Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

FSF settles with Cisco

The FSF has announced a settlement in its GPL-infringement lawsuit against Cisco. "Cisco has agreed to appoint a Free Software Director for Linksys, a subsidiary of Cisco, to supervise Linksys' compliance with the requirements of free software licenses such as the GPL (the GNU General Public License). The Free Software Director will report periodically to the FSF regarding Linksys' compliance efforts. Cisco has further agreed to take certain steps to notify previous recipients of Linksys products containing FSF programs of their rights under the GPL and other applicable licenses, to publish a licensing notice on the Linksys website, and to provide additional notices in a separate publication. In addition, Cisco will continue to make the complete and corresponding source code for versions of FSF programs used with current Linksys products freely available on its website. Cisco will also make a monetary contribution to the FSF."

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Gnash Summer Project Seeks Donations

The Gnash free flash player development team has announced the "Gnash V9 Summer Bash". "The non-profit organization Open Media Now, which manages Gnash, is seeking donations in support of its summer v9 project. "We are halfway to our fundraising goal now and need to raise another $75,000 to make the project a success" says OM Now Executive Director Lauren Riggin. "This is a project that impacts how we, as a community, access and provide web content. So, naturally, we are hoping for a wide spectrum of support from individuals, organizations, and companies -- anyone wanting an alternative to proprietary flash. Five dollars or $50,000, it all says 'Go-for-it'! And that's what we love to hear."" Find out more about the Gnash V9 Summer Bash.

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GNOME foundation needs your vote for Board elections 2009 (GnomeDesktop)

The GNOME foundation has announced the 2009 Board elections. "As you should know, the GNOME foundation is run by a board of 7 directors known as "The Board". After 18 months of active duty, it's now time to refresh either the blood or our confidence. Which means: GNOME Board Elections 2009. May 22th : deadline to apply as a candidate May 22th-25th : send your questions for the candidates June 3rd-17th : Voting period July 3rd : old and new board meet at GUADEC"

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Zemlin: Strange Bedfellows: The Linux Foundation and Microsoft

Linux Foundation (LF) executive Jim Zemlin comments on the recent joint letter [PDF] from the LF and Microsoft. The letter is in response to a draft "Principles of the Law of Software Contracts" statement from the American Law Institute. "As Horacio E. Gutiérrez, Microsoft Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel points out in his blog and the letter also states: 'Notwithstanding our varying approaches to the licensing and distribution of software, we share a common desire for a sound, effective commercial law framework for software contracts that reflects business and community realities. Such a framework will ultimately increase the variety and functionality of software available, benefitting both businesses and consumers.'"

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Openmoko: more hardware info and gta02-core

OpenMoko has released more information about the design of its current "gta02" platform. The purpose of this release is to help support the gta02-core project, which is doing a community-based redesign of this hardware. "The gta02-core project is primarily a test-bed for the community development process. While it's hoped to take the process through working prototypes, the project is not intended to result in a mass-production phone. If the community succeeds in the gta02-core project, development of a GTA03 may follow similar lines with community involvement in specifying, designing and developing the hardware."

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New Books

Beautiful Security - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Beautiful Security edited by Andy Oram and John Viega.

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XMPP: The Definitive Guide - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book XMPP: The Definitive Guide by Peter Saint-Andre, Kevin Smith, and Remko Tronçon.

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Contests and Awards

Inkscape 0.47 about screen contest announced

The Inkscape 0.47 about screen contest has been announced. "As usual, since we will be releasing a new version of Inkscape in the near future, we need to have a new about screen done. Do you think you're up to the challenge of making one? Here is a chance to have your art being the about screen of the next release! Read more details and the rules here. Deadline for submissions is May 25, 2009."

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Calls for Presentations

SciPy 2009 Call for Papers

A call for papers has gone out for SciPy 2009. "SciPy 2009, the 8th Python in Science conference, will be held from August 18-23, 2009 at Caltech in Pasadena, CA, USA. Each year SciPy attracts leading figures in research and scientific software development with Python from a wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines. The focus of the conference is both on scientific libraries and tools developed with Python and on scientific or engineering achievements using Python." Abstracts are due by June 26.

