Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

The 2008 GNOME annual report

The GNOME Foundation has put out a glossy, 35-page annual report, available as a 19MB PDF file. There's a lot of information on what has been going on in the GNOME community and budgetary details as well.

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The University of São Paulo to support Openmoko?

It would seem that Jon 'maddog' Hall has gotten the University of São Paulo interested in supporting the ongoing development of the Openmoko phone platform. Among other things, the university has a fancy surface-mount prototyping facility and a fair amount of telecommunications experience to offer. "Dr. Zuffo has discussed the Openmoko project with the Minister of Telecommunications of Brazil, and the Minister is very enthusiastic about the concept. Having the support of the government of the twelfth largest economy behind the project might really help us with various negotiations with vendors."

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Commercial announcements

Ingres makes MySQL transition a breeze

Ingres has announced EasyIngres. "Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database company, announced the creation of EasyIngres, an Ingres developer community product that helps PHP developers easily create applications using Ingres and simplifies the transition from MySQL to Ingres. This development kit comes at a critical time when MySQL developers are on stand-by waiting to see the outcome of Oracle's purchase of Sun. EasyIngres allows those developers the opportunity to build on their existing knowledge of PHP and add a new set of mission-critical database development skills to their resumes."

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New release of Mozilla Lightning and SOGo

Inverse has announced new releases of Mozilla Lightning and SOGo. "SOGo provides a rich AJAX-based Web interface and supports multiple native clients through the use of standard protocols such as CalDAV, CardDAV and GroupDAV. It features a very tight integration with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning and enable mobile devices synchronization through the use of the Funambol middleware."

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MontaVista Achieves Ultra-Fast One Second Linux Boot Time in Embedded Industrial Applications

MontaVista Software has announced the achievement of ultra-fast boot times on MontaVista Linux for embedded industrial applications. "At the Virtual Freescale Technology Forum this week, MontaVista will be demonstrating a sample dashboard application fully operational in one second from cold boot, achieving a level of previously unmatched performance on any embedded Linux."

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MontaVista celebrates 10 years of embedded Linux

MontaVista has announced its 10 year anniversary. "Founded in 1999 with a focus on delivering Linux for the embedded market, MontaVista has remained committed to furthering the development and innovation of commercialized embedded Linux through enabling a broad range of architectures, delivering commercial quality, and expanding the tools available for embedded developers, As a result of this focus and commitment, there are over 60 million devices in the market powered by MontaVista Linux today."

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New Books

Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP and MySQL--New from SitePoint

SitePoint has published the book Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL by Kevin Yank.

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Erlang Programming - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Erlang Programming by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson.

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O'Reilly publishes book excerpts

O'Reilly has released excerpts from several of its books including: Using Erlang - Open Source Erlang Programming, Network Programming - iPhone SDK Application Development, Migrating to Mercurial - Open Source Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, Mercurial Queues Reference - Open Source Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, Open Publication License - Open Source Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, Installing Mercurial from Source - Open Source Mercurial: The Definitive Guide and Writing Backward-Compatible Code - Open Source Ruby Best Practices.

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Resources

FSFE Newsletter

The June, 2009 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: "FSFE participates at "LinuxTag 2009", Berlin, 24-27 June, Social event and presentation of Spanish team, Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain, 20 June, The account from the first Fellowship representative at the GA, Two year Executive Summary (2007-2009), Fellowship meeting in Berlin, 11 June and It's time for the community to take charge of its brand."

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"International Free and Open Source Software Law Review" launched

A new, freely available journal covering international free software legal issues has produced its first issue. The "International Free and Open Source Software Law Review" (IFOSSLR) is a peer-reviewed, twice-yearly publication looking at the intersection of free software and the law. The journal is an outgrowth of the European Legal Network, established by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), and is supported by the Mozilla and NLNet foundations. From the announcement: "Free and Open Source Software has increasingly come to challenge traditional concepts of intellectual property and collaboration by allowing every user to use, study, share and and improve code, facilitating the creation of elegant and effective software that now lies at the heart of the mainstream technology industry. IFOSSLR aims to foster increased understanding and promote best practice for all parties engaging with this approach to licensing." (Thanks to Armijn Hemel)

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Linux Foundation Newsletter

The July, 2009 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter has been published. "In this month's Linux Foundation newsletter: * Linux Foundation Appoints Executive to Support Initiatives in Europe * Japan Linux Symposium: Early Registration, Linus Torvalds Keynote * LinuxCon Program and Event Details Take Shape * LinuxCon Speakers Interviewed * Training Courses Set for LinuxCon * Linux Foundation in the News * From the Director".

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State of Text Rendering

Behdad Esfahbod recently presented a talk on the State of Text Rendering at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. The presentation slides [PDF] are also available. "Text is the primary means of communication in computers, and is bound to be so for the decades to come. With the widespread adoption of Unicode as the canonical character set for representing text a whole new domain has been opened up in a desktop system software design. Gone are the days that one would need to input, render, print, search, spell-check, ... one language at a time. The whole concept of internationalization (i18n) on which Unicode is based is "all languages, all the time"." (Thanks to Nicolas Mailhot).

