Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

EFF demands public release of FBI surveillance rules

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced the filing of a lawsuit against the US DOJ. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed suit against the Department of Justice today, demanding the public release of the surveillance guidelines that govern investigations of Americans by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI's Domestic Investigative Operational Guidelines went into effect in December of 2008 and detail the Bureau's procedures and standards for implementing the Attorney General's Guidelines on approved surveillance strategies."

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Introducing FSFE's new president, vice president and executive team

The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced its new leaders. "During its General Assembly in Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain, the members of FSFE elected new coordinators for several of the organisation's activities, including strategy, legal and executive coordination. "The new team will continue FSFE's highly successful work with the same long-term vision. We will work hard to justify the trust which the Free Software community is putting into FSFE", says the new president, Karsten Gerloff."

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Commercial announcements

Wireless-N Linux Router from Cisco

Cisco has announced a new Wireless-N Router that uses Linux. "Cisco® today announced a new Linux powered router, the Linksys by Cisco Wireless-N Broadband Router with Storage Link (WRT160NL). The new model complements the existing Linksys by Cisco consumer router line-up and is essentially the next generation of the popular WRT54GL. The design of the product is similar to other Linksys by Cisco N-routers, but has integrated connectors for external antennae. Consumers that prefer external aerials can now enjoy the new Linksys by Cisco router design because of the integrated R-SMA antenna connectors. The integrated Storage Link functionality lets consumers connect their USB storage device to the router to create a powerful media sharing solution that enables video, photo and music sharing through the integrated media server."

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Intel and Nokia announce strategic mobile computing relationship

Intel and Nokia have announced a new strategic mobile computing relationship involving Linux. "Further uniting the Internet with mobile phones and computers, Intel Corporation and Nokia today announced a long-term relationship to develop a new class of Intel® Architecture-based mobile computing device and chipset architectures which will combine the performance of powerful computers with high-bandwidth mobile broadband communications and ubiquitous Internet connectivity. To realize this shared vision, both companies are expanding their longstanding relationship to define a new mobile platform beyond today's smartphones, notebooks and netbooks, enabling the development of a variety of innovative hardware, software and mobile Internet services."

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New Books

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Hadoop: The Definitive Guide by Tom White.

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Mercurial: The Definitive Guide--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Mercurial: The Definitive Guide by Bryan O'Sullivan.

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Programming Clojure--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway.

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Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition

Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition by David Beazley has been published.

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Contests and Awards

Free Software Awards - Trophees du Libre 2009

The winners of the Trophees du Libre 2009 Free Software Awards have been announced. "On June 5th and 6th, 2009 the fifth édition of the Trophées du Libre 2009 took place at the IUT de Cuffies-Soissons. The event was organized by the CETRIL association in partnership with the European Communinity, the France State, the Picardy region and the Grand Soissons council. All the 23 finalist projects were awarded in each of the seven categories : Security, Administration, Education, Professionnel, Multi-media technology, Leasure and Sciences - plus three special prizes : the jury special prize, the prize for a large potential software usage and the most innovative project."

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PSF Community Awards go to Stephan Deibel and Sean Reifschneider

Stephan Deibel and Sean Reifschneider have received the PSF Community Awards. "Stephan was last year's outgoing chairman after four years in harness. This year Stephan has stepped down as a director, after helping to ensure that the Foundation's bylaws were reorganized. Stephan developed pythonology.com to promote Python, and his work as founder of Wingware (wingware.com) and a developer of the Wing IDE has also had a significant impact. Sean has master-minded the PyCon networking every time it's worked, and without the support of this always helpful and reliably competent tummy.com director our conferences simply would not have been the same."

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Social Desktop Contest (KDEDot)

KDE.News has announced a Social Desktop Contest. "Have you already played with the idea of developing an application for the Social Desktop? Are you interested in programming a clean and easy REST API? You have already heard about the Open Collaboration Services API and wanted to join in? Now is your chance to do so and to win great prizes for your creation! We and the openDesktop.org community are searching for the best and most creative contest submission around the Social Desktop/OCS API! The goal of the Social Desktop Contest is to foster community development and innovations around the OCS API. Prize winners will be selected by the community and a jury. Entrants are encouraged to submit entries that encourage community participation." The contest will run until August 25.

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Surveys

Ruby shines in North American developer survey (The Register)

The Register reports on the rising popularity of Ruby. "Ruby use is up 40 per cent amongst North American software developers since 2008, according to a new study from Evans Data. Despite the jump in popularity, Ruby still occupies a relatively small niche in the developer community as a whole, the company says. Only 14 per cent of developers polled in North America use Ruby at least some of the time, up from 10 per cent in a poll last year. About 20 per cent, however, told Evans they expect to use Ruby in the coming year."

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Meeting Minutes

Perl 6 Design Minutes

The Perl 6 Design Minutes for June 6, 2009 are available. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 06 May 2009. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Nicholas, and chromatic attended."

