"Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of Django's lead developers, will give a whirlwind tour of advanced Django tips and tricks. The focus will be on the techniques you'll need to develop mature Django applications. We'll discuss the kinds of issues that arise as applications increase in scope and scale, and look at common problems in large Django projects and how to solve them..."

The head Linux guy for IBM, Bob Sutor fairly well showed the poker hand of most Enterprise Linux entities. Briefly, he said: Linux on the Desktop isn't worth pursuing. He called it a Dead End.

"We’re hoping to build real subtitle support into Miro in the next couple months, but we need your help! So we’ve started a Kickstarter project to raise $1,000 to develop this feature for Miro..." — Miro is free software released under the GNU General Public License. —

Linux vendor Red Hat sure doesn't seem to like Microsoft much. Red Hat is now alleging that Microsoft is not committed to the path of peace with open source software vendors.

Red Hat's Deltacloud project is developing a open source standardised API for addressing different cloud architectures in a uniform way. Cloud service users can use the Deltacloud API to access Amazon's EC2 as well as private clouds that are based on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEL-V); drivers for private VMware ESX clouds and the cloud services offered by Rackspace are to follow.

With significant departures of a top manager, channel chief, and more key staff, Novell's future in the UK does not look promising

I do understand why companies often prefer BSD and Apache products to the GPL. But what I don't understand is why companies prefer proprietary over GPL.

Moonlight is neither ready for reliable use, nor is it ready for non-Novell customers to safely use