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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF: CS student targeted for criminal investigationElectronic Frontier Foundation The EFF is challenging an illegal computer seizure by the Boston College Campus Police. "A Boston College computer science student has asked a Massachusetts court to quash an invalid search warrant for his dorm room that resulted in campus police illegally seizing several computers, an iPod, a cell phone, and other technology. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is representing the student, who has petitioned the court for the immediate return of his property and is demanding that investigators be prohibited from any further searches or analysis of his digital data."
Wikipedia voting on license changeBack in November, the Free Software Foundation released version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License; this version contained a special escape clause allowing sites like Wikipedia to shift to the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license. Some months later, the Wikimedia Foundation is voting on whether to make this change. Anybody with at least 25 edits is able to vote; the vote closes on May 3. "The Board has evaluated possible licensing options for Wikimedia material, and believes that this proposal is the best available path towards achieving our collective goal to collect, develop and disseminate educational material, and make it available to people everywhere, free of charge, in perpetuity."
Commercial announcements CadSoft releases Eagle 5.5CadSoft has released version 5.5 of their Eagle printed circuit CAD application. This release adds improvements to a number of different commands. See the What's new document for details.
EnterpriseDB joins Open Source Channel Alliance as charter memberEnterpriseDB has announced that it has joined the Open Source Channel Alliance. "EnterpriseDB, a leading enterprise open source database company, today announced that it has joined the Open Source Channel Alliance as one of eight charter members. The Open Source Channel Alliance is a consortium of independent software vendors (ISVs) led by Red Hat. The consortium seeks to deliver the value of open source technologies to the mid-market through a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX), a leading business process services company with an extensive channel of value-added resellers (VARs) and system integrators (SIs)."
Likewise Software named founding member of Open Source Channel AllianceLikewise Software has been named as a founding member of the Open Source Channel Alliance. "Likewise Software today announced its participation as one of 9 founding members of the Open Source Channel Alliance -- a consortium of open source independent software vendors led by Red Hat that will deliver open source technologies to a large base of value-added resellers and system integrators through a distribution agreement with SYNNEX Corporation (NYSE: SNX)."
Resources FSFE NewsletterThe April 15, 2009 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. "This month's newsletter has been specially extended to include items for the first quarter of 2009. Starting from the next month onwards, the traditional format of the newsletter will be back: one month, one newsletter!"
Contests and Awards eLinux wiki editor contest announcedThe CE Linux Forum has announced a new eLinux wiki editor contest. "The eLinux wiki (http://elinux.org//) is a repository of information for developers who work on Linux in embedded systems. The CE Linux Forum sponsors this site, and is offering prizes to individuals who make useful edits to the site over the next 5 weeks. The initial phases of the contest were open to attendees of the recently completed Embedded Linux Conference. However, the contest is now open to the public. The grand prize is the winner's choice of a Sony PlayStation 3 video console, or $500 U.S."
Announcing the Were Linux video contest finalistsThe Linux Foundation recently announced the winners of the Were Linux video contest. "The journey that begin during last football season with the realization that Microsoft paid Jerry Seinfeld $10 million for his appearance in their ads is almost over. The judging for the Were Linux video contest has been completed and Im pleased to announce the finalists. These videos reflect the best of what was truly a global community effort with videos being submitted from Asia, Europe, North America, the Middle East and South America. The response exceeded all of our expectations: frankly I was worried wed get 20 entries, but we ended up getting over 90. We would like to thank all of the community members who took the time to submit videos. Many were smart, many were funny, all were creative." The videos themselves can be found on this page.
Calls for Presentations BugCON '09, Mexico: Call For PapersA call for papers has gone out for the BugCON '09 security conference, the event takes place at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) in Mexico on June 24-26, 2009. Submissions are due by April 30.
DebConf9 registration, CFP and visa help deadlines approachingA call for papers and registration announcement have gone out for DebConf9, the event takes place in Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain on July 24 - 30, 2009. The submission deadline is April 15.
