Announcements

Brief items

Announcing Google Summer of Code 2013

Google Summer of Code will return for its ninth year. According to the schedule mentoring organizations will need to submit applications from March 18-29, 2013. The student application period opens April 22 and closes May 3.

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OIN Exceeds 500th Licensee Milestone

Open Invention Network (OIN) has announced that the OIN licensee community exceeds 500 licensees. "While numerous defensive patent management entities have formed to protect small groups of companies, OIN is distinguished as a resource available to all of the technology industry. Established companies like Cisco, HP and Google as well as emerging entities like Twitter and Facebook benefit from leverage against patent aggression and access to OIN's shared IP resources. OIN's patents cover areas that include big data and analytics, cloud computing, smart mobile devices and mobile broadband, and social networking, among others."

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Articles of interest

FSFE: I love Free Software Day

The Free Software Foundation Europe is asking free software users to show their appreciation on February 14, "I love Free Software Day". ""Every day, we use Free Software and often take it for granted. We write bug reports, tell others how they should improve their software, or ask them for new features - and often we are not shy about criticising. So, to let the people in Free Software receive a positive feedback at least once a year, there is the 'I love Free Software day'." says Matthias Kirschner, who initiated the FSFE's#ilovefs campaign."

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Garrett: The Samsung laptop issue is not fixed

Matthew Garrett has posted a brief warning for Samsung laptop owners on his blog: "The recent Linux kernel commits avoid one mechanism by which Samsung laptops can be bricked, but the information we now have indicates that there are other ways of triggering this. It also seems likely that it's possible for a userspace application to cause the same problem under Windows. We're still trying to figure out the full details, but until then you're safest ensuring that you're using BIOS mode on Samsung laptops no matter which operating system you're running."

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Calls for Presentations

Akademy 2013 Call for Presentations

The call for presentations and open registration have been announced for Akademy 2013. The conference will take place July 13-19 in Bilbao, Spain. The CfP closes March 15.

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PyCon Singapore 2013 Call for Proposals

The call for proposals for PyCon Singapore is open until April 1. PyCon SG will take place June 13-15 in Singapore.

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Upcoming Events

Events: February 14, 2013 to April 15, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
February 15 February 17	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2013 Winter Edition	Minsk, Belarus
February 18 February 19	Android Builders Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
February 20 February 22	Embedded Linux Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
February 22 February 24	Mini DebConf at FOSSMeet 2013	Calicut, India
February 22 February 24	FOSSMeet 2013	Calicut, India
February 22 February 24	Southern California Linux Expo	Los Angeles, CA, USA
February 23 February 24	DevConf.cz 2013	Brno, Czech Republic
February 25 March 1	ConFoo	Montreal, Canada
February 26 February 28	ApacheCon NA 2013	Portland, Oregon, USA
February 26 February 28	O’Reilly Strata Conference	Santa Clara, CA, USA
February 26 March 1	GUUG Spring Conference 2013	Frankfurt, Germany
March 4 March 8	LCA13: Linaro Connect Asia	Hong Kong, China
March 6 March 8	Magnolia Amplify 2013	Miami, FL, USA
March 9 March 10	Open Source Days 2013	Copenhagen, DK
March 13 March 21	PyCon 2013	Santa Clara, CA, US
March 15 March 16	Open Source Conference	Szczecin, Poland
March 15 March 17	German Perl Workshop	Berlin, Germany
March 16 March 17	Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2013	Chemnitz, Germany
March 19 March 21	FLOSS UK Large Installation Systems Administration	Newcastle-upon-Tyne , UK
March 20 March 22	Open Source Think Tank	Calistoga, CA, USA
March 23	Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2013	Augsburg, Germany
March 23 March 24	LibrePlanet 2013: Commit Change	Cambridge, MA, USA
March 25	Ignite LocationTech Boston	Boston, MA, USA
March 30	Emacsconf	London, UK
March 30	NYC Open Tech Conference	Queens, NY, USA
April 1 April 5	Scientific Software Engineering Conference	Boulder, CO, USA
April 4 April 5	Distro Recipes	Paris, France
April 4 April 7	OsmoDevCon 2013	Berlin, Germany
April 6 April 7	international Openmobility conference 2013	Bratislava, Slovakia
April 8	The CentOS Dojo 2013	Antwerp, Belgium
April 8 April 9	Write The Docs	Portland, OR, USA
April 10 April 13	Libre Graphics Meeting	Madrid, Spain
April 10 April 13	Evergreen ILS 2013	Vancouver, Canada
April 14	OpenShift Origin Community Day	Portland, OR, USA

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