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Regular LWN readers might be aware of the fact that we report from a fair number of conferences. The curious can now see just how many (and what we report on) in the new LWN.net conference coverage index. It turns out that even we were surprised by just how many events we've been to. Needless to say, we're not done; the conference index will be kept current as we report from future events (next stop: linux.conf.au).

Part of getting to future conferences, of course, is remembering to get our speaking proposals in on time. On the suspicion that we are not the only ones with this kind of problem, we have extended the LWN Events Calendar to include a calendar dedicated to call-for-proposals deadlines. If you have been thinking about presenting your work to the community and would like to know whose deadlines you are about to miss, the CFP deadline calendar should be a helpful resource.

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Crowdfunding "Software Wars"

"Software Wars" is a "movie about how free software will save you thousands of dollars and lead to a better world". The project is looking for funds to finish the movie in an indiegogo campaign. "The average computer user is unaware there is a war for freedom going on that will determine the path of modern society. Software Wars is a movie about the battle for our right to share technology and ideas."

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PyCon 2013 Schedule Released

PyCon 2013 has announced the schedule for the conference. "The conference begins with two days of tutorials on March 13 and 14, followed by three days of talks from Friday March 15 through 17, ending with four days of sprints through March 21. The tutorial selections this year came from a record pool of 129 submissions, up from 2012's record of 88. "We faced a lot of hard decisions, choosing from some really outstanding proposals by excellent and experienced instructors," said tutorial co-chair Stuart Williams. A highlight of the schedule is expansion to include coverage for beginners not just to the Python language, but also to those new to programming as a whole. There's coverage from the web to the desktop and everything in between, with several tutorials being presented by full-time educators." PyCon takes place in Santa Clara, California.

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Events: January 10, 2013 to March 11, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
February 15 February 17	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2013 Winter Edition	Minsk, Belarus
February 18 February 19	Android Builders Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
February 20 February 22	Embedded Linux Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
February 22 February 24	Southern California Linux Expo	Los Angeles, CA, USA
February 22 February 24	FOSSMeet 2013	Calicut, India
February 22 February 24	Mini DebConf at FOSSMeet 2013	Calicut, India
February 23 February 24	DevConf.cz 2013	Brno, Czech Republic
February 25 March 1	ConFoo	Montreal, Canada
February 26 March 1	GUUG Spring Conference 2013	Frankfurt, Germany
February 26 February 28	ApacheCon NA 2013	Portland, Oregon, USA
February 26 February 28	O’Reilly Strata Conference	Santa Clara, CA, USA
March 4 March 8	LCA13: Linaro Connect Asia	Hong Kong, China
March 6 March 8	Magnolia Amplify 2013	Miami, FL, USA
March 9 March 10	Open Source Days 2013	Copenhagen, DK

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