Announcements
Brief items
Announcing Google Summer of Code 2013
Google Summer of Code will return for its ninth year. According to the schedule mentoring organizations will need to submit applications from March 18-29, 2013. The student application period opens April 22 and closes May 3.OIN Exceeds 500th Licensee Milestone
Open Invention Network (OIN) has announced that the OIN licensee community exceeds 500 licensees. "While numerous defensive patent management entities have formed to protect small groups of companies, OIN is distinguished as a resource available to all of the technology industry. Established companies like Cisco, HP and Google as well as emerging entities like Twitter and Facebook benefit from leverage against patent aggression and access to OIN's shared IP resources. OIN's patents cover areas that include big data and analytics, cloud computing, smart mobile devices and mobile broadband, and social networking, among others."
Articles of interest
FSFE: I love Free Software Day
The Free Software Foundation Europe is asking free software users to show their appreciation on February 14, "I love Free Software Day". ""Every day, we use Free Software and often take it for granted. We write bug reports, tell others how they should improve their software, or ask them for new features - and often we are not shy about criticising. So, to let the people in Free Software receive a positive feedback at least once a year, there is the 'I love Free Software day'." says Matthias Kirschner, who initiated the FSFE's#ilovefs campaign."
Garrett: The Samsung laptop issue is not fixed
Matthew Garrett has posted a brief warning for Samsung laptop owners on his blog: "The recent Linux kernel commits avoid one mechanism by which Samsung laptops can be bricked, but the information we now have indicates that there are other ways of triggering this. It also seems likely that it's possible for a userspace application to cause the same problem under Windows. We're still trying to figure out the full details, but until then you're safest ensuring that you're using BIOS mode on Samsung laptops no matter which operating system you're running."
Calls for Presentations
Akademy 2013 Call for Presentations
The call for presentations and open registration have been announced for Akademy 2013. The conference will take place July 13-19 in Bilbao, Spain. The CfP closes March 15.PyCon Singapore 2013 Call for Proposals
The call for proposals for PyCon Singapore is open until April 1. PyCon SG will take place June 13-15 in Singapore.
Upcoming Events
Events: February 14, 2013 to April 15, 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 |
| April 8 April 9 |
Write The Docs | Portland, OR, USA |
| April 8 | The CentOS Dojo 2013 | Antwerp, Belgium |
| April 10 April 13 |
Libre Graphics Meeting | Madrid, Spain |
| April 10 April 13 |
Evergreen ILS 2013 | Vancouver, Canada |
| April 14 | OpenShift Origin Community Day | Portland, OR, USA |
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