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Baker: Contributor Imprisoned in Syria

Mitchell Baker has written a blog post expressing Mozilla's support for the Internet-based campaign on behalf of Bassel Khartabil, an open source developer who has been detained in Syria. "Mozilla supports efforts to obtain the release of Bassel Khartabil (also known as Bassel Safadi), a valuable contributor to and leader in the technology community. Bassel’s expertise and focus across all aspects of his work has been in support of the development of publicly available, free, open source computer software code and technology." In addition to Mozilla work, Khartabil has contributed to Creative Commons, Open Clip Art Library, and several other projects. The campaign centers on a petition and letter-writing drive at freebassel.org.

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GitHub finally raises funding (GigaOm)

GigaOm reports that GitHub has raised $100 million in venture funding. "The startup will use the funding to hire additional employees and expand to new platforms such as mobile. CEO Tom Preston-Werner said the company hopes to develop new features but also improve existing ones, such as web applications for different operating systems. The idea is to make GitHub useful for a broad range of clients, from individual hackers to large enterprises, and from software developers to designers or authors."

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The next GPL: Why it's being shaped on GitHub (InfoWorld)

Simon Phipps writes on Richard Fontana's GPLv3 fork being developed on Github. "To date, Fontana's changes mostly relate to the concerns of the corporate voices in the GPLv3 process. The preamble -- 'an inspiring and important political statement,' according to Fontana -- has been removed, as has the 'How to Apply' appendix. Those simple steps alone dramatically shorten the text. The rest of the changes seem to fix apparently redundant compromises that made their way into the text as part of the negotiation process among all the corporate participants."

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Intel Loses One Of Their Linux Driver Developers (Phoronix)

Phoronix reports the death of Eugeni Dodonov, a former Mandriva developer who was most recently working for the Intel Open-Source Technology Center. He was killed in a bicycle accident, details are still under investigation. This article (in Brazilian Portuguese) has a bit more information.

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Judge who shelved Apple trial says patent system out of sync (Reuters)

Reuters talks with Richard Posner, a US federal appeals court judge who presided over Apple's lawsuit against Google's Motorola Mobility, and other software patent cases. "Posner said some industries, like pharmaceuticals, had a better claim to intellectual property protection because of the enormous investment it takes to create a successful drug. Advances in software and other industries cost much less, he said, and the companies benefit tremendously from being first in the market with gadgets - a benefit they would still get if there were no software patents."

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Ex-Nokia guys start mystery company to build Linux-based phones (VentureBeat)

VentureBeat covers Jolla Mobile, a six-man startup that aims to release MeeGo phones. "Jolla will soon be making announcements about its version of MeeGo as well as a brand new smartphone it’s bringing to market. The company so far is composed of “N9 core professionals and MeeGo community alumni,” the [Twitter] page reads. While N9 folks will be at the helm, there is no intention to offer support for Nokia’s N9 smartphones — more on those later."

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Deploying with JRuby--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Deploying with JRuby" by Joe Kutner.

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Programming Computer Vision with Python--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media has released "Programming Computer Vision with Python" by Jan Erik Solem.

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Team Geek--New from O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media has released "Team Geek" by Brian Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman.

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PyCon UK 2012

PyCon UK 2012 takes place September 28 - October 1 in Coventry, UK. Early bird rates are available until August 12. "This year we're running sprints as an integral part of the conference, instead of being tacked on afterwards. Each sprint will have an Introductory talk on Friday 28th, then have sessions throughout the weekend, which you will be able to drop in to between any talks you can't miss. For the sprint diehards, sessions will continue into Monday to wrap up any loose ends."

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Events: July 12, 2012 to September 10, 2012

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
July 7 July 12	Libre Software Meeting / Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre	Geneva, Switzerland
July 8 July 14	DebConf12	Managua, Nicaragua
July 10 July 15	Wikimania	Washington, DC, USA
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
July 26 July 29	GNOME Users And Developers European Conference	A Coruña, Spain
August 3 August 4	Texas Linux Fest	San Antonio, TX, USA
August 8 August 10	21st USENIX Security Symposium	Bellevue, WA, USA
August 18 August 19	PyCon Australia 2012	Hobart, Tasmania
August 20 August 22	YAPC::Europe 2012 in Frankfurt am Main	Frankfurt/Main, Germany
August 20 August 21	Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters	Taipei, Taiwan
August 25	Debian Day 2012 Costa Rica	San José, Costa Rica
August 27 August 28	XenSummit North America 2012	San Diego, CA, USA
August 27 August 28	GStreamer conference	San Diego, CA, USA
August 27 August 29	Kernel Summit	San Diego, CA, USA
August 28 August 30	Ubuntu Developer Week	IRC
August 29 August 31	2012 Linux Plumbers Conference	San Diego, CA, USA
August 29 August 31	LinuxCon North America	San Diego, CA, USA
August 30 August 31	Linux Security Summit	San Diego, CA, USA
August 31 September 2	Electromagnetic Field	Milton Keynes, UK
September 1 September 2	Kiwi PyCon 2012	Dunedin, New Zealand
September 1 September 2	VideoLAN Dev Days 2012	Paris, France
September 1	Panel Discussion Indonesia Linux Conference 2012	Malang, Indonesia
September 3 September 8	DjangoCon US	Washington, DC, USA
September 3 September 4	Foundations of Open Media Standards and Software	Paris, France
September 4 September 5	Magnolia Conference 2012	Basel, Switzerland
September 8 September 9	Hardening Server Indonesia Linux Conference 2012	Malang, Indonesia

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