Announcements

IBM joins Oracle for OpenJDK work

IBM has announced that it will be working with Oracle to develop the OpenJDK Java environment. "With today's news, the two companies will make the OpenJDK community the primary location for open source Java SE development. The Java Community Process (JCP) will continue to be the primary standards body for Java specification work and both companies will work to continue to enhance the JCP."

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GTK+/MeeGo Handset integration work, call for bids

The GNOME Foundation is looking for developers to enhance the developer experience of using GTK+ to port and create applications on MeeGo Handset devices. "Knowledge of the MeeGo Handset development process, and GTK+ internals will be required to carry out the work."

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HTC Willfully Violates the GPL in T-Mobile's New G2 Android Phone (Freedom to Tinker)

Over at the Freedom to Tinker blog, Steve Schultze reports that HTC is delaying the release of modifications it made to the Linux kernel in the G2 phone for 90-120 days. These modifications might help folks in circumventing the technical barriers to changing the firmware on the phone. "As it turned out, the internal memory chip included an option to make certain portions of memory read-only, which had the effect of silently discarding all changes upon reboot. However, it appears that this can be changed by sending the right series of commands to the chip. This effectively moved the rooting efforts into the complex domain of hardware hacking, with modders trying to figure out how to send these commands. Doing so involves writing some very challenging code that interacts with the open-source Linux kernel. The hackers haven't yet succeeded (although they still could), largely because they are working in the dark. The relevant details about how the Linux kernel has been modified by HTC have not been disclosed."

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Hall: LPI and My First International Proctoring "Job"

Jon "maddog" Hall reminisces about the first LPI testing in Brazil. "In January of 2002 a FOSS training company in Brazil named "4Linux" decided that Brazil needed a certification for Linux. They naturally looked to LPI to supply that certification. However, the fledgling LPI stated that only LPI representatives could give the tests, and it was not cost effective to fly someone from Canada to Brazil to test 100 or 200 people, particularly when Marcelo Marques, one of the owners of the 4Linux company kept telling LPI that 200 US dollars was "too much money" for the test."

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Motorola Mobility sues Apple

The mobile telephony patent suits continue: today's lawsuit is Motorola Mobility v. Apple. "Overall, Motorola Mobility's three complaints include 18 patents, which relate to early-stage innovations developed by Motorola in key technology areas found on many of Apple's core products and associated services, including MobileMe and the App Store. The Motorola patents include wireless communication technologies, such as WCDMA (3G), GPRS, 802.11 and antenna design, and key smartphone technologies including wireless email, proximity sensing, software application management, location-based services and multi-device synchronization." The list of specific patents involved does not appear to be available yet.

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The Perl Language Reference Manual v5.12.1 - printed edition

The "Perl Language Reference Manual (for Perl version 5.12.1)" is now available as a printed book.

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Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, 6th Edition--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly has released "Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, Sixth Edition" by Andrew Lee Rubinger and Bill Burke.

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Linux Foundation survey on enterprise Linux use

The Linux Foundation has released a survey on enterprise Linux use at its annual End User Summit. "In short, the survey found that Linux is poised for growth in the coming years; 76.4% of companies are planning to add more Linux servers in the next twelve months. In contrast, only 41.2% of respondents are planning to add Windows servers in the next year, while 43.6% say they will be decreasing or maintaining the number of Windows servers in their organizations over the same time period." Registration is required to obtain the full report.

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Red Hat Summit and JBoss World Call For Papers Now Open

Red Hat has announced that the call for papers is now open for the seventh annual Red Hat Summit and JBoss World. These events will take place May 3-6, 2011 in Boston, MA. The deadline to submit a proposal is Nov. 15, 2010.

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Linux Plumbers Conference keynote and event lineup

The Linux Plumbers Conference has announced keynotes by Michael Meeks and Jonathan Corbet, as well as several evening events. The conference will take place in Cambridge, MA, November 3-5, 2010. If you would like to go and haven't registered yet, be aware that there are only a few places left and the price goes up October 19.

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Events: October 21, 2010 to December 20, 2010

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 18 October 21	7th Netfilter Workshop	Seville, Spain
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
November 29 November 30	European OpenSource & Free Software Law Event	Torino, Italy
December 4	London Perl Workshop 2010	London, United Kingdom
December 6 December 8	PGDay Europe 2010	Stuttgart, Germany
December 11	Open Source Conference Fukuoka 2010	Fukuoka, Japan
December 13 December 18	SciPy.in 2010	Hyderabad, India
December 15 December 17	FOSS.IN/2010	Bangalore, India

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Announcing: The virt-tools.org website

Richard WM Jones has announced the virt-tools.org website. "Virt Tools are open source virtualization management tools for Linux system administrators. The virt tools site provides tutorials, videos, documentation, online help and roadmaps to help you get started with and understand the tools."

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