Ubuntu gets GSA approval. Abiquo and OpenERP get funding. And more.

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# The GSA approved Autonomic Resources to offer Canonical’s Ubuntu and Landscape to government customers.

# OpenERP raised €3m from investors including Sofinnova Partners.

# Abiquo closed a €1.5m first round of institutional funding and hired new CEO.

# Twitter detailed its use of, and contribution to, open source projects.

# Mark Radcliffe discussed the Jacobsen vs Katzer settlement and its importance for the FOSS community, as did Andy Updegrove.

# An interview with Eliot Horowitz – CTO of 10gen/MongoDB.

# ITPro published a perspective on the history of FreeBSD and Linux.

# OSS Watch published three documents on the important subject of Governance Models for open source projects.

# WANdisco announced that it is contributing resources to help deliver Subversion 1.7 this summer.

# The CodePlex Foundation announced its first non-Microsoft undertaking, the MVC Contrib project, reports InfoWorld.

# eWeek reported on Microsoft’s plans to discuss its use of and involvement with open source projects at OSBC.

# Canonical introduced the Ubuntu single sign on service.

# WSO2 introduced Cloud Identity, a service based on the open source WSO2 Identity Server.

# Carlo Daffara published “How to analyse an OSS business model” – parts one and two.

# Focus published “Open source, open world, open standards throughout the world”.