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AnnouncementsBrief items Ada Initiative kicks off censusThe Ada Initiative has announced that it is taking a census on the status of women in open technology and culture. "'We want to know what women are working on and how each community's culture affects women,' said Ada Initiative co-founder Valerie Aurora. 'We also want to know where to direct our work in helping women in the community.'" [Update: As pointed out in the comments, the census is meant to be filled in by everyone, regardless of gender.]
Bdale Garbee Joins FreedomBox Foundation BoardBdale Garbee has joined the FreedomBox Foundation board of directors and will chair its technical advisory committee. "Garbee is a longtime leader and developer in the free software community. He serves as Chief Technologist for Open Source and Linux at Hewlett Packard, is chairman of the Debian Technical Committee, and is President of Software in the Public Interest, the non-profit organization that provides fiscal sponsorship for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and other projects. In 2002, he served as Debian Project Leader."
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Articles of interest Kuhn: Thoughts On GPL Compliance of Red Hat's Linux DistributionBradley M. Kuhn shares some thoughts about Red Hat's GPL compliance. "Meanwhile, what people are actually complaining about is that Red Hat RHEL customers have access to better meta-information about why various patches were applied. Some have argued (quite reasonably) that this information is required under GPLv2§2(a), but usually that section has been interpreted to allow a very terse changelog. [Jon] Corbet's original article mentioned that the Red Hat distribution of the kernel named Linux contains no changelog. I see why he said that, because it took me some time to find it myself (and an earlier version of the blog post was therefore incorrect on that point), but the src.rpm file does have what appears to be a changelog embedded in the kernel.spec file. There's also a simple summary as well that in release notes found in a separate src.rpm (in the file called kernel.xml). This material seems sufficient to me to meet the letter-of-the-license compliance for GPLv2§2(a) requirements. I, too, wish the log were a bit more readable and organized, but, again, the debate isn't about whether there's optimal community cooperation going on, but rather whether this distribution complies with the GPL."
PLUG And The Fender Mustang (Linux Journal)Dave Phillips gets a Fender Mustang amplifier and uses software from the PLUG project to control it. "PLUG is a simple Qt4-based application (Figure 4) that provides full control of the amplifier and effects stages of the Mustang I and II amps. It's not as flashy as Fender's software, but it weighs about 50 kilos less - no .NET or Silverlight required - and it does what it's designed to do without complications or crashes."
Qt and Digia, facts and fiction (Qt Blog)Sebastian Nyström separates fact from fiction regarding the future of Qt. "The Qt commercial business is important, but it is not the majority of Qt. An estimated 400,000 developers across more than 70 industries use Qt. There are 3500 commercial customers. Some have one license, some have dozens of licenses, but commercial customers do not make up the majority of the Qt user base. Nokia will continue to invest in the development of Qt, continues to hold the copyright and will continue to publish Qt under an open source license benefitting the whole community." (Thanks to Mats)
HP: The Linux Desktop Company (ZDNet)Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols covers HP's decision to ship PCs with WebOS. "Regardless of the PC's maker the idea is always the same: Give Windows users a really fast-to-boot and safe operating system that they can use for Web browsing. In part, that's what HP will be doing with webOS. It's more than that though. HP really wants webOS to be more than just an also-ran in the new tablet operating system world. Indeed, with this move HP has made it clear that wants to be a desktop operating system power as well."
Education and Certification LPI Hosts Exam Labs in Poland and GreeceThe Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has announced promotional exam labs for their Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) in Poland and Greece. "LPI exams have long been available in these countries through online vendors Prometric and VUE, however this is the first time that local events and affiliate partners have offered public LPI testing events in Poland and Greece."
Calls for Presentations Libre Graphics Meeting 2011 in MontrealLibre Graphics Meeting will be held May 10-13, 2011, in Montreal, Canada. "Every year, Libre Graphics Meeting focuses on individual and group interaction, emphasizing free media and the software that produces it. This year's attendees can expect a similar format that will include workshops, presentations, demonstrations, and birds-of-a-feather (BOF) sessions. Leading up to the conference, special lab sessions bring developers and artists face-to-face to make improvements in creative software. Gaps can form when developers and their users don't meet face to face; LGM gives artists and educators a voice in the building of their tools. Both content creators and developers will present, bringing a diverse community together to advance the technologies and strategies of high-quality free creative software." The call for proposals is open until April 1.
Upcoming Events Events: March 24, 2011 to May 23, 2011The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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