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AnnouncementsCommercial announcements New Tokyo stock exchange system built on RHELRed Hat has sent out a press release stating that the Tokyo Stock Exchange has built its next-generation trading system on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. "The new system aims to deliver a capacity of orders accepted per second ten times larger than that of TSE's previous trading platform. TSE has measured an impressive order response time of two milliseconds and an information distribution time of three milliseconds. In addition, the solution offers the flexibility to accommodate new trading rules, the ability to be scaled with jumps in system demand and trading growth and expanded security and reliability."
Novell Rejects Elliott Associates' Proposal as InadequateNovell has announced that its Board has concluded that the unsolicited, conditional proposal from Elliott Associates, L.P. to acquire the Company for $5.75 per share in cash is inadequate and that it undervalues the Company's franchise and growth prospects. "Novell also announced that its Board of Directors has authorized a thorough review of various alternatives to enhance stockholder value. These alternatives include, but are not limited to, a return of capital to stockholders through a stock repurchase or cash dividend, strategic partnerships and alliances, joint ventures, a recapitalization and a sale of the Company."
rPath Joins the Linux FoundationThe Linux Foundation has announced that rPath has joined the Foundation. "Smaller budgets have increased demand for solutions that allow IT to take on increasing levels of scale without adding cost or headcount. rPath today offers automation solutions for provisioning and patching a variety of Linux-based systems, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise, among others. Its Linux Foundation membership will enable it to broaden its community involvement and collaborate with industry and technical leadership."
Legal Announcements HTC responds to AppleHTC has finally sent out a press release responding to Apple's patent lawsuit. "HTC disagrees with Apples actions and will fully defend itself. HTC strongly advocates intellectual property protection and will continue to respect other innovators and their technologies as we have always done, but we will continue to embrace competition through our own innovation as a healthy way for consumers to get the best mobile experience possible."
Articles of interest Open Video Alliance launches Wikipedia video campaign (ars technica)Ryan Paul covers the launch of the Open Video Alliance. "The Open Video Alliance (OVA), a group that seeks to promote adoption of standards-based open video technologies, has launched a new campaign encouraging users to upload videos to the Wikipedia website. The goals behind this new campaign are to visually enrich the online encyclopedia and promote awareness of the value that open video technologies can bring to the Web."
Google Summer of Code 2010: Mentoring organisations announced (The H)The H looks at the list of accepted mentoring organizations for GSoC 2010. "The GSoC contests offer university students stipends to write and develop code for various open source projects. Accepted mentors include the Debian Project and the KDE Project, both of which are already seeking project ideas. AbiWord, FFmpeg, Facebook, the GNU Compiler Collection, the LXDE Foundation, Mozilla and Ubuntu are all among the other accepted organisations."
New Books Google Wave: Up and Running and Building Web Reputation Systems--New from O'ReillyO'Reilly has released two new books, "Google Wave: Up and Running" and "Building Web Reputation Systems".
Resources The full text of the proposed ACTA treatyThe Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a treaty being negotiated under strict secrecy; it seeks to impose a whole new set of "intellectual property" rules worldwide. Now, it seems, the full text of the treaty has been leaked; it can be found at swpat.org, where the process of transcribing the PDF file into searchable text is underway.
LCA videos availableVideo recordings for the linux.conf.au 2010 conference are available. LCA2010 was held from January 18-23, 2010 at the Wellington Convention Centre in Wellington, New Zealand. (Thanks to Scott Dowdle)
Transcript: Andrew Tridgell on Patent DefenceCiaran O'Riordan has made a transcript of Andrew Tridgell's LCA talk on Patent Defence.
Videos from the Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2009Videos of the talks from the 2009 Embedded Linux Conference Europe have been posted by the folks at Free Electrons. There would appear to be far more interesting material available than one can watch in a reasonable period of time.
Contests and Awards Free Software Award Winners AnnouncedThe Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced the winners of the annual free software awards. "The award for the Advancement of Free Software was won by John Gilmore. The award for Project of Social Benefit was won by the Internet Archive. The awards were presented by FSF president and founder Richard M. Stallman."
Calls for Presentations UKUUG - Open Tech 2010Open Tech 2010 is an informal conference to be held September 11, 2010 in London, UK. "OpenTech is as much about conversations in the bar, as it is sitting in sessions; what topics would you like to be discussed with a range of people? The best way of getting the OpenTech audience to think about the challenges you have is by sharing what they are and solutions you've already found: by offering a talk." The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2010.
1st Call For Papers, 17th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference 2010This year's annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2010) will be held October 11-15, 2010 in Chicago/Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, USA. Abstracts and proposals are due by August 1, 2010.
LinuxCon CFP Deadline is March 31The call for proposals for LinuxCon ends March 31,2010. LinuxCon North America 2010 takes place August 10-12, 2010 in Boston, MA, with several mini-summits taking place on August 9, 2010. "There will be three different categories for submissions: Developer (kernel, core development, software engineering), Operations (systems administration and management, systems architecture, Linux migration and deployment) and Business (open source governance, enterprise, ecosystem). Each of these groups plays a key role in the Linux community and we want to make sure that they are represented at LinuxCon. While we have a list of suggested topics for proposals, we invite the community to submit any creative and interesting topics that they think might be pertinent to the audience."
Upcoming Events Events: April 1, 2010 to May 31, 2010The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Miscellaneous Google EMEA conference grants for female computer scientistsAda Lovelace Day seems an appropriate one to note that Google is offering conference and travel grants for female computer scientists in the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, and Africa) region. Women can apply for a grant for eligible technical conferences and, if selected, will receive free conference registration and €300 for travel. Applicants are required to have a strong academic background and be working or studying Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a field closely related to that of the conference. (Thanks to Armijn Hemel).
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