An October pumpkin spice-free preview and call for articles

Fall is in the air, which means the spicy scents of big data, supercomputing, system administration, and All Things Open in Raleigh.
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I realize it might not be fall where you live, but from where I'm sitting, the temperatures are slowly dropping, days are getting shorter, pumpkins and spider webs are starting to decorate front porches, and my friends and colleagues are gearing up for a cornucopia of annual end-of-year tech conferences.

Meanwhile, on Opensource.com, we're looking for open source-angled articles for a few upcoming themes. In October, we're thinking big—as in big data, high-performance computing, and supercomputing. We want to help share your stories about big data projects using open source technologies, or research you're working on with help from Linux supercomputers. Proposals due by October 5. Drafts due by October 16.

Send story proposals (along with brief outlines) to us at open@opensource.com.

We're also working on the 2017 Open Source Yearbook. If you have an article idea, send it our way. See past yearbooks for examples of the kinds of articles we're looking for, then send us your ideas. Proposals due by October 5. Drafts due by October 16.

Do you have other open source-related article ideas in mind? Send us your story proposal!

Conference series

In October we're running articles from speakers at a few upcoming events, including: LISA17, All Things Open, and Open Source Summit EU.

Will you be speaking at an upcoming conference? Send us an article idea based on or inspired by your talk.

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I'll be at SeaGL in Seattle later this week, and you can meet me and the rest of the Opensource.com editorial team (along with a few of our community moderators) at All Things Open, which will be held October 23-24 in Raleigh, North Carolina. We'll be giving away lots of Opensource.com swag at our booth, and we're sponsoring a photo booth on the first day of the event so stop in to get your keepsake photo.

The Open Org

The Open Organization Workbook project is entering its next milestone, and authors are busy preparing their chapters for the next book in the Open Organization series. As a matter of fact, we'll be publishing some of those chapters next month—so expect to hear from open organizations at Microsoft, Harvard University, FreeDOS, and University of Alabama at Birmingham. While you wait, why not solve our open organization crossword puzzle?

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sfsdf | October 2, 2017
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How about some articles about software patents expiring.
There are a lot of important big ones this year.
MP3 finally all patents expired for all countries.
OpenGL: Anisotropic Filtering and Polygon Offset Clamp (reduces light leak) patents have expired.
S2TC texture compression patent expired.

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Rikki Endsley | October 3, 2017
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This topic sounds interesting - can you please submit the proposal and an outline to open@opensource.com for review?

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sfsdf | October 4, 2017
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Thanks for the interest. I can't take you up on the offer. I lack knowledge about the software areas that these patents impact. I don't know enough about the situation to write compelling, full, all issues explaining articles about how the patents impact the software development landscape.
I do know that MP3 encoders/decoders can now be freely made available in free and open source software. OpenGL now includes Anisotropic Filtering as an ARB and core thus required extension and same for the polygon offset clamp functionality in the OpenGL 4.6 release. I do know that with the expiration of the S3TC patent, the Mesa3D drivers can now have it enabled by default and implement hardware acceleration. Although the S3TC wikipedia page mentions a continuation patent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Texture_Compression Don't know what to make of it with work to enable S3TC in Mesa drivers by default underway.

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