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Linux Conf raises $33,000 for charity
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/335434/linux_conf_raises_33_000_charity/
Linux Enthusiasts Raise Over $33,000 to Help Save
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| The LCA2010 conference is over, but the
| generosity of its delegates will leave a
| lasting impression on the Life Flight Trust.
|
| During the conference closing dinner at the
| Wellington Town Hall, attendees bid to win a
| unique opportunity to join an action-packed
| Westpac Rescue Helicopter winch training
| mission. All bids were donations to Life
| Flight.
|
| Delegates could donate online with their
| laptops and results were displayed in real-
| time on an open source application created by
| Andrew Caudwell of Catalyst IT.
|
| At the end of the evening a $12,750 donation
| from Linux Australia brought the total funds
| raised to more than $33,000.
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1002/S00160.htm
Recent:
LCA: Cooperative management of package copyright and licensing data
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| Kate Stewart is the manager of the PowerPC
| team at Freescale. As such, she has a basic
| customer service problem to solve: people who
| buy a board from Freescale would like to have
| some sort of operating system to run on it.
| That system, of course, will be Linux;
| satisfying this requirement means that
| Freescale must operate as a sort of Linux
| distributor. At her linux.conf.au talk, Kate
| talked about a new initiative aimed at helping
| distributors to ensure that they are compliant
| with the licenses of the software they are
| shipping.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/370308/
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
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