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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Support the Django Software FoundationA call for funding has gone out for the recently created Django Software Foundation. "A short while ago, we announced the creation of the Django Software Foundation, a non-profit organization that exists (among other reasons) to sponsor Django coding sprints and other events for our community. Now, we're kick-starting the foundation by holding a fundraising drive. With Django 1.0 around the corner, our immediate goal is to raise enough money to support the upcoming pre-1.0 coding sprints, which bring developers together in the real world for highly productive design and programming sessions. After the 1.0 release, we're planning to fund regularly scheduled sprints, user meet-ups and other community events."
In Memory of Uwe Thiem (KDE.News)KDE.News reports on the passing of Uwe Thiem. "I'm very sorry to let everyone know that Uwe Thiem, a long term contributor to KDE, passed away yesterday at 14:45 of kidney failure. Uwe was one of the longest contributors to the KDE family and was one of the original members of the core development team. He moved on to become the main KDE representative in Africa. Uwe was one of the first people to write a book on KDE development, which helped many people who have become regular contributors today, and was still writing about KDE last week."
New Books High Performance MySQL, Second Edition - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book High Performance MySQL, Second Edition by Baron Schwartz, Peter Zaitsev, Vadim Tkachenko, Jeremy D. Zawodny, Arjen Lentz, and Derek J. Balling.
Learning Perl, Fifth Edition - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Learning Perl, Fifth Edition by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, and brian d foy.
Resources ODBMS.ORG releases new reportsODBMS.ORG has announced the availability of a series of new reports. "ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, today announced the exclusive publication of a new series of user reports on using technologies for storing and handling persistent objects: http://www.odbms.org/downloads.html#odbms_ur".
Contests and Awards Applications are open for the 2008 Pizzigati PrizeApplications are being accepted until September 1 for the 2008 Pizzigati Prize. "The Tides Foundation is proud to announce the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest. This prize will go to a software developer who has made, in the open source spirit, an outstanding contribution to the nonprofit world and the ongoing work of social change."
Surveys mod_perl Users Survey (use Perl)A user survey for mod_perl has been announced. "At the impromptu mod_perl BOF at YAPC::NA, Fred Moyer and myself hacked together a short mod_perl survey to help identify the current needs of mod_perl users. It was inspired by the Perl survey done last year by Kirrily Robert."
Calls for Presentations CFP now open for ClubHack2008 - IndiaA call for papers has gone out for ClubHack2008. "ClubHack is India's own international hackers' convention started in 2007. We are expecting good deep knowledge technical presentations/demonstrations on topics from the world of Information Security. These presentations are expected to be of 40 minutes each. The schedule time for each presenter would be 50 minutes out of which 40 minutes are for the presentation & 10 for the question-answer sessions. We'd request you to submit the papers keeping the time constraint in mind."
Linux-Kongress 2008Linux-Kongress is one of the original Linux development conferences. The 2008 edition has been announced for October 7 to 10 in Hamburg, Germany. The call for papers has gone out, with submissions due by August 4.
Upcoming Events Sprinting to the finish (Django)The Django web platform project has announced a series of coding sprints leading up to the 1.0 release. "To help get everything done by the deadline, we'll be holding a series of sprints. Over the next six weeks we'll hold sprints in Sausalito, Lawrence, Austin, Washington, DC, and Portland, and virtually all over the world. Each sprint day we'll devote at least 24 hours of focused work. Each sprint will be on a Friday, though work will likely continue at a fair clip into the weekend."
KDE and GNOME to Co-locate Flagship Conferences on Gran Canaria in 2009 (KDE.News)KDE.News reports on the decision to co-host next year's Akademy and GUADEC conferences in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. "The conferences will be separate events, but co-located and hosted by the same organizers, the Cabildo of Gran Canaria and its Secretary of Tourism, Technological Innovation and Foreign Trade."
EuroSciPy - First Slides OnlineSome conference slides are available for the upcoming EuroSciPy conference. "The EuroSciPy Conference will be held July 26-27, 2008 in Leipzig, Germany."
Announcing openSUSE Day at LinuxWorld ExpoThe LinuxWorld openSUSE Day has been announced. "Join the openSUSE Project for a day of fun and FOSS at the LinuxWorld Expo! On Wednesday, August 6th, the openSUSE Project will be holding its first "openSUSE Day" in North America, in conjuction with the LinuxWorld Expo at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. We'll have a full day of presentations about the openSUSE Project, KDE, GNOME, the Linux kernel, the openSUSE Build Service, and much more."
Events: July 24, 2008 to September 22, 2008The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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