Announcements

Brief items

FSFE wants to better protect free software licenses from bankruptcy

The Free Software Foundation Europe is working on an interesting problem: what happens to free software licenses when the rights holder goes bankrupt? The organization currently is pushing a change to German bankruptcy law in particular: "The clause ensures that Free Software licensing model would not be negatively affected by a bankruptcy of a licensing rights holder. It makes it clear that any offer to grant Free Software license made before the licensor's bankruptcy can be accepted by anyone even after the bankruptcy proceedings started."

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Articles of interest

Free Software Supporter -- Issue 52, July 2012

The July edition of the Free Software Foundation's monthly newsletter covers the winner of the Restricted Boot webcomic contest, an update to the Guide to DRM-free Living, Compliance Lab, the solution to Posner's patent problem, a 5-part interview with Richard Stallman on Restricted Boot, and several other topics.

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New Books

Think Like a Programmer--New from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has released "Think Like a Programmer" by V. Anton Spraul.

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Learning Rails 3 -- New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media has released "Learning Rails 3" by Simon St. Laurent, Edd Dumbill and Eric J Gruber.

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Calls for Presentations

PyCon UK Call for Papers

PyCon UK will take place September 28 - October 1, 2012 in Coventry, West Midlands, UK. The call for papers is open until August 14. "If you would like to share your expertise, tell us your horror stories or pimp your project, please consider giving a talk at PyConUK."

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Call for Papers: PyHPC 2012

PyHPC will take place November 16 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The call for papers closes September 14. It will be held in conjunction with the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC12).

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Upcoming Events

LPC microconference topics announced

The Linux Plumbers Conference (August 29-31, San Diego) has posted a detailed agenda showing the topics to be covered this year. "As you can see we have a wide range of issues to tackle and this year’s Linux Plumbers Conference is shaping up to be a great event." The early registration period is also about to come to an end.

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LPI Forum in Warsaw, Poland

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and its affiliate, LPI-Central Europe, will host a forum for Linux professionals on September 28, 2012, in Warsaw, Poland. "The forum will feature speakers on a number of technology subjects including Free and Open Source Software solutions, professional skills development, IT innovation and entrepreneurship, lifelong learning, Linux certification and the workforce development of Linux and Open Source professionals."

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Events: August 2, 2012 to October 1, 2012

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
August 3 August 4	Texas Linux Fest	San Antonio, TX, USA
August 8 August 10	21st USENIX Security Symposium	Bellevue, WA, USA
August 18 August 19	PyCon Australia 2012	Hobart, Tasmania
August 20 August 21	Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters	Taipei, Taiwan
August 20 August 22	YAPC::Europe 2012 in Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt/Main, Germany
August 25	Debian Day 2012 Costa Rica	San José, Costa Rica
August 27 August 28	GStreamer conference	San Diego, CA, USA
August 27 August 28	XenSummit North America 2012	San Diego, CA, USA
August 27 August 29	Kernel Summit	San Diego, CA, USA
August 28 August 30	Ubuntu Developer Week	, IRC
August 29 August 31	LinuxCon North America	San Diego, CA, USA
August 29 August 31	2012 Linux Plumbers Conference	San Diego, CA, USA
August 30 August 31	Linux Security Summit	San Diego, CA, USA
August 31 September 2	Electromagnetic Field	Milton Keynes, UK
September 1	Panel Discussion Indonesia Linux Conference 2012	Malang, Indonesia
September 1 September 2	VideoLAN Dev Days 2012	Paris, France
September 1 September 2	Kiwi PyCon 2012	Dunedin, New Zealand
September 3 September 4	Foundations of Open Media Standards and Software	Paris, France
September 3 September 8	DjangoCon US	Washington, DC, USA
September 4 September 5	Magnolia Conference 2012	Basel, Switzerland
September 8 September 9	Hardening Server Indonesia Linux Conference 2012	Malang, Indonesia
September 10 September 13	International Conference on Open Source Systems	Hammamet, Tunisia
September 14 September 16	Debian Bug Squashing Party	Berlin, Germany
September 14 September 16	KPLI Meeting Indonesia Linux Conference 2012	Malang, Indonesia
September 14 September 21	Debian FTPMaster sprint	Fulda, Germany
September 15 September 16	PyTexas 2012	College Station, TX, USA
September 15 September 16	Bitcoin Conference	London, UK
September 17 September 19	Postgres Open	Chicago, IL, USA
September 17 September 20	SNIA Storage Developers' Conference	Santa Clara, CA, USA
September 18 September 21	SUSECon	Orlando, Florida, US
September 19 September 20	Automotive Linux Summit 2012	Gaydon/Warwickshire, UK
September 19 September 21	2012 X.Org Developer Conference	Nürnberg, Germany
September 21	Kernel Recipes	Paris, France
September 21 September 23	openSUSE Summit	Orlando, FL, USA
September 24 September 25	OpenCms Days	Cologne, Germany
September 24 September 27	GNU Radio Conference	Atlanta, USA
September 27 September 28	PuppetConf	San Francisco, US
September 27 September 29	YAPC::Asia	Tokyo, Japan
September 28	LPI Forum	Warsaw, Poland
September 28 September 30	PyCon India 2012	Bengaluru, India
September 28 September 30	Ohio LinuxFest 2012	Columbus, OH, USA
September 28 October 1	PyCon UK 2012	Coventry, West Midlands, UK

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