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Upcoming Events

BugCON '09 has swine influenza

BugCON 2009 has been postponed, the new time and location have not been chosen. "As maybe you know during two weeks Mexico suffered an epidemic, so the institute where BugCON going to be change the dates of all activities, including BugCON, this week we will have confirmed the new dates, probably BugCON will be on Agust. For these reason, BugCON mantein its CFP open from this moment to June 22th. You can read more about BugCON at www.bugcon.org".

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Conference on Cyber Warfare: registration open

Registration is open for the Conference on Cyber Warfare. "Registration is now open for the CCD CoE Conference on Cyber Warfare, which will take place at the Estonian National Theater on June 17-19, 2009. Following a worldwide Call for Papers, there will be 29 presentations given by researchers from 13 countries."

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Linux Installfest workshop in Davis, CA

The Linux Users' Group of Davis has announced its next Linux Installfest, the event takes place in Davis, CA on May 30.

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LPC 2009 Keynote and other speaker updates

Some keynotes for the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference have been announced. "Keynotes: * Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO (live via video, with real time Q&A) (Invitee - To be confirmed) * Keith Packard, Intel, X Window guru Tutorials: * Linus Torvalds, Advanced git tutorial" The event takes place on September 23-25 in Portland, OR.

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OpenMoko Freerunner phones discounted for DebConf attendees

DebConf attendees will be offered discounted OpenMoko Freerunner phones. "The folks at Tuxbrain have a surprise for DebConf attendees, with which they want to support the community and drive innovation and progress: For €249 incl. 16% VAT (deductable upon presentation of a valid EU VAT ID), you can pre-order: - a "buzz-free" Openmoko Neo Freerunner phone (A7) ("buzz-free" means it's free of the infamous "buzz" bug) - an extra battery - a headset - a debugging board (v3)"

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Events: May 28, 2009 to July 27, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
July 6 July 10	Python African Tour : Sénégal	Dakar, Sénégal
July 7 July 11	Libre Software Meeting	Nantes, France
July 13 July 17	(Montreal) Linux Symposium	Montreal, Canada
July 15 July 16	NIT Agartala FOSS and GNU/Linux fest	Agartala, India
July 15 July 17	Kernel Conference Australia 2009	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
July 18 July 19	Community Leadership Summit	San Jose, CA, USA
July 19	pgDay San Jose	San Jose, CA, USA
July 19 July 20	Open Video Conference	New York City, USA
July 20 July 24	2009 O'Reilly Open Source Convention	San Jose, CA, USA
July 24 July 30	DebConf 2009	Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
July 25 July 26	EuroSciPy 2009	Leipzig, Germany
July 25 July 26	PyOhio 2009	Columbus, OH, USA
July 25 July 30	Black Hat Briefings and Training	Las Vegas, NV, USA
July 26 July 27	InsideMobile	San Jose, CA, USA

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Mailing Lists

Python Concurrency email list announced

A new Python Concurrency email list has been announced. "python-concurrency@googlegroups.com is a new email list for discussion of concurrency issues in python. It arose out of Dave Beazley's class on the subject last week: http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/concurrent.html". Also, a new Python Concurrency wiki site has been launched.

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Web sites

ESP launches en.swpat.org

ESP has announced the launch of en.swpat.org. "End Software Patents today launched en.swpat.org, a wiki to document the case against software patents. Over 100 articles have already been started to give an idea of the scope and structure of the wiki."

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Miscellaneous

O'Reilly Webcast: What to Expect in Rails 3.0

O'Reilly has announced a May 22 webcast by Yehuda Katz on Rails 3.0. "Considered by many developers to be one of the fastest frameworks for building applications, Rails has come a long way since 2005. Slated for release later this year, Rails 3 will feature some innovative new features that will make the developer experience even better. Rails 3 will also be the first release that rolls in the popular Merb project. In this live, online event, Yehuda Katz, Core Team Member on the Rails and Merb projects, will cover some of most important new features in Rails 3.0 and answer questions from the audience."

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