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Monday, December 24th, 2012

    Time Event
    5:16p
    Security advisories for Monday
    Mandriva has updated apache-mod_security (2011.0; ES 5.0: multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated xen (12.2; 12.1: multiple vulnerabilities) and libreoffice (12.2: code execution).

    8:22p
    FSFE: Fellowship interview with Anna Morris
    The Free Software Foundation Europe talks with Anna
    Morris    , co-founder of the FLOSSIE conference for women in Free
    Software, Manchester Fellowship Group Deputy Coordinator, and Co-Director
    of Ethical Pets Ltd. "Perhaps most importantly, the learning and subsequent freedom that I have achieved is also down to Free software (and the community surrounding it). Free Software challenges you to learn: to do for yourself, to be fearlessly independent when it comes to your tech. In the past few years I have taken pride in watching my skill base catchup with and overtake that of my proprietary-loving peers, even some paid professionals, simply by having a free and curious mindset. Free software frees you in many ways."
    9:00p
    Distributions for the Nexus 7 (TGDaily and HotHardware)
    LWN has recently looked at Ubuntu on the Nexus
    7     and CyanogenMod 10 on the Nexus 7.
    Two more distributions are also targeting the Nexus 7. TGDaily covers
    Bohdi Linux     on this tablet and HotHardware looks
    at the Plasma Active     port. Both are works in progress.
    9:28p
    Petition: promote the use of free software in US schools
    The US Whitehouse.gov site has a petition
    to promote the use of free software in schools. "Each year our educational system wastes billions of dollars for the purchase and support of proprietary operating systems and application software in our schools. The software is rigid and inflexible, opaque in its design and mysterious to our children.

    We advocate and propose the gradual replacement of privately owned software
    with restrictive licensing in favor of open source alternatives with GPL
    type licenses. In as much as possible we should have our students using
    software that complies with the definition of free software as defined by
    the Free Software Foundation.    " Registration is required to sign the
    petition. (Thanks to Davide Del Vento)
    9:31p
    Märdian: Openmoko/OpenPhoenux GTA04 jumps off
    Lukas 'Slyon' Märdian looks
    at an Openmoko based smartphone    . The Openmoko smartphone efforts were
    abandoned some time ago, but Golden Delicious Computers has taken the code
    and created the OpenPhoenux GTA04. "Golden Delicious Computers and
    the enthusiasts from the Openmoko community started off with the idea of
    stuffing a BeagleBoard into a Neo Freerunner case and connecting an USB
    UMTS dongle to it – this was the first prototype GTA04A1, announced in late
    2010 and presented at OHSW 2010 and FOSDEM 2011.    " At this time
    there are about 300 GTA04(A3+A4) devices in the wild and the company has
    GTA04A5 phones in production. (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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