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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements European software patents via treaty?FFII has sent out an alert warning that representatives from the U.S. and the European Union are in talks over the creation of a new patent treaty. "Parts of the proposed treaty will contain provision on software patents, and could legalise them on both sides of the Atlantic." This would certainly not be the first time that international trade treaties have been used to get around domestic democratic roadblocks.
The GPL wins in Germany - againHarald Welte has posted an update on the GPL-compliance case hearing held on May 8. In the end, Skype dropped all of its arguments and gave up its appeal. "This means that the previous court decision is legally binding to Skype, and we have successfully won what has probably been the most lengthy and time consuming case so far."
OWASP sponsors application security research projectsThe Open Web Application Security Project has announced the award of 31 grants to application security researchers. "The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has awarded 31 grants to promising application security researchers as part of the OWASP Summer of Code 2008. The results of all these projects will be free and open source for everyone."
Commercial announcements Adaptec launches new series 2 RAID controller for LinuxAdaptec has announced its new Linux-compatible entry-level Series 2 Unified Serial RAID controller family. "The Series 2 controllers eliminate the limitations of software RAID-based hardware solutions commonly found in entry-level systems, delivering a wide range of advantages for inexpensive SATA and SAS disk and tape drive systems."
CNR.com announces support For Linux MintLinspire, Inc. has announced click-n-run support for the Linux Mint 4.0 operating system. ""We are excited to introduce the CNR.com service to the growing Linux Mint user base," stated Larry Kettler, President & CEO of Linspire, Inc. "With CNR.com we will continue to focus on offering users the best value in both software and services available in the desktop Linux marketplace.""
NnorTuX launches NTX collaboration systemNnorTuX has announced its CentOS-based NTX collaboration system. "Open-xchange is a advanced feature rich collaboration system, that could be challenge to install. NnorTuX want to make Open-xchange available as a out of box solution for medium and small companies. NTX is distributed as a single ISO image, the ISO image include all that is needed."
Wind River Joins the OpenSAF FoundationThe OpenSAF Foundation has announced that Wind River Systems, Inc. is their newest member. "As part of the OpenSAF project, Wind River joins other industry leaders to develop and create a reference implementation of high availability (HA) base platform middleware based on SA Forum specifications and SCOPE Alliance recommendations. Wind River will also support the efforts of its developers who choose to contribute time and expertise to accelerate the completion of the OpenSAF project."
SourceForge.net launches standard-setting implementationSourceForge has announced new OpenID functionality on the SourceForge.net site. "OpenID is an open, decentralized, framework for digital identity that eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites. SourceForge.net users can now log in with an OpenID and receive a corresponding SourceForge.net identity for use at other sites that support OpenID logins."
Zenoss announces sponsorship of TwistedZenoss Inc. has announced its Gold Sponsorship of the non-profit Twisted Software Foundation. ""As early as two years ago, many people still questioned the use of open source software in the enterprise," said Glyph Lefkowitz, founder of Twisted. "Forward-thinking companies like Zenoss are proving that through collaboration and community involvement open source software is not only ready for, but can excel in, an enterprise environment. The Twisted project enables companies like Zenoss to benefit from the collective input of a highly technical and savvy community." Twisted is an event-driven network-programming framework written in Python, a dynamic object-oriented programming language."
New Books The Book of IMAP--New from No Starch PressNo Starch Press has published the book The Book of IMAP by Peer Heinlein and Peer Hartleben.
MySQL in a Nutshell, Second Edition--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book MySQL in a Nutshell, Second Edition by Russell J. T. Dyer.
Simply Rails 2--New from SitePointSitePoint has published the book Simply Rails 2 by Patrick Lenz.
Education and Certification Python Bootcamp at Big Nerd RanchAnother Python Bootcamp will be held at Big Nerd Ranch near Atlanta, GA on June 9-13.
Meeting Minutes Perl 6 Design Meeting Minutes (use Perl)The minutes from the May 6, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meeting have been published. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 07 May 2008. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Will, Jerry, Nicholas, Jesse, and chromatic attended."
April PSF Board meeting minutes availableThe meeting minutes are available for the April 14, 2008 Python Software Foundation Board meeting.
Calls for Presentations Akademy 2008 Embedded and Mobile Day - Call for Participation (KDE.News)KDE.News has posted a call for participation for the Akademy 2008 Embedded and Mobile Day. "The EmSys research group is hosting an "Embedded and Mobile Day" at Akademy 2008, this year in Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium at Campus De Nayer. We welcome you to join the presentations and panel discussions about Open Source and Open Desktop technologies in embedded systems and mobile devices on Tuesday 12 August 2008. We are looking for your contribution in the form of presentations, papers or demos..." The submission deadline is June 16.
Upcoming Events Linuxtag 2008 - latest informationAn information update for Linuxtag 2008 has been sent out. "Please don't forget the biggest Linux event in Germany, just a few weeks away! For the second time it will be in Berlin, from 28-31.05.2008. The location is slightly differ[]ent, still at Messehalle Funkturm, but this time it's Hall7 (south instead of east last year)."
Events: May 22, 2008 to July 21, 2008The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs Embedded Linux Conference videos and reportFree Electrons presents some new videos and a report from the Embedded Linux Conference. "In our report, written by Thomas Petazzoni, we tried to complement Jake Edge's excellent coverage of this event, so that LWN.net readers have new things to learn. Note that we are also releasing videos from the embedded developer room from the FOSDEM conference, which took place in Brussels last February. We also have a video from Keith Packard about X driver development."
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