Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
EFF: ASCAP makes outlandish copyright claims on cell phone ringtones
The Electronic Frontier Foundation speaks out on cell phone ring tone copyright claims. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged a federal court Wednesday to reject bogus copyright claims in a ringtone royalty battle that could raise costs for consumers, jeopardize consumer rights, and curtail new technological innovation."
KDE e.V. elects new board of directors (KDE.News)
KDE.News reports on the KDE e.V. board of directors election. "Adriaan de Groot was re-elected as vice president of KDE e.V. and two new board members have been elected: Celeste Lyn Paul, the leader of KDE's usability efforts, and Frank Karlitschek, the man behind KDE community web services such as KDE-Look.org and KDE-Apps.org. Karlitschek is also known for his efforts to introduce the Social Desktop to KDE. The new president of the KDE e.V. is Cornelius Schumacher, and Frank takes over the role of vice president and treasurer from Cornelius."
Linux Foundation hires new director of EMEA
The Linux Foundation has announced its new director of Europe, Middle East and Africa. "The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced it has appointed Axel Petrak as its new Director of Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Mr. Petrak will work with companies and community members in the region to facilitate collaboration on advancing Linux with activities such as exclusive events, training workshops, technical workgroups, and more."
Commercial announcements
Neptuny joins Red Hat Partner Program
Neptuny is the latest company to join Red Hat Partner Program. "Neptuny has extensive experience in developing its technologies on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and JBoss Enterprise Middleware. In particular, Neptuny recommends Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for CaplanTM, Neptuny's flagship product, which enables an industrialized approach to Capacity Planning."
Resources
Linux Gazette #164
Issue #164 of the Linux Gazette has been published. Topics include: Mailbag, Talkback, 2-Cent Tips, News Bytes, by Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff, Layer 8 Linux Security, by Lisa Kachold, Building the GNOME Desktop from Source, by Oscar Laycock, Joey's Notes: VSFTP FTP server on RHEL 5.x, by Joey Prestia, Our monthly column of basic Linux advice and education, Understanding Full Text Search in PostgreSQL, by Paul Sephton, A coverage of PostgreSQL full text search indexing, matching and ranking, Fedora 11 on the Eee PC 1000, by Anderson Silva, Sending and Receiving SMS from your Linux Computer, by Suramya Tomar, Ecol, by Javier Malonda, XKCD, by Randall Munroe and The Linux Launderette.
Contests and Awards
Akademy Awards 2009 (KDEDot)
KDE.News covers the Akademy Awards 2009. "The Akademy Awards for 2009 have been announced, celebrating the best of KDE contributors. As always the winners are chosen by the winners from the previous year."
Adrian Marriott wins ODBMS.ORG award
Adrian Marriott has won an ODBMS.ORG award. "ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto V. Zicari, today announced that Adrian Marriott, Principal Consultant, Progress Software Inc., was awarded the ODBMS.ORG Awards for the best Common Persistent Model Patterns for Performance and/or Scalability Optimization, for his pattern "Query Visitor". "Query Visitor represents a query to be performed on the elements of a persistent object structure."
Education and Certification
Python Bootcamp registration deadline
A Python bootcamp will be held on July 27-31 in Morrisville, NC, the registration deadline is July 24. "Just a reminder that there are only 3 weeks remaining to register for the Open Technology Group's Python Bootcamp, a 5 day hands-on, intensive, in-depth introduction to Python. This course is confirmed and guaranteed to run."
Calls for Presentations
OOoCon 2009 call for papers
A call for papers has gone out for OOoCon 2009. "The OpenOffice.org Annual Conference (OOoCon 2009) will be held in Orvieto, Italy from November 3, 2009 - November 6, 2009. The OpenOffice.org Community invites potential speakers to submit proposals for papers for OOoCon 2009. Whether you are a seasoned presenter, or have never stood up in public before, if you have something interesting to share about OpenOffice.org - we want to hear from you." Submissions are due by July 13.
