Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
DESC releases CHASERS software for Homeless Service Management
Downtown Emergency Service Center has announced the release of its CHASERS application as open-source software. "Created by DESC, CHASERS is both proven and a work-in-progress, and has been under in-house development for approximately five years. During this time, CHASERS has been in continuous use, and now contains information on over 70,000 clients served by DESC. Key features include web-based access, client and staff management, reporting, permission and access control, electronic logs, collaborative caseloads and real-time notifications."
FSFE to make legal consolidation tool available in 10 languages
The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced plans for making the Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) available in ten languages. "The selected languages are English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Serbian, Polish, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese. The FLA assists projects with re-licensing and license enforcement by consolidating copyright into a single organization, and is effective in jurisdictions based on both civil law and common law. It also transfers a full set of rights back to the author, ensuring that both parties maintain the maximum freedom possible. The translation of the FLA will help provide the benefits of copyright consolidation to local projects across Europe."
FSFE: Happy Birthday To GNU!
September 27 marked the GNU Project's 25th birthday. "Today marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the initial announcement of the GNU Project, a pioneering initiative to develop an operating system that gives all users the freedom to modify it and publish modified versions, individually or working together. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) commends the substantial achievements of GNU's first quarter-century and look forward to furthering their shared goal of facilitating software freedoms."
Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.24
The GNOME Project is celebrating the release of GNOME 2.24. "... the latest version of the popular, multi-platform free desktop environment and of its developer platform. Released on schedule, to the day, GNOME 2.24 builds on top of a long series of successful six months releases to offer the best experience to users and developers. For more than 10 years now, the project has been seeing a tremendous amount of work. And as usual, it's hard to come back to a previous version of GNOME once you've tried GNOME 2.24, which is probably the best compliment the project can receive."
Open Source Census Tracks Enterprise Use of Open Source Globally
The Open Source Census, a global, collaborative project to collect and share quantitative data on the use of open source software, has announced in just six months more than 300,000 open source package/project installations have been discovered.OSU Open Source Lab announces Advisory Council
The Oregon State University's Open Source Lab has announced a new advisory council. "Featuring leaders from global open source projects and vendors such as Apache, Perl, Drupal, the Linux operating system, Google, Novell, Acquia and Joost, the advisors will assist the Open Source Lab with its overall strategy, service development and outreach to industry partners."
Commercial announcements
Atheros releases ath5k HAL code
Atheros has announced the release of the hardware abstraction layer code for its older adapters. "This can be used as a source of documentation to help ath5k move forward to support our 802.11abg chipsets as best as possible in the Linux kernel. We look forward to keep working strongly with the community on advancing support of all our Atheros chipsets under Linux." Since reproducing this HAL code was what necessitated the reverse engineering effort in the first place, this code will be useful for the ath5k developers. It's another sign that Atheros truly appears to have changed its ways.
Qt Software Introduces a New Release of Qt Extended
Qt Software has announced that Qtopia, a platform for creating user interfaces and applications for advanced consumer electronics based on Linux, has been renamed and launched as Qt Extended 4.4. ""Qt Extended is designed to accelerate software development for a wide range of consumer devices, such as video IP phones, media players and other advanced devices," said Sebastian Nystrom, Vice President of Qt Software, Nokia. "With the new release of Qt Extended, we are making it easier to differentiate the user experience and the feature set.""
VMware Workstation 6.5 announced
VMware has announced version 6.5 of VMware Workstation. "VMware Workstation 6.5 makes it simple to create and run multiple virtual machines on your desktop or laptop computer. You can convert an existing physical PC into a VMware virtual machine, or create a new virtual machine from scratch. Each virtual machine represents a complete PC, including the processor, memory, network connections and peripheral ports."
New Books
A new book about Python
Association AfPy has published the book Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziadé.
Meeting Minutes
Perl 6 Design Minutes (use Perl)
The minutes from the September 3, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meeting have been published. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 03 September 2008. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Jerry, Jesse, Nicholas, and chromatic attended."
Calls for Presentations
CeBIT Open Source: Linux Magazine and Linux Foundation Announce Call for Projects
Linux Magazine has the call for projects for CeBIT 2009. "Open Source is emerging for the first time as a central theme at the CeBIT 2009 conference. Linux Magazine, together with the conference organizers and the Linux Foundation, is now encouraging Open Source projects to bid for free booths at the conference. CeBIT 2009, the largest global IT trade show opens March 3-8 in Hannover, Germany."
PyCon 2009 Call for Proposals
The PyCon 2009 Call for Proposals has been announced. "Want to share your experience and expertise? PyCon 2009 is looking for proposals to fill the formal presentation tracks. The PyCon conference days will be March 27-29, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, preceded by the tutorial days (March 25-26), and followed by four days of development sprints (March 30-April 2)." Proposals are due by November 3.
