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Bassel Khartabil wins Index on Censorship Digital Freedom Award

Syrian software engineer Bassel Khartabil is the winner of this year's Index on Censorship Digital Freedom Award, sponsored by Google. "Khartabil is a free internet pioneer who has spent his career advancing open source technologies. On March 15, 2012, he was illegally imprisoned in Syria. His family were given no official information about why or where he was detained but have since learnt that he is being held at the security branch of Kafer Sousa, Damascus."

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LF: Enterprise Linux Growth Outpaces Windows

The Linux Foundation has announced the availability of its annual Enterprise End User Report. "Because this is the third year we've surveyed the world's largest enterprises and The Linux Foundation's End User Council about Linux adoption, we're able to share some interesting trending data. But perhaps most interesting is the opportunity to understand how Linux is outpacing Windows in server revenue in the enterprise. IDC's latest quarterly tracker shows Linux growing at 12.7 percent year-over-year while Windows is stagnating at 3.2 percent year-over-year growth. In fact, the quarter prior (Q312), Windows was actually in decline while Linux was growing."

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taz.die tageszeitung receives Document Freedom Germany Award

The German newspaper taz.die tageszeitung (TAZ) has received this year's Document Freedom award, presented by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII). "The TAZ receives the Document Freedom award because it delivers its electronic paper to its subscribers in a choice of open formats, and without digital restrictions (DRM). "We are awarding the TAZ with the Document Freedom Award for their longstanding commitment to Open Standards and continuos efforts in offering their newspaper without restrictions" says Erik Albers, Fellowship Coordinator Berlin."

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PyCon US 2013 videos posted

For those who could not attend PyCon US 2013, videos from the talks are now available.

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devconf.cz videos available

Videos from the Red Hat/Fedora devconf.cz are available on YouTube. (Thanks to Scott Dowdle)

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Blum: Adria Richards, PyCon, and How We All Lost

Perhaps the best description and analysis of the unfortunate events at PyCon can be found in this post from Amanda Blum. In short, she concludes that everybody lost in this incident.

Any comments posted should, please, have something new to say and demonstrate the highest level of respect for others, whether or not you agree with them.

See also: What really happened at PyCon.

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Linux users file EU complaint against Microsoft (Reuters)

The Spanish association Hispalinux has filed a complaint against Microsoft to the European Commission, Reuters reports. "In its 14-page complaint, Hispalinux said Windows 8 contained an "obstruction mechanism" called UEFI Secure Boot that controls the start-up of the computer and means users must seek keys from Microsoft to install another operating system. The group said it was "a de facto technological jail for computer booting systems ... making Microsoft's Windows platform less neutral than ever"." (Thanks to Pat Read)

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Red Hat Summit

Red Hat has announced the agenda for the Red Hat Summit, which takes place June 11-14 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Events: March 28, 2013 to May 27, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
March 30	NYC Open Tech Conference	Queens, NY, USA
March 30	Emacsconf	London, UK
April 1 April 5	Scientific Software Engineering Conference	Boulder, CO, USA
April 4 April 5	Distro Recipes	Paris, France
April 4 April 7	OsmoDevCon 2013	Berlin, Germany
April 6 April 7	international Openmobility conference 2013	Bratislava, Slovakia
April 8 April 9	Write The Docs	Portland, OR, USA
April 8	The CentOS Dojo 2013	Antwerp, Belgium
April 10 April 13	Libre Graphics Meeting	Madrid, Spain
April 10 April 13	Evergreen ILS 2013	Vancouver, Canada
April 14	OpenShift Origin Community Day	Portland, OR, USA
April 15 April 17	LF Collaboration Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 15 April 18	OpenStack Summit	Portland, OR, USA
April 15 April 17	Open Networking Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 16 April 18	Lustre User Group 13	San Diego, CA, USA
April 17 April 18	Open Source Data Center Conference	Nuremberg, Germany
April 17 April 19	IPv6 Summit	Denver, CO, USA
April 18 April 19	Linux Storage, Filesystem and MM Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 19	Puppet Camp	Nürnberg, Germany
April 20	Grazer Linuxtage	Graz, Austria
April 21 April 22	Free and Open Source Software COMmunities Meeting 2013	Athens, Greece
April 22 April 25	Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 26 April 27	Linuxwochen Eisenstadt	Eisenstadt, Austria
April 26	MySQL® & Cloud Database Solutions Day	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 27 April 28	WordCamp Melbourne 2013	Melbourne, Australia
April 27 April 28	LinuxFest Northwest	Bellingham, WA, USA
April 29 April 30	2013 European LLVM Conference	Paris, France
April 29 April 30	Open Source Business Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
May 1 May 3	DConf 2013	Menlo Park, CA, USA
May 2 May 4	Linuxwochen Wien 2013	Wien, Austria
May 9 May 12	Linux Audio Conference 2013	Graz, Austria
May 10	CentOS Dojo, Phoenix	Phoenix, AZ, USA
May 10	Open Source Community Summit	Washington, DC, USA
May 14 May 15	LF Enterprise End User Summit	New York, NY, USA
May 14 May 17	SambaXP 2013	Göttingen, Germany
May 15 May 19	DjangoCon Europe	Warsaw, Poland
May 16	NLUUG Spring Conference 2013	Maarssen, Netherlands
May 22 May 25	LinuxTag 2013	Berlin, Germany
May 22 May 24	Tizen Developer Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
May 22 May 23	Open IT Summit	Berlin, Germany
May 23 May 24	PGCon 2013	Ottawa, Canada
May 24 May 25	GNOME.Asia Summit 2013	Seoul, Korea

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