, Germany on May 17-22, 2008. "The next PyPy sprint will be in the crashed `c-base space station`_, Berlin, Germany, Earth, Solar System. This is a fully public sprint: newcomers (from all planets) and topics other than those proposed below are welcome."
Events: May 15, 2008 to July 14, 2008The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Web sites Blogging platform for openSUSE launchedThe openSUSE distribution has announced a new blogging site. "We're launching today officially a new website: lizards.opensuse.org! This site offers blog hosting for openSUSE members. The blogs should be focused on the openSUSE project, e.g. on the distribution, packages, build service, events, etc. Please contact the site administrators (via mail to news-submit@opensuse.org) if you want to have your blog created."
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