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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Adobe CMap and AGLFN data now free softwarePaul Wise reports that Adobe Character Map (CMap) has been released under the terms of the BSD license and Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts (AGLFN) data will soon follow. "Please note that while this means that modifications are technically allowed, they are still strongly discouraged for compatibility reasons. Adobe has assigned an emailable maintainer (currently Ken Lunde) for these files so there is no reason that modifications should not be done upstream."
Commercial announcements MIPS Joins the Open Handset AllianceMIPS Technologies has joined the Open Handset Alliance. "MIPS Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, announced it has joined the Open Handset Alliance(tm), a group of more than 45 technology and mobile companies working to offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience. The Open Handset Alliance developed Android, the first complete, open and free mobile platform."
Red Hat reports second quarter resultsRed Hat's financial results from the second quarter of 2009 have been published. "Total revenue for the quarter was $183.6 million, an increase of 12% from the year ago quarter. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $156.3 million, up 15% year-over-year. 'IT organizations continue to move ahead with purchases of high value solutions, and Red Hat is capitalizing on this demand as a result of our strong customer relationships and proven value proposition. These factors contributed to our better than expected total revenue in the second quarter, and drove annual subscription revenue growth of 15% for both the quarter and first half of fiscal year 2010.'"
Legal Announcements Google shutting down independent Android image developers?There are reports that Google has sent a cease-and-desist letter to CyanogenMod, perhaps the most active independent creator of alternative images for Android phones since JesusFreke left the scene. The issue would appear to be the packaging of Google's closed-source applications - things like maps, the market application, gmail, etc. That is all stuff that Android phone owners already are licensed to run. If some sort of understanding is not reached, this action could have the effect of significantly chilling outside development for Android phones. Or perhaps it will just motivate the development of free alternatives for those few applications.
New Books Designing Social Interfaces--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has published the book Designing Social Interfaces by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone.
Learning Python, Python Pocket Reference 4th Ed.O'Reilly has published the books Learning Python and Python Pocket Reference 4th Ed. by Mark Lutz.
Resources CE Linux Forum NewsletterThe September, 2009 edition of the CE Linux Forum Newsletter is out. "In this month's CE Linux Forum newsletter: * ELC Europe Program Announced, Registration Open * SMACK white paper published * CELF BOF and Plenary Meeting announced * Japan Linux Symposium coming".
Is Linux Code Quality Improving? (internetnews.com)internetnews.com analyzes the latest Coverity Scan report on open-source software. "Coverity has seen an overall 16 percent reduction in the defect density found in the projects it has scanned over the last three years. Yet while the defect density has declined, the most recent Coverity Scan Open Source Report notes that the most common defect types are holding steady. For the last two years, the most common defect type reported by Coverity in its open source scan is something known as a 'NULLPointer Deference'."
Updegrove: Further Reflections on the CodePlex Foundation: The Glass Half FullLinux Foundation lawyer Andy Updegrove has posted a new article about the CodePlex Foundation. "Two weeks ago, I wrote a critical analysis of the governance structure of the CodePlex Foundation, a new open source-focused foundation launched by Microsoft. But what about the business premise for the Foundation itself? Lets say that CodePlex does restructure in such a way as to create a trusted, safe place for work to be done to support the open source software development model. Is there be a need for such an organization, and if so, what needs could it help meet."
Calls for Presentations Black Hat DC call for papersA call for papers has gone out for Black Hat DC. "It will be held February 2-3, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in D.C. the CFP closes December 1, 2009."
Upcoming Events ACM Conference on Computer and Communications SecurityThe ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security will take place on November 9-13 in Chicago, IL. "Featuring 58 technical papers, on Applied Cryptography, Attacks, RFID, Privacy, Anonymization, Formal Techniques, Cloud Security, Security of Mobile Services, Security for Embedded and Mobile Devices, Systems and Networks Security, Software Security, Designing Secure Systems, Malware and Bots topics. The program also includes 5 tutorials, 12 workshops, and poster/demo session."
Embedded Linux Conference Europe Program AnnouncedThe Embedded Linux Conference Europe has announced its program for the event, which is being held in Grenoble, France, October 15 and 16. Highlights include keynotes from Jon Masters on porting Linux and Phillipe Gerum on the state of realtime Linux. "Authors of some of the most useful and important resource books in the Linux industry will be there, as well as developers and experts from companies like: Philips, Sony, ST Microelectronics, Free Electrons, Mentor Graphics, MontaVista, Pengutronix, and Wind River. [...] The conference will host over 40 sessions, including presentations, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, keynotes and tutorials. " Click below for the full announcement.
NLUUG Autumn Conference - The Open Web (KDEDot)KDE.News has announced the NLUUG Autumn Conference. "On October 29 the dutch NLUUG will organise a conference about 'The Open Web'. In 18 talks and one keynote we hope to give you the best from a wide range of topics. Things you can expect are cool stuff you can do with HTML5, integrating geoinformation in applications with Geoclue, comet, the social desktop (integrating information from web services and all contacts into applications and your desktop) and much more."
PyPy Sprint announcedThe next PyPy Sprint will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany on November 6-13. "At the sprint we intend to work on the JIT generator in PyPy and on applying it to PyPy Python interpreter. The precise work that will be done is not fixed, as we don't know in which state the JIT will be in November."
XMMS2 Conference 2010The XMMS2 Conference 2010 has been announced. "Where will be in Malmö Sweden. Purple Scout have allowed us to use their offices to host the conference. We have big screen projector, nice beer fridges, lots of sofas and several different types of Rock Band, so it will fit us perfectly! Date is not 100% set in stone, so we would like some input for that. "
Events: October 8, 2009 to December 7, 2009The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Web sites First KDialogue Is Now Open (KDEDot)KDE.News has announced the launch of the KDialogue site. "Today, the KDE Community Forums, in collaboration with "People Behind KDE", have launched a new initiative to give the community an opportunity to get to know each other a bit closer: KDialogue. KDialogue is, in short, a way to ask one of the community members about their personal and KDE related life. At fixed intervals, a KDE contributor will be asked to participate in a dialog."
Audio and Video programs Two recent Ardour podcastsPaul Davis, creator of the Ardour digital audio workstation project is featured in two podcasts. "FLOSS Weekly and Open Source Musician recently each did a long podcast with Paul about Ardour and all things related. The questions and overall direction of each one are different, so if you have to spare to listen to them, check both of them out."
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