Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project
Microsoft'sWhile Team Foundation Server is still the most used version control system on CodePlex, our users are clearly benefiting from having access to Mercurial for their open source projects. The CodePlex team is happy to be able to offer our community of more than 17,000 projects a choice. With Mercurial as an important feature of CodePlex, we are excited to be making this donation to help support the Mercurial project."
Articles of interest
Morgan: Finding more women to speak at Ohio LinuxFest: success!
On her blog, Mackenzie Morgan reports on efforts to increase the number of women speakers at Ohio LinuxFest. Due to the outreach, the number of women speakers went from five of 31 last year to 14 of 38 this year. "Recognising the various concerns women speakers can face, we tried to specifically address potential issues in the email sent to women-focused mailing lists. Some of these known issues include lack of confidence in new speakers, not being clear what the intended audience is, or the "imposter syndrome," where someone doesn't recognize that they are qualified to speak on a topic. The woman to woman dialog made the difference.".
Legal Announcements
Mozilla Public License Alpha 2
The second alpha version of the revised Mozilla Public License has been posted; the text has been annotated to make it relatively easy to see what has been changed. "The most significant change in this draft is the patent language. We have made it easier to read but also, we hope, better at protecting communities who choose to use the MPL. It should also have the side effect of making the license Apache-compatible, allowing projects licensed under the next MPL release to include Apache-licensed code in their code bases."
Resources
FSFE - Newsletter September 2010
The September edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) Newsletter is out. "In this edition we are covering Free Software in education, distributed Free Software solutions as alternative to centralised services, some ways to celebrate what we -- the Free Software community -- already achieved, and how you can participate in the European football championship even if you are not interested in football."
LPI Launches Certified Solution Provider Program
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has announced a new partner program. "The Linux Professional Institute Certified Solution Provider program (LPI-CSP) will be offered to prospective partners this year in Latin America, North America and Spain and in 2011 within other regions around the world."
LPI Launches "Community Corner" with Jon "maddog" Hall
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has announced an upcoming Community Corner blog. "The blog will feature commentary and regular contributions from Jon "maddog" Hall, a widely recognized mentor and leader in the programming community and a longtime and respected champion of Free and Open Source Software. Mr. Hall is also Executive Director of Linux International."
Contests and Awards
Open Source and innovation: Demo Cup at Open World Forum
The Demo Cup is an international competition for Open Source projects, organized as part of the Open World Forum in Paris on October 1, 2010. The list of finalists has been announced. "These 13 finalists will compete against each other on 1 October 2010 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm at the Open World Forum. Each will have exactly eight minutes to convince the Jury and the audience, by putting forward a practical demonstration of how their product might become a game-changer in their marketplace."
3 finalists "Best Object Databases Lecture Notes"
ODBMS.ORG and a jury of members of the ODBMS.ORG Experts Board have selected three finalists for the "Best Object Databases Lecture Notes" Award 2010. "The Awards recognize the most complete and up to date lecture notes on Object Databases, that have been, or have strong potential to be, instrumental to the teaching of theory and practice in the field of objects and databases."
Calls for Presentations
2010 LLVM Developers' Meeting Announcement and Call for Speakers
The fourth annual LLVM Developers' Meeting will be held on November 4, 2010 in San Jose, California, USA. "We are looking for speakers for this year's meeting. Topics can include the LLVM or Clang infrastructure or new uses of LLVM or Clang. If you are interested in presenting at this year's LLVM Developers' Meeting, please submit your talk proposal to us by September 22, 2010."
Call for Papers for SCALE 9x opens
The call for papers for the 2011 Southern California Linux Expo is open until December 13, 2010. The conference is in Los Angeles, California, February 25-27, 2011. "With the continued growth of Open Source software in business, SCALE will address the need for system management knowledge by adding a speaker track focused on system administration. Combined with the two specialized tracks -- Beginners and Developers -- and the two general interest tracks, SCALE 9x will have content for every attendee."
Upcoming Events
End User Summit Program announced
The Linux Foundation has announced the program for the 2010 End User Summit. "The Summit will take place October 12-13, 2010 at the Hyatt Regency Jersey City in New Jersey and will provide end users and kernel developers a direct connection to one another for advancing the features most critical to using Linux in the enterprise. By bringing together sophisticated end users and senior Linux developers, The Linux Foundation hopes to accelerate innovation and adoption of Linux in the most cutting-edge environments. Companies from financial services, healthcare, energy and government, among other industries, will be attending the invitation-only event."
Paris Mini-DebConf 2010
Debian France is organizing the first Paris Mini-DebConf. "This event will welcome everyone with an interest in the Debian project for a series of talks and workshops about Debian. Allowing users, contributors and developers to meet each other is also one of the main goals of this event. We are especially looking forward to meeting Debian developers from around the world :)" The conference takes place in Paris, October 30-31, 2010.
