Call for Papers FrOSCon 2009 (22./23.08.09 Sankt Augustin, near Cologne/Germany)
by Andreas Kupfer
FrOSCon is a two-day conference on free software and open source, which
takes place on August, 22nd and 23rd 2009 at the University of Applied
Sciences Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany.
Focus of the conference is a comprehensive range of talks about current
topics in free software and open source. Furthermore, space will be
provided for developers of free software and open source projects to
organize their own developer meetings or even their own program.
2009 will see the fourth FrOSCon. It is organized by the department of
computer science in collaboration with the Linux/Unix User Group Sankt
Augustin, the student body and the FrOSCon e.V.
= Topics =
We are looking for contributions about current developments from the whole
field of Free Software and Open Source., e.g.:
* Operating Systems
* Development
* Administration
* Security
* Legal Issues
* Desktop
* Education
We would especially like to see contributions about the following topics:
* Open Hardware - Arduino, BeagleBoard etc.
* Cloud Computing - Free Software for building and managing large
infrastructures
* Free Software and SaaS (Software as a Service)
* Gadgets etc. - Free Software on netbooks, phones...
Furthermore there will be a dedicated Java subconference, organized by
high-ranking members of the german Java community. Contributions
concerning all things Java can also be provided through this CfP.
= Submitting Contributions =
Registration and submission of contributions is via the web-based frontend
under http://cfp.froscon.org/. For participating in the Call for Papers,
you will have to submit a short abstract, as well as a detailed
description. To participate in the conference, you will also need to
submit slides for your talk beforehand.
== Language ==
Contributions can be submitted in German as well as English. The choice of
language should depend solely on which language is more suitable for
presenting the chosen topic. Language of the submitted texts and of the
talk should be the same.
== Length of the Contributions ==
The abstract should summarize the planned content of the talk in a precise
and succinct way. We do not place a limit on its length.
The talks should take no more than 45 minutes, in order to allow some time
for questions and for preparing the stage for the following speaker.
We can accept longer contributions in special cases; we ask for a
justification for the longer extent in this case.
== Format ==
Abstract and Description have to be submitted as plain text via the web
frontend. We ask for submission of the slides in PDF; other open document
format such as OpenOffice should only be submitted after prior
consultation.
== Licenses ==
We will publish abstract, description and slides on a website and include
the abstract in the conference program. We demand that you place your
contributions under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0
Germany (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/de/) license (or a
more lenient license.)
Unless another license is noted, we will assume that your contribution is
under this license. If you want to place your works under a less
restrictive license, please note so with your submission.
== Selection of Contributions ==
Contributions are selected based on their content by a program committee.
Please understand that we cannot accept all contributions, depending on
the number and quality of the submissions. We will favor submissions which
fall under one of the aforementioned topics.
= Other =
== Remuneration ==
FrOSCon is organized by volunteers and is mostly funded by sponsors. We
ask you to understand that we will not be able to reimburse you for your
expenses.
== Accomodation ==
The organizers of FrOSCon are looking for suitable accomodation at the
moment. Current developments will be published on the web site of the
event (http://www.froscon.org). We can also help find a place to sleep.
== Social Event ==
We are planning to hold a social event on the evening of the 23th and
kindly invite all speakers to attend.
= Important Dates and Contacts =
May 23rd, 2009 End of the Call for Papers. All contributions need to be
submitted by this date in order to qualify.
June 8th, 2009 Notification of acceptance of all contributions
June 22nd, 2009 Final acceptance. We ask all invited speakers to give
their final acceptance by this date.
August 1st, 2009 Last date for submitting slides
August 22nd, 2009 First day of FrOSCon
Further information can be found on the web under http://www.froscon.org.
Please send questions about the Call for Papers via email to:
program(a)froscon.org Contact the organizers via email: contact(a)froscon.org
Postal address:
FrOSCon e.V.
c/o Fachhochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg
Grantham-Allee 20
53757 Sankt Augustin
Germany
15 years, 1 month
VMware server 2.0 on 64-bit F10
by Robert G. (Doc) Savage
I'm unable to connect to VMware Server 2 via https://127.0.0.1:8333. The
connection times out. I've been reading fragments of reports elsewhere
on the web that others are running into major problems with VMware
Server 2 on 64-bit F10. They all say they can't shut down VMware
services or re-run vmware-config.pl without hard resetting via the power
switch. Some have suggested shutting down SELinux (add selinux=0 to
grub.conf), but this doesn't fix the problem. Others have suggested
shutting down the firewall. Again, no joy.
Can anyone point me to a working solution?
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
15 years, 1 month
Re: Yum issues..
by dcooke@efn.org
> Message: 16
> Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:14:04 -0700
> From: Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com>
> Subject: Re: messagebus and NFS hanging at start
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
> Fedora." <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> Message-ID: <1238818444.28700.17.camel(a)lin-workstation.azapple.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
>
> On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 21:02 -0700, dcooke(a)efn.org wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Is this a problem with system messagebus and NFS connecting to
>> LDAP, and why does it occurr?
>>
>> If I'm not networking, can I turn NFS off?
>>
>>
> ----
> yes, if you're not networking, nfs is pointless.
Wow!..>>millionThanks. Turned ldap off in 'User' and 'Auth'.
>
>
> Craig
>
Craig,
What about Kerebos and and SMB in 'Auth'...Off?
Can I turn off NIS Support in 'User', also?
And options, MD5's are now SHA256. and there are no local users,
just one owner behind a modem.
The only 'checked' left would be 'Cache User Information'. Is this
okay to leave?
What about messagebus? Do I need this one? Hangs like a kite in a
steady wind. I get a 'dbus' message complaining about the two being
in cohoots with each other, and blaming me for it all.
please advise.
