Announcements
Brief items
The Document Foundation joins the OASIS Consortium
The Document Foundation has joined the Organisation for the Advancement of Standards in Information Society (OASIS) consortium. "The Document Foundation will primarily focus on the ODF Technical Committees, to represent the largest independent free software community focused on the development and the promotion of "the best free office suite" based on the Open Document Format. LibreOffice is available in over 100 native language versions, more than twice than any comparable software, and is therefore the most sophisticated, feature rich, complete and widespread ODF implementation worldwide."
Articles of interest
FSFE Newsletter - September 2012
The Free Software Foundation Europe Newsletter covers the Free Your Android campaign, Open Standards, and several other topics.Free Software Supporter -- Issue 53, August 2012
The August edition of the Free Software Foundation's newsletter covers freedom zero (the freedom to run the program as you wish, in order to do what you wish), a DRM-free label, updating the Free Software Directory, and several other topics.
Calls for Presentations
ConFoo 2013, Montreal - Call for speakers
ConFoo 2013 will take place February 25-March 1 in Montreal, Canada. The call for speakers closes September 23. "The call for papers is public, meaning that all proposals get published on the website for others to vote and comment on. This approach allows the organizers to pick subjects that have most interest in the community. The comments are only visible to speakers and organizers to avoid influencing the votes."
Upcoming Events
Linux Users' Group of Davis, September 17: "Raik distributed NoSQL database"
The Linux Users' Group of Davis will meet on September 17. The featured presentation is "Riak distributed NoSQL database" by Daniel Reverri.LPI Hosts Exam Labs at Ohio LinuxFest.
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) will offer all LPIC exams at the Ohio LinuxFest 2012 in Columbus, Ohio on September 30. "LPI will also present on the subject of "Catching the Wave of Open Source Careers" during OLF's Career Track."
LCA2013 miniconfs announced
linux.conf.au (January 28-February 2, 2012 in Canberra) has announced another set of miniconferences: Systems Administration, Advances in Linux Security and Arduino.Events: September 7, 2012 to November 6, 2012
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 3 September 8 |
DjangoCon US | Washington, DC, USA |
| September 8 September 9 |
Hardening Server Indonesia Linux Conference 2012 | Malang, Indonesia |
| September 10 September 13 |
International Conference on Open Source Systems | Hammamet, Tunisia |
| September 14 September 16 |
Debian Bug Squashing Party | Berlin, Germany |
| September 14 September 21 |
Debian FTPMaster sprint | Fulda, Germany |
| September 14 September 16 |
KPLI Meeting Indonesia Linux Conference 2012 | Malang, Indonesia |
| September 15 September 16 |
Bitcoin Conference | London, UK |
| September 15 September 16 |
PyTexas 2012 | College Station, TX, USA |
| September 17 September 19 |
Postgres Open | Chicago, IL, USA |
| September 17 September 20 |
SNIA Storage Developers' Conference | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| September 18 September 21 |
SUSECon | Orlando, Florida, US |
| September 19 September 20 |
Automotive Linux Summit 2012 | Gaydon/Warwickshire, UK |
| September 19 September 21 |
2012 X.Org Developer Conference | Nürnberg, Germany |
| September 21 | Kernel Recipes | Paris, France |
| September 21 September 23 |
openSUSE Summit | Orlando, FL, USA |
| September 24 September 25 |
OpenCms Days | Cologne, Germany |
| September 24 September 27 |
GNU Radio Conference | Atlanta, USA |
| September 27 September 29 |
YAPC::Asia | Tokyo, Japan |
| September 27 September 28 |
PuppetConf | San Francisco, US |
| September 28 September 30 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2012 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| September 28 September 30 |
PyCon India 2012 | Bengaluru, India |
| September 28 October 1 |
PyCon UK 2012 | Coventry, West Midlands, UK |
| September 28 | LPI Forum | Warsaw, Poland |
| October 2 October 4 |
Velocity Europe | London, England |
| October 4 October 5 |
PyCon South Africa 2012 | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 5 October 6 |
T3CON12 | Stuttgart, Germany |
| October 6 October 8 |
GNOME Boston Summit 2012 | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| October 11 October 12 |
Korea Linux Forum 2012 | Seoul, South Korea |
| October 12 October 13 |
Open Source Developer's Conference / France | Paris, France |
| October 13 October 14 |
Debian BSP in Alcester (Warwickshire, UK) | Alcester, Warwickshire, UK |
| October 13 October 14 |
PyCon Ireland 2012 | Dublin, Ireland |
| October 13 October 15 |
FUDCon:Paris 2012 | Paris, France |
| October 13 | 2012 Columbus Code Camp | Columbus, OH, USA |
| October 13 October 14 |
Debian Bug Squashing Party in Utrecht | Utrecht, Netherlands |
| October 15 October 18 |
OpenStack Summit | San Diego, CA, USA |
| October 15 October 18 |
Linux Driver Verification Workshop | Amirandes,Heraklion, Crete |
| October 17 October 19 |
LibreOffice Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| October 17 October 19 |
MonkeySpace | Boston, MA, USA |
| October 18 October 20 |
14th Real Time Linux Workshop | Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
| October 20 October 21 |
PyCon Ukraine 2012 | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| October 20 October 21 |
Gentoo miniconf | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 20 October 21 |
PyCarolinas 2012 | Chapel Hill, NC, USA |
| October 20 October 23 |
openSUSE Conference 2012 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 20 October 21 |
LinuxDays | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 22 October 23 |
PyCon Finland 2012 | Espoo, Finland |
| October 23 October 25 |
Hack.lu | Dommeldange, Luxembourg |
| October 23 October 26 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 25 October 26 |
Droidcon London | London, UK |
| October 26 October 27 |
Firebird Conference 2012 | Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| October 26 October 28 |
PyData NYC 2012 | New York City, NY, USA |
| October 27 | Central PA Open Source Conference | Harrisburg, PA, USA |
| October 27 October 28 |
Technical Dutch Open Source Event | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| October 27 | pyArkansas 2012 | Conway, AR, USA |
| October 27 | Linux Day 2012 | Hundreds of cities, Italy |
| October 29 November 3 |
PyCon DE 2012 | Leipzig, Germany |
| October 29 November 2 |
Linaro Connect | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| October 29 November 1 |
Ubuntu Developer Summit - R | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| October 30 | Ubuntu Enterprise Summit | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| November 3 November 4 |
OpenFest 2012 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 3 November 4 |
MeetBSD California 2012 | Sunnyvale, California, USA |
| November 5 November 7 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Barcelona, Spain |
| November 5 November 7 |
LinuxCon Europe | Barcelona, Spain |
| November 5 November 9 |
Apache OpenOffice Conference-Within-a-Conference | Sinsheim, Germany |
| November 5 November 8 |
ApacheCon Europe 2012 | Sinsheim, Germany |
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