Announcements
Brief items
Ten years of Groklaw
Groklaw is celebrating its tenth anniversary. "Thank you for sticking to the job for ten years without giving out, and for funding the necessary activities that make Groklaw Groklaw. We made a difference in this old world. It's an achievement we can tell our grandchildren about some day. Not everyone can say that, but we actually made a difference. And nobody can take that away from us."
Sony opens up the Xperia Tablet Z
Sony has announced the availability of an Android Open Source Project distribution for its Xperia Tablet Z device. "For all you developers out there, of course this means you can now access the software and contribute to this project. And this is all before the tablet is even available in the US. A special thanks to our Sony Mobile team for helping us create the package early and a huge thanks to the Android developer community for all your support. We can’t wait to see what you’ll do with the code." Source is available on GitHub.
EFF: Vermont Is Mad as Hell at Patent Trolls
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has sent out a release about how the US state of Vermont is going on the offensive against patent trolls. "Not content to strike back against a single troll, Vermont is also poised to pass a bill dealing with the problem as a whole. The Vermont House and Senate recently passed a bill to combat 'bad faith assertions of patent infringement'. And the latest word is that Vermont's governor is about to sign it into law."
Google Code to deprecate downloads
Google has announced that it will be phasing out the file download feature for projects hosted on Google Code. "Downloads were implemented by Project Hosting on Google Code to enable open source projects to make their files available for public download. Unfortunately, downloads have become a source of abuse with a significant increase in incidents recently. Due to this increasing misuse of the service and a desire to keep our community safe and secure, we are deprecating downloads."
Articles of interest
How Google plans to rule the computing world through Chrome (GigaOM)
GigaOM asserts that Google will be taking over the desktop (regardless of the underlying operating system) with its Chrome browser. "For many Chrome is just a browser. For others who use a Chromebox or Chromebook, like myself, it’s my full-time operating system. The general consensus is that Chrome OS, the platform used on these devices, can only browse the web and run either extensions and web apps; something any browser can do. Simply put, the general consensus is wrong and the signs are everywhere."
Calls for Presentations
DebConf 13: Call for Papers
DebConf 13 will take place near Vaumarcus, Switzerland August 11-18. The call for papers and presentations is open until June 1, 2013. "This year submission of a formal written paper for the conference proceedings is again optional, though encouraged. Providing a written paper in advance means that interested people can attend your session ready with ideas for discussion, and especially helps those who find it hard to follow rapid English speech."
EuroPython 2014/2015 Conference Team - Call for Proposals
The EuroPython Society is looking for volunteers to organize EuroPython conferences in 2014 and 2015. This call for proposals closes June 14, 2013.Call for Papers - PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2013
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2013 will be held on October 29-November 1 in Dublin, Ireland. The call for proposals closes July 22.
Upcoming Events
GNU Hackers Meeting 2013 in Paris, France
The GNU Hackers Meeting will take place August 22-25, 2013 in Paris, France. "As we are still in the process of defining the program, we welcome your talk proposals. We are particularly interested in new GNU programs and recent developments in existing packages, plus any related topic. In our experience the audience tends to be technically competent, so feel free to propose very technical topics as well; we will try to schedule all such talks together in the same morning or afternoon session, for the public’s sake."
Events: May 23, 2013 to July 22, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 27 May 28 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| May 28 May 29 |
Solutions Linux, Libres et Open Source | Paris, France |
| May 29 May 31 |
Linuxcon Japan 2013 | Tokyo, Japan |
| May 30 | Prague PostgreSQL Developers Day | Prague, Czech Republic |
| May 31 June 1 |
Texas Linux Festival 2013 | Austin, TX, USA |
| June 1 June 4 |
European Lisp Symposium | Madrid, Spain |
| June 1 June 2 |
Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia 2013 | Fermo, Italy |
| June 3 June 5 |
Yet Another Perl Conference: North America | Austin, TX, USA |
| June 4 | Magnolia CMS Lunch & Learn | Toronto, ON, Canada |
| June 6 June 9 |
Nordic Ruby | Stockholm, Sweden |
| June 7 June 9 |
SouthEast LinuxFest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
| June 7 June 8 |
CloudConf | Paris, France |
| June 8 June 9 |
AdaCamp | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| June 9 | OpenShift Origin Community Day | Boston, MA, USA |
| June 10 June 14 |
Red Hat Summit 2013 | Boston, MA, USA |
| June 13 June 15 |
PyCon Singapore 2013 | Singapore, Republic of Singapor |
| June 17 June 18 |
Droidcon Paris | Paris, France |
| June 18 June 21 |
Open Source Bridge: The conference for open source citizens | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| June 18 June 20 |
Velocity Conference | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| June 20 June 21 |
7th Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero | Como, Italy |
| June 22 June 23 |
RubyConf India | Pune, India |
| June 26 June 28 |
USENIX Annual Technical Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 27 June 30 |
Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2013 | Grodno, Belarus |
| June 29 July 3 |
Workshop on Essential Abstractions in GCC, 2013 | Bombay, India |
| July 1 July 7 |
EuroPython 2013 | Florence, Italy |
| July 1 July 5 |
Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications | Montpellier, France |
| July 2 July 4 |
OSSConf 2013 | Žilina, Slovakia |
| July 3 July 6 |
FISL 14 | Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| July 5 July 7 |
PyCon Australia 2013 | Hobart, Tasmania |
| July 6 July 11 |
Libre Software Meeting | Brussels, Belgium |
| July 8 July 12 |
Linaro Connect Europe 2013 | Dublin, Ireland |
| July 12 | PGDay UK 2013 | near Milton Keynes, England, UK |
| July 12 July 14 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2013 | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| July 12 July 14 |
5th Encuentro Centroamerica de Software Libre | San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize |
| July 13 July 19 |
Akademy 2013 | Bilbao, Spain |
| July 15 July 16 |
QtCS 2013 | Bilbao, Spain |
| July 18 July 22 |
openSUSE Conference 2013 | Thessaloniki, Greece |
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