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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements The ACTA treaty is secret for "national security"James Love reports on the latest attempt to get the text of the proposed ACTA treaty from the US government. "The agreement, misleadingly named the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, is thought to cover a wide range of intellectual property enforcement issues -- including standards for granting injunctions for alleged infringement of patents or copyrights, damages, seizures of goods in transit, surveillance of Internet digital file transfers, searches of personal property, and a dozen other topics." The answer: the treaty, despite being available to governments and lobbyists, is classified for "national security" reasons and we cannot see it. "Change," it seems, only goes so far.
CPMPPSO call for submissionsA call for submissions has gone out for the Common Persistent Model Patterns for Performance and/or Scalability Optimization reports. "ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, today announced the opening of a call for submissions for Common Persistent Model Patterns for Performance and/or Scalability Optimization. ODBMS.ORG invites both vendors and Application architects, Enterprise architects, Developers who use databases to submit implementation techniques (database design patterns) which are generally useful for all adopters. The best submissions will be published in a new series of reports in ODBMS.ORG. All submissions will be published under free software licenses." Submissions are due by May 29, 2009.
FFII: EPO seeks to validate software patents without the European ParliamentThe FFII has sent out an advisory warning that the European Patent Office is trying to establish software patents via an indirect route. "The President of the European Patent Office (EPO), Alison Brimelow, has asked the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) to decide on the interpretation of the European Patent Convention (EPC) regarding the exclusion of software from patentability. The EBA is replacing the European Parliament in order to validate software patents EU-wide without the need of a debate." There is an opportunity to comment on the upcoming decision through the end of April.
Audacity: GSoC call for studentsThe Audacity audio editor project has announced a preliminary call for students for the 2009 Google Summer of Code. "GSoC offers student developers a $4,500 stipend to write code for open source projects. We're asking interested students to contact us now to discuss their proposals. We're looking for projects that will move us towards a new stable 1.4 Release later this year. If you are an eligible student, or know one who might be interested, please review our draft documentation."
XMMS2: GSoC call for studentsThe XMMS audio player project has announced its application for the 2009 Google Summer of Code. "We have just applied for Google Summer of Code 2009. Hopefully we will be included in the program for the fourth year in a row. Get involved in our ideas and community now!"
Resources EFF launches search tool for uncovered government documentsThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced a search tool for uncovered government documents. "In celebration of Sunshine Week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched a sophisticated search tool that allows the public to closely examine thousands of pages of documents the organization has pried loose from secretive government agencies. The documents relate to a wide range of cutting-edge technology issues and government policies that affect civil liberties and personal privacy."
Calls for Presentations Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Call for ParticipationA call for participation is out for the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. The Summit will also co-host GUADEC, the GNOME Conference and Akademy, the KDE conference. The Desktop Summit runs from July 4 to July 10 2009, in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain.
Japan Linux Symposium call for participationThe first annual Japan Linux Symposium will be held October 21-23 in Tokyo, immediately after the 2009 Kernel Summit. The call for participation is now open, with submissions due by May 1. JLS looks to be an interesting event, bringing together developers from around the world in a country which is rapidly becoming a major contributor. Talks are sought on a wide variety of topics; see the CFP for details.
ToorCamp 2009 call for participationA call for participation has gone out for ToorCamp 2009. "ToorCamp is the United State's first ever full-scale hacker camp. Modelled after the camps in Holland and Germany, ToorCamp will focus on all of the technology topics that ToorCon has become famous for but will expand out into other areas of society. ToorCamp will offer 2 days of talks on many different topics -- Security, Internet, Emerging Technologies, Hardware Hacking, and Privacy are just some of the areas we will be covering. ToorCamp will also feature 2 days of hands-on workshops on a multitude of different skills that you may have never found yourself interested in learning about before. Blacksmithing, Lock Picking, Orienteering, Logic Design, Archery -- These are just a few of the topics you can expect." The event takes place on July 2-5, 2009 in a Titan-1 missile silo near Moses Lake, WA. Submissions are due by April 3.
YAPC::NA::09 just $99 for the next day days + CFPYAPC::NA::09 tickets are discounted until March 25. The event takes place in Pittsburgh, PA on June 22-24. "The very first Yet Another Perl Conference was held in '99. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of that event, we are offering a special YAPC|10 admission price of $99 but only for 10 days! After that, the price goes up to $125." Also, a call for proposals has been announced for the event, submissions are due by April 24.
Upcoming Events FUDCon and LinuxTag remindersA reminder has been posted for FUDCon and LinuxTag. "I'm here to remind everyone about the relevant details for FUDCon Berlin 2009 and LinuxTag 2009.https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Berlin_2009 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/LinuxTag_2009 LINUXTAG: Berlin, Germany. June 24 - 27. FUDCON: Berlin, Germany. June 26 - 28."
Preliminary PGCon 2009 schedule releasedThe preliminary schedule for PGCon 2009 has been announced, the event takes place on May 19-22 in Ottawa, Canada. "PGCon is the premiere PostgreSQL conference. It is simply the best place to meet other PostgreSQL people and learn more. The talks are absolutely amazing, not to mention the great social atmosphere."
PyCon 2009 hosts cross-community summit meetingsPyCon 2009 will host some cross-community summit meetings. "Python programmers won't be the only ones coming to PyCon this month. PyCon 2009 is hosting two new summit events that will draw key developers and strategists not only from Python, but also from the Perl, Ruby, Java, .NET, and JavaScript communities. The Virtual Machine Summit on March 25, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, and Python Language Summit on March 26, both at PyCon 2009 in Chicago, are invitation-only events that will bring cross-discipline groups together to discuss and strategize on challenges that are common across their projects."
Events: March 26, 2009 to May 25, 2009The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs Fosdem 2009 videos releasedConference videos from Fosdem 2009 are available. "In our tradition of releasing embedded Linux conference videos, we are happy to release 9 videos from the embedded room at the Fosdem 2009 conference in Brussels last month".
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