Announcements

A revised GCC runtime library exception

The Free Software Foundation has posted a revised version of the new GCC runtime library exception. There's no description of the changes, but the new text is short and easy to read. Essentially, it seems to specifically equate Java virtual machine code with human-readable languages, meaning that Java byte code can be processed through GCC and still link against the runtime library.

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Newest member of the Linux Foundation - credativ

The Linux Foundation has announced credativ as its newest member. "credativ, an independent consulting and services company focused on free software and open standards, will participate in advancing the Linux Standard Base (LSB), which establishes common standards across the different Linux distributions. Additionally, as one of Europe's largest employers of Debian developers, credativ has a particular interest in encouraging collaboration focused around Debian development."

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Rackable Systems acquires SGI

SGI has announced that it has been acquired by Rackable Systems Inc. The purchase price is "approximately $25 million."

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Beautiful Teams - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Beautiful Teams by Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene.

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Java SOA Cookbook--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Java SOA Cookbook by Eben Hewitt.

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"Advanced Scientific Programming in Python" Summer School in Berlin

The Advanced Scientific Programming in Python Summer School will be held in Berlin, Germany from August 31 - September 4, 2009. "Many scientists spend much of their time writing, debugging, and maintaining software. But while techniques for doing this efficiently have been developed, only few scientists actually use them. As a result, they spend far too much time writing deficient code and reinventing the wheel instead of doing research. In this course we present a selection of advanced programming techniques with theoretical lectures and practical exercises tailored to the needs of the programming scientist."

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Perl Fundamentals DVD out (use Perl)

use Perl has announced the availability of a Perl educational DVD. "Peter Scott has just created a learning Perl DVD, published by Addison Wesley. 4+ hours of Perl instruction on screencast with video of the author introducing each lesson. This is an introduction to Perl for the student who learns by example and prefers a visual and/or auditory style."

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DeepSec 2009 - Call for Papers is open

A call for papers has gone out for DeepSec 2009. "The DeepSec organisation is happy to announce the Call for Papers for the next conference in November 2009. The conference will take place at the Imperial Riding School Renaissance Hotel in Vienna, Austria." Submissions are due by July 15.

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FOSS.IN 2009 announcement and call for participation

FOSS.IN 2009 has been announced. "FOSS.IN/2009 will be held on December 1-5, 2009 (Tuesday through Saturday) at Bangalore's largest and most modern conference venue - the NIMHANS Convention Centre." The first call for participation has gone out for the event.

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EuroDjangoCon 09 registration is open

EuroDjangoCon registration is open. "Just to let you know you can still register for EuroDjangoCon '09. The other levels of prices were scrapped and instead we're just going with the early bird rates. It will be in Prague on May 4th - 6th (conference days) and 7th - 8th (sprint days). The venue has changed to the Iris Congress Hotel and the conference is now single track."

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Linux Plumbers Conference 2009 registration opens

Registration for the 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference - September 23-25, Portland - is open. "For those new to the conference, the Linux Plumbers Conference was created to bring together key developers involved in Linux plumbing - the 'Linux plumbers' - and give them an opportunity to discuss problems face-to-face, both within subsystems and across subsystems."

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Events: April 9, 2009 to June 8, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
May 4 May 8	JavaScript/Ajax Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
May 4 May 7	RailsConf 2009	Las Vegas, NV, USA
May 4 May 6	EuroDjangoCon 2009	Prague, Czech Republic
May 4 May 6	SYSTOR 2009---The Israeli Experimental Systems Conference	Haifa, Israel
May 5	Linuxwochen Austria - Salzburg	Salzburg, Austria
May 6 May 9	Libre Graphics Meeting 2009	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
May 6 May 8	Embedded Linux training	Maynard, USA
May 7	NLUUG spring conference	Ede, The Netherlands
May 8 May 10	PyCon Italy 2009	Florence, Italy
May 8 May 9	Linuxwochen Austria - Eisenstadt	Eisenstadt, Austria
May 8 May 9	Erlanger Firebird Conference 2009	Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
May 11	The Free! Summit	San Mateo, CA, USA
May 13 May 15	FOSSLC Summercamp 2009	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
May 15 May 16	CONFidence 2009	Krakow, Poland
May 15	Firebird Developers Day - Brazil	Piracicaba, Brazil
May 16 May 17	YAPC::Russia 2009	Moscow, Russia
May 18 May 19	Cloud Summit 2009	Las Vegas, NV, USA
May 19 May 22	PGCon PostgreSQL Conference	Ottawa, Canada
May 19	Workshop on Software Engineering for Secure Systems	Vancouver, Canada
May 19 May 22	php|tek 2009	Chicago, IL, USA
May 19 May 21	Where 2.0 Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
May 19 May 22	SEaCURE.it	Villasimius, Italy
May 21	7th WhyFLOSS Conference Madrid 09	Madrid, Spain
May 22 May 23	eLiberatica - The Benefits of Open Source and Free Technologies	Bucharest, Romania
May 23 May 24	LayerOne Security Conference	Anaheim, CA, USA
May 25 May 29	Ubuntu Developers Summit - Karmic Koala	Barcelona, Spain
May 27 May 28	EUSecWest 2009	London, UK
May 28	Canberra LUG Monthly meeting - May 2009	Canberra, Australia
May 29 May 31	Mozilla Maemo Mer Danish Weekend	Copenhagen, Denmark
May 31 June 3	Techno Security 2009	Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
June 1 June 5	Python Bootcamp with Dave Beazley	Atlanta, GA, USA
June 2 June 4	SOA in Healthcare Conference	Chicago, IL, USA
June 3 June 5	LinuxDays 2009	Geneva, Switzerland
June 3 June 4	Nordic Meet on Nagios 2009	Stockholm, Sweden
June 6	PgDay Junín 2009	Buenos Aires, Argentina

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FSF releases audio recording of LibrePlanet conference

Audio recordings are available for the LibrePlanet conference. "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released the complete audio recordings from the first day of the LibrePlanet GNU/Linux conference, held on March 21, 2009, in Cambridge, MA. The recordings include a talk given by Samba's Jeremy Allison on Microsoft and its relationship with the free software community, and Gnash developer Rob Savoye announcing the Cygnal project -- a rich media server with features roughly compatible with the Flash Media Server. Two members of the autonomo.us group, Evan Prodromou and FSF director Mako Hill, spoke about efforts to engineer for free network services and the successful launch of the micro-blogging service identi.ca."

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