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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF Kicks Off Campaign to Free Your PhoneThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced a launch of the FreeYourPhone.org campaign. "Hundreds of thousands of cell phone owners have modified their phones to connect to a new service provider or run the software of their choosing, and many more would like to. But the threat of litigation under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has driven them underground. The DMCA prohibits "circumventing" technical protection measures used to protect copyrighted works. But many cell phone manufacturers and service providers build these software locks to protect their business models instead of copyrighted material."
FSFE on EU Web browser interoperability decisionThe Free Software Foundation Europe congratulates the European Union on a web browser interoperability decision. "On the 16th of January the European Commission DG Competition reported that it had issued a statement of objections regarding Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer (IE) to the Windows Operating System product family. This action builds on a complaint originally submitted by Opera, a European company involved in web browser development. Free Software Foundation Europe welcomes the European Commission's decision and offers its support in the coming anti-trust investigation."
New Friends of GNOME program launched (GnomeDesktop)GnomeDesktop.org 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."
Gandhian Approach to Promoting Free SoftwareDuring the Freedom Walk a team of 4 people walked the entire length of Kerala, India, more than 1200 kilometers, on foot to spread the message of Free Software. This was recently covered by the Free Software Foundation.
Commercial announcements Fixstars reduces price of the PowerStation Cell WorkstationFixstars has announced new pricing on their PowerStation Cell Workstation. "Fixstars is pleased to now offer the PowerStation for just $1250, a reduction of $645 from the original $1895. The PowerStation offers: - Quad-core 2.5GHz IBM 970MP CPUs. - Up to 32GB RAM and 4 hot-swap SAS drive bays. - ATI X1650 Pro graphics card. - Dual Gig-e and 5 USB 2.0 ports. - DVD/CD-RW and YDL v6.1 pre-installed."
Jaspersoft announces new advisory boardJaspersoft has announced that it has created a new advisory board for guiding its business intelligence software direction. "The Jaspersoft Advisory Board members are Matt Asay, vice president of business development at Alfresco and Chairman of the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC); Bob Bickel, consultant and former executive vice president at JBoss; Mark Burton, vice president, MySQL Global Software Practice, Sun Microsystems; Barry Klawans, co-founder of Jaspersoft and current consultant for a variety of open source companies; and Lawrence Rosen, open source software expert, attorney and author, and founding partner of Rosenlaw & Einschlag."
New Books Active Directory Cookbook, Third Edition - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Active Directory Cookbook, Third Edition by Laura E. Hunter and Robbie Allen.
CJKV Information Processing - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book CJKV Information Processing by Ken Lunde.
Head First Rails--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Head First Rails by David Griffiths.
Contests and Awards KDE voted Free Software Project of the Year (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced the that they have won the Linux Format Free Software Project of the year award. "Linux Format magazine has unveiled its annual Reader Awards (PDF) for 2008 and KDE won a 'landslide' victory in the category of Free Software Project of the year in recognition of the 'incredible' work done with KDE 4. Amarok, Qt, Konqueror and the KDE-based Asus Eee PC were also recognised in the awards. Read on for more details of the KDE related successes."
Education and Certification UKUUG/O'Reilly presents - Perl TutorialsUKUUG and O'Reilly have announced two Perl tutorials in Buntingford Herts, UK. "Early bird rates apply for just a few more days... UKUUG (in conjunction with O'Reilly) presents: Introduction to Perl - 25th February 2009 Advanced Perl Techniques - 26th February 2009 Tutor: Dave Cross".
Event Reports Brookings Conference on Software and Business Method Patents Highlights Need for Reform (Red Hat News)Red Hat News has a posting from Rob Tiller, VP and assistant general counsel for IP, about a recent conference on software and business method patents. "Some of the harm from software patents is obvious. Do they provide any compensating benefit? There was little, if any, evidence that they encourage innovation. Although the number of software patents has exploded in recent years, one panelist expressed doubt that success in the technology area was associated with patent ownership. He observed that had the young Bill Gates been confronted at the outset with the litigation risks of tens of thousands of software patents, he might have chosen to exercise his entrepreneurial skills in a field other than software. The point, of course, is that the current system to some extent discourages innovation and entrepreneurship a travesty of its intended purpose." (thanks to Rahul Sundaram)
Calls for Presentations Registration and CFP open for Linux Foundation Collaboration SummitA call for papers has gone out for the 2009 Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. "The Linux Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of registration and call for participation for the 3rd Annual Collaboration Summit which will take place April 8-10, 2009 in San Francisco." Submissions are due by February 15.
CfP: ACM Conference on Computer and Communications SecurityA call for papers has gone out for the 2009 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). The event takes place in Chicago, IL on November 9-13, 2009, submissions are due by April 20.
LAC2009: Paper deadline extendedThe paper deadline for LAC2009 has been extended to January 29, 2009. "The LAC (Linux Audio Conference) is an annual event where developers, users and composers from all around the world come together for 4 days to present current developments, new compositions and other news to the public, listen to concerts, and generally have a good time together. The LAC2009 is taking place at the Casa della Musica in Parma, Italy, from April 16th to 19th, 2009."
OSCON 2009: Call For ParticipationA call for participation reminder has gone out for the 2009 OSCON. "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."
PGCon 2009 RFPA request for papers has gone out for PGCon 2009. "PGCon 2009 will be held 21-22 May 2009, in Ottawa at the University of Ottawa. It will be preceded by two days of tutorials on 19-20 May 2009." Submissions are due in the near future.
Upcoming Events Events: January 29, 2009 to March 30, 2009The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Mailing Lists Migration of the Fedora Mailing ListsThe Fedora project has announced a migration of its email lists to a new domain. "Over the last several years, there has been some contention over why our mailing lists are @redhat.com instead of @fedoraproject.org, and there are also some concerns over the process of requesting new lists and so on. As a result, we (myself and Dennis Gilmore) are beginning an effort to migrate fedora-*@redhat.com to lists.fedoraproject.org."
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