Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for GPL violations
The Free Software Foundation has announced the filing of a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. "The FSF's complaint alleges that in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library. In doing so, Cisco has denied its users their right to share and modify the software."
FSFE adds Fellowship representation to General Assembly
The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced the addition of two Fellowship seats to the FSFE's General Assembly. "Today FSFE is announcing its revised constitution, adding two Fellowship Seats to its General Assembly. This will give Fellows of FSFE a direct representation in FSFE's strategic decision making body. The Fellowship is FSFE's larger community. Launched in 2005, it provides a meeting place with regular online and offline activities, a framework for activity and cooperation, a migration path into the organisation, and one of the most important ways of supporting FSFE's work in all areas, providing both resources and political support. Now the Fellowship also provides a path into the General Assembly."
Changes to the GNOME board
Jeff Waugh is leaving the GNOME board. "The GNOME Foundation Board regretfully announces that Jeff Waugh will be stepping down from the board in order to focus on work and other projects. The board thanks Jeff for his years of service to the board and the community, and wishes him success in his future work both inside and outside of GNOME. Jeff leaves big shoes to fill. Diego Escalante Urrelo will be joining the board as a new member for the remainder of this term."
Linux Fund partners with the gEDA and Gnash projects
The Linux Fund has announced support for the Gnash flash player project and the gEDA electronics design project. "Linux Fund is pleased to announce that it has begun fundraising to enable Gnash project developer Sandro Santilli to bring Real Time Messaging Protocol support to this open source Flash player. This project will enable users to enjoy streaming video from a number of popular web sites and the open source Red5, Cygnal and Dimdim servers. The Gnash/RTMP project joins the LiVES video editing project as part of Linux Fund's growing open media initiative."
Booking.com donates $50,000 to TPF (use Perl)
use Perl has announced a donation of $50K from Booking.com to The Perl Foundation. "Booking.com has donated $50,000 to The Perl Foundation, to aid in the further development and maintenance of the Perl programming language in general, and Perl 5.10 in particular. Booking.com is also donating hardware and sysadmin time to provide the servers for the new git master for Perl 5, which will go live in the next few days."
Upcoming X.org annual election
The X.org annual election has been announced. "The X.Org Foundation annual elections will begin in January 2009. We have chosen to shedule the election at the beginning of the calendar year to avoid some conflicts that resulted with the end-of-the-year elections held previously."
Commercial announcements
WIN Enterprises announces Intel Core 2 Duo Mini ITX motherboard
WIN Enterprises has announced a new Intel Core 2 Duo Mini ITX motherboard. "An IntelR Socket 479 CoreTM 2 Duo processor is supported by the Intel 965GME and ICH8M express chipsets. The IntelR 965GME mobile chipset (GMA X3100) supports dual independent display such CRT + LVDS, CRT+DVI. Through an IntelR 82573L Ethernet controller, the board supports two GbE LAN ports and the IEEE 802.3u standard for network connectivity. The onboard ICH8M chipset supports HD audio with mic in, line in and line out."
Wing IDE 3.1.6 released
Version 3.1.6 of Wing IDE, a cross-platform commercial Python IDE, has been announced. "Wingware has released version 3.1.6 of Wing IDE, a bugfix release for all three product levels of Wing IDE."
New Books
Advanced Software Testing, Vol. 2--New from Rocky Nook
Rocky Nook has published the book Advanced Software Testing, Vol. 2 by Rex Black.CMMI--New from Rocky Nook
Rocky Nook has published the book CMMI: Improving Software and Systems Development Processes Using Capability Maturity Model Integration by Ralf Kneuper.Using Drupal - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Using Drupal by Angela Byron, Addison Berry, Nathan Huag, Jeff Eaton, James Walker, and Jeff Robbins.Designing Gestural Interfaces - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Designing Gestural Interfaces by Dan Saffer.Real World Haskell - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Real World Haskell by Bryan O'Sullivan, John Goerzen, and Don Stewart.Universal Design for Web Applications - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Universal Design for Web Applications by Wendy Chisholm and Matt May.