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Education and Certification

LPI develops partner program for schools in Portugal

The Linux Professional Institute has announced a partner program for Portuguese schools. "The ICT Academies program is part of the "Technological Plan for Education" promoted by the Portuguese Ministry of Education. As part of this initiative, LPI-Portugal will be certifying 10 instructors in 5 secondary schools, to provide Linux education and training towards the Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) through LPI's Approved Academic Program (LPI-AAP). The ICT Academy program is expected to grow to include 30 secondary schools in Portugal in 2010."

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LPI announces new affiliate in South Africa

The Linux Professional Institute has announced its latest affiliate, ICDL South Africa. "ICDL South Africa is a non-profit organization established by the Computer Society of South Africa to promote and administer the International Computer Driving License (ICDL). The ICDL is administered by the ECDL Foundation; a non-profit organization established by the Council of European Professional Informatics Society (CEPIS)."

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Event Reports

2009 PHP TestFest coverage

PHP.net covers the 2009 PHP TestFest. "So finally we are at the end of the 2009 PHP TestFest. It has been an outstanding success with the coverage increasing by about 2.5% overall and 887 new tests contributed in the TestFest SVN repository of which 637 have already been added to PHP CVS. User groups from all over the world have worked hard to make this happen and we thank each and every one of you for your contribution to PHP! You really made a difference to the PHP5.3 release quality."

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Upcoming Events

BayPIGgies at OSCON

A BayPIGgies meeting will be held at OSCON. "The July BayPIGgies meeting will be held at OSCON in the San Jose Convention Center as one of the BoF (Birds of a Feather) sessions from 8pm to 9:30pm Thursday July 23. Everyone is welcome: you do NOT need to be an OSCON member to attend a BoF. Wesley Chun will have a newbie-oriented "What is Python?" BoF from 7-8pm in the same room as BayPIGgies".

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Announcing EuroBSDcon 2009

EuroBSDcon 2009 has been announced. "Friday 18th - Sunday 20th September, University of Cambridge, UK A day of tutorials followed by 2 days of conference talks covering a wide variety of BSD related topics. This is the European BSD Community's annual event to meet, share and interact across the projects and between friends."

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Announcing the third annual LLVM developers' meeting

The third annual LLVM developers' meeting has been announced. "The third annual LLVM Developers' Meeting will be held this on October 2, 2009 at Apple Inc.'s main campus in Cupertino, California, USA: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2009-10 As with previous meetings, this gathering serves as a forum for both developers and users of LLVM to get acquainted, to learn how LLVM is used, and to exchange ideas about LLVM and its potential applications. Beyond discussing the core LLVM compiler infrastructure, the meeting will also dedicate a significant amount of attention to Clang, LLVM's reusable, library-based frontend for C-based languages."

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LPC: Kernel/Userspace/User Interfaces Microconference

The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) has announced the lineup for the "Kernel/Userspace/User Interfaces" microconference. Three separate topics will be discussed as part of the microconference: Sarah Sharp will present USB 3.0, Matthew Garrett will look at dynamic power management, and Sukadev Bhattiprolu will cover checkpoint/restart in the kernel. LPC will be held September 23-25 (just after the co-located LinuxCon) in Portland, Oregon. "I am happy to announce that Jim Gettys, one of the original developers of the X Window System, past VP of Software at OLPC, now at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, has selected a great lineup from a set of excellent submissions to the 'Kernel/Userspace/User Interfaces' microconference." Click below for the full announcement.

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LPC: security microconference announced

The Linux Plumbers Conference security microconference has been announced, LPC takes place on September 21-23 in Portland, OR. "The Linux Plumbers Conference is fortunate to have James Morris and Paul Moore as runners for the Security microconference. James and Paul are quite prominent in the Linux security community, James in his role as Linux kernel security subsystem maintainer, and Paul in a number of roles, including leader of the NetLabel network-security subsystem. The Security microconference is a double-length microconference this year, as is fitting given the importance of security in today's world of spammers, botnet controllers, and many other black-hat threats."

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openSUSE Hack Week IV approaches

The next openSUSE Hack Week has been announced. "Novell is once again sponsoring a Hack Week, from July 20 through July 24th. This is an opportunity for Novell's Open Platform Solutions developers to use their Innovation Time Off and hunker down and work on the projects that catch their fancy. Hack Week projects can be new features, new applications, or improvements to existing services and applications."

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Events: July 23, 2009 to September 21, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
September 7 September 8	FRHACK.ORG IT Security Conference	Besançon, France
September 7 September 11	XtreemOS summer school	Oxford, UK
September 8 September 12	DjangoCon '09	Portland, OR, USA
September 10 September 11	Fedora Developer Conference 2009	Brno, Czech Republic
September 12	Evil Robot Conference (Free Conference, Free Software)	Raleigh, NC, USA
September 14 September 18	Django Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
September 15 September 17	International Conference on IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics	Stuttgart, Germany
September 17 September 18	Internet Security Operations and Intelligence 7	San Diego, CA, USA
September 17 September 20	openSUSE Conference	Nuremberg, Germany
September 18 September 19	BruCON	Brussels, Belgium
September 18 September 20	EuroBSDCon 2009	Cambridge, UK
September 19	Atlanta Linux Fest 2009	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
September 19	Beijing Perl Workshop	Beijing, China
September 19	Software Freedom Day	Worldwide,
September 20	SELinux Developer Summit 2009 @ LinuxCon	Portland, Oregon, USA

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