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BETT 2010 Review
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| The stand received financial sponsorship from
| Red Hat, Linux IT, University of London
| Computing Centre and The Learning
| Machine (Ingots) for which everyone is very
| grateful. Canonical, the commercial entity
| behind Ubuntu very kindly provided us with
| 600 Ubuntu 9.10 CDs (500 Desktop and 100
| Server) to give away (thanks Larry) and there
| were a similar number of CDs containing a
| great collection of Education-centric Open
| Source desktop applications for Windows from
| Free Software for Students that was compiled
| and produced by Peter Kemp and David Wilmut.
| Thatâs around 1200 CDs in total full of
| completely Free goodness and fun. We
| encouraged all the recipients to copy, share
| and pass them on too! At the end of the show
| we had only a few (quite literally) of each
| remaining.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2010/01/19/bett-2010-review/
Photo Essay: Geekdom descends on Wellington
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| Wellington's Convention Center this week
| hosted 700 open source software engineers -
| i.e. geeks - for a festival of discussion of
| all things linux at Linux.Conf.Au the annual
| Australasian Linux conference. Carl Suurmond
| was dispatched to catch the atmosphere with
| his camera on the final day. Tomorrow the
| conference will open its doors to the public
| for an Open Day for all things linux from
| 11am to 2pm.
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1001/S00147.htm
Open-source alive and thriving
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| New York University anthropologist Gabriella
| Coleman says the open-source software
| movement has emerged relatively unscathed
| from the economic downturn.
|
| Ms Coleman was the opening keynote speaker at
| Linux.Conf.Au, a trans-Tasman conference held
| in Wellington last week that attracted more
| than 600 open-source software developers and
| enthusiasts.
|
| She took the plunge and immersed herself in
| the world of open source in 2001, perceiving
| it was a culture worthy of academic study.
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http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/3257752/Open-source-alive-and-thriving
Recent:
Linux.conf.au - Day Four
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| Day four of the conference opened with a
| keynote entitiled "Hackers at the End of the
| World" by Glyn Moody. Glyn explored the
| history of sharing in science and art as
| inspired by the open source movement, and
| contrasted this with the anti-sharing 'my gain
| is your loss' culture of the global financial
| community. Glyn postulated that the sharing
| and indeed sharing of sharing that
| characterises the FOSS community held a
| tantalising glimpse of a solution to the
| global financial and environmental crisis.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linuxconfau-day-four
LCA 2010 Friday keynote/lightning talks
http://www.advogato.org/person/robertc/diary.html?start=140
Brisbane to host LCA 2011
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| Nine years after it first played host,
| Brisbane has been awarded the rights to
| host the Australian national Linux
| conference again.
|
| The winner of the bid for the 2011
| conference was announced at the formal
| closing ceremony of the 11th Australian
| national Linux conference, held at the
| Conference Centre in Wellington this
| evening.
|
| [...]
|
| Linux Australia derives its yearly budget
| from the conference and thus things have to
| be on the plus side for the organisation to
| be able to plan any activities, apart from
| the purely ceremonial.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30656&Itemid=1090
Smarter Linux file structure aims to ease software management
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| The Unix file system hierarchy has been
| used for decades and remains the model for
| most of todayâs modern Linux systems, but
| one distribution, GoboLinux, is making
| software management easier with an
| innovative directory structure.
|
| Speaking at this yearâs Linux.conf.au Linux
| and open source conference in Wellington,
| New Zealand, GoboLinux developer Michael
| Homer said the standard Unix directory
| structure has survived for many years, but
| sometimes it is not optimal for
| contemporary computing.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/article/333549/smarter_linux_file_structure_aims_ease_software_management?fp=2&fpid=1&rid=1
Labour plans Web 2.0 push for open government
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| A key question that emerged in government
| use of open source and open ICT standards
| is whether failures to date lies in a lack
| of policy or a lack of will to put the
| policy into effect.
|
| âThe policy is clear,â insisted former
| government CIO Laurence Millar, displaying
| policy statements from the e.govt.nz
| website âencouragingâ agencies to look at
| open source software. âThis is not about
| policy; itâs about changing attitudes.â
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/5EAA50F522DC292BCC2576B0006BA5C0
Open source conference opens its doors
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| In a push to bring the open source software
| message to the non-hacker public, the
| Wellington open-source conference,
| linux.conf.au, is holding an Open Day at
| the Wellington Town Hall tomorrow.
|
| More than 30 exhibitors from business,
| education and community groups will be
| demonstrating some of the software they
| have developed, organisers say.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/devt/F24F97891283052FCC2576B2006DA532
LCA 2010: From India with code
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| Bharata B. Rao, one of the speakers at the
| 11th LCA, is an exception - he has come to
| Wellington straight from Bangalore and is
| just recovering from the jetlag. (His talk
| is titled "Using performance counters to
| optimize task placement on multi-core
| systems.")
