Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
EFF: Wiki Operator Sues Apple Over Bogus Legal Threats
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports that BluWiki is suing Apple. "Late last year, after BluWiki users began a discussion about making some Apple iPods and iPhones interoperate with software other than Apple's own iTunes, Apple lawyers demanded removal of the content. In a letter to OdioWorks, the attorneys alleged that the discussions constituted copyright infringement and a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA's) prohibition on circumventing copy protection measures. Fearing legal action by Apple, OdioWorks took down the discussions from the BluWiki site. OdioWorks filed the lawsuit today in order to vindicate its right to restore those discussions."
Commercial announcements
Ulteo releases Open Virtual Desktop 1.0
Ulteo has announced the release of version 1.0 of Open Virtual Desktop (OVD). "Now organizations can deliver to their PC users either Windows or Linux applications or a mix of the two on the same user desktop via the Ulteo Open Virtual Desktop."
New Books
Learning SQL, Second Edition - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Learning SQL, Second Edition by Alan Beaulieu.Programming Ruby 1.9--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Programming Ruby 1.9 by Dave Thomas.The Twitter Book -- New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein.
Resources
Android 1.5 firmware available
HTC (the manufacturer of the Android Dev Phone) has posted a set of Android 1.5 images for the ADP1. There's also reasonably straightforward instructions on flashing those images into a phone. So ADP1 owners can go to the new code now, rather more quickly than usual; for those who prefer the "JF" builds, a 1.5-based build is said to be forthcoming in the near future.
Calls for Presentations
RTLWS 2009 call for papers
A call for papers has gone out for the Eleventh Real-Time Linux Workshop (RTLWS 2009). The event takes place on September 28-30, 2009 in Dresden, Germany, submissions are due by May 18, "Authors are invited to submit original work dealing with general topics related to real-time Linux research, experiments and case studies, as well as issues of integration of real-time and embedded Linux. A special focus will be on industrial applications and safety related systems."
WOOT'09 call for papers
A call for papers has gone out for WOOT'09, the 3rd USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies. "WOOT '09 will be co-located with the 18th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '09), which will take place August 1014, 2009. Important Dates * Submissions due: May 26, 2009, 11:59 p.m. PDT".
Upcoming Events
Events: May 7, 2009 to July 6, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 |
| June 17 June 19 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, OR, USA |
| June 17 June 19 |
Conference on Cyber Warfare | Tallinn, Estonia |
| June 20 June 26 |
Beginning iPhone for Commuters | New York, USA |
| June 22 June 24 |
Velocity 2009 | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 22 June 24 |
YAPC|10 | Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| June 24 June 27 |
LinuxTag 2009 | Berlin, Germany |
| June 24 June 27 |
10th International Free Software Forum | Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| June 26 June 28 |
Fedora Users and Developers Conference - Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| June 26 June 30 |
Hacker Space Festival 2009 | Seine, France |
| June 28 July 4 |
EuroPython 2009 | Birmingham, UK |
| June 29 June 30 |
Open Source China World 2009 | Beijing, China |
| July 1 July 3 |
OSPERT 2009 | Dublin, Ireland |
| July 1 July 3 |
ICOODB 2009 | Zurich, Switzerland |
| July 2 July 5 |
ToorCamp 2009 | Moses Lake, WA, USA |
| July 3 July 11 |
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit (GUADEC/Akademy) | Gran Canaria, Spain |
| July 3 | PHP'n Rio 09 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| July 4 | Open Tech 2009 | London, UK |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Audio and Video programs
Linux Audio Conference 2009 videos available
Videos from the 2009 Linux Audio Conference have been posted (in Theora format). The video site is somewhat sparse in its commentary (OK, there's none at all), and the videos themselves show signs of minimal editing. But the essential information is there for audio enthusiasts who were unable to be at the conference.
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