Announcements

KDE e.V. offers supporting memberships

KDE.News has the announcement that KDE e.V., the non-profit organization which supports KDE development, is seeking supporting members. "The goal of this programme is to get people more involved in the work of the e.V. - we will send supporting members quarterly reports, ask their opinions and in general keep them informed of our activities. They will also be able to attend the General Assembly of the e.V. membership at Akademy and follow the discussions (voting will remain a privilege of the core membership). Meanwhile, the money we receive will help us have a more sustainable financial basis and make us less dependent on a few generous supporters."

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The Linaro consortium debuts

ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have announced the creation of a new nonprofit organization called Linaro which is aimed at helping the creation of mobile Linux-based systems. "Linaro will work with the growing number of Linux distributions to create regular releases of optimized tools and foundation software that can be used widely by the industry, increasing compatibility across semiconductors from multiple suppliers. As a result, Linaro's resources and open source solutions will allow device manufacturers to speed up development time, improve performance and reduce engineering time spent on non-differentiating, low-level software. Linux distributions, open source and proprietary software projects will benefit from Linaro's investment, with more stable code becoming widely available as a common base for innovation."

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CTERA Networks announces Next3 File System for Linux

CTERA Networks has announced the availability of the Next3 file system for Linux. "Snapshots record the state of the file system at any given moment, creating a point-in-time copy of the data that can be used to restore previous versions of files. Versioning capabilities have been a key goal for storage systems, but until now no solution for Linux offered file-system level snapshots that made efficient use of disk space, stored snapshots reliably and maintained low performance overhead. For the first time, Next3 brings a free, GPL licensed file-system level snapshots solution for Linux users." LWN looked at Next3 back in May.

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Geist: The Canadian Copyright Bill: Flawed But Fixable

Canadian LWN readers may be interested in Michael Geist's blog post on the Copyright Modernization Act (or Bill C-32). "The one area where there is no compromise are the digital lock provisions. The prioritization of digital locks is the choice of the U.S. DMCA and is now the choice of the Canadian DCMA. In fact, the Canadian digital lock provisions are arguably worse than those found in the U.S., with fewer exceptions and greater difficulty to amend the rules. The Canadian DCMA provisions are virtually identical to the U.S. - a handful of hard-to-use exceptions, a ban on the distribution and marketing of devices (ie. software) that can be used to circumvent, and a presumption that any circumvention is an infringement." (Thanks to Barbara Irwin)

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WebM gets a new license

Google has announced some changes in the licensing for the WebM codec. "Using patent language borrowed from both the Apache and GPLv3 patent clauses, in this new iteration of the the patent clause we've decoupled patents from copyright, thus preserving the pure BSD nature of the copyright license. This means we are no longer creating a new open source copyright license, and the patent grant can exist on its own. Additionally, we have updated the patent grant language to make it clearer that the grant includes the right to modify the code and give it to others."

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Chris Lattner gets first SIGPLAN award for LLVM work

The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Programming Languages has announced that LLVM creator Chris Lattner has won its first "Programming Languages Software Award." "Lattner and Vikram Adve initially developed LLVM as a novel research infrastructure when Lattner was a member of Adve's research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Lattner went on to extend it into a powerful, widely adopted commercial-quality product. LLVM was released as an open source infrastructure in October 2003, and has since enjoyed popular adoption in the academic, commercial and open source worlds."

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LPI and Ma3bar host Open Source "Train-the-Trainer" workshops for Middle East

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has announced a series of GNU/Linux "Train-the-Trainer" workshops for Linux professionals from throughout the Middle East on June 9-12 and June 14-17, 2010.

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GNOME Meeting Minutes Published - May 27, 2010

Click below for the minutes of the May 27, 2010 meeting of the GNOME Foundation board. Topics include Women Outreach Program, LiMo and GTK+, Sysadmin job, Finances, Event Updates, ...

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COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010 Call For Participants

The organizing team of GNOME.Asia Summit has announced the call for participants. The event will be held August 14-15, 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan. The submission deadline is June 25, 2010.

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Events: June 17, 2010 to August 16, 2010

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
June 19	FOSSCon	Rochester, New York, USA
June 21 June 25	Semantic Technology Conference 2010	San Francisco, CA, USA
June 22 June 25	Red Hat Summit	Boston, USA
June 23 June 24	Open Source Data Center Conference 2010	Nuremberg, Germany
June 26 June 27	PyCon Australia	Sydney, Australia
June 28 July 3	SciPy 2010	Austin, TX, USA
July 1 July 4	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe	Grodno, Belarus
July 3 July 10	Akademy	Tampere, Finland
July 6 July 9	Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems	Brussels, Belgium
July 6 July 11	11th Libre Software Meeting / Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre	Bordeaux, France
July 9 July 11	State Of The Map 2010	Girona, Spain
July 12 July 16	Ottawa Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Canada
July 15 July 17	FUDCon	Santiago, Chile
July 17 July 24	EuroPython 2010: The European Python Conference	Birmingham, United Kingdom
July 17 July 18	Community Leadership Summit 2010	Portland, OR, USA
July 19 July 23	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	Portland, Oregon, USA
July 21 July 24	11th International Free Software Forum	Porto Alegre, Brazil
July 22 July 23	ArchCon 2010	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
July 22 July 25	Haxo-Green SummerCamp 2010	Dudelange, Luxembourg
July 24 July 30	Gnome Users And Developers European Conference	The Hague, The Netherlands
July 25 July 31	Debian Camp @ DebConf10	New York City, USA
July 31 August 1	PyOhio	Columbus, Ohio, USA
August 1 August 7	DebConf10	New York, NY, USA
August 4 August 6	YAPC::Europe 2010 - The Renaissance of Perl	Pisa, Italy
August 7 August 8	Debian MiniConf in India	Pune, India
August 9 August 10	KVM Forum 2010	Boston, MA, USA
August 9	Linux Security Summit 2010	Boston, MA, USA
August 10 August 12	LinuxCon	Boston, USA
August 13	Debian Day Costa Rica	Desamparados, Costa Rica
August 14	Summercamp 2010	Ottawa, Canada
August 14 August 15	Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters	Taipei, Taiwan

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