PyCon 2009 - Call for Tutorials
A call for tutorials has gone out for PyCon 2009. "The period for submitting tutorial proposals for Pycon 2009 (US) is open and will continue through Friday, October 31th. This year features two "pre-conference" days devoted to tutorials on Wednesday March 25 & Thursday March 26 in Chicago. This allows for more classes than ever."
Upcoming Events
Beijing Perl Workshop - Nov 08, 2008 (use Perl)
use Perl has announced the Beijing Perl Workshop. "Qiang writes "just a quick announcement that PerlChina is going to host a Beijing Perl Workshop on Nov 08, 2008. It is jointly organized with the postgresql china that means there will be some postgresql talks as well. We have also secured few sponsorships to fly Jesse Vincent and two other postgresql hackers to the workshop."
International Hacking and Security Conference 'POC2008'
POC2008, the 3rd international hacking and security conference will take place in Seoul, Korea on November 13 and 14, 2008. "'POC' means 'Power of Community'. We believe that the power of community can make the world safer. POC doesn't pursue money. So we are free to show real hacking and security. POC2008 hates just theoretical discussion. POC2008 concentrates on technical and creative discussion and will show real hacking. POC2008 believes that showing talks much more than just speaking."
LinuxCon to be held in Portland, September, 2009
The Linux Foundation has announced that it will be organizing the new "LinuxCon" conference in Portland, Oregon in September, 2009; it will be co-located with the Linux Plumbers Conference. "LinuxCon will include paper-based technical conference sessions, tutorials, keynotes, a technology showcase and targeted mini-summits on topics such as mobile, desktop and embedded, and much more. The Linux Foundation will work with community and industry groups to provide a place for mini-summits and other collaboration vehicles." The release also notes that the Foundation has hired Ottawa Linux Symposium co-founder Craig Ross to work on events like LinuxCon.
OSDC 2008 Earlybird Registration is now open
Earlybird Registration for The Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 has been opened. The event takes place in Sydney, Australia on December 2-5. "OSDC 2008 is a conference run by open source developers, for developers and business people. It covers numerous programming languages across a range of operating systems, and related topics such as business processes, licensing, and strategy. Talks vary from introductory pieces through to the deeply technical."
VMware Announces VMworld Europe 2008
VMworld Europe 2008 has been announced. "VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, announced details of the second annual VMworld Europe 2009 conference to be held on 24-26 February 2009 at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, Cannes, France."
Events: October 9, 2008 to December 8, 2008
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 7 October 10 |
OWASP NYC AppSec 2008 Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| October 7 October 10 |
Linux-Kongress 2008 | Hamburg, Germany |
| 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 |
| November 10 November 14 |
Python Bootcamp with Dave Beazley | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| November 11 November 14 |
DeepSec IDSC 2008 | Vienna, Austria |
| November 12 November 14 |
php|works 2008 | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| November 12 November 13 |
PacSec Applied Security Conference | Tokyo, Japan |
| November 13 November 14 |
International Hacking and Security Conference | Seoul, Korea |
| November 14 November 16 |
OpenSQL Camp 2008 | Charlottesville, VA, USA |
| November 16 November 20 |
Middle East IT Security Conference | Dubai, UAE |
| November 19 November 20 |
Linux Foundation Japan Symposium | Tokyo, Japan |
| November 20 November 21 |
FreedomHEC Taipei 2008 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| November 22 | The phpnw08 conference | Manchester, UK |
| November 22 | PGDay Rio de la Plata | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| November 22 | Mandriva 2009 Installfest | Everywhere, World |
| November 25 November 29 |
FOSS.IN 2008 | Bangalore, India |
| November 25 November 30 |
make art 2008 | Poitiers, France |
| November 28 | Informazione geografica aperta e libera | Pontedera (PI), Italy |
| November 28 November 29 |
WhyFLOSS La Plata - Argentina | La Plata, Argentina |
| November 29 | LinuxDay in Vorarlberg (Deutschland, Schweiz, Liechtenstein und Österreich) | Dornbirn, Austria |
| December 1 | First Nuxeo Developer Day | Paris, France |
| December 1 December 2 |
Open World Forum | Paris, France |
| December 2 December 5 |
Open Source Developers' Conference 2008 | Sydney, NSW, Australia |
| December 4 December 7 |
PIKSEL08 - code dreams | Bergen, Norway |
| December 5 December 6 |
FOSSCamp | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| December 5 December 13 |
International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering | Online |
| December 7 December 12 |
Computer Measurement Group Conference 2008 | Las Vegas, NV, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
The Italian Perl Workshop 2008 has ended (use Perl)
use Perl has coverage of The Italian Perl Workshop 2008. "On September 18 and 19, 2008, the Italian Perl Workshop 2008 took place at the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa. It was a huge success; here are some numbers: 2 days of conference, 2 parallel tracks, more than 30 talks, 120 attendees, 20 sponsors, 3 patrons (Comune di Pisa, YAPC::Europe Foundation, Perl Foundation), and many international guests, including: Tim Bunce, Rafaël Garcia-Suarez, Marcus Ramberg and Matt S Trout."
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