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AnnouncementsCommercial announcements Gil: Here comes Maemo 5Quim Gil's Maemo 5 hype posting (associated with the N900 phone launch) has some encouraging text: "If freedom is your concern then you dont need to 'unlock' or 'jailbreak' Maemo 5. From installing an application to getting root access, its you who decide. We trust you, and at the end its your device. Nokia also trusts the open source community in general and the Maemo community particularly helping in getting casual users through the experience path. The N900 might just be a new and successful entry point for a new wave of open source users and developers."
Tucows: Copyright's creative disincentiveWorth a read: this submission from Tucows to the Canadian copyright consultation process. "The nice thing about that argument is that it makes a factual claim: Weaken copyright and you decrease innovation. That the facts so resoundingly, enthusiastically, thumpingly dispute that conclusion tells us that the syllogism is wrong. Indeed, the facts say the syllogism has it backwards. Current copyright laws are holding back the innovation they were intended to spur."
New Books Netbooks: The Missing Manual--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J.D. Biersdorfer.
Should you wish to purchase this book, you can get it from Amazon.com
Book Excerpt: The Official Ubuntu Book (Linux Journal)Linux Journal has published a new book excerpt. "Read an adapted version of chapter 3 from the book The Official Ubuntu Book By Benjamin Mako Hill, Matthew Helmke, Corey Burger. This article is an adapted excerpt of Chp 3 from the "The Official Ubuntu Book"".
Should you wish to purchase this book, you can get it from Amazon.com
web2py book 2nd Edition is availableThe second edition of the web2py book has been announced. "Lots of new stuff with100 more pages (341 pages in total). Covers Auth, Crud, Services, interaction with Pyjamas, PyAMF, and better deployment recipes."
Resources Linux Gazette #166 is outThe September, 2009 edition of the Linux Gazette has been published. Topics include: "* Mailbag * Talkback * 2-Cent Tips * News Bytes, by Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff * Away Mission: VMware World, Digital ID World and Intel Developer Forum, by Howard Dyckoff * Linux Layer 8 Security, by Lisa Kachold Taking off the Blinders, or Looking for Proof after Suspicion * Using Linux to Teach Kids How to Program, 10 Years Later (Part I), by Anderson Silva * Internet Radio Router, by Dr. Volker Ziemann * XKCD, by Randall Munroe * Doomed to Obscurity, by Pete Trbovich * The Back Page, by Kat Tanaka Okopnik".
Education and Certification Linux Professional Institute hosts exam labs at Ohio LinuxFest 2009The Linux Professional Institute will host exam labs at the Ohio LinuxFest 2009 on September 27. "This is the fourth year that LPI has been certification sponsor for Ohio LinuxFest and the event this year will be celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Unix operating system."
Calls for Presentations O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference cfpA call for papers has gone out for the 2010 O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference. "The O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference will redefine the boundaries of location-enabled technology March 30-April 1, 2010, at the Marriott San Jose, in San Jose, California. Program chair Brady Forrest and O'Reilly Media invite the builders and innovators in the geospatial industry to submit proposals for sessions and workshops at the sixth Where 2.0." Proposals are due by October 13.
Upcoming Events Mini-DebConf Taiwan 2009The Mini-DebConf Taiwan 2009 has been announced. "The "Software Liberty Association of Taiwan"(SLAT) is featuring a mini-DebConf during ICOS 2009 - International Conference on Open Source in Taipei in September, 2009. It's the 1st mini-DebConf in Taiwan, and would possibly become the 2nd Asia mini-DebConf (if DDs from China/Japan/Korea/Hong Kong can be join as well) since the 1st was on 2005 in Beijing. Please join us in Taipei on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of September, 2009."
Apache Foundation's Gianugo Rabellino to Keynote openSUSE ConferenceThe opening and closing keynotes for the openSUSE Conference have been announced. "The openSUSE Conference is an opportunity for openSUSE contributors to attend talks, workshops, Birds of a Feather sessions, and collaborate together face to face. The conference will be held from September 17 through September 20 in Nürnberg, Germany."
Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech RepublicThe next Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference has been announced. "If you don't have any plans for September 10th and 11th, plan a trip to Czech Republic! Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at Masaryk University in Brno, CZ".
Events: September 10, 2009 to November 9, 2009The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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