Announcements

Brief items

MariaDB Foundation announced

MariaDB developers Michael 'Monty' Widenius, David Axmark, and Allan Larsson have announced the MariaDB Foundation. "In its mission statement, the MariaDB Foundation exists to improve database technology, including standards implementation, interoperability with other databases, and building bridges to other types of database such as transactional and NoSQL. To deliver this the Foundation provides technical work in reviewing, merging, testing, and releasing the MariaDB product suite. The Foundation also provides infrastructure for the MariaDB project and the user and developer communities." (Thanks to Dan Shearer)

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2012 LinuxCon Europe videos

Some videos from the 2012 LinuxCon in Barcelona have been posted. (Thanks to Scott Dowdle)

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Articles of interest

Free Software Supporter -- Issue 56, November 2012

Free Software Foundation's monthly newsletter is out, with a look at Cyber Monday, Amazon books, MediaGoblin, software patents, VLC licensed, and much more.

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FSFE Newsletter - December 2012

The Free Software Foundation Europe's monthly newsletter covers Free Software in the UK, secure boot, Free Software in Germany, and several other topics.

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Calls for Presentations

European Lisp Symposium 2013: Call for Papers

The European Lisp Symposium will take place June 1-4, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The call for papers deadline is March 1. "The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate."

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Upcoming Events

Bdale Garbee to keynote LCA

linux.conf.au has announced that Bdale Garbee will be a keynote speaker at the 2013 conference next January. "Bdale Garbee is best known for his pioneering work with Debian, and for open source community-building efforts with the Linux Foundation, Freedombox, and Software in the Public Interest (SPI). He is a regular presence at linux.conf.au, wowing many recent conference-goers with his rocketry exploits and other hobby activities turned into open source projects."

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Events: December 6, 2012 to February 4, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
January 18 January 19	Columbus Python Workshop	Columbus, OH, USA
January 18 January 20	FUDCon:Lawrence 2013	Lawrence, Kansas, USA
January 20	Berlin Open Source Meetup	Berlin, Germany
January 28 February 2	Linux.conf.au 2013	Canberra, Australia
February 2 February 3	Free and Open Source software Developers' European Meeting	Brussels, Belgium

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