Announcements

The Linux Foundation's Automotive Grade Linux workgroup

The Linux Foundation has announced the creation of a workgroup to help with the creation of Linux-based automotive solutions; initial members include Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan, and Toyota, along with a number of tech companies. "The Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup will work with the Tizen project as the reference distribution optimized for a broad set of automotive applications ranging from Instrumentation Cluster to In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) and more. The Linux Foundation will host this effort, providing a neutral environment for collaboration among the Linux kernel community, other open source software communities and the automotive industry."

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LibreOffice Localization Program in Saudi Arabia

The Document Foundation and the National Program for Free and Open Source Software Technologies (Motah) at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia are working together to enhance the Arabic language support in LibreOffice. "Motah LibreOffice Project is one of the activities of Motah program at KACST, where several software products in various fields are studied to explore the extent of Arabic support and their suitability to the needs of Arab users. Thereafter, Motah team will work at improving the selected software products to meet those needs and requirements. LibreOffice was selected to be the first localization project because of its importance as an office suite whose functions are needed by all computer users."

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LPC 2012 slides, notes, and videos

The Linux Plumbers Conference organizers have made slides, notes and videos from the 2012 event available.

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An Open Letter To The OpenStack Community

Rackspace has announced that it is handing over the project and all its assets to the OpenStack Foundation. "When we launched OpenStack, the goal was to build a broad community of developers, users, companies and other organizations that together would drive the vision of an open and ubiquitous platform for public and private clouds. We’ve accomplished that and could not be more excited about the work we have all done together. In just two years the OpenStack community has flourished beyond our expectations – it now comprises almost 6,000 individual contributors from 88 countries and nearly 200 companies, including many of the giants of enterprise IT. The community has generated more than half a million lines of code and the OpenStack software has been downloaded more than 300,000 times from the central code repositories alone. OpenStack now powers some incredible cloud environments, including our own public cloud here at Rackspace as well as our private cloud software offering."

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OpenStreetMap license change completes

The license change for the OpenStreetMap database has been a long affair — LWN first covered the discussion in 2008. As of September 12, though, the transition has been made; the OpenStreetMap database is now covered by the Open Database License. See the project's Legal FAQ for more information.

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Rackspace sued for hosting GitHub

Personalweb Technologies and Level 3 Communications have filed a lawsuit [PDF] against Rackspace, alleging that Rackspace's hosting of GitHub infringes upon a long list of software patents.

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Southampton engineers a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer

The University of Southampton (UK) has put out a press release about a 64-node supercomputer recently built out of Raspberry Pi systems. In addition, the racks were built out of Lego. "Professor [Simon] Cox adds: 'The first test we ran – well obviously we calculated Pi on the Raspberry Pi using MPI, which is a well-known first test for any new supercomputer.' [...] 'The team wants to see this low-cost system as a starting point to inspire and enable students to apply high-performance computing and data handling to tackle complex engineering and scientific challenges as part of our on-going outreach activities.'" There is a guide to building your own, as well as a page for pictures of the supercomputer.

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The SFLC's guide on managing copyright information

The Software Freedom Law Center has released a guide to managing copyright information in a free software project. "Nearly every free software project includes two types of legal information with its source code: the license(s) of the code and the copyright notices of contributing authors. As important as it is to maintain this information, it’s not always easy in a collaborative development process. With multiple developers contributing regularly to the code, some information can be left out or buried, and other information can be retained after it is no longer accurate. We wrote this guide to help projects minimize the problems and improve the usefulness of their legal information. It explains the purpose of license and copyright notices, the legal requirements behind them, and the current best practices for maintaining this information in a free software project’s source distribution."

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Intel declares Clover Trail Atom processor a "no Linux" zone (ars technica)

Ars technica reports that the upcoming Intel "Clover Trail" processor will be for Windows only. "To achieve that, Intel worked closely with Microsoft to instrument the chip to allow Windows 8 to control Clover Trail's advanced power management features, which support what [Intel VP David] Perlmutter called 'always-on' functionality. It's that special sauce in Clover Trail that won't be supported for other operating systems, including Linux, likely in part because of Intel’s desire to keep those features close to the vest—and because of contractual obligations to Microsoft."

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Intel's new Clover Trail chip will support Android and Linux (ZDNet)

ZDNet reports that Intel is working on a Clover Trail Atom processor for Linux. "We now know that Intel will officially support the popular open-source operating systems on the Clover Trail family as well. In an e-mail from an Intel spokesperson, Intel said, "Intel has plans for another version of this platform directed at Linux/Android; however we are not commenting on the platform specifics or market segments at this time. Stay tuned.”"

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Schedule for Bootstrapping Awesome

Bootstrapping Awesome combines the Gentoo Miniconf, LinuxDays, and the openSUSE Conference together in Prague, Czech Republic in October 2012. The schedule is available.

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PyCon Finland 2012 registration is open

Registration is open for PyCon Finland which takes place October 22-23, in Otaniemi, Finland. "This year we have Python talks ranging from hardcore Python development, visualization and data processing to choosing Python as the language of education and extending Python to support static typing."

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PyCon Argentina 2012

PyConAR will take place November 12-17, 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The schedule is available and registration is open. "Sessions will include two days of talks from local and international renowned experts, with inaugural Science Track and “extreme” talks, preceded of one day of tutorial/workshops and three days of sprints meetings. Exhibition hall will include posters and community booths (SOLAR free software civil association, FACTTIC federation of IT cooperatives, Mozilla-Ar, Ubuntu-Ar, PostgreSQL, Hacklabs and “Programming with robots” project from LINTI UNLP)."