Events: September 16, 2010 to November 15, 2010
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 16 September 18 |
X Developers' Summit | Toulouse, France |
| September 16 September 17 |
Magnolia-CMS | Basel, Switzerland |
| September 16 September 17 |
3rd International Conference FOSS Sea 2010 | Odessa, Ukraine |
| September 17 September 18 |
FrOSCamp | Zürich, Switzerland |
| September 17 September 19 |
Italian Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference 2010 | Perugia, Italy |
| September 18 September 19 |
WordCamp Portland | Portland, OR, USA |
| September 18 | Software Freedom Day 2010 | Everywhere, Everywhere |
| September 21 September 24 |
Linux-Kongress | Nürnberg, Germany |
| September 23 | Open Hardware Summit | New York, NY, USA |
| September 24 September 25 |
BruCON Security Conference 2010 | Brussels, Belgium |
| September 25 September 26 |
PyCon India 2010 | Bangalore, India |
| September 27 September 29 |
Japan Linux Symposium | Tokyo, Japan |
| September 27 September 28 |
Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems | Tokyo, Japan |
| September 29 | 3rd Firebird Conference - Moscow | Moscow, Russia |
| September 30 October 1 |
Open World Forum | Paris, France |
| October 1 October 2 |
Open Video Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| October 1 | Firebird Day Paris - La Cinémathèque Française | Paris, France |
| October 3 October 4 |
Foundations of Open Media Software 2010 | New York, NY, USA |
| October 4 October 5 |
IRILL days - where FOSS developers, researchers, and communities meet | Paris, France |
| October 7 October 9 |
Utah Open Source Conference | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| October 8 October 9 |
Free Culture Research Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| October 11 October 15 |
17th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Chicago/Oakbrook Terrace, IL, USA |
| October 12 October 13 |
Linux Foundation End User Summit | Jersey City, NJ, USA |
| October 12 | Eclipse Government Day | Reston, VA, USA |
| October 16 | FLOSS UK Unconference Autumn 2010 | Birmingham, UK |
| October 16 | Central PA Open Source Conference | Harrisburg, PA, USA |
| October 18 October 21 |
7th Netfilter Workshop | Seville, Spain |
| October 18 October 20 |
Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| October 19 October 20 |
Open Source in Mobile World | London, United Kingdom |
| October 20 October 23 |
openSUSE Conference 2010 | Nuremberg, Germany |
| October 22 October 24 |
OLPC Community Summit | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| October 25 October 27 |
GitTogether '10 | Mountain VIew, CA, USA |
| October 25 October 27 |
Real Time Linux Workshop | Nairobi, Kenya |
| October 25 October 27 |
GCC & GNU Toolchain Developers Summit | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| October 25 October 29 |
Ubuntu Developer Summit | Orlando, Florida, USA |
| October 26 | GStreamer Conference 2010 | Cambridge, UK |
| October 27 | Open Source Health Informatics Conference | London, UK |
| October 27 October 29 |
Hack.lu 2010 | Parc Hotel Alvisse, Luxembourg |
| October 27 October 28 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2010 | Cambridge, UK |
| October 27 October 28 |
Government Open Source Conference 2010 | Portland, OR, USA |
| October 28 October 29 |
European Conference on Computer Network Defense | Berlin, Germany |
| October 28 October 29 |
Free Software Open Source Symposium | Toronto, Canada |
| October 30 October 31 |
Debian MiniConf Paris 2010 | Paris, France |
| November 1 November 2 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| November 1 November 5 |
ApacheCon North America 2010 | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| November 3 November 5 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| November 4 | 2010 LLVM Developers' Meeting | San Jose, CA, USA |
| November 5 November 7 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit | Gorthenburg, Sweden |
| November 6 November 7 |
Technical Dutch Open Source Event | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| November 6 November 7 |
OpenOffice.org HackFest 2010 | Hamburg, Germany |
| November 8 November 10 |
Free Open Source Academia Conference | Grenoble, France |
| November 9 November 12 |
OpenStack Design Summit | San Antonio, TX, USA |
| November 11 | NLUUG Fall conference: Security | Ede, Netherlands |
| November 11 November 13 |
8th International Firebird Conference 2010 | Bremen, Germany |
| November 12 November 14 |
FOSSASIA | Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam |
| November 12 November 13 |
Japan Linux Conference | Tokyo, Japan |
| November 12 November 13 |
Mini-DebConf in Vietnam 2010 | Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| November 13 November 14 |
OpenRheinRuhr | Oberhausen, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Audio and Video programs
Embedded Linux Conference videos available
Michael Opdenacker has announced the availability of videos from this year's Embedded Linux Conference, which was held in San Francisco in April. The slides and Theora video are available for most, if not all, of the talks. Opdenacker and the Free Electrons team do the community a great service by doing the work to record and transcode the videos. "If you are interested in such talks, what about joining the European edition of the conference? It will take place in Cambridge (UK), on October 27-28, and will be colocated with the GStreamer conference (October 26). See http://www.embeddedlinuxconference.com/elc_europe10/ and http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/conference/ for details."
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