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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)	Event	Location
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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