Hacker Space Fest 2009 Call For PapersA call for papers has gone out for the Hacker Space Fest 2009. The event takes place in Vitry sur Seine, France on June 26-30, submissions are due by May 1. "Soon enough, we wanted to reiterate the HSF experience : however, it was out of the question to institutionalize this temporary autonomous zone, nor make it an ersatz of the previous edition, nor even to wrap it into an "elite" or "underground" aura. On the opposite, we ardently desire; and especially to explore further, in all directions some lesser known domains (see below) et foster meeting and sharing around experiences at the confluence of art, technology and politics."
LinuxCon Call For Proposals deadline 4/15Matt Domsch has a reminder about the LinuxCon CFP deadline in his blog. Presentation proposals are due by April 15th. "I'm on the program committee for this new conference, and we're absolutely looking for fresh presenters and engaging topics. The conference is co-located with the Plumbers Conference, so there will be plenty of deep technical people there. But LinuxCon isn't just about low-level I-cut-my-teeth-on-Z80-assembly presentations. We want plenty of higher level system administrator, end user, and business executive relevant topics too."
PyOhio: Call for ProposalsA call for proposals has gone out for PyOhio 2009. "PyOhio 2009, the second annual Python programming mini-conference for Ohio and surrounding areas, will take place Saturday-Sunday, July 25-26, 2009 at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. A variety of activities are planned, including tutorials, scheduled talks, Lightning Talks, and Open Spaces." Submissions are due by May 15.
SVG Open 2009 announcedThe 7th International Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG Open 2009) will be held in Mountain View, CA on October 2-4, 2009. "Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an exciting open standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) enabling high-quality, interactive, animated and stylable graphics to be delivered over the web using accessible, human-readable XML. At the SVG Open 2009 Conference you will have the opportunity to learn to use it to create effective and compelling web content, learn techniques for developing SVG software solutions, and see the latest developments from the W3C. You will meet the creators of SVG applications in person, the authors of the SVG specifications, and you will have the opportunity to provide your own input for future development." The call for participation has gone out, submissions are due by May 15.
Web 2.0 Expo New York Opens Call for ParticipationA call for participation has gone out for the Web 2.0 Expo. "O'Reilly Media and TechWeb have opened the Call for Participation for the second edition of Web 2.0 Expo New York, scheduled for November 16-19 at the Javits Center in New York City. Like the just completed SF show, Web 2.0 Expo NY will continue to explore the theme of "The Power of Less"-how to best use the tools and principles of Web 2.0 technologies to innovate and stay competitive in a challenging (to say the least) economy." The submission deadline is May 26.
Upcoming Events Announcing the Gran Canaria Desktop SummitThe Gran Canaria Desktop Summit has been announced. "The Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, co-hosting GUADEC, the GNOME Conference, and Akademy, the KDE conference, invite you to participate in the inaugural Desktop Summit, from July 4th to July 10th 2009, in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Spain."
OSCON 2009 registration openRegistration for the 2009 O'Reilly Open Source Convention is now open. "OSCON 2009 will be July 20-24 in San Jose, California. Early registration ends June 2. Use the special discount code 'os09pgm' for an extra 15% off."
RAID 2009 announcedThe 12th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection 2009 (RAID2009) takes place on September 23-25, 2009 in Saint Malo, Brittany, France. "This symposium, the 12th in an annual series, brings together leading researchers and practitioners from academia, government, and industry to discuss issues and technologies related to intrusion detection and defense. The Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID) International Symposium series furthers advances in intrusion defense by promoting the exchange of ideas in a broad range of topics."
Events: April 23, 2009 to June 22, 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 MacForge.net reaches 65,000 open-source projectsMacForge.net has reached 65,000 projects. "MacTech(r) Magazine announced today that its MacForge(tm) Mac open source project index now has over 65,000 projects. In 2005, MacForge.net was created for not only the experienced open source user, but to introduce the Mac technical community to the wonderful array of projects available."
Audio and Video programs Audio recordings of the LibrePlanet conferenceThe Free Software Foundation has posted a set of audio recordings from the LibrePlanet conference, held on March 21. Speakers included Jeremy Allison, Mako Hill, Rob Savoye, Ciaran O'Riordan, and Richard Stallman.
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