Announcements

FSFE: Unitary patent threatens innovation in Europe

The European Parliament's Legal Affairs committee will be discussing a proposal for an EU-wide patent. The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) will be following the discussion which takes place September 17-18, 2012.

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Linux Scholarship Winners

The Linux Foundation has announced the winners of its 2012 Linux Training Scholarship Program. "More than 500 submissions were received during the second year of this program, which is more than double the number of submissions reviewed in 2011. The Linux Training Scholarship Program awards five scholarships to computer science students and Linux developers or systems administrators who show incredible promise for helping to shape the future of Linux but do not otherwise have the ability to attend Linux Foundation training courses."

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LCA2013 Sysadmin Miniconf CFP

The call for papers is out for the System Administration miniconf at the 2013 linux.conf.au (LCA). "Topics for presentations could include (but are not limited to): Systems Administration, Backups, Security, Dealing with "Bring Your Own Device", Troubleshooting, Buying Decisions, Virtualisation and Cloud Computing, DevOps, Enterprise Monitoring and Management, Identity Management, Two Factor Authentication, Web and Email management, Wiki, Clustering and High Availability, Log Management, Spam and Virus Filtering, VOIP, Ticketing systems, Bootstrapping and automated installation, Configuration Management, Packaging and Provisioning, Keeping legacy systems functioning." The deadline for early submissions is October 1, 2012. November 1 is a hard deadline for all submissions. LCA2013 will take place January 28-February 2 in Canberra, Australia.

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SCALE 11x Call for Papers starts

The call for papers for the Southern California Linux Expo SCALE 11x is open until December 10, 2012. SCALE 11x will be held February 22-24, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.

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PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012 Schedule out

The schedule for the PostgreSQL Conference (October 23-26 in Prague, Czech Republic) is available. "In addition to [Joe] Celko's keynote, other luminaries of the open source community and the business and public sectors including Bruce Momjian, co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, EnterpriseDB, Magnus Hagander, Redpill Linpro, and Josh Berkus, PGExperts, all members of the PostgreSQL Core Team, as well as Simon Riggs, CTO of 2ndQuadrant and Guillaume Lelarge, CTO of Dalibo, both long-time contributors to the PostgreSQL community, will address topics ranging from database internals to end-user case studies for small companies, large multinational corporations and government organisations. The conference offers multiple parallel tracks and sessions in English and Czech. There will be PostgreSQL training sessions on October 23, the day prior to the opening day, with half and full day sessions on a range of topics."

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PyCon DE 2012 - Detailed program online

The program for PyCon DE is available online and registration is open. Registration is also open for the barcamp, code retreat, and sprints. PyCon DE will take place October 29-November 3, 2012 in Leipzig, Germany.

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Registration Open for Tcl'2012

Registration is open for the 19th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2012), which will take place November 12-16 in Chicago, Illinois.

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Events: September 13, 2012 to November 12, 2012

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
November 7 November 9	KVM Forum and oVirt Workshop Europe 2012	Barcelona, Spain
November 7 November 8	LLVM Developers' Meeting	San Jose, CA, USA
November 8	NLUUG Fall Conference 2012	ReeHorst in Ede, Netherlands
November 9 November 11	Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit	Göteborg, Sweden
November 9 November 11	Mozilla Festival	London, England
November 9 November 11	Python Conference - Canada	Toronto, ON, Canada
November 10 November 16	SC12	Salt Lake City, UT, USA

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