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GNOME Foundation Board Elections Spring 2010 - Preliminary Results

The GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee has announced the preliminary results for the Board of Directors. If the results are not challenged, then the elected directors will be: Brian Cameron, Emily Chen, Paul Cutler, Og Maciel, Germán Póo-Caamaño, Andreas Nilsson, and Bastien Nocera. Click below for details.

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Libertine Open Fonts Project releases version 4.7.5

The Libertine Open Fonts Project has released version 4.7.5 of their open source font /Linux Libertine/ and /Linux Biolinum/ font face. "Since 2003 the Libertine Open Fonts Project works on a versatile Unicode font family with an elegant, good-readable type face for daily and professional use. It is designed to give you an alternative for fonts like T*mes New Roman. We're creating /free/ software and publish our fonts under terms of the GPL and Open Font License (OFL)."

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PGXN Development Project

PGXN, the PostgreSQL Extension Network, is modeled on CPAN, the Perl community's archive of "all things Perl." "We have started the fundraising phase of the project now. Thanks to founding sponsors myYearbook.com and PostgreSQL Experts, Inc., we're already 2/5 of the way to our goal. Complete details of the project -- including the specification, implementation plan, and fundraising FAQ -- are on the site."

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Sugar and GNOME Now Shipping on the One Laptop per Child XO-1.5

Sugar Labs, the GNOME Free Desktop Project, and One Laptop per Child (OLPC) have announced an update to the software offered on the OLPC XO-1.5. "The XO-1.5 has the same industrial design as the original XO-1. Based on a VIA processor, it provides 2× the speed of the XO-1, 4× DRAM memory, and 4× FLASH memory. OLPC has announced the availability of a high-school edition of the XO-1.5, the XO-HS, with a newly designed keyboard, more comfortable for older students. The first deployment of the XO-HS is set to begin in Uruguay under the highly successful Plan Ceibal in September."

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Kiddix promotion

Kiddix is a Linux distribution aimed at making a safe, fun, educational and easy-to-use software environment for children. The company, Kiddix Computing, is running a "pay what you want" promotion. "Through June 15th, interested individuals can purchase a downloadable copy of our Kiddix operating system or choose to donate the software license for someone else to enjoy. In addition, for every $10,000 raised, we will donate two Intel-powered Convertible Classmate PC's bundled with Kiddix to one of several selected children's organizations. As part of the promotion we will be fully open sourcing our Kiddix OS!" The promotion has been extended until June 30th.

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HP to buy slim Linux OS from Phoenix

BusinessWeek reports that Hewlett-Packard will buy Linux-based OS and client virtualization assets from Phoenix Technologies. "HP will buy HyperSpace, a watered-down version of the Linux OS that allows users to surf the Web, view digital images or check e-mail just a few seconds after switching on a PC. The OS works on netbooks, laptops and desktops."

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Stewart Rules: Novell Wins! CASE CLOSED! (Groklaw)

Groklaw has the latest news from the zombie-like SCO case, which may, finally, have gotten killed off for good. But we've all thought that before too — in any case, it's good news. "Judge Ted Stewart has ruled for Novell and against SCO. Novell's claim for declaratory judgment is granted; SCO's claims for specific performance and breach of the implied covenant of good fair and fair dealings are denied. Also SCO's motion for judgment as a matter of law or for a new trial: denied. Novell is entitled to waive, at its sole discretion, claims against IBM, Sequent and other SVRX licensees."

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Updegrove: Looking Back at SCO

Andy Updegrove has written a postmortem on SCO vs. reality. "Perversely, SCO's suicidal mission against Linux ultimately served to strengthen the role of the Linux operating system kernel it tried to encumber rather than the opposite. Today, the reality of FOSS/OSS is far stronger today than it likely would have been had not SCO destroyed itself in its vain quest."

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A new and better Open Source Initiative (opensource.com)

Over at opensource.com, Open Source Initiative (OSI) board member Simon Phipps describes changes needed at OSI. He is looking for new blood to get involved with OSI—joining and governing the organization. "Today we have a mature understanding of open source issues and licensing that means the advocacy initiatives of 1999 are less necessary and the license approval role has changed. The growth of cloud computing - even with open APIs and open data - means that liberty assurance mechanisms based only on source code are inadequate to identify the presence of software freedom. And the maturity of the open source market means the 'games' that existing corporations play on the market are sophisticated enough to use open source as a corporate weapon instead of as a path to liberty."

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Cuif: Mandriva in the storm…

Mandriva developer community representative Frédéric Cuif speculates on Mandriva's future. "In our case, Olivier and I have heard a lot about the proposed projects, disagreement and tension of employees and employees representatives of Mandriva are very strong. As it stands, Alexander Zapolsky [from Linagora] proposed the best project on social aspects and development aspects of the company, which will have to be of course confirmed in final draft to be submitted at the commercial court if option of a business transfer is possible. The others just wanted to use clearly Mandriva as a springboard to promote something else (enter the free market in particular) and the social aspect was sometimes nonexistent according to our sources. Mandriva is today more than fifty employees, both in France and Brazil and their future is capital." (Thanks to Eric Hermechals)

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Betlem: Flash Player 10.1 Now Available

Flash developer Paul Betlem looks at the release of Flash Player 10.1. "Peer-assisted networking and Multicast is available for Flash Player 10.1 by leveraging Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP), which enables peers on a network to assist in real time communication and content delivery over the web. Flash Player now supports peer-assisted networking groups, which allows an application to segment its users and send messages and data between members of the group. Application level multicast allows for one (or a few)-to-many streaming of continuous live video streams as well as real-time audio/video chat applications." (Thanks to Don Marti)

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Adobe pulls Flash player for 64 bit linux (TechWorld)

TechWorld looks at the status of Flash Player for 64-bit Linux, (development is currently stalled). "The company, though, remains "fully committed to bringing native 64-bit Flash Player for the desktop by providing native support for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux 64-bit platforms in an upcoming major release of Flash Player," the bulletin said. "We intend to provide more regular update information on our progress as we continue our work on 64-bit versions of Flash Player.""

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SQL Antipatterns--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

"SQL Antipatterns - Avoiding the Pitfalls of Database Programming" by Bill Karwin has been released by the Pragmatic Bookshelf.

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Hiring FFmpeg developers

FFmpeg users have a new resource. You can now hire a FFmpeg developer to help figure out an issue, fix a bug or add some new feature. "This page is a list of those FFmpeg developers that are available for employment or consulting. The FFmpeg project highly recommends these people to be hired by your business. All developers on this list have SVN access, which serves as a testimony for their competence. By hiring one of these developers, your business can also (indirectly) support the development of FFmpeg."

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PyTexas 2010 Call for Proposals

PyTexas 2010 will take place Saturday August 28, 2010 at the Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The call for proposals is open until July 15, 2010.

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Pycon India 2010 - Call for Proposals

PyCon India 2010 has announced a call for proposals. The event takes place in Bangalore, India, September 25-26, 2010. Proposals are due by July 31, 2010.

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Events: June 24, 2010 to August 23, 2010

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
August 21 August 22	Free and Open Source Software Conference	St. Augustin, Germany

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