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Creative Commons 4.0 BY-NC-SA draft available

The Creative Commons has posted the first draft of its revised noncommercial-sharealike license with a request for comments. "As anticipated, the license fully licenses database rights on the same terms and conditions as copyright and neighboring rights. We have heard no compelling reason for reversing course on this new policy, and all early feedback suggests this is a welcomed change despite questions about their utility. We have taken care to ensure that the license only applies where permission is needed and the licensor holds those rights."

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FSF announces 2011 Free Software Award winners

The Free Software Foundation has announced that the winner of the 2011 award for the advancement of free software is Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto, the creator of the Ruby language. The award for projects of social benefit went to the GNU Health project.

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Linux Tycoon - Linux Distro Building Simulator Game

Linux Tycoon is a game in which you "build and manage your own Linux Distro… without actually building or managing your own Linux Distro. Basically take out the “work” and the “bug fixing” and the “programming” parts… and, wham-o!, you’ve got Linux Tycoon."

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Archiving Images with an Open Source Scanning Robot (Linux.com)

Project Gado is aimed at developing an autonomous archival scanning robot that will allow small archives and museums digitize holdings at a low cost and help preserve important documents and pictures. Linux.com takes a look at the project. ""Almost every aspect of the project uses some kind of open source tool," [project manager Thomas] Smith says. "Our robot control software is fully Linux compatible, and we run Ubuntu Linux on all our computers at the Afro. The Gado 2 uses the open source Arduino microcontroller, and all the components that we created – PCB, physical parts – are open source as well." The Gado also uses the open source Tesseract OCR engine to process materials, and the MySQL database system to store metadata. "Using open source tools allowed us to create the machine inexpensively, which is extremely important given our requirement that the final device cost less than $500," Smith says." Gado kits are available for pre-sale and are expected to be delivered in August.

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LF video: How Linux is built

The Linux Foundation has posted a cute video describing (at a very high level) how the kernel development process works. There will be few surprises there for LWN readers, but it may be useful for a wider audience.

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Whitehurst: A billion thanks to the open source community from Red Hat

Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst celebrates the company's billion dollar milestone with a donation. "Last December, Red Hat decided that no billion dollar milestone would be complete without honoring the open source community. To that end, we are making a $100,000 donation to the future of open source. Red Hat associates nominated and voted for the following organizations to benefit:" Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Software Freedom Law Center, and UNICEF Innovation Labs.

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KDE and openSUSE Announce Opening of CfP for Dedicated COSCUP Track

COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters) will be held August 20-21, 2012 in Taipei, Taiwan. KDE and openSUSE are organizing a full two-day track at COSCUP. The call for papers deadline (for this track) is June 15. "The program committee is looking for presentations about KDE and openSUSE. Please note that the talks do NOT have to be related to both KDE and openSUSE. KDE and openSUSE happily welcome talks about KDE on other distributions or other (non) desktop technologies like GNOME or OpenStack on openSUSE."

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Scalability micro-conference topic proposals (LPC2012)

There will be a micro-conference on scaling both upwards (many cores) and downwards (low footprint, energy efficiency) during the Linux Plumbers Conference (August 29-31, 2012 in San Diego, California). "Suggestions of topics are welcome. If you would like to present, please let us know: we have lightning-talk slots and a few 30 minutes slots available. Presentations should be oriented towards stimulating discussion over currently faced scalability problems and/or work in progress in the area of scalability."

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openSUSE Summit website up and CfP started

The call for proposals for the openSUSE Summit, which will be held September 21-23, 2012 in Orlando, Florida, is now open. Submissions will be accepted until June 15 for sessions in three different tracks: "openSUSE Community", "openSUSE Tech", or "open World"—there is also a category for "fun" proposals: "The openSUSE Summit, by virtue of being an openSUSE event, has fun high on the agenda. Therefore, proposals that are "outside the box" of a "regular" software focused conference are encouraged. Collaboratively Building a Giant Paper Mache Geeko has already been proposed and rejected due to environmental concerns."

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1st Call For Papers, 19th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference 2012

The 19th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2012) will be held in Chicago, Illinois November 12-16. The proposal deadline is August 27. "he program committee is asking for papers and presentation proposals from anyone using or developing with Tcl/Tk (and extensions)."

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XDC2012

The X.Org Developer Conference (XDC2012) will be held September 19-21 in Nürnberg, Germany. "If you would like to give a talk during the event, please add it to the program page http://wiki.x.org/wiki/Events/XDC2012/Program."

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Events: April 5, 2012 to June 4, 2012

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
May 17 May 18	PostgreSQL Conference for Users and Developers	Ottawa, Canada
May 22 May 24	Military Open Source Software - Atlantic Coast	Charleston, SC, USA
May 23 May 26	LinuxTag	Berlin, Germany
May 23 May 25	Croatian Linux Users' Convention	Zagreb, Croatia
May 25 May 26	Flossie 2012	London, UK
May 28 June 1	Linaro Connect Q2.12	Gold Coast, Hong Kong
May 29 May 30	International conference NoSQL matters 2012	Cologne, Germany
June 1 June 3	Wikipedia & MediaWiki hackathon & workshops	Berlin, Germany

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