Announcements
Articles of interest
MPEG LA: 12 companies own patents essential to Google's VP8 codec (ars technica)
Ars technica reports on "progress" in forming a WebM/VP8 patent pool. Twelve companies have submitted an unknown number of patents that MPEG LA (the MPEG licensing authority) has deemed essential to implementing Google's currently royalty-free video codec. "With so many companies submitting patents of their own to MPEG LA, formation of a patent pool becomes much more likely, and the chance that WebM will retain its royalty-free position shrinks accordingly. That isn't yet a foregone conclusion, however—though the companies have come forward and made initial submissions, they may decide that it's not worth forming a patent pool for some reason. Even if they do, the decision to enforce their patents against VP8 users is separate; MPEG LA doesn't enforce patents (it has sued companies, but for breach of contract, not patent infringement), and so it would be up to the individual members of the pool to take legal action against infringers."
Bob Young on Lulu and collaborative innovation (Opensource.com)
Opensource.com has an interview with Red Hat co-founder Bob Young (now founder and CEO of Lulu) in two parts (1, 2). In it, he discusses collaboration and how it is actually a natural part of our society; the same is true in many industries. From part 1: "The reason you can walk down the street and not be mugged is because we default to thinking if we were robbed, the police would put the robber in jail. But the reason we can walk down the street and not worry for our safety is not that there's a policeman on every corner--there isn't. It's because it's in my interest to enable you to walk down the street safely, and it's in your interest to make sure I can walk down the street safely. So if somebody tries to mug you, the real problem is the other people on the street. You have terrible stories where people stood around watching, but those are the exceptions."
New Books
Advanced Software Testing, Vol. 3--New from Rocky Nook
Rocky Nook has released "Advanced Software Testing -- Vol. 3" by Rex Black and Jamie L Mitchell.
Education and Certification
LPI Joins ITCC "TechCertRegistry"
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has announced that they are joining the Information Technology Certification Council's "TechCertRegistry". "This service is a first-of-its-kind Web-based credential registry for the IT industry and allows IT candidates, certification program managers and employers, to aggregate, validate and verify IT credentials from participating members."
Upcoming Events
PyCon DE 2011 - Registration is Open
PyCon DE takes place October 4-9, 2011 in Leipzig, Germany. Registration is now open.PyCon 2012
The PyCon staff and Python Software Foundation have announced the launch of PyCon 2012. The conference will take place in Santa Clara, California, from March 7-15, 2012. There will be two days of tutorials (March 7-8), followed by three days of talks (March 9-11) and will wrap up with 4 days of sprints (March 12-15).Events: August 11, 2011 to October 10, 2011
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| August 15 August 16 |
KVM Forum 2011 | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| August 15 August 17 |
YAPC::Europe 2011 Modern Perl | Riga, Latvia |
| August 17 August 19 |
LinuxCon North America 2011 | Vancouver, Canada |
| August 20 August 21 |
PyCon Australia | Sydney, Australia |
| August 20 August 21 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters | Tapei, Taiwan |
| August 22 August 26 |
8th Netfilter Workshop | Freiburg, Germany |
| August 23 | Government Open Source Conference | Washington, DC, USA |
| August 25 August 28 |
EuroSciPy | Paris, France |
| August 25 August 28 |
GNU Hackers Meeting | Paris, France |
| August 26 | Dynamic Language Conference 2011 | Edinburgh, United-Kingdom |
| August 27 August 28 |
Kiwi PyCon 2011 | Wellington, New Zealand |
| August 27 | PyCon Japan 2011 | Tokyo, Japan |
| August 27 | SC2011 - Software Developers Haven | Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| August 30 September 1 |
Military Open Source Software (MIL-OSS) WG3 Conference | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| September 6 September 8 |
Conference on Domain-Specific Languages | Bordeaux, France |
| September 7 September 9 |
Linux Plumbers' Conference | Santa Rosa, CA, USA |
| September 8 | Linux Security Summit 2011 | Santa Rosa, CA, USA |
| September 8 September 9 |
Italian Perl Workshop 2011 | Turin, Italy |
| September 8 September 9 |
Lua Workshop 2011 | Frick, Switzerland |
| September 9 September 11 |
State of the Map 2011 | Denver, Colorado, USA |
| September 9 September 11 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2011 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| September 10 September 11 |
PyTexas 2011 | College Station, Texas, USA |
| September 10 September 11 |
SugarCamp Paris 2011 - "Fix Sugar Documentation!" | Paris, France |
| September 11 September 14 |
openSUSE Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| September 12 September 14 |
X.Org Developers' Conference | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| September 14 September 16 |
Postgres Open | Chicago, IL, USA |
| September 14 September 16 |
GNU Radio Conference 2011 | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| September 15 | Open Hardware Summit | New York, NY, USA |
| September 16 | LLVM European User Group Meeting | London, United Kingdom |
| September 16 September 18 |
Creative Commons Global Summit 2011 | Warsaw, Poland |
| September 16 September 18 |
Pycon India 2011 | Pune, India |
| September 18 September 20 |
Strange Loop | St. Louis, MO, USA |
| September 19 September 22 |
BruCON 2011 | Brussels, Belgium |
| September 22 September 25 |
Pycon Poland 2011 | Kielce, Poland |
| September 23 September 24 |
Open Source Developers Conference France 2011 | Paris, France |
| September 23 September 24 |
PyCon Argentina 2011 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| September 24 September 25 |
PyCon UK 2011 | Coventry, UK |
| September 27 September 30 |
PostgreSQL Conference West | San Jose, CA, USA |
| September 27 September 29 |
Nagios World Conference North America 2011 | Saint Paul, MN, USA |
| September 29 October 1 |
Python Brasil [7] | São Paulo, Brazil |
| September 30 October 3 |
Fedora Users and Developers Conference: Milan 2011 | Milan, Italy |
| October 1 October 2 |
WineConf 2011 | Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| October 1 October 2 |
Big Android BBQ | Austin, TX, USA |
| October 3 October 5 |
OpenStack "Essex" Design Summit | Boston, MA, USA |
| October 4 October 9 |
PyCon DE | Leipzig, Germany |
| October 6 October 9 |
EuroBSDCon 2011 | Netherlands |
| October 7 October 9 |
Linux Autumn 2011 | Kielce, Poland |
| October 7 October 10 |
Open Source Week 2011 | Malang, Indonesia |
| October 8 October 9 |
PyCon Ireland 2011 | Dublin, Ireland |
| October 8 October 9 |
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2011 | Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| October 8 | PHP North West Conference | Manchester, UK |
| October 8 October 10 |
GNOME "Boston" Fall Summit 2011 | Montreal, QC, Canada |
| October 8 | FLOSSUK / UKUUG's 2011 Unconference | Manchester, UK |
| October 9 October 11 |
Android Open | San Francisco, CA, USA |
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