Announcements

GPL-Violations.org and FSFE's Freedom Task Force to work more closely together

Coordinators of the FSFE Freedom Task Force (FTF) and GPL-Violations.org recently met in Berlin to discuss future cooperation. "GPL-Violations.org will be pro-actively working on cases and seeking resolutions where violations occur. The FTF will continue and expand its educational and networking activities to ensure awareness of best practice and help support people with their use of the licences."

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Open Graphics Project PCI card pre-orders are open

Pre-orders are being accepted for an open-designed PCI graphics card project. "Traversal Technology is taking pre-orders for a PCI card developed in collaboration with the Open Graphics Project. It is not a graphics card, it is an FPGA card that can be used to develop and test designs for a free graphics card. Still, it's progress! They're looking to raise enough funds to produce a small batch of them."

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Chesspark Congratulates Facebook for Integrating XMPP

Chesspark congratulates Facebook for supporting XMPP, the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol. ""We've built the best stack for allowing companies to connect their applications to XMPP, allowing anyone wishing their web or desktop application to communicate over XMPP to do so seamlessly," states CEO Jack Moffitt, who is also on the board of directors of both the XMPP Standards Foundation, the organization that manages the XMPP specifications, and the Xiph.org Foundation, known for its Open Source and royalty free multimedia standards such as Ogg Vorbis."

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Gentoo Foundation reinstated

The Gentoo site announces that, according to the state of New Mexico, the Gentoo Foundation has returned to good corporate standing and can, once again, do business.

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Synopsys releases VMM methodology standard library under Apache license

Synopsys, Inc. has announced the release of its VMM methodology implementation. "Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design and manufacturing, today announced it has released the source code for its complete implementation of the proven VMM verification methodology for SystemVerilog, including the VMM Standard Library and VMM Applications, under the popular Apache 2.0 open source license."

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TigerLogic Corporation announces Omnis Studio 4.3.1

TigerLogic Corporation has announced the release of the Omnis Studio 4.3.1 rapid application development tool. "Omnis Studio 4.3.1 greatly extends the ability of Omnis to provide fast and easy-to-use tools for Windows, Mac and Linux application developers. New features offer an overall improved Web application developer and Web user experience."

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FSFE Newsletter

The May 21, 2008 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: 1. FTF workshop leads to broad agreement on European licensing infrastructure 2. Lack of quality in standardisation a serious problem 3. Licensing as a strategic imperative, speech at FISL 4. Fellowship Group at Ubuntu Release Party in Berlin 5. Italian team: new mailing list and renewed blog.

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Perl 6 Design Meeting Minutes (use Perl)

The minutes from the May 21, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meeting have been published. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 21 May 2008. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Jerry, Will, and chromatic attended."

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Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008 - Call for Proposals

A Call for Proposals has gone out for the Embedded Linux Conference Europe. The event will take place on November 6-7, 2008 in Ede, the Netherlands. The submission deadline is June 29. "Presentations should be of a technical nature, covering topics related to use of Linux in embedded systems. The CE Linux Forum is focused on the use of Linux in consumer electronics products, but presentations may cover use of Linux in other embedded areas, as long as the topic is of general relevance to most embedded users. Presentations that are commercial advertisements or sales pitches are not appropriate for this conference."

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NLUUG fall conference call for papers

A call for papers has gone out for the NLUUG fall conference. The event takes place on November 6, 2008 in Ede, The Netherlands. Abstracts are due by June 29.

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Second Annual LLVM Developers' Meeting

The Second Annual LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) Developers' Meeting has been announced, it will take place on August 1, 2008 at the Apple Inc. Campus in Cupertino, California.

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Events: June 5, 2008 to August 4, 2008

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
June 2 June 5	VON.x Europe	Amsterdam, the Netherlands
June 6 June 7	Portuguese Perl Workshop	Braga, Portugal
June 6 June 7	European Tcl/Tk User Meeting 2008	Strasbourg, France
June 9 June 13	Python Bootcamp with David Beazley	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
June 10 June 15	REcon 2008	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
June 11 June 13	kvm developer's forum 2008	Napa, CA, USA
June 16 June 18	YAPC::NA 2008	Chicago, IL, USA
June 17 June 22	Liverpool Open Source City	Liverpool, England
June 18 June 20	Red Hat Summit 2008	Boston, MA, USA
June 18 June 20	National Computer and Information Security Conference ACIS 2008	Bogota, Columbia
June 19 June 21	Fedora Users and Developers Conference	Boston, MA, USA
June 22 June 27	2008 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Boston, MA, USA
June 23 June 24	O'Reilly Velocity Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
June 28 June 29	Rockbox Euro Devcon 2008	Berlin, Germany
July 1 July 5	Libre Software Meeting 2008	Mont-de-Marsan, France
July 3 July 4	SyScan’08 Singapore	Novotel Clarke Quay, Singapore
July 3	Penguin in a Box 2008: Embedded Linux Seminar	Herzelia, Israel
July 5	Open Tech 2008	London, England
July 7 July 12	EuroPython 2008	Vilnius, Lithuania
July 7 July 12	GUADEC 2008	Istanbul, Turkey
July 14 July 18	PHP 5 & PostgreSQL Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
July 18 July 20	RubyFringe	Canada, Toronto
July 19	Firebird Developers Day	Piracicaba-SP, Brazil
July 19 July 25	Ruby & Ruby on Rails Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
July 19 July 20	LugRadio Live 2008 - UK	Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
July 20	OSCON PDXPUG Day	Portland, OR, USA
July 21 July 25	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	Portland, OR, USA
July 21 July 22	Ubuntu Live - cancelled	Portland, Oregon, USA
July 23 July 26	Ottawa Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Canada
July 26	PyOhio 2008	Columbus, OH, USA
July 26 July 27	EuroSciPy2008	Leipzig, Germany
August 1	LLVM Developers' Meeting	Cupertino, CA, USA
August 3 August 9	DebCamp 2008	Mar del Plata, Argentina

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