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AnnouncementsBrief items 2010 Free Software Awards announcedThe FSF has announced the winners of its 2010 awards. The award for the advancement of free software went to Rob Savoye, currently the maintainer of the Gnash project. The award for "projects of social benefit" was given to the Tor project.
Google Summer of Code 2011 - mentoring organizations announcedGoogle has finalized the list of organizations participating in the 2011 Google Summer of Code. The list includes GNOME, KDE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Blender Foundation, Inkscape, and very many more. The student application period opens on March 28. See the timeline for other dates of interest.
The Linux Foundation Announces MeeGo TV Working GroupThe Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the MeeGo Smart TV Working Group. "Early Working Group participants include some of the most innovative thinkers in the Smart TV industry and represent leading service providers, system integrators, hardware platform manufacturers and solution providers that include: Amino Communications, Intel Corporation, JetHead Development, Locatel, MIPS Technologies, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Sigma Designs, Telecom Italia, Videon Central, and Ysten, among others. Working Group members will define software components and a compliance program as well as focus on building an innovative and thriving ecosystem of developers and content providers with leading capabilities and tools."
Microsoft sues Barnes and Noble over AndroidMicrosoft has announced the filing of a lawsuit against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn, and Inventec, alleging patent infringement in the Android-based Nook ebook reader. "The patents at issue cover a range of functionality embodied in Android devices that are essential to the user experience, including: natural ways of interacting with devices by tabbing through various screens to find the information they need; surfing the Web more quickly, and interacting with documents and e-books." Information on the specific patents involved is not yet available.Update: ZDNet has a list of the patents at issue.
Phipps: Board Meeting ReportOn the Open Source Initiative (OSI) blog, Simon Phipps reports on an OSI board meeting that appointed Karl Fogel, Jim Jagielski, and Mike Godwin to the board (replacing Russ Nelson and Danese Cooper who are leaving due to term limits, and adding an additional board seat). At the meeting, there was also movement toward more open governance for OSI. "This time the Board was able to reach agreement. OSI intends to move to a representative model, with open source communities of all kinds able to become members and participate in OSI's mission and governance directly. We decided the best approach was to offer a way for those communities to affiliate with OSI. The first step will be to change OSI's bylaws to permit entities other than the Board to participate in governance."
New Books Learning Android--New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly Media has released "Learning Android", by Marko Gargenta.
R Cookbook--New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly Media has released "R Cookbook", by Paul Teetor.
Contests and Awards O'Reilly Media and Fluidinfo Celebrate New Writable API with a ContestFluidinfo created a writable API for O'Reilly Media and to celebrate they are holding a contest "for developers to find creative new ways to use O'Reilly's metadata." The contest is only open to US residents. The grand prize is a full pass to the Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, including hotel and airfare.
Calls for Presentations Linux Plumbers Conference CFP open until April 30The Linux Plumbers Conference call for presentations is now open. Proposals need to be in by April 30 and the conference will be held September 7-9 in Santa Rosa, California. "A good topic will cut across community boundaries, and should generate vigorous discussion leading to beneficial change. One excellent example from a past LPC was "From Naught to Sixty in 5 Seconds" back in 2008. This topic involved a sizable fraction of the Linux-related software stack, and required coordinated changes to many components. It set the goal of booting a netbook in five seconds, and within a few months actually achieved a three-second boot. That said, talks describing lessons learned during an already-completed implementation effort are also welcome, as long as they are likely to generate good discussion and to help others avoid similar pitfalls in future implementation efforts."
SciPy 2011 Call for PapersSciPy 2011 is the 10th Python in Science conference, to be held July 11-16, 2011, in Austin, TX. The call for proposals is open, with tutorial proposals due April 15 and paper abstracts due by April 24.
Upcoming Events ELC 2011 program announcedThe Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) will be held April 11-13, 2011 in San Francisco, California. The schedule is available online.
OpenCms Days 2011 - Complete Conference Program AvailableOpenCms Days 2011 will take place May 9-10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany. The full conference program is available at their website.
O'Reilly Strata Conference Launches Online Component April 6O'Reilly Strata Online Conference is a web-based, three-part series that combines tutorials, panel discussions and case studies. The series starts April 6, 2011, with a session titled "Toward a Data-Driven Enterprise".
Events: March 31, 2011 to May 30, 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 Videos from ELC Europe 2010Video recordings of the talks given at the 2010 Embedded Linux Conference Europe are now available. "For the first time, they are all released in full HD resolution. We also switched to the VP8 video codec, which is the latest greatest Open Source and royalty free video codec."
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