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AnnouncementsBrief items The Linux Foundation's Automotive Grade Linux workgroupThe Linux Foundation has announced the creation of a workgroup to help with the creation of Linux-based automotive solutions; initial members include Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan, and Toyota, along with a number of tech companies. "The Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup will work with the Tizen project as the reference distribution optimized for a broad set of automotive applications ranging from Instrumentation Cluster to In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) and more. The Linux Foundation will host this effort, providing a neutral environment for collaboration among the Linux kernel community, other open source software communities and the automotive industry."
LibreOffice Localization Program in Saudi ArabiaThe Document Foundation and the National Program for Free and Open Source Software Technologies (Motah) at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia are working together to enhance the Arabic language support in LibreOffice. "Motah LibreOffice Project is one of the activities of Motah program at KACST, where several software products in various fields are studied to explore the extent of Arabic support and their suitability to the needs of Arab users. Thereafter, Motah team will work at improving the selected software products to meet those needs and requirements. LibreOffice was selected to be the first localization project because of its importance as an office suite whose functions are needed by all computer users."
LPC 2012 slides, notes, and videosThe Linux Plumbers Conference organizers have made slides, notes and videos from the 2012 event available.
An Open Letter To The OpenStack CommunityRackspace has announced that it is handing over the project and all its assets to the OpenStack Foundation. "When we launched OpenStack, the goal was to build a broad community of developers, users, companies and other organizations that together would drive the vision of an open and ubiquitous platform for public and private clouds. We’ve accomplished that and could not be more excited about the work we have all done together. In just two years the OpenStack community has flourished beyond our expectations – it now comprises almost 6,000 individual contributors from 88 countries and nearly 200 companies, including many of the giants of enterprise IT. The community has generated more than half a million lines of code and the OpenStack software has been downloaded more than 300,000 times from the central code repositories alone. OpenStack now powers some incredible cloud environments, including our own public cloud here at Rackspace as well as our private cloud software offering."
OpenStreetMap license change completesThe license change for the OpenStreetMap database has been a long affair — LWN first covered the discussion in 2008. As of September 12, though, the transition has been made; the OpenStreetMap database is now covered by the Open Database License. See the project's Legal FAQ for more information.
Rackspace sued for hosting GitHubPersonalweb Technologies and Level 3 Communications have filed a lawsuit [PDF] against Rackspace, alleging that Rackspace's hosting of GitHub infringes upon a long list of software patents.
Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi SupercomputerThe University of Southampton (UK) has put out a press release about a 64-node supercomputer recently built out of Raspberry Pi systems. In addition, the racks were built out of Lego. "Professor [Simon] Cox adds: 'The first test we ran – well obviously we calculated Pi on the Raspberry Pi using MPI, which is a well-known first test for any new supercomputer.' [...] 'The team wants to see this low-cost system as a starting point to inspire and enable students to apply high-performance computing and data handling to tackle complex engineering and scientific challenges as part of our on-going outreach activities.'" There is a guide to building your own, as well as a page for pictures of the supercomputer.
Articles of interest The SFLC's guide on managing copyright informationThe Software Freedom Law Center has released a guide to managing copyright information in a free software project. "Nearly every free software project includes two types of legal information with its source code: the license(s) of the code and the copyright notices of contributing authors. As important as it is to maintain this information, it’s not always easy in a collaborative development process. With multiple developers contributing regularly to the code, some information can be left out or buried, and other information can be retained after it is no longer accurate. We wrote this guide to help projects minimize the problems and improve the usefulness of their legal information. It explains the purpose of license and copyright notices, the legal requirements behind them, and the current best practices for maintaining this information in a free software project’s source distribution."
Intel declares Clover Trail Atom processor a "no Linux" zone (ars technica)Ars technica reports that the upcoming Intel "Clover Trail" processor will be for Windows only. "To achieve that, Intel worked closely with Microsoft to instrument the chip to allow Windows 8 to control Clover Trail's advanced power management features, which support what [Intel VP David] Perlmutter called 'always-on' functionality. It's that special sauce in Clover Trail that won't be supported for other operating systems, including Linux, likely in part because of Intel’s desire to keep those features close to the vest—and because of contractual obligations to Microsoft."
Intel's new Clover Trail chip will support Android and Linux (ZDNet)ZDNet reports that Intel is working on a Clover Trail Atom processor for Linux. "We now know that Intel will officially support the popular open-source operating systems on the Clover Trail family as well. In an e-mail from an Intel spokesperson, Intel said, "Intel has plans for another version of this platform directed at Linux/Android; however we are not commenting on the platform specifics or market segments at this time. Stay tuned.”"
Upcoming Events Schedule for Bootstrapping AwesomeBootstrapping Awesome combines the Gentoo Miniconf, LinuxDays, and the openSUSE Conference together in Prague, Czech Republic in October 2012. The schedule is available.
PyCon Finland 2012 registration is openRegistration is open for PyCon Finland which takes place October 22-23, in Otaniemi, Finland. "This year we have Python talks ranging from hardcore Python development, visualization and data processing to choosing Python as the language of education and extending Python to support static typing."
PyCon Argentina 2012PyConAR will take place November 12-17, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The schedule is available and registration is open. "Sessions will include two days of talks from local and international renowned experts, with inaugural Science Track and “extreme” talks, preceded of one day of tutorial/workshops and three days of sprints meetings. Exhibition hall will include posters and community booths (SOLAR free software civil association, FACTTIC federation of IT cooperatives, Mozilla-Ar, Ubuntu-Ar, PostgreSQL, Hacklabs and “Programming with robots” project from LINTI UNLP)."
LCA2013 Programming Miniconfs AnnouncedMore linux.conf.au (LCA) miniconfs have been announced. The programming miniconfs will look at Open Programming, Developer Automation and Continuous Integration, and the Browser. LCA will take place January 28-February 2, 2013 in Canberra, Australia.
LCA2013 Announces Conference ScheduleThe schedule is available for linux.conf.au (LCA) which takes place January 28-February 2, 2013 in Canberra, Australia. "The conference will feature six streams of talks across five days. The first two days will be for miniconferences, with the rest of the conference dedicated to eighty-four talks and six tutorials, on topics ranging from software engineering to systems administration. This year, there is a heavy focus on deep technical content, including many talks on the Linux kernel, and various hardware platforms. The conference also boasts four keynotes from pivotal industry figures, which will be announced in the next few months."
Events: September 20, 2012 to November 19, 2012The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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