Simple Invoices Development

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Hello All,

For those of you that don't know me I am Matt West, one of the developers on SimpleInvoices. I have been asked to take care of this project for the next few months and I'm pretty excited about working with all the developers (and users) to help keep Simple Invoices rocking.

I am currently trying to get a feel for how many people are interested in working on Simple Invoices and so it would be really great if you could head over to the developer discuss group and introduce yourself (if you haven't already). Please feel free to post any ideas that you might have over on the dev group too.

The developer group can be found at: http://dev.simpleinvoices.org

If you have any questions you can reach me on twitter (@MattAntWest).

– Matt


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All GSoC Students Passed Midterm Evaluation

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We are glad to announce that all of our Google Summer of Code students have passed midterm evaluation. All the code is being maintained in respective Git branches of GEGL and GIMP.

As a reminder, this year Google Summer of Code is bringing us two new tools, Seamless Clone and Warp Transform, several GEGL operations, support for OpenCL based rendering in GEGL, and a new widget for size entry.

We also reviewed projected date of GIMP 2.8 release, and it still looks like end of 2011. This version is going to introduce dramatic user interface improvements as well as a multitude of new features including new Cage Transform tool and much more sophisticated painting options.

Two New Books on GIMP Published

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Two new books on GIMP have been published recently. “GIMP 2.6 Cookbook”, in English, by Juan Manuel Ferreyra is a collection of straightforward instructions that will help you accomplishing typical design and photography related tasks. This book is packed with answers to get you preparing great images with the GIMP immediately.

“GIMP”, in French, by Olivier Lecarme and Karine Delvare is, on the contrary, a complete user guide and a reference to GIMP features. The book explains basics of digital imaging, retouching photos, creating animations, preparing pictures for publishing on the Web etc.

Simple $0 cost way to help SimpleInvoices.org

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Hi Guys

Here at SimpleInvoices.org we use dropbox on our vps server to manage all the backups of our website, forum, blog, databases, wiki, subversion etc.. and are in need of space upgrade to keep things all happy

To help us out if you could sign-up for a free dropbox.com account – using this link

http://db.tt/8yS2tgb

install the app, sign-in and you'll have greatly helped SImpleInvoices.org

thats it 🙂 thanks

How does this help? I have a edu account with dropbox and each referral signup gets us 500MB extra backup space (upto 16GB, @dropbox would be nice this limit could be increased to)

If you have any issues or quries please post in our forum:

Cheers

Justin

http://db.tt/8yS2tgb


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Google fined $5 million in Linux patent case

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Reproduced from  Yahoo! News

In a move that could have wide repercussions in the technology industry, A Texas jury has fined technology giant Google $5 million for infringing on a patent held by Bedrock Computer. However, in this case it’s not the amount of money involved—Google easily has $5 million to spare—but the nature of the patent: Bedrock’s U.S. patent 5,893,120 covers a technology that’s related to the Linux kernel. In theory, if the patent and infringement ruling holds up, Bedrock Computing require license fees and royalties from any company using Linux or operating systems derived from Linux—and that includes Google’s Android. Some companies have apparently already decided to pay for licenses rather than contest the issue, and the jury verdict strengthens Bedrock’s hand.

In addition to Google, Bedrock Computing’s initial suit also named companies like Yahoo, Amazon.com, PayPal, AOL, Match.com, and others as defendants. The portion of the case against Google went to court first, presumably because Google operates one of the world’s largest set of Linux-based services on the planet—if not the largest. The potential significance of the case was underlined by the involvement of Red Hat, which filed a declaratory judgement suit with the same court in an effort to defend its Red Hat Enterprise customers by having the patent ruled invalid.

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