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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements KDE e.V. offers supporting membershipsKDE.News has the announcement that KDE e.V., the non-profit organization which supports KDE development, is seeking supporting members. "The goal of this programme is to get people more involved in the work of the e.V. - we will send supporting members quarterly reports, ask their opinions and in general keep them informed of our activities. They will also be able to attend the General Assembly of the e.V. membership at Akademy and follow the discussions (voting will remain a privilege of the core membership). Meanwhile, the money we receive will help us have a more sustainable financial basis and make us less dependent on a few generous supporters."
Commercial announcements The Linaro consortium debutsARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have announced the creation of a new nonprofit organization called Linaro which is aimed at helping the creation of mobile Linux-based systems. "Linaro will work with the growing number of Linux distributions to create regular releases of optimized tools and foundation software that can be used widely by the industry, increasing compatibility across semiconductors from multiple suppliers. As a result, Linaro's resources and open source solutions will allow device manufacturers to speed up development time, improve performance and reduce engineering time spent on non-differentiating, low-level software. Linux distributions, open source and proprietary software projects will benefit from Linaro's investment, with more stable code becoming widely available as a common base for innovation."
CTERA Networks announces Next3 File System for LinuxCTERA Networks has announced the availability of the Next3 file system for Linux. "Snapshots record the state of the file system at any given moment, creating a point-in-time copy of the data that can be used to restore previous versions of files. Versioning capabilities have been a key goal for storage systems, but until now no solution for Linux offered file-system level snapshots that made efficient use of disk space, stored snapshots reliably and maintained low performance overhead. For the first time, Next3 brings a free, GPL licensed file-system level snapshots solution for Linux users." LWN looked at Next3 back in May.
Legal Announcements WebM gets a new licenseGoogle has announced some changes in the licensing for the WebM codec. "Using patent language borrowed from both the Apache and GPLv3 patent clauses, in this new iteration of the the patent clause we've decoupled patents from copyright, thus preserving the pure BSD nature of the copyright license. This means we are no longer creating a new open source copyright license, and the patent grant can exist on its own. Additionally, we have updated the patent grant language to make it clearer that the grant includes the right to modify the code and give it to others."
Articles of interest Geist: The Canadian Copyright Bill: Flawed But FixableCanadian LWN readers may be interested in Michael Geist's blog post on the Copyright Modernization Act (or Bill C-32). "The one area where there is no compromise are the digital lock provisions. The prioritization of digital locks is the choice of the U.S. DMCA and is now the choice of the Canadian DCMA. In fact, the Canadian digital lock provisions are arguably worse than those found in the U.S., with fewer exceptions and greater difficulty to amend the rules. The Canadian DCMA provisions are virtually identical to the U.S. - a handful of hard-to-use exceptions, a ban on the distribution and marketing of devices (ie. software) that can be used to circumvent, and a presumption that any circumvention is an infringement." (Thanks to Barbara Irwin)
Contests and Awards Chris Lattner gets first SIGPLAN award for LLVM workThe Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages has announced that LLVM creator Chris Lattner has won its first "Programming Languages Software Award." "Lattner and Vikram Adve initially developed LLVM as a novel research infrastructure when Lattner was a member of Adve's research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Lattner went on to extend it into a powerful, widely adopted commercial-quality product. LLVM was released as an open source infrastructure in October 2003, and has since enjoyed popular adoption in the academic, commercial and open source worlds."
Education and Certification LPI and Ma3bar host Open Source "Train-the-Trainer" workshops for Middle EastThe Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has announced a series of GNU/Linux "Train-the-Trainer" workshops for Linux professionals from throughout the Middle East on June 9-12 and June 14-17, 2010.
Meeting Minutes GNOME Meeting Minutes Published - May 27, 2010Click below for the minutes of the May 27, 2010 meeting of the GNOME Foundation board. Topics include Women Outreach Program, LiMo and GTK+, Sysadmin job, Finances, Event Updates, ...
Calls for Presentations COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010 Call For ParticipantsThe organizing team of GNOME.Asia Summit has announced the call for participants. The event will be held August 14-15, 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan. The submission deadline is June 25, 2010.
Upcoming Events Events: June 17, 2010 to August 16, 2010The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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