Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Open Clip Art Library 2.3
The Open Clip Art Library team has announced the release of Open Clip Art Library 2.3. "The latest version, including greater than 32,300 completely scalable vector graphics, serves as a platform for more than 1,500 artists to collaborate and share work."
Commercial announcements
PostgreSQL nears parity with Oracle 11g
2ndQuadrant has issued a press release on the streaming replication and Hot Standby features in the upcoming release of PostgreSQL 9.0. "Simon Riggs, CTO and Founder of 2ndQuadrant, said the implementation of streaming replication and Hot Standby in the core of the database, will encourage companies to migrate from expensive proprietary databases, such as Oracle."
Red Hat Reports First Quarter Results
Red Hat has announced financial results for its fiscal year 2011 first quarter ended May 31, 2010. ""We had a strong start to our fiscal year with 20% organic revenue growth and 28% non-GAAP operating income growth," stated Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat. "We executed well and achieved a significant increase in the number of large deals booked year-over- year, including several with an initial consulting component which we believe is a positive indicator of new project spending and future subscription billings.""
Articles of interest
Cornelius and Vincent Join Different Games (KDE.News)
KDE.News has a joint interview with KDE e.V. President Cornelius Schumacher and GNOME Foundation President Vincent Untz. In it, they discuss Schumacher recently becoming a "Friend of GNOME" and Untz's reciprocal move to become a "KDE Supporting Member". "I don't remember who exactly brought it up, but somebody said that it would be cool to have somebody from GNOME join us. We are working together increasingly well after all and there are lots of good relationships between the two communities. GNOME and KDE share so much in terms of goals, philosophy, and technology, that it makes a lot of sense to stay together, and address the challenges for free software on the client. [...] So after a carefully crafted scientific selection process to find the coolest guy in GNOME, we came up with the idea to ask Vincent to join the game, and the other way around for me to become a friend of GNOME."
Linux at HP: A Decade of Leadership (OS News)
OS News covers a talk by Bdale Garbee, HP Open Source & Linux Chief Technologist. "According to Garbee, HP has a somewhat unique approach to open source. HP participates not just by funding projects but truly getting their hands dirty as a direct open source member, collaboratively supporting existing community values and behaviors and developing even more robust enterprise capabilities. HP is especially unique in the open source field in that they have only ever used existing licences: HP has never created its own license. In addition, HP was an early contender in fighting license proliferation, or when pieces of software cannot be combined because their licences are incompatible. Finally, HP combines its efforts with Linux distributions in order to bring the most effective solutions for its customers."
Russell: Superfreakonomics; Superplug for Intellectual Ventures
Rusty Russell looks at the last chapter of Superfreakonomics on his blog. That chapter is a glowing overview of the "business model" of the huge and well-funded patent troll, Intellectual Ventures. "Now, I don't really care if one company leeches off the others. But if they want to tax software, they have to attack free software otherwise people will switch to avoid their patent licensing costs. And if you don't believe some useful pieces of free software could be effectively banned due to patent violations, you don't think on the same scale as these guys."
Monty appeals Oracle's Sun merger (The Register)
The Register reports that Michael 'Monty' Widenius has submitted an appeal against the European competition watchdog's decision to clear Oracle's takeover of Sun Microsystems earlier this year. "Michael 'Monty' Widenius, who sold his chunk of the MySQL database to Sun Microsystems in 2008 for $1bn, told various news outlets including The Register on Friday that he would make a full statement about the appeal once Oracle had responded to it."
New Books
Building the Realtime User Experience--New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly has released "Building the Realtime User Experience - Creating Immersive and Interactive Websites". The book "shows you how to build realtime user experiences by adding chat, streaming content, and including more features on your site one piece at a time, without making big changes to the existing infrastructure. You'll also learn how to serve realtime content beyond the browser."
Resources
CE Linux Forum Newsletter: June 2010
The June edition of the CE Linux Forum Newsletter covers ELC Europe Keynotes Announced, eLinux Wiki Editor Contest Award Winners, Japan Technical Jamboree #33, NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) TV Program on Linux, and Busybox Enhancements.FSFE Newsletter - July 2010
The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter for July 2010 is out. "This edition covers Neelie Kroes' statement about Open Standards, the Free Software discussion in Saxony (Germany), and the relicensing of WebM to be GPL compatible, and asks you all to keep in touch with your politicians about Free Software issues."
Contests and Awards
Calling all Open Source innovators
The Demo Cup will take place on October 1, 2010 in Paris, France at the 2010 Open World Forum. It is a 'demo' competition, open to all Open Source and free software innovators. "Twelve companies, chosen from written applications, will be nominated and invited to give an eight-minute presentation of their work to the large audience expected to attend the Open World Forum, including decision-makers with a keen interest in Open Source, and a jury of experts in innovation (investors, Open Source integrators and experts)." Entries are due by July 15, 2010.
Upcoming Events
Linux.conf.au requests 2012 bid proposals
The Linux Australia council has announced that they are now accepting proposals for a venue for the 2012 edition of linux.conf.au (LCA). "If you are thinking of bidding, please get in touch with the Linux Australia council. Michael Carden is acting as our LCA2012 Bid liaison and will be happy to have a chat to you about what's involved and pass on some example bids and a sample budget."
Key Speakers Named for Magnolia-CMS Conference 2010
The key speakers for the Magnolia-CMS Conference have been named. The conference takes place in Basel, Switzerland, September 16-17 2010.Events: July 15, 2010 to September 13, 2010
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 6 September 9 |
Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial Conference | Barcelona, Spain |
| September 7 September 9 |
DjangoCon US 2010 | Portland, OR, USA |
| September 8 September 10 |
CouchCamp: CouchDB summer camp | Petaluma, CA, United States |
| September 10 September 12 |
Ohio Linux Fest | Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| September 11 | Open Tech 2010 | London, UK |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
KDE Akademy 2010 conference: First videos and slides published (The H)
The H reports that the first videos and slides from Akademy are available. "The initial slides and videos include a video of the first 2010 keynote, entitled "MeeGo redefining the Linux desktop landscape", presented by Valtteri Halla, Director of MeeGo Software at Nokia, and a presentation by KDE software developer Aaron Seigo discussing the future of Free Software and the KDE community titled "Reaching For Greatness"."
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