Announcements
Brief items
The annual State of Mozilla report
Mitchell Baker has announced the availability of the annual State of Mozilla report and associated 2010 financial statements. "As the Internet experience is changing, Mozilla, too, is changing. The products and tools that we use to advance our mission are expanding and evolving. A browser is necessary but not sufficient. Equally important is expanding the number of people who understand our values and identify as Mozillians. Mozilla has both the challenge and the opportunity to expand our reach dramatically. We have the ability to bring our values to life in new ways. Embracing these opportunities means embracing change, embracing hope and embracing determination."
Articles of interest
Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Suit Against Motorola Mobility (The Wall Street Journal)
Noted patent troll Intellectual Ventures (IV) has filed a patent suit against Motorola Mobility, according to The Wall Street Journal. Evidently IV has been successful in getting other handset makers to license the patents, but there is an interesting twist in this particular suit: "The lawsuit also creates a potentially awkward scenario, with a firm partly backed by Google now presenting a Google acquisition target with a new legal headache. Intellectual Ventures disclosed Google's investment in the firm in May. [...] Bellevue, Wash.-based Intellectual Ventures filed its new suit in Delaware, alleging that Motorola Mobility has infringed on six patents related to transferring files among computers and technology used in an 'entertainment device,' according to the complaint."
Education and Certification
LPI Announces Academic Training Partners in Malaysia
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and its affiliate, LPI-Asia Pacific have announced new LPI-Approved Academic Partners in Malaysia. ""Malaysia has long been a leader in the adoption of Open Source technology within their public sector and LPI is pleased to be part of that effort. In particular, these two new LPI training partners from Malaysia's leading academic institutions is indicative of the efforts of our affiliate in the region, LPI-APAC, to reach out to that country's IT training organizations," said Jim Lacey, president and CEO of LPI."
Calls for Presentations
Automotive Linux Summit 2011
The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of the Automotive Linux Summit (ALS). "The Automotive Linux Summit is the premier vendor-neutral business and technical conference for companies and developers using or looking to use Linux and open-source technologies in automotive applications ranging from in-vehicle on-board system to cloud solutions for vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications." The Call For Participation closes October 21.
Upcoming Events
buildroot + crosstool-NG Developers' Day
The developers of buildroot and crosstool-NG will be holding a Developers' Day on October 29, 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic. That's the day after the Embedded Linux Conference/LinuxCon which will also be held in Prague.Zentyal Summit 2011
The Zentyal Summit will be held November 11-12 in Zaragoza, Spain. "Zentyal Summit is a free event that offers an opportunity for current and potential Zentyal users, community members and developers share experiences, meet and discuss with each other as well as learn more about the server distribution."
Draw your way to LA and SCALE 10X
The folks behind the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) are holding a logo design contest for the January 2012 event. "The designer of the winning submission will win a free pass to SCALE 10x, including airfare within the continental United States, as well as a three-night stay at the Hilton Los Angeles Airport."
LAC 2012: coming in April
The Linux Audio Conference 2012 will be held April 12-15, 2012 at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, California. Additional details should be available soon.Events: October 20, 2011 to December 19, 2011
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 18 October 21 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| October 19 October 21 |
13th German Perl Workshop | Frankfurt/Main, Germany |
| October 19 October 21 |
Latinoware 2011 | Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil |
| October 20 October 22 |
13th Real-Time Linux Workshop | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 21 October 23 |
PHPCon Poland 2011 | Kielce, Poland |
| October 21 | PG-Day Denver 2011 | Denver, CO, USA |
| October 23 October 25 |
Kernel Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 24 October 28 |
18th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2011) | Manassas, Virgina, USA |
| October 24 October 25 |
GitTogether 2011 | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| October 24 October 25 |
GStreamer Conference 2011 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 26 October 28 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 26 October 28 |
LinuxCon Europe 2011 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 28 October 30 |
MiniDebConf Mangalore India | Mangalore, India |
| October 29 | buildroot + crosstool-NG Developers' Day | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 31 November 4 |
Ubuntu Developer Summit | Orlando, FL, USA |
| October 31 November 4 |
Linux on ARM: Linaro Connect Q4.11 | Orlando, FL, USA |
| November 1 November 3 |
oVirt Workshop and Initial Code Release | San Jose, CA, USA |
| November 1 November 8 |
2011 Plone Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| November 4 November 6 |
Fedora Users and Developer's Conference : India 2011 | Pune, India |
| November 4 November 6 |
Mozilla Festival -- Media, Freedom and the Web | London, United Kingdom |
| November 5 November 6 |
Technical Dutch Open Source Event | Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| November 5 November 6 |
OpenFest 2011 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 7 November 11 |
ApacheCon NA 2011 | Vancouver, Canada |
| November 8 November 12 |
Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| November 10 November 12 |
Clojure/conj 2011 | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| November 11 November 13 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit 2011 | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| November 11 November 12 |
Zentyal Summit | Zaragoza , Spain |
| November 12 | London Perl Workshop 2011 | London, United-Kingdom |
| November 12 | Emacsforum 2011 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| November 14 November 17 |
SC11 | Seattle, WA, USA |
| November 14 November 18 |
Open Source Developers Conference 2011 | Canberra, Australia |
| November 17 November 18 |
LinuxCon Brazil 2011 | São Paulo, Brazil |
| November 18 | LLVM Developers' Meeting | San Jose, CA, USA |
| November 18 November 20 |
Foswiki Camp and General Assembly | Geneva, Swizerland |
| November 19 November 20 |
MediaWiki India Hackathon 2011 - Mumbai | Mumbai, India |
| November 20 November 22 |
Open Source India Days 2011 | Bangalore, India |
| November 24 | verinice.XP | Berlin, Germany |
| November 28 | Automotive Linux Summit 2011 | Yokohama, Japan |
| December 2 December 4 |
Debian Hildesheim Bug Squashing Party | Hildesheim, Germany |
| December 2 December 4 |
Open Hard- and Software Workshop | Munich, Germany |
| December 4 December 9 |
LISA 11: 25th Large Installation System Administration Conference | Boston, MA, USA |
| December 4 December 7 |
SciPy.in 2011 | Mumbai, India |
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