Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
FSF welcomes AdBard network for free software advertising
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has welcomed the launch of AdBard, a new advertising network for technology based websites based upon the promotion of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) friendly products and services. "The AdBard Network has been created by Tag1 Consulting to serve websites dedicated to free software ideals, helping them connect with companies selling products and services targeting a FLOSS audience. AdBard solves the problem that more generic advertising has led to the display of proprietary software products on sites that otherwise promote computer user freedom."
More changes at Openmoko
Sean Moss-Pultz has sent out an announcement on the future of Openmoko and the Freerunner phone. It seems that Openmoko has laid off much of its remaining staff and is getting out of the phone business. As part of that transition, it will be handing over as much information to the community as possible. "I am extremely excited about the idea of an entirely community-built open phone. Especially since, when the next design is complete, it will have the benefits of everything uncovered since the Freerunner shipped last July. It will be buzz free, glamo free, and free of the recamping bug (#1024) - which I am happy to announce has been solved this past week. We promise to support these efforts with additional resources such as components to build prototypes of the new design. We will help to empower you to build the open phone of our future." Meanwhile, Openmoko is headed off to work on "an altogether different type of device." (Thanks to Timo Jyrinki).
Happy ten thousandth anniversary to PLplot
The PLplot project has announced a new milestone: "PLplot is a cross-platform software package for creating scientific plots that has been in continuous development since its inception 17 years ago. On May 23, 2009 the PLplot developers quietly celebrated our ten thousandth commit since our initial software repository was populated back in May 1992."
Commercial announcements
Universal software radio peripheral 2 available
Version 2 of the Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) is now available for purchase. The USRP, in combination with GNU Radio, can be used to create a wide variety of software-driven radio devices. See the brochure [PDF] for more information on this device.
New Books
The Art of Concurrency - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book The Art of Concurrency by Clay Bresheaers.Regular Expressions Cookbook--New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Regular Expressions Cookbook by Jan Goyvaerts and Steven Levithan.Web 2.0 Architectures - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Web 2.0 Architectures by James Governor, Dion Hinchcliffe and Duane Nickull.
Calls for Presentations
CFP 26C3 / 26th Chaos Communication Congress
A call for papers has gone out for the 26th Chaos Communication Congress. "[26C3] is the annual four-day conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in Berlin, Germany. First held in 1984, it since has established itself as "the European Hacker Conference" attracting a diverse audience of thousands of hackers, scientists, artists, and utopists from all around the world." The event takes place on December 27-30, submissions are due by October 9.
ACSAC 2009 submissions deadline extended
The ACSAC 2009 submissions deadline has been extended to June 8 and June 10, the event takes place in Honolulu, HI on December 7-11, 2009. "ACSAC is an internationally recognized forum where practitioners, researchers, and developers in information system security meet to learn and to exchange practical ideas and experiences. If you are developing practical solutions to problems relating to network, system and information security, the[n] you should consider submitting your work to ACSAC and attending in December."
FRHACK 2009 final call for papers extended
The final call for papers FRHACK 2009 has been extended to June 30. The event takes place in Besançon, France on September 7-11, 2009.2009 SELinux Developer Summit Call for Participation
A call for participation has gone out for the 2009 SELinux Developer Summit. "The summit will be held Sunday September 20th in Portland as part of LinuxCon. Note that all attendees must be registered as attendees of LinuxCon. Primary topics for this year's summit will be extensibility and usability, with a flexible format to include interactive talks and development sessions." Submissions are due by July 1.
Upcoming Events
DebConf11 in your city
A call for location has gone out for DebConf11. "Every year, the location for DebConf, the annual international Debian conference, is selected via a competitive bid process. Although we haven't got to DebConf9 yet, organising a conference isn't quick, so it's already time to start thinking about a location for DebConf11. We encourage everyone to think about whether their city would make a good DebConf location, and, if it would, to start working on a proposal."
EuroSciPy 2009 - presentation schedule published
The presentation schedule for EuroSciPy 2009 has been published. "We have 16 talks from a variety of scientific fields. All about using Python for scientific work. We're pleased to announce the EuroSciPy 2009 Conference to be held in Leipzig, Germany on July 25-26, 2009."
LPI's 10th anniversary at LinuxTag Berlin
LPI will celebrate its 10th anniversary at LinuxTag Berlin on June 24-27, 2009. "The Linux Professional Institute, the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced a program of events and activities at LinuxTag, Berlin, Germany in celebration of the organization's 10th anniversary. Events during the conference have been organized by LPI affiliate, LPI-Central Europe and feature an information booth, seminars, forums, training partner and affiliate meetings, the ever popular and traditional exam labs, and finally social events."
Announcing the PyPy Europython Sprints
The PyPy Europython Sprints have been announced. "The PyPy team is sprinting at EuroPython again. This year there are `sprint days`_ before (28-29 June) and after (3-4 July) the conference. Some PyPy core people should be present during both periods."
Events: June 11, 2009 to August 10, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| August 3 August 5 |
YAPC::EU::2009 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| August 7 August 9 |
UKUUG Summer 2009 Conference | Birmingham, UK |
| August 7 | August Penguin 2009 | Weizmann Institute, Israel |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Web sites
savannah.gnu.org status
The server that hosts GNU and other projects, savannah.gnu.org had a catastrophic failure over the weekend. A message in the savannah-users mailing list describes the problems with a RAID array which eventually led to filesystem corruption. This took out the source code repositories for the projects hosted there. "The last backup was performed while RAID was buggy, and lots of files were reported missing, in particular for CVS/SVN/Git/Hg. Hence the last backup is incomplete. [...] And, our last full backup from tape is from end of April. Normally tape backups are more recent, but there were independent backup issues. We've not discussed since in detail as we're focusing on recovering the data asap." Status updates are available via fsfstatus on identi.ca. (thanks to David P. Reed).
Miscellaneous
Bilski case going to the U.S. Supreme Court
Scotusblog reports that the Bilski case will be reviewed by the US Supreme Court. "Not since 1981 has the Supreme Court undertaken to spell out the kinds of inventions that are eligible for patent rights that is, the right to produce or use an invented device or process, or to license it to others for royalties. Much has changed since the Courts decision in Diamond v. Diehr in 1981, not least the digital revolution."
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