Announcements
Non-Commercial announcements
Mozilla Joins Open Invention Network (The Mozilla Blog)
On its blog, Mozilla has announced that it joined the Open Invention Network (OIN). "Patents owned by Open Invention Network are available royalty-free to any company, institution or individual that agrees not to assert its patents against the Linux System. By joining, Mozilla receives cross-licenses from other OIN licensees, but more importantly, for the long term, it affords us a chance to work with OIN in reducing IP threats to open source development and innovation. This may include a defensive publications program that would make it harder for others to patent work created by Mozilla contributors, sharing defensive tactics, and cooperation to minimize patent threats."
The Ubuntu application review process
Canonical has announced a mechanism by which applications will be reviewed for possible acceptance into the Ubuntu Software Centre. "Recently we formed a community-driven Application Review Board that is committed to providing high quality reviews of applications submitted by application authors to ensure they are safe and work well. Importantly, only new applications that are not present in an existing official Ubuntu repository (such as main/universe) are eligible in this process (e.g a new version of an application in an existing official repository is not eligible). Also no other software can depend on the application being submitted (e.g. development libraries are not eligible), only executable applications (and content that is part of them) are eligible, and not stand-alone content, documentation or media, and applications must be Open Source and available under an OSI approved license."
Articles of interest
Novell's Patents Are Complicating Its Sale (GigaOm)
Matt Asay ponders the role of Novell's patents in the sale of the company. "This is why Red Hat has remained interested in Novell, despite a lack of competitive threat from SUSE. At all. In a world of rough-and-tumble patent litigation, Red Hat can't continue to bring vague rally-the-troops, anti-patent jingoism to a knife fight. Yes, it has done well to support the Open Invention Network and other patent collectives, but having its own defensive patent war chest would go a long way toward securing its thriving Linux, virtualization, and middleware businesses from latent patent suits."
Adobe Flash Player Square adds native 64-bit support (NetworkWorld)
NetworkWorld reports that Adobe has made available a preview of Flash Player with native 64-bit support, and there is a Linux version. "The preview, available from Adobe Labs, is offered so that users can test existing content and new platforms for compatibility and stability. Adobe warns, the preview isn't yet stable, and advises caution when installing Flash Player "Square" on production machines."
Resources
Linux Foundation Monthly Newsletter: September 2010
The Linux Foundation newsletter for September 2010 covers: Qualcomm Innovation Center Joins LF, LF Industry-Wide Open Compliance Program, Program for LF End User Summit, and several other topics.
Education and Certification
LPI Announces New Affiliate for Asia Pacific
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has announced a new affiliate partner for the Asia Pacific region--LPI-APAC. "LPI-APAC will include the following countries: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam."
Calls for Presentations
FUDCon LATAM 2011 bids
The bid period for the next Fedora Users and Developers Conference (FUDCon) in the LATAM region is open until September 30. "Decisions for a FUDCon location are made on the basis of many factors, including costs, quality and quantity of bid information provided, facilities available, bid team commitment, and the desire to move FUDCon around a given region where practical."
O'Reilly MySQL Conference and Expo 2011 CfP
The O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo will take place April 11-14, 2011 in Santa Clara, California. The call for proposals is open until October 25, 2010.
Upcoming Events
linux.conf.au 2011 news
The first confirmed keynote speaker for linux.conf.au 2011 will be Mark Pesce. "Mark Pesce is an inventor, writer, educator and broadcaster. He is the co-developer of the Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) which forms a basis for 3D rendering used in millions of computers worldwide. His work at US universities included initiating 3D and interactive arts programs."
A draft schedule of presentations is available for lca2011. "From around the
world, and among the best and brightest in Australia & New Zealand, the
schedule for lca2011 includes topics from cloud computing and HTML5 to
Kernel innovations and Databases as well as a FOSS powered Telco in Dili
and Linux powered coffee roaster. linux.conf.au 2011 runs for a full week
starting Monday 24th January, with presentations, tutorials, some
significant Keynote presentations, 15 Miniconfs and an Open Day.
"
If you are interested in speaking at a Miniconf see this page and click on the Miniconf of choice to see the requirements for that particular session.
Canonical Announces Provisional Ubuntu Developer Summit Tracks
Canonical has announced a list of provisional tracks for the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS-N) scheduled for October 25-29, 2010 in Orlando, Florida.Events: September 30, 2010 to November 29, 2010
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| November 15 November 17 |
MeeGo Conference 2010 | Dublin, Ireland |
| November 18 November 21 |
Piksel10 | Bergen, Norway |
| November 20 November 21 |
OpenFest - Bulgaria's biggest Free and Open Source conference | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 20 November 21 |
Kiwi PyCon 2010 | Waitangi, New Zealand |
| November 20 November 21 |
WineConf 2010 | Paris, France |
| November 23 November 26 |
DeepSec | Vienna, Austria |
| November 24 November 26 |
Open Source Developers' Conference | Melbourne, Australia |
| November 27 | Open Source Conference Shimane 2010 | Shimane, Japan |
| November 27 | 12. LinuxDay 2010 | Dornbirn, Austria |
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