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  • Fri, 24 May 2013 14:14:35 +0000: Dish says Softbank poses national security threat – Telecoms.com » News & Analysis
    US satellite TV player has stirred controversy in its bid to acquire mobile operator Sprint by accusing rival bidder, Japanese operator Softbank, of posing a threat to US national security.
  • Fri, 24 May 2013 11:44:43 +0000: UK wholesale fibre start up gets £50m injection – Telecoms.com » News & Analysis
    UK start up wholesale fibre provider Hyperoptic has received an equity investment of £50m from currency speculator billionaire George Soros. The firm said the funding will enable it to meet its plans to reach more than 500,000 UK homes with its 1Gbps fibre broadband within the next five years. The investment is led by Quantum Strategic Partners, Soros’ private investment vehicle.
  • Fri, 24 May 2013 09:41:36 +0000: AT&T to gain over $730m annually from monthly admin fee – Telecoms.com » News & Analysis
    US operator AT&T has imposed a $0.61 monthly fee on its postpaid users, standing to gain around $732m in extra revenue as a result. The Mobility Administrative Fee was introduced this month.

Serverside.com

  • Tue, 14 May 2013 22:34:54 +0000: Rebel Labs Report – “Pragmatic DevOps: Virtualization & Provisioning with Vagrant & Chef” – Support Forums : Thread List – News
    This latest report from Rebel Labs has a brand new format–all-HTML, and no sign up required. Directly download our overview of Virtualization and Provisioning, along with commentary by the creators of Vagrant and Chef.



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  • Wed, 08 May 2013 10:33:45 +0000: Automating a complex build process – Support Forums : Thread List – News
    We describe how we automated a build process producing 20 different deliverables for five different platforms. Tools used include Jenkins, Gradle, Artifactory and Bitbucket



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  • Tue, 07 May 2013 21:10:37 +0000: Concurrent garbage collection in Java – Support Forums : Thread List – News
    The Concurrent-Mark-Sweep collector is a low pause Java Garbage Collector used in Hotspot. Here’s how it works.



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  • Sat, 25 May 2013 08:00:02 +0000: LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL3 0.15.1 – Freecode Releases
    LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL3 is a set of additional demosaic and noise reduction algorithms for LibRaw. These algorithms include AMaZE demosaic and color aberrations correction by Emil Martinec.

    Release Notes: Incorrect data maximum calculations for Panasonic files were fixed. A possible buffer overrun in exposure correction code is now checked.

    Release Tags: Release

    Tags: Image Processing, Digital Camera, digital photo

    Licenses: GPLv3

  • Sat, 25 May 2013 07:58:46 +0000: LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL2 0.15.1 – Freecode Releases
    LibRaw-demosaic-pack-GPL2 is a set of additional demosaic and noise reduction algorithms for LibRaw. These algorithms include AFD, LMMSE by Manuel Llorens, VCD, modified VCD, AHD+VCD, and two advanced median filters by Paul Lee.

    Release Notes: Incorrect data maximum calculations for Panasonic files were fixed. A possible buffer overrun in exposure correction code is now checked.

    Release Tags: Release

    Tags: Image Processing, Digital Camera, digital photo

    Licenses: GPLv2

  • Sat, 25 May 2013 07:58:07 +0000: LibRaw 0.15.1 – Freecode Releases
    LibRaw is a library for reading RAW files obtained
    from digital photo cameras (CRW/CR2, NEF, RAF,
    DNG, and others). LibRaw is based on the source
    codes of the dcraw utility, though some of the
    drawbacks of dcraw have been eliminated. The users
    of the library are provided with an API to be used
    when writing their software programs.

    Release Notes: Incorrect data maximum calculations for Panasonic files were fixed. A possible buffer overrun in exposure correction code is now checked.

    Tags: multimedia, Graphics, Graphics Conversion, Capture, Digital Camera, Software Development, Libraries

    Licenses: LGPL, CDDL, LibRaw Software license

Open Source Initiative

  • Sun, 12 May 2013 04:51:39 +0000: OSI Board Meeting Report – Open Source Initiative blogs

    The new OSI Board met in Washington DC last week. We held an effective face-to-face meeting where we discussed the progress of our plans to transform OSI into a member-based organisation. We held officer elections, once again electing Martin Michlmayr as Secretary, filling the vacancy for CFO left by Alolita Sharma by electing Karl Fogel and replacing him as Assistant Treasurer by electing Mike Milinkovich. I was re-elected as President and thank the Board for that vote of confidence in this time of change.

    Among much other business, we considered how to fill the Board vacancy we have reserved for an OSI Individual Member and how to structure the Board going forward. We decided we will hold an election in June where any Individual Member may stand for election and vote for their preferred candidate. Details will be sent to members soon; now is a great time to join OSI if you want to be involved in the election.

