Announcements

Goodbye Malcolm (Tredinnick)

The Django community mourns the passing of Malcolm Tredinnick. "Malcolm was a long-time contributor to Django, a model community member, a brilliant mind, and a friend. His contributions to Django — and to many other open source projects — are nearly impossible to enumerate. Many on the core Django team had their first patches reviewed by him; his mentorship enriched us. His consideration, patience, and dedication will always be an inspiration to us."

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Google taking applications for GSOC mentors

Google has announced that it is accepting applications for mentoring organizations for the 2013 Google Summer of Code program. "This year we are again encouraging experienced Google Summer of Code mentoring organizations to refer newer, smaller organizations they think could benefit from the program to apply. We hope the referral program will again bring many more new organizations to the Google Summer of Code program. Last year 47 new organizations participated." The deadline is March 29.

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Python Software Foundation Reaches Settlement, Ends Trademark Dispute

The Python Software Foundation has reached a settlement in its trademark dispute with PO Box Hosting Limited trading as Veber in Europe. "The issue centered around Veber's use of the Python name for their cloud hosting services and their application for a figurative trademark incorporating the word "Python". While the Foundation retains the trademark for Python within the United States, it did not have a filing within the European Union. According to the terms of the settlement, Veber has withdrawn its trademark filing and has agreed to support the Python Software Foundation's use of the term."

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Tor 2012 Annual Report

The Tor Project has announced the availability of its 2012 annual report. (PDF) "Tor’s daily usage continues to increase in size and diversity, bringing secure, global channels of communication and privacy tools to journalists, law enforcement, governments, human rights activists, business leaders, militaries, abuse victims and average citizens concerned about online privacy." (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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Announcing the CentOS Dojo

The CentOS Dojo is a one day event on April 8, 2013 in Antwerp, Belgium. "[We] have tried to cover all the major conversation areas around CentOS these days. Starting from provisioning, management, app deployments, system and virtualisation tuning, virtual infrastructure and more."

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2013 IPv6 Summit

The Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force (RMv6TF) has announced the keynote speakers for the North American IPv6 Summit, April 17-19 in Denver, Colorado. Speakers include Latif Ladid, President, IPv6 Forum and Google Vice President, and Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf (via video). "This year's keynote covered by Ladid and Cerf explains why the big shift to IPv6 Internet is on by default. "When a protocol is on by default," explains Ladid, "vendor readiness, network readiness, and service enablement become critical. The issue now is can IPv6 be treated like IPv4. The service providers with advanced deployment experiences have discovered that IPv6 is a totally different networking paradigm.""

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Applications open for AdaCamp San Francisco

Applications are open for AdaCamp San Francisco. AdaCamp SF is an unconference for supporters of women in open technology and culture held June 8-9, 2013 in San Francisco, California. "AdaCamp is invitation-only, but we encourage everyone interested in attending [9]to apply. You do not have to write code, have a job in open tech/culture, be a certain age, or be anything other than a supporter of women in open tech/culture. We value diversity of all sorts: age, race, geographical locations, language, sexuality, gender identity, educational background, hobbies, spiritual or religious beliefs, and other areas."

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Events: March 21, 2013 to May 20, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
March 13 March 21	PyCon 2013	Santa Clara, CA, US
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
April 15 April 17	LF Collaboration Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 15 April 18	OpenStack Summit	Portland, OR, USA
April 15 April 17	Open Networking Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 16 April 18	Lustre User Group 13	San Diego, CA, USA
April 17 April 18	Open Source Data Center Conference	Nuremberg, Germany
April 17 April 19	IPv6 Summit	Denver, CO, USA
April 18 April 19	Linux Storage, Filesystem and MM Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 19	Puppet Camp	Nürnberg, Germany
April 20	Grazer Linuxtage	Graz, Austria
April 21 April 22	Free and Open Source Software COMmunities Meeting 2013	Athens, Greece
April 22 April 25	Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 26 April 27	Linuxwochen Eisenstadt	Eisenstadt, Austria
April 26	MySQL® & Cloud Database Solutions Day	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 27 April 28	WordCamp Melbourne 2013	Melbourne, Australia
April 27 April 28	LinuxFest Northwest	Bellingham, WA, USA
April 29 April 30	2013 European LLVM Conference	Paris, France
April 29 April 30	Open Source Business Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
May 1 May 3	DConf 2013	Menlo Park, CA, USA
May 2 May 4	Linuxwochen Wien 2013	Wien, Austria
May 9 May 12	Linux Audio Conference 2013	Graz, Austria
May 10	CentOS Dojo, Phoenix	Phoenix, AZ, USA
May 10	Open Source Community Summit	Washington, DC, USA
May 14 May 15