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AnnouncementsBrief items Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit 2012 | Slides & VideoThe Linux Foundation (LF) has released slides and videos from the recent LF Collaboration Summit.
New version of MapOSMatic, an OpenStreetMap-based service to render city mapsMapOSMatic is a free software web service that renders printable city maps from OpenStreetMap data. The latest version introduces several new features including the ability to render poster maps on large standard paper and make multi-page maps. MapOSMatic is distributed under the terms of the Affero General Public License v3.
Articles of interest Paoli: Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communitiesJean Paoli has a weblog post announcing Microsoft's new wholly owned subsidiary known as Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. "The subsidiary provides a new way of engaging in a more clearly defined manner. This new structure will help facilitate the interaction between Microsoft’s proprietary development processes and the company’s open innovation efforts and relationships with open source and open standards communities."
FSFE: vendor lock-in in HelsinkiThe Free Software Foundation Europe looks at a report on the City of Helsinki's pilot project for the use of OpenOffice in the public administration. Although the office suite had high approval ratings the city's report concludes that the migration costs are too expensive. ""The City's report claims that it would cost EUR 3.4 million per year to run OpenOffice. This figure appears surprisingly high, and the report does not say how it was calculated," says Otto Kekäläinen", Finland coordinator of the Free Software Foundation Europe. "Without details, this figure seems baseless." Apparently, Helsinki's administration did not even contact major OpenOffice service providers to ask for their prices when preparing the report."
New Books Head First C -- New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly Media has released "Head First C" by David Griffiths and Dawn Griffiths.
Calls for Presentations Linux Security Summit 2012 - Announcement and CFPThe Linux Security Summit will be held August 30-31 in conjunction with LinuxCon North America in San Diego, CA. The call for participation is open until May 23. The program committee is looking for proposals in the following topic areas: System hardening, Access control, Cryptography, Integrity control, Hardware security, Networking, Storage, Virtualization, Desktop, Tools, Management, Case studies, and Emerging technologies, threats & techniques (though other security-related topics are encouraged as well).
Registration is open for DebConf12DebConf12 will take place July 8-14, 2012 in Managua, Nicaragua. As usual DebConf will be preceded by DebCamp (July 1-7). Registration and the call for papers are open. The CfP closes June 1.
Upcoming Events OSCON announced and registration openOSCON 2012 will take place July 16-20 in Portland, Oregon. Early bird discounts end on May 3.
Events: April 19, 2012 to June 18, 2012The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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