Announcements
Brief items
25 Women in 10 Free Software Organizations for GNOME's Outreach Program for Women
The GNOME Foundation has announced the acceptance of 25 women into the next round of its Outreach Program for Women internships at ten different free software organizations. "Interns from the most recent completed round of the Outreach Program for Women added to the long list of accomplishments of the 47 women who took part in the program since December 2010. [...] The dramatic increase in participation of women in GNOME and our experience with the Outreach Program for Women show that there are many women interested in contributing to Free Software and that reaching out to them with targeted opportunities is an effective way to help them get involved. We anticipate the expansion of the program will create a big shift in the demographic of Free Software contributors."
The FSF licensing team's 2012 report
The Free Software Foundation's licensing team has posted a brief report on what it did in 2012. "We responded and resolved over 400 reports of suspected license violations and over 600 general licensing and compliance questions."
linux.conf.au 2013 videos online
The linux.conf.au organizers have started putting up videos of the talks from the 2013 event; they are available in Ogg or MP4 format. Daniel Stone's Wayland talk may be of special interest to some; he has a number of messages for those who post comments about Wayland and X on LWN.FOSDEM videos
The first FOSDEM videos are now available on YouTube. (Thanks to Peter Sztanojev)
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter -- Issue 58, January 2013
This issue of the Free Software Foundation newsletter covers RIP Aaron Swartz, Interview with Matthieu Aubry of Piwik, Lulu drops DRM, What can we ask of the USPTO?, Where in the world is RMS? community contest, a new edition of the Emacs manual, and several other topics.Final FOSDEM 2013 speaker interviews
Completing the set, Koen Vervloesem has put out the last three speaker interviews for FOSDEM 2013, which starts on Saturday, February 2 in Brussels, Belgium. In this edition: Kohsuke Kawaguchi on "How we made the Jenkins community", Jeremy Allison on Samba4, and Morgan Quigley on "ROS: towards open source in robotics".Guide to Open Source and Linux-Compatible 3D Printers (Linux.com)
Linux.com has posted a series (part 1, part 2) on 3D printers and Linux. "Since Linux.com reported on 3D printing a year ago, the industry has exploded. At the time, it was hard to find a preassembled open source 3D printer, but there are now over a dozen models available in both finished and kit form. Most are based on RepRap, but there are also some original open source designs ranging from the low-cost, $400-$800 Printrbot and Solidoodle printers to more feature-rich $1,400-$1,800 models like Type A and Ultimaker".
A pair of UEFI updates
Matthew Garrett has posted a summary of currently-known problems with UEFI-based machines and Linux. "Some Lenovos will only boot Windows or Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I recommend drinking, because as far as I know they haven't actually got around to doing anything useful about this yet."
Meanwhile, James Bottomley has put up a
report on his work with the Linux Foundation's secure boot loader.
"The upshot of all of this is you can now use Pre-BootLoader with
Gummiboot (as demoed at LCA2013). To boot, you have to add two hashes: one
for Gummiboot itself and one for the kernel you’re booting, but actually
this is a good thing because now you have a single security policy
controlling all of your boot sequence. Gummiboot itself has also been
patched to recognise a failure due to secure boot and pop up a helpful
message telling you which hash to enrol.
"
Calls for Presentations
LAC 2013: the Linux Audio Conference - Deadline Extension
The submission deadline for the Linux Audio Conference has been extended until February 17. The conference will take place May 9-12 in Graz, Austria.1st Call For Papers, 19th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference 2013
The 20'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2013) will take place September 23-27 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The call for papers deadline is August 5. "The program committee is asking for papers and presentation proposals from anyone using or developing with Tcl/Tk (and extensions)."
Upcoming Events
SCALE 11X: Birds of a Feather flocking at SCALE
If you are at SCALE (Southern California Linux Expo) February 22-23 consider creating or attending a BoF. "BoFs should be as informal as possible with group interaction -- not just one person giving a presentation. Even better is if there is positive inter-group interaction such as multiple local user groups meeting together or various database groups meeting to discuss future database and big data needs in the FLOSS ecosystem."
LPI participates in CeBIT 2013 Poland Partner Events
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) will be participating in CeBIT (March 5-9). "During the conference, LPI representatives will present on the subject of advancing IT workforce development in Linux and Open Source, specifically during the conference's activities for CeBIT's Partner Country of Poland. CeBIT has a 20+ year history as one of the world's largest conferences and trade shows for IT and telecommunications solutions and LPI has been a regular participant for several years."
LibrePlanet 2013: Commit Change
Registration is open for LibrePlanet, March 23-24, in Cambridge, MA. "This year, the conference focuses on bringing together the diverse voices that have a stake in free software, from software developers to activists, academics to computer users. The theme is called "Commit Change," and it's about drawing ideas from everyone to create the software freedom we need."
IPv6 Summit
The North American IPv6 Summit will take place April 17-19 in Denver, Colorado. "This career-enhancing event will help attendees master the transition to IPv6, offer IPv6 certification, and ensure network professionals stay relevant and ahead of the curve in their profession through the next 10 years. The educational event includes an optional pre-conference tutorial session and a 2-day general session on IPv6 related topics."
Events: February 7, 2013 to April 8, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 1 April 5 |
Scientific Software Engineering Conference | Boulder, CO, USA |
| April 4 April 5 |
Distro Recipes | Paris, France |
| April 4 April 7 |
OsmoDevCon 2013 | Berlin, Germany |
| April 6 April 7 |
international Openmobility conference 2013 | Bratislava, Slovakia |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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