Announcements
Brief items
MariaDB Foundation announced
MariaDB developers Michael 'Monty' Widenius, David Axmark, and Allan Larsson have announced the MariaDB Foundation. "In its mission statement, the MariaDB Foundation exists to improve database technology, including standards implementation, interoperability with other databases, and building bridges to other types of database such as transactional and NoSQL. To deliver this the Foundation provides technical work in reviewing, merging, testing, and releasing the MariaDB product suite. The Foundation also provides infrastructure for the MariaDB project and the user and developer communities." (Thanks to Dan Shearer)
2012 LinuxCon Europe videos
Some videos from the 2012 LinuxCon in Barcelona have been posted. (Thanks to Scott Dowdle)
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter -- Issue 56, November 2012
Free Software Foundation's monthly newsletter is out, with a look at Cyber Monday, Amazon books, MediaGoblin, software patents, VLC licensed, and much more.FSFE Newsletter - December 2012
The Free Software Foundation Europe's monthly newsletter covers Free Software in the UK, secure boot, Free Software in Germany, and several other topics.
Calls for Presentations
European Lisp Symposium 2013: Call for Papers
The European Lisp Symposium will take place June 1-4, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The call for papers deadline is March 1. "The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate."
Upcoming Events
Bdale Garbee to keynote LCA
linux.conf.au has announced that Bdale Garbee will be a keynote speaker at the 2013 conference next January. "Bdale Garbee is best known for his pioneering work with Debian, and for open source community-building efforts with the Linux Foundation, Freedombox, and Software in the Public Interest (SPI). He is a regular presence at linux.conf.au, wowing many recent conference-goers with his rocketry exploits and other hobby activities turned into open source projects."
Events: December 6, 2012 to February 4, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 |
| January 18 January 20 |
FUDCon:Lawrence 2013 | Lawrence, Kansas, USA |
| January 18 January 19 |
Columbus Python Workshop | Columbus, OH, USA |
| January 20 | Berlin Open Source Meetup | Berlin, Germany |
| January 28 February 2 |
Linux.conf.au 2013 | Canberra, Australia |
| February 2 February 3 |
Free and Open Source software Developers' European Meeting | Brussels, Belgium |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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