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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos apologizes for Kindle ebook deletionThe Free Software Foundation has issued a press release covering an apology from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and calls upon Amazon to free the ebook reader. "In a post to the Kindle Community forum on Amazon's Web site, Bezos said: "This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our "solution" to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism we've received. We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission.""
JPUG announces 10th anniversaryThe Japan PostgreSQL Users Group has announced its 10th anniversary. "Japan PostgreSQL Users Group (JPUG) gave its first cry at the plenary meeting at Makuhari city, ten years before of this date of 23rd July. We are very glad to score a decade length activitywith quite a lot of successful stories. On this memorable date, JPUG wished to deliver everyone who is engaged with PostgreSQL two statements by Mr Tatsuo Ishii, the founding chairman, and Mr Hiroo Kataoka, the current chairman..."
Rock-The-Vote goes open sourceRock-The-Vote has announced a partnership with the OSDV Foundation's TrustTheVote project. "Rock the Vote and Open Source Digital Voting (OSDV) Foundation's TrustTheVote Project are partnering to introduce new online voter registration tools based on open source technology. The TrustTheVote Project will provide its open source technology platform to enable Rock the Vote to streamline and improve the user-facing registration process and help State elections offices process registration forms."
Commercial announcements Linux Foundation launches affinity credit cardThe Linux Foundation has announced it will offer an affinity Visa Platinum credit card for people who want to contribute to advancing the Linux operating system through Linux Foundation initiatives. "The Linux Foundation is partnering with CardPartner, Inc. to offer the affinity Linux credit card through UMB Bank. The Linux Foundation will receive $50 for every activated card as well as a percentage of every purchase made with the credit card. All funds from the Visa card program will go directly towards providing community technical events and travel grants for open source community members in order to accelerate Linux innovation."
NYSE-listed Red Hat Inc. Becomes Newest Component of S&P 500NYSE Euronext has announced that Red Hat, Inc. has become the newest component of the S&P 500. ""Red Hat's inclusion in the S&P 500 is a significant milestone for the company, and on behalf of NYSE Euronext we want to congratulate Red Hat President and CEO Jim Whitehurst and his team for this accomplishment," said Scott R. Cutler, EVP and Head of Listings, Americas, NYSE Euronext." (Thanks to Scott Bronson)
New Books Beautiful Data--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Beautiful Data by Toby Segaran and Jeff Hammerbacher.
Pro Git book releasedAuthor Scott Chacon has announced that his upcoming book, Pro Git, has been posted under a (noncommercial) Creative Commons license. Interested readers can go to the online version to read the book now, or purchase it in August.
Programming Interactivity--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Programming Interactivity by Joshua Noble.
Resources Documenting barriers to entry into free software projectsDave Neary has announced a draft version of a document on community barriers to entry [PDF]; the idea is to help projects identify and fix problems which keep their communities from growing. "In many corporate projects, the most damaging dynamic is when a decision gets made by someone not on the developer mailing list, and is thus completely unaccountable to the community for the decision. It is damaging for your community, who feels ignored. In the case where these decisions are unpopular, it is damaging for the morale of your developers, who must defend strategic changes in the product they may not agree with."
Contests and Awards SourceForge.net Community Choice AwardsThe 2009 SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards been announced. The H summarizes the results: "This years winner for the Best Project for Government was OpenOffice.org for its popular fully-featured office suite and Firebird, a relational database management system (RDBMS), won the prize for Best Project for the Enterprise. The Notepad++ source code editor won the Best Tool or Utility for Developers and phpMyAdmin, a MySQL administration tool, was chosen as the Best Tool or Utility for SysAdmins. "
Announcing the 2009 White Camel Awards (use Perl)The 2009 White Camel Awards have been announced. "The White Camel Awards recognize the many significant contributions made by the unsung heros of the Perl community. The efforts of these volunteers collectively make the Perl language and the Perl community better for all of us."
Surveys What are you doing to help the cause? (Linux Journal)Linux Journal is conducting a short survey on open-source participation. "The "beer" may be free but it takes more than beer to make a party work. Choose the item that best describes what you're doing to help the open source party, if you do more than one of the items, choose the one that you feel provides the most value."
Event Reports EuroSciPy 2009 - first slidesSlides and abstracts from EuroSciPy have been posted. "The first slides for the talks at EuroSciPy are available: http://www.euroscipy.org/presentations/slides/index.html The abstracts of all talks can be found here: http://www.euroscipy.org/presentations/abstracts/index.html."
GCDS Slides and Videos Online (KDEDot)KDE.News has announced the availability of slides from the recent Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. "The available slides and videos from GCDS are now available for download. Grab the slides to catch up on over 40 of the best talks, and get the videos to over 50 enlightening presentation. Thanks to GeekSoc for hosting and thanks to the team from KDE who manned the cameras."
OSCON keynote: Standing out in the crowdKirrily Roberts OSCON keynote on encouraging women in open source has received a number of great reviews. For those who missed it, Kirrily has posted the text and slides from the talk. "The FLOSSPOLS survey asked open source contributors whether they had witnessed sexism, harrassment, or discrimination in our community. Heres what they found: 80% of women had noticed sexism in the open source community. 80% of men never noticed anything. Thats a pretty big gap."
Calls for Presentations Linux-Kongress moves, LCA extends deadlineA couple of noteworthy bits of conference-related information:
Upcoming Events Libre Graphics Meeting announces dates and venueThe 2010 Libre Graphics Meeting has been announced. "Users and developers of Free, Libre and Open Source graphics software will meet in Brussels, Belgium on May 26-29, 2010 at the fifth annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM). Held in a historical piano factory, newly renovated into a lively exhibition and work space near Brussels' city center, LGM 2010 offers software developers, artists, designers and other graphics professionals the chance to collaborate and learn from each other. LGM emphasizes the sharing of collective creativity, innovation and ideas and is free for everyone to attend."
LinuxCon discount registration deadline in three weeksThe deadline for LinuxCon discount registration is August 15th. "LinuxCon - The New Technical Conference for All Matters Linux September 21-23, 2009 Portland Marriott Waterfront - Portland, OR. Only three more weeks to register to attend LinuxCon for the reduced fee of $399."
Events: August 6, 2009 to October 5, 2009The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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