Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections preliminary results
The preliminary results from the spring 2009 GNOME Board of Directors Foundation Elections have been announced. "If the results are not challenged, then the elected directors will be: Behdad Esfahbod Brian Cameron Diego Escalante Urrelo Germán Póo-Caamaño Lucas Rocha Srinivasa Ragavan Vincent Untz".
New Books
Complete Web Monitoring - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Complete Web Monitoring by Alistair Croll and Sean Power.Even Faster Web Sites - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Even Faster Web Sites by Steve Souders.The Myths of Security - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book The Myths of Security by John Viega.Natural Language Processing with Python - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Natural Language Processing with Python by Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, and Edward Loper.Ruby Best Practices - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Ruby Best Practices by Gregory Brown.
Resources
Open Database License v1.0
Version 1.0 of the Open Database License is now official. This is the license that the OpenStreetMap project proposes to move to; the current plan envisions a vote being held almost right away, followed by a 2-3 month transition.
Calls for Presentations
Linux.conf.au 2010 call for papers is now open
The call for papers for linux.conf.au 2010 is now open. The conference will be held in Wellington, New Zealand, January 18-23, 2010. "linux.conf.au isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical conference about Free and Open Source Software, held annually in Australasia since 2001 - covering everything from the Linux Kernel and the BSDs to OpenOffice.org, from networking to audio-visual magic, from hardware hacks to Creative Commons."
PostgreSQL Conference West 2009 Call for Papers
A call for papers has gone out for the PostgreSQL Conference West 2009. "The PostgreSQL Conference U.S. team is pleased to announce the West 2009 venue and call for papers. This year the premiere West Coast PostgreSQL Conference will be leaving its roots at Portland State University and moving north to sunny Seattle, Washington. The event this year is being held at Seattle Central Community College from October 16th through 18th."
Upcoming Events
LinuxCon detailed schedule and program announced
The schedule and program for LinuxCon has been announced, the event will take place in Portland, OR on September 21-23, 2009. "LinuxCon is the new annual technical conference that will provide an unmatched collaboration and education space for all matters Linux, bringing together the best technical talent, decision makers and industry experts in the Linux community."
Ohio Linux Fest - Back to the Future of Linux! (LXer)
LXer looks forward to the Ohio Linux Fest. "The Ohio Linux community continues its forward march and is gaining momentum every year. Each year brings a new group of speakers and generates more excitement-2009 will be no exception! The seventh annual Ohio LinuxFest will be on September 25-26, 2009 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, in downtown Columbus, Ohio."
pyArkansas 2009 announced
pyArkansas 2009 has been announced. "pyArkansas 2009 is set for Saturday, November 14 and is once again being hosted by our friends in the Computer Science Department at the University of Central Arkansas. This year we are planning classes GIS, Image Processing using Jython, Introduction to Python and Django. More details will be announced as we continue, but I wanted to get the date announced to the community."
Announcing the SciPy 2009 student sponsorship
student sponsorship is available for SciPy 2009. "I am pleased to announce that the Python Software Foundation is sponsoring 10 students' travel, registration, and accommodation for the SciPy 2009 conference (Aug. 18-23). The focus of the conference is both on scientific libraries and tools developed with Python and on scientific or engineering achievements using Python."
Events: July 9, 2009 to September 7, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| July 3 July 11 |
Gran Canaria Desktop Summit (GUADEC/Akademy) | Gran Canaria, Spain |
| 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 |
| August 10 August 14 |
USENIX Security Symposium | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| August 11 August 13 |
Flash Memory Summit | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| August 11 | FOSS Dev Camp - Open Source World | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| August 12 August 13 |
OpenSource World Conference and Expo | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| August 12 August 13 |
Military Open Source Software | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| August 13 August 16 |
Hacking At Random 2009 | Vierhouten, The Netherlands |
| August 18 August 23 |
2009 Python in Science Conference | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| August 22 August 23 |
Free and Open Source Conference (FrOSCon) | St. Augustin, Germany |
| August 22 August 23 |
OpenSQL Camp | St. Augustin, Germany |
| August 31 September 4 |
Ubuntu Developer Week | Internet, Internet |
| September 1 September 4 |
JBoss World Chicago | Chicago, IL, USA |
| September 1 September 4 |
Red Hat Summit Chicago | Chicago, IL, USA |
| September 1 September 5 |
DrupalCon | Paris, France |
| September 4 September 5 |
PyCon 2009 Argentina | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Audio and Video programs
O'Reilly Webcast: Managing and Growing Open Source in the Enterprise
O'Reilly will hold a webcast on July 7: "Managing & Growing Open Source in the Enterprise: Advice from the Trenches Presented by Carol J. Rizzo and Rod Cope. What are the key elements essential to maintaining effective policies and growing open source usage safely in medium to large enterprises? In this webcast, Carol Rizzo, past CTO of Kaiser Permanente, AIG and CitiGroup, and Rod Cope, the founder and CTO of OpenLogic share their experiences and insights about using open source in the enterprise. This includes creating an effective enterprise open source software governance program that includes strategy, policy, inventory, approvals, and auditing, with plenty of time for q&a."
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