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EFF on the RealDVD decision

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a release on the RealDVD decision. "The heart of Judge Patel's ruling is her interpretation of the DVD-CCA license agreement, and since large portions of those agreements remain confidential, it is difficult to evaluate the merits of her reasoning. However, she does make the troubling suggestions that fair use is never a defense when you circumvent an "access control" like encryption on DVDs. She also suggests that irreparable harm can be presumed whenever copyright infringement or a DMCA violation is likely..."

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Patent fun: Microsoft Word sales banned in the US

Here is a press release from legal firm McKool Smith, which is quite proud at having gotten a US court to rule that Word violates patent #5,787,499. "Today's permanent injunction prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML." The text of this patent is quite vague; if it stands it could almost certainly be used to make life difficult for free software as well.

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O'Reilly publishes book excerpts

O'Reilly has published the following book excerpts: Shared and Platform-Specific Keywords - SQL in a Nutshell, Installing Git - Version Control with Git and Installing Apache Hadoop - Hadoop: The Definitive Guide.

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AMD RS780 docs released, coreboot support coming

Documentation for the AMD RS780 is now available. "The coreboot community, which includes government organizations, corporations, research labs and individuals from around the world, is very excited to expand on our existing and decade-long collaboration with AMD. This collaboration has, over the years, resulted in the inclusion of coreboot into everything from some of the largest AMD-based supercomputers in the world to some of the smallest embedded systems. Together with the recent SB700/SB710/SB750 documentation release, the Developer Guide release for the RS780 family of Integrated Chipset/ Graphics Processors enables the coreboot community to support any board with AMD chipsets out there, from embedded to enthusiast desktop and high-end server boards."

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VistA community members propose VistA Installation Spec (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews reports on the approval of the VistA Standard Base specification, release candidate 8. "The proposed document is intended to guide installation of Veterans Affairs VistA system on Linux using the Free/Open Source GTM mumps compiler."

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CFP: FOMS 2010

A call for papers has gone out for the Foundations of Open Media Software workshop (FOMS). The event takes place on January 13-15 in Wellington, New Zealand, submissions are due by October 15. "Open media is a movement to promote free expression and innovation in online video and audio. Foundations of Open Media Software (FOMS) is a task-oriented developer meeting. At FOMS, developers of open media software gather to collaborate on code and plan future technology to enable a future of open media."

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CFP: International workshop on Secure Software Engineering

A call for papers has gone out for the Fourth International Workshop on Secure Software Engineering (SecSE). The event takes place in Krakow, Poland on February 15-18, 2010, submissions are due by September 30.

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2009 Gnome Boston Summit

The 2009 Gnome Boston Summit till take place on October 10-12 in Cambridge, MA. "As of right now we have funding thanks to Novell to hold one hackfest the week before the Summit. The content of that hackfest is yet to be determined. As always since hackfests are focused on getting specific teams together so that they may plan projects face to face, travel sponsorship will be done via invite and handled by the specific hackfest organizers. If you are a company or organization which wants to organize and sponsor a second or even third hackfest please get in-touch with myself (J5 on irc) or the GNOME Foundation Board."

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Japan Linux Symposium program announced

The program for the first Japan Linux Symposium has been posted. "The event, a new annual technical conference designed to provide a collaboration and education space in the Pacific Rim covering all matters Linux, takes place October 21-23, 2009 at Akihabara Convention Hall, Tokyo, Japan. More than fifty technical sessions are included with speakers featuring the top technical talent from across the globe." They have succeeded in attracting an interesting selection of speakers.

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LCA2010 announces successful miniconfs

The miniconfs for LCA2010 have been announced. "Here is the full list of accepted Miniconfs: - Arduino (Jonathan Oxer) - Business of Open Source (Martin Michlmayr) - Data Storage and Retrieval (Peter Lieverdink) - Distro Summit (Fabio Tranchitella) - Education (Tabitha Roder) - Free The Cloud! (Evan Prodromou) - Haecksen and Linuxchix (Joh Clarke) - Mini Libre Graphics Meeting (Jon Cruz) - Multicore and Parallel Computing (Nicolas Erdody) - Multimedia (Conrad Parker) - Open and the Public Sector (Daniel Spector) - Open Programming Languages (Christopher Neugebauer) - System Administration (Simon Lyall) - Wave Developers (Shane Stephens)".

