Announcements

Brief items

FANTEC guilty of GPL infringement in Germany

The Free Software Foundation Europe announces that Harald Welte has won a GPL infringement case against FANTEC in Germany. "The court decided that FANTEC acted negligently: they would have had to ensure to distribute the software under the conditions of the GPLv2. The court made explicit that it is insufficient for FANTEC to rely on the assurance of license compliance of their suppliers. FANTEC itself is required to ascertain that no rights of third parties are violated."

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The Document Foundation welcomes KACST to the Advisory Board

The Document Foundation has announced that King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) of Saudi Arabia has joined the Advisory Board. "KACST sponsors the National Program for Free and Open Source Software Technologies (Motah), which has been contributing to LibreOffice for almost one year, to enhance the Arabic language and the RTL (right-to-left) support, and to develop new features."

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Linux Foundation New Member Announcement

The Linux Foundation has announced that dotCloud, LSI Corporation and Nefedia are joining the organization. "The demand for fast paced technology innovation creates pressure for shorter time to market and shrinks technology lifecycles. Process and tool efficiencies are required to address these needs and help grow businesses faster. Today’s new Linux Foundation members are supporting this pace of innovation through collaborative development in three IT markets—cloud computing, storage and networking, and IP Multimedia System (IMS)."

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Richard Stallman becomes a Hall-of-Famer

The Free Software Foundation reports that Richard Stallman has been inducted into the 2013 Internet Hall of Fame. "He joins other visionaries like Aaron Swartz, Jimmy Wales, and John Perry Barlow, who have all made significant contributions to the advancement of the global Internet. The Internet Hall of Fame inducted Stallman for his contributions as creator of the GNU Project, main author of the GNU General Public License, and his philosophical contributions as founder of the free software movement. Richard has been named an Innovator, a category which recognizes and celebrates individuals who made outstanding technological, commercial, or policy advances and helped to expand the Internet's reach."

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New Books

Functional JavaScript--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media has released "Functional JavaScript" by Michael Fogus.

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Calls for Presentations

linux.conf.au 2014 Announcement

Linux.conf.au 2014 will be held in Perth, Western Australia, January 6-10, 2014. The call for proposals closes July 6, 2013.

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[CFP] Tracing Summit 2013

There will be a Tracing Summit on October 23, co-located with LinuxCon Europe in Edinburgh, UK. "Our objective is to gather people involved in development and users of tracing tools and trace analysis tools to allow discussing the latest developments, allow users to express their needs, and generally ensure that developers and end users understand each other." The proposal deadline is August 21.

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UKUUG FLOSS UK DEVOPS - Call for Papers

The FLOSS UK 'DEVOPS' Spring 2014 Workshop & Conference will take place March 18-20, 2014, in Brighton, UK. The call for papers closes November 15, 2013.

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Upcoming Events

PostgreSQL UK Conference

PGDay UK will take place July 12, 2013, near Milton Keynes, UK. "PGDay UK is the main event for the local PostgreSQL community, with speakers from various companies and spread across the UK. We've got many of the key developers in town, so please come to listen and to talk to developers and users."

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Events: June 27, 2013 to August 26, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
June 26 June 28	USENIX Annual Technical Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
June 27 June 30	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2013	Grodno, Belarus
June 29 July 3	Workshop on Essential Abstractions in GCC, 2013	Bombay, India
July 1 July 5	Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications	Montpellier, France
July 1 July 7	EuroPython 2013	Florence, Italy
July 2 July 4	OSSConf 2013	Žilina, Slovakia
July 3 July 6	FISL 14	Porto Alegre, Brazil
July 5 July 7	PyCon Australia 2013	Hobart, Tasmania
July 6 July 11	Libre Software Meeting	Brussels, Belgium
July 8 July 12	Linaro Connect Europe 2013	Dublin, Ireland
July 12	PGDay UK 2013	near Milton Keynes, England, UK
July 12 July 14	5th Encuentro Centroamerica de Software Libre	San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize
July 12 July 14	GNU Tools Cauldron 2013	Mountain View, CA, USA
July 13 July 19	Akademy 2013	Bilbao, Spain
July 15 July 16	QtCS 2013	Bilbao, Spain
July 18 July 22	openSUSE Conference 2013	Thessaloniki, Greece
July 22 July 26	OSCON 2013	Portland, OR, USA
July 27	OpenShift Origin Community Day	Mountain View, CA, USA
July 27 July 28	PyOhio 2013	Columbus, OH, USA
July 31 August 4	OHM2013: Observe Hack Make	Geestmerambacht, the Netherlands
August 1 August 8	GUADEC 2013	Brno, Czech Republic
August 3 August 4	COSCUP 2013	Taipei, Taiwan
August 6 August 8	Military Open Source Summit	Charleston, SC, USA
August 7 August 11	Wikimania	Hong Kong, China
August 9 August 11	XDA:DevCon 2013	Miami, FL, USA
August 9 August 12	Flock - Fedora Contributor Conference	Charleston, SC, USA
August 9 August 13	PyCon Canada	Toronto, Canada
August 11 August 18	DebConf13	Vaumarcus, Switzerland
August 12 August 14	YAPC::Europe 2013 “Future Perl”	Kiev, Ukraine
August 16 August 18	PyTexas 2013	College Station, TX, USA
August 22 August 25	GNU Hackers Meeting 2013	Paris, France
August 23 August 24	Barcamp GR	Grand Rapids, MI, USA
August 24 August 25	Free and Open Source Software Conference	St.Augustin, Germany

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