Announcements
Articles of interest
EFF: Ubuntu 12.04 will bring OS-level privacy options
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) blog has an article on new privacy features in the upcoming Ubuntu release. "Retrofitting operating systems to support privacy against local attackers is a worthy objective, but not an easy one. We hope that Ubuntu and other projects will be in this for the long haul. The first step is probably defining clear API and mechanisms to enable non-GNOME applications to be told about the user's preferences for logging, and opening a lot of bug reports to get them respected. For now, you can now delete your GNOME activity log from the past hour, day, week, a specific date range, or everything stored on your computer."
Linux gets a bigger shield against patent attacks (InfoWorld)
Simon Phipps comments on the expansion of the Open Innovation Network's patent protection umbrella. "Too bad there's a sinister underbelly to this good news: what's omitted. Most notably, Android -- which is based on the Linux kernel -- is missing from the list altogether, along with its Dalvik language interpreter. Moreover, the definition is now so broad that two of the founders, Sony and Phillips, are concerned their products will be affected and have effectively reserved the right to sue the Linux community."
New Books
Programming Perl, 4th Edition--New from O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media has released "Programming Perl, 4th Edition" by Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall, and Jon Orwant.
Calls for Presentations
CFP: Third International Computer Art Congress (CAC.3)
CAC.3 - Post Digital Art - will take place in Paris, France, November 26-28, 2012. The call for papers deadline is June 4, 2012. "We encourage researchers, artists, engineers and thought leaders to present a paper on subjects including - but not limited to: Algorithmic Art, ASCII Art, Bio Art, Computer Graphics, Connected Creation, Computer Music, Demo-Scene, Digital Illustration and Paintings, Education, Fractal and Generative Art or Music, Interactive and Media Art, Motion Graphics, Sound Visualization, Software Art, Internet Art, Tradigital Art, Video Games,.."
Upcoming Events
Events: March 15, 2012 to May 14, 2012
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| March 7 March 15 |
PyCon 2012 | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| 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 |
| March 26 April 1 |
Wireless Battle of the Mesh (V5) | Athens, Greece |
| March 26 March 29 |
EclipseCon 2012 | Washington D.C., USA |
| March 28 March 29 |
Palmetto Open Source Software Conference 2012 | Columbia, South Carolina, USA |
| March 28 | PGDay Austin 2012 | Austin, TX, USA |
| March 29 | Program your own open source system-on-a-chip (OpenRISC) | London, UK |
| March 30 | PGDay DC 2012 | Sterling, VA, USA |
| April 2 | PGDay NYC 2012 | New York, NY, USA |
| April 3 April 5 |
LF Collaboration Summit | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 5 April 6 |
Android Open | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 10 April 12 |
Percona Live: MySQL Conference and Expo 2012 | Santa Clara, CA, United States |
| April 12 April 15 |
Linux Audio Conference 2012 | Stanford, CA, USA |
| April 12 April 19 |
SuperCollider Symposium | London, UK |
| April 12 April 13 |
European LLVM Conference | London, UK |
| April 13 | Drizzle Day | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| April 16 April 18 |
OpenStack "Folsom" Design Summit | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 17 April 19 |
Workshop on Real-time, Embedded and Enterprise-Scale Time-Critical Systems | Paris, France |
| April 19 April 20 |
OpenStack Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 21 | international Openmobility conference 2012 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| April 23 April 25 |
Luster User Group | Austin, Tx, USA |
| April 25 April 28 |
Evergreen International Conference 2012 | Indianapolis, Indiana |
| April 27 April 29 |
Penguicon | Dearborn, MI, USA |
| April 28 | Linuxdays Graz 2012 | Graz, Austria |
| April 28 April 29 |
LinuxFest Northwest 2012 | Bellingham, WA, USA |
| May 2 May 5 |
Libre Graphics Meeting 2012 | Vienna, Austria |
| May 3 May 5 |
Utah Open Source Conference | Orem, Utah, USA |
| May 7 May 11 |
Ubuntu Developer Summit - Q | Oakland, CA, USA |
| May 7 May 9 |
Tizen Developer Conference | San Francisco, CA , USA |
| May 8 May 11 |
samba eXPerience 2012 | Göttingen, Germany |
| May 11 May 13 |
Debian BSP in York | York, UK |
| May 11 May 12 |
Professional IT Community Conference 2012 | New Brunswick, NJ, USA |
| May 13 May 18 |
C++ Now! | Aspen, CO, USA |
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