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Calls for Presentations

CHASE 2009 Lahoe Pakistan call for papers

A call for papers has gone out for CHASE 2009. The event takes place in Lahore, Pakistan on November 6-10 2009, submissions are due by September 4. "CHASE is a unique information and network security event of its kind being organized in Pakistan since 2006. In addition to presentations and talks, CHASE-2009 will include gaming competition and four tracks of trainings. Limited travel funds are vailable for speakers coming outside of Pakistan."

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InsideMobile Conference registration and call for papers

O'Reilly has announced the call for papers and registration for the InsideMobile Conference. "Interested in learning more about the growing mobile industry? Looking for information on developing for mobile platforms? Wanting a way to get ahead in your field? If so, the newly announced InsideMobile Conference, co-produced by O'Reilly Media and 360Conferences, on July 26-27, 2009, in San Jose, CA, is a must-attend event."

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Internet Security Operations and Intelligence CFP

A call for papers has gone out for the Internet Security Operations and Intelligence conference. "The 7th ISOI (Internet Security Operations and Intelligence) will take place on September 17th and 18th in San Diego, California."

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X Developers' Conference 2009

Talks are still needed for the upcoming X Developer's Conference. "A reminder that this year's X Developer's Conference is now just 3 months away, but the wiki pages for attendees and talks are still bare. If you're planning on attending, please add yourself to the attendees wiki. If you've got something to talk about, please add it to the program wiki page. The 2009 X Developers' Conference will be held at Portland State University (PSU) in Portland, Oregon, from Monday September 28 through Wednesday September 30."

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Upcoming Events

LCA2010 announces first keynote speaker: Benjamin Mako Hill

The first LCA2010 keynote speaker has been announced. "Our first speaker has a distinguished reputation in the free software world, with significant contributions to Debian, Ubuntu and OLPC across a variety of areas including development, policy, advocacy, activism, education and writing. He is an active board member with several non-profit organisations including The Free Software Foundation and Software Freedom International, and he is involved in the global discussion of copyright, software patents and free culture." LCA2010 will take place in Wellington, New Zealand on January 18-23, 2010.

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OpenSource World announces keynote speakers (Linux-Watch)

Linux-Watch has announced the keynotes for OpenSource World, which will take place on August 12-13 in San Francisco, CA. "California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, will offer the keynote address to OpenSource World 2009, says IDG World Expo. Bowen is said to have been been recognized in the open source industry for her familiarity with the benefits of open source. The conference will also feature a keynote panel called "Assessing the Real Market Opportunities and Obstacles for Making Cloud Computing Mainstream." The panel will feature: * Jeffrey M. Kaplan -- conference chairman for CloudWorld and managing director for THINKstrategies, Inc. * Sam Charrington -- VP of product management and marketing, Appistry, Inc. * James Urquhart -- market manager, cloud computing and virtualization, Cisco Systems * Joe Weinman -- strategy and business development, AT&T Business Solutions".

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UKUUG Summer 2009 Conference and Tutorials

The UKUUG Summer 2009 Conference and Tutorials will be held in Birmingham, UK on August 7-9, 2009. Early bird registration is open until July 6.

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Events: July 2, 2009 to August 31, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
June 28 July 4	EuroPython 2009	Birmingham, UK
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
July 31 August 2	FOSS in Healthcare unconference	Houston, TX, USA
August 3 August 5	YAPC::EU::2009	Lisbon, Portugal
August 7	August Penguin 2009	Weizmann Institute, Israel
August 7 August 9	UKUUG Summer 2009 Conference	Birmingham, UK
August 10 August 14	USENIX Security Symposium	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 11	FOSS Dev Camp - Open Source World	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 11 August 13	Flash Memory Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
August 12 August 13	OpenSource World Conference and Expo	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 12 August 13	Military Open Source Software	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
August 13 August 16	Hacking At Random 2009	Vierhouten, The Netherlands
August 18 August 23	2009 Python in Science Conference	Pasadena, CA, USA
August 22 August 23	Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon)	St. Augustin, Germany
August 22 August 23	OpenSQL Camp	St. Augustin, Germany

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Audio and Video programs

FreedomHEC Taipei 2009 videos

Videos from FreedomHEC Taipei 2009 are available. "Slides and ogg Theora encoded videos of the talks are now linked from the schedule below!" (Thanks to Scott Tsai).

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Video: John D. Hunter on Matplotlib

Videolectures.net presents a video lecture with John D. Hunter on Matplotlib. "Matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. matplotlib can be used in python scripts, the python and ipython shell (ala matlab or mathematica), web application servers, and works with six graphical user interface toolkits. matplotlib tries to make easy things easy and hard things possible. You can generate plots, histograms, power spectra, bar charts, error charts, scatter plots, etc, with just a few lines of code. For the power user, you have full control of line styles, font properties, axes properties, etc, via an object oriented interface or via a handle graphics interface familiar to matlab users."

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