Announcements
Brief items
OIN gets a set of web scripting patents
The Open Invention Network has announced that it has named Fred DuFresne as a "distinguished inventor" and acquired his patents related to WebMate Foundation, "a server-side scripting software that predates ASP from Microsoft, JSP from Sun/Oracle, and PHP from the open source community". One could imagine that patents reading on ASP and JSP might be useful in future disputes with the companies involved.
LAC 2011 videos are available
The proceedings (including video recordings, slides and other material) from the recent Linux Audio Conference are available. "We'd like to thank all speakers and everyone who volunteered to make this an enjoyable event; in particular Frank Neumann, John Lato, Victor Lazzarini and special thanks to Jörn Nettingsmeier."
Articles of interest
FSFE Newsletter - June 2011
Click below to see the June edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter.Samsung Delivers Galaxy S II to CyanogenMod Dev (Phandroid)
Phandroid has a brief article noting that Samsung has given a Galaxy S II phone to a CyanogenMod developer with the explicit purpose of facilitating a port. Donating a handset is an easy thing for a manufacturer to do, but the value of actively encouraging hacking on the device is great.
Calls for Presentations
Call For Papers - PG-Day Denver 2011
PG-Day Denver will be held on September 17, 2011 in Denver, Colorado. "Each session will last 45 minutes, and may be on any topic related to PostgreSQL." The submission deadline is July 31.
Upcoming Events
Linux Beer Hike
This year's annual Linux Beer Hike (LinuxBierWanderung aka LBW) will be held July 30 - August 6, 2011 in the village of Lanersbach in the Tux valley in Austria. "There is much to discover: glacier caves, waterfalls, marmots, pleasant pastures and even a summer ski resort for those who like to take to the pistes all year round. Tux also has a lot to offer in terms of food and drink: many delicious beers and hearty cuisine will fortify the participants and keep them all happy. Talks about Linux and Free and Open Source Software complete the programme."
Events: June 16, 2011 to August 15, 2011
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 15 June 17 |
2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| June 20 June 26 |
EuroPython 2011 | Florence, Italy |
| June 21 June 24 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, OR, USA |
| June 27 June 29 |
YAPC::NA | Asheville, NC, USA |
| June 29 July 2 |
12º Fórum Internacional Software Livre | Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| June 29 | Scilab conference 2011 | Palaiseau, France |
| July 9 July 14 |
Libre Software Meeting / Rencontres mondiales du logiciel libre | Strasbourg, France |
| July 11 July 16 |
SciPy 2011 | Austin, TX, USA |
| July 11 July 12 |
PostgreSQL Clustering, High Availability and Replication | Cambridge, UK |
| July 11 July 15 |
Ubuntu Developer Week | online event |
| July 15 July 17 |
State of the Map Europe 2011 | Wien, Austria |
| July 17 July 23 |
DebCamp | Banja Luka, Bosnia |
| July 19 | Getting Started with C++ Unit Testing in Linux | |
| July 24 July 30 |
DebConf11 | Banja Luka, Bosnia |
| July 25 July 29 |
OSCON 2011 | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 30 July 31 |
PyOhio 2011 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| July 30 August 6 |
Linux Beer Hike (LinuxBierWanderung) | Lanersbach, Tux, Austria |
| August 4 August 7 |
Wikimania 2011 | Haifa, Israel |
| August 6 August 12 |
Desktop Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| August 10 August 12 |
USENIX Security 11: 20th USENIX Security Symposium | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| August 10 August 14 |
Chaos Communication Camp 2011 | Finowfurt, Germany |
| August 13 August 14 |
OggCamp 11 | Farnham, UK |
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