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### Announcements
#### [T-Shirt Design Contest Winner Announced](//www.linux.com/tshirt-design-contest)
"With 57 percent (4,501) of the vote, the winner of the Linux.com T-Shirt Design Contest is "The People's Product", designed by Mr. Said Hassan who is a marketing consultant as SADAF Information Technology in Gaza in Palestine. "This design represents that the Linux system is the collective work of people and it was done so that others can enjoy a reliable, suitable operating system away from a monopoly. So, it’s like a celebration of our efforts: Linux is our product.”"
#### [Introducing Your KDE Software Labels](//www.kdenews.org/2010/06/21/introducing-your-kde-software-labels)
"A while ago, the KDE promo team organized a competition to choose a design for labels that producers of software within our community can use to show that they are part of KDE. Today we are happy to announce the winning designs: (...)"
#### [Frank Karlitscheck: ownCloud 1.0 is here](//blog.karlitschek.de/2010/06/owncloud-10-is-here.html)
"Today we are releasing ownCloud 1.0. This is the first step of the 1.x series with a planed 1.1 really soon.
You can download ownCloud 1.0 now and put it in a webspace with PHP support and it should work."
#### [Michael Jansen: Build-Tool 0.3 Release](//michael-jansen.biz/blog/mike/2010-06-24/build-tool-03-release)
"I have released version 0.3 of build-tool. As promised last time this release makes it possible to maintain the recipes separately from the code. Build-Tool comes without recipes starting with this release."
#### [Davide Bettio (WindowsUninstall): KDE SC 4.5 Wallpapers](//blog.uninstall.it/2010/06/24/kde-sc-4-5-wallpapers/)
"The wallpaper contest has ended and now I can announce that KDE SC 4.5 will have 12 shiny new wallpapers: ..."
#### [The Froyo Code Drop](//android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/06/froyo-code-drop.html)
"Today is one of those days that has my heart racing; we’ve just released the source code for Android 2.2. This is a big step forward for the entire Android ecosystem. Please don’t melt the servers down again while trying to download that latest source code."
#### [Save the Date: MeeGo Conference 2010 in November](https://meego.com/community/blogs/dawnfoster/2010/save-date-meego-conference-2010-in-november)
"It's time to block your calendar and request approval to travel - the MeeGo Conference has been scheduled for November 15 - 17, 2010 at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland. This is the annual conference for MeeGo developers, OSVs, OEMs, other integrators, and MeeGo project contributors."
### Call for participation
#### [Install Personas to support your team and compete for the Firefox Cup](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefoxcup/)
"Dress up your Firefox with team spirit and share the love with friends. The team with the most fans using Personas wins the Firefox Cup!"
### Reports
#### [Mike McCallister: Let us mourn for freshmeat.net](//metaverse.wordpress.com/2010/06/14/let-us-mourn-for-freshmeat-net/)
"UPDATE 6/19/10: Lisa Hoover tweeted at me earlier this week “… Consider the source before you believe this crap.” I do plan to keep an eye on freshmeat; I sure hope she’s right. MM
Robin “Roblimo” Miller reported this weekend that the future looked bad for pioneering free software repository freshmeat.net.
Geek.net, the parent company of SourceForge.net, Slashdot.org, ThinkGeek.com, Geek.com, freshmeat.net, and ohloh.net, has told employees that it will be closing freshmeat.net and ohloh.net. This information has not yet been released to the public, but we’ve heard it from more than one Geek.net employee."
#### [David Hubner (hubner): KInfoCenter – UI Changes](//hubnerd.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/kinfocenter-ui-changes-2/)
"Been meaning to do this for ages, so i shall start with an introduction. I am David Hubner, I have taken over maintainer of KInfoCenter and have rewritten if for KDE SC 4.5. I also wrote the Device Viewer in KInfoCenter and the new Summary Information page. The new Summary Information Page is what I would like to talk about. Hugo Pereira Da Costa has supplied two great patches to do with UI consistency, the first has been submitted but I would like KDE users opinion on the second. I like to get opinions before making large UI changes, so from the two images below, could you do me ( and KDE ) a favour and comment on which you prefer."
#### [Aditya Bhatt (adityab): digiKam GSoC progress: libkface is almost ready](//adityabhatt.wordpress.com/2010/06/23/digikam-gsoc-progress-libkface-is-almost-ready/)
"Ah well, today marks a month since the official GSoC coding period started.
Brief intro: I’m working on implementing automatic tagging of faces for digiKam, with face detection and recognition. For that, I’ve been working on a library named libface that does the detection and training/recognition.
At some point, it was deemed necessary to make a Qt wrapper for libface, so that Qt/KDE programs could easily use it. This has been now (almost) done, and the resulting library is named libkface. libkface will be put somewhere in kdegraphics/libs as soon as the API freeze is over (I think), and will be usable not only by digiKam, but also by other programs like KPhotoAlbum."
#### [Linux Weekly News/Jon Corbet: Python "newthreading" proof of concept released](//lwn.net/Articles/393822/rss)
"The "newthreading" project within the Python community is a new attempt at improving concurrency in Python programs and facilitating the removal of the much-maligned global interpreter lock. A proof-of-concept implementation has just been released. "This pure Python implementation is usable, but does not improve performance. It's a proof of concept implementation so that programmers can try out synchronized classes and see what it's like to work within those restrictions." More information can be found on the newthreading page. "
### Reviews and Essays
#### [Ars Technica/Ryan Paul: openSUSE Linux seeks own direction, more autonomy from Novell](//arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/06/opensuse-project-seeks-feedback-on-strategy-drafts.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss)
"The developers behind openSUSE are drafting a new "community statement" as part of a broader effort to define a technical strategy for their project. The purpose of the community statement is to describe the kind of collaborative environment that the project wants to create as it refines its technical focus."
#### [Hemisphere Games: Linux, the Numbers](//www.hemispheregames.com/2010/06/23/linux-the-numbers/)
"A little over a month ago we released the Linux port of Osmos, promising statistics on our sales and downloads. We wanted to find out - from a financial perspective, for our studio - “is it worth porting games to Linux?”
The short, simple answer… is “yes.”"
#### [Linuxnov.com: GUI For GoogleCL Script 0.1](//www.linuxnov.com/gui-for-googlecl-script-0-1/)
"Already reviewed GoogleCL on LinuxNOV on this [post](//www.linuxnov.com/googlecl-awesome-command-line-tool-for-google-products/) for how to use GoogleCL without using Graphical User Interface, but in this post will show simple script for GoogleCL also you can get access to blogger, contents, Docs, Picasa, and Youtube."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://news.opensuse.org/2010/06/26/opensuse-weekly-news-issue-129-is-out/