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AnnouncementsArticles of interest LibreOffice developers demo collaborative editing prototype (ars technica)Ryan Paul takes a quick look at experimental collaborative editing capabilities in LibreOffice. "Telepathy is an open source instant messaging framework that supports multiple protocols. One of the key features of Telepathy is that it allows instant messaging protocols to be used as a medium for arbitrary communication between applications, like a form of real-time network IPC. Building LibreOffice's collaborative editing features on top of Telepathy eliminates the need to operate special servers for the purpose."
FSFE: Fellowship Interview with Guido GüntherThe Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe has an interview with Guido Günther. "Guido Günther joined the Debian Project while completing his degree in physics at the University of Konstanz. He helped with development of Debian for new processor architectures, and co-initiated Debian’s Groupware Meetings. He also enjoys contributing to the GNOME project, and advanced Free Software virtualisation technologies. He works as a professional Free Software developer and consultant."
Enforcing the GPL with Judo moves (The H)The H has posted a lengthy article about GPL enforcement inspired by the discussions from earlier this year. "Behind the the headline stories of litigation lies a calmer reality, where the great majority of companies who are notified by SFC or gpl-violations.org are happy to comply without a fuss, because the software works for them, and gives them reductions in cost, speed to market, collaborative opportunities and access to high quality code."
Nonprofit open source organizations booming (ITworld)Over at ITworld, Brian Proffitt looks into revenue and salaries at various open source non-profit organizations. "With a revenue of $1,934,659, the Mozilla Foundation ranked fourth of the eighteen FLOSS-related non-profits researched for this report. But with a net cash flow loss of $1,333,815 for the 2010 fiscal year, the Mozilla Foundation was next to last on money lost for the year. [...] All of this information was obtained from the Federal income tax forms all U.S. non-profits are required to file with the IRS. Specifically, Form 990 (or the 990-EZ when applicable). Thirteen of the non-profits have publicly available information for their 2010 fiscal years, with the other five's information only up to date to their respective 2009 fiscal years."
Prometheus bound: An important precedent for the next software patent case (opensource.com)Red Hat's assistant general counsel Rob Tiller writes about the implications of a recent US Supreme Court decision in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. [PDF]. He looks at the possible impact on software patent decisions down the road. "It also seems noteworthy that the Mayo Court outlined a balanced view of the patent system that took account of the risks it can pose for innovation. It wrote, 'Patent protection is, after all, a two-edged sword. On the one hand, the promise of exclusive rights provides monetary incentives that lead to creation, invention, and discovery. On the other hand, that very exclusivity can impede the flow of information that might permit, indeed spur, invention, by, for example, raising the price of using the patented ideas once created, requiring potential users to conduct costly and time-consuming searches of existing patents and pending patent applications, and requiring the negotiation of complex licensing arrangements.'"
Contests and Awards 1&1 Internet AG receives German Document Freedom Award1&1, GMX and WEB.DE have received the German Document Freedom Award for the use of Open Standards. "The prize is awarded by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure e.V. (FFII). 1&1 is awarded for automatically adding XMPP for all customers of their mail services. The Document Freedom Award is awarded annually on the occasion of Document Freedom Day - the international day for Open Standards. Last years winners include tagesschau.de, Deutschland Radio, and the German Foreign Office."
Calls for Presentations Linux Plumbers Conference call for proposalsThe Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) will be held August 29-31, 2012 in San Diego, California. The Planning Committee for LPC has announced a call for refereed-track proposals. "Refereed-track presentations are about 45 minutes in length, and should focus on a specific aspect of the "plumbing" in the Linux system. The Linux system's plumbing includes kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing systems, management tools, media creation/playback, and so on."
Upcoming Events sambaXP 2012: Samba 4 and AD for Linuxsamba eXPerience 2012 will take place May 8-11 in Göttingen, Germany. "This year's event is about CIFS, clustering and directories again - but with the difference that the first releases of Samba 4 is available in real business offerings: A Samba 4 ready Debian is available at SerNet for free."
OpenCms Days 2012 - Conference and ExpoOpenCms Days 2012 will take place September 24-25 in Cologne, Germany. "This year's conference motto is "OpenCms 8 – Experiences, Possibilities, Potentials". This 4th annual gathering of OpenCms users will focus on success stories and projects based on OpenCms 8. Experts from all around the world will share their experiences with this latest OpenCms release. Alkacon will also unveil Version 8.5 of its successful open source website content management system OpenCms which will contain several enhancements."
Events: March 29, 2012 to May 28, 2012The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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