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Cyanogenmod.com falls off the net

Anybody trying to get at cyanogenmod.com at the moment is likely to be wondering what is wrong. According to this blog post, the problem is a dispute with a (former) member of the CyanogenMod team. "Today, it happened: all of our records were deleted, and cyanogenmod.com is slowly expiring out of the Internet and being replaced by blank pages and non-existing sites. @cyanogenmod.com e-mail is now being directed to a mailserver completely out of our control, too." The project can still be reached at cyanogenmod.org while this is playing out.

Update: This situation has now been resolved, but the project plans to remain with the .org address as its home in the future.

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FSFE: Finnish activist, Danish hacker share Nordic Free Software Award 2012

The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced that Finnish Free Software activist Otto Kekäläinen and Danish hacker Ole Tange are the recipients of the 2012 Nordic Free Software Award.

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Survey: Newcomer experience and contributor behavior

Kevin Carillo, a PhD student at the School of Information Management of Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, is conducting a survey on newcomer experiences. From Carillo's invitation: "If you have joined one of the following FOSS communities within the last 3 years (after January 2010): Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, or OpenSUSE, I would like to invite you to complete an online survey. I am interested in hearing from people who are either technical or non-technical contributors, and who have had either positive or negative newcomer experiences."

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Calls for Presentations

Fosdem 2013 - Crossdesktop devroom call for talks

FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting) 2013 will be held in Brussels, Belgium on February 2-3, 2013. There will be a CrossDesktop DevRoom at FOSDEM, which will host Desktop-related talks. The call for desktop-related talks is December 14, 2012. "Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: Enlightenment, Gnome, KDE, Unity, XFCE, Windows, Mac OS X, general desktop matters, applications that enhance desktops and web (when related to desktop). Talks can be very specific, such as developing mobile applications with Qt Quick; or as general as predictions for the fusion of Desktop and web in 5 years time. Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome."

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Upcoming Events

Events: November 15, 2012 to January 14, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
November 10 November 16	SC12	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
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
December 27 December 29	SciPy India 2012	IIT Bombay, India
December 27 December 30	29th Chaos Communication Congress	Hamburg, Germany
December 28 December 30	Exceptionally Hard & Soft Meeting 2012	Berlin, Germany

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

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