Announcements
Brief items
Cyanogenmod.com falls off the net
Anybody trying to get at cyanogenmod.com at the moment is likely to be wondering what is wrong. According to this blog post, the problem is a dispute with a (former) member of the CyanogenMod team. "Today, it happened: all of our records were deleted, and cyanogenmod.com is slowly expiring out of the Internet and being replaced by blank pages and non-existing sites. @cyanogenmod.com e-mail is now being directed to a mailserver completely out of our control, too." The project can still be reached at cyanogenmod.org while this is playing out.
Update: This situation has now been resolved, but the project plans to remain with the .org address as its home in the future.
FSFE: Finnish activist, Danish hacker share Nordic Free Software Award 2012
The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced that Finnish Free Software activist Otto Kekäläinen and Danish hacker Ole Tange are the recipients of the 2012 Nordic Free Software Award.Survey: Newcomer experience and contributor behavior
Kevin Carillo, a PhD student at the School of Information Management of Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, is conducting a survey on newcomer experiences. From Carillo's invitation: "If you have joined one of the following FOSS communities within the last 3 years (after January 2010): Debian, GNOME, Gentoo, KDE, Mozilla, Ubuntu, NetBSD, or OpenSUSE, I would like to invite you to complete an online survey. I am interested in hearing from people who are either technical or non-technical contributors, and who have had either positive or negative newcomer experiences."
Calls for Presentations
Fosdem 2013 - Crossdesktop devroom call for talks
FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting) 2013 will be held in Brussels, Belgium on February 2-3, 2013. There will be a CrossDesktop DevRoom at FOSDEM, which will host Desktop-related talks. The call for desktop-related talks is December 14, 2012. "Topics accepted include, but are not limited to: Enlightenment, Gnome, KDE, Unity, XFCE, Windows, Mac OS X, general desktop matters, applications that enhance desktops and web (when related to desktop). Talks can be very specific, such as developing mobile applications with Qt Quick; or as general as predictions for the fusion of Desktop and web in 5 years time. Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome."
Upcoming Events
Events: November 15, 2012 to January 14, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 |
| December 5 December 7 |
Open Source Developers Conference Sydney 2012 | Sydney, Australia |
| December 5 December 7 |
Qt Developers Days 2012 North America | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| December 5 | 4th UK Manycore Computing Conference | Bristol, UK |
| December 7 December 9 |
CISSE 12 | Everywhere, Internet |
| December 9 December 14 |
26th Large Installation System Administration Conference | San Diego, CA, USA |
| December 27 December 30 |
29th Chaos Communication Congress | Hamburg, Germany |
| December 27 December 29 |
SciPy India 2012 | IIT Bombay, India |
| December 28 December 30 |
Exceptionally Hard & Soft Meeting 2012 | Berlin, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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