Announcements
Commercial announcements
Gil: Here comes Maemo 5
Quim Gil's Maemo 5 hype posting (associated with the N900 phone launch) has some encouraging text: "If freedom is your concern then you dont need to 'unlock' or 'jailbreak' Maemo 5. From installing an application to getting root access, its you who decide. We trust you, and at the end its your device. Nokia also trusts the open source community in general and the Maemo community particularly helping in getting casual users through the experience path. The N900 might just be a new and successful entry point for a new wave of open source users and developers."
Tucows: Copyright's creative disincentive
Worth a read: this submission from Tucows to the Canadian copyright consultation process. "The nice thing about that argument is that it makes a factual claim: Weaken copyright and you decrease innovation. That the facts so resoundingly, enthusiastically, thumpingly dispute that conclusion tells us that the syllogism is wrong. Indeed, the facts say the syllogism has it backwards. Current copyright laws are holding back the innovation they were intended to spur."
New Books
Netbooks: The Missing Manual--New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has published the book Netbooks: The Missing Manual by J.D. Biersdorfer.
Should you wish to purchase this book, you can get it from Amazon.com
Book Excerpt: The Official Ubuntu Book (Linux Journal)
Linux Journal has published a new book excerpt. "Read an adapted version of chapter 3 from the book The Official Ubuntu Book By Benjamin Mako Hill, Matthew Helmke, Corey Burger. This article is an adapted excerpt of Chp 3 from the "The Official Ubuntu Book"".
Should you wish to purchase this book, you can get it from Amazon.com
web2py book 2nd Edition is available
The second edition of the web2py book has been announced. "Lots of new stuff with100 more pages (341 pages in total). Covers Auth, Crud, Services, interaction with Pyjamas, PyAMF, and better deployment recipes."
Resources
Linux Gazette #166 is out
The September, 2009 edition of the Linux Gazette has been published. Topics include: "* Mailbag * Talkback * 2-Cent Tips * News Bytes, by Deividson Luiz Okopnik and Howard Dyckoff * Away Mission: VMware World, Digital ID World and Intel Developer Forum, by Howard Dyckoff * Linux Layer 8 Security, by Lisa Kachold Taking off the Blinders, or Looking for Proof after Suspicion * Using Linux to Teach Kids How to Program, 10 Years Later (Part I), by Anderson Silva * Internet Radio Router, by Dr. Volker Ziemann * XKCD, by Randall Munroe * Doomed to Obscurity, by Pete Trbovich * The Back Page, by Kat Tanaka Okopnik".
Education and Certification
Linux Professional Institute hosts exam labs at Ohio LinuxFest 2009
The Linux Professional Institute will host exam labs at the Ohio LinuxFest 2009 on September 27. "This is the fourth year that LPI has been certification sponsor for Ohio LinuxFest and the event this year will be celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Unix operating system."
Calls for Presentations
O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference cfp
A call for papers has gone out for the 2010 O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference. "The O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference will redefine the boundaries of location-enabled technology March 30-April 1, 2010, at the Marriott San Jose, in San Jose, California. Program chair Brady Forrest and O'Reilly Media invite the builders and innovators in the geospatial industry to submit proposals for sessions and workshops at the sixth Where 2.0." Proposals are due by October 13.
Upcoming Events
Mini-DebConf Taiwan 2009
The Mini-DebConf Taiwan 2009 has been announced. "The "Software Liberty Association of Taiwan"(SLAT) is featuring a mini-DebConf during ICOS 2009 - International Conference on Open Source in Taipei in September, 2009. It's the 1st mini-DebConf in Taiwan, and would possibly become the 2nd Asia mini-DebConf (if DDs from China/Japan/Korea/Hong Kong can be join as well) since the 1st was on 2005 in Beijing. Please join us in Taipei on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th of September, 2009."
Apache Foundation's Gianugo Rabellino to Keynote openSUSE Conference
The opening and closing keynotes for the openSUSE Conference have been announced. "The openSUSE Conference is an opportunity for openSUSE contributors to attend talks, workshops, Birds of a Feather sessions, and collaborate together face to face. The conference will be held from September 17 through September 20 in Nürnberg, Germany."
Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference in Brno, Czech Republic
The next Red Hat/Fedora/JBoss Developer conference has been announced. "If you don't have any plans for September 10th and 11th, plan a trip to Czech Republic! Red Hat Brno office is organizing an open conference at Masaryk University in Brno, CZ".
Events: September 10, 2009 to November 9, 2009
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 7 September 11 |
XtreemOS summer school | Oxford, UK |
| 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 |
| November 2 November 6 |
ApacheCon 2009 | Oakland, CA, USA |
| November 2 November 6 |
Ubuntu Open Week | Internet, Internet |
| November 3 November 6 |
OpenOffice.org Conference | Orvieto, Italy |
| November 4 November 5 |
Linux World NL | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| November 5 | Government Open Source Conference | Washington, DC, USA |
| November 6 November 8 |
WineConf 2009 | Enschede, Netherlands |
| November 6 November 10 |
CHASE 2009 | Lahore, Pakistan |
| November 6 November 7 |
PGDay.EU 2009 | Paris, France |
| November 7 November 8 |
OpenFest 2009 - Biggest FOSS conference in Bulgaria | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 7 November 8 |
OpenRheinRuhr | Bottrop, Germany |
| November 7 November 8 |
Kiwi PyCon 2009 | Christchurch, New Zealand |
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