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AnnouncementsBrief items Boot to Gecko phones coming in 2013Mozilla Corporation has announced plans for the first set of phone handsets to be built using its "Boot to Gecko" technology. "Device manufacturers TCL Communication Technology (under the Alcatel One Touch brand) and ZTE today announced their intentions to manufacture the first devices to feature the new Firefox OS, using Snapdragon processors from Qualcomm Incorporated, the leader in smartphone platforms. The first Firefox OS powered devices are expected to launch commercially in Brazil in early 2013 through Telefónica’s commercial brand, Vivo."
Articles of interest Controversial anti-piracy agreement rejected by EU (BBC)The BBC reports that the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (ACTA) has been rejected by the European Parliament. "Wednesday's vote is seen by most observers as the final blow to the treaty in its current form. It means no member states will be able to join the agreement. A total of 478 MEPs voted against the deal, with 39 in favour. There were 165 abstentions."
Harihareswara: Be Bold: An Origin Story"Be Bold: An Origin Story" is the title of a keynote address by Sumana Harihareswara at the Open Source Bridge conference. She has shared her notes for the talk on how she became an open source contributor. "One of the greatest gifts you can give your children, your employees, the people to whom you are a role model, is the knowledge that some field of endeavor is in a sense No Big Deal. Knowledge -- belief backed up by experience -- that they can do interesting and rewarding projects in it without fear of public embarrassment. I grew up thinking that writing, editing, publishing, public speaking, and community leadership were No Big Deal. I use these lessons in my open source work all the time. We know how to do this."
FSFE Newsletter - July 2012The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter for July is available. Topics include secure boot, European Court of Justice fines Microsoft, OpenRelief, and more.
Free Software Supporter -- Issue 51, June 2012The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released Issue 51 of it's monthly newsletter. This edition looks at ACTA, software patents in Europe, Secure Boot, GNU GPLv3 turns 5, and several other topics.
New Books The Art of Community, 2nd Edition--New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly Media has released "The Art of Community, 2nd Edition" by Jono Bacon.
Mobile JavaScript Application Development--New from O'Reilly MediaO'Reilly Media has released "Mobile JavaScript Application Development" by Adrian Kosmaczewski.
Calls for Presentations 14th Real Time Linux Workshop - 2nd Call for PapersThe 2012 Real Time Linux Workshop will be held October 18-20 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The call for papers will be open until July 23. "Authors from regulatory bodies, academics, industry as well as the user-community are invited to submit original work dealing with general topics related to Open Source and Free Software based real-time systems research, experiments and case studies, as well as issues of integration of open-source real-time and embedded OS. A special focus will be on industrial case studies and safety related systems."
Upcoming Events Elizabeth Garbee to Keynote at OhioLinuxFest 2012The OhioLinuxFest has announced that Elizabeth Garbee will be a keynote speaker at this year's event. OhioLinuxFest takes place September 28-30, 2012 in Columbus, Ohio. "Elizabeth is a second-year undergraduate student who is part of a pulsar astronomy research team at Oberlin College in the US, with a long history of involvement in the open source community. She installed her first Debian machine (with some help!) at age 9 - since then, her main computing interest has been digital art, when she isn't serving as a revision control goddess and programmer for her research team. She is a frequent speaker at Linux conferences, and spoke last year at Linux Conf Australia. She last spoke at Ohio LinuxFest in 2008."
Events: July 5, 2012 to September 3, 2012The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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