Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
EFF Files Comments on Net Neutrality
The EFF is petitioning the FCC on ISP network neutrality. "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today to close loopholes in its proposed regulations for network neutrality -- loopholes that could let the entertainment industry and law enforcement hinder free speech and innovation. "The central goal of the net neutrality movement is to prevent ISPs from discriminating against lawful content on the Internet," said EFF Civil Liberties Director Jennifer Granick. "Yet the FCC's version of net neutrality specifically allows ISPs to make those discriminations -- opening the door to widespread Internet surveillance and censorship in the guise of copyright protection and addressing the needs of law enforcement.""
Shawn Powers suffers a house fire
Linux Journal's Shawn Powers is dealing with a house fire. "One of our SCALE 8x speakers, Linux Journal associate editor Shawn Powers suffered a tragedy this morning when he lost his home and family pets due to a house fire. Many of you may know Shawn from his entertaining Linux Tech Tips as well as informative articles founds both online and in print. Linux Journal has set up a Chip In site".
Articles of interest
Linux Foundation CTO leaves for Google (internetnews.com)
internetnews.com covers Ted Ts'o's change of jobs. "Ted [Ts'o], the chief technology officer of the Linux Foundation, has moved on to start a new career at Google. [Ts'o] had been the CTO at the Linux Foundation for the past two years and as such, the move was not unexpected. "Ted's fellowship at the Linux Foundation was a two-year assignment and was completed in December," Jim Zemlin, executive director, the Linux Foundation said in an email sent to InternetNews.com. "It is similar to the fellowships held by Andrew Morton, Andrew Tridgell and Markus Rex.""
Linux laptop orchestra reprograms musical conventions (CollegiateTimes)
CollegiateTimes takes a look at the Linux Laptop Orchestra. "On Dec. 4, those who attended the premiere event of the Linux Laptop Orchestra may have been asking the same questions if they didn't know what they were getting themselves into. The ensemble, abbreviated as "L2Ork" forgoes the traditional approach to composing and performing music. Instead, members use open-source music software called Pure Data on their computers to program a complex series of notes and chords. While computer-based music is often associated with electronic music, the orchestra's sound is closer to its instrument-based brethren."
Resources
New Ardour manual available online
flossmanuals.net presents a new online manual for Ardour. "Ardour is a full-featured, free and open-source hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation program suitable for professional use. It features unlimited audio tracks and buses, non-destructive, non-linear editing with unlimited undo, and anything-to-anywhere signal routing. It supports standard file formats, such as BWF, WAV, WAV64, AIFF and CAF, and it can use LADSPA, LV2, VST and AudioUnit plugin formats."
FSFE Newsletter
The December, 2009 edition of the FSFE Newsletter is online with the latest Free Software Foundation Europe news. "Despite the temperatures dropping below zero all over Europe and the Christmas holidays approaching, FSFE kept working as usual for software freedom. The major news of December are that we have begun to restructure our website, added Andreas Tolf Tolfsen as webmaster deputy coordinator, and published a statement on the EC's settlement with Microsoft in the browser antitrust case. Read on to learn more about what we did in December. Moreover, let us offer you our best wishes for a great and Free 2010!"
Linux Foundation Newsletter
The January, 2010 edition of the Linux Foundation Newsletter has been published. "In this month's Linux Foundation newsletter: * Linux.com Posts Hundreds of Jobs * Linux Foundation Announces 2010 Event Schedule * Get One, Give One Membership Program Continues * Linux Foundation in the News * From the Foundation: When One Linux Project Wins, All Linux Triumphs".
Make a paper Tux Linux penguin (DigitalKamera)
DigitalKamera shows how to make Tux the penguin out of paper. "This is a Newyear gift to all Open source Lovers.. We all love penguin right? It is not enough to be a real Linux Geek, if you really want to impress then you must have a Linux mascot in your apparment.. This image tells how to make tux linux penguin in less than 15 minutes. All u have to do is print this image, cut it out and then glue according to the numbers printed on it."
Interviews
FOSDEM speaker interviews installment 3
The third batch of FOSDEM speaker interviews is online. "Today we publish the third batch of interviews with our main track speakers. Here is some interesting reading material to make you curious about the main track talks * Mark Wielaard (SystemTap) * Isabel Drost (Apache Hadoop) * Adrian Bowyer (RepRap) * Christoph Pojer (MooTools)". (Thanks to Koen Vervloesem).
Calls for Presentations
1st Call for Papers - AthCon IT Security Conference
A call for papers has gone out for ATHCON2010, the submission deadline is March 1. "From 3rd - 4th June AthCon, the first highly technical information security conference in Greece will take place in Athens at the Jockey's Country Club".
Boston Linux Power Management Mini-summit cfp
A call for papers has gone out for the Boston Linux Power Management Mini-summit. "We will hold a Linux Power Management Mini-Summit in Boston on Monday, August 9th, 2010 -- the day before sessions at the Linux Foundation's "LinuxCon Boston 2010"."
