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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Dimitris Glezos appointed to Fedora BoardDimitris Glezos has been appointed to the last seat of the Fedora Board. "Many of you may know Dimitris from his tireless work in the Fedora Localization (L10n/translation) team, as part of its steering committee, his past work on Documentation including its steering committee, and additional work with Websites, Marketing, Ambassadors, and other groups. He is also the upstream creator of Transifex, a web-based application for enabling free and open source, cross-project translation services."
New Friends of GNOME program launchedThe GNOME project has announced a new Friends of GNOME program. "Now supporters can sign up to help the GNOME Foundation with recurring $10/month donations. Friends of GNOME is a way for individuals to support the GNOME project's mission of providing a free and open source desktop for everyone regardless of ability. With no advertising or outreach, we've raised anywhere from $6,000 to $20,000 a year from generous individuals.That money has contributed to the funds for hackfests, local events and programs which in turn have enabled the GNOME project to create an internationalized, accessible and easy to use desktop software for both traditional desktops and for mobile devices."
Qt to be released under the LGPLNokia has announced that, as of version 4.5, the Qt library will be available under the Lesser GPL. "The move to LGPL licensing will provide open source and commercial developers with more permissive licensing than GPL and so increase flexibility for developers. In addition, Qt source code repositories will be made publicly available and will encourage contributions from desktop and embedded developer communities. With these changes, developers will be able to actively drive the evolution of the Qt framework." The commercial licensing option will remain, but, one assumes, fewer companies will need it now. (Thanks to Bastiaan Veelo).
PgUS 2008 end of year summaryThe United States PostgreSQL Association has published the PgUS 2008 end of year summary. "It is now 2009 and time for a, "Thanks for all the laughs 2008!" 2008 was the year that PgUS spent getting its feet under itself. We formed our board, filed all of our legally required paperwork, paid a lot of money to attorneys, held elections and even managed to have some fun by working on parts of our mission. Many goals for 2008 were met."
Commercial announcements CadSoft releases Eagle 5.4CadSoft has released version 5.4 of their Eagle printed circuit CAD application. This release adds some performance improvements and bug fixes. See the What's new document for details.
EMTEC releases the Gdium netbook computerEMTEC has announced the release of the Gdium netbook computer along with the OLPH (One Laptop Per Hacker) program. "The software application included with Gdium is based entirely on Open Source Software and includes an impressive variety of programs: FireFox, Thunderbird e-mail client, Instant Messaging, VoIP, Blog editor, audio/video players, and security utilities, as well as a complete Open Office suite of application for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. What makes Gdium unique is the G-Key, a bootable USB key on which the Linux operating system, applications, and personal data are stored. The G-Key allows each user to store their personal info and preference securely, without leaving a trace on the computer."
Marketcetera releases open-source trading platformMarketcetera has announced a new open-source trading platform. "This first production-ready release of the most popular open source trading platform for traders, hedge fund managers and broker/dealers offers new features that include robust complex event processing (CEP) capabilities and enhanced strategy development for faster testing and deployment of algorithms."
Tim Buckley, Ex-Red Hat COO, Joins rPath as Executive ChairmanrPath has announced that Tim Buckley, principal of Buckley Investments and former chief operating officer of Red Hat, has joined the rPath board of directors as the executive chairman. "From his newly created post, Buckley will help rPath accelerate its push into the enterprise market with solutions for reducing the cost and complexity of delivering applications to traditional, virtualized, and cloud-based environments."
New Books Learning JavaScript, Second Edition - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Learning JavaScript, Second Edition by Shelley Powers.
Head First PHP and MySQL--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Head First PHP & MySQL by Lynn Beighley and Michael Morrison.
Head First Web Design--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Head First Web Design by Ethan Watrall and Jeff Siarto.
Pragmatic Version Control with Git--New from Pragmatic BookshelfPragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Pragmatic Version Control with Git by Travis Swicegood.
Contests and Awards Announcing the "I'm Linux" video contestThe The "I'm Linux" Video Contest has been announced. "If you've been alive and aware of mass media over the last twelve months, you've probably seen television commercials from Apple and Microsoft touting their operating system. From Apple's ubiquitous "I'm a Mac" to Jerry Seinfeld to Microsoft's "I'm a PC" retort, operating system commercials have been flooding the airways. Except one OS has been notably absent - Linux." The winner will receive a transportation and hotel accommodations to the Linux Foundation Japan Linux Symposium.
Voting is open for the LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice AwardsVoting is open for the 2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. "The Members Choice Awards allow the Linux community to select their favorite products in a variety of categories. Awards will be given out in 26 categories this year, including Server Distribution of the Year, Desktop Distribution of the Year, Browser of the Year, Office Suite of the Year, Desktop Environment of the Year and Database of the Year. The polls will close on February 12th."
Calls for Presentations LayerOne 2009 Call for PapersA call for papers has gone out for the LayerOne 2009 Security Conference. The event takes place in Anaheim, California on May, 23-24, 2009, submissions are due by April 1. "The sixth annual LayerOne security conference is now accepting submissions for topic and speaker selection. As always, we are interested seeing a broad range of pertinent topics, and encourage all submissions."
OSCON 2009: Call For ParticipationA call For participation has gone out for OSCON 2009. "The O'Reilly Open Source Convention has opened up the Call For Participation -- deadline for proposals is Tuesday Feb 3. OSCON will be held July 20-24 in San Jose, California."
ShakaCon 2009 Call for Papers and TrainersA call for papers and trainers has gone out for the ShakaCon 2009 security conference. The event takes place in Honolulu, HI on June 11-12, 2009, abstracts are due by February 15. "Shakacon will offer local, national, and international participants a casual, social, learning environment designed to present a "holistic" security view and the opportunity to network with peers and fellow enthusiasts in a relaxed setting. Leave your ego at the airport (or shoreline if you come in via another method)as we look forward to attendees varying in skill level from N00b to Ninja."
SyScan'09 Call For PapersA call for papers has gone out for SyScan'09. "This year, SyScan'09 will be held in the 4 exciting cities of Singapore, Shanghai, Taipei and Hong Kong." Submissions are due by February 28.
YAPC::EU::2009 cfpA call for papers has gone out for the YAPC::EU::2009 perl conference. The event takes place in Lisbon, Portugal on August 3-5, 2009.
Upcoming Events Northwest Python Day - Seattle, WAThe Northwest Python Day will take place on January 31 in Seattle, WA. "If you'll be near Seattle, WA USA at the end of this month, the Seattle Python Interest Group would like to invite you to join us for an informal day of Python talks & socializing."
Events: January 22, 2009 to March 23, 2009The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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