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AnnouncementsBrief items FSF announces new executive directorThe Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced the appointment of John Sullivan as its new executive director. "The appointment follows the departure of Peter T. Brown, who has been the Foundation's executive director since 2005. Brown shares his reflections on the change in a blog post at http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/peterb."
Nokia sells its Qt licensing business to DigiaNokia has announced that it is selling its Qt commercial licensing business to Digia. "We want to emphasize our long-term commitment to Qt. Nokia will drive Qt developments in support of our business needs and our investments in community building, marketing and R&D will continue to benefit all members of the Qt community. By introducing the up-coming open governance model we will also enable other companies, such as Digia, to more easily contribute to Qt, which will enrich Nokia investments in Qt and benefit and grow the Qt community as a whole."
Novell Reports Financial Results for First Fiscal Quarter 2011Novell has announced its financial results for the first fiscal quarter of 2011. "For the quarter, Novell reported net revenue of $191 million. This compares to net revenue of $202 million for the first fiscal quarter of 2010. GAAP income from operations for the first fiscal quarter of 2011 was $12 million. This compares to GAAP income from operations of $21 million for the first fiscal quarter of 2010."
Articles of interest 15 Must-Have Linux Desktop Apps (Datamation)Matt Hartley looks at 15 desktop applications for the Linux desktop. "Recently it was brought to my attention that all the desktop Linux hoopla in the world doesn't mean squat without compelling applications to get the end user interested. To address this need, I've rounded up fifteen powerful Linux applications that reflect the best that Linux has to offer the desktop user, both in and out of the enterprise environment."
Commitment to Open (Red Hat News)Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens responds to criticism of Red Hat's decision to ship its RHEL 6 kernel source as one big tarball. "Recently, Jonathan Corbet, respected kernel community member and editor at LWN, commented on our change in kernel RPM packaging. When we released RHEL 6 approximately four months ago, we changed the release of the kernel package to have all our patches pre-applied. Why did we make this change? To speak bluntly, the competitive landscape has changed. Our competitors in the Enterprise Linux market have changed their commercial approach from building and competing on their own customized Linux distributions, to one where they directly approach our customers offering to support RHEL. Frankly, our response is to compete."
Web Video Rivalry Sparks U.S. Probe (WSJ)The Wall Street Journal has posted an article stating that the MPEG LA is under investigation in the US for its attempt to build a patent pool to attack the VP8 codec. "The probe, which pits Google and open-source software advocates against some technology giants like Apple, could help determine whether anyone will own rights over the creation and broadcast of online video in the next major Web programming language, called HTML 5. At stake is 'who is going to have competitive clout in the world after television,' said Eben Moglin [sic], a Columbia University professor who supports free and open software."
Resources FSFE Newsletter - March 2011The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter for March covers Egypt's attempt to shut down the internet, FSFE's legal workshop, and several other topics.
Event Reports SCALE Report: SCALE 9X ends on a high noteThe SCALE team reports that last month's Southern California Linux Expo had record attendance. ""Because SCALE is the first large Linux and FOSS show in 2011, it serves as an indicator of how the year may go," said Orv Beach, the SCALE 9X publicity co-chair. "From what we've seen this weekend at SCALE, the upcoming months look very bright for FOSS.""
Upcoming Events The Linux Foundation Announces Keynotes for Annual Collaboration SummitThe Linux Foundation has announced the keynotes and the full program for this year's Collaboration Summit. The Summit takes place April 6-8, 2011 in San Francisco, California. "The Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit is the only event where a cross-section of leaders from the Linux developer, industry and end user communities meet face-to-face to tackle today's most pressing issues facing Linux, including technical development, legal topics, ISV porting and end user requirements. The Summit is an invitation-only event that caters to Linux Foundation members and workgroup contributors. It is designed to accelerate collaboration and problem solving by bringing key stakeholders together in a neutral setting."
LUGOD presents "Full Scale Flight Simulators"The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding a meeting on March 21, 2011 with a presentation by John Wojnaroski, Chief Engineer, LFS Technologies, Inc. on "Full Scale Flight Simulators". "LFS Technologies has developed a suite of hardware, electronics, and software that has been integrated with open source projects such as FlightGear flight simulator, JSBSim flight dynamics model, and OpenSceneGraph. The preferred platform is a Linux-based PC with the real-time extensions provided by RTAI/Xenomai."
PgEast 2011: Session Schedule Up, registration openPgEast, the PostgreSQL Conference for Developers, End Users and Decision Makers, will take place March 22-25, 2011, in New York City. "This year we will be continuing our trend of covering the entire PostgreSQL ecosystem as well as bringing in some friends from a slightly different world, NoSQL. 10gen, the creators of MongoDB are running a track through the entire three days and also hosting a full day training on their database!"
PyWeek 12 is registration is openRegistration is open for the 12th Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek), which takes place April 3-10, 2011.
Events: March 17, 2011 to May 16, 2011The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs Video of Mark Pesce's LCA keynote availableThe video from Mark Pesce's controversial linux.conf.au keynote has now been posted. The LCA organizers have put a warning and apology at the beginning, but have not otherwise edited the talk.
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