Announcements

EFF: Media Giant Bullies Internet Critic

The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports on their efforts to protect an Internet humor site. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) warned Discovery Communications, Inc., today to cease its demands for the removal of an online template that uses humor to help people criticize the media company. The "SpankMaker," located at http://www.spankmymarketer.com/, helps users create parodies of a controversial marketing campaign in connection with a Discovery television production. The online tool provides images from the marketing campaign and Discovery's corporate websites, and allows users to modify them with commentary."

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PUBPAT Exec testifies before U.S. House of Representatives

The Public Patent Foundation executive director has announced that its executive director was to address the the U.S. House of Representatives on the subject of patent reform on February 15. "Ravicher will begin with an opening statement and then answer questions from Representatives on the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, including Chairman Howard Berman (D-CA) and Ranking Member Howard Coble (R-NC), at the oversight hearing on "American Innovation at Risk: The Case for Patent Reform"".

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ADempiere gets worldwide professional support

ADempiere has announced the availability of worldwide professional support for its Enterprise Resource Planning software. "ADempiere project is glad to announce the incorporation of ADempiere Business inc. in the USA, an umbrella non-profit organization that will act as a virtual worldwide services organization that will offer quality professional services for the implementation of ADempiere."

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2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners Announced

The polls are closed and the results are in for the 2006 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards. Winners include Ubuntu (best distribution), Knoppix (best live distribution), Firefox (best browser), and much more.

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Nokia announce the Nokia N800 Internet Reader Challenge

Nokia has announced the Popular Science Nokia N800 Reader Challenge. "Magazine are joining forces to create the Popular Science Nokia N800 Reader Challenge, a contest calling for user-developed applications, scripts, services or hardware additions for the new Nokia N800 Internet Tablet. The Linux<-based Nokia N800 provides portable Internet access via Wi-Fi or an enabled cell phone with Bluetooth connectivity for Web browsing, email, instant messaging, Internet calling with integrated webcam, RSS feeds, streaming music and much more."

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Free Linux course for beginners

LinuxBasics.org has announced their third free Linux class, entitled: An Introduction to Linux Basics. "This course is designed to give a foundation of understanding of Linux to a beginner who wants to know a little more about the system. More advanced Linux users will find an opportunity to dig deeper into some areas they always wanted to know more about or discover gaps in their knowledge that they didn't know existed."

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Python Bootcamp

Big Nerd Ranch will hold the next Python Bootcamp on May 21-25, 2007 near Atlanta,GA. "The Big Nerd Ranch announces Python training May 21-25, 2007 with a revised course and a new instructor, David Beazley. David Beazley is the author of the "Python Essential Reference," and offers a fresh take on Python training. This course is designed to teach Python programming, accompanied by the myriad uses of Python to extend and access existing systems. "Python as glue," in essence. Big Nerd Ranch provides intensive, all-inclusive courses to Mac OS X and Open Source programmers in a retreat environment."

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aKademy talks deadline extended (KDE.News)

KDE.News reports that the aKademy 2007 talks deadline has been extended. "Due to a beastie in the submissions system, the aKademy 2007 Programme Committee have extended the deadline for talk proposals until February 23rd. See the Call for Participation for some guidelines and how to submit. Confirmation to those who have already submitted has been sent out, let us know if you have no heard from us. If you contribute to KDE in any way it is likely others will want to know about it, so send us your abstract before next Friday."

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EVT '07 Call for Papers

A call for papers has gone out for the 2007 USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop. The event will be held in conjunction with the USENIX Security symposium on August 6–10, 2007 in Boston, MA. "The USENIX/ACCURATE Electronic Voting Technology (EVT) workshop seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines, ranging from computer science and human factors experts through political scientists, legal experts, election administrators, and voting equipment vendors. EVT seeks to publish original research on important problems, including how the software and hardware in voting might be engineered to be more robust against tampering or how it might be written to be more easily and openly verified." Submissions are due by April 22.

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Bossa Conference - Mobile Internet and multimedia

The BOSSA Conference will take place in Recife, Brazil on March 12-14, 2007. "The idea is to cover areas thoroughly from the kernel to the User Interface in mobile Internet and Multimedia. Developers from many areas such as Jeff Waugh (Gnome), Zack Rusin(Qt/KDE), Marcel Holtmann (BlueZ), Chris Hofmann (Mozilla) and John "J5" Palmieri (RedHat) have already confirmed their participation in the event."

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The 2007 Embedded Systems Conference

CMP Technology has announced the 2007 Embedded Systems Conference. The event takes place at the San Jose, CA McEnery Convention Center on April 1-5, 2007. "The industry's brightest minds will bring the power of brainpower to San Jose's McEnery Convention Center, and have their choice of more than 180 training sessions, courses and seminars covering methodologies, processes, and techniques fundamental for engineers developing embedded systems."

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KDE Italia at OpenMind 2007 this week (KDE.News)

KDE.News notes the KDE presence at OpenMind 2007. "OpenMind 2007 is an Italian event dedicated to Free Software and free content. The event will be from this Thursday until Saturday (22nd to 24th) February in San Giorgio a Cremano, Naples."

