Announcements
Brief items
Xamarin and SUSE make a deal on Mono
One fallout from the acquisition of Novell was the laying-off of the Mono team. Novell/SUSE has now announced a deal with Xamarin (the company those Mono developers formed) to continue supporting Mono for SUSE users. "The agreement grants Xamarin a broad, perpetual license to all intellectual property covering Mono, MonoTouch, Mono for Android and Mono Tools for Visual Studio. Xamarin will also provide technical support to SUSE customers using Mono-based products, and assume stewardship of the Mono open source community project."
Articles of interest
Bilski's growing up, and smacking down some bad software patents (opensource.com)
Rob Tiller has a brief article on opensource.com summarizing a one-year review of the effects of the Bilski decision in the US Supreme Court. "That trend is continuing in a good direction. A new study of the first full year of decisions applying Bilski to software confirms that the direction of the case law is toward finding software is not patentable subject matter." The full study is available as a 118-page PDF.
Randal: Harmony 1.0 reflections
Allison Randal has put up a lengthy collection of thoughts about the Harmony agreements 1.0 release and the process that created them. "I expect that over the next year a handful of projects will adopt Harmony agreements. That may not sound like much, but I consider my time on Harmony well-spent when I count the collective human-years that will be saved from drafting and redrafting contributor agreements. That time can be much better spent on community building, documentation, coding and everything else that makes FLOSS projects great. Some posters expressed concern that the mere existence of Harmony might divert some projects from one philosophy or legal strategy to another. I just don't see that happening. The community of FLOSS developers are some of the most legally aware and opinionated non-lawyers on the planet. Harmony will be useful to those projects who would have adopted a CLA/CAA anyway, or for projects who already have one and are looking for an update."
New Books
Continuous Testing with Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Continuous Testing with Ruby, Rails, and JavaScript", by Ben Rady and Rod Coffin.
Upcoming Events
Intel, Collabora and SUSE to be main sponsors of the Desktop Summit
The Desktop Summit 2011 will be held August 6-12, 2011 in Berlin, Germany. Intel is a platinum sponsor. "The event also welcomes Collabora and SUSE as Gold partners. The organization is delighted with the community spirit of these generous corporate partners."
Linux Plumbers Conference, Development Tools track
This year's Linux Plumbers Conference will have a track focusing on development tools on September 7, 2011. "Talks will cover a variety of topics, including bug finding, patch management, and code vizualization." Click below for a schedule.
Call for sponsors for the 8th netfilter developer workshop
The 8th netfilter developer workshop will take place August 22-26, 2011 in Freiburg, Germany. The project is seeking conference sponsors. "If your company is using netfilter and always wanted to give something back, this is a great opportunity. Sponsorship money will be used for travel and accomodation expenses to get the developers to the workshop. Perks include your company name and logo on the workshop page, depending on the level of sponsorship an invitation for one or more of your own developers and a heartily thanks from the netfilter project."
openSUSE Conference registration open
Registration is open for the openSUSE Conference which will be held in Nürnberg, Germany, September 11-14, 2011. Some travel subsidies will be available. A standard invitation letter is available for those who need to get a visa. "Last but not least, there is an option between two different tickets. Entrance is free for all but those who want to support the conference and can afford it can buy a professional ticket. For $350 or €250 you get, besides access to the conference, a networking dinner with the speakers and other professional ticket holders as well as a session with SUSE Product Management."
PyCon Australia 2011: Schedule Announced
The official schedule for PyCon Australia 2011 has been announced. "This year's conference will feature 3 fantastic keynotes, 7 introductory classroom sessions, and 26 presentations on topics as diverse as web programming, benchmarking, social issues and API design." PyCon Australia takes place August 20-21, 2011 in Sydney, Australia.
Join the Ukrainian FOSS Community
There are a number of Free and Open Source Software related events in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, including FOSS Sea Conference, Summer and Winter FOSS Fests, WebCamp and others. "Our events involve people from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Moldova, but we will be happy to expand the geography of our participants, and therefore we are looking for new participants and partners. We kindly invite you to join, and distribution of the information about our events among your friends, at your web resources or in your communities will be highly appreciated."
Events: July 28, 2011 to September 26, 2011
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| August 22 August 26 |
8th Netfilter Workshop | Freiburg, Germany |
| August 23 | Government Open Source Conference | Washington, DC, USA |
| August 25 August 28 |
EuroSciPy | Paris, France |
| August 25 August 28 |
GNU Hackers Meeting | Paris, France |
| August 26 | Dynamic Language Conference 2011 | Edinburgh, United-Kingdom |
| August 27 August 28 |
Kiwi PyCon 2011 | Wellington, New Zealand |
| August 27 | PyCon Japan 2011 | Tokyo, Japan |
| August 27 | SC2011 - Software Developers Haven | Ottawa, ON, Canada |
| August 30 September 1 |
Military Open Source Software (MIL-OSS) WG3 Conference | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| September 6 September 8 |
Conference on Domain-Specific Languages | Bordeaux, France |
| September 7 September 9 |
Linux Plumbers' Conference | Santa Rosa, CA, USA |
| September 8 | Linux Security Summit 2011 | Santa Rosa, CA, USA |
| September 8 September 9 |
Italian Perl Workshop 2011 | Turin, Italy |
| September 8 September 9 |
Lua Workshop 2011 | Frick, Switzerland |
| September 9 September 11 |
State of the Map 2011 | Denver, Colorado, USA |
| September 9 September 11 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2011 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| September 10 September 11 |
PyTexas 2011 | College Station, Texas, USA |
| September 10 September 11 |
SugarCamp Paris 2011 - "Fix Sugar Documentation!" | Paris, France |
| September 11 September 14 |
openSUSE Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| September 12 September 14 |
X.Org Developers' Conference | Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| September 14 September 16 |
Postgres Open | Chicago, IL, USA |
| September 14 September 16 |
GNU Radio Conference 2011 | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| September 15 | Open Hardware Summit | New York, NY, USA |
| September 16 | LLVM European User Group Meeting | London, United Kingdom |
| September 16 September 18 |
Creative Commons Global Summit 2011 | Warsaw, Poland |
| September 16 September 18 |
Pycon India 2011 | Pune, India |
| September 18 September 20 |
Strange Loop | St. Louis, MO, USA |
| September 19 September 22 |
BruCON 2011 | Brussels, Belgium |
| September 22 September 25 |
Pycon Poland 2011 | Kielce, Poland |
| September 23 September 24 |
Open Source Developers Conference France 2011 | Paris, France |
| September 23 September 24 |
PyCon Argentina 2011 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| September 24 September 25 |
PyCon UK 2011 | Coventry, UK |
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