Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
The 2008 GNOME annual report
The GNOME Foundation has put out a glossy, 35-page annual report, available as a 19MB PDF file. There's a lot of information on what has been going on in the GNOME community and budgetary details as well.The University of São Paulo to support Openmoko?
It would seem that Jon 'maddog' Hall has gotten the University of São Paulo interested in supporting the ongoing development of the Openmoko phone platform. Among other things, the university has a fancy surface-mount prototyping facility and a fair amount of telecommunications experience to offer. "Dr. Zuffo has discussed the Openmoko project with the Minister of Telecommunications of Brazil, and the Minister is very enthusiastic about the concept. Having the support of the government of the twelfth largest economy behind the project might really help us with various negotiations with vendors."
Commercial announcements
Ingres makes MySQL transition a breeze
Ingres has announced EasyIngres. "Ingres Corporation, the leading open source database company, announced the creation of EasyIngres, an Ingres developer community product that helps PHP developers easily create applications using Ingres and simplifies the transition from MySQL to Ingres. This development kit comes at a critical time when MySQL developers are on stand-by waiting to see the outcome of Oracle's purchase of Sun. EasyIngres allows those developers the opportunity to build on their existing knowledge of PHP and add a new set of mission-critical database development skills to their resumes."
New release of Mozilla Lightning and SOGo
Inverse has announced new releases of Mozilla Lightning and SOGo. "SOGo provides a rich AJAX-based Web interface and supports multiple native clients through the use of standard protocols such as CalDAV, CardDAV and GroupDAV. It features a very tight integration with Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning and enable mobile devices synchronization through the use of the Funambol middleware."
MontaVista Achieves Ultra-Fast One Second Linux Boot Time in Embedded Industrial Applications
MontaVista Software has announced the achievement of ultra-fast boot times on MontaVista Linux for embedded industrial applications. "At the Virtual Freescale Technology Forum this week, MontaVista will be demonstrating a sample dashboard application fully operational in one second from cold boot, achieving a level of previously unmatched performance on any embedded Linux."
MontaVista celebrates 10 years of embedded Linux
MontaVista has announced its 10 year anniversary. "Founded in 1999 with a focus on delivering Linux for the embedded market, MontaVista has remained committed to furthering the development and innovation of commercialized embedded Linux through enabling a broad range of architectures, delivering commercial quality, and expanding the tools available for embedded developers, As a result of this focus and commitment, there are over 60 million devices in the market powered by MontaVista Linux today."
New Books
Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP and MySQL--New from SitePoint
SitePoint has published the book Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL by Kevin Yank.Erlang Programming - New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Erlang Programming by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson.O'Reilly publishes book excerpts
O'Reilly has released excerpts from several of its books including: Using Erlang - Open Source Erlang Programming, Network Programming - iPhone SDK Application Development, Migrating to Mercurial - Open Source Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, Mercurial Queues Reference - Open Source Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, Open Publication License - Open Source Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, Installing Mercurial from Source - Open Source Mercurial: The Definitive Guide and Writing Backward-Compatible Code - Open Source Ruby Best Practices.
Resources
FSFE Newsletter
The June, 2009 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: "FSFE participates at "LinuxTag 2009", Berlin, 24-27 June, Social event and presentation of Spanish team, Miraflores de la Sierra, Spain, 20 June, The account from the first Fellowship representative at the GA, Two year Executive Summary (2007-2009), Fellowship meeting in Berlin, 11 June and It's time for the community to take charge of its brand."
"International Free and Open Source Software Law Review" launched
A new, freely available journal covering international free software legal issues has produced its first issue. The "International Free and Open Source Software Law Review" (IFOSSLR) is a peer-reviewed, twice-yearly publication looking at the intersection of free software and the law. The journal is an outgrowth of the European Legal Network, established by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), and is supported by the Mozilla and NLNet foundations. From the announcement: "Free and Open Source Software has increasingly come to challenge traditional concepts of intellectual property and collaboration by allowing every user to use, study, share and and improve code, facilitating the creation of elegant and effective software that now lies at the heart of the mainstream technology industry. IFOSSLR aims to foster increased understanding and promote best practice for all parties engaging with this approach to licensing." (Thanks to Armijn Hemel)
Linux Foundation Newsletter
The July, 2009 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter has been published. "In this month's Linux Foundation newsletter: * Linux Foundation Appoints Executive to Support Initiatives in Europe * Japan Linux Symposium: Early Registration, Linus Torvalds Keynote * LinuxCon Program and Event Details Take Shape * LinuxCon Speakers Interviewed * Training Courses Set for LinuxCon * Linux Foundation in the News * From the Director".
State of Text Rendering
Behdad Esfahbod recently presented a talk on the State of Text Rendering at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. The presentation slides [PDF] are also available. "Text is the primary means of communication in computers, and is bound to be so for the decades to come. With the widespread adoption of Unicode as the canonical character set for representing text a whole new domain has been opened up in a desktop system software design. Gone are the days that one would need to input, render, print, search, spell-check, ... one language at a time. The whole concept of internationalization (i18n) on which Unicode is based is "all languages, all the time"." (Thanks to Nicolas Mailhot).