Linux Foundation Announces 2010 Event Schedule, Posts Call for Participation for Annual Collaboration Summit
The Linux Foundation has announced its 2010 event schedule. "The Linux Foundation today is also opening its Collaboration Summit Call for Participation (CFP) to all members of the Linux and open source software communities. Tracks will include mobile/embedded Linux, High Performance Computing, and filesystems, among others. Summit CFP submissions are due February 19, 2010 by midnight PST and can be submitted online at: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/collaboration-summit/cfp."
Upcoming Events
Invitation to the BSP in Tokyo, Japan
The Debian Developer Japan/BSP conference has been announced. "Debian Developer in Japan and Debian JP Project convenes BSP on January 23. Location, Date : * Hosted The University of Tokyo, Komaba 2 campus[0]. * 9:00-21:00 January 23rd, 2010 * Main organizer: Yasuhiro Araki (ar) and me."
OOoCon 2011 - Call for Location
A call for location has gone out for OOoCon 2011. "The OpenOffice.org Community is now accepting proposals from Community teams for hosting its annual international conference next year, OOoCon 2011. Hosting OOoCon is challenging, rewarding, exhilarating, exhausting... and can provide a huge publicity boost for OpenOffice.org in your area. There is no fixed date for OOoCon, although we would prefer an autumn date. The deadline for submissions is midnight UTC on 21 February 2010."
Events: January 28, 2010 to March 29, 2010
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| February 2 | Prague PostgreSQL Developers' Day 2010 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| February 5 February 7 |
Frozen Perl 2010 | Minneapolis, MN, USA |
| February 6 | Super Happy Dev Castle #0 | Belfast, N. Ireland, United Kingdom |
| February 6 February 7 |
Free and Open Source Developers' European Meeting | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 10 | Red Hat Cloud Computing Forum | Online, Online |
| February 11 February 13 |
Bay Area Haskell Hackathon | Mountain View, USA |
| February 15 February 18 |
ARES 2010 Conference | Krakow, Poland |
| February 17 February 25 |
PyCon 2010 | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| February 19 February 21 |
SCALE 8x - 2010 Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, USA |
| February 19 February 20 |
GNUnify | Pune, India |
| February 20 February 21 |
FOSSTER '10 | Amritapuri, India |
| February 22 February 24 |
O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing | New York, NY, USA |
| February 27 February 28 |
The Debian/GNOME bug weekend | Online, Internet |
| March 1 March 5 |
Global Ignite week | Online, Online |
| March 2 March 4 |
djangoski | Whistler, Canada |
| March 2 March 5 |
FOSSGIS 2010 | Osnabrück, Germany |
| March 2 March 6 |
CeBIT Open Source | Hannover, Germany |
| March 5 March 6 |
Open Source Days 2010 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| March 7 March 10 |
Bossa Conference 2010 | Recife, Brazil |
| March 13 March 19 |
DebCamp in Thailand | Khon Kaen, Thailand |
| March 15 March 18 |
Cloud Connect 2010 | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| March 16 March 18 |
Salon Linux 2010 | Paris, France |
| March 17 March 18 |
Commons, Users, Service Providers | Hannover, Germany |
| March 19 March 21 |
Panama MiniDebConf 2010 | Panama City, Panama |
| March 19 March 21 |
Libre Planet 2010 | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 19 March 20 |
Flourish 2010 Open Source Conference | Chicago, IL, USA |
| March 22 March 26 |
CanSecWest Vancouver 2010 | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| March 22 | OpenClinica Global Conference 2010 | Bethesda, MD, USA |
| March 23 March 25 |
UKUUG Spring 2010 Conference | Manchester, UK |
| March 25 March 28 |
PostgreSQL Conference East 2010 | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| March 26 March 28 |
Ubuntu Global Jam | Online, World |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
linux.conf.au is Live (OStatic)
OStatic reports that linux.conf.au sessions are available through live feeds. "The 2010 event convened Monday (1/18) in Wellington, New Zealand, its second visit to the Land of the Long White Cloud, and will run through Saturday (1/23). It is also expanding its audience this year by adding a bit of extra "life" to the repertoire: For the first time, even those who can't make it to the conference door can join the festivities, as event organizers are streaming every single session - live."
Mailing Lists
Python-es mailing list changes home
The Python-es mailing list has been changed. "Due to technical problems with the site that usually ran the Python-es mailing list (Python list for the Spanish speaking community), we are setting up a new one under the python.org umbrella. Hence, the new list will become <python-es@python.org> (the old one was <python-es@aditel.org>)."
Web sites
Linux.com Launches job board for members (OStatic)
OStatic reports on the launch of the Linux.com job board. "According to The Job Thread Network, demand for Linux-related jobs as jumped 80% in the last five years. Linux.com plans to roll out a new section of its Web site tomorrow, called Linux Jobs Board, as a way for job seekers with Linux experience to connect with prospective employers. Backed by non-profit organization The Linux Foundation, the new Jobs board will give Linux.com members yet another way to highlight their skills and potentially get snatched up by an IT department."
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