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FSF: Nominations open for the 15th Annual Free Software Awards

The Free Software Foundation has opened nominations for its 15th annual Free Software Awards. There are two awards, the Award for the Advancement of Free Software (to an individual), and Award for Projects of Social Benefit (to a project). Nominations will be accepted through November 15.

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FSFE: Fellowship Interview with Hugo Roy

The Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe talks with Hugo Roy about his work with FSFE. "At the moment I’m mainly working on setting up our Free Your Android campaign in France, with phone liberation workshops. I really believe in this project: I think mobile devices are becoming more and more important, and having control over them, and more importantly over the services that we run them with, is becoming more important too."

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Calls for Presentations

Call for Papers: The 8th CISSE International Conference

The Eighth International Joint Conferences on Computer, Information, and Systems Sciences, and Engineering (CISSE 2012) will take place December 7-9, 2012. The online conferences will be conducted in real-time via the internet. The call for papers closes October 29.

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LAC 2013: the Linux Audio Conference - Call for Participation

The Linux Audio Conference (LAC) will take place May 9-12, 2013 in Graz, Austria. The submission deadline is February 4. "We invite submissions of papers addressing all areas of audio processing and media creation based on Linux. Papers can focus on technical, artistic and scientific issues and should target developers or users. In our call for music, we are looking for works that have been produced or composed entirely/mostly using Linux."

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Upcoming Events

Events: October 25, 2012 to December 24, 2012

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)EventLocation
October 23
October 25
Hack.lu Dommeldange, Luxembourg
October 23
October 26
PostgreSQL Conference Europe Prague, Czech Republic
October 25
October 26
Droidcon London London, UK
October 26
October 27
Firebird Conference 2012 Luxembourg, Luxembourg
October 26
October 28
PyData NYC 2012 New York City, NY, USA
October 27 pyArkansas 2012 Conway, AR, USA
October 27 Central PA Open Source Conference Harrisburg, PA, USA
October 27 Linux Day 2012 Hundreds of cities, Italy
October 27
October 28
Technical Dutch Open Source Event Eindhoven, Netherlands
October 29
November 1
Ubuntu Developer Summit - R Copenhagen, Denmark
October 29
November 2
Linaro Connect Copenhagen, Denmark
October 29
November 3
PyCon DE 2012 Leipzig, Germany
October 30 Ubuntu Enterprise Summit Copenhagen, Denmark
November 3
November 4
MeetBSD California 2012 Sunnyvale, California, USA
November 3
November 4
OpenFest 2012 Sofia, Bulgaria
November 5
November 7
LinuxCon Europe Barcelona, Spain
November 5
November 7
Embedded Linux Conference Europe Barcelona, Spain
November 5
November 8
ApacheCon Europe 2012 Sinsheim, Germany
November 5
November 9
Apache OpenOffice Conference-Within-a-Conference Sinsheim, Germany
November 7
November 8
LLVM Developers' Meeting San Jose, CA, USA
November 7
November 9
KVM Forum and oVirt Workshop Europe 2012 Barcelona, Spain
November 8 NLUUG Fall Conference 2012 ReeHorst in Ede, Netherlands
November 9
November 11
Python Conference - Canada Toronto, ON, Canada
November 9
November 11
Mozilla Festival London, England
November 9
November 11
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit Göteborg, Sweden
November 10
November 16
SC12 Salt Lake City, UT, USA
November 12
November 14
Qt Developers Days Berlin, Germany
November 12
November 16
19th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference Chicago, IL, USA
November 12
November 17
PyCon Argentina 2012 Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 16 PyHPC 2012 Salt Lake City, UT, USA
November 16
November 19
Linux Color Management Hackfest 2012 Brno, Czech Republic
November 20
November 24
8th Brazilian Python Conference Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 24 London Perl Workshop 2012 London, UK
November 24
November 25
Mini Debian Conference in Paris Paris, France
November 26
November 28
Computer Art Congress 3 Paris, France
November 29
November 30
Lua Workshop 2012 Reston, VA, USA
November 29
December 1
FOSS.IN/2012 Bangalore, India
November 30
December 2
Open Hard- and Software Workshop 2012 Garching bei München, Germany
November 30
December 2
CloudStack Collaboration Conference Las Vegas, NV, USA
December 1
December 2
Konferensi BlankOn #4 Bogor, Indonesia
December 2 Foswiki Association General Assembly online and Dublin, Ireland
December 5 4th UK Manycore Computing Conference Bristol, UK
December 5
December 7
Qt Developers Days 2012 North America Santa Clara, CA, USA
December 5
December 7
Open Source Developers Conference Sydney 2012 Sydney, Australia
December 7
December 9
CISSE 12 Everywhere, Internet
December 9
December 14
26th Large Installation System Administration Conference San Diego, CA, USA

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