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Google wins patent case against Oracle

Groklaw has the news: the jury in Oracle v. Google has found that Google did not infringe any of Oracle's patents.

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The Ada Initiative granted tax-exempt status in the U.S.

The Ada Initiative has been granted tax-exempt status in the United States. "An urgent request: If you have donated to the Ada Initiative and your employer matches donations to U.S. non-profits, please submit your request for a matching donation by June 1, 2012 as that is the deadline for many matching donations. We estimate that we qualify for at least $5,000 USD and perhaps as much as $10,000 USD or more in matching donations, which for us is enough money to fund an entire program the size of Ada’s Advice. See the entry on matching donations in our FAQ in the blog post above."

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The Make Play Live Partner Network (KDE.news)

KDE.news has an announcement on the formation of a professional Partner Network for devices such as the Vivaldi tablet. "The Make Play Live Partner Program is designed to build and support a collaborative business and economic network. Members work together to provide comprehensive professional service and product offerings around Plasma Active and devices such as Vivaldi. Professional support options make it easier to convince potential parties, such as users, clients, customers and partners, bringing KDE software to a larger group of users."

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Simon Phipps is the new OSI President (The H)

The H covers an announcement by the Open Source Initiative that Simon Phipps is the new president of the organization. "Phipps has already been spearheading an OSI reform process, working with the rest of the board to open up the organisation. That process has led to the creation of Open Source Initiative affiliation, bringing the Apache Software Foundation, FreeBSD, Eclipse, Mozilla, Debian, and Creative Commons, along with other organisations, on board as affiliates. "There will be further developments in that scheme soon, and we'll have much more to announce in other areas as the year progresses" said Phipps by email."

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openSUSE Conference 2012 CfP

The openSUSE conference has been scheduled for October 20-23, 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic. The announcement contains additional information. This year's conference—themed "Bootstrapping awesome!— will be held alongside the Gentoo Mini-Summit, Czech LinuxDays, and the SUSE Labs conference. Links to each conference can be found on this page.

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Events: May 24, 2012 to July 23, 2012

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
June 6 June 8	LinuxCon Japan	Yokohama, Japan
June 6 June 10	Taiwan Mini DebConf 2012	Hualien, Taiwan
June 7 June 10	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2012	Grodno, Belarus
June 8 June 10	SouthEast LinuxFest	Charlotte, NC, USA
June 9 June 10	GNOME.Asia	Hong Kong, China
June 11 June 16	Programming Language Design and Implementation	Beijing, China
June 11 June 15	YAPC North America	Madison, Wisconsin, USA
June 12	UCMS '12: 2012 USENIX Configuration Management Workshop: Virtualization, the Cloud, and Scale	Boston, USA
June 12	WiAC '12: 2012 USENIX Women in Advanced Computing Summit	Boston, USA
June 12	USENIX Cyberlaw '12: 2012 USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cyberlaw	Boston, USA
June 12 June 13	HotCloud '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing	Boston, USA
June 13 June 15	2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Boston, MA, USA
June 13	WebApps '12: 3rd USENIX Conference on Web Application Development	Boston, USA
June 13 June 14	HotStorage '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems	Boston, MA, USA
June 14 June 17	FUDCon LATAM 2012 Margarita	Margarita, Venezuela
June 14 June 15	TaPP '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance	Boston, MA, USA
June 15	NSDR '12: 6th USENIX/ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions	Boston, MA, USA
June 15 June 16	Nordic Ruby	Stockholm, Sweden
June 15 June 16	Devaamo summit	Tampere, Finland
June 16	Debrpm Linux Packaging Workshop in the Netherlands	The Hague, Netherlands
June 19 June 21	Solutions Linux Open Source	Paris, France
June 20 June 21	Open Source Summit (NASA, State Dept, VA)	College Park, MD, USA
June 26 June 29	Open Source Bridge: The conference for open source citizens	Portland, Oregon, USA
June 26 July 2	GNOME & Mono Festival of Love 2012	Boston, MA, USA
June 30 July 6	Akademy (KDE conference) 2012	Tallinn, Estonia
June 30 July 1	Quack And Hack 2012	Paoli, PA, USA
July 1 July 7	DebConf 2012	Managua, Nicaragua
July 2 July 8	EuroPython 2012	Florence, Italy
July 5	London Lua user group	London, UK
July 6 July 8	3. Braunschweiger Atari & Amiga Meeting	Braunschweig, Germany
July 7 July 12	Libre Software Meeting / Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre	Geneva, Switzerland
July 7 July 8	10th European Tcl/Tk User Meeting	Munich, Germany
July 8 July 14	DebConf12	Managua, Nicaragua
July 9 July 11	GNU Tools Cauldron 2012	Prague, Czech Republic
July 10 July 15	Wikimania	Washington, DC, USA
July 10 July 11	AdaCamp Washington, DC	Washington, DC, USA
July 11	PuppetCamp Geneva @RMLL/LSM	Geneva, Switzerland
July 11 July 13	Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Canada
July 14 July 15	Community Leadership Summit 2012	Portland, OR, USA
July 16 July 20	OSCON	Portland, OR, USA

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