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LCA2013 Programming Miniconfs Announced

More linux.conf.au (LCA) miniconfs have been announced. The programming miniconfs will look at Open Programming, Developer Automation and Continuous Integration, and the Browser. LCA will take place January 28-February 2, 2013 in Canberra, Australia.

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LCA2013 Announces Conference Schedule

The schedule is available for linux.conf.au (LCA) which takes place January 28-February 2, 2013 in Canberra, Australia. "The conference will feature six streams of talks across five days. The first two days will be for miniconferences, with the rest of the conference dedicated to eighty-four talks and six tutorials, on topics ranging from software engineering to systems administration. This year, there is a heavy focus on deep technical content, including many talks on the Linux kernel, and various hardware platforms. The conference also boasts four keynotes from pivotal industry figures, which will be announced in the next few months."

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Events: September 20, 2012 to November 19, 2012

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
September 14 September 21	Debian FTPMaster sprint	Fulda, Germany
September 17 September 20	SNIA Storage Developers' Conference	Santa Clara, CA, USA
September 18 September 21	SUSECon	Orlando, Florida, US
September 19 September 20	Automotive Linux Summit 2012	Gaydon/Warwickshire, UK
September 19 September 21	2012 X.Org Developer Conference	Nürnberg, Germany
September 21	Kernel Recipes	Paris, France
September 21 September 23	openSUSE Summit	Orlando, FL, USA
September 24 September 25	OpenCms Days	Cologne, Germany
September 24 September 27	GNU Radio Conference	Atlanta, USA
September 27 September 29	YAPC::Asia	Tokyo, Japan
September 27 September 28	PuppetConf	San Francisco, US
September 28 September 30	Ohio LinuxFest 2012	Columbus, OH, USA
September 28 September 30	PyCon India 2012	Bengaluru, India
September 28 October 1	PyCon UK 2012	Coventry, West Midlands, UK
September 28	LPI Forum	Warsaw, Poland
October 2 October 4	Velocity Europe	London, England
October 4 October 5	PyCon South Africa 2012	Cape Town, South Africa
October 5 October 6	T3CON12	Stuttgart, Germany
October 6 October 8	GNOME Boston Summit 2012	Cambridge, MA, USA
October 11 October 12	Korea Linux Forum 2012	Seoul, South Korea
October 12 October 13	Open Source Developer's Conference / France	Paris, France
October 13 October 14	Debian BSP in Alcester (Warwickshire, UK)	Alcester, Warwickshire, UK
October 13 October 14	PyCon Ireland 2012	Dublin, Ireland
October 13 October 15	FUDCon:Paris 2012	Paris, France
October 13	2012 Columbus Code Camp	Columbus, OH, USA
October 13 October 14	Debian Bug Squashing Party in Utrecht	Utrecht, Netherlands
October 15 October 18	OpenStack Summit	San Diego, CA, USA
October 15 October 18	Linux Driver Verification Workshop	Amirandes,Heraklion, Crete
October 17 October 19	LibreOffice Conference	Berlin, Germany
October 17 October 19	MonkeySpace	Boston, MA, USA
October 18 October 20	14th Real Time Linux Workshop	Chapel Hill, NC, USA
October 20 October 21	PyCon Ukraine 2012	Kyiv, Ukraine
October 20 October 21	Gentoo miniconf	Prague, Czech Republic
October 20 October 21	PyCarolinas 2012	Chapel Hill, NC, USA
October 20 October 23	openSUSE Conference 2012	Prague, Czech Republic
October 20 October 21	LinuxDays	Prague, Czech Republic
October 22 October 23	PyCon Finland 2012	Espoo, Finland
October 23 October 25	Hack.lu	Dommeldange, Luxembourg
October 23 October 26	PostgreSQL Conference Europe	Prague, Czech Republic
October 25 October 26	Droidcon London	London, UK
October 26 October 27	Firebird Conference 2012	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
October 26 October 28	PyData NYC 2012	New York City, NY, USA
October 27	Central PA Open Source Conference	Harrisburg, PA, USA
October 27 October 28	Technical Dutch Open Source Event	Eindhoven, Netherlands
October 27	pyArkansas 2012	Conway, AR, USA
October 27	Linux Day 2012	Hundreds of cities, Italy
October 29 November 3	PyCon DE 2012	Leipzig, Germany
October 29 November 2	Linaro Connect	Copenhagen, Denmark
October 29 November 1	Ubuntu Developer Summit - R	Copenhagen, Denmark
October 30	Ubuntu Enterprise Summit	Copenhagen, Denmark
November 3 November 4	OpenFest 2012	Sofia, Bulgaria
November 3 November 4	MeetBSD California 2012	Sunnyvale, California, USA
November 5 November 7	Embedded Linux Conference Europe	Barcelona, Spain
November 5 November 7	LinuxCon Europe	Barcelona, Spain
November 5 November 9	Apache OpenOffice Conference-Within-a-Conference	Sinsheim, Germany
November 5 November 8	ApacheCon Europe 2012	Sinsheim, Germany
November 7 November 9	KVM Forum and oVirt Workshop Europe 2012	Barcelona, Spain
November 7 November 8	LLVM Developers' Meeting	San Jose, CA, USA
November 8	NLUUG Fall Conference 2012	ReeHorst in Ede, Netherlands
November 9 November 11	Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit	Göteborg, Sweden
November 9 November 11	Mozilla Festival	London, England
November 9 November 11	Python Conference - Canada	Toronto, ON, Canada
November 10 November 16	SC12	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
November 12 November 16	19th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	Chicago, IL, USA
November 12 November 17	PyCon Argentina 2012	Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 12 November 14	Qt Developers Days	Berlin, Germany
November 16 November 19	Linux Color Management Hackfest 2012	Brno, Czech Republic
November 16	PyHPC 2012	Salt Lake City, UT, USA

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