Announcements
Brief items
HP: webOS to be fully released by September
HP has announced a roadmap for the open-sourcing of webOS that calls for the full code base to be released by September. The Apache 2.0 license will be used. "HP also announced it is releasing version 2.0 of webOS’s innovative developer tool, Enyo. Enyo 2.0 enables developers to write a single application that works across mobile devices and desktop web browsers, from the webOS, iOS and Android platforms to the Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers – and more. The source code for Enyo is available today, giving the open source community immediate access to the acclaimed application framework for webOS."
Linux.conf.au 2012 videos available
Videos from the recently concluded linux.conf.au in Ballarat have been uploaded to YouTube.
Articles of interest
World IPv6 Launch: this time it's for real (ars technica)
A successor to last year's World IPv6 Day is the subject of an article over at ars technica. World IPv6 Launch will take place on June 6 and this time the plan is to leave things up and running on IPv6 after the day has ended. "Also new this year is that several Internet service providers will be participating by enabling IPv6 for at least one percent of their customers—with more to follow. These ISPs include not only those that have already put a toe in the IPv6 waters before, such as Comcast, Free Telecom in France, and XS4ALL in the Netherlands; but also Time Warner Cable and AT&T. Last but not least, Cisco/Linksys and D-Link will be enabling IPv6 support in the default configurations of their home routers."
FOSDEM interviews, part 3
The third set of interviews with speakers from the upcoming FOSDEM conference has been posted; featured this time are Bdale Garbee, Finne Boonen, Guido Trotter, Wim Godden, Garrett Serack, and Renzo Davoli. "The central role of computers and interfaces has disappeared, services are the main focus now. The logical structure of the internet must change as a consequence of this. By the IoTh [Internet of Threads] we mean a structure where the addressable nodes of the internet are, or can also be, processes or even concurrent threads of a process. In the IoTh the definition of an independent networking stack, with its own virtual interfaces, addresses, routing is as simple as the creation of a PF_UNIX socket. It is an 'ordinary business' user-space operation, not a structural and dangerous change, for system administrators only."
New Books
Arduino Cookbook, 2nd Edition--New from O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media has released "Arduino Cookbook, 2nd Edition" by Michael Margolis.
Calls for Presentations
GNU Tools Cauldron 2012 - Call for Abstracts and Participation
GNU Tools Cauldron will take place July 9-11 in Prague, Czech Republic. The abstract submission deadline is January 31. "The purpose of this workshop is to gather all GNU tools developers, discuss current/future work, coordinate efforts, exchange reports on ongoing efforts, discuss development plans for the next 12 months, developer tutorials and any other related discussions."
PgNext, The Next PostgreSQL Conference
The PostgreSQL Conference will take place June 26-29, 2012 in Denver, Colorado. The call for papers is open until April 15. "As always content is key and we have already secured the two of the four full day trainings, Practical PostgreSQL Administration from community member Jim Mlgodeski and the usual excellent Performance material from Major Contributor Greg Smith of 2nd Quadrant."
Upcoming Events
LibreOffice DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012 in Brussels
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice will have a dedicated track on Saturday, February 4. There will also be a booth where it will be possible to meet developers and other volunteers and ask for information about contributing to the project.Paris: Debian bug Squashing Party (Wheezy)
There will be a Debian Bug Squashing Party in Paris, France February 17-19, 2012. "This event is also the opportunity for new potential contributors to meet Debian Developers or Maintainers. Numerous regular contributors will attend to this BSP and will help newcomers to fix their first bugs."
Linaro Connect Q2.12
Linaro Connect Q2.12 will be held from May 28-June 1, 2012 in Hong Kong. "This will be Linaro's first major event in Asia, and quite possibly the largest Linux on ARM event to be hosted in that part of the world. As well as being a convenient location for many of our Member engineers, its also in good proximity to a number of ARM's leading Cortex-A licensees and reflects the growing importance of that region to ARM open source software development."
Early, Early Bird Registration Closing Soon for POSSCON 2012
The Palmetto Open Source Software Conference (POSSCON) will take place March 28-29, 2012 in Columbia, South Carolina. The early, early bird registration ends January 31.Events: January 26, 2012 to March 26, 2012
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| January 27 January 29 |
DebianMed Meeting Southport2012 | Southport, UK |
| January 31 February 2 |
Ubuntu Developer Week | #ubuntu-classroom, irc.freenode.net |
| February 4 February 5 |
Free and Open Source Developers Meeting | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 6 February 10 |
Linux on ARM: Linaro Connect Q1.12 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| February 7 February 8 |
Open Source Now 2012 | Geneva, Switzerland |
| February 10 February 12 |
Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe Winter session 2012 | Minsk, Belarus |
| February 10 February 12 |
Skolelinux/Debian Edu developer gathering | Oslo, Norway |
| February 13 February 14 |
Android Builder's Summit | Redwood Shores, CA, USA |
| February 15 February 17 |
2012 Embedded Linux Conference | Redwood Shores, CA, USA |
| February 16 February 17 |
Embedded Technology Conference 2012 | San José, Costa Rica |
| February 17 February 18 |
Red Hat, Fedora, JBoss Developer Conference | Brno, Czech Republic |
| February 24 February 25 |
PHP UK Conference 2012 | London, UK |
| February 27 March 2 |
ConFoo Web Techno Conference 2012 | Montreal, Canada |
| February 28 | Israeli Perl Workshop 2012 | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| March 2 March 4 |
Debian BSP in Cambridge | Cambridge, UK |
| March 2 March 4 |
BSP2012 - Moenchengladbach | Mönchengladbach, Germany |
| March 5 March 7 |
14. German Perl Workshop | Erlangen, Germany |
| March 6 March 10 |
CeBIT 2012 | Hannover, Germany |
| March 7 March 15 |
PyCon 2012 | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| March 10 March 11 |
Open Source Days 2012 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| March 10 March 11 |
Debian BSP in Perth | Perth, Australia |
| March 16 March 17 |
Clojure/West | San Jose, CA, USA |
| March 17 March 18 |
Chemnitz Linux Days | Chemnitz, Germany |
| March 23 March 24 |
Cascadia IT Conference (LOPSA regional conference) | Seattle, WA, USA |
| March 24 March 25 |
LibrePlanet 2012 | Boston, MA, USA |
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