Announcements
Brief items
Linux Foundation New Member Update
The Linux Foundation has announced that Axis Communications, D-Link, O.S. Systems and Perforce have joined the organization.
Articles of interest
Booting Linux using UEFI can brick Samsung laptops (The H)
The H reports that booting with UEFI can brick some Samsung laptop models; this can happen regardless of whether secure boot is enabled. "The Ubuntu development team has held talks with Samsung staff, who have identified the kernel's samsung-laptop driver as the prime suspect. This driver has previously had issues – it had caused problems for other Samsung laptop owners when booting Linux using UEFI. Also involved in analysing the problem is Intel developer Matt Fleming, who posted two kernel changes for discussion a week ago."
Open source game, [d0x3d!], teaches security concepts and is fun to play (opensource.com)
Over at opensource.com, Davis Miller writes about an open source tabletop game (available at Github) that teaches some of the ideas behind network security. "While you seek these valuable digital assets, the network administrators respond by patching all compromised machines, raising an alarm, and sometimes changing the very topology to derail your movements. You and your team work together diligently, checking and raiding machines on the network, trying to not alert the network administrators of your presence. If the administrators feel threatened by any of the activity they see on a network, they'll take your stolen personal data and release it to the Internet. In other words, you'll get d0x3d!!"
Calls for Presentations
Linux Plumbers Conference CFP
The 2013 Linux Plumbers Conference will be held September 18-20 in New Orleans. The conference has just announced its call for participation. "There are two ways for individuals to participate in the conference: by submitting a refereed track presentation, or proposing/running a microconference. Refereed track presentations are traditional presentation-format sessions. A Microconference is a collection of collaborative sessions focused on a particular area of the kernel plumbing. Note that this year, refereed track presentations will be shared with LinuxCon North America on a single overlapping day that will be available to attendees at both conferences." See the "participate" page for details; submissions are due by June 17.
Upcoming Events
LPC 2013 registration open
Early registration for Linux Plumbers Conference is open until April 29. LPC takes place September 18-20 in New Orleans, Louisiana.openSUSE Conference 2013
openSUSE Conference, oSC13, has been announced. The conference will take place July 18-22 in Thessaloniki, Greece. "The slogan of the conference this year is ‘Power to the Geeko’, as we would like to emphasize the bottom-up nature of our Free Software movement (an excellent fit with the country where early democracies developed). Thessaloniki provides many opportunities to Have a lot of Fun! The city features beautiful beaches and a lively night life as well as good food and drinks. We expect plenty of socializing between the technical sessions and code."
SCALE 11X Poker Quiz: Got the hot hand?
The Southern California Linux Expo (February 22-24 in Los Angeles, California) has announced a Poker Quiz for this year's event. "Building on last year's unique new conference game, the SCALE Team has created an updated version of the game where Open Source meets Jeopardy: SCALE Poker Quiz, an epic mix of scavenger hunt, trivia quiz, and trading game."
Events: January 31, 2013 to April 1, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 13 March 21 |
PyCon 2013 | Santa Clara, CA, US |
| March 15 March 17 |
German Perl Workshop | Berlin, Germany |
| March 15 March 16 |
Open Source Conference | Szczecin, Poland |
| March 16 March 17 |
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2013 | Chemnitz, Germany |
| March 19 March 21 |
FLOSS UK Large Installation Systems Administration | Newcastle-upon-Tyne , UK |
| March 20 March 22 |
Open Source Think Tank | Calistoga, CA, USA |
| March 23 | Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2013 | Augsburg, Germany |
| March 23 March 24 |
LibrePlanet 2013: Commit Change | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 25 | Ignite LocationTech Boston | Boston, MA, USA |
| March 30 | NYC Open Tech Conference | Queens, NY, USA |
| March 30 | Emacsconf | London, UK |
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