Brief items
The Linux Foundation has
announced
the 3rd annual T-shirt design contest. "
This year’s theme is “Inspired by Linux.” The deadline for submissions is June 8, 2012 at 11:55 p.m. PT."
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New Books
No Starch Press has released "The Artist's Guide to GIMP, 2nd Edition" by Michael J. Hammel.
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Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Rails Recipes, Rails 3 Edition" by Chad Fowler.
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Pragmatic Bookshelf has release "The Rails View" by Bruce Williams and John Athayde.
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Calls for Presentations
There will be a tracing micro-conference taking place during LinuxCon, San
Diego (August 28-30, 2012). "
Our intent is to gather people involved
in development and users of tracing tools and trace analysis tools to allow
discussing the latest developments, allow users to express their needs, and
generally ensure that developers and end users understand each
other." The call for presentations ends soon.
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Hack.lu takes place October 23-25, 2012 in the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.
The call for papers deadline in July 15.
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The PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012 takes place October 23-26, 2012 in
Prague, Czech Republic. The call for papers deadline is August 15.
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PyCon DE will be held in Leipzig Germany, October 29-November 3.
"
The conference language will be German. However, talks in English by
non-native German speakers will be accepted." A
call for tutorials is also out.
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The
Exceptionally Hard & Soft Meeting
"
exploring the frontiers of open source and DIY" will take
place December 28-30, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. The
call for
presentations deadline is November 21.
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Upcoming Events
Events: May 17, 2012 to July 16, 2012
The following event listing is taken from the
LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|
May 13
May 18 |
C++ Now! |
Aspen, CO, USA |
May 17
May 18 |
PostgreSQL Conference for Users and Developers |
Ottawa, Canada |
May 22
May 24 |
Military Open Source Software - Atlantic Coast |
Charleston, SC, USA |
May 23
May 25 |
Croatian Linux Users' Convention |
Zagreb, Croatia |
May 23
May 26 |
LinuxTag |
Berlin, Germany |
May 25
May 26 |
Flossie 2012 |
London, UK |
May 28
June 1 |
Linaro Connect Q2.12 |
Gold Coast, Hong Kong |
May 29
May 30 |
International conference NoSQL matters 2012 |
Cologne, Germany |
June 1
June 3 |
Wikipedia & MediaWiki hackathon & workshops |
Berlin, Germany |
June 6
June 8 |
LinuxCon Japan |
Yokohama, Japan |
June 6
June 10 |
Taiwan Mini DebConf 2012 |
Hualien, Taiwan |
June 7
June 10 |
Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2012 |
Grodno, Belarus |
June 8
June 10 |
SouthEast LinuxFest |
Charlotte, NC, USA |
June 9
June 10 |
GNOME.Asia |
Hong Kong, China |
June 11
June 15 |
YAPC North America |
Madison, Wisconsin, USA |
June 11
June 16 |
Programming Language Design and Implementation |
Beijing, China |
| June 12 |
USENIX Cyberlaw '12: 2012 USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cyberlaw |
Boston, USA |
| June 12 |
WiAC '12: 2012 USENIX Women in Advanced Computing Summit |
Boston, USA |
| June 12 |
UCMS '12: 2012 USENIX Configuration Management Workshop: Virtualization, the Cloud, and Scale |
Boston, USA |
June 12
June 13 |
HotCloud '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing |
Boston, USA |
| June 13 |
WebApps '12: 3rd USENIX Conference on Web Application Development |
Boston, USA |
June 13
June 14 |
HotStorage '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems |
Boston, MA, USA |
June 13
June 15 |
2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference |
Boston, MA, USA |
June 14
June 15 |
TaPP '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance |
Boston, MA, USA |
June 14
June 17 |
FUDCon LATAM 2012 Margarita |
Margarita, Venezuela |
| June 15 |
NSDR '12: 6th USENIX/ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions |
Boston, MA, USA |
June 15
June 16 |
Nordic Ruby |
Stockholm, Sweden |
June 15
June 16 |
Devaamo summit |
Tampere, Finland |
| June 16 |
Debrpm Linux Packaging Workshop in the Netherlands |
The Hague, Netherlands |
June 19
June 21 |
Solutions Linux Open Source |
Paris, France |
June 20
June 21 |
Open Source Summit (NASA, State Dept, VA) |
College Park, MD, USA |
June 26
June 29 |
Open Source Bridge: The conference for open source citizens |
Portland, Oregon, USA |
June 26
July 2 |
GNOME & Mono Festival of Love 2012 |
Boston, MA, USA |
June 30
July 1 |
Quack And Hack 2012 |
Paoli, PA, USA |
June 30
July 6 |
Akademy (KDE conference) 2012 |
Tallinn, Estonia |
July 1
July 7 |
DebConf 2012 |
Managua, Nicaragua |
July 2
July 8 |
EuroPython 2012 |
Florence, Italy |
| July 5 |
London Lua user group |
London, UK |
July 6
July 8 |
3. Braunschweiger Atari & Amiga Meeting |
Braunschweig, Germany |
July 7
July 8 |
10th European Tcl/Tk User Meeting |
Munich, Germany |
July 7
July 12 |
Libre Software Meeting / Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre |
Geneva, Switzerland |
July 8
July 14 |
DebConf12 |
Managua, Nicaragua |
July 9
July 11 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2012 |
Prague, Czech Republic |
July 10
July 11 |
AdaCamp Washington, DC |
Washington, DC, USA |
July 10
July 15 |
Wikimania |
Washington, DC, USA |
| July 11 |
PuppetCamp Geneva @RMLL/LSM |
Geneva, Switzerland |
July 11
July 13 |
Linux Symposium |
Ottawa, Canada |
July 14
July 15 |
Community Leadership Summit 2012 |
Portland, OR, USA |
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