Announcements

FSF launches campaign against Microsoft and proprietary software

The Free Software Foundation has launched a public awareness campaign entitled Windows 7 Sins that protests against Microsoft and proprietary software. "The campaign outlines seven major areas where proprietary software in general and Microsoft Windows in particular hurt all computer users: invading privacy, poisoning education, locking users in, abusing standards, leveraging monopolistic behavior, enforcing Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), and threatening user security."

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Become a GNOME Ambassador

The GNOME Press Team has been announced. "The GNOME Marketing team is pleased to announce the creation of the GNOME Press Team. The Press Team is a subset of the Marketing team, with a focus on tracking GNOME events worldwide, and communicating and engaging with journalists all over the world to help spread GNOME news."

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Tuxera signs up with Microsoft

Tuxera, a company based around the NTFS-3G filesystem project, seems to have come up with a new line of business based on the recent FAT patent scare: they have signed a deal with Microsoft and are offering proprietary "exFAT" filesystem drivers for Linux. "As an open source company, we feel excited to sign an intellectual property agreement with Microsoft. They are a great partner, and I am confident that our agreements, and this collaboration, will ensure a bright future for file system interoperability and data portability that benefits device manufacturers and consumers alike."

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Wing IDE 3.2 released

Wingware has announced the release of Wing IDE 3.2.0, a commercial Python IDE. Features include: "* Support for Python 3.0 and 3.1 * Rewritten version control integration with support for Subversion, CVS, Bazaar, git, Mercurial, and Perforce * Added 64-bit Debian, RPM, and tar file installers for Linux * File management in Project view * Auto-completion in the editor obtains completion data from live runtime when the debugger is active * Perspectives: Create and save named GUI layouts and optionally automatically transition when debugging is started * Improved support for Cython and Pyrex (*.pyx files) * Added key binding documentation to the manual * Added Restart Debugging item in Debug menu and tool bar".

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O'Reilly publishes book excerpts

O'Reilly has published some new book excerpts: Benchmarking - Algorithms in a Nutshell, Epilogue - Algorithms in a Nutshell and An Incredibly Brief Introduction to Ruby - Learning Rails.

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O'Reilly publishes Perl tutorials

O'Reilly has published the following new tutorials: The Eight-Minute XML Tutorial, The 10-Minute XPath Tutorial, The 10-Minute LDAP Tutorial, The 15-Minute SQL Tutorial, The Five-Minute RCS Tutorial, The Two-Minute VBScript-to-Perl Tutorial and The 20-Minute SNMP Tutorial. All are excerpts from the book Automating System Administration with Perl by David N. Blank-Edelman.

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The CSS Anthology, Third Edition--New from SitePoint

SitePoint has published the book The CSS Anthology, Third Edition by Rachel Andrew.

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Linux Professional Institute events at LinuxCon

The Linux Professional Institute has announced its LinuxCon events. The conference takes place on September 21-23 in Portland, Oregon. "The Linux Professional Institute (LPI), the world's premier Linux certification organization, announced that they will offer LPI exams at the first annual LinuxCon on Monday, September 21, 2009 in Portland, Oregon. During LinuxCon LPI will also host a community consultation on their Linux certification program on Tuesday September 22, 2009."

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CONFidence 2009 cfp

A call for participation has gone out for CONFIdence 2009, submissions are due by September 15. "Calling all practitioners in the field of IT security! The 6th edition of CONFIdence 2009 2.0, is taking place in Warsaw on November 19/20, 2009."

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Libre Graphics Meeting 2010 in Brussels Announced

The 2010 Libre Graphics Meeting has been scheduled for May 26-29 in Brussels, Belgium. "The Libre Graphics Meeting exists to unite and accelerate the efforts behind Free, Libre and Open Source creative software. Since 2006, this annual meeting is the premiere conference for developers, users and supporters of projects such as GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, Krita, Scribus, Hugin, the Open Clipart Library, and the Open Font Library gather to work on interoperability, shared standards, and new ideas. Work at prior LGMs has pushed the state of the art in important areas such as color management, cross-application sharing of assets, and common formats." Click below for the full announcement.

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Announcing the Ubuntu Global Jam

The Ubuntu Global Jam has been announced. "The Ubuntu Global Jam is an incredible opportunity for the Ubuntu community to unite together around the weekend of 2nd - 4th Oct 2009 to work together to improve Ubuntu. Everyone is able to contribute to the Jam, and everyone is welcome and encouraged to get involved. Curious about how to make a real difference to Ubuntu? This is a great chance to make that difference."

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PyCon Argentina 2009

PyCon Argentina 2009 takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina on September 4-5. "The first national Python conference in Argentina "PyCon Argentina 2009", also the first PyCon at a Spanish-speaking country, will be held on Buenos Aires next month. There are more than 30 programmed talks covering many different subjects, short lightning talks, and two special speakers: Collin Winter (Unladen Swallow) and Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django)."

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FSF to host a mini-summit on Women in Free Software

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) will be hosting a mini-summit on "Women in Free Software" on September 19. Participants will include Deborah Nicholson of the FSF, Stormy Peters of the GNOME Foundation, and Hillary Rettig, free software activist and author of The Lifelong Activist, along with a small group of other women to discuss how to increase and sustain participation by women in free software. "Historically, women have been underrepresented in the technology and free software communities, and despite recent increases in the adoption of free software, the situation has not significantly improved. Deborah Nicholson said, 'At the summit, we will discuss existing entry points, why women don't always feel invited, and when they do, why they don't always stay. Individual projects have found ways to make women welcome and we will look at some of these examples and discuss how to build on those successes. We will also identify new strategies and tactics to help create a balanced community.'" Click below for the full announcement.

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Events: September 3, 2009 to November 2, 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
October 26 October 28	Techno Forensics and Digital Investigations Conference	Gaithersburg, MD, USA
October 26 October 28	GitTogether '09	Mountain View, CA, USA
October 26 October 28	Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference	Portland, OR, USA
October 27 October 30	Linux-Kongress 2009	Dresden, Germany
October 28 October 30	Hack.lu 2009	Luxembourg
October 28 October 30	no:sql(east).	Atlanta, USA
October 29	NLUUG autumn conference: The Open Web	Ede, The Netherlands
October 30 November 1	YAPC::Brasil 2009	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
October 31	Linux theme day with ubuntu install party	Ede, Netherlands
November 1 November 6	23rd Large Installation System Administration Conference	Baltimore, MD, USA

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