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Neil McGovern Stepping Down as Gnome’s Executive Director

McGovern will have been in the position well over five years by the time a replacement is found and put in place — the longest tenure of any executive director in the organization’s history.

‘The Register’ Lays an Egg: SUSE Liberty Linux is NOT a Distro

Although several news outlets have reported that SUSE Liberty Linux is a new RHEL-based distribution, it’s actually a support program for organizations running multiple Linux flavors.

Learn About Blender and Maybe Get a Free Book – What’s Not to Like?

All Things Open presents Blender 101 on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 as a free webinar. Copies of “Blender for Dummies”, All Things Open t-shirts and stickers, and other swag will be given away to lucky winners!

EFF Asks Appeals Court to Find DMCA Provisions Unconstitutional

The Electronic Frontiers Foundation is attempting to have some DMCA provisions declared unconstitutional by the courts on First Amendment grounds.

Covid Concerns Push Scale 19x to July and to a New Venue

Covid mandates have forced Scale organizers to reschedule the Southern California-based conference, which has also necessitated a change in venue.

After Nearly Six Years, Dirk Hohndel Is Leaving VMware

VMware’s chief open source officer said he’s stepping down because he, “came to the conclusion that it was time to acknowledge I had completed the job I set out to do.”

Omicron Storm Cancels In-person ‘Spacewalk’ Event – Online Version Rescheduled

The current Omicron spike has forced organizers at All Things Open to make their first-of-the-year Spacewalk event online only and reschedule it for January 25, 2022.

Software Freedom Conservancy Reaches Milestone in Fundraiser Ending Jan 15

Even though the Software Freedom Conservancy as crossed one major fundraising hurdle, additional funding is still needed — so give what you can.

Solus Again Navigating Rough Seas as Co-lead Quits

Solus OS’s’s co-lead developer leaves to help the project’s founder develop another distro, SerpentOS, but will continue to be lead developer for the Budgie desktop environment, which will become an independent project. Confused? Don’t be. We’ll explain it all.

Ubuntu Seeks a Gaming Product Manager to Build Cred With Gamers

Much of the technology is already in place to make Ubuntu an excellent gaming distribution, but it’s not optimized for gamers out-of-the-box.

Percona Live Returns in May as an In Person Event

Nothing is known yet about who will be speaking, but Percona said the open source event will return live this year on May 16-18 in Austin, Texas.

New Community Manager at OpenSource.com to Focus on Accessibility

AmyJune-Hineline, Opensource.com’s new senior community manager, has a long history of involvement with open source communities, both as an advocate/manager and as a developer.

Lunduke’s ‘Tux on Tour’ NFT Campaign for Funding Open Source Projects

Want to play around with the NFT thing while helping Linux and open source projects? The Linux Tycoon will show you how.

Italian Courts Find Open Source Software Terms Enforceable

In a first-time ruling by Italian courts on open source licensing, a software vendor has lost a civil case for failing to comply with open source license requirements.

Airbyte: The Money and Licensing of Software Plumbing

The San Francisco-based startup that’s caught the eyes of VCs, to the tune of $181.2 million invested in less than a year, is also licensing its platform under the fauxpen source Elastic License.

Moshe Bar’s Codenotary Votes for AlmaLinux – Becomes a Platinum Member

Codenotary signs on to become AlmaLinux’s first $100,000 a year top tier Platinum supporter less than a month before CentOS 8’s end of life.

VR Platform ‘Decentraland’ Now a Patron Level ‘Blender’ Member

The blockchain-based virtual world platform’s membership will bring at least $135,000 in additional funding to the open source Blender project.

EFF Argument in Patent Troll Case to Be Livestreamed on Monday

The EFF said that the case involves documents so heavily redacted that no one but the parties involved can understand the case.

See Carla Schroder Talk Linux Online — and Maybe Win a Book or Other Cool Swag

Not only will you get to learn things you maybe don’t know about Linux, you might win a copy of Linux Cookbook SE, or some amazing swag!

All Virtual LibrePlanet 2022 Scheduled for March 19-20

Call for Sessions and FSF Award nominations have been extended until December 15. No news yet on whether Richard Stallman will be a speaker.

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