    We also decided to change the bylaws so that the seats on the Board are now allocated for election either by Affiliates or Individual Members when they fall vacant. Seats elected by Affiliates will have three-year terms; seats elected by Individual Members will have one-year terms. We will retain a term limit of six consecutive years. The transformation to a fully elected Board will be completed by 2016.

    Concerning support of OSI by companies, we heard that there are many businesses that want to support OSI financially, but that none of those approached so far has felt they want to be involved in OSI’s governance. We therefore decided we will no longer aim to have any Directors elected by corporate members, and will convert our outreach to businesses into sponsorship instead. We’ll post details of how your company can sponsor OSI soon – of course, donations are welcome at any time and we are grateful to the companies which have already decided to support us.

    Probably the largest development we discussed was staffing. The role of the Board to this point has been to serve as a pool of volunteers to directly deliver OSI’s mission. As such, we have been limited in our activity by the free time of the volunteer Board. The future we envisage is one where our members can bring their vision for OSI, devise new resources and activities and have the Board deploy and sustain what they create. To deliver this and other member services, we have decided to recruit a General Manager for OSI. We have formed a staffing committee to formalise the job description we’ve agreed and we will publish the vacancy soon.

    We also held two successful OSI events in DC; a report on those will follow.

    OSI Board 2013-14
    OSI Board of Directors 2013-14

    Back row: Bruno Souza, Karl Fogel, Luis Villa, Mike Millinkovich, Tony Wasserman, Martin Michlmayr
    Front row: Jim Jagielski, Simon Phipps, Deb Bryant
    Not shown: Harshad Gune
    There is one vacancy at present, to be filled in June by election.

  • Thu, 02 May 2013 10:30:25 +0000: OSI Board Changes 2013 – Open Source Initiative blogs

    One of the ways we’re turning OSI into a member organisation is to gradually replace the Board with member-selected directors. This process started last year when OSI’s Affiliate members — non-profit organizations themselves — selected candidates for the Board. This year, two directors have left the Board; Fabio Kon, whose education initiatives for OSI have been held in high regard, and Alolita Sharma, who has been an OSI director for many years and in multiple roles but most recently served as OSI’s Treasurer. The Board thanks them both warmly for their service to OSI and to open source.

    The vacancies they left were allocated to our two member categories. The Affiliates selected Bruno Souza of Brazil as their candidate and the Board duly appointed Bruno as a director of OSI yesterday – welcome! The Affiliates have now selected three of OSI’s eleven directors. The second vacancy will be filled via an election by the Individual members of OSI later this quarter — details to follow.

    The Board — including Bruno Souza — will meet in Washington DC next week to select its officers for 2013-14 and to plan the next steps in OSI’s transformation. If you would like to meet them, please come to OSI’s DC Metro Open Source Community Summit on May 10.

  • Wed, 01 May 2013 14:06:40 +0000: Non-Profit Accounting Software – Open Source Initiative blogs

    Software Freedom Conservancy have announced a fundraising campaign for an Open Source non-profit accounting system. The campaign seeks to raise $75,000 to fund a full-time developer for one year to first reevaluate existing solutions for their viability as a non-profit accounting system, and then improve and augment the best available system to create a new solution that will help non-profits around the world manage their finances better.

    To keep their books and produce annual government filings, most non-profit organizations (NPOs) rely on proprietary software, paying exorbitant licensing fees. This is fundamentally at cross purposes with their underlying missions of charity, equality, democracy, and sharing. Conservancy, as a non-profit charity dedicated to the advancement and improvement of Open Source and Free Software, seeks to address this problem.

    This project has the potential to save the non-profit sector millions in licensing fees every year. Even NPOs that continue to use proprietary accounting software will benefit from the competition it creates in the market. But, more powerfully, this project’s realization will increase the agility and collaborative potential for the non-profit sector — a boon to funders, boards, and employees — bringing software freedom related and general NPO communities into closer collaboration and understanding.

    The OSI Board endorses this campaign and encourages contributions to support it.

Networks

  • Sat, 25 May 2013 12:12:11 +0000: Phones for the elderly: Testers wanted for senior service – The Register – Networks

    Reg readers, can you help?

    Column  As if getting a business idea from Reg reader comments wasn’t enough for Simon Rockman he now wants help to get it working.…

  • Fri, 24 May 2013 21:04:46 +0000: AT&T adds 61¢ ‘Mobility Administrative Fee’ for users – The Register – Networks

    Nickel and diming customers because it can

    US subscribers to AT&T’s mobile network are getting an extra 61¢ “Mobility Administrative Fee” on their bills beginning in May.…

  • Fri, 24 May 2013 12:19:11 +0000: Daft tweet by Speaker Bercow’s loquacious wife DID libel lord – The Register – Networks

    Why is Sally feeling so very sorry? *innocent face*

    Sally Bercow, the wife of Commons Speaker John Bercow, libelled a peer in her infamous “innocent face” tweet, a judge ruled today.…

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