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2010 Free Software Awards announced

The FSF has announced the winners of its 2010 awards. The award for the advancement of free software went to Rob Savoye, currently the maintainer of the Gnash project. The award for "projects of social benefit" was given to the Tor project.

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Google Summer of Code 2011 - mentoring organizations announced

Google has finalized the list of organizations participating in the 2011 Google Summer of Code. The list includes GNOME, KDE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Blender Foundation, Inkscape, and very many more. The student application period opens on March 28. See the timeline for other dates of interest.

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The Linux Foundation Announces MeeGo TV Working Group

The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of the MeeGo Smart TV Working Group. "Early Working Group participants include some of the most innovative thinkers in the Smart TV industry and represent leading service providers, system integrators, hardware platform manufacturers and solution providers that include: Amino Communications, Intel Corporation, JetHead Development, Locatel, MIPS Technologies, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, Sigma Designs, Telecom Italia, Videon Central, and Ysten, among others. Working Group members will define software components and a compliance program as well as focus on building an innovative and thriving ecosystem of developers and content providers with leading capabilities and tools."

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Microsoft sues Barnes and Noble over Android

Microsoft has announced the filing of a lawsuit against Barnes & Noble, Foxconn, and Inventec, alleging patent infringement in the Android-based Nook ebook reader. "The patents at issue cover a range of functionality embodied in Android devices that are essential to the user experience, including: natural ways of interacting with devices by tabbing through various screens to find the information they need; surfing the Web more quickly, and interacting with documents and e-books." Information on the specific patents involved is not yet available.

Update: ZDNet has a list of the patents at issue.

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Phipps: Board Meeting Report

On the Open Source Initiative (OSI) blog, Simon Phipps reports on an OSI board meeting that appointed Karl Fogel, Jim Jagielski, and Mike Godwin to the board (replacing Russ Nelson and Danese Cooper who are leaving due to term limits, and adding an additional board seat). At the meeting, there was also movement toward more open governance for OSI. "This time the Board was able to reach agreement. OSI intends to move to a representative model, with open source communities of all kinds able to become members and participate in OSI's mission and governance directly. We decided the best approach was to offer a way for those communities to affiliate with OSI. The first step will be to change OSI's bylaws to permit entities other than the Board to participate in governance."

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Learning Android--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media has released "Learning Android", by Marko Gargenta.

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R Cookbook--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media has released "R Cookbook", by Paul Teetor.

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O'Reilly Media and Fluidinfo Celebrate New Writable API with a Contest

Fluidinfo created a writable API for O'Reilly Media and to celebrate they are holding a contest "for developers to find creative new ways to use O'Reilly's metadata." The contest is only open to US residents. The grand prize is a full pass to the Open Source Conference (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon, including hotel and airfare.

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Linux Plumbers Conference CFP open until April 30

The Linux Plumbers Conference call for presentations is now open. Proposals need to be in by April 30 and the conference will be held September 7-9 in Santa Rosa, California. "A good topic will cut across community boundaries, and should generate vigorous discussion leading to beneficial change. One excellent example from a past LPC was "From Naught to Sixty in 5 Seconds" back in 2008. This topic involved a sizable fraction of the Linux-related software stack, and required coordinated changes to many components. It set the goal of booting a netbook in five seconds, and within a few months actually achieved a three-second boot. That said, talks describing lessons learned during an already-completed implementation effort are also welcome, as long as they are likely to generate good discussion and to help others avoid similar pitfalls in future implementation efforts."

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SciPy 2011 Call for Papers

SciPy 2011 is the 10th Python in Science conference, to be held July 11-16, 2011, in Austin, TX. The call for proposals is open, with tutorial proposals due April 15 and paper abstracts due by April 24.

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ELC 2011 program announced

The Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) will be held April 11-13, 2011 in San Francisco, California. The schedule is available online.

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OpenCms Days 2011 - Complete Conference Program Available

OpenCms Days 2011 will take place May 9-10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany. The full conference program is available at their website.

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O'Reilly Strata Conference Launches Online Component April 6

O'Reilly Strata Online Conference is a web-based, three-part series that combines tutorials, panel discussions and case studies. The series starts April 6, 2011, with a session titled "Toward a Data-Driven Enterprise".

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Events: March 31, 2011 to May 30, 2011

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
March 28 April 1	GNOME 3.0 Bangalore Hackfest | GNOME.ASIA SUMMIT 2011	Bangalore, India
April 1 April 3	Flourish Conference 2011!	Chicago, IL, USA
April 2 April 3	Workshop on GCC Research Opportunities	Chamonix, France
April 2	Texas Linux Fest 2011	Austin, Texas, USA
April 4 April 5	Camp KDE 2011	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 4 April 6	SugarCon ’11	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 4 April 6	Selenium Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 6 April 8	5th Annual Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 8 April 9	Hack'n Rio	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
April 9	Linuxwochen Österreich - Graz	Graz, Austria
April 9	Festival Latinoamericano de Instalación de Software Libre
April 11 April 14	O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 11 April 13	2011 Embedded Linux Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 13 April 14	2011 Android Builders Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 16	Open Source Conference Kansai/Kobe 2011	Kobe, Japan
April 25 April 26	WebKit Contributors Meeting	Cupertino, USA
April 26 April 29	OpenStack Conference and Design Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 28 April 29	Puppet Camp EU 2011: Amsterdam	Amsterdam, Netherlands
April 29	Ottawa IPv6 Summit 2011	Ottawa, Canada
April 29 April 30	Professional IT Community Conference 2011	New Brunswick, NJ, USA
April 30 May 1	LinuxFest Northwest	Bellingham, Washington, USA
May 3 May 6	Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2011	Boston, MA, USA
May 4 May 5	ASoC and Embedded ALSA Conference	Edinburgh, United Kingdom
May 5 May 7	Linuxwochen Österreich - Wien	Wien, Austria
May 6 May 8	Linux Audio Conference 2011	Maynooth, Ireland
May 9 May 11	SambaXP	Göttingen, Germany
May 9 May 10	OpenCms Days 2011 Conference and Expo	Cologne, Germany
May 9 May 13	Linaro Development Summit	Budapest, Hungary
May 9 May 13	Ubuntu Developer Summit	Budapest, Hungary
May 10 May 13	Libre Graphics Meeting	Montreal, Canada
May 10 May 12	Solutions Linux Open Source 2011	Paris, France
May 11 May 14	LinuxTag - International conference on Free Software and Open Source	Berlin, Germany
May 12	NLUUG Spring Conference 2011	ReeHorst, Ede, Netherlands
May 12 May 15	Pingwinaria 2011 - Polish Linux User Group Conference	Spala, Poland
May 12 May 14	Linuxwochen Österreich - Linz	Linz, Austria
May 16 May 19	PGCon - PostgreSQL Conference for Users and Developers	Ottawa, Canada
May 16 May 19	RailsConf 2011	Baltimore, MD, USA
May 20 May 21	Linuxwochen Österreich - Eisenstadt	Eisenstadt, Austria
May 21	UKUUG OpenTech 2011	London, United Kingdom
May 23 May 25	MeeGo Conference San Francisco 2011	San Francisco, USA

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Videos from ELC Europe 2010

Video recordings of the talks given at the 2010 Embedded Linux Conference Europe are now available. "For the first time, they are all released in full HD resolution. We also switched to the VP8 video codec, which is the latest greatest Open Source and royalty free video codec."

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