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The September edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter
covers the Nordic Free Software Award, Software Freedom Day, and more.
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Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, died
at his home in Urbana, Illinois on September 6. " On July 4, 1971, Hart tried out a new idea of his: typing the text of the Declaration of Independence on a computer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He made the text available to other computer users, and then to other network users, and he soon began entering more texts. As the project grew in usefulness, volunteers from around the world pitched in to research, scan, type, and proofread everything from Montaigne's complete essays to the P.G. Wodehouse comic masterpiece My Man Jeeves. (This being the Internet, the most popular title right now is the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana.)"
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Bloomberg reports
that Google has transferred some of its recently-acquired patents to HTC,
which has turned around and immediately sued Apple for infringement of
those patents. " The nine patents originated with Palm Inc., Motorola
Inc. and Openwave Systems Inc., with Google taking ownership within the
past year, according to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office records. Mountain
View, California-based Google recorded transfer of the patents to HTC on
Sept. 1, according to the agency's website."
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The H has an
extended interview with Jeremy Allison. " People were
sloppy. Code was sloppy, and it can't be that any more. Again, this is the
same for proprietary software. If you're writing something simple just to
test something out, you can throw it together with a minimum of fuss. But
as soon as you have to write something that people depend on - and Samba is
in that situation, there is a massive amount of work and infrastructure
that has to be in place."
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New Books
Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Programming Concurrency on the JVM" by
Venkat Subramaniam.
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Upcoming Events
PyCon Argentina takes place September 23-24 in Junín, Buenos Aires,
Argentina.
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PyCon Finland takes place October 17-18 in Turku. " At PyCon Finland
you'll find out what's going on in the Python world right now. The
conference spans two days: first day is for talks and the second day for
tutorials and sprints. There will be great speakers from Finland as well as
from abroad, and you'll have an excellent chance to get to know the Finnish
Python scene! Conference is both for people new to Python as well as for
people with superior Python skills!"
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Google is hosting GitTogether, a conference for Git users and developers,
on October 24-25 in Mountain View, CA. Space is limited.
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Events: September 15, 2011 to November 14, 2011
The following event listing is taken from the
LWN.net Calendar.
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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 29 |
Nagios World Conference North America 2011 |
Saint Paul, MN, USA |
September 27
September 30 |
PostgreSQL Conference West |
San Jose, CA, 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 |
PHP North West Conference |
Manchester, UK |
| October 8 |
FLOSSUK / UKUUG's 2011 Unconference |
Manchester, UK |
October 8
October 9 |
PyCon Ireland 2011 |
Dublin, Ireland |
October 8
October 9 |
Pittsburgh Perl Workshop 2011 |
Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
October 8
October 10 |
GNOME "Boston" Fall Summit 2011 |
Montreal, QC, Canada |
October 9
October 11 |
Android Open |
San Francisco, CA, USA |
| October 11 |
PLUG Talk: Rusty Russell |
Perth, Australia |
October 12
October 15 |
LibreOffice Conference |
Paris, France |
| October 14 |
Workshop Packaging BlankOn |
Jakarta , Indonesia |
October 14
October 16 |
MediaWiki Hackathon New Orleans |
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA |
| October 15 |
Packaging Debian Class BlankOn |
Surabaya, Indonesia |
October 17
October 18 |
PyCon Finland 2011 |
Turku, Finland |
October 18
October 21 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe |
Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
October 19
October 21 |
13th German Perl Workshop |
Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
October 19
October 21 |
Latinoware 2011 |
Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil |
October 20
October 22 |
13th Real-Time Linux Workshop |
Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 21 |
PG-Day Denver 2011 |
Denver, CO, USA |
October 21
October 23 |
PHPCon Poland 2011 |
Kielce, Poland |
October 23
October 25 |
Kernel Summit |
Prague, Czech Republic |
October 24
October 25 |
GitTogether 2011 |
Mountain View, CA, USA |
October 24
October 25 |
GStreamer Conference 2011 |
Prague, Czech Republic |
October 24
October 28 |
18th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2011) |
Manassas, Virgina, USA |
October 26
October 28 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe |
Prague, Czech Republic |
October 26
October 28 |
LinuxCon Europe 2011 |
Prague, Czech Republic |
October 28
October 30 |
MiniDebConf Mangalore India |
Mangalore, India |
| October 29 |
buildroot + crosstool-NG Developers' Day |
Prague, Czech Republic |
October 31
November 4 |
Ubuntu Developer Summit |
Orlando, FL, USA |
October 31
November 4 |
Linux on ARM: Linaro Connect Q4.11 |
Orlando, FL, USA |
November 1
November 3 |
oVirt Workshop and Initial Code Release |
San Jose, CA, USA |
November 1
November 8 |
2011 Plone Conference |
San Francisco, CA, USA |
November 4
November 6 |
Fedora Users and Developer's Conference : India 2011 |
Pune, India |
November 4
November 6 |
Mozilla Festival -- Media, Freedom and the Web |
London, United Kingdom |
November 5
November 6 |
Technical Dutch Open Source Event |
Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
November 5
November 6 |
OpenFest 2011 |
Sofia, Bulgaria |
November 7
November 11 |
ApacheCon NA 2011 |
Vancouver, Canada |
November 8
November 12 |
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing |
Portland, Oregon, USA |
November 10
November 12 |
Clojure/conj 2011 |
Raleigh, NC, USA |
November 11
November 12 |
Zentyal Summit |
Zaragoza , Spain |
November 11
November 13 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit 2011 |
Gothenburg, Sweden |
| November 12 |
London Perl Workshop 2011 |
London, United-Kingdom |
| November 12 |
Emacsforum 2011 |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
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