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Open Source guru Atul Chitnis, 51, no more (CIOL)

CIOL reports that Atul Chitnis has passed away. "His was a name that was synonymous with open source. He championed its cause for a major part of his life. Finally, his fruitful existence, touching millions of lives, was to be stolen away by cancer." Your editor had a number of encounters with Atul over the years, including one visit to FOSS.in; he will be much missed.

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Articles of interest

Free Software Supporter - Issue 62, May 2013

The Free Software Foundation's newsletter for May 2013 is available. Topics include freeing JavaScript; SFC fund raising for accounting software; Google abandons XMPP; OPW, GSoC and MediaGoblin; GNU/Linux flag at the top of the Americas; GNU/Linux chosen by the ISS; GNU Hackers Meeting 2013; DRM; and much more.

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New Books

GIMP 2.8 for Photographers: New From Rocky Nook

Rocky Nook has released "GIMP 2.8 for Photographers" by Klaus Goelker.

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Calls for Presentations

3rd Call For Papers, 20th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference 2013

The Tcl/Tk conference will take place September 23-27, in New Orleans, Louisiana. The proposal deadline has been extended until July 6. "The program committee is asking for papers and presentation proposals from anyone using or developing with Tcl/Tk (and extensions)."

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Upcoming Events

Events: June 6, 2013 to August 5, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
June 6 June 9	Nordic Ruby	Stockholm, Sweden
June 7 June 8	CloudConf	Paris, France
June 7 June 9	SouthEast LinuxFest	Charlotte, NC, USA
June 8 June 9	AdaCamp	San Francisco, CA, USA
June 9	OpenShift Origin Community Day	Boston, MA, USA
June 10 June 14	Red Hat Summit 2013	Boston, MA, USA
June 13 June 15	PyCon Singapore 2013	Singapore, Republic of Singapor
June 17 June 18	Droidcon Paris	Paris, France
June 18 June 20	Velocity Conference	Santa Clara, CA, USA
June 18 June 21	Open Source Bridge: The conference for open source citizens	Portland, Oregon, USA
June 20 June 21	7th Conferenza Italiana sul Software Libero	Como, Italy
June 22 June 23	RubyConf India	Pune, India
June 26 June 28	USENIX Annual Technical Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
June 27 June 30	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2013	Grodno, Belarus
June 29 July 3	Workshop on Essential Abstractions in GCC, 2013	Bombay, India
July 1 July 5	Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications	Montpellier, France
July 1 July 7	EuroPython 2013	Florence, Italy
July 2 July 4	OSSConf 2013	Žilina, Slovakia
July 3 July 6	FISL 14	Porto Alegre, Brazil
July 5 July 7	PyCon Australia 2013	Hobart, Tasmania
July 6 July 11	Libre Software Meeting	Brussels, Belgium
July 8 July 12	Linaro Connect Europe 2013	Dublin, Ireland
July 12	PGDay UK 2013	near Milton Keynes, England, UK
July 12 July 14	5th Encuentro Centroamerica de Software Libre	San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize
July 12 July 14	GNU Tools Cauldron 2013	Mountain View, CA, USA
July 13 July 19	Akademy 2013	Bilbao, Spain
July 15 July 16	QtCS 2013	Bilbao, Spain
July 18 July 22	openSUSE Conference 2013	Thessaloniki, Greece
July 22 July 26	OSCON 2013	Portland, OR, USA
July 27	OpenShift Origin Community Day	Mountain View, CA, USA
July 27 July 28	PyOhio 2013	Columbus, OH, USA
July 31 August 4	OHM2013: Observe Hack Make	Geestmerambacht, the Netherlands
August 1 August 8	GUADEC 2013	Brno, Czech Republic
August 3 August 4	COSCUP 2013	Taipei, Taiwan

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