Resources
Linux Foundation Newsletter
The December, 2008 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter has been published. "In this month's Linux Foundation newsletter: * IPv6 Workgroup Certifies Major Distros Compliant with DoD Mandates * Technical Advisory Board Elects New Members * Linux Foundation, Open Invention Network Co-Sponsor 'Linux Defenders' Program * Linux Foundation in the News * 2009 Linux Foundation Calendar of Events * Linux Foundation Sponsors FreedomHEC * Linux Foundation Holds Japan Symposium".
Education and Certification
OpenLogic launches training services for open-source software
OpenLogic has announced the launch of new open-source software training services. "OpenLogic, Inc., a provider of enterprise open source software solutions encompassing hundreds of open source packages, is launching a new series of open source training services that will help enterprises accelerate migration projects and new development using lower cost open source technologies. OpenLogic's customized, on-site classes provide expert training and advice based on proven industry best practices and years of experience working in mid sized and global 2000 companies."
Meeting Minutes
Perl 6 Design Meeting Minutes (use Perl)
The minutes from the December 3, 2008 Perl 6 Design Meeting have been published. "The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 03 December 2008. Allison, Patrick, Jerry, Jesse, and chromatic attended."
Calls for Presentations
EuroPython 2009 Call for Participation
A call for participation has gone out for EuroPython 2009. "On behalf of the EuroPython 2009 organisation it is my privilege and honour to announce the 'Call for Participation' for EuroPython 2009! EuroPython is the conference for the communities around Python, including the Django, Zope and Plone communities. This year's conference will be held in Birmingham, UK from Monday 29th June to Saturday 4th July 2009." The submission deadline is April 5.
O'Reilly OSCON Opens Call for Participation
A call for participation has gone out for the 2009 O'Reilly OSCON. "New times demand new ideas, and OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, has opened its call for innovation. O'Reilly Media and program chairs Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill invite proposals for tutorials, sessions, and panels for OSCON, happening July 20 - 24, 2009, in San Jose, CA." Submissions are due by February 3.
Upcoming Events
FSFE announces 4 weeks of translation sprint
The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced a translation sprint from December 15 through January 11. "The aim of this sprint is to provide information about Free Software and FSFE's work in as many languages as possible. As one of its most important means of communication with the public, FSFE hosts a web site at http://www.fsfeurope.org/. Translating the texts and making them available for people with different native languages has always been important, and thanks to the untiring work of dozens of volunteers all around Europe, the pages are available in up to 26 different languages."
O'Reilly Money:Tech speaker schedule announced
The speaker schedule for the 2009 O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference has been announced. The event takes place on February 4-6, 2009 in New York City.Save-the-Date: VMworld 2009
VMware has announced VMworld 2009. The event will take place in San Francisco, CA on September 1-4, 2009.Events: December 25, 2008 to February 23, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 27 December 30 |
Chaos Communication Congress | Berlin, Germany |
| January 8 January 11 |
Consumer Electronics Show | Las Vegas, NV, USA |
| January 9 January 11 |
Fedora User and Developer Conference | Boston, USA |
| January 15 January 16 |
Foundations of Open Media Software 2009 | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia |
| January 17 January 23 |
Camp KDE 2009 | Negril, Jamaica |
| January 19 January 24 |
linux.conf.au - penguins march south | Hobart, Australia |
| January 25 January 29 |
Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| January 25 January 28 |
GCC Research Opportunities | Paphos, Cyprus |
| January 31 | Greater London Linux Users Group meeting | London, UK |
| January 31 February 3 |
Black Hat Briefings DC | Arlington, VA, USA |
| February 4 February 5 |
DC BSDCon 2009 | Washington, D.C., USA |
| February 4 February 6 |
Money:Tech 2009 | New York, NY, USA |
| February 5 February 9 |
German Perl Workshop | Frankfurt, Germany |
| February 7 | Frozen Perl 2009 | Minneapolis, MN., USA |
| February 7 February 8 |
FOSDEM 2009 | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 9 February 11 |
O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing | New York, NY, USA |
| February 15 | Free Software Awards 2009 Deadline | Soissons, France |
| February 16 February 18 |
Open Source Singapore Pacific-Asia Conference | Singapore, Singapore |
| February 16 February 19 |
Black Hat DC Briefings 2009 | Washington, D.C., USA |
| February 20 | Demonstrating Open-Source Health Care Solutions | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| February 20 February 22 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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