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Ada’s Angels fundraiser

The Ada Initiative is holding the Ada’s Angels fundraising campaign. "Our goal for the Ada’s Angel campaign is attracting 1000 donors at the $16 – $32 a month level by October 31, 2012. With this level of steady funding, we can commit to long-term projects like holding AdaCamp in India and Europe, take on new projects like creating a practical workshop for overcoming Impostor Syndrome for women in open tech/culture, and significantly reduce our fundraising costs. (“Angel” is used in the non-religious sense of “angel investor” – we welcome people of all or no religious beliefs.)"

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ITC: How an obscure bureaucracy makes the world safe for patent trolls (ars technica)

Ars technica reports on the role of the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in the patent wars. Essentially it is much easier (and quicker) to get "exclusion orders" (effectively injunctions) against "infringing" products via the ITC. "Exclusion orders have proven particularly popular with patent trolls. The eBay [v. MercExchange] standard asks whether the patent holder has suffered an "irreparable injury" due to infringement, and whether an injunction is necessary to repair that injury. Ordinary technology companies can often satisfy this standard. But it's much harder for "non-practicing entities"—patent trolls—to do so, since they can't argue their own products have been hurt by unfair competition. The standard for obtaining exclusion orders is easier for patent trolls to satisfy, however; unsurprisingly, they have accounted for a growing share of the ITC's Section 337 cases."

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ELCE 2012 Technical Showcase - Call for demonstrations

The Embedded Linux Conference Europe (ELCE) will take place November 5-7 in Barcelona, Spain. The event staff will be organizing a Technical Showcase for the evening of the 5th. "If you are interested in showcasing something, please contact me before Oct. 19, and prepare a poster too. However, the sooner, the better, as demonstration space will be limited."

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Mini DebConf in Paris

There will be a mini-DebConf in Paris, France November 24-25, 2012. The call for talks is open. "... Debian enthusiasts from far and wide will gather to talk about the latest Debian changes, the Debian community and meet up new and old friends. This Mini-DebConf will also be a great chance to talk about the upcoming Wheezy release, as well as talk about features for the release after Wheezy, Jessie!"

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Events: September 27, 2012 to November 26, 2012

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
November 20 November 24	8th Brazilian Python Conference	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 24 November 25	Mini Debian Conference in Paris	Paris, France
November 24	London Perl Workshop 2012	London, UK

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