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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements GPL-Violations.org and FSFE's Freedom Task Force to work more closely together Coordinators of the FSFE Freedom Task Force (FTF) and GPL-Violations.org recently met in Berlin to discuss future cooperation. "GPL-Violations.org will be pro-actively working on cases and seeking resolutions where violations occur. The FTF will continue and expand its educational and networking activities to ensure awareness of best practice and help support people with their use of the licences."
Open Graphics Project PCI card pre-orders are open Pre-orders are being accepted for an open-designed PCI graphics card project. "Traversal Technology is taking pre-orders for a PCI card developed in collaboration with the Open Graphics Project. It is not a graphics card, it is an FPGA card that can be used to develop and test designs for a free graphics card. Still, it's progress! They're looking to raise enough funds to produce a small batch of them."
Commercial announcements Chesspark Congratulates Facebook for Integrating XMPP Chesspark congratulates Facebook for supporting XMPP, the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. ""We've built the best stack for allowing companies to connect their applications to XMPP, allowing anyone wishing their web or desktop application to communicate over XMPP to do so seamlessly," states CEO Jack Moffitt, who is also on the board of directors of both the XMPP Standards Foundation, the organization that manages the XMPP specifications, and the Xiph.org Foundation, known for its Open Source and royalty free multimedia standards such as Ogg Vorbis."
Gentoo Foundation reinstated The Gentoo site announces that, according to the state of New Mexico, the Gentoo Foundation has returned to good corporate standing and can, once again, do business.
Synopsys releases VMM methodology standard library under Apache license Synopsys, Inc. has announced the release of its VMM methodology implementation. "Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced it has released the source code for its complete implementation of the proven VMM verification methodology for SystemVerilog, including the VMM Standard Library and VMM Applications, under the popular Apache 2.0 open source license."
TigerLogic Corporation announces Omnis Studio 4.3.1 TigerLogic Corporation has announced the release of the Omnis Studio 4.3.1 rapid application development tool. "Omnis Studio 4.3.1 greatly extends the ability of Omnis to provide fast and easy-to-use tools for Windows, Mac and Linux application developers. New features offer an overall improved Web application developer and Web user experience."
Resources FSFE Newsletter The May 21, 2008 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: 1. FTF workshop leads to broad agreement on European licensing infrastructure 2. Lack of quality in standardisation a serious problem 3. Licensing as a strategic imperative, speech at FISL 4. Fellowship Group at Ubuntu Release Party in Berlin 5. Italian team: new mailing list and renewed blog.
Meeting Minutes Perl 6 Design Meeting Minutes (use Perl) The minutes from the May 21, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meeting have been published. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 21 May 2008. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Jerry, Will, and chromatic attended."
Calls for Presentations Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008 - Call for Proposals A Call for Proposals has gone out for the Embedded Linux Conference Europe. The event will take place on November 6-7, 2008 in Ede, the Netherlands. The submission deadline is June 29. "Presentations should be of a technical nature, covering topics related to use of Linux in embedded systems. The CE Linux Forum is focused on the use of Linux in consumer electronics products, but presentations may cover use of Linux in other embedded areas, as long as the topic is of general relevance to most embedded users. Presentations that are commercial advertisements or sales pitches are not appropriate for this conference."
NLUUG fall conference call for papers A call for papers has gone out for the NLUUG fall conference. The event takes place on November 6, 2008 in Ede, The Netherlands. Abstracts are due by June 29.
Upcoming Events Second Annual LLVM Developers' Meeting The Second Annual LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) Developers' Meeting has been announced, it will take place on August 1, 2008 at the Apple Inc. Campus in Cupertino, California.
Events: June 5, 2008 to August 4, 2008 The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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