Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
EFF: Thousands sign petition demanding cell phone freedom
The EFF has announced a successful petition drive. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) submitted a petition to the U.S. Copyright Office today signed by more than 8200 people demanding that the office lift the legal cloud hanging over cell phone customers who modify their phones. The petition was part of EFF's reply comment in the 2009 Copyright Office rulemaking, convened every three years to consider exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) ban on circumvention of digital rights management (DRM) restrictions."
Commercial announcements
Cray and atsec Achieve CC Security Certification of Cray Linux Environment
The Cray Linux Environment has achieved a CC Security Certification. "ray Inc. and atsec information security announced today that the Cray Linux Environment (CLE) has been certified by the National Information Assurance Partnership's (NIAP) Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme as conformant to EAL3+ (enhanced with Flaw Remediation ALC_FLR.1). This evaluation took into consideration a number of new functionalities: the Lustre network file system, Portals high-speed Remote DMA and the application placement scheduler ALPS. The evaluation covers Cray Linux Environment 2.1 running on the Cray XT4 and Cray XT5 computer systems."
HP Builds on the openSUSE Education Project
HP and Novell have created a repository of educational applications that is based on the work of the openSUSE Education project. From the announcement, it would seem there was some friction between the project and HP/Novell, so they are formally recognizing and thanking the project. "The openSUSE Education project provides an add-on CD for openSUSE so that schools will have the benefit of educational packages not shipped by default with openSUSE. The fact that HP has sought to include work from the Education project is testament to the outstanding quality of their work and the demand for open source education solutions." Click below for the full announcement.
LinuxForce partners with The Franklin Institute
LinuxForce has announced a partnership with The Franklin Institute. "LinuxForce, Inc., a leading Linux-based technology services firm and a thought-leader in the Linux and open-source technology spaces, today announced a major expansion of their technology partnership with The Franklin Institute. With this expansion, LinuxForce will be responsible for the maintenance, monitoring and security of three of The Franklin's key information systems including ten virtual servers. The new agreement is the culmination of a series of successful consulting projects during which LinuxForce assisted museum staff with the administration of these systems and demonstrated their ability to meet The Franklin's critical business needs."
New Books
SQL and Relational Theory - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book SQL and Relational Theory by C.J. Date.
Resources
Linux Gazette #159 is out
Linux Gazette #159 is now available. This issue has articles about rI18N (the Real Internationalization project), using the Red Hat rescue environment, the Hyperestraier indexing program, and more.
Contests and Awards
Trophees du Libre 2009 - Deadline Coming
A deadline for submissions has been announced for the 2009 Trophees du Libre free software awards. "The Cetril opened the request for projects concerning the "Trophées du Libre 2009" on January 30th, 2009. More than 60 projects are submitted so far. Our goal is to have more projects in 2009 than the total of 150 accepted in 2007. Deadline for submit[t]ing your project : 15th Feb[r]uary 2009".
Education and Certification
Tech Tuesdays: Free Training, Advice on Virtualizing Apps for the Cloud
rPath has announced the "Tech Tuesday" Webinar Series. "rPath today announced its official launch of Tech Tuesday, a series of semi-monthly webinars that provide free technical training and advice on how to build a complete virtual appliance and deploy it to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) using rPath's rBuilder Online. Each event is followed by an interactive Q&A session, allowing attendees to engage directly with rPath technical consultants."
Calls for Presentations
BruCON call for papers
A call for papers has gone out for BruCON. The event takes place on September 18-19, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium. Abstracts are due by March 15. "BruCON aims to become the best and most fun hacking (*) and security event in Belgium and W. Europe offering a high quality line up of speakers, opportunities of networking with peers, hacking challenges and workshops."
LinuxCon 2009 call for participation
LinuxCon 2009 - a new event - will be held in Portland, OR from September 21 to 25; it will be co-located with the Linux Plumbers Conference. "While there are many point developer conferences for Linux today, there is not a comprehensive and high quality gathering for developers and users of Linux to come together and collaborate. LinuxCon will do just this - bringing together the best and brightest the Linux community has to offer, including core developers, administrators, end users, community managers and industry experts." The call for papers is now open, with the deadline being April 15.
CFP - 2009 Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop
A call for papers has gone out for the 2009 Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop. "This year's storage and filesystem workshop is being held in San Francisco on April 6th and 7th. It's being held on the Monday and Tuesday immediately preceding the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, in the same hotel."
PyCon Italy 2009 cfp
A call for papers has gone out for PyCon Italy 2009. "PyCon Tre (http://www.pycon.it), the third edition of PyCon Italy, will take place in Florence from the 8th May to 10th May 2009. Confirmed keynote speakers so far include Guido Van Rossum, more to come. The Call for papers (http://www.pycon.it/pycon3/call-for-paper/) will be open from February, 9th, till March, 8th."
2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World call for papers (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has announced a call for papers for the 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. "Get your work in front of hundreds of Linux and middleware users, business owners, and industry veterans by becoming a session speaker at the 2009 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. Both events are co-located this year at the Hilton Chicago, and will take place Sept. 1-4, 2009. Space is limited, and submissions are due Monday, March 9th."
