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Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

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    1:27a
    FSFE: Worldwide more than 50 events about Open Standards
    The Free Software Foundation Europe has a reminder that Document Freedom
    Day is happening from March 24 12:00 UTC until March 26 12:00 UTC.
    "Document Freedom Day is the global
    campaign for document liberation by local groups throughout the world.
    So far more than 50 groups registered their events in over 25 countries
    ranging from Asia, Europa, Africa, to South and North America.    "
    2:30p
    A Turing award for Michael Stonebraker
    The ACM has announced
    that the 2014 A. M. Turing award has gone to Michael
    Stonebraker. Among many other things, he was the original creator of the
    database management system now known as PostgreSQL.
    2:36p
    LibreOffice Online announced
    The LibreOffice project has announced the accelerated development of a new
    online offering. "Development of LibreOffice Online started back in 2011, with the
    availability of a proof of concept of the client front end, based on HTML5
    technology. That proof of concept will be developed into a state of the art
    cloud application, which will become the free alternative to proprietary
    solutions such as Google Docs and Office 365, and the first to natively
    support the Open Document Format (ODF) standard.    " The current
    effort is supported by IceWarp and Collabora; see this
    FAQ     and Michael
    Meeks's posting     for more information. For those wanting to download
    it, though, note the "the availability of LibreOffice Online will be communicated at a later
    stage.    "
    3:40p
    GNOME 3.16 released
    The GNOME 3.16 release is out. "This is another exciting release for GNOME, and brings many new features
    and improvements, including redesigned notifications, a new shell
    theme, new scrollbars, and a refresh for the file manager. 3.16 also
    includes improvements to the Image Viewer, Music, Photos and Videos.
    We are also including three new preview apps for the first time: Books,
    Calendar and Characters.    " See the release
    notes     for more information.
    3:46p
    Security advisories for Wednesday

    Debian has updated openssl (regression in previous update) and python-django (cross-site scripting).

    Debian-LTS has updated gnutls26 (multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated less (13.2, 13.1: information leak) and tor (13.2, 13.1: denial of service).

    Oracle has updated firefox (OL7; OL6: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated firefox (SLE11 SP3: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated batik (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: information leak) and libarchive (14.10, 14.04, 12.04: directory traversal).

    4:55p
    [$] Development activity in LibreOffice and OpenOffice
    The LibreOffice project was announced with great fanfare in September 2010. Nearly one year later, the OpenOffice.org project (from which LibreOffice was forked) was cut loose from Oracle and found a new home as an Apache project. It is fair to say that the rivalry between the two projects in the time since then has been strong. Predictions that one project or the other would fail have not been borne out, but that does not mean that the two projects are equally successful. A look at the two projects' development communities reveals some interesting differences.

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