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FSF and Stephen Fry celebrate the GNU Project 25th anniversary

The GNU project is turning 25 this year, and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has kicked off its month-long celebration of the anniversary by releasing "Happy Birthday to GNU," a short film featuring the English humorist, actor, novelist and filmmaker Stephen Fry.

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Summer of Code Recap (use Perl)

use Perl recaps the Google's Summer of Code's Perl projects. "Google's Summer of Code 2008 is wrapping up now and I'm very pleased with how well The Perl Foundation's students and mentors have done. The five projects which survived the halfway point have all finished with great results. Many thanks to all of the mentors and students as well as everyone in the community who helped or supported the process. Also, thanks to Google for putting on the program and to Richard Dice and Jim Brandt at TPF."

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2008Q3 Grants Results (use Perl)

use Perl reports on the 2008 third quarter Perl Foundation grant results. "Unfortunately TPF is unable to fund all the proposed grants as they exceed the funds available for Grants. Thus, TPF GC ranked proposals accordingly with its relevance to the community, and the first few were funded. These are the funded proposals: * Perl cross-compilation for linux and wince * Barcode support in Act * Tcl/Tk access for Rakudo * Embedding perl into C++ applications * Extending BSDPAN"

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September 24 is World Day Against Software Patents

World Day Against Software Patents will take place on September 24. "Five years ago, on 24 September 2003, the European Parliament adopted amendments to limit the scope of patent law and thereby protect small software companies from the harmful effects of broad and trivial software patents. A global petition asking to effectively stop software patents worldwide will be launched on 24 September 2008, together with specific additional requests for certain regions such as Europe, the United States or India."

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Novell Reports Financial Results for Third Fiscal Quarter 2008

Novell, Inc. has announced its third 2008 quarter financial results. "2008. For the quarter, Novell reported net revenue of $245 million. This compares to net revenue of $237 million for the third fiscal quarter 2007. Income from operations for the third fiscal quarter 2008 was $1 million, compared to a loss from operations of $10 million for the third fiscal quarter 2007. Loss from continuing operations in the third fiscal quarter 2008 was $15 million, or $0.04 loss per share, due to a $15 million impairment charge related to our auction-rate securities. This compares to a loss from continuing operations of $4 million, or $0.01 loss per share, for the third fiscal quarter 2007."

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SGI releases fourth quarter financial results

SGI has announced its 2008 fourth quarter financial results. "SGI today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 ended June 27, 2008. The Company achieved its stated objectives for the fiscal year of strong growth in bookings, a strengthened leadership team, an array of new products and services, and penetration into new customer accounts."

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Head First Ajax - New From O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Head First Ajax by Rebecca M. Riordan.

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Linux Gazette #154 is out

Issue #154 of the Linux Gazette has been announced. Topics include: Mailbag, Mailbag 2, Talkback, 2-Cent Tips, News Bytes, by Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff, Hacking a Canon A720IS digital camera with CHDK on GNU/Linux, by Sujith H, Book Review: Blown to Bits, by Kat Tanaka Okopnik, WPA Supplicant LEAP, by Nic Tjirkalli, Software Review: uvhd - file investigation utility, by Owen Townsend, HelpDex, by Shane Collinge, Ecol, by Javier Malonda, XKCD, by Randall Munroe and The Linux Launderette.

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Perl 6 Design Minutes (use Perl)

use Perl has published the meeting minutes for the July 2, 2008, July 9, 2008 and July 16, 2008 Perl 6 design team meetings. "Larry, Allison, Jesse, Jerry, Patrick, and chromatic attended."

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MySQL Conference and Expo Opens Call for Participation

A call for participation has been opened for the MySQL Conference & Expo. "O'Reilly Media has opened the Call for Participation for the 2009 MySQL Conference & Expo, scheduled for April 20-23, in Santa Clara, California. Conference program chair Colin Charles and the program committee invite proposals for conference sessions, panel discussions, and tutorials. More than 2,000 attendees are expected to participate in over 120 sessions at next year's event." Submissions are due by October 22.

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The Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit

The Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit will be held on October 13-14, 2008 in New York, NY. "The Linux Foundation will be hosting our first ever End User Collaboration Summit this October in New York. This forum is designed for sophisticated users of Linux who will be able share best practices about how they are using Linux and speak directly with the core developers of the Linux platform."

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The MontaVista Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers Conference

The MontaVista Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers Conference has been announced, LWN's Jon Corbet will be speaking. "The Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers Conference will be held Oct. 1-3 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, California. Developers who attend Vision 2008 will learn how to work with new technologies such as multicore processors and mobile applications, will meet other developers and industry experts, and will see the breadth of platforms and solutions available for embedded Linux development."

