Announcements
Brief items
SCO v. IBM reopened
Groklaw reports that the SCO lawsuit against IBM has officially been reopened. "The thing that makes predictions a bit murky is that there are some other motions, aside from the summary judgment motions, that were also not officially decided before SCO filed for bankruptcy that could, in SCO's perfect world, reopen certain matters. I believe they would have been denied, if the prior judge had had time to rule on them. Now? I don't know. There was a SCO motion for reconsideration pending and one objection to an earlier ruling, and a motion to supplement its list of allegedly misused materials. How any of this survives the Novell victory is unknown to me, but SCO are a clever, clever bunch."
The Document Foundation welcomes France's MIMO in the Advisory Board
The Document Foundation has announced that MIMO (Inter-Ministry Mutualisation for an Open Productivity Suite) has joined TDF's advisory board. "MIMO has standardised on LibreOffice, developed by the Document Foundation, and is contributing to the development of the office suite through a commercial support agreement provided by certified developers. The role of MIMO is to validate successive versions of LibreOffice and make them compatible with the IT infrastructure and processes of member ministries. A single, standard LibreOffice version is validated and approved every year, according to the roadmap planned by MIMO members."
OSI Individual Members Election 2013
The Open Source Initiative has announced that nominations are open for the Individual Members Election. "This election is open to all individual members of the OSI, both as candidates and as voters. Any individual member can nominate themselves as a candidate, and when the election itself starts, all individual members will get an email explaining the voting process." Nominations close July 5.
Articles of interest
MySQL man pages silently relicensed away from GPL (MariaDB blog)
In what might be seen as a harbinger of license changes to come for MySQL, the MariaDB blog is reporting that the man pages for MySQL 5.5.31 have changed licenses. Formerly covered by the GPLv2, the man pages are now under a more restrictive license, the crux of which seems to be: "You may create a printed copy of this documentation solely for your own personal use. Conversion to other formats is allowed as long as the actual content is not altered or edited in any way. You shall not publish or distribute this documentation in any form or on any media, except if you distribute the documentation in a manner similar to how Oracle disseminates it (that is, electronically for download on a Web site with the software) or on a CD-ROM or similar medium, provided however that the documentation is disseminated together with the software on the same medium. Any other use, such as any dissemination of printed copies or use of this documentation, in whole or in part, in another publication, requires the prior written consent from an authorized representative of Oracle."
[Update: A MySQL bug report indicates that a build system problem led to the relicensing, which will presumably be fixed in the next release.]
New Books
Realm of Racket--New from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has released "Realm of Racket" by Matthias Felleisen, Conrad Barski and David Van Horn, assisted by Forrest Bice, Rose DeMaio, Spencer Florence, Feng-Yun Mimi Lin, Scott Lindeman, Nicole Nussbaum, Eric Peterson and Ryan Plessner.
Education and Certification
The Linux Foundation announces Linux Training Scholarship Program
The Linux Foundation has announced the annual Linux Training Scholarship Program is open for applications. "The Linux Foundation’s Linux Training Scholarship Program in 2013 will award five scholarships to individuals who demonstrate the greatest need and who have already demonstrated some knowledge of Linux and open source software. In addition, winners this year will receive a 30-minute, one-on-one mentoring session with one of The Linux Foundation’s Linux training instructors."
Calls for Presentations
hack.lu 2013 call for papers
Hack.lu will take place October 22-24 in Luxembourg. The call for papers deadline is July 15. "We would like to announce the opportunity to submit papers, and/or lightning talk proposals for selection by the hack.lu technical review committee. This year we will be doing workshops on the first day PM and talks of 1 hour or 30 minutes in the main track for the three days."
Upcoming Events
Events: June 20, 2013 to August 19, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 22 July 26 |
OSCON 2013 | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 27 July 28 |
PyOhio 2013 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| July 27 | OpenShift Origin Community Day | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| July 31 August 4 |
OHM2013: Observe Hack Make | Geestmerambacht, the Netherlands |
| August 1 August 8 |
GUADEC 2013 | Brno, Czech Republic |
| August 3 August 4 |
COSCUP 2013 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 6 August 8 |
Military Open Source Summit | Charleston, SC, USA |
| August 7 August 11 |
Wikimania | Hong Kong, China |
| August 9 August 11 |
XDA:DevCon 2013 | Miami, FL, USA |
| August 9 August 13 |
PyCon Canada | Toronto, Canada |
| August 9 August 12 |
Flock - Fedora Contributor Conference | Charleston, SC, USA |
| August 11 August 18 |
DebConf13 | Vaumarcus, Switzerland |
| August 12 August 14 |
YAPC::Europe 2013 “Future Perl” | Kiev, Ukraine |
| August 16 August 18 |
PyTexas 2013 | College Station, TX, USA |
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