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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements A revised GCC runtime library exceptionThe Free Software Foundation has posted a revised version of the new GCC runtime library exception. There's no description of the changes, but the new text is short and easy to read. Essentially, it seems to specifically equate Java virtual machine code with human-readable languages, meaning that Java byte code can be processed through GCC and still link against the runtime library.
Newest member of the Linux Foundation - credativThe Linux Foundation has announced credativ as its newest member. "credativ, an independent consulting and services company focused on free software and open standards, will participate in advancing the Linux Standard Base (LSB), which establishes common standards across the different Linux distributions. Additionally, as one of Europe's largest employers of Debian developers, credativ has a particular interest in encouraging collaboration focused around Debian development."
Commercial announcements Rackable Systems acquires SGISGI has announced that it has been acquired by Rackable Systems Inc. The purchase price is "approximately $25 million."
New Books Beautiful Teams - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Beautiful Teams by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene.
Java SOA Cookbook--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Java SOA Cookbook by Eben Hewitt.
Education and Certification "Advanced Scientific Programming in Python" Summer School in BerlinThe Advanced Scientific Programming in Python Summer School will be held in Berlin, Germany from August 31 - September 4, 2009. "Many scientists spend much of their time writing, debugging, and maintaining software. But while techniques for doing this efficiently have been developed, only few scientists actually use them. As a result, they spend far too much time writing deficient code and reinventing the wheel instead of doing research. In this course we present a selection of advanced programming techniques with theoretical lectures and practical exercises tailored to the needs of the programming scientist."
Perl Fundamentals DVD out (use Perl)use Perl has announced the availability of a Perl educational DVD. "Peter Scott has just created a learning Perl DVD, published by Addison Wesley. 4+ hours of Perl instruction on screencast with video of the author introducing each lesson. This is an introduction to Perl for the student who learns by example and prefers a visual and/or auditory style."
Calls for Presentations DeepSec 2009 - Call for Papers is openA call for papers has gone out for DeepSec 2009. "The DeepSec organisation is happy to announce the Call for Papers for the next conference in November 2009. The conference will take place at the Imperial Riding School Renaissance Hotel in Vienna, Austria." Submissions are due by July 15.
FOSS.IN 2009 announcement and call for participationFOSS.IN 2009 has been announced. "FOSS.IN/2009 will be held on December 1-5, 2009 (Tuesday through Saturday) at Bangalore's largest and most modern conference venue - the NIMHANS Convention Centre." The first call for participation has gone out for the event.
Upcoming Events EuroDjangoCon 09 registration is openEuroDjangoCon registration is open. "Just to let you know you can still register for EuroDjangoCon '09. The other levels of prices were scrapped and instead we're just going with the early bird rates. It will be in Prague on May 4th - 6th (conference days) and 7th - 8th (sprint days). The venue has changed to the Iris Congress Hotel and the conference is now single track."
Linux Plumbers Conference 2009 registration opensRegistration for the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference - September 23-25, Portland - is open. "For those new to the conference, the Linux Plumbers Conference was created to bring together key developers involved in Linux plumbing - the 'Linux plumbers' - and give them an opportunity to discuss problems face-to-face, both within subsystems and across subsystems."
Events: April 9, 2009 to June 8, 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 FSF releases audio recording of LibrePlanet conferenceAudio recordings are available for the LibrePlanet conference. "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the complete audio recordings from the first day of the LibrePlanet GNU/Linux conference, held on March 21, 2009, in Cambridge, MA. The recordings include a talk given by Samba's Jeremy Allison on Microsoft and its relationship with the free software community, and Gnash developer Rob Savoye announcing the Cygnal project -- a rich media server with features roughly compatible with the Flash Media Server. Two members of the autonomo.us group, Evan Prodromou and FSF director Mako Hill, spoke about efforts to engineer for free network services and the successful launch of the micro-blogging service identi.ca."
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