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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements FSF launches campaign against Microsoft and proprietary softwareThe Free Software Foundation has launched a public awareness campaign entitled Windows 7 Sins that protests against Microsoft and proprietary software. "The campaign outlines seven major areas where proprietary software in general and Microsoft Windows in particular hurt all computer users: invading privacy, poisoning education, locking users in, abusing standards, leveraging monopolistic behavior, enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), and threatening user security."
Become a GNOME AmbassadorThe GNOME Press Team has been announced. "The GNOME Marketing team is pleased to announce the creation of the GNOME Press Team. The Press Team is a subset of the Marketing team, with a focus on tracking GNOME events worldwide, and communicating and engaging with journalists all over the world to help spread GNOME news."
Commercial announcements Tuxera signs up with MicrosoftTuxera, a company based around the NTFS-3G filesystem project, seems to have come up with a new line of business based on the recent FAT patent scare: they have signed a deal with Microsoft and are offering proprietary "exFAT" filesystem drivers for Linux. "As an open source company, we feel excited to sign an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft. They are a great partner, and I am confident that our agreements, and this collaboration, will ensure a bright future for file system interoperability and data portability that benefits device manufacturers and consumers alike."
Wing IDE 3.2 releasedWingware has announced the release of Wing IDE 3.2.0, a commercial Python IDE. Features include: "* Support for Python 3.0 and 3.1 * Rewritten version control integration with support for Subversion, CVS, Bazaar, git, Mercurial, and Perforce * Added 64-bit Debian, RPM, and tar file installers for Linux * File management in Project view * Auto-completion in the editor obtains completion data from live runtime when the debugger is active * Perspectives: Create and save named GUI layouts and optionally automatically transition when debugging is started * Improved support for Cython and Pyrex (*.pyx files) * Added key binding documentation to the manual * Added Restart Debugging item in Debug menu and tool bar".
New Books O'Reilly publishes book excerptsO'Reilly has published some new book excerpts: Benchmarking - Algorithms in a Nutshell, Epilogue - Algorithms in a Nutshell and An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Ruby - Learning Rails.
O'Reilly publishes Perl tutorialsO'Reilly has published the following new tutorials: The Eight-Minute XML Tutorial, The 10-Minute XPath Tutorial, The 10-Minute LDAP Tutorial, The 15-Minute SQL Tutorial, The Five-Minute RCS Tutorial, The Two-Minute VBScript-to-Perl Tutorial and The 20-Minute SNMP Tutorial. All are excerpts from the book Automating System Administration with Perl by David N. Blank-Edelman.
The CSS Anthology, Third Edition--New from SitePointSitePoint has published the book The CSS Anthology, Third Edition by Rachel Andrew.
Education and Certification Linux Professional Institute events at LinuxConThe Linux Professional Institute has announced its LinuxCon events. The conference takes place on September 21-23 in Portland, Oregon. "The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that they will offer LPI exams at the first annual LinuxCon on Monday, September 21, 2009 in Portland, Oregon. During LinuxCon LPI will also host a community consultation on their Linux certification program on Tuesday September 22, 2009."
Calls for Presentations CONFidence 2009 cfpA call for participation has gone out for CONFIdence 2009, submissions are due by September 15. "Calling all practitioners in the field of IT security! The 6th edition of CONFIdence 2009 2.0, is taking place in Warsaw on November 19/20, 2009."
Upcoming Events Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels AnnouncedThe 2010 Libre Graphics Meeting has been scheduled for May 26-29 in Brussels, Belgium. "The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this annual meeting is the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common formats." Click below for the full announcement.
Announcing the Ubuntu Global JamThe Ubuntu Global Jam has been announced. "The Ubuntu Global Jam is an incredible opportunity for the Ubuntu community to unite together around the weekend of 2nd - 4th Oct 2009 to work together to improve Ubuntu. Everyone is able to contribute to the Jam, and everyone is welcome and encouraged to get involved. Curious about how to make a real difference to Ubuntu? This is a great chance to make that difference."
PyCon Argentina 2009PyCon Argentina 2009 takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 4-5. "The first national Python conference in Argentina "PyCon Argentina 2009", also the first PyCon at a Spanish-speaking country, will be held on Buenos Aires next month. There are more than 30 programmed talks covering many different subjects, short lightning talks, and two special speakers: Collin Winter (Unladen Swallow) and Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django)."
FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free SoftwareThe Free Software Foundation (FSF) will be hosting a mini-summit on "Women in Free Software" on September 19. Participants will include Deborah Nicholson of the FSF, Stormy Peters of the GNOME Foundation, and Hillary Rettig, free software activist and author of The Lifelong Activist, along with a small group of other women to discuss how to increase and sustain participation by women in free software. "Historically, women have been underrepresented in the technology and free software communities, and despite recent increases in the adoption of free software, the situation has not significantly improved. Deborah Nicholson said, 'At the summit, we will discuss existing entry points, why women don't always feel invited, and when they do, why they don't always stay. Individual projects have found ways to make women welcome and we will look at some of these examples and discuss how to build on those successes. We will also identify new strategies and tactics to help create a balanced community.'" Click below for the full announcement.
Events: September 3, 2009 to November 2, 2009The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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