PyCon India 2009
PyCon India 2009 will take place in Bengaluru, India on September 26-27, proposals are being accepted. "PyCon India is looking for proposals on all aspects of Python programming. We will accept a broad range of presentations, from reports on academic and commercial projects to tutorials and case studies. As long as the presentation is interesting and potentially useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the conference. All the talks will be within 45-60 minutes. There will also be a dedicated Lightning Talk session for talks no longer than five minutes."
CFP - Security Byte / OWASP Asia 2009
A call for papers has gone out for Security Byte / OWASP Asia 2009, the event takes place on November 17-18, 2009. "Securitybyte & OWASP AppSec Asia Conference is a forum where Ethical Hackers, Practitioners, Researchers, and Developers in Information Security field, gathers to showcase and exchange new Researches, Innovations, Practical ideas and Experiences. If you are developing, researching, or implementing practical solutions to protect Corporate or Government Information Infrastructures, please consider sharing your experience and expertise at this conference. First round of CFP submission is July 30th, 2009."
Upcoming Events
DjangoCon '09 announced
Early bird registration is open for the 2009 DjangoCon. "DjangoCon '09 will be in Portland, Oregon at the DoubleTree Green Hotel between 8th and 12th September. The first 3 days are conference days and the last 2 days are sprint days."
InsideMobile Conference early lineup posted
An early session lineup has been posted for the O'Reilly InsideMobile conference. "O'Reilly Media and 360|Conferences, co-producers of the InsideMobile Conference, today announced an early lineup of innovative sessions for the upcoming two-day event. During InsideMobile, leading smartphone app developers and experts share their knowledge and experiences building useful and innovative applications across multiple platforms. The event takes place July 26-27, 2009, at the eBay Conference Center in San Jose."
Italian Perl Workshop 2009 guests (use Perl)
use Perl has announced the guest speakers for the Italian Perl workshop. "The preparations for this year's Italian Perl workshop are hotting up, and thanks to the sponsors, we have invited some great guest speakers for the international tracks (in English):..."
Webinar: How to end IT bottleneck in application deployment and maintenance
rPath will hold a webinar entitled How to end IT bottleneck in application deployment and maintenance on July 16. "In an upcoming webinar sponsored by rPath and Active Endpoints, industry experts will explore what it takes to establish a self-service application deployment model. Attendees will also see a demonstration of a self-service process in action."
Events: July 16, 2009 to September 14, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 7 September 11 |
XtreemOS summer school | Oxford, UK |
| September 7 September 8 |
FRHACK.ORG IT Security Conference | Besançon, France |
| September 8 September 12 |
DjangoCon '09 | Portland, OR, USA |
| September 10 September 11 |
Fedora Developer Conference 2009 | Brno, Czech Republic |
| September 12 | Evil Robot Conference (Free Conference, Free Software) | Raleigh, NC, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Web sites
OpenNICTA has been launched
NICTA, Australia's ICT Research Centre of Excellence search, has launched the OpenNICTA open-source project portal. There are currently eleven software projects available on the site. (Thanks to Mark Tall).
Audio and Video programs
O'Reilly Webcast: 10 Ways to Wreck Your Database
O'Reilly will be holding a webcast entitled 10 Ways to Wreck Your Database on July 10. "Want to make sure your database loses data, duplicates records, and can only handle 5 transactions a minute? Want to make your application developers curse you, your sysadmin hate you, and get yourself fired without a reference? These ten database design techniques will set you on the road to downtime perdition and maintenance hell."
Miscellaneous
The Pragmatic Bookshelf launches a magazine
The Pragmatic Bookshelf announced the launch of the magazine PragPub. "PragPub editor Michael Swaine served for years as editor-in-chief and editor-at-large for the venerable "Dr. Dobb's Journal" and coauthored the seminal personal computer history book, "Fire in the Valley." Michael says, "There is a huge demand for timely information on current programming issues, but conventional magazine publishing can't keep up with the pace of change in software development."
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