Announcements

Open Source for America welcomes The Linux Box

Open Source for America has announced its newest member, The Linux Box. "Joining a broad cross-section of more than 1,000 companies, academic institutions, communities, related groups and individuals, The Linux Box is now part of Open Source for America, a unified voice for the promotion of open source in the U.S. Federal government sector. Open Source for America strives to effect change in government to encourage broader support of open source technologies and the open source development community."

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Opera 10 beta 3 released

Version 10 beta 3 of the Opera browser has been announced. "Opera 10 beta (codenamed Peregrine) sports a surprising array of new features, a fresh look and feel, and enhanced speed and performance. Beta 3 includes many bug fixes and polished skin elements."

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The Art of Community - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book The Art of Community by Jono Bacon.

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flex and bison - New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book flex and bison by John Levine.

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O'Reilly publishes book excerpts

The latest O'Reilly book excerpts include: The Criteria API - Harnessing Hibernate and Hibernate Types - Harnessing Hibernate.

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digiKam digest (KDEDot)

KDE.News has announced the August 16, 2009 edition of the digiKam digest. "Looks like summer finally caught up with digiKam developers! This week the digest will be very short: ongoing work on refactoring color profiles code; libkdcraw updated to libraw-0.8.0-beta5 (support for RAW files bigger than 2GB); new features in Flickr export. A total of 10 bugs were closed (including several crashes) while 8 new ones were reported."

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FSFE Newsletter

The July, 2009 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. Topics include: "1. Fresh air at WIPO, but old habits die hard 2. A farewell to Richard Rothwell 3. FSFE supports OpenRuhr 4. FSFE booth at RMLL Nantes, France, 07-11 July 5. Fellowship Meeting in Berlin, 09 July 6. The Fellowship interviews: Smári McCarthy".

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Linux Foundation kernel authorship paper updated

The Linux Foundation has announced the release of an updated study of kernel code authorship [PDF] written by Greg Kroah-Hartman, Amanda McPherson, and Jonathan Corbet. "The updated study finds that since April 2008, there has been a 10 percent increase in the number of developers contributing to each kernel release and that a net of 2.7 million lines of code have been added. This level of activity has resulted in an average of 5.45 patches being accepted per hour, an increase of 42 percent since the original study." The information will be familiar to LWN readers, naturally, but it's a slicker presentation and it considers a longer time period than LWN usually does.

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Linux Foundation Newsletter

The August, 2009 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter is online. Topics include: "* Linux Foundation Introduces Linux-Branded Affinity Visa Platinum Credit Card * LinuxCon Early Registration Deadline, New Keynote Topics * Training Courses Open for LinuxCon * Open Source for America Promotes FOSS for Government * Telco Planning Joins Linux Foundation * LinuxCon Keynote Speaker Garbee Interviewed * Linux Foundation in the News * From the Director".

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ETH Zurich ODBMS lecture series announced

The ETH Zurich ODBMS lecture series is available for download. "This is by far the most up-to-date and comprehensive lecture series on object databases, developed by Michael Grossniklaus, and Moira Norrie at the renowned Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich."

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Tux Droid Newsletter

The August, 2009 edition of the Tux Droid Newsletter has been published. Topics include More user friendly - More easy : New Control Center, New gadget: Facebook!, Quick survey: last call and new Gifts!!! and Linux Users. Tux Droid is an animated penguin robot from Kysoh.

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Call for proposals - Open Innovation Awards

A call for proposals has gone out for the Open Innovation Awards. "On 2 October 2009, during the Open World Forum in Paris, twenty companies innovating in the Open Source sector will each have an opportunity to make a 7-minute presentation to Venture Capitalists and major systems integrators to promote their company and projects. They will also be nominated and compete for the "Open Innovation Awards" that will be awarded by an international jury of experts to the most promising businesses innovating in the Open Source sector, and presented during the closing keynote address, ensuring maximum visibility and media coverage for the awardees."

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ClubHack2009: call for papers/speakers

A call for papers and speakers has gone out for ClubHack2009. The event will take place in India in late November or Early December. Submissions are due by October 15.

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IMF 2009 call for participation

A call for participation has gone out for IMF 2009, the 5th International Conference on IT Security Incident Management & IT Forensics. The event takes place in Stuttgart, Germany on September 15-17th.

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KIWICON ]|[ - 2009 call for papers

A call for papers has gone out for KIWICON. The event takes place in Wellington, New Zealand on November 28-29. Submissions are due by October 31. "With a current record of three arrests, seven conceptions and one committal Kiwicon is back for 2k9. The time has come to fake up an abstract and submit it to the Kiwicon Crue for judgement. In the coming months, we predict you will spend more time dreaming of kudos and UID 0 than actually working on your slides, since you'll be doing them the night before anyway."

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PyCon 2010: Call for Proposals

A call for proposals has gone out for PyCon 2010. The event will be held in Atlanta, Georgia on February 17-25, 2010. Submissions are due by October 1. "Want to showcase your skills as a Python Hacker? Want to have hundreds of people see your talk on the subject of your choice? Have some hot button issue you think the community needs to address, or have some package, code or project you simply love talking about? Want to launch your master plan to take over the world with python? PyCon is your platform for getting the word out and teaching something new to hundreds of people, face to face."

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Static analysis tool exposition (SATE) 2009 - call for participation

A call for participation has gone out for SATE 2009. "We are preparing an exposition for static analysis tools that find security relevant defects. Briefly, participating tool makers run their tools on real programs. Researchers led by NIST analyze the tool reports. Everyone reports results and experiences at a workshop. The tool reports and analysis are made publicly available later. The plan is at http://samate.nist.gov/SATE.html. We plan to provide the test sets by 19 August, and to hold the workshop on 6 November."

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EuroBSDcon 2009

EuroBSDcon 2009 will take place in Cambridge, UK on September 18-20. "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."

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Events: August 27, 2009 to October 26, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
October 19 October 22	ZendCon 2009	San Jose, CA, USA
October 21 October 23	Japan Linux Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
October 22 October 24	Décimo Encuentro Linux 2009	Valparaiso, Chile
October 23 October 24	Ontario GNU Linux Fest	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
October 23 October 24	PGCon Brazil 2009	Sao Paulo, Brazil
October 24 October 25	PyTexas	Fort Worth, TX, USA
October 24 October 25	FOSS.my 2009	Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
October 24	Florida Linux Show 2009	Orlando, Florida, USA
October 24	LUG Radio Live	Wolverhampton, UK
October 25	Linux Outlaws and Ubuntu UK Podcast OggCamp	Wolverhampton, UK

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