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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements EFF on the RealDVD decisionThe Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a release on the RealDVD decision. "The heart of Judge Patel's ruling is her interpretation of the DVD-CCA license agreement, and since large portions of those agreements remain confidential, it is difficult to evaluate the merits of her reasoning. However, she does make the troubling suggestions that fair use is never a defense when you circumvent an "access control" like encryption on DVDs. She also suggests that irreparable harm can be presumed whenever copyright infringement or a DMCA violation is likely..."
Legal Announcements Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the USHere is a press release from legal firm McKool Smith, which is quite proud at having gotten a US court to rule that Word violates patent #5,787,499. "Today's permanent injunction prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML." The text of this patent is quite vague; if it stands it could almost certainly be used to make life difficult for free software as well.
New Books O'Reilly publishes book excerptsO'Reilly has published the following book excerpts: Shared and Platform-Specific Keywords - SQL in a Nutshell, Installing Git - Version Control with Git and Installing Apache Hadoop - Hadoop: The Definitive Guide.
Resources AMD RS780 docs released, coreboot support comingDocumentation for the AMD RS780 is now available. "The coreboot community, which includes government organizations, corporations, research labs and individuals from around the world, is very excited to expand on our existing and decade-long collaboration with AMD. This collaboration has, over the years, resulted in the inclusion of coreboot into everything from some of the largest AMD-based supercomputers in the world to some of the smallest embedded systems. Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/ Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards."
VistA community members propose VistA Installation Spec (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews reports on the approval of the VistA Standard Base specification, release candidate 8. "The proposed document is intended to guide installation of Veterans Affairs VistA system on Linux using the Free/Open Source GTM mumps compiler."
Event Reports O'Reilly Open Source Convention delivers benefits of open sourceO'Reilly presents an event report for the recent OSCON. "Thousands of independent thinkers gathered at the 11th annual OSCON in San Jose, CA, July 20-24 to hear about the latest solutions and savings that open source technology can deliver. For five full days and nights, the open source convention featured hundreds of inspiring sessions and practical tutorials on a full range of languages and platforms. Faced with a daunting economic climate, OSCON attendees found the tools to give their businesses a competitive edge."
Calls for Presentations CFP: FOMS 2010A call for papers has gone out for the Foundations of Open Media Software workshop (FOMS). The event takes place on January 13-15 in Wellington, New Zealand, submissions are due by October 15. "Open media is a movement to promote free expression and innovation in online video and audio. Foundations of Open Media Software (FOMS) is a task-oriented developer meeting. At FOMS, developers of open media software gather to collaborate on code and plan future technology to enable a future of open media."
CFP: International workshop on Secure Software EngineeringA call for papers has gone out for the Fourth International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SecSE). The event takes place in Krakow, Poland on February 15-18, 2010, submissions are due by September 30.
Upcoming Events 2009 Gnome Boston SummitThe 2009 Gnome Boston Summit till take place on October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA. "As of right now we have funding thanks to Novell to hold one hackfest the week before the Summit. The content of that hackfest is yet to be determined. As always since hackfests are focused on getting specific teams together so that they may plan projects face to face, travel sponsorship will be done via invite and handled by the specific hackfest organizers. If you are a company or organization which wants to organize and sponsor a second or even third hackfest please get in-touch with myself (J5 on irc) or the GNOME Foundation Board."
Japan Linux Symposium program announcedThe program for the first Japan Linux Symposium has been posted. "The event, a new annual technical conference designed to provide a collaboration and education space in the Pacific Rim covering all matters Linux, takes place October 21-23, 2009 at Akihabara Convention Hall, Tokyo, Japan. More than fifty technical sessions are included with speakers featuring the top technical talent from across the globe." They have succeeded in attracting an interesting selection of speakers.
LCA2010 announces successful miniconfsThe miniconfs for LCA2010 have been announced. "Here is the full list of accepted Miniconfs: - Arduino (Jonathan Oxer) - Business of Open Source (Martin Michlmayr) - Data Storage and Retrieval (Peter Lieverdink) - Distro Summit (Fabio Tranchitella) - Education (Tabitha Roder) - Free The Cloud! (Evan Prodromou) - Haecksen and Linuxchix (Joh Clarke) - Mini Libre Graphics Meeting (Jon Cruz) - Multicore and Parallel Computing (Nicolas Erdody) - Multimedia (Conrad Parker) - Open and the Public Sector (Daniel Spector) - Open Programming Languages (Christopher Neugebauer) - System Administration (Simon Lyall) - Wave Developers (Shane Stephens)".
Announcing Camp KDE 2010 (KDEDot)KDE.News has announced Camp KDE 2010. "Camp KDE 2010 will take place at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, California, USA from January 15th until January 22nd, 2010. The event is free to all participants. UCSD is both our host and a sponsor, and KDE is looking forwards to participation and attendance from the UCSD body of students and faculty. The schedule is currently slated to include presentations, BoFs, hackathons and a day trip."
Events: August 20, 2009 to October 19, 2009The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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