Announcements

Adobe CMap and AGLFN data now free software

Paul Wise reports that Adobe Character Map (CMap) has been released under the terms of the BSD license and Adobe Glyph List For New Fonts (AGLFN) data will soon follow. "Please note that while this means that modifications are technically allowed, they are still strongly discouraged for compatibility reasons. Adobe has assigned an emailable maintainer (currently Ken Lunde) for these files so there is no reason that modifications should not be done upstream."

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MIPS Joins the Open Handset Alliance

MIPS Technologies has joined the Open Handset Alliance. "MIPS Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores, announced it has joined the Open Handset Alliance(tm), a group of more than 45 technology and mobile companies working to offer consumers a richer, less expensive, and better mobile experience. The Open Handset Alliance developed Android, the first complete, open and free mobile platform."

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Red Hat reports second quarter results

Red Hat's financial results from the second quarter of 2009 have been published. "Total revenue for the quarter was $183.6 million, an increase of 12% from the year ago quarter. Subscription revenue for the quarter was $156.3 million, up 15% year-over-year. 'IT organizations continue to move ahead with purchases of high value solutions, and Red Hat is capitalizing on this demand as a result of our strong customer relationships and proven value proposition. These factors contributed to our better than expected total revenue in the second quarter, and drove annual subscription revenue growth of 15% for both the quarter and first half of fiscal year 2010.'"

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Google shutting down independent Android image developers?

There are reports that Google has sent a cease-and-desist letter to CyanogenMod, perhaps the most active independent creator of alternative images for Android phones since JesusFreke left the scene. The issue would appear to be the packaging of Google's closed-source applications - things like maps, the market application, gmail, etc. That is all stuff that Android phone owners already are licensed to run. If some sort of understanding is not reached, this action could have the effect of significantly chilling outside development for Android phones. Or perhaps it will just motivate the development of free alternatives for those few applications.

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Designing Social Interfaces--New from O'Reilly

O'Reilly has published the book Designing Social Interfaces by Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone.

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Learning Python, Python Pocket Reference 4th Ed.

O'Reilly has published the books Learning Python and Python Pocket Reference 4th Ed. by Mark Lutz.

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CE Linux Forum Newsletter

The September, 2009 edition of the CE Linux Forum Newsletter is out. "In this month's CE Linux Forum newsletter: * ELC Europe Program Announced, Registration Open * SMACK white paper published * CELF BOF and Plenary Meeting announced * Japan Linux Symposium coming".

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Is Linux Code Quality Improving? (internetnews.com)

internetnews.com analyzes the latest Coverity Scan report on open-source software. "Coverity has seen an overall 16 percent reduction in the defect density found in the projects it has scanned over the last three years. Yet while the defect density has declined, the most recent Coverity Scan Open Source Report notes that the most common defect types are holding steady. For the last two years, the most common defect type reported by Coverity in its open source scan is something known as a 'NULLPointer Deference'."

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Updegrove: Further Reflections on the CodePlex Foundation: The Glass Half Full

Linux Foundation lawyer Andy Updegrove has posted a new article about the CodePlex Foundation. "Two weeks ago, I wrote a critical analysis of the governance structure of the CodePlex Foundation, a new open source-focused foundation launched by Microsoft. But what about the business premise for the Foundation itself? Let’s say that CodePlex does restructure in such a way as to create a trusted, safe place for work to be done to support the open source software development model. Is there be a need for such an organization, and if so, what needs could it help meet."

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Black Hat DC call for papers

A call for papers has gone out for Black Hat DC. "It will be held February 2-3, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Crystal City in D.C. the CFP closes December 1, 2009."

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ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security will take place on November 9-13 in Chicago, IL. "Featuring 58 technical papers, on Applied Cryptography, Attacks, RFID, Privacy, Anonymization, Formal Techniques, Cloud Security, Security of Mobile Services, Security for Embedded and Mobile Devices, Systems and Networks Security, Software Security, Designing Secure Systems, Malware and Bots topics. The program also includes 5 tutorials, 12 workshops, and poster/demo session."

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Embedded Linux Conference Europe Program Announced

The Embedded Linux Conference Europe has announced its program for the event, which is being held in Grenoble, France, October 15 and 16. Highlights include keynotes from Jon Masters on porting Linux and Phillipe Gerum on the state of realtime Linux. "Authors of some of the most useful and important resource books in the Linux industry will be there, as well as developers and experts from companies like: Philips, Sony, ST Microelectronics, Free Electrons, Mentor Graphics, MontaVista, Pengutronix, and Wind River. [...] The conference will host over 40 sessions, including presentations, Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, keynotes and tutorials. " Click below for the full announcement.

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NLUUG Autumn Conference - The Open Web (KDEDot)

KDE.News has announced the NLUUG Autumn Conference. "On October 29 the dutch NLUUG will organise a conference about 'The Open Web'. In 18 talks and one keynote we hope to give you the best from a wide range of topics. Things you can expect are cool stuff you can do with HTML5, integrating geoinformation in applications with Geoclue, comet, the social desktop (integrating information from web services and all contacts into applications and your desktop) and much more."

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PyPy Sprint announced

The next PyPy Sprint will be held in Düsseldorf, Germany on November 6-13. "At the sprint we intend to work on the JIT generator in PyPy and on applying it to PyPy Python interpreter. The precise work that will be done is not fixed, as we don't know in which state the JIT will be in November."

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XMMS2 Conference 2010

The XMMS2 Conference 2010 has been announced. "Where will be in Malmö Sweden. Purple Scout have allowed us to use their offices to host the conference. We have big screen projector, nice beer fridges, lots of sofas and several different types of Rock Band, so it will fit us perfectly! Date is not 100% set in stone, so we would like some input for that. "

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Events: October 8, 2009 to December 7, 2009

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
December 1 December 5	FOSS.IN/2009	Bangalore, India
December 4	Italian PostgreSQL Day 2009	Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
December 5 December 7	Fedora Users and Developers Conference	Toronto, Canada

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First KDialogue Is Now Open (KDEDot)

KDE.News has announced the launch of the KDialogue site. "Today, the KDE Community Forums, in collaboration with "People Behind KDE", have launched a new initiative to give the community an opportunity to get to know each other a bit closer: KDialogue. KDialogue is, in short, a way to ask one of the community members about their personal and KDE related life. At fixed intervals, a KDE contributor will be asked to participate in a dialog."

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Two recent Ardour podcasts

Paul Davis, creator of the Ardour digital audio workstation project is featured in two podcasts. "FLOSS Weekly and Open Source Musician recently each did a long podcast with Paul about Ardour and all things related. The questions and overall direction of each one are different, so if you have to spare to listen to them, check both of them out."

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