Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
LinuxQuestions.org Turns Ten
The site LinuxQuestions.org has been around for ten years. "In the 3,654 days between then and now, LQ has exceeded my expectations in every way."
Articles of interest
GNU HURD: Altered visions and lost promise (The H)
The H has a lengthy historical look at the GNU HURD. "The dinner was prepared, but the meal has yet to appear. By 2006, there was on ongoing project to port the HURD from L4 to Coyotos, which was considered more secure, and more recently ["NeilNeal] Walfield has worked on moving the HURD to the viengoos microkernel. The HURD has never had the community and resources that amassed around Linux, and looking in from the outside, sometimes looks more like a focus for research into OS design than it does a working kernel.
ASCAP Declares War on Free Culture (ZeroPaid)
ZeroPaid covers a new ASCAP campaign against free content licenses. "'At this moment,' the letter says, 'we are facing our biggest challenge ever. Many forces including Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, Electronic Frontier Foundation and technology companies with deep pockets are mobilizing to promote 'Copyleft' in order to undermine our 'Copyright.' They say they are advocates of consumer rights, but the truth in these groups simply do not want to pay for the use of our music. Their mission is to spread the word that our music should be free.'"
Here's Bilski: It's Affirmed, But . . . (Groklaw)
The US Supreme Court's Bilski decision is out, finally, and Groklaw has it. Anybody hoping that Bilski would do away with software patents will have little to celebrate. "The lower court's decision is affirmed, and so no patent for Bilski. However, business methods are not found totally ineligible for patents, just this one. Not everyone on the court agrees in all particulars. So it's complicated, and obviously not all we hoped for. However, what is clear is that the 'machine or transformation test,' while useful, is not the sole test for eligibility to obtain a patent. That was what the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit had decided was the sole test. The US Supreme Court decided not to decide today about the patentability of software."
Initial thoughts on Bilski (opensource.com)
Red Hat counsel Rob Tiller is not completely discouraged by the Bilski ruling. "The Court also made clear that the the Federal Circuit's pre-Bilski approach is no longer valid. Justice Kennedy's majority opinion made explicit that the Court was not endorsing the 'useful, concrete, and tangible result test' of State Street, and the Justice Stevens's concurring opinion stated that following that test would be 'a grave mistake.' Thus the Federal Circuit's test that contributed to opening the floodgates on software patents is no longer operative."
Has Oracle been a disaster for Sun's open source? (The H)
The H looks at the future of Sun's open source projects under Oracle. "The problem is that Oracle is naturally trying to optimise its acquisition of Sun for its own shareholders, but seems to have forgotten that there are other stakeholders too: the larger open source communities that have formed around the code. That may make sense in the short term, but is undoubtedly fatal in the long term: free software cannot continue to grow and thrive without an engaged community."
New Books
LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell--New from O'Reilly
The book "LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell" is available from O'Reilly.Mahara 1.2 EPortfolios Beginner's Guide
The book "Mahara 1.2 EPortfolios Beginner's Guide" is available from Packt Publishing.
Resources
Linux Foundation Monthly Newsletter: June 2010
The June edition of the Linux Foundation Monthly Newsletter covers LinuxCon Program, T-shirt Design Contest, LF's End User Summit, a new Compliance White Paper, and several other topics.
Calls for Presentations
Call For Papers, 17th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference 2010
The 17th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2010) will take place October 11-15, 2010 in Chicago/Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, USA. Abstracts and proposals are due by August 1, 2010XDS 2010, September 16-18 in Toulouse, France
The X Developers' Summit (XDS) 2010 will be held in Toulouse France, September 16-18, 2010. The call for papers is open until August 16, 2010.
Upcoming Events
FPL travel to LATAM events
The newly appointed Fedora Project Leader, Jared Smith, will make his first offical appearance at FUDCon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) in Santiago de Chile, July 15-17, 2010. "In addition, just a few days afterward Jared will attend the FISL 11 conference in Porto Alegre, Brazil."
SCALE moves to larger venue in 2011
The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) will be moving to a larger venue for 2011. SCALE 9X is slated for February 18-20, 2011.Events: July 8, 2010 to September 6, 2010
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| August 23 August 27 |
European DrupalCon | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| August 28 | PyTexas 2010 | Waco, TX, USA |
| August 31 September 3 |
OOoCon 2010 | Budapest, Hungary |
| August 31 September 1 |
LinuxCon Brazil 2010 | São Paulo, Brazil |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Mailing Lists
New MeeGo Announcement Mailing Lists
Two new mailing lists have been created for MeeGo announcements; meego-announce for major project releases and meego-security for security announcements. "Both of these are low volume mailing lists, and posting to these lists is restricted to a few people who are responsible for official project communications. These lists are a good way to keep up with major announcements for people who aren't involved in the day to day development of MeeGo."
Audio and Video programs
Videos from Red Hat Summit
Videos of keynotes and some sessions from the recent Red Hat Summit and JBoss World are available online. (Thanks to Martin Jeppesen)
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