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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements European Open Source Foundation Introduces First SOA for Cloud ComputingThe European Open Source Foundation has introduced an SOA for Cloud Computing that creates a secure bridge between Java and .NET. ""Cloud computing is the future," said Andreas Hartl, head of the OSBF Interoperability project group and Director of Platform Strategy at Microsoft Germany. "That's why, when we launched our group in summer 2008, we defined two projects ISB and Identity Network Service (INS) both of which focus squarely on customer requirements. The ISB makes it possible for services of different developers in the cloud to communicate with one another. And the INS allows users to access a number of combined services with a single sign-on to the cloud.""
Free Software Foundation Europe Celebrates Eighth BirthdayThe Free Software Foundation Europe has announced its Eighth Birthday. "For eight years now, the Free Software Foundation Europe has been working tirelessly for basic rights and freedoms in an increasingly software-driven society. The 11th of March 2009 sees another major milestone passed, with its 2^3 (eighth) birthday being celebrated by its friends, Fellows and associates."
Introducing the Open Source Hardware Central BankHere is a proposal for the "Open Source Hardware Central Bank", an organization dedicated to easing the problems associated with bringing open source hardware projects to a successful conclusion. "The Open Source Hardware Bank will work to eliminate the scaling and quantity pricing problem for OSHW projects by funding the build of 2x the quantity of any Open Source Hardware product. That means, if a project has found a way to find 10 potential buyers, the bank will put down the money needed to fund 10 more, for a total of 20 products. If a project has found 25 community members to buy in, the bank will fund another 25, to bring the total quantity down to 50. This should reduce the unit costs by around 10-30% of any hardware project, and in the case of the Illuminato, it'll reduce costs by almost 40%!"
New Books Security Monitoring - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Security Monitoring by Chris Fry and Martin Nystrom.
Surveys Python packaging surveyA Python packaging survey has been announced. "The Python Langage Summit is coming up. To prepare this event, I have put online a survey you can take to tell us a bit more about you and how you package your Python applications. * Who should take the survey : any Python developer that packages and distributes his code, no matter how."
Calls for Presentations Final Call for Papers on Cyber WarfareThe final call for papers has gone out for the Conference on Cyber Warfare, which will take place in Tallinn, Estonia on June 17-19, 2009. "Authors should send a one-page abstract to cfp (at) ccdcoe.org by March 15, 2009; the Selection Committee will notify authors of its decisions ASAP following submission but NLT April 1. Final papers are due May 15, 2009."
kernel conf australia 2009 call for papersA call for papers has gone out for kernel conf australia 2009. The conference takes place on July 15-17, 2009 in Brisbane, Australia. Submissions are due by May 1.
LinuxCon CFP submission deadline - April 1stA call for papers has gone out for LinuxCon 2009. "Reminder - CFP submissions for LinuxCon 2009 are due by Wednesday, April 1st, 2009. LinuxCon is taking place September 21-23, 2009 in Portland, OR and is co-located with the Linux Plumbers Conference. LinuxCon will provide an unmatched collaboration and education space covering all matters Linux, and including everyone in the Linux community including developers, end users, sys admins, community and more."
Upcoming Events FSF announces LibrePlanet 2009 speakersThe Free Software Foundation has announced the latest speaker lineup for the LibrePlanet 2009 conference. The event will take place in Cambridge, MA on March 21-22, 2009. "The conference, to be attended by GNU/Linux users, free software activists, and programmers from around the world, stresses three themes: strengthening global free software activism, addressing the threats posed to free software users by moves toward "cloud computing" and "software as a service," and advancing the projects on the FSF's High Priority Projects list."
Events: March 19, 2009 to May 18, 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 OpenOffice.org announces new security alerts mailing listThe OpenOffice.org project has a new security alerts mailing list. "The OpenOffice.org Security Team publishes details of security vulnerabilities in their Security Bulletin on the OpenOffice.org web site: http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html. As an additional service, the Team will now also publish these alerts via a dedicated mailing list security-alerts@openoffice.org. This mailing list will not be used for any other purpose."
Audio and Video programs New netlabel GOSUB10 announces the Substrate releaseGOSUB10 has announced the Substrate music compilation. "Dedicated to innovative music and audio/visuals, the GOSUB10 label will feature an eclectic group of musicians drawn together by their shared use of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS). Freely distributed by stream, download and special DVD releases, and made available through an open license, GOSUB10 is run by the GOTO10 collective, an international group of artists, musicians and programmers, dedicated to FLOSS and digital arts."
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