Announcements
Brief items
ROSA has joined the Steering Committee of Automotive Grade Linux
ROSA representatives have joined the Steering Committee of the Automotive Grade Linux project. ""ROSA has achieved good results in developing software for desktop computers and mobile devices. We have a vision how to make our products useful and attractive for automobiles" - says Vladimir Kryukov, ROSA Product Marketing Director. In particular, at the exhibition in London in autumn 2012, ROSA demonstrated a prototype of ROSA Sputnik in-vehicle infotainment system. The working prototype allows to play multimedia files, see the places of interest by means of excursion modules and construct routes taking into account a large set of criteria. All information can be displayed either at the screen of on-board computer or at the car's windshield. For this purpose, specialized user interface modules were developed that use the Augmented Reality concepts."
LLVM Developers' Meeting videos
Videos and slides from the 2012 LLVM Developers' Meeting (November 7-8, San Jose, CA) have been posted. Topics covered include LLVM on supercomputers, AArch64 support, C/C++ modules, integrated security, and more.
Articles of interest
FSFE: European Parliament adopts unitary patent
The Free Software Foundation Europe reports that the European Parliament has adopted a proposal to create a patent with unitary effect for Europe. "This decision will leave Europe with a patent system that is both deeply flawed and prone to overreach. It also ends democratic control of Europe's innovation policy." The proposal still needs to be ratified before it will take effect. "
According to the European Parliament's website, "the international agreement creating a unified patent court will enter into force on 1 January 2014 or after thirteen contracting states ratify it, provided that UK, France and Germany are among them."
Google and Facebook join forces against software patents (The H)
A brief has been submitted to the US Court of Appeals; signed by Google, Facebook, Red Hat and several other companies; stating that the combination of an abstract idea and a computer should not be eligible for patent protection. The H takes a look. "The companies argued that such bare-bones claims grant exclusive rights over the abstract idea itself with no limit on how the idea is implemented, and that granting patent protection for such claims would impair, not promote, innovation. In their 30-page brief to the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the signatories explain that this often grants exclusive rights to people who haven't themselves contributed significantly to a development, punishing those who later create innovation and cannot market the concrete applications of these abstract ideas unless they pay royalties."
Calls for Presentations
DjangoCon Europe 2013 call for papers
DjangoCon Europe will be held in Warsaw, Poland, May 15-19, 2013. The call for papers closes January 8. "We're looking for Django and Python enthusiasts, pioneers, adventurers and anyone else who would like to share their Django achievements and experiments with the rest of the community. We are particularly keen to invite submissions from potential speakers who have not previously considered speaking at an event like this - so if you haven't, please consider it now!"
PGCon 2013 - call for papers
PGCon 2013 will take place May 23-24 in Ottawa, Canada. The CfP deadline is January 19. "If you are doing something interesting with PostgreSQL, please submit a proposal. You might be one of the backend hackers or work on a PostgreSQL related project and want to share your know-how with others. You might be developing an interesting system using PostgreSQL as the foundation. Perhaps you migrated from another database to PostgreSQL and would like to share details. These, and other stories are welcome. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences."
Upcoming Events
25th ApacheCon North America 2013
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced the program for ApacheCon NA, to be held February 26-28 in Portland, Oregon. "This year's theme is "Open Source Community Leadership Drives Enterprise-Grade Innovation", reflecting the enormous reach and influence of the ASF. Apache products power half the Internet, petabytes of data, teraflops of operations, billions of objects, and enhance the lives of countless users and developers."
Events: December 13, 2012 to February 11, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 9 December 14 |
26th Large Installation System Administration Conference | San Diego, CA, USA |
| December 27 December 30 |
29th Chaos Communication Congress | Hamburg, Germany |
| December 27 December 29 |
SciPy India 2012 | IIT Bombay, India |
| December 28 December 30 |
Exceptionally Hard & Soft Meeting 2012 | Berlin, Germany |
| January 18 January 20 |
FUDCon:Lawrence 2013 | Lawrence, Kansas, USA |
| January 18 January 19 |
Columbus Python Workshop | Columbus, OH, USA |
| January 20 | Berlin Open Source Meetup | Berlin, Germany |
| January 28 February 2 |
Linux.conf.au 2013 | Canberra, Australia |
| February 2 February 3 |
Free and Open Source software Developers' European Meeting | Brussels, Belgium |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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