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EFF: Broad Coalition Urges Obama to Diversify IP Appointments

The EFF is encouraging President Obama to diversify its IP positions beyond those with strictly commercial interests. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has joined a broad coalition of public interest groups and trade associations calling for President Obama to diversify future appointments to intellectual property policy positions and create new offices devoted to promoting innovation and free expression."

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OpenMoko GTA03 cancelled

Those who have been waiting for the next-generation OpenMoko phone (called "GTA03" or "3D7K") will be disappointed; OpenMoko has come to the conclusion that it will not be able to successfully complete the project. Instead, the company will work, for now, on making the FreeRunner phone actually work and on a mysterious "Project B". For more information, see this post by OpenMoko marketing chief Steve Mosher. "As it was defined, it is dead. So how do we get to a new GTA03? Two requirements: continue to improve GTA02; deliver on project B. What is GTA03 and when do we get there? There are a number of independent efforts out there that are pitching me ideas for GTA03. I talked to sean a bit about this and I'd like to try to open up more of the design process and the marketing process to the community." See also: the slides from Sean Moss-Pultz's ESC talk [PDF].

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Fixstars launches NVIDIA CUDA GPU software services

Fixstars has announced the launch of a NVIDIA CUDA GPU software services program. "Fixstars, as a multi-core solution company, is expanding its current application development, optimization service, and products to global customers exploiting the significant advantage from parallel computing with NVIDIA GPUs."

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Agile Web Development with Rails--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Agile Web Development with Rails by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson.

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Cloud Application Architectures - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Cloud Application Architectures by George Reese.

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Masterminds of Programming - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Masterminds of Programming by Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden.

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Linux Gazette #161

Issue #161 of the Linux Gazette has been announced.

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PyCon 2009 Survey waiting for you

A PyCon Survey is open through April for taking feedback from PyCon attendees.

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Python Classes in Chicago, May 11-15

David Beazley has announced two Chicago Python classes. "Just a friendly reminder that this is the last week to save $100 on the registration for the two Python courses I'm running in May in downtown Chicago: Introduction to Python, May 11-13, 2009 Python Concurrency Workshop, May 14-15, 2009"

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LinuxCon CFP submission deadline reminder - April 15th

A call for papers has gone out for LinuxCon, submissions are due by April 15. "LinuxCon is taking place September 21-23, 2009 in Portland, OR and is co-located with the Linux Plumbers Conference. LinuxCon will provide an unmatched collaboration and education space covering all matters Linux, and including everyone in the Linux community including developers, end users, sys admins, community and more."

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Call for participation: LIWOLI09

A call for participation has gone out for Liwoli 2009, the hacklab for art and open source. "Liwoli 2009 is a three day long Hacklab and an open invitation to all who would like to participate in an active process of learning, producing and sharing around the areas of Free/Libre Open Source Software and Art. FLOSS developers, artists and programmers such as the collective GOTO10 or activists from HAIP (Hack Act Interact Progress) and many others form the basis for the event and share their knowledge in the form of workshops, hacklabs, presentations, installations and performances." The event takes place in Linz, Austria on April 23-25.

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EUSecWest 2009

EUSecWest 2009 has been announced. "The third annual EUSecWest applied technical security conference - where the eminent figures in the international security industry will get together share best practices and technology - will be held in downtown London at the Sound Club in Leicester Square on May 27/28, 2009. The most significant new discoveries about computer network hack attacks and defenses, commercial security solutions, and pragmatic real world security experience will be presented in a series of informative tutorials."

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LayerOne 2009 - registration open

Registration is open for LayerOne 2009. "Anaheim, CA - The LayerOne computer security conference is pleased to announce that we have released our first round of speakers in addition to opening pre-registration for the general public. LayerOne is currently in its 6th year of operation and this year is shaping up to be one of our best events to date. This year's LayerOne event will be held over Memorial Day weekend, May 23-24 2009, at the newly renovated Anaheim Marriott."

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NLUUG spring conference 2009 registration opened

Registration is open for the NLUUG spring conference 2009, the event takes place on May 7 in Ede, The Netherlands. "A petabyte of storage weighs about as much as a small car, but a large physics experiment can fill that up in less than a week. The modern rate of data production and amount of data storage --and crucially also data search and retrieval-- have pushed the limits of computer storage and the traditional file system further and further back. The NLUUG Spring Conference 2009 focuses on storage and the means to organise it: file systems, physical storage, connections and search."

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O'Reilly Open Source Convention Reveals Program and Opens Registration

Registration has opened for the 11th OSCON, scheduled for July 20-24, 2009 in the new location of the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California. The early registration period is open until June 2.

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PyCon Italy 2009: early bird deadline is April 13

Early-bird registration closes soon for PyCon Tre. "The early-bird registration deadline for PyCon Tre (PyCon Italy 2009) is April 13th, just a few days from now. The conference will take place in Florence from May 8th till May 10th 2009, and features guests like Guido Van Rossum, Alex Martelli, Raymond Hettinger, Fredrik Lundh and Antonio Cangiano."

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Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2010 (use Perl)

use Perl has published a Call for Venue for YAPC::Europe::2010. "BooK writes "While YAPC::Europe 2009 preparations are well underway in Lisbon, it is time for the YAPC::Europe Foundation (YEF) to look for suitable sites for the 2010 conference. Any dedicated group interested in hosting YAPC::Europe 2010 should send a brief statement of intent to venue@yapceurope.org. This should be followed by a complete application. The deadline for applications is June 30, 2009."

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Events: April 16, 2009 to June 15, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
June 8 June 12	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn	Atlanta, GA, USA
June 10 June 11	FreedomHEC Taipei	Taipei, Taiwan
June 11 June 12	ShakaCon Security Conference	Honolulu, HI, USA
June 12 June 13	III Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero	Bologna, Italy
June 12 June 14	Writing Open Source: The Conference	Owen Sound, Canada
June 13	SouthEast LinuxFest	Clemson, SC, USA
June 14 June 19	2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	San Diego, USA

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Ubuntu Podcast - Mark Shuttleworth

Ubuntu Podcast features a video interview with Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth. "Mark Shuttleworth joins us for a video podcast to discuss the upcoming 9.04 release, Ubuntu history, Linux on the desktop, impacts of cloud computing, Ayatana, the community and Ubuntu, Ubuntu and Canonical, Google Summer of Code, Ubunet, and much more!"

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