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Free Software Supporter, Issue 64, July 2013

Free Software Foundation's monthly newsletter for July is out. Topics include the FSF and other groups join EFF to sue NSA, fund raising for Replicant, updated DRM-free Guide, Windows 8: PRISM Edition, new interns, Netflix, an interview with Shiv Shankar Dayal of Kunjika, and more.

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FSFE Newsletter - August 2013

The August edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter covers a move by proprietary software companies to stifle competition, election software in Estonia and Norway, NSA leaks motivate Free Software activists, a call to stop surveillance, and several other topics.

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FSFE: Open Letter on Freedom and Internet Voting to Estonia's National Electoral Committee

The Free Software Foundation Europe has sent an open letter to Estonia's National Electoral Committee (NEC) regarding the country's Internet voting system. "Estonia has used Internet voting for general elections since 2005. Unfortunately, the system's technology remains proprietary. Local activists have recently managed to convince the NEC to release source code for some of the software under a non-free licence, but this licence does not permit distribution of derivative works or commercial use. These arbitrary restrictions on software developed with public funds hinder security research."

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Calls for Presentations

PyConZA 2013 - Call for Speakers

PyConZA will take place October 3-4 in Cape Town, South Africa. The call for speakers is open until September 1. "The presentation slots will be 30 minutes long, with an additional 10 minutes for discussion at the end. Shared sessions are also possible. The presentations will be in English."

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CFP Deadlines: August 8, 2013 to October 7, 2013

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

DeadlineEvent Dates EventLocation
August 15 August 22
August 25
GNU Hackers Meeting 2013 Paris, France
August 18 October 19 Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013 Hong Kong, China
August 19 September 20
September 22
PyCon UK 2013 Coventry, UK
August 21 October 23 TracingSummit2013 Edinburgh, UK
August 22 September 25
September 27
LibreOffice Conference 2013 Milan, Italy
August 30 October 24
October 25
Xen Project Developer Summit Edinburgh, UK
August 31 October 26
October 27
T-DOSE Conference 2013 Eindhoven, Netherlands
August 31 September 24
September 25
Kernel Recipes 2013 Paris, France
September 1 November 18
November 21
2013 Linux Symposium Ottawa, Canada
September 6 October 4
October 5
Open Source Developers Conference France Paris, France
September 15 November 8 PGConf.DE 2013 Oberhausen, Germany
September 15 November 15
November 16
Linux Informationstage Oldenburg Oldenburg, Germany
September 15 October 3
October 4
PyConZA 2013 Cape Town, South Africa
September 15 November 22
November 24
Python Conference Spain 2013 Madrid, Spain
September 15 April 9
April 17
PyCon 2014 Montreal, Canada
September 15 February 1
February 2
FOSDEM 2014 Brussels, Belgium
October 1 November 28 Puppet Camp Munich, Germany

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Upcoming Events

Robyn Bergeron to be a Keynote Speaker at Ohio LinuxFest 2013

Ohio LinuxFest has announced that Fedora Project Leader Robyn Bergeron will be a keynote speaker at the 2013 event, to be held September 13-15 in Columbus, Ohio.

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Linux Plumbers Conference

Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) will take place September 18-20 in New Orleans, Louisiana. There will be an opening plenary session after which attendees are invited to attend the LinuxCon keynotes. LPC is co-located with LinuxCon NA and the refereed track talks will be shared by the two events.

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19th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2013)

Registration is open for the 2013 Tcl/Tk Conference, to be held September 23-27 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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2013 LLVM Developers' Meeting

The LLVM Developers' Meeting will be held November 6-7 in San Francisco, CA. "This is a 1.5 day conference that serves as a forum for both developers and users of LLVM (and related projects) to meet, learn LLVM internals, learn how LLVM is used, and to exchange ideas about furthering development of LLVM and its potential applications."

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Events: August 8, 2013 to October 7, 2013

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

Date(s)EventLocation
August 1
August 8
GUADEC 2013 Brno, Czech Republic
August 6
August 8
Military Open Source Summit Charleston, SC, USA
August 7
August 11
Wikimania Hong Kong, China
August 9
August 11
XDA:DevCon 2013 Miami, FL, USA
August 9
August 12
Flock - Fedora Contributor Conference Charleston, SC, USA
August 9
August 13
PyCon Canada Toronto, Canada
August 11
August 18
DebConf13 Vaumarcus, Switzerland
August 12
August 14
YAPC::Europe 2013 “Future Perl” Kiev, Ukraine
August 16
August 18
PyTexas 2013 College Station, TX, USA
August 22
August 25
GNU Hackers Meeting 2013 Paris, France
August 23
August 24
Barcamp GR Grand Rapids, MI, USA
August 24
August 25
Free and Open Source Software Conference St.Augustin, Germany
August 30
September 1
Pycon India 2013 Bangalore, India
September 3
September 5
GanetiCon Athens, Greece
September 6
September 8
State Of The Map 2013 Birmingham, UK
September 6
September 8
Kiwi PyCon 2013 Auckland, New Zealand
September 10
September 11
Malaysia Open Source Conference 2013 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
September 12
September 14
SmartDevCon Katowice, Poland
September 13 CentOS Dojo and Community Day London, UK
September 16
September 18
CloudOpen New Orleans, LA, USA
September 16
September 18
LinuxCon North America New Orleans, LA, USA
September 18
September 20
Linux Plumbers Conference New Orleans, LA, USA
September 19
September 20
UEFI Plugfest New Orleans, LA, USA
September 19
September 20
Open Source Software for Business Prato, Italy
September 19
September 20
Linux Security Summit New Orleans, LA, USA
September 20
September 22
PyCon UK 2013 Coventry, UK
September 23
September 25
X Developer's Conference Portland, OR, USA
September 23
September 27
Tcl/Tk Conference New Orleans, LA, USA
September 24
September 25
Kernel Recipes 2013 Paris, France
September 24
September 26
OpenNebula Conf Berlin, Germany
September 25
September 27
LibreOffice Conference 2013 Milan, Italy
September 26
September 29
EuroBSDcon St Julian's area, Malta
September 27
September 29
GNU 30th anniversary Cambridge, MA, USA
September 30 CentOS Dojo and Community Day New Orleans, LA, USA
October 3
October 4
PyConZA 2013 Cape Town, South Africa
October 4
October 5
Open Source Developers Conference France Paris, France

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