Announcements

Citrix joins the Linux Foundation (SOA World)

SOA World reports on Citrix joining the Linux Foundation. "Citrix is a leading provider of virtualization; cloud computing, and software as a service (SaaS) offerings for companies worldwide, including 99 percent of Fortune 500 enterprises. Citrix leads the open source Xen® hypervisor project which is based on Linux."

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Free Software hits German election campaigns

The Free Software Foundation Europe is promoting the use of free software for German elections. "During a campaign launched by Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) politicians from many parties have recognised the potential of Free Software and Open Standards for Germany. In response to questions from supporters of FSFE, they explain that Free Software equals more competition, promotes innovation and provides cost savings. Free Software - such as the GNU/Linux operating system or the web browser Mozilla Firefox - can be used without restrictions, studied by anyone, be modified and passed on."

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IBM Markets Wares to Africa (Wall Street Journal)

The Wall Street Journal reports that IBM is partnering with Canonical to sell Linux-based netbooks in Africa. "International Business Machines Corp. will try to sell a new package of low-priced computer desktop applications to companies and governments in Africa, challenging Microsoft Corp. and other rivals in the region. IBM, which has been pushing into developing markets like Africa and Asia as mature markets slow, said the package -- which includes basic programs like word processing and email -- would be made available to customers via remote "cloud computing" facilities, meaning users could access the programs from the Web. It would cost $10 per month per user, and can run on so-called netbook computers, or low-cost PCs priced around $300."

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GPL upheld in France

The FSF France has announced an appeals court ruling upholding the GPL. "In a landmark ruling that will set legal precedent, the Paris Court of Appeals decided last week that the company Edu4 violated the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) when it distributed binary copies of the remote desktop access software VNC but denied users access to its corresponding source code. The suit was filed by Association pour la formation professionnelle des adultes (AFPA), a French education organization." It is also interesting that the suit was brought by a group which does not hold copyrights in the software in question.

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The Book of Inkscape--New from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has published the book The Book of Inkscape by Dmitry Kirsanov.

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Cloud Security and Privacy--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Cloud Security and Privacy by Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy and Shahed Latif.

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Dive Into Python 3 available

Mark Pilgrim's Dive into Python has been updated for Python 3; the result is Dive into Python 3. It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike license and downloadable as HTML, PDF, or straight from the Mercurial repository.

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Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Linux in a Nutshell, Sixth Edition by Stephen Figgins, Ellen Siever, Robert Love, and Arnold Robbins.

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Programming Scala--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Programming Scala by Dean Wampler and Alex Payne.

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The Python Tutorial, in Spanish

A Spanish translation of The Python Tutorial has been announced. "We finally translated to Spanish the very last version of the Python Tutorial!"

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LiMo white paper: Mobile open source economic analysis

The LiMo Foundation has published an interesting white paper [PDF] on the economic value of working with the development community. "The cost of forking and losing connection with upstream development is twofold: i) the corresponding cost of presumed beneficial unleveraged potential, ii) the further cost of having to re-engineer modified forked code in the future to accommodate the inevitable eventual re-sync with upstream. We quantified the former to show that the figures run into $millions for important components such as GTK, WebKit, GStreamer and BlueZ." (By way of Dave Neary).

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CFP: Business of Open Source mini-conf at LCA

A call for papers has gone out for the Business of Open Source mini-conf at Linux Conf Australia, submissions are due by October 14. "The "Business of Open Source" mini-conf at LCA 2010 (Wellington, New Zealand; January 18-23) is for people interested in business aspects of open source. Topics include licensing your work, building a market, building a community, gathering market data, distribution, communications, working with open source developers, working with governments and countries, working with procurement departments, corporate governance, funding, pricing, lessons from your experience, and whatever related topics people would like to bring up."

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LCA Libre Graphics Day miniconf and call for papers announced

The Inkscape vector drawing application has an announcement for the LinuxConf.Au Libre Graphics Day miniconf. "There are several more possibilities to meet and discuss free graphics tools opther than at Libre Graphics Meeting, so it was decided to organize smaller events under same name "Libre Graphics Day". The first one will be organized by Inkscape's developer Jon A. Cruz and held at linux.conf.au in Wellington, New Zealand, on January 18, 2010. You can submit a proposal for a talk till September 25. Read more at LGD's website and get involved, either as developer or user!"

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Enterprise LAMP Summit (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has announced the Enterprise LAMP Summit. "The Enterprise LAMP Summit for CTOs (Nov. 5-6) will feature a case study about the use of several parts of the LAMP software stack in a sophisticated and highly effective patient white board developed by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center Informatics Center."

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Enterprise LAMP Network Event (LinuxMedNews)

LinuxMedNews has announced the Enterprise LAMP Network Event. "On Saturday, Nov. 7, approximately 600 top LAMP developers from around the U.S. will converge on Nashville suburb Franklin, TN, to learn from innovative companies that will share their on-the-ground reports about the latest developments in LAMP offerings and implementation."

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Community members invited to Qt Developer Days 2009 (KDEDot)

KDE.News has announced the Qt Developer Days 2009. "The last few years has seen the company formerly known as Trolltech open their arms to one of the largest parts of their supporting community, KDE, in a new way: By offering a few members of the KDE community free admittance to the Qt Developer Days conference. This year is no different, and they have invited a number of people to attend this year's conferences. Yes, that's plural: There are two conferences. One from the 12th to 14th of October in Munich, Germany and one from the 2nd to the 4th of November in San Francisco, USA."

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Events: October 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
September 28 October 2	Sixteenth Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (2009)	Portland, OR 97232, USA
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
November 9 November 13	ACM CCS 2009	Chicago, IL, USA
November 10 November 11	Linux Foundation End User Summit	Jersey City, New Jersey
November 12 November 13	European Conference on Computer Network Defence	Milan, Italy
November 13 November 15	Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit	Göteborg, Sweden
November 14	pyArkansas	Conway, AR, USA
November 16 November 19	Web 2.0 Expo	New York, NY, USA
November 16 November 20	INTEROP	New York, NY, USA
November 16 November 20	Ubuntu Developer Summit for Lucid Lynx	Dallas, TX, USA
November 17 November 20	DeepSec IDSC	Vienna, Austria
November 19 November 22	Piksel 09	Bergen, Norway
November 19 November 21	Firebird Conference 2009	Munich, Germany
November 19 November 20	CONFIdence 2009	Warsaw, Poland
November 20 November 21	PostgreSQL Conference 2009 Japan	Tokyo, Japan
November 21	Baltic Perl Workshop 2009	Riga, Latvia
November 25 November 27	Open Source Developers Conference 2009	Brisbane, Australia
November 27 November 29	Ninux Day 2009	Rome, Italy

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

By popular demand: LWN T-shirts

It took a while, but we have finally managed to get our act together and put a set of LWN-logo T-shirts at the Cafe Press LWN.net store. There are also sites in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. An LWN shirt marks the wearer as one of the LWN-reading elite, and sales help to support the site as well. We know that none of you have enough Linux-related T-shirts, so please have a look and fill out your wardrobe.

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