Education and Certification
LPI develops partner program for schools in Portugal
The Linux Professional Institute has announced a partner program for Portuguese schools. "The ICT Academies program is part of the "Technological Plan for Education" promoted by the Portuguese Ministry of Education. As part of this initiative, LPI-Portugal will be certifying 10 instructors in 5 secondary schools, to provide Linux education and training towards the Linux Professional Institute Certification (LPIC) through LPI's Approved Academic Program (LPI-AAP). The ICT Academy program is expected to grow to include 30 secondary schools in Portugal in 2010."
LPI announces new affiliate in South Africa
The Linux Professional Institute has announced its latest affiliate, ICDL South Africa. "ICDL South Africa is a non-profit organization established by the Computer Society of South Africa to promote and administer the International Computer Driving License (ICDL). The ICDL is administered by the ECDL Foundation; a non-profit organization established by the Council of European Professional Informatics Society (CEPIS)."
Upcoming Events
BayPIGgies at OSCON
A BayPIGgies meeting will be held at OSCON. "The July BayPIGgies meeting will be held at OSCON in the San Jose Convention Center as one of the BoF (Birds of a Feather) sessions from 8pm to 9:30pm Thursday July 23. Everyone is welcome: you do NOT need to be an OSCON member to attend a BoF. Wesley Chun will have a newbie-oriented "What is Python?" BoF from 7-8pm in the same room as BayPIGgies".
Announcing EuroBSDcon 2009
EuroBSDcon 2009 has been announced. "Friday 18th - Sunday 20th September, University of Cambridge, UK A day of tutorials followed by 2 days of conference talks covering a wide variety of BSD related topics. This is the European BSD Community's annual event to meet, share and interact across the projects and between friends."
Announcing the third annual LLVM developers' meeting
The third annual LLVM developers' meeting has been announced. "The third annual LLVM Developers' Meeting will be held this on October 2, 2009 at Apple Inc.'s main campus in Cupertino, California, USA: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2009-10 As with previous meetings, this gathering serves as a forum for both developers and users of LLVM to get acquainted, to learn how LLVM is used, and to exchange ideas about LLVM and its potential applications. Beyond discussing the core LLVM compiler infrastructure, the meeting will also dedicate a significant amount of attention to Clang, LLVM's reusable, library-based frontend for C-based languages."
LPC: Kernel/Userspace/User Interfaces Microconference
The Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) has announced the lineup for the "Kernel/Userspace/User Interfaces" microconference. Three separate topics will be discussed as part of the microconference: Sarah Sharp will present USB 3.0, Matthew Garrett will look at dynamic power management, and Sukadev Bhattiprolu will cover checkpoint/restart in the kernel. LPC will be held September 23-25 (just after the co-located LinuxCon) in Portland, Oregon. "I am happy to announce that Jim Gettys, one of the original developers of the X Window System, past VP of Software at OLPC, now at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, has selected a great lineup from a set of excellent submissions to the 'Kernel/Userspace/User Interfaces' microconference." Click below for the full announcement.
LPC: security microconference announced
The Linux Plumbers Conference security microconference has been announced, LPC takes place on September 21-23 in Portland, OR. "The Linux Plumbers Conference is fortunate to have James Morris and Paul Moore as runners for the Security microconference. James and Paul are quite prominent in the Linux security community, James in his role as Linux kernel security subsystem maintainer, and Paul in a number of roles, including leader of the NetLabel network-security subsystem. The Security microconference is a double-length microconference this year, as is fitting given the importance of security in today's world of spammers, botnet controllers, and many other black-hat threats."
openSUSE Hack Week IV approaches
The next openSUSE Hack Week has been announced. "Novell is once again sponsoring a Hack Week, from July 20 through July 24th. This is an opportunity for Novell's Open Platform Solutions developers to use their Innovation Time Off and hunker down and work on the projects that catch their fancy. Hack Week projects can be new features, new applications, or improvements to existing services and applications."
Events: July 23, 2009 to September 21, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 14 September 18 |
Django Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| September 15 September 17 |
International Conference on IT Security Incident Management and IT Forensics | Stuttgart, Germany |
| September 17 September 18 |
Internet Security Operations and Intelligence 7 | San Diego, CA, USA |
| September 17 September 20 |
openSUSE Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| September 18 September 19 |
BruCON | Brussels, Belgium |
| September 18 September 20 |
EuroBSDCon 2009 | Cambridge, UK |
| September 19 | Atlanta Linux Fest 2009 | Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| September 19 | Beijing Perl Workshop | Beijing, China |
| September 19 | Software Freedom Day | Worldwide |
| September 20 | SELinux Developer Summit 2009 @ LinuxCon | Portland, Oregon, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
2009 PHP TestFest coverage
PHP.net covers the 2009 PHP TestFest. "So finally we are at the end of the 2009 PHP TestFest. It has been an outstanding success with the coverage increasing by about 2.5% overall and 887 new tests contributed in the TestFest SVN repository of which 637 have already been added to PHP CVS. User groups from all over the world have worked hard to make this happen and we thank each and every one of you for your contribution to PHP! You really made a difference to the PHP5.3 release quality."
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