Announcements

The Document Foundation celebrates its second anniversary

The Document Foundation celebrated its second anniversary. The project was announced September 28, 2010. "During the last 12 months, the foundation was legally established in Berlin, the Board of Directors and the Membership Committee were elected by TDF members, where membership is based on meritocracy and not on invitation, Intel became a supporter, and LibreOffice 3.5 and 3.6 families were announced. In addition, TDF has shown the prototypes of a cloud and a tablet version of LibreOffice, which will be available sometime in late 2013 or early 2014."

The Foundation has also started a fundraising campaign. "'So far, volunteers have provided most of the work necessary to sustain the project, but after two years it is is mandatory to start thinking really big', says Italo Vignoli, the dean of the Board of Directors. 'We had a dream, and now that thousands around the world made that dream come true we want to get to the major league of software development and advocacy. By donating during the fourth quarter of 2012, donors will define the budget we have available for 2013'."

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Free Software Supporter -- Issue 54

The Free Software Supporter is the Free Software Foundation's monthly news digest and action update. Topics in the September issue include software patents, updating the Free Software Directory, Dreamhost makes a matching pledge, Apple v. Samsung, GPL violations, trademarks, and much more.

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LPI Announces Linux Essentials for North America

The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) has announced the availability of its Linux Essentials program in North America. LPI's Linux Essentials program is designed to measure foundational knowledge in Linux and Open Source Software. "Linux Essentials was initially released as a pilot program in Europe, the Middle East and Africa but due to popular demand has now expanded to North America."

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PyData NYC 2012 Speakers and Talks announced

The schedule has been announced for PyData, which takes place October 26-28, 2012 in New York City, NY. "We're thrilled with the exciting lineup of workshops, hands-on tutorials, and talks about real-world uses of Python for data analysis."

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OpenOffice track at ApacheCon EU 2012

ApacheCon will take place November 5-8, 2012 in Sinsheim, Germany. The conference will feature an Apache OpenOffice track. "Several Apache OpenOffice (incubating) contributors will give talks on different topics around Apache OpenOffice and its ecosystem. They will be available for further discussions. General community sessions are also part of the schedule."

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Announcing the CloudStack Collaboration Conference

The CloudStack Collaboration Conference will take place November 30-December 2, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada. "The Collaboration Conference will give CloudStack users an opportunity to learn about improvements in the upcoming Apache CloudStack 4.0 release, and best practices for deploying and managing CloudStack. Users will also be able to attend sessions on projects and tools that work well with CloudStack for configuration management, storage, monitoring, creating a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) on top of CloudStack, and more."

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LCA2013 Opens Registrations

linux.conf.au (LCA) has opened registrations. Discounted 'early bird' tickets are available for a limited time. "The 2013 conference builds on a long tradition of sharing technical know-how between seasoned open source gurus and newcomers to the community. Since its inception in 1999, the conference has moved around Australia and New Zealand, most recently to Ballarat, Victoria, and Brisbane, Queensland. This year, the conference is in Canberra in celebration of our national capital's centenary year. The conference was last hosted in Canberra in 2005, and it has grown significantly since then, bringing some unique challenges to the organising team." LCA takes place January 28-February 2, 2013.

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SCALE 11X: Matthew Garrett to give keynote

The Southern California Linux Expo has chosen Matthew Garrett as the first of two keynote speakers for SCALE 11X in February 2013. "Garrett's keynote is entitled “The Secure Boot Journey” and details his work over the past year – technical, political and diplomatic – in getting Linux to run on UEFI Secure Boot systems. He will outline the scenario where Linux users could not only be assured that they can run Linux out of the box in UEFI-based systems, but also how Secure Boot can be used to enhance security."

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Events: October 4, 2012 to December 3, 2012

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
November 12 November 16	19th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	Chicago, IL, USA
November 12 November 17	PyCon Argentina 2012	Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 12 November 14	Qt Developers Days	Berlin, Germany
November 16 November 19	Linux Color Management Hackfest 2012	Brno, Czech Republic
November 16	PyHPC 2012	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
November 20 November 24	8th Brazilian Python Conference	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 24 November 25	Mini Debian Conference in Paris	Paris, France
November 24	London Perl Workshop 2012	London, UK
November 26 November 28	Computer Art Congress 3	Paris, France
November 29 December 1	FOSS.IN/2012	Bangalore, India
November 29 November 30	Lua Workshop 2012	Reston, VA, USA
November 30 December 2	Open Hard- and Software Workshop 2012	Garching bei München, Germany
November 30 December 2	CloudStack Collaboration Conference	Las Vegas, NV, USA
December 1 December 2	Konferensi BlankOn #4	Bogor, Indonesia
December 2	Foswiki Association General Assembly	online and Dublin, Ireland

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