Announcements

Brief items

OIN gets a set of web scripting patents

The Open Invention Network has announced that it has named Fred DuFresne as a "distinguished inventor" and acquired his patents related to WebMate Foundation, "a server-side scripting software that predates ASP from Microsoft, JSP from Sun/Oracle, and PHP from the open source community." One could imagine that patents reading on ASP and JSP might be useful in future disputes with the companies involved.

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LAC 2011 videos are available

The proceedings (including video recordings, slides and other material) from the recent Linux Audio Conference are available. "We'd like to thank all speakers and everyone who volunteered to make this an enjoyable event; in particular Frank Neumann, John Lato, Victor Lazzarini and special thanks to Jörn Nettingsmeier."

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Articles of interest

FSFE Newsletter - June 2011

Click below to see the June edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter.

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Samsung Delivers Galaxy S II to CyanogenMod Dev (Phandroid)

Phandroid has a brief article noting that Samsung has given a Galaxy S II phone to a CyanogenMod developer with the explicit purpose of facilitating a port. Donating a handset is an easy thing for a manufacturer to do, but the value of actively encouraging hacking on the device is great.

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Calls for Presentations

Call For Papers - PG-Day Denver 2011

PG-Day Denver will be held on September 17, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. "Each session will last 45 minutes, and may be on any topic related to PostgreSQL." The submission deadline is July 31.

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Upcoming Events

Linux Beer Hike

This year's annual Linux Beer Hike (LinuxBierWanderung aka LBW) will be held July 30 - August 6, 2011 in the village of Lanersbach in the Tux valley in Austria. "There is much to discover: glacier caves, waterfalls, marmots, pleasant pastures and even a summer ski resort for those who like to take to the pistes all year round. Tux also has a lot to offer in terms of food and drink: many delicious beers and hearty cuisine will fortify the participants and keep them all happy. Talks about Linux and Free and Open Source Software complete the programme."

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Events: June 16, 2011 to August 15, 2011

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
June 15 June 17	2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Portland, OR, USA
June 20 June 26	EuroPython 2011	Florence, Italy
June 21 June 24	Open Source Bridge	Portland, OR, USA
June 27 June 29	YAPC::NA	Asheville, NC, USA
June 29	Scilab conference 2011	Palaiseau, France
June 29 July 2	12º Fórum Internacional Software Livre	Porto Alegre, Brazil
July 9 July 14	Libre Software Meeting / Rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre	Strasbourg, France
July 11 July 12	PostgreSQL Clustering, High Availability and Replication	Cambridge, UK
July 11 July 15	Ubuntu Developer Week	online event,
July 11 July 16	SciPy 2011	Austin, TX, USA
July 15 July 17	State of the Map Europe 2011	Wien, Austria
July 17 July 23	DebCamp	Banja Luka, Bosnia
July 19	Getting Started with C++ Unit Testing in Linux	,
July 24 July 30	DebConf11	Banja Luka, Bosnia
July 25 July 29	OSCON 2011	Portland, OR, USA
July 30 July 31	PyOhio 2011	Columbus, OH, USA
July 30 August 6	Linux Beer Hike (LinuxBierWanderung)	Lanersbach, Tux, Austria
August 4 August 7	Wikimania 2011	Haifa, Israel
August 6 August 12	Desktop Summit	Berlin, Germany
August 10 August 12	USENIX Security ’11: 20th USENIX Security Symposium	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 10 August 14	Chaos Communication Camp 2011	Finowfurt, Germany
August 13 August 14	OggCamp 11	Farnham, UK

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