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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Women in free software: Recommendations from the Women's CaucusLast September, the Free Software Foundation held a mini-summit to investigate ways to increase the participation by women in the free software community. Four separate "findings and recommendations" from the Women's Caucus that was formed at the summit have been published today. "Not enough young women are being exposed to free software. Middle school and high school are when girls potentially have the time and interest to tinker and try new things, but all too often access to public computers means running proprietary software. The Caucus is working on a plan to get free software into girls' hands, teach them how to use it and how to get the most out of free software." Click below for the full announcement.
FSFE Welcomes New 'Software Interactions' Document From The European, Legal NetworkThe Free Software Foundation Europe has announced the release of a new educational document on Free Software licensing. "Developed by delegates of the European Legal Network, the document helps software developers and lawyers by making it easier to decide under which licenses they can distribute their work."
Articles of interest Mozilla Would Like to Pick Your Brain - Revising the MPL (Groklaw)Here's a Groklaw article on the update to the Mozilla Public License and license updates in general. "What I'm trying to express is simply this: it's time to seriously focus on license drafting. The purpose of lawyers is to protect your interests, to draft language that looks down the road a piece and tries to head off troubles. I think after SCO and the toy train case, we can assume there will be troubles. It would be derelict not to let the lawyers do what they do best and protect us. I know what some of you are feeling right now: sad. I feel it too. The community was built on trust, and I'm saying that now it can't be like that totally any more."
Kuhn: At Least Motorola Admits ItOn his blog, Bradley M. Kuhn looks at Motorola's decision to lock-down its Droid X and Droid 2 phones. "I appreciate the fact that [Motorola's Lori] Fraleigh and Motorola are honest in their disdain for software developers. Unlike Apple — who tries to hide how developer-unfriendly its mobile platform is — Motorola readily admits that they seek to leave developers as helpless as possible, refusing to share the necessary tools that developers need to upgrade devices and to improve themselves, their community, and their software. Companies like Motorola and Apple both seek to squelch the healthy hacker tendency to make technology better for everyone." A related issue to ponder is the report that the Droid X will turn into an expensive brick if you try to change its firmware.
Neary: Rotten to the (Open) Core?Dave Neary steps into the open core debate on his blog. Part of the problem is that people have divergent definitions of open core, he says. "There is another name for this which is even more pejorative, Crippleware. Deliberately hobbled software. And that's what I think gets people riled up — if you're releasing something as free software, then there should at least be the pretence that you are giving the community the opportunity to fend for itself — even if that is by providing an "unofficial" git tree where the community can code up GPL features competing with your commercial offering, or a nice forum for people to share templates, themes and extensions and fend for themselves. But what gets people riled is hearing a company call themselves "an Open Source company" when most of the users of their "open source" product do not have software freedom. It's disingenuous, and it is indeed brand dilution."
New Books Advanced Qt Programming"Advanced Qt Programming" by Mark Summerfield is available from Prentice Hall.
Hello, Android, Third Edition--New from Pragmatic BookshelfThe Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Hello, Android", Introducing Google's Mobile Development Platform, third edition, by Ed Burnette.
Calls for Presentations linux.conf.au 2011 CFP opensThe Call for Papers for the 2011 edition of linux.conf.au has opened. The conference will be held January 24-29 in Brisbane, Australia. The CFP is open until August 7; more information can be found on the papers page. "The theme of this years conference is 'follow the flow'. The warm and friendly river-side Brisbane will be hosting the best linux.conf.au ever. What does the theme 'follow the flow mean'? It is about the growing movement of open source, whether its down at the kernel level or over in libre graphics."
3rd Call For Papers, 17th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference 2010The call for papers for this year's Tcl/Tk Conference is open until August 1, 2010. The conference takes place October 11-15, 2010 in Chicago/Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, USA.
UTOSC 2010 Call for papers extended through August 1stThe call for papers for the Utah Open Source Conference has been extended until August 1, 2010. The conference takes place October 7-9, 2010 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Upcoming Events DrupalCon CopenhagenThe Drupal Association will be hosting European DrupalCon 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 23-27. Dries Buytaert, the project's founder will be giving his regular 'State of Drupal' update as one of the event's keynote presentations. More program information can be found here.
FOSS4G 2010FOSS4G 2010 will be held in Barcelona, Spain, September 6-9, 2010. Abstracts and Presentations have been posted.
Events: July 29, 2010 to September 27, 2010The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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