Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
FSF announces EndSoftwarePatents.org phase II
The Free Software Foundation has announced funding for a new phase of the End Software Patents project. To that end, it is creating a catalog of studies, arguments, and legal analyses for use by those seeking to kill software patents. "For this new phase of End Software Patents work, the FSF has engaged veteran anti-software-patent lobbyist Ciaran O'Riordan, taking over from Ben Klemens as director of ESP. O'Riordan brings years of experience campaigning against software patents in the EU. This knowledge, combined with what was learned during the Bilski work, will form the starting point for a global information resource and campaign. The goal is make it easy for activists around the world to benefit from existing knowledge, often scattered and sometimes disappearing with time." Click below for the full announcement.
Linux Foundation Newsletter
The February, 2009 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter has been published. "In this month's Linux Foundation newsletter: * Collaboration Summit Agenda Announced * LinuxCon Call for Papers * New Style Connects Foundation Web Sites * "We're Linux" Video Contest Still Going Strong * Linux Foundation in the News * From The Director"
Two Linux Fund press releases
The Linux Fund has announced a partnership with Inkscape developer Milosz Derezynski and an expansion of its board of directors. Click below for both press releases.
Commercial announcements
Red Hat Sets Its Virtualization Agenda (Red Hat press release)
Red Hat has announced its virtualization strategy, which is based on moving away from Xen to KVM. "Red Hat's strategic direction for the future development of its virtualization product portfolio is based on KVM, making Red Hat the only virtualization vendor leveraging technology that is developed as part of the Linux operating system. Existing Xen-based deployments will continue to be supported for the full lifetime of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and Red Hat will provide a variety of tools and services to enable customers to migrate from their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Xen deployment to KVM."
World of Goo available for Linux
A Linux port of the commercial game World of Goo has been announced. It is DRM free and available for 64 bit systems as well as 32 bit systems.
* About 12% of Linux downloads are of the .rpm package, 30% are of the
.tar.gz package, and 57% are of the .deb package.
(Thanks to Joey Hess)
* More copies of the game were sold via our website on the day the Linux version released than any other day. This day beat the previous record by 40%. There is a market for Linux games after all :)
New Books
Java Web Services: Up and Running - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Java Web Services: Up and Running by Martin Kalin.
Resources
Coverity announces open-source application analysis site
Coverity has announced its new scan.coverity.com, which analyzes over 2500 open-source projects. "As an outgrowth of its contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Coverity collected this data via the Scan site using the Coverity Architecture Analyzer product. This new, publicly accessible resource includes application architecture files and generated diagrams that will benefit developers planning to incorporate open source packages in their applications, as well as developers that want to learn the architectures of successful projects to improve the structure of their own applications."
Education and Certification
Free Technology Academy set up
A new European Free Technology Academy has been launched. "A Consortium formed by three universities and led by the Free Knowledge Institute (FKI) has received the support from the EC's Lifelong Learning Programme to offer an international educational programme on Free Software. Following the Open Educational Resources movement, all learning materials will be freely available through the Internet. The use of Free Software (also referred to as Open Source software or Libre Software) is expanding rapidly in governmental and private organisations."
Calls for Presentations
CFP: EuroBSDCon 2009 - Cambridge, UK
A call for papers has gone out for EuroBSDCon 2009. The event will take place in Cambridge, UK on September 18-20, submissions are due by May 31. "The ninth European BSD conference is a great opportunity to present new ideas to the community and to meet some of the developers behind the different BSDs. The two day conference program (September 19 - 20) will be complemented by a tutorial day preceding the conference (Sept 18)."
Upcoming Events
DebConf10 to be in New York City
The announcement has gone out: DebConf10 will be held in New York City at an unspecified time in 2010. "In eleven years of DebConf history, this will be the first time that the Debian developer conference takes place in the United States of America, which had been avoided in previous years due to visa and other immigration issues. The NYC team had addressed those issues from the very start and submitted a very convincing bid."
Only one week left to register for FOSS Health 09 at earlybird rates (LinuxMedNews)
LinuxMedNews has posted a reminder that FOSS Health 09 early-bird registration ends this week. "This is the last week to register for FOSS Health 09 for the early-bird rate! It costs only $60 to register now, but it will change to $250 for later registration. This rate is specifically intended so that individual community members can attend cheaply." The event will be held in Houston, TX on July 31 - Aug 2.
Events: March 5, 2009 to May 4, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 14 | OpenClinica European Summit | Brussels, Belgium |
| April 15 | Linuxwochen Österreich - Krems | Krems, Austria |
| April 16 April 17 |
Nordic Perl Workshop 2009 | Oslo, Norway |
| April 16 April 19 |
Linux Audio Conference 2009 | Parma, Italy |
| April 16 April 18 |
Linuxwochen Austria - Wien | Wien, Austria |
| April 20 April 24 |
samba eXPerience 2009 | Göttingen, Germany |
| April 20 April 23 |
MySQL Conference and Expo | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| April 20 April 24 |
Perl Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| April 20 April 24 |
Cloud Slam '09 | Online, Online |
| April 22 April 25 |
ACCU 2009 | Oxford, United Kingdom |
| April 23 April 26 |
Liwoli 2009 | Linz, Austria |
| April 23 | Linuxwochen Austria - Linz | Linz, Austria |
| April 23 April 24 |
European Licensing and Legal Workshop for Free Software | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| April 25 May 1 |
Ruby & Ruby on Rails Bootcamp | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| April 25 April 26 |
LinuxFest Northwest 2009 10th Anniversary | Bellingham, Washington, USA |
| April 25 | Linuxwochen Austria - Graz | Graz, Austria |
| April 25 | Festival Latinoamericano instalación de Software libre | All Latin America, All Latin America |
| April 25 | Grazer Linux Tage 2009 | Graz, Austria |
| April 27 | OSDM 2009 | Bangkok, Thailand |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Audio and Video programs
Ignite launches weekly video series highlighting the best of geek culture
O'Reilly has announced the launch of the Ignite Show. ""Enlighten us, but make it quick" is the slogan of Ignite--a community event celebrating the passion and creativity of geek culture, sponsored by O'Reilly Media. Ignite events showcase a series of speakers who, in rapid succession, give five-minute talks on whatever ignites their passion. The format is half the fun with Ignite--speakers are allowed 20 slides that auto-forward every 15 seconds, whether they're ready or not. Organized by volunteers in the local geek community and presented free of charge to their communities, Ignite talks range from "How to Buy a Car" to "Hacking Chocolate" to "Transhuman Technology Trends.""
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