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EFF Launches 'Teaching Copyright' to correct entertainment industry misinformation

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced the release of the 'Teaching Copyright' Curriculum. "As the entertainment industry promotes its new anti-copying educational program to the nation's teachers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today launched its own "Teaching Copyright" curriculum and website to help educators give students the real story about their digital rights and responsibilities on the Internet and beyond."

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Wikipedia to change licenses

Last November, version 1.3 of the GNU Free Documentation License gave Wikipedia a special permission to switch to the Creative Commons attribution-sharealike license license. The Wikimedia Foundation has now announced the result of the community's vote on the license change; over 75% (of over 17,000 voters) voted in favor. So it's now official: Wikimedia's sites will switch away from the FDL on June 15.

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Gruppo Amadori to roll out Linux-based desktops

IBM has announced a new Linux deployment by the Italian wholesale food distributor Gruppo Amadori. "About 1,000 of the company's 6,000 employees access PCs to help manage the production, processing, and delivery logistics of its poultry products for customers within Italy and internationally. In 2009, some of these employees will move to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop client operating system and IBM Lotus Symphony, open standards-based word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. For its collaboration services, the company is moving from Microsoft Exchange to an IBM Lotus Notes and Domino environment hosted on Red Hat Enterprise Linux."

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The Geek Atlas--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book The Geek Atlas by John Graham-Cumming.

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Linux Foundation Newsletter

The May, 2009 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter has been published. Topics include: "* Linux Foundation Launches Linux.com * Linux is in the Clouds * Moblin v2 Beta Released to Public * LF Announces LinuxCon Keynotes * New Training Courses Revealed * End User Summit Dates, Venue Announced * Linux Foundation in the News * Video from Collab Summit Available".

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Wietse Venema and Creative Commons win FSF awards

The annual Free Software Foundation Awards have been announced. "Creative Commons was honored with the Award for Projects of Social Benefit, and Wietse Venema was honored with the Award for the Advancement of Free Software. Presenting the awards was FSF founder and president Richard Stallman. The FSF Award for Projects of Social Benefit is presented annually to a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society by applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life."

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Nominations open for White Camel Awards 2009 (use Perl)

Nomination are being accepted for the 2009 Perl White Camel awards. "Every year the White Camels are presented for service to the Perl community. If you look at the previous winners, you'll notice that these are mostly unsung heroes, like previous awardee Eric Cholet, the human moderator of so many Perl mailing lists, or Jay Hannah, one of the people running pm.org (if you ever created/maintained a pm group, chances are that Jay walked you through the process)."

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Survey: Linux on the Desktop (Freeform Dynamics)

Freeform Dynamics has conducted a survey on desktop Linux usage in business. "Desktop Linux adoption is primarily driven by cost reduction. When asked during a recent online survey of over a thousand IT professionals with experience of desktop Linux deployment in a business context, over 70% of respondents indicated cost reduction as the primary driver for adoption. Ease of securing the desktop and a general lowering of overheads associated with maintenance and support were cited as factors contributing to the benefit. But deployment is currently limited, and challenges to further adoption frequently exist. The majority of desktop Linux adopters have only rolled out to less than 20% of their total PC user base at the moment, though the opportunity for more extensive deployment is clearly identified. In order for Linux to reach its full potential in an organisation, however, it is necessary to pay particular attention to challenges in the areas of targeting, user acceptance and application compatibility."

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Linux-Kongress 2009 CFP

Linux-Kongress will return to Hamburg, Germany in 2009; the conference dates are September 22 through 25. The call for papers is out now, with submissions due by July 26. "Linux-Kongress is by far one of the most traditional Linux conferences with a focus on cutting edge development. In 2009 GUUG will organize the 16th edition of this event, first started 1994 in Heidelberg. Linux-Kongress made its trip through a variety of German cities, Netherlands and on the English isle (LinuxConf Europe). Since its start 15 years ago Linux-Kongress has been evolved into the most important meeting for Linux experts and developers in Europe." OSDevCon will be happening in Hamburg at the same time.

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Montreal Linux Power Management Mini-Summit announced

The Montreal Linux Power Management Mini-Summit will take place on July 13, 2009 during the Linux Symposium. "This is an opportunity for members of the Linux Power Management development community to meet face-to-face to discuss the future." A call for agenda topics has been posted.

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Extended Deadline: openSUSE Conference 2009 Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 2009 openSUSE conference has been extended until June 5. The conference will be held September 17th through 20th in Nuremberg, Germany. The conference has multiple tracks covering desktops, servers, toolchains, community, and more. "The summit will be an opportunity to bring the openSUSE contributor community together to share ideas, experience, hack, and help guide the direction of the project." Click below for the full announcement.

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Request for proposals: PostgreSQL Conference 2009 Japan

A request for proposals has gone out for the PostgreSQL Conference 2009 Japan. "This Conference will provide an excellent chance to get to know the Japanese PostgreSQL market. So, Please come to the international Conference on PostgreSQL held for the first time in Japan. PostgreSQL Conference 2009 Japan will be held on November 20 and 21, 2009 at AP Hamamatsucho (Tokyo)." Submissions are due by June 30.

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ICOODB 2009 announced

Registration is open for the 2009 International Conference on Object Databases (ICOODB). "The conference will take place on 1-3 July 2009 at ETH Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland."

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LinuxCon speakers and presentations announced

LinuxCon has announced its speakers and presentations. The event will be held in Portland, OR on September 21-23, 2009.

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Events: June 4, 2009 to August 3, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
July 6 July 10	Python African Tour : Sénégal	Dakar, Sénégal
July 7 July 11	Libre Software Meeting	Nantes, France
July 13 July 17	(Montreal) Linux Symposium	Montreal, Canada
July 15 July 17	Kernel Conference Australia 2009	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
July 15 July 16	NIT Agartala FOSS and GNU/Linux fest	Agartala, India
July 18 July 19	Community Leadership Summit	San Jose, CA, USA
July 19 July 20	Open Video Conference	New York City, USA
July 19	pgDay San Jose	San Jose, CA, USA
July 20 July 24	2009 O'Reilly Open Source Convention	San Jose, CA, USA
July 24 July 30	DebConf 2009	Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain
July 25 July 30	Black Hat Briefings and Training	Las Vegas, NV, USA
July 25 July 26	EuroSciPy 2009	Leipzig, Germany
July 25 July 26	PyOhio 2009	Columbus, OH, USA
July 26 July 27	InsideMobile	San Jose, CA, USA
July 31 August 2	FOSS in Healthcare unconference	Houston, TX, USA

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RailsConf 2009 gives practical tools for success

O'Reilly presents an event report from the recent RailsConf 2009. "RailsConf 2009, the annual event for the Ruby on Rails community held May 4-7 in Las Vegas, gave new and experienced Rails users practical tools for staying agile and competitive in an industry being transformed by fast-paced innovation. For four intense days, developers engaged directly with more than 100 expert speakers, learning how to exploit the popular framework's newest features to solve problems and build businesses."

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Racetrack 1.0 repository announced

VMware has announced the first public release of the Racetrack Repository. "Racetrack is a designed to store and display the results of automated tests. At VMware, over 2,000,000 test results have been stored in Racetrack Repository. Over 25 different teams use the repository to report results. It has a very simple data model, just three basic tables. ResultSet (stores information about a set of tests (Product, Build, etc.) Result, which stores information about the testcase itself, and ResultDetail, which stores the details of each verification performed within the test. ResultDetails also include screenshots and log files, make it easy for the triage engineer to determine the cause of the failure."

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