Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

EFF: Wiki Operator Sues Apple Over Bogus Legal Threats

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that BluWiki is suing Apple. "Late last year, after BluWiki users began a discussion about making some Apple iPods and iPhones interoperate with software other than Apple's own iTunes, Apple lawyers demanded removal of the content. In a letter to OdioWorks, the attorneys alleged that the discussions constituted copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA's) prohibition on circumventing copy protection measures. Fearing legal action by Apple, OdioWorks took down the discussions from the BluWiki site. OdioWorks filed the lawsuit today in order to vindicate its right to restore those discussions."

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Commercial announcements

Ulteo releases Open Virtual Desktop 1.0

Ulteo has announced the release of version 1.0 of Open Virtual Desktop (OVD). "Now organizations can deliver to their PC users either Windows or Linux applications or a mix of the two on the same user desktop via the Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop."

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New Books

Learning SQL, Second Edition - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Learning SQL, Second Edition by Alan Beaulieu.

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Programming Ruby 1.9--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Programming Ruby 1.9 by Dave Thomas.

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The Twitter Book -- New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein.

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Resources

Android 1.5 firmware available

HTC (the manufacturer of the Android Dev Phone) has posted a set of Android 1.5 images for the ADP1. There's also reasonably straightforward instructions on flashing those images into a phone. So ADP1 owners can go to the new code now, rather more quickly than usual; for those who prefer the "JF" builds, a 1.5-based build is said to be forthcoming in the near future.

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Calls for Presentations

RTLWS 2009 call for papers

A call for papers has gone out for the Eleventh Real-Time Linux Workshop (RTLWS 2009). The event takes place on September 28-30, 2009 in Dresden, Germany, submissions are due by May 18, "Authors are invited to submit original work dealing with general topics related to real-time Linux research, experiments and case studies, as well as issues of integration of real-time and embedded Linux. A special focus will be on industrial applications and safety related systems."

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WOOT'09 call for papers

A call for papers has gone out for WOOT'09, the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies. "WOOT '09 will be co-located with the 18th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '09), which will take place August 10–14, 2009. Important Dates * Submissions due: May 26, 2009, 11:59 p.m. PDT".

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Upcoming Events

Events: May 7, 2009 to July 6, 2009

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
May 4 May 7	RailsConf 2009	Las Vegas, NV, USA
May 4 May 8	JavaScript/Ajax Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
May 6 May 8	Embedded Linux training	Maynard, USA
May 6 May 9	Libre Graphics Meeting 2009	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
May 7	NLUUG spring conference	Ede, The Netherlands
May 8 May 9	Linuxwochen Austria - Eisenstadt	Eisenstadt, Austria
May 8 May 9	Erlanger Firebird Conference 2009	Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
May 8 May 10	PyCon Italy 2009	Florence, Italy
May 11	The Free! Summit	San Mateo, CA, USA
May 13 May 15	FOSSLC Summercamp 2009	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
May 15	Firebird Developers Day - Brazil	Piracicaba, Brazil
May 15 May 16	CONFidence 2009	Krakow, Poland
May 16 May 17	YAPC::Russia 2009	Moscow, Russia
May 18 May 19	Cloud Summit 2009	Las Vegas, NV, USA
May 19	Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems	Vancouver, Canada
May 19 May 21	Where 2.0 Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
May 19 May 22	PGCon PostgreSQL Conference	Ottawa, Canada
May 19 May 22	php|tek 2009	Chicago, IL, USA
May 19 May 22	SEaCURE.it	Villasimius, Italy
May 21	7th WhyFLOSS Conference Madrid 09	Madrid, Spain
May 22 May 23	eLiberatica - The Benefits of Open Source and Free Technologies	Bucharest, Romania
May 23 May 24	LayerOne Security Conference	Anaheim, CA, USA
May 25 May 29	Ubuntu Developers Summit - Karmic Koala	Barcelona, Spain
May 27 May 28	EUSecWest 2009	London, UK
May 28	Canberra LUG Monthly meeting - May 2009	Canberra, Australia
May 29 May 31	Mozilla Maemo Mer Danish Weekend	Copenhagen, Denmark
May 31 June 3	Techno Security 2009	Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
June 1 June 5	Python Bootcamp with Dave Beazley	Atlanta, GA, USA
June 2 June 4	SOA in Healthcare Conference	Chicago, IL, USA
June 3 June 4	Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009	Stockholm, Sweden
June 3 June 5	LinuxDays 2009	Geneva, Switzerland
June 6	PgDay Junín 2009	Buenos Aires, Argentina
June 8 June 12	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn	Atlanta, GA, USA
June 10 June 11	FreedomHEC Taipei	Taipei, Taiwan
June 11 June 12	ShakaCon Security Conference	Honolulu, HI, USA
June 12 June 13	III Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero	Bologna, Italy
June 12 June 14	Writing Open Source: The Conference	Owen Sound, Canada
June 13	SouthEast LinuxFest	Clemson, SC, USA
June 14 June 19	2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	San Diego, USA
June 17 June 19	Open Source Bridge	Portland, OR, USA
June 17 June 19	Conference on Cyber Warfare	Tallinn, Estonia
June 20 June 26	Beginning iPhone for Commuters	New York, USA
June 22 June 24	Velocity 2009	San Jose, CA, USA
June 22 June 24	YAPC|10	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
June 24 June 27	LinuxTag 2009	Berlin, Germany
June 24 June 27	10th International Free Software Forum	Porto Alegre, Brazil
June 26 June 28	Fedora Users and Developers Conference - Berlin	Berlin, Germany
June 26 June 30	Hacker Space Festival 2009	Seine, France
June 28 July 4	EuroPython 2009	Birmingham, UK
June 29 June 30	Open Source China World 2009	Beijing, China
July 1 July 3	OSPERT 2009	Dublin, Ireland
July 1 July 3	ICOODB 2009	Zurich, Switzerland
July 2 July 5	ToorCamp 2009	Moses Lake, WA, USA
July 3	PHP'n Rio 09	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
July 3 July 11	Gran Canaria Desktop Summit (GUADEC/Akademy)	Gran Canaria, Spain
July 4	Open Tech 2009	London, UK

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Audio and Video programs

Linux Audio Conference 2009 videos available

Videos from the 2009 Linux Audio Conference have been posted (in Theora format). The video site is somewhat sparse in its commentary (OK, there's none at all), and the videos themselves show signs of minimal editing. But the essential information is there for audio enthusiasts who were unable to be at the conference.

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