Brief items
The Free Software Foundation is encouraging users to avoid all Apple
products, in the interest of their own freedom and the freedom of those
around them. " We urge users to investigate ways to support the use
of mobile devices which do not restrict users' essential freedoms. Such
projects include Replicant, a free
software fork of Android, and F-Droid, an
app repository of exclusively free software for Android. People should
also let Tim Cook at Apple know how they feel."
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The Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign has compiled a
FAQ to address the most
common misconceptions regarding DRM.
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Articles of interest
BizBash talks with Linux Foundation conference organization maven Angela Brown about how she puts together events like LinuxCon. " At larger conferences, the foundation will often host a number of smaller related events for different communities within the schedule of the overall event. A smaller event might be a one-day seminar focused on a specific platform, or a hackathon related to a project. "It allows people to rally around a common goal or project they're working on," Brown says. "All of a sudden this 1,500-person conference becomes 100 people collaborating." The foundation might incorporate a lunch for women—often an underrepresented group in tech circles—to meet and network.
Likewise, for a party during LinuxCon this month, Brown chose the House of Blues, partly because it has a number of smaller rooms to break up the party into smaller groups of attendees, who will walk to the venue in their own Mardi Gras-style parade."
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Calls for Presentations
PyCon.DE will take place October
14-19 in Cologne, Germany. The event organizers are looking for people
working in projects related to Python to contribute and promote their project.
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CFP Deadlines: September 12, 2013 to November 11, 2013
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the
LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates |
Event | Location |
|---|
| 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 |
| October 4 |
November 15
November 17 |
openSUSE Summit 2013 |
Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA |
| November 1 |
January 6 |
Sysadmin Miniconf at Linux.conf.au 2014 |
Perth, Australia |
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Upcoming Events
The LibreOffice
Conference will take place September 25-27 in Milan, Italy. " Tracks will cover the Open Document Format (ODF); LibreOffice Development; Community Development; Best Practices for Deployments and Migrations; and Building a Business with LibreOffice. For the first time during a conference, there will be a chance of sitting together with LibreOffice developers to hack the code, or just discuss the next feature."
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The GNU Project will be celebrating its 30th anniversary September 27-29,
in Cambridge, Massachusetts. " GNU supporters all over the world are
planning their own celebrations, and we've listed them all on the 30th anniversary page. Events
are currently in the works in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Cox's Bazaar,
Bangladesh; Kitchener, Canada; Prague, Czech Republic; Paris, France;
and Tokyo, Japan."
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The linux.conf.au 2014 will take place January 6-10, 2014 in Perth, Western
Australia. An early list of confirmed speakers has been announced.
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Events: September 12, 2013 to November 11, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the
LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|
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 |
October 7
October 9 |
Qt Developer Days |
Berlin, Germany |
October 12
October 13 |
PyCon Ireland |
Dublin, Ireland |
October 14
October 19 |
PyCon.DE 2013 |
Cologne, Germany |
October 17
October 20 |
PyCon PL |
Szczyrk, Poland |
| October 19 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013 |
Hong Kong, China |
| October 19 |
Central PA Open Source Conference |
Lancaster, PA, USA |
| October 20 |
Enlightenment Developer Day 2013 |
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
October 21
October 23 |
Open Source Developers Conference |
Auckland, New Zealand |
October 21
October 23 |
KVM Forum |
Edinburgh, UK |
October 21
October 23 |
LinuxCon Europe 2013 |
Edinburgh, UK |
October 22
October 23 |
GStreamer Conference |
Edinburgh, UK |
October 22
October 24 |
Hack.lu 2013 |
Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| October 23 |
TracingSummit2013 |
Edinburgh, UK |
October 23
October 24 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference |
Nuremberg, Germany |
October 23
October 25 |
Linux Kernel Summit 2013 |
Edinburgh, UK |
October 24
October 25 |
Embedded LInux Conference Europe |
Edinburgh, UK |
October 24
October 25 |
Xen Project Developer Summit |
Edinburgh, UK |
October 24
October 25 |
Automotive Linux Summit Fall 2013 |
Edinburgh, UK |
October 25
October 27 |
vBSDcon 2013 |
Herndon, Virginia, USA |
October 25
October 27 |
Blender Conference 2013 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
October 26
October 27 |
PostgreSQL Conference China 2013 |
Hangzhou, China |
October 26
October 27 |
T-DOSE Conference 2013 |
Eindhoven, Netherlands |
October 28
October 31 |
15th Real Time Linux Workshop |
Lugano, Switzerland |
October 28
November 1 |
Linaro Connect USA 2013 |
Santa Clara, CA, USA |
October 29
November 1 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2013 |
Dublin, Ireland |
November 3
November 8 |
27th Large Installation System Administration Conference |
Washington DC, USA |
November 5
November 8 |
OpenStack Summit |
Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
November 6
November 7 |
2013 LLVM Developers' Meeting |
San Francisco, CA, USA |
| November 8 |
CentOS Dojo and Community Day |
Madrid, Spain |
| November 8 |
PGConf.DE 2013 |
Oberhausen, Germany |
November 8
November 10 |
FSCONS 2013 |
Göteborg, Sweden |
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