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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF: Thousands sign petition demanding cell phone freedomThe EFF has announced a successful petition drive. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) submitted a petition to the U.S. Copyright Office today signed by more than 8200 people demanding that the office lift the legal cloud hanging over cell phone customers who modify their phones. The petition was part of EFF's reply comment in the 2009 Copyright Office rulemaking, convened every three years to consider exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) ban on circumvention of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions."
Commercial announcements Cray and atsec Achieve CC Security Certification of Cray Linux EnvironmentThe Cray Linux Environment has achieved a CC Security Certification. "ray Inc. and atsec information security announced today that the Cray Linux Environment (CLE) has been certified by the National Information Assurance Partnership's (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme as conformant to EAL3+ (enhanced with Flaw Remediation ALC_FLR.1). This evaluation took into consideration a number of new functionalities: the Lustre network file system, Portals high-speed Remote DMA and the application placement scheduler ALPS. The evaluation covers Cray Linux Environment 2.1 running on the Cray XT4 and Cray XT5 computer systems."
HP Builds on the openSUSE Education ProjectHP and Novell have created a repository of educational applications that is based on the work of the openSUSE Education project. From the announcement, it would seem there was some friction between the project and HP/Novell, so they are formally recognizing and thanking the project. "The openSUSE Education project provides an add-on CD for openSUSE so that schools will have the benefit of educational packages not shipped by default with openSUSE. The fact that HP has sought to include work from the Education project is testament to the outstanding quality of their work and the demand for open source education solutions." Click below for the full announcement.
LinuxForce partners with The Franklin InstituteLinuxForce has announced a partnership with The Franklin Institute. "LinuxForce, Inc., a leading Linux-based technology services firm and a thought-leader in the Linux and open-source technology spaces, today announced a major expansion of their technology partnership with The Franklin Institute. With this expansion, LinuxForce will be responsible for the maintenance, monitoring and security of three of The Franklin's key information systems including ten virtual servers. The new agreement is the culmination of a series of successful consulting projects during which LinuxForce assisted museum staff with the administration of these systems and demonstrated their ability to meet The Franklin's critical business needs."
New Books SQL and Relational Theory - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book SQL and Relational Theory by C.J. Date.
Resources Linux Gazette #159 is outLinux Gazette #159 is now available. This issue has articles about rI18N (the Real Internationalization project), using the Red Hat rescue environment, the Hyperestraier indexing program, and more.
Contests and Awards Trophees du Libre 2009 - Deadline ComingA deadline for submissions has been announced for the 2009 Trophees du Libre free software awards. "The Cetril opened the request for projects concerning the "Trophées du Libre 2009" on January 30th, 2009. More than 60 projects are submitted so far. Our goal is to have more projects in 2009 than the total of 150 accepted in 2007. Deadline for submit[t]ing your project : 15th Feb[r]uary 2009".
Education and Certification Tech Tuesdays: Free Training, Advice on Virtualizing Apps for the CloudrPath has announced the "Tech Tuesday" Webinar Series. "rPath today announced its official launch of Tech Tuesday, a series of semi-monthly webinars that provide free technical training and advice on how to build a complete virtual appliance and deploy it to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) using rPath's rBuilder Online. Each event is followed by an interactive Q&A session, allowing attendees to engage directly with rPath technical consultants."
Calls for Presentations BruCON call for papersA call for papers has gone out for BruCON. The event takes place on September 18-19, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. Abstracts are due by March 15. "BruCON aims to become the best and most fun hacking (*) and security event in Belgium and W. Europe offering a high quality line up of speakers, opportunities of networking with peers, hacking challenges and workshops."
LinuxCon 2009 call for participationLinuxCon 2009 - a new event - will be held in Portland, OR from September 21 to 25; it will be co-located with the Linux Plumbers Conference. "While there are many point developer conferences for Linux today, there is not a comprehensive and high quality gathering for developers and users of Linux to come together and collaborate. LinuxCon will do just this - bringing together the best and brightest the Linux community has to offer, including core developers, administrators, end users, community managers and industry experts." The call for papers is now open, with the deadline being April 15.
CFP - 2009 Linux Storage and Filesystem WorkshopA call for papers has gone out for the 2009 Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop. "This year's storage and filesystem workshop is being held in San Francisco on April 6th and 7th. It's being held on the Monday and Tuesday immediately preceding the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, in the same hotel."
PyCon Italy 2009 cfpA call for papers has gone out for PyCon Italy 2009. "PyCon Tre (http://www.pycon.it), the third edition of PyCon Italy, will take place in Florence from the 8th May to 10th May 2009. Confirmed keynote speakers so far include Guido Van Rossum, more to come. The Call for papers (http://www.pycon.it/pycon3/call-for-paper/) will be open from February, 9th, till March, 8th."
2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World call for papers (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews has announced a call for papers for the 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. "Get your work in front of hundreds of Linux and middleware users, business owners, and industry veterans by becoming a session speaker at the 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both events are co-located this year at the Hilton Chicago, and will take place Sept. 1-4, 2009. Space is limited, and submissions are due Monday, March 9th."
Upcoming Events OpenOffice.org's presence at FOSDEMRepresentatives from the OpenOffice.org office suite project will be at FOSDEM. "FOSDEM - the "the biggest, bestest (sic) Free and Open Source Software Developers' meeting in Europe" - takes place on 7th-8th February in Brussels, Belgium - and OpenOffice.org will be there! Check out the FOSDEM website for details of the OpenOff[]ice.org Dev room - http://www.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devrooms/openofficeorg - where we look forward to meeting old friends, and introducing new developers to the exciting world of OpenOffice.org coding."
Financial aid for PyCon 2009 is now availableThe Python Software Foundation has announced financial aid for PyCon 2009 attendants. "If you would like to come to PyCon but can't afford it, the PSF may be able to help you pay for registration, lodging/hotel costs and transportation".
SAHANA 09 Conference: Software for Disaster ManagementThe SAHANA 09 Conference on Software for Disaster Management will take place in Colombo, Sri Lanka on March 24-25. "The theme of the SAHANA 09 conference is "Software for Disaster Management". The conference will provide opportunities for anyone involved in Disaster and Emergency management to network and share best practices."
UKUUG Spring Conference and Kerberos TutorialThe UKUUG Spring Conference and Kerberos Tutorial has been announced. "UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference and Tutorial will be held in London at the Park Crescent Conference Centre from 24th to 26th March 2009."
O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference registration opensRegistration is open for the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference. "You can't go anywhere or do anything these days without finding one map or another, but location technology continues to grow far beyond those tools. See all the other directions location tech might take at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, May 19-21, 2009 in San Jose, CA. Program chair Brady Forrest has revealed the program, and registration has opened. An early registration discount remains available until March 31."
Events: February 12, 2009 to April 13, 2009The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Web sites FSFE launches Free PDF Readers campaignThe FSFE has announced its new PDFreaders.org site. "The Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe is proud to announce its latest initiative: pdfreaders.org, a site providing information about PDF with links to Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems. "Interoperability, competition and choice are primary benefits of Open Standards that translate into vendor-independence and better value for money for customers," says FSFE president Georg Greve. "Although many versions of PDF offer all these benefits for formatted text and documents, files in PDF formats typically come with information that users need to use a specific product. pdfreaders.org provides an alternative to highlight the strengths of PDF as an Open Standard.""
Audio and Video programs Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008 videosVideos of the talks at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008 (held last November) have now been posted in Theora format. There is a long list of talks on a wide variety of topics - something for everybody.
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