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GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections preliminary results

The preliminary results from the spring 2009 GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections have been announced. "If the results are not challenged, then the elected directors will be: Behdad Esfahbod Brian Cameron Diego Escalante Urrelo Germán Póo-Caamaño Lucas Rocha Srinivasa Ragavan Vincent Untz".

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New Books

Complete Web Monitoring - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Complete Web Monitoring by Alistair Croll and Sean Power.

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Even Faster Web Sites - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Even Faster Web Sites by Steve Souders.

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The Myths of Security - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book The Myths of Security by John Viega.

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Natural Language Processing with Python - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Natural Language Processing with Python by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper.

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Ruby Best Practices - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Ruby Best Practices by Gregory Brown.

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Resources

Open Database License v1.0

Version 1.0 of the Open Database License is now official. This is the license that the OpenStreetMap project proposes to move to; the current plan envisions a vote being held almost right away, followed by a 2-3 month transition.

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Calls for Presentations

Linux.conf.au 2010 call for papers is now open

The call for papers for linux.conf.au 2010 is now open. The conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, January 18-23, 2010. "linux.conf.au isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical conference about Free and Open Source Software, held annually in Australasia since 2001 - covering everything from the Linux Kernel and the BSDs to OpenOffice.org, from networking to audio-visual magic, from hardware hacks to Creative Commons."

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PostgreSQL Conference West 2009 Call for Papers

A call for papers has gone out for the PostgreSQL Conference West 2009. "The PostgreSQL Conference U.S. team is pleased to announce the West 2009 venue and call for papers. This year the premiere West Coast PostgreSQL Conference will be leaving its roots at Portland State University and moving north to sunny Seattle, Washington. The event this year is being held at Seattle Central Community College from October 16th through 18th."

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Upcoming Events

LinuxCon detailed schedule and program announced

The schedule and program for LinuxCon has been announced, the event will take place in Portland, OR on September 21-23, 2009. "LinuxCon is the new annual technical conference that will provide an unmatched collaboration and education space for all matters Linux, bringing together the best technical talent, decision makers and industry experts in the Linux community."

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Ohio Linux Fest - Back to the Future of Linux! (LXer)

LXer looks forward to the Ohio Linux Fest. "The Ohio Linux community continues its forward march and is gaining momentum every year. Each year brings a new group of speakers and generates more excitement-2009 will be no exception! The seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest will be on September 25-26, 2009 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in downtown Columbus, Ohio."

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pyArkansas 2009 announced

pyArkansas 2009 has been announced. "pyArkansas 2009 is set for Saturday, November 14 and is once again being hosted by our friends in the Computer Science Department at the University of Central Arkansas. This year we are planning classes GIS, Image Processing using Jython, Introduction to Python and Django. More details will be announced as we continue, but I wanted to get the date announced to the community."

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Announcing the SciPy 2009 student sponsorship

student sponsorship is available for SciPy 2009. "I am pleased to announce that the Python Software Foundation is sponsoring 10 students' travel, registration, and accommodation for the SciPy 2009 conference (Aug. 18-23). The focus of the conference is both on scientific libraries and tools developed with Python and on scientific or engineering achievements using Python."

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Events: July 9, 2009 to September 7, 2009

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

Date(s)EventLocation
July 3
July 11
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit (GUADEC/Akademy) Gran Canaria, Spain
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
August 31
September 4
Ubuntu Developer Week Internet, Internet
September 1
September 4
JBoss World Chicago Chicago, IL, USA
September 1
September 4
Red Hat Summit Chicago Chicago, IL, USA
September 1
September 5
DrupalCon Paris, France
September 4
September 5
PyCon 2009 Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Audio and Video programs

O'Reilly Webcast: Managing and Growing Open Source in the Enterprise

O'Reilly will hold a webcast on July 7: "Managing & Growing Open Source in the Enterprise: Advice from the Trenches Presented by Carol J. Rizzo and Rod Cope. What are the key elements essential to maintaining effective policies and growing open source usage safely in medium to large enterprises? In this webcast, Carol Rizzo, past CTO of Kaiser Permanente, AIG and CitiGroup, and Rod Cope, the founder and CTO of OpenLogic share their experiences and insights about using open source in the enterprise. This includes creating an effective enterprise open source software governance program that includes strategy, policy, inventory, approvals, and auditing, with plenty of time for q&a."

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