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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF: Broad Coalition Urges Obama to Diversify IP AppointmentsThe EFF is encouraging President Obama to diversify its IP positions beyond those with strictly commercial interests. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined a broad coalition of public interest groups and trade associations calling for President Obama to diversify future appointments to intellectual property policy positions and create new offices devoted to promoting innovation and free expression."
OpenMoko GTA03 cancelledThose who have been waiting for the next-generation OpenMoko phone (called "GTA03" or "3D7K") will be disappointed; OpenMoko has come to the conclusion that it will not be able to successfully complete the project. Instead, the company will work, for now, on making the FreeRunner phone actually work and on a mysterious "Project B". For more information, see this post by OpenMoko marketing chief Steve Mosher. "As it was defined, it is dead. So how do we get to a new GTA03? Two requirements: continue to improve GTA02; deliver on project B. What is GTA03 and when do we get there? There are a number of independent efforts out there that are pitching me ideas for GTA03. I talked to sean a bit about this and I'd like to try to open up more of the design process and the marketing process to the community." See also: the slides from Sean Moss-Pultz's ESC talk [PDF].
Commercial announcements Fixstars launches NVIDIA CUDA GPU software servicesFixstars has announced the launch of a NVIDIA CUDA GPU software services program. "Fixstars, as a multi-core solution company, is expanding its current application development, optimization service, and products to global customers exploiting the significant advantage from parallel computing with NVIDIA GPUs."
New Books Agile Web Development with Rails--New from Pragmatic BookshelfPragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Agile Web Development with Rails by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson.
Cloud Application Architectures - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Cloud Application Architectures by George Reese.
Masterminds of Programming - New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Masterminds of Programming by Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden.
Resources Linux Gazette #161Issue #161 of the Linux Gazette has been announced.
Surveys PyCon 2009 Survey waiting for youA PyCon Survey is open through April for taking feedback from PyCon attendees.
Education and Certification Python Classes in Chicago, May 11-15David Beazley has announced two Chicago Python classes. "Just a friendly reminder that this is the last week to save $100 on the registration for the two Python courses I'm running in May in downtown Chicago: Introduction to Python, May 11-13, 2009 Python Concurrency Workshop, May 14-15, 2009"
Calls for Presentations LinuxCon CFP submission deadline reminder - April 15thA call for papers has gone out for LinuxCon, submissions are due by April 15. "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."
Call for participation: LIWOLI09A call for participation has gone out for Liwoli 2009, the hacklab for art and open source. "Liwoli 2009 is a three day long Hacklab and an open invitation to all who would like to participate in an active process of learning, producing and sharing around the areas of Free/Libre Open Source Software and Art. FLOSS developers, artists and programmers such as the collective GOTO10 or activists from HAIP (Hack Act Interact Progress) and many others form the basis for the event and share their knowledge in the form of workshops, hacklabs, presentations, installations and performances." The event takes place in Linz, Austria on April 23-25.
Upcoming Events EUSecWest 2009EUSecWest 2009 has been announced. "The third annual EUSecWest applied technical security conference - where the eminent figures in the international security industry will get together share best practices and technology - will be held in downtown London at the Sound Club in Leicester Square on May 27/28, 2009. The most significant new discoveries about computer network hack attacks and defenses, commercial security solutions, and pragmatic real world security experience will be presented in a series of informative tutorials."
LayerOne 2009 - registration openRegistration is open for LayerOne 2009. "Anaheim, CA - The LayerOne computer security conference is pleased to announce that we have released our first round of speakers in addition to opening pre-registration for the general public. LayerOne is currently in its 6th year of operation and this year is shaping up to be one of our best events to date. This year's LayerOne event will be held over Memorial Day weekend, May 23-24 2009, at the newly renovated Anaheim Marriott."
NLUUG spring conference 2009 registration openedRegistration is open for the NLUUG spring conference 2009, the event takes place on May 7 in Ede, The Netherlands. "A petabyte of storage weighs about as much as a small car, but a large physics experiment can fill that up in less than a week. The modern rate of data production and amount of data storage --and crucially also data search and retrieval-- have pushed the limits of computer storage and the traditional file system further and further back. The NLUUG Spring Conference 2009 focuses on storage and the means to organise it: file systems, physical storage, connections and search."
O'Reilly Open Source Convention Reveals Program and Opens RegistrationRegistration has opened for the 11th OSCON, scheduled for July 20-24, 2009 in the new location of the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The early registration period is open until June 2.
PyCon Italy 2009: early bird deadline is April 13Early-bird registration closes soon for PyCon Tre. "The early-bird registration deadline for PyCon Tre (PyCon Italy 2009) is April 13th, just a few days from now. The conference will take place in Florence from May 8th till May 10th 2009, and features guests like Guido Van Rossum, Alex Martelli, Raymond Hettinger, Fredrik Lundh and Antonio Cangiano."
Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2010 (use Perl)use Perl has published a Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2010. "BooK writes "While YAPC::Europe 2009 preparations are well underway in Lisbon, it is time for the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to look for suitable sites for the 2010 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe 2010 should send a brief statement of intent to venue@yapceurope.org. This should be followed by a complete application. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2009."
Events: April 16, 2009 to June 15, 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 Ubuntu Podcast - Mark ShuttleworthUbuntu Podcast features a video interview with Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth. "Mark Shuttleworth joins us for a video podcast to discuss the upcoming 9.04 release, Ubuntu history, Linux on the desktop, impacts of cloud computing, Ayatana, the community and Ubuntu, Ubuntu and Canonical, Google Summer of Code, Ubunet, and much more!"
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