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Announcing Camp KDE 2010 (KDEDot)

KDE.News has announced Camp KDE 2010. "Camp KDE 2010 will take place at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla, California, USA from January 15th until January 22nd, 2010. The event is free to all participants. UCSD is both our host and a sponsor, and KDE is looking forwards to participation and attendance from the UCSD body of students and faculty. The schedule is currently slated to include presentations, BoFs, hackathons and a day trip."

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Events: August 20, 2009 to October 19, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
September 21 September 23	LinuxCon 2009	Portland, OR, USA
September 21 September 25	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp with Charles B. Quinn	Atlanta, USA
September 23 September 25	Linux Plumbers Conference	Portland, Oregon, USA
September 23 September 25	Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection	Saint-Malo, Brittany, France
September 23 September 25	OpenSolaris Developer Conference 2009	Hamburg, Germany
September 23	Bacula Conference 2009	Cologne, Germany
September 24 September 26	Joomla! and Virtue Mart Day Germany	Bad Nauheim, Germany
September 25 September 27	International Conference on Open Source	Taipei, Taiwan
September 25 September 27	Ohio LinuxFest	Columbus, Ohio, USA
September 26 September 27	PyCon India 2009	Bengaluru, India
September 26	Open Source Conference 2009 Okinawa	Ginowan City, Okinawa, Japan
September 26 September 27	Mini-DebConf at ICOS	Taipei, Taiwan
September 28 September 30	Real time Linux workshop	Dresden, Germany
September 28 September 30	X Developers' Conference 2009	Portland, OR, USA
September 28 October 2	Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2009)	Portland, OR 97232, USA
September 30	HCC!Linux Theme Day	Houten, Netherlands
October 1 October 2	Open World Forum	Paris, France
October 2 October 4	7th International Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics	Mountain View, CA, USA
October 2	LLVM Developers' Meeting	Cupertino, CA, USA
October 2 October 4	Linux Autumn (Jesien Linuksowa) 2009	Huta Szklana, Poland
October 2 October 4	Ubuntu Global Jam	Online, Online
October 2 October 3	Open Source Developers Conference France	Paris, France
October 2	Mozilla Public DevDay/Open Web Camp 2009	Prague, Czech Republic
October 3 October 4	T-DOSE 2009	Eindhoven, The Netherlands
October 3 October 4	EU MozCamp 2009	Prague, Czech Republic
October 7 October 9	Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre	Santiago, Chile
October 8 October 10	Utah Open Source Conference	Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
October 9 October 11	Maemo Summit 2009	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
October 10 October 12	Gnome Boston Summit	Cambridge, MA, USA
October 10	OSDN Conference 2009	Kiev, Ukraine
October 12 October 14	Qt Developer Days	Munich, Germany
October 15 October 16	Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2009	Grenoble, France
October 16 October 17	Pycon Poland 2009	Ustron, Poland
October 16 October 18	Pg Conference West 09	Seattle, WA, USA
October 16 October 18	German Ubuntu conference	Göttingen, Germany
October 18 October 20	2009 Kernel Summit	Tokyo, Japan

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O'Reilly Open Source Convention delivers benefits of open source

O'Reilly presents an event report for the recent OSCON. "Thousands of independent thinkers gathered at the 11th annual OSCON in San Jose, CA, July 20-24 to hear about the latest solutions and savings that open source technology can deliver. For five full days and nights, the open source convention featured hundreds of inspiring sessions and practical tutorials on a full range of languages and platforms. Faced with a daunting economic climate, OSCON attendees found the tools to give their businesses a competitive edge."

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