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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements CME Group Joins The Linux FoundationThe Linux Foundation has announced its latest new member: the CME Group, billed as "the world's largest and most diverse derivatives exchange." "CME Group has been recognized as one of the financial services industry's biggest users of Linux. It first realized the benefits of Linux in 2003 when it reported that by using the operating system it would save significant costs, increase reliability, and dramatically reduce the round-trip time of a trade transaction. Since then, broader use and newer versions of Linux coupled with match engine and application improvements have helped continue that trend. In an industry where low latency is paramount, this reduction extended the fundamental savings of Linux by enabling more transactions to be made in a given day."
EFF: U.S. Trade Office Withholds Documents on Secret IP Enforcement TreatyThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a press release concerning secret IP enforcement by the US Trade Office. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Public Knowledge have filed suit against the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), demanding information about a secret intellectual property enforcement treaty that the government has put on a fast track to completion. The United States, Canada, the European Community, Switzerland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates are currently negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)."
Commercial announcements SGI Further Opens its OpenGL ContributionsSGI has announced it is releasing a new version of the SGI Free Software License B. The license, which now mirrors the free X11 license used by X.Org, further opens previously released SGI graphics software, including the SGI OpenGL Sample Implementation, the GLX API and other GLX extensions.
Wing IDE for Python 3.1.4 releasedVersion 3.1.4 of Wing IDE for Python has been announced. "Wingware has released version 3.1.4 of Wing IDE. This bug fix release is available for all three product levels of Wing IDE."
New Books How Wikipedia Works--New from No Starch PressNo Starch Press has published the book How Wikipedia Works by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews and Ben Yates.
Resources Stanford professor on competing with free softwareThe Stanford Graduate School of Business is highlighting the work of one of its professors (Haim Mendelson), who is working on how proprietary software companies can be competitive with free software. "There are times, however, when the open source product gets to market first. In that case, the commercial vendor does well to enter the market with a compatible product and then invest in new product features to make its product compelling even though it costs morea strategy sometimes known as 'embrace and extend.' In this case, being open (or compatible) helps the commercial firm tap into the network created by the free product. Then, the commercial firm must compete by out-innovating the free product.?
FSFE NewsletterThe September 24, 2008 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: FSFE welcomes KDE's adoption of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA), FSFE at Akademy 2008, Swedish Fellows meet for talks and barbecue, Fellowship meeting in Nijmegen, Fellowship meeting in Duesseldorf, Zurich Fellowship meeting, New members of FSFE and Printable information material available for download.
Calls for Presentations PyCon 2009 - Call for TutorialsA call for tutorials has gone out for the 2008 US PyCon. "The period for submitting tutorial proposals for Pycon 2009 (US) is now open and will continue through Friday, October 31th. This year features two "pre-conference" days devoted to tutorials on Wednesday March 25 & Thursday March 26 in Chicago. This allows for more classes than ever."
Demonstrating Open-Source Healthcare Solutions cfp (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews has announced the Demonstrating Open-Source Healthcare Solutions conference. "Healthcare's leading Open Source companies are partnering to present the Third Annual Demonstrating Open-Source Healthcare Solutions (DOHCS) conference on February 20, 2009, at the Los Angeles Westin LAX. Through the combined efforts of ClearHealth, Medsphere (OpenVista), Akaza Research (OpenClinica) and WebReach (Mirth), DOHCS will complement the Southern California Linux Exposition (SCALE) held at the same location on February 21 and 22." Submissions are due by October 31.
Web 2.0 San Francisco cfpA call for participation has gone out for Web 2.0 San Francisco. "You may submit to speak in a 50 minute conference session or a three hour workshop. The 50 minute conference sessions are held April 1 3, 2009 and can be a single speaker, joint presentation, or a panel. If you have more in-depth content, several three hour workshops slots, scheduled for March 31 (the pre-conference day) are also available." The submission deadline is October 8.
Upcoming Events Fighting Robots Invade Austin--O'Reilly Media AlertO'Reilly has announced the Maker Faire 2008 RoboGames contest. "Maker Faire announces the RoboGames Texas Cup event to be held on October 18th and 19th at the second annual Austin Maker Faire at the Travis County Expo Center in Austin, TX. The monstrous homemade robots, which range in weight from 30 to 340 pounds, will be coming from all over the nation and beyond to compete for the title of champion in the first ever Texas competition. Over 27 bots will battle for a Texas Cup in the Featherweight, Lightweight, Middleweight, Heavyweight, and Super Heavyweight divisions. With over 25 fights per day, audiences will witness a bevy of pneumatic flippers, flame throwers, spinning blades of death and high-powered body slammers."
PyCon 2009: Chicago, March 27-29PyCon 2009 will take place in Chicago, IL on Marcy 27-29. "PyCon 2009, the seventh annual community conference for the Python programming language, will take place March 27-29 at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare Hotel in Chicago, IL. The pre-conference tutorials have been expanded to two days (March 25-26), and the conference will be followed by four days of development sprints (March 30 - April 2)."
Events: October 2, 2008 to December 1, 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 Medsphere.org becomes a forge (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews has announced the expansion of medsphere.org "In another smart move by the "new medsphere", medsphere.org has been retooled as a community forge. They are in soft-launch now, and will make a formal announcement soon. The new site is far more community-friendly than the old one."
UserBase goes live (KDE.News)The KDE community has announced UserBase, a new end-user wiki for KDE. UserBase will contain tips and tricks, links to where to get more help, as well as an application catalogue giving an overview of the different kinds of programs that KDE offers.
Audio and Video programs Hyper Low-Latency Audio with a Real-Time Kernel (Linux Journal)Linux Journal has published a video tutorial on low-latency audio recording. "The promise of zero or near-zero latency audio is a huge asset to the the Linux operating system. Sometimes, achieving super low-latency audio is tricky, but not if your kernel is hard-realtime capable. Cut your latency to under 3 ms with this tutorial."
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