Announcements
Brief items
Announcing AndroidQuestions.org
The Questions Network has announced that AndroidQuestions.org is officially out of beta and open for business. "AndroidQuestions.org is for the discussion of all Android-related topics; from phones, tablets and other hardware devices to Android applications and development."
Articles of interest
Adobe: Android is the Linux desktop
Adobe has announced that it will no longer be producing versions of Adobe AIR - or security updates - for desktop Linux; instead, they see Android as the future. Some more information can be found in this blog entry: "So, with Desktop Linux, we see a basically flat growth curve hovering around 1%. And since the release of AIR, we've seen only a 0.5% download share for desktop Linux. For Android and IOS we see substantial growth in share, and see predictions that indicate that in the Mobile OS market, the Android share could be 46%, with iOS at 16% (IDC March 2011)."
SCOTUS makes patent holders happy (ars technica)
Ars technica reports on the US Supreme Court's ruling in the i4i case. "In a New York Times op-ed supporting Microsoft, UCLA law professor Doug Lichtman had argued that changing the standard of proof would 'give relief to the countless businesses that today find themselves vulnerable to patents that shouldn't have been issued in the first place.' A wide variety of companies and public interest groups, including Google, Red Hat, Walmart, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Apache Software Foundation, filed briefs echoing that point. But the Supreme Court decided that whatever the merits of these policy arguments, they couldn't overrule the text of the patent law and the courts' long history of employing the higher standard."
linux.conf.au finally controls domain name (iTWire)
ITwire reports that the well-known Linux conference linux.conf.au finally owns the domain name. ""So I'm very pleased to announce that, from this point onwards, the linux.conf.au domain will be available all year round, rather than the somewhat traditional six monthly on/off cycle that many conference regulars have become familiar with," wrote [Linux Australia president John] Ferlito."
Proprietary software keeps users helpless (TechRadar)
TechRadar covers a Linux Format Magazine interview with Richard Stallman. "In fact, when the open source philosophy spreads a lot - which it has - it tends to close people's minds to the ideas of free software. It even tends to cover up our existence. Most of the articles that talk about the GNU system, they don't call it the GNU system and they don't call it free software. They describe it as open source, and they give the impression that we - its developers - agree with the open source ideas that the readers have heard of already, and would never guess at what we're really standing for."
Calls for Presentations
PyTexas 2011 Call for Proposals
The fourth annual Python programming conference for Texas and the surrounding region (PyTexas 2011) will take place September 10-11, 2011 in College Station, Texas. The call for proposals is open until July 16.
Upcoming Events
Explore Java 7 at OSCON Java
OSCON Java will take place July 25-27, 2011; co-located with O'Reilly's Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, Oregon.USB mini-summit at LinuxCon Vancouver
There will be a USB mini-summit on August 16, 2011 at LinuxCon Vancouver. "Proposed topics include USB virtualization, and improved bandwidth APIs between the USB core and drivers (especially webcam drivers). See the detailed topic list below. Anyone is also welcome to propose or show up with a USB related topic. MUSB? USB 3.0 gadget drivers? USB-IP?"
X.Org Developers Conference 2011
The X.Org Developers' Conference (XDC2011) will be held September 12-14, 2011 in Chicago, Illinois.Events: June 23, 2011 to August 22, 2011
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| August 15 August 16 |
KVM Forum 2011 | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| August 15 August 17 |
YAPC::Europe 2011 Modern Perl | Riga, Latvia |
| August 17 August 19 |
LinuxCon North America 2011 | Vancouver, Canada |
| August 20 August 21 |
PyCon Australia | Sydney, Australia |
| August 20 August 21 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters | Tapei, Taiwan |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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