|
| Rao, who is in his mid-30s, works for IBM
| as a senior staff software engineer in the
| India Software Labs Systems Group. What's
| more, he writes code aimed at the Linux
| kernel.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30575&Itemid=1090
LCA 2010: Smooth sailing at halfway point
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| Midway through the week that comprises the
| 11th Australian national Linux conference,
| the two co-organisers, Andrew and Susanne
| Ruthven, say they are extremely pleased
| with the way things are working out.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30595&Itemid=1090
LCA 2010: How FOSS spreads to the home
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| Shane Geddes is one of the first batch of
| students to enrol in New Zealand's first
| high school that uses only free and open
| source software - the Albany Senior High
| School in Auckland.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30598&Itemid=1090
LCA 2010: Tridge and the art of education
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| It takes a lot of courage to set out on an
| unexplored course, especially when it comes
| to academia. There is nothing to compare
| with the withering scorn that one earns
| from this community if one sets out on an
| ambitious course - and then fails
| miserably.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30610&Itemid=1090
In pictures: Linux.conf.au
http://www.computerworld.com.au/slideshow/333289/pictures_linux_conf_au/
LCA 2010 Thursday Keynote â Glyn Moody
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| Glyn Moody â Hackers at the end of the
| world. Rebel code is now 10 years oldâ 50+
| interviews over a year â and could be
| considered an archaeology now :) I
| probably havenât down the keynote justice â
| it was excellent but high density â you
| should watch it online ;)
|
| Glyn talks about open access â various
| examples like the public library of science
| (and how the scientific magazine business
| made 30%-40% profit margins. The Human
| Genome Project & the âBermuda Principlesâ:
| public submimssion of annotated sequences.
| In 2000 Celera were going to patent the
| entire human genome. Jim Kent spent 3 weeks
| writing a program to join together the
| sequenced fragments on a 100 PC 800Mhz
| Pentium processor. This was put into the
| public domain on just before Celera
| completed their processing â and by that
| action Celera were prevented from patenting
| *us*.
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http://www.advogato.org/person/robertc/diary.html?start=138
LCA2010: Day 3, Wellington, New Zealand
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| Corbet took his typical potshot at Ubuntu,
| saying that LKML is now friendlier than the
| Ubuntu mailing lists. Thankfully two other
| speakers today (mako and mjg) mentioned the
| Ubuntu Code of Conduct as being both
| important and effective in the Ubuntu
| community. In my opinion, there seems to be
| an ever-growing trend of LWN.net attacks on
| Canonical and Ubuntu. I think I'll dedicate
| a post on that topic soon.
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http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/01/lca2010-day-3-wellington-new-zealand.html
Linux.conf.au - Day Three
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| The glorious weather that had punctuated
| the first two days of the conference held,
| heralding in the third day in a blaze of
| sunshine. The conference proper was
| introduced by a keynote by Benjamin Mako
| Hill on Antifeatures: Why your software
| works against you and why software freedom
| offers hope of a better future. Mako
| explored the concept of anti-features as
| deliberately included functionality or a
| lack of functionality that users hate so
| much they will pay to have them removed.
| Some classic examples included the gator
| spyware that was included with free version
| of p2p software on the windows platform -
| with a spyware-free version available for a
| fee.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linuxconfau-day-three
linux.conf supports Life Flight Trust
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| LCA2010 delegates are invited to to make
| donations to the Life Flight Trust and be
| in to win an exclusive once-in-a-lifetime
| experience on Saturday 23rd January.
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http://wellington.scoop.co.nz/?p=19267
Linux.conf.au, FOSS and the Joe Blow job
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| This year's Linux.conf.au gathering has
| placed more emphasis than ever on the
| broader impact of free and open source
| software (FOSS), and how the models it
| utilises could benefit society in all kinds
| of other ways. It's a fascinating argument
| and a worthwhile goal, but it's still hard
| to escape the feeling that it's not being
| tailored well for the non-geek community.
| The way the case is being presented at LCA
| 2010, Joe Blow won't want to know.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/30634/53/
LCA 2010: Kiwis to give FOSS desktop a go
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| New Zealand will begin a test of a
| homegrown free and open source desktop
| solution next month, with the Horizons
| Regional Council to be one of the guinea
| pigs, according to the president of the
| country's open source society.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=30639&Itemid=1090
Linux.conf.au 2010 kicks off in New Zealand
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| Linus Torvalds himself is known to attend â
| and was in Hobart for the first time last
| year â and multinational software companies
| like Google use LCA as a hunting ground for
| fresh talent.
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http://www.techworld.com.au/blog/talkingtech/2010/01/linuxconfau_2010_kicks_off_in_new_zealand
Linux.conf.au: Birds of a Feather
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| The Birds of a Feather sessions include
| topics such as installfests and how to run
| them, Linus standard operating environment
| development and MySQL Sandbox.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/333302/linux_conf_au_birds_feather/?fp=4&fpid=1968336438
Linux.conf.au - Day Two
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| Gabriella Coleman
|
| The second day of the conference dawned
| just as bright and sunny as the first. The
| opening keynote was delivered by Gabriella
| Coleman, Assistant Professor of Media,
| Culture, and Communication at New York
| University. She spoke on the history of the
| FOSS movement as birthed by Richard
| Stallman and it's paradoxical growth during
| the same period that governments and
| corporate bodies were pushing their agenda
| for stronger IP and copyright control.
| Gabrielle took the audience through the
| wrangling that forever forced the FOSS
| community into the political arena and
| created the biggest threat to the
| traditional concept of IP that exists
| today.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linuxconfau-day-two
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