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Software Freedom Conservancy publishes annual report and public filings

The Software Freedom Conservancy, which serves as the legal entity for 29 free software projects, has published its Fiscal Year 2011 annual report as well as its Federal and New York state public filings. The report includes statistics for number-crunchers (such as US $1,768,095 raised for member projects and 1,260 contributing developers), plus news highlights from a number of the member projects and associated events.

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Calls for Presentations

PyCon Australia 2013 Call for Proposals

PyCon Australia will take place July 5-7 in Hobart, Tasmania. The call for proposals will be open until April 5. "We’re looking for proposals for presentations and tutorials on any aspect of Python programming, at all skill levels from novice to advanced. Presentation subjects may range from reports on open source, academic or commercial projects; or even tutorials and case studies. If a presentation is interesting and useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program."

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2013 Android Microconference at Linux Plumbers: Call for Participation

There will be an Android microconference at the Linux Plumbers conference (LPC). LPC will take place September 18-20 in New Orleans, Louisiana. "I'd like to invite people to add topics to the Wiki. Please include a description of the topic you'd like to discuss. In general, topics that present work to close the gap between the mainstream kernel and the Android kernel are preferred as well as topics for future mechanisms that may be needed by Android and other mobile usecases. In addition, topics related to successful out-of-tree patch maintenance and challenges in commercialization would also be useful."

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Upcoming Events

Distro Recipes

Distro Recipes is a multi-distribution conference that will take place April 4-5, 2013, in Paris, France. "Two days of lectures, lighting talks and a round table dedicated to Linux distributions and their development process" Registration is free but limited to 100 people.

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Events: March 7, 2013 to May 6, 2013

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

Date(s)EventLocation
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
April 15
April 17
Open Networking Summit Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 15
April 17
LF Collaboration Summit San Francisco, CA, USA
April 15
April 18
OpenStack Summit Portland, OR, USA
April 16
April 18
Lustre User Group 13 San Diego, USA
April 17
April 18
Open Source Data Center Conference Nuremberg, Germany
April 17
April 19
IPv6 Summit Denver, CO, USA
April 18
April 19
Linux Storage, Filesystem and MM Summit San Francisco, CA, USA
April 19 Puppet Camp Nürnberg, Germany
April 22
April 25
Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 26 MySQL® & Cloud Database Solutions Day Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 27
April 28
LinuxFest Northwest Bellingham, WA, USA
April 27
April 28
WordCamp Melbourne 2013 Melbourne, Australia
April 29
April 30
Open Source Business Conference San Francisco, CA, USA
April 29
April 30
2013 European LLVM Conference Paris, France
May 1
May 3
DConf 2013 Menlo Park, CA, USA

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