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AnnouncementsBrief items The Document Foundation incorporatedThe Document Foundation was officially incorporated in Berlin, Germany. "André Schnabel, Chairman of the Membership Committee, stated the Foundation’s openness: “I am sure we will see the community prospering and growing even more, now that the legal entity has been created. Finally, after nearly 12 years, the community has created a Foundation that ideally fits to its needs, that is vendor-neutral, that provides safety, builds trust, and that sends out a strong sign of stability to all stakeholders. I would like to repeat our honest invitation to everyone interested in the future of free office suites, to join The Document Foundation, no matter if you are an individual volunteer, employee of a software vendor or support our activities with help from local non-profit organizations.”"
No more Flash for Firefox on LinuxAdobe has announced that its proprietary Flash plugin will be moving to a new "Pepper" API for interaction with the browser, leaving the old Netscape plugin API behind. "For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the 'Pepper' API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release."
Time zone database suit withdrawnHere's a press release from the Electronic Frontier Foundation announcing the end of Astrolabe's lawsuit against the managers of the time zone database and a covenant not to sue again in the future. "In a statement, Astrolabe said, 'Astrolabe's lawsuit against Mr. Olson and Mr. Eggert was based on a flawed understanding of the law. We now recognize that historical facts are no one's property and, accordingly, are withdrawing our Complaint. We deeply regret the disruption that our lawsuit caused for the volunteers who maintain the TZ database, and for Internet users.'"
Articles of interest Seigo: Spark pre-order registration is open!Aaron Seigo announces pre-registration for the Spark tablet, which is based on Mer OS and Plasma Active, on his blog. "Over the next two months we will be unveiling more and more about Make Play Live on the website. Fun things like the Spark logo and branding will be unveiled; but important information will also start to appear, such as how you can get involved as an app developer, how to join our logistics network on the retail side and further details on our long term roadmap. I'll of course keep you all in the loop here on my blog as things move forward. [...] Head on over to Make Play Live to register your interest now and help us spread the word around the 'net and amongst your friends. Together we can make Spark a terrific success and show the world how great an open device experience can be."
Event Reports ABS/ELC videos availableThe Linux Foundation has posted videos of the talks given at the 2012 Android Builders Summit and Embedded Linux Conference. While most of the talks are up, evidently they are still working on some of the videos; the remaining talks should appear shortly.
Upcoming Events Upcoming Debian Bug Squashing PartiesThe Debian Project has announced several Bug Squashing Parties (BSP) will take place in several countries. "The main focus of a Bug Squashing Party is to triage and fix bugs, but it is also an opportunity for users less familiar with the BTS to make other contributions to the Debian project, such as translating package descriptions or improving the wiki. Debian developers will be present to help contributors understand how the project works and to help get fixes into Debian."
Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek)The 14th Python Game Programming Challenge (PyWeek) will be heldUpdate: As this correction notes, the dates were wrong in the original (as reflected in the strike-through above).
PyCon DE 2012PyCon DE 2012 will be held in Leipzig, Germany October 29-November 3. "One tutorial day, three days with talks and two days with a barcamp and sprints will provide a variety of types to communicate about Python. There will be social events to give everybody ample opportunity to network with like-minded Pythonistas."
Events: February 23, 2012 to April 23, 2012The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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