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AnnouncementsBrief items FSF: Free media-sharing system picking up steamThe Free Software Foundation is looking for donations to support the MediaGoblin project. "FSF member Chris Webber started the GNU MediaGoblin project. He's leading a community team to write a next-generation social web system where users will share their experiences through photos, videos and audio, all without running proprietary software or centralizing personal data in the hands of a corporation. Right now MediaGoblin is partially developed, but the team needs financial support so that they can quit their day jobs for a year and perfect MediaGoblin's features to a professional level."
FSF: Save the Web from software patentsThe Free Software Foundation would like your help in ending software patents. "PersonalWeb's software patent suit against Github and others threatens the freedom of the Web. In order to make sure that the Web can remain a free and accessible space for everyone, we need to rid ourselves of all the patents that threaten its viability."
FSFLA: Access to the Source Code of Imposed Tax SoftwareAlexandre Oliva and the FSF Latin America are campaigning for the release of the source code for the software used by the Brazilian public administration office in charge of federal taxes, Receita Federal do Brasil (RFB). "Since 2008, RFB has been subject to federal regulations that require the product of software development contracts to be published in the Brazilian Public [Free] Software Portal, licensed under the GNU GPL. Their contract with SERPRO (the Federal Data Processing Service), to develop several programs that RFB publishes on its web site for taxpayers to fill in and submit tax returns and other forms, should comply with the obligations established in this regulation, but RFB prefers to pretend the regulation “does not apply to these programs, because they do not meet the requirements to be published in the Portal,” as if their refusal to meet the requirements excused the non-compliance with the obligations."
Articles of interest Portuguese Vieira do Minho profits from a decade of open source (EC Joinup)The European Commission Joinup blog has an open source success story from the administration of Vieira do Minho, a municipality in the north of Portugal. "The municipality has been using open source on its servers for years. Its database management systems is Postgres, on top of which the IT department built many Geographic Information Systems. Web, email, file and print services are all provided using the Debian open source distribution. And for telephony the municipality relies on Asterisk. In March this year, the council decided it was time to use open source not only for its servers but also for its desktop computers." (Thanks to Paul Wise)
Calls for Presentations CFP: SciPy India 2012SciPy India will take place December 27-29 in IIT Bombay, India. The call for proposals ends November 1, 2012. "We look forward to your submissions on the use of Python for Scientific Computing and Education. This includes pedagogy, exploration, modeling and analysis from both applied and developmental perspectives. We welcome contributions from academia as well as industry."
Upcoming Events openSUSE Conference: Last Interviews and Announcing Live Video StreamingIn anticipation of the openSUSE conference, October 20-23 in Prague, there have been several video interviews with the speakers. This announcement includes the last of the interviews and the news that live video streamimg will be available during the conference.
Announcing openSUSE Conference 2012 SponsorsThe sponsors for the openSUSE conference, October 20-23 in Prague, have been announced. "No surprises here, SUSE, as the main sponsor of the openSUSE Project, is supporting the conference."
Columbus Python Workshop for women and their friends, Jan 18-19The Columbus Python Workshop will take place January 18-19, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio. "The Columbus Python Workshop for women and their friends is a free hands-on introduction to computer programming that's fun, accessible, and practical even to those who've never programmed at all before. We empower women of all ages and backgrounds to learn programming in a beginner-friendly environment."
Events: October 18, 2012 to December 17, 2012The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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