Upcoming Events
OpenOffice.org's presence at FOSDEM
Representatives from the OpenOffice.org office suite project will be at FOSDEM. "FOSDEM - the "the biggest, bestest (sic) Free and Open Source Software Developers' meeting in Europe" - takes place on 7th-8th February in Brussels, Belgium - and OpenOffice.org will be there! Check out the FOSDEM website for details of the OpenOff[]ice.org Dev room - http://www.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/devrooms/openofficeorg - where we look forward to meeting old friends, and introducing new developers to the exciting world of OpenOffice.org coding."
Financial aid for PyCon 2009 is now available
The Python Software Foundation has announced financial aid for PyCon 2009 attendants. "If you would like to come to PyCon but can't afford it, the PSF may be able to help you pay for registration, lodging/hotel costs and transportation".
SAHANA 09 Conference: Software for Disaster Management
The SAHANA 09 Conference on Software for Disaster Management will take place in Colombo, Sri Lanka on March 24-25. "The theme of the SAHANA 09 conference is "Software for Disaster Management". The conference will provide opportunities for anyone involved in Disaster and Emergency management to network and share best practices."
UKUUG Spring Conference and Kerberos Tutorial
The UKUUG Spring Conference and Kerberos Tutorial has been announced. "UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA) conference and Tutorial will be held in London at the Park Crescent Conference Centre from 24th to 26th March 2009."
O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference registration opens
Registration is open for the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference. "You can't go anywhere or do anything these days without finding one map or another, but location technology continues to grow far beyond those tools. See all the other directions location tech might take at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, May 19-21, 2009 in San Jose, CA. Program chair Brady Forrest has revealed the program, and registration has opened. An early registration discount remains available until March 31."
Events: February 12, 2009 to April 13, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| February 24 February 26 |
VMworld Europe 2009 | Cannes, France |
| February 25 February 27 |
German Perl Workshop | Frankfurt Main, Germany |
| February 27 | PHP UK Conference | London, UK |
| February 28 | Belgian Perl Workshop | Leuven, Belgium |
| February 28 | uCon Security Conference | Recife, Brazil |
| March 1 March 4 |
Global Ignite week | Online |
| March 3 March 8 |
CeBIT 2009 | Hanover, Germany |
| March 4 March 7 |
DrupalCon DC 2009 | Washington D.C., USA |
| March 6 | Dutch Perl Workshop | Arnhem, The Netherlands |
| March 7 | Ukrainian Perl Workshop 2009 | Kiev, Ukraine |
| March 8 March 11 |
Bossa Conference 2009 | Recife, Brazil |
| March 9 March 13 |
Advanced Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| March 9 March 12 |
O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| March 12 March 15 |
Pingwinaria 2009 - Polish Linux User Group Conference | Spala, Poland |
| March 14 | OpenNMS User Conference (Europe) 2009 | Frankfurt Main, Germany |
| March 14 March 15 |
Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2009 | Chemnitz, Germany |
| March 16 March 20 |
Android Bootcamp with Mark Murphy | Atlanta, USA |
| March 16 March 20 |
CanSecWest Vancouver 2009 | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| March 18 | Linuxwochen Österreich - Klagenfurt | Klagenfurt, Austria |
| March 21 March 22 |
Libre Planet 2009 | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 23 March 27 |
iPhone Bootcamp | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| March 23 April 3 |
Google Summer of Code '09 Student Application Period | online, USA |
| March 23 March 27 |
ApacheCon Europe 2009 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| March 24 March 26 |
UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference | London, England |
| March 25 March 29 |
PyCon 2009 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| March 27 March 29 |
Free Software and Beyond The World of Peer Production | Manchester, UK |
| March 28 | Open Knowledge Conference 2009 | London, UK |
| March 31 April 2 |
Solutions Linux France | Paris, France |
| March 31 April 3 |
Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 3 April 5 |
PostgreSQL Conference: East 09 | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| April 3 April 4 |
Flourish Conference | Chicago, IL, USA |
| April 6 April 8 |
CELF Embedded Linux Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 6 April 7 |
Linux Storage and Filesystem Workshop | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 8 April 10 |
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit | San Francisco, CA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Web sites
FSFE launches Free PDF Readers campaign
The FSFE has announced its new PDFreaders.org site. "The Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe is proud to announce its latest initiative: pdfreaders.org, a site providing information about PDF with links to Free Software PDF readers for all major operating systems. "Interoperability, competition and choice are primary benefits of Open Standards that translate into vendor-independence and better value for money for customers," says FSFE president Georg Greve. "Although many versions of PDF offer all these benefits for formatted text and documents, files in PDF formats typically come with information that users need to use a specific product. pdfreaders.org provides an alternative to highlight the strengths of PDF as an Open Standard.""
Audio and Video programs
Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008 videos
Videos of the talks at the Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2008 (held last November) have now been posted in Theora format. There is a long list of talks on a wide variety of topics - something for everybody.
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