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KDE at Guademy, Spain and FOSS MEET, India (KDE.News)

KDE.News mentions some upcoming KDE events. "A joint KDE and Gnome meeting is taking place in Spain next month called Guademy. The objectives are to create new projects and initiatives of collaboration between both Desktops and allow new developers to get started. Aaron Seigo will give an update on KDE 4 and Albert Astals Cid will talk about Okular. Meanwhile in India Pradeepto Bhattacharya of KDE India will be talking at FOSS MEET in NIT Calicut about KDE 4 and why you should develop with Qt."

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OpenOffice.org Conference, Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain has been selected as the location for the 2007 OpenOffice.org Conference. "The figures show the continuing growth of the OpenOffice.org community, with the number of votes cast over 40% up on last year. In particular, the presence of two very strong proposals from the Asia-Pacific region reflects the huge success and potential for OpenOffice.org in this part of the world."

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O'Reilly Media and CMP Technology launch Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo

The Web 2.0 Expo, Tokyo has been announced. "O'Reilly Media, Inc. and CMP Technology, co-producers of the annual Web 2.0 Summit and newly created Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, today jointly announced the launch of a new conference and tradeshow that will bring together top leaders and technologists who are building, leveraging and driving the Japanese web economy. Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo, scheduled for November 15-16, 2007, will be held at Izumi Garden Tower in Roppongi, Tokyo."

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O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference registration opens

Registration is open for the 2007 O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference. "Where 2.0 Conference, happening May 29-30, 2007 at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. Now in its third year, the Where 2.0 Conference will bring together the leading edge developers building location-aware technology with the businesses and entrepreneurs seeking location apps, platforms, and hardware that will help them capture a competitive edge."

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Events: March 1, 2007 to April 30, 2007

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
February 26 March 1	PyCon Sprints	Addison, Texas
February 26 March 2	PHP5 Bootcamp Training at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
February 27 March 1	O'Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference	San Francisco, CA
February 27 March 2	EUSecWest Applied Security Conference	London, UK
February 28 March 2	Network and Distributed System Security Symposium	San Diego, CA, USA
March 2 March 3	LinuxForum 2007	Copenhagen, Denmark
March 3 March 8	O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference	San Diego, CA, USA
March 5 March 8	EclipseCon 2007	Santa Clara, CA, USA
March 5 March 6	Karlsruhe Workshop on Software Radios	Karlsruhe, Germany
March 8 March 10	2007 Open Source Think Tank	Napa, CA, USA
March 10 March 13	Camp 5 Advanced Zope3 Training	Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
March 12 March 16	QCon	London, England
March 12 March 16	Third Annual Security Enhanced Linux Symposium	Baltimore, US
March 12 March 14	BOSSA Conference	Porto de Galinhas, Brazil
March 13 March 14	The Linux Foundation Japan Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
March 14 March 16	PHP Quebec Conference	Montreal, Canada
March 14 March 17	Barbeque Sprint for Plone3	Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
March 15 March 21	CeBIT computer fair	Hannover, Germany
March 16 March 17	MountainWest RubyConf	Salt Lake City, USA
March 18 March 23	Novell BrainShare 2007	Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
March 19 March 21	UKUUG LISA/Spring Conference 2007	Manchester, UK
March 22 March 25	Linux Audio Conference	Berlin, Germany
March 23 March 25	ShmooCon	Washington DC, USA
March 23 March 25	Guademy	Coruña, Spain
March 24	FSF Associate Membership Meeting	Cambridge, MA, USA
March 26 March 29	Emerging Technology Conference	San Diego, CA, USA
April 1 April 4	International Lisp Conference 2007	Cambridge, England
April 1 April 5	Embedded Systems Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
April 1	GPLv3: Improving a Great Licence (discussion draft 3)	Brussels, Belgium
April 2 April 6	DJango Bootcamp	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
April 2 April 5	Hack in The Box Security Conference 2007	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
April 3 April 8	Make Art 2007	Poitiers, France
April 12 April 14	International Free Software Forum (Forum Internacional Software Livre)	Porto Alegre, Brazil
April 14 April 15	Ruby and Python Conference 2007	Poznan, Poland
April 15 April 18	Gelato ICE: Itanium® Conference & Expo	San Jose, California, USA
April 17 April 19	Embedded Linux Conference	San Jose, USA
April 18 April 20	CanSecWest Applied Security Conference 2007	Vancouver, Canada
April 19	Linux 2007	Lisbon, Portugal
April 19	Power Architecture Software Summit	Austin, TX, USA
April 20 April 22	International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security	Vienna, Austria
April 20 April 22	Penguicon 5.0 Open Source Software & Science Fiction Convention	Troy, Michigan, USA
April 21	Romanian Open Source Development Meeting	Bucharest, Romania
April 23 April 25	Samba eXPerience 2007	Göttingen, Germany
April 23 April 27	PostgreSQL Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
April 23 April 26	MySQL Conference and Expo	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 28 April 29	Linuxfest Northwest	Bellingham, WA, USA

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OpenVZ LinuxWorld follow-up

The open OpenVZ project has sent out a news release that highlights the project's progress in 2006. "The open source project, OpenVZ delivered some 50 software updates and in total more than 2 terabytes of its virtualization software were downloaded in 2006 by the user community - the project announced today. The operating system server virtualization software technology helps increase server utilization rates. The OpenVZ project freely distributes and offers support to its users, promoting operating system virtualization through a collaborative, community effort. Supported by SWsoft, the OpenVZ project serves the needs of the community developers, testers, documentation experts, and other technology enthusiasts who wish to participate in and accelerate the technology development process."

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