Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Apache on participation in the JCP

The Apache Software Foundation board has issued a statement on its participation in the Java Community process. In particular, the organization is getting increasingly frustrated with its inability to gain access to the TCK test kit. "The ASF will terminate its relationship with the JCP if our rights as implementers of Java specifications are not upheld by the JCP Executive Committee to the limits of the EC's ability. The lack of active, strong and clear enforcement of those rights implies that the JSPA agreements are worthless, confirming that JCP specifications are nothing more than proprietary documentation."

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New Books

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages" by Bruce A. Tate.

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Resources

FSFE : Newsletter November 2011

The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter for November is out. "This edition explains how we counter the lobby work of proprietary organisations at the European level, what we do at the United Nations level to inform more people about the dangers of software patents, what we are doing to get rid of non-free software advertisement on public websites, and what you can do to make a change."

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Contests and Awards

Icelandic developer receives Nordic Free Software Award

The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced that Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson has received the Nordic Free Software Award. "Einarsson has been a leading figure in Iceland's Free Software movement for more than a decade. He has been driving the country's Free Software and free culture community, founding and participating in various groups such as Vinix, contributing to the KDE project, and starting netverjar.is, an organisation fighting for civil rights on the Internet."

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Calls for Presentations

CFP Now Open: Free Java @ FOSDEM 2011

There will be a Free Java Developer Room at FOSDEM 2011 (February 5-6, 2011). The Call For Participation for the dev room sessions is open until December 3, 2010.

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SCALE 9x Call for Papers

The call for papers for SCALE 9x (Southern California Linux Expo) is open until December 13, 2010. The conference takes place in Los Angeles, California, February 25-27, 2011.

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Upcoming Events

FOSS.IN/2010: Final List of Selected Talks

FOSS.IN (December 15-17, 2010 in Bangalore, India) has finalized the list of selected talks & mini-confs.

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Events: November 18, 2010 to January 17, 2011

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
November 18 November 21	Piksel10	Bergen, Norway
November 20 November 21	OpenFest - Bulgaria's biggest Free and Open Source conference	Sofia, Bulgaria
November 20 November 21	Kiwi PyCon 2010	Waitangi, New Zealand
November 20 November 21	WineConf 2010	Paris, France
November 23 November 26	DeepSec	Vienna, Austria
November 24 November 26	Open Source Developers' Conference	Melbourne, Australia
November 27	Open Source Conference Shimane 2010	Shimane, Japan
November 27	12. LinuxDay 2010	Dornbirn, Austria
November 29 November 30	European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event	Torino, Italy
December 4	London Perl Workshop 2010	London, United Kingdom
December 6 December 8	PGDay Europe 2010	Stuttgart, Germany
December 11	Open Source Conference Fukuoka 2010	Fukuoka, Japan
December 13 December 18	SciPy.in 2010	Hyderabad, India
December 15 December 17	FOSS.IN/2010	Bangalore, India
January 16 January 22	PyPy Leysin Winter Sprint	Leysin, Switzerland

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