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Announcements
Brief items
The Free Software Foundation has awarded its first *Respects Your
Freedom* (RYF) certification to the *LulzBot AO-100 3D Printer* sold
by Aleph Objects, Inc. " The RYF certification mark means that the
product meets the FSF's standards in regard to users' freedom, control
over the product, and privacy."
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Articles of interest
The FSFE (Free Software Foundation Europe) newsletter covers Software
Freedom Day activities, software patents, free software in the French
public administration, and several other topics.
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Here's a
lengthy New York Times article looking at the problems with the US
patent system. " In the smartphone industry alone, according to a
Stanford University analysis, as much as $20 billion was spent on patent
litigation and patent purchases in the last two years — an amount equal to
eight Mars rover missions. Last year, for the first time, spending by Apple
and Google on patent lawsuits and unusually big-dollar patent purchases
exceeded spending on research and development of new products, according to
public filings.
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The H reports on plans for a MeeGo-based phone.
" The Finnish startup Jolla Ltd says that it has raised €200 million from a number of, currently unnamed, telecommunications companies and that it will be unveiling a MeeGo-based device next month. The funding consortium is reported to include at least one telecom operator, a chipset maker, and device and component manufacturers." Though MeeGo itself is free software, Jolla evidently plans to keep its " well-patented" user interface layer closed and license it to other companies.
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New Books
Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Practical Vim" by Drew Neil.
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Calls for Presentations
The Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Storage and High Availability
mini-conference will take place January 28 as part of linux.conf.au 2013 in
Canberra, Australia. The call for papers closes November 4.
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Upcoming Events
Events: October 11, 2012 to December 10, 2012
The following event listing is taken from the
LWN.net Calendar.
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October 11
October 12 |
Korea Linux Forum 2012 |
Seoul, South Korea |
October 12
October 13 |
Open Source Developer's Conference / France |
Paris, France |
| October 13 |
2012 Columbus Code Camp |
Columbus, OH, USA |
October 13
October 14 |
Debian Bug Squashing Party in Utrecht |
Utrecht, Netherlands |
October 13
October 14 |
Debian BSP in Alcester (Warwickshire, UK) |
Alcester, Warwickshire, UK |
October 13
October 14 |
PyCon Ireland 2012 |
Dublin, Ireland |
October 13
October 15 |
FUDCon:Paris 2012 |
Paris, France |
October 15
October 18 |
Linux Driver Verification Workshop |
Amirandes,Heraklion, Crete |
October 15
October 18 |
OpenStack Summit |
San Diego, CA, USA |
October 17
October 19 |
MonkeySpace |
Boston, MA, USA |
October 17
October 19 |
LibreOffice Conference |
Berlin, Germany |
October 18
October 20 |
14th Real Time Linux Workshop |
Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
October 20
October 21 |
PyCarolinas 2012 |
Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
October 20
October 21 |
PyCon Ukraine 2012 |
Kyiv, Ukraine |
October 20
October 21 |
Gentoo miniconf |
Prague, Czech Republic |
October 20
October 21 |
LinuxDays |
Prague, Czech Republic |
October 20
October 23 |
openSUSE Conference 2012 |
Prague, Czech Republic |
October 22
October 23 |
PyCon Finland 2012 |
Espoo, Finland |
October 23
October 25 |
Hack.lu |
Dommeldange, Luxembourg |
October 23
October 26 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe |
Prague, Czech Republic |
October 25
October 26 |
Droidcon London |
London, UK |
October 26
October 27 |
Firebird Conference 2012 |
Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
October 26
October 28 |
PyData NYC 2012 |
New York City, NY, USA |
| October 27 |
pyArkansas 2012 |
Conway, AR, USA |
| October 27 |
Central PA Open Source Conference |
Harrisburg, PA, USA |
| October 27 |
Linux Day 2012 |
Hundreds of cities, Italy |
October 27
October 28 |
Technical Dutch Open Source Event |
Eindhoven, Netherlands |
October 29
November 1 |
Ubuntu Developer Summit - R |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
October 29
November 2 |
Linaro Connect |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
October 29
November 3 |
PyCon DE 2012 |
Leipzig, Germany |
| October 30 |
Ubuntu Enterprise Summit |
Copenhagen, Denmark |
November 3
November 4 |
MeetBSD California 2012 |
Sunnyvale, California, USA |
November 3
November 4 |
OpenFest 2012 |
Sofia, Bulgaria |
November 5
November 7 |
LinuxCon Europe |
Barcelona, Spain |
November 5
November 7 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe |
Barcelona, Spain |
November 5
November 8 |
ApacheCon Europe 2012 |
Sinsheim, Germany |
November 5
November 9 |
Apache OpenOffice Conference-Within-a-Conference |
Sinsheim, Germany |
November 7
November 8 |
LLVM Developers' Meeting |
San Jose, CA, USA |
November 7
November 9 |
KVM Forum and oVirt Workshop Europe 2012 |
Barcelona, Spain |
| November 8 |
NLUUG Fall Conference 2012 |
ReeHorst in Ede, Netherlands |
November 9
November 11 |
Python Conference - Canada |
Toronto, ON, Canada |
November 9
November 11 |
Mozilla Festival |
London, England |
November 9
November 11 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit |
Göteborg, Sweden |
November 10
November 16 |
SC12 |
Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
November 12
November 14 |
Qt Developers Days |
Berlin, Germany |
November 12
November 16 |
19th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference |
Chicago, IL, USA |
November 12
November 17 |
PyCon Argentina 2012 |
Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| November 16 |
PyHPC 2012 |
Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
November 16
November 19 |
Linux Color Management Hackfest 2012 |
Brno, Czech Republic |
November 20
November 24 |
8th Brazilian Python Conference |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| November 24 |
London Perl Workshop 2012 |
London, UK |
November 24
November 25 |
Mini Debian Conference in Paris |
Paris, France |
November 26
November 28 |
Computer Art Congress 3 |
Paris, France |
November 29
November 30 |
Lua Workshop 2012 |
Reston, VA, USA |
November 29
December 1 |
FOSS.IN/2012 |
Bangalore, India |
November 30
December 2 |
Open Hard- and Software Workshop 2012 |
Garching bei München, Germany |
November 30
December 2 |
CloudStack Collaboration Conference |
Las Vegas, NV, USA |
December 1
December 2 |
Konferensi BlankOn #4 |
Bogor, Indonesia |
| December 2 |
Foswiki Association General Assembly |
online and Dublin, Ireland |
| December 5 |
4th UK Manycore Computing Conference |
Bristol, UK |
December 5
December 7 |
Qt Developers Days 2012 North America |
Santa Clara, CA, USA |
December 5
December 7 |
Open Source Developers Conference Sydney 2012 |
Sydney, Australia |
December 7
December 9 |
CISSE 12 |
Everywhere, Internet |
December 9
December 14 |
26th Large Installation System Administration Conference |
San Diego, CA, USA |
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