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Events: September 11, 2008 to November 10, 2008

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
September 7 September 14	Python Game Programming Challenge	Online
September 9 September 11	EFMI STC 2008	London, England
September 12 September 14	The UK Python Conference	Birmingham, England
September 15 September 18	ZendCon PHP 2008	Santa Clara, CA, USA
September 15 September 16	Linux Kernel Summit 2008	Portland, OR, USA
September 16 September 19	Web 2.0 Expo	New York, NY, USA
September 17 September 19	The Linux Plumbers Conference	Portland, OR, USA
September 18 September 19	Italian Perl Workshop	Pisa, Italy
September 19 September 20	Maemo Summit 2008	Berlin, Germany
September 20	Celebrating Software Freedom Day in Riga, Latvia	Riga, Latvia
September 22 September 25	Storage Developer Conference 2008	Santa Clara, CA, USA
September 23 September 25	4th International Conference on IT Incident Management and IT Forensics	Manheim, Germany
September 24 September 25	OpenExpo 2008 Zürich	Winterthur, Switzerland
September 25 September 27	Firebird Conference 2008	Bergamo, Italy
September 26 September 27	PGCon Brazil 2008	Sao Paulo, Brazil
September 26	Far East Perl Workshop 2008	Vladivostok, Russia
September 26 September 28	ToorCon Information Security Conference	San Diego, CA, USA
September 27 September 28	WineConf 2008	Bloomington, MN, USA
September 29 October 3	Netfilter Workshop 2008	Paris, France
September 29 September 30	Conference on Software Language Engineering	Toulouse, France
September 30 October 1	BA-Con 2008	Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 1 October 3	Vision 2008 Embedded Linux Developers Conference	San Francisco, USA
October 2 October 3	ekoparty Security Conference	Buenos Aires, Argentina
October 3 October 4	Open Source Days 2008	Copenhagen, Denmark
October 4	PyArkansas 2008	Central Arkansas, USA
October 4 October 5	Texas Regional Python Unconference 2008	Austin, TX, USA
October 7 October 10	OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference	New York, NY, USA
October 7	Openmind 2008	Tampere, Finland
October 7 October 10	Linux-Kongress 2008	Hamburg, Germany
October 7	Red Hat Government Users and Developers Conference	Washington, DC, United States
October 10 October 12	Ohio LinuxFest 2008	Columbus, Ohio, USA
October 10 October 12	PostgreSQL Conference West 08	Portland, OR, USA
October 10 October 12	Skolelinux Developer Gathering	Oslo, Norway
October 11 October 12	Pittsburgh Perl Workshop	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
October 11 October 12	MerbCamp	San Diego, CA, USA
October 13 October 14	Linux Foundation End User Collaboration Summit	New York, USA
October 13	Skolelinux User Conference	Oslo, Norway
October 15 October 16	OpenSAF Developer Days	Munich, Germany
October 17 October 18	European PGDay 2008	Prato, Italy
October 18 October 19	Maker Faire Austin	Austin, TX, USA
October 19 October 24	Colorado Software Summit 2008	Keystone, CO, USA
October 20 October 24	15th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	Manassas, VA, USA
October 21 October 23	Web 2.0 Expo Europe	Berlin, Germany
October 21 October 24	Systems	Munich, Germany
October 22 October 24	Hack.lu 2008	Parc Hotel Alvisse, Luxembourg
October 22 October 24	Encuentro Linux	Concepción, Chile
October 24 October 26	Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit	Gothenburg, Sweden
October 25 October 26	T-DOSE 2008	Eindhoven, the Netherlands
October 25	Ontario Linux Fest 2008	Toronto, Canada
October 26 October 31	IBM Information On Demand 2008	Mandalay Bay - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
October 27 October 30	Embedded Systems Conference - Boston	Boston, USA
October 29 November 1	10th Real-Time Linux Workshop	Colotlán, Jalisco, Mexico
November 3 November 7	ApacheCon US 2008	New Orleans, LA, USA
November 5 November 7	OpenOffice.org Conference 2008	Beijing, China
November 6	NLUUG autumn conference: Mobile Applications	Ede, Netherlands
November 6 November 7	Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008	Ede, Netherlands
November 7 November 8	TwinCity Perl Workshop 2008	Vienna, Austria
November 7 November 9	UKUUG linux conference	Manchester, UK
November 8 November 9	Hackers to Hackers Conference 05'	Sao Paulo, Brazil
November 8 November 9	FOSS.my	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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