David
15 years, 1 month
Acroread 9 - Fewer Major Features than Version 8
by Rick Bilonick
I made the foolish mistake to install AdobeReader 9. When I try to open
a pdf form, it tells me that features availble in version 8 are no
longer available in the so-called upgrade. I used to be able to fill in
the forms and save them (like IRS tax forms). Now I cannot find the old
version in the repositories. Am I missing something here?
Rick B.
15 years, 1 month
the "proper" way to identify the bitness of your kernel and CPU
by Robert P. J. Day
what is the fedora-approved way to identify the wordsize of both
your running kernel and your CPU? for the kernel, i'm used to running
$ uname -r
and just looking at the suffix, which in my case would be either
"i686" or "x86_64". is there a simpler way? does one of the "uname"
options reliably report just that portion -- the wordsize of the
running kernel?
and, secondly, regardless of the bitness of the kernel, what about
identifying the wordsize of the actual CPU (since you can obviously
have a 32-bit kernel running on an x86_64 CPU).
my standard tricks are one of:
$ grep lm /proc/cpuinfo (where "lm" stands for long mode)
$ getconf LONG_BIT (should print 32 or 64)
in that second case, would "uname -p" reliably show a 64-bit CPU, even
with a 32-bit OS?
thanks.
rday
--
========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry:
Have classroom, will lecture.
http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
========================================================================
15 years, 1 month
Can I preupgrade to Fedora-11?
by Timothy Murphy
When I run preupgrade on my Fedora-10/KDE system
I am told "No releases available for upgrade",
unless I check the box "Display unstable test release",
in which case I am offered "Rawhide".
My question is: if I choose Rawhide
will I later be able to upgrade to Fedora-11?
Or do I have to wait until I am told there are
non-test releases available for upgrade?
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
15 years, 1 month
Kde freezes in Fedora 10
by gmspro
Hi,
rpm -qa | grep kde
kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.2.1-2.fc10.1.i386
akonadi-1.1.1-6.fc10.i386
[shibly1@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep kde
kdelibs-common-4.1.2-5.fc10.i386
kde-i18n-Bengali-3.5.10-1.fc10.noarch
kdegames3-libs-3.5.10-3.fc10.i386
kdepim-libs-4.2.1-3.fc10.i386
kdebase-libs-4.2.1-2.fc10.i386
kdebase-4.2.1-2.fc10.i386
kdesdk-utils-4.1.2-4.fc10.i386
kdeedu-marble-4.2.1-1.fc10.i386
kdeutils-printer-applet-4.2.1-3.fc10.i386
kdemultimedia-libs-4.2.1-1.fc10.i386
kdegraphics-4.2.1-3.fc10.i386
kde-settings-pulseaudio-4.1-6.20090206svn.fc10.noarch
kdeartwork-4.2.1-1.fc10.i386
solar-kde-theme-0.1.16-2.fc10.noarch
kdevelop-3.5.3-1.fc10.i386
kdegames3-3.5.10-3.fc10.i386
kdebase-runtime-4.2.1-2.fc10.i386
kdepim-4.2.1-3.fc10.i386
lockdev-devel-1.0.1-13.fc10.i386
kdelibs3-3.5.10-1.fc10.i386
kdevelop-libs-3.5.3-1.fc10.i386
kdegraphics-libs-4.2.1-3.fc10.i386
kdegames-libs-4.2.1-1.fc10.i386
kdenetwork-libs-4.2.1-1.fc10.i386
kdeplasma-addons-4.2.1-1.fc10.i386
lockdev-1.0.1-13.fc10.i386
kde-settings-kdm-4.1-4.20081031svn.fc10.noarch
kde-settings-4.1-6.20090206svn.fc10.noarch
kdepimlibs-akonadi-4.2.1-2.fc10.1.i386
kdenetwork-4.2.1-1.fc10.i386
kdeutils-4.2.1-3.fc10.i386
kdesdk-libs-4.1.2-4.fc10.i386
kdelibs-4.2.1-4.fc10.i386
kdebase-runtime-libs-4.2.1-2.fc10.i386
kde-filesystem-4-23.fc10.noarch
kdepimlibs-devel-4.2.1-2.fc10.1.i386
kdemultimedia-4.2.1-1.fc10.i386
kdelibs3-devel-3.5.10-1.fc10.i386
kdegames-4.2.1-1.fc10.i386
kdebase-workspace-4.2.1-7.fc10.i386
kdelibs-devel-4.2.1-4.fc10.i386
kdepimlibs-4.2.1-2.fc10.1.i386
kdeaccessibility-4.2.1-1.fc10.i386
kdebase-workspace-libs-4.2.1-7.fc10.i386
After running firefox or konqueror kde freezes but the mouse moves.
Can anyone give any idea?
Thanks.
15 years, 1 month
is it always safe to select "Virtualization" packages at install time?
by Robert P. J. Day
in the context of both f10 and the imminent f11, is it always safe
to select that you want to install the "Virtualization" group,
regardless of the system on which you're installing? as in, will that
make a difference in the kernel installed and could that blow up in
one's face?
i ask since, a while back and at least a couple versions of fedora
ago, i selected virtualization without recognizing that i was
installing on an older laptop that was only 32-bit and had no PAE
support. as i recall, that selection forced the install of a
virt-enabled kernel that, after install and reboot, came up, almost
immediately realized it was trying to run on inadequate hardware (not
even PAE), and choked.
so, what exactly is involved in adding Virtualization to the
install? does it change which kernel is installed? does it affect
only loadable modules so that won't be an issue? am i making any
sense?
rday
--
========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry:
Have classroom, will lecture.
http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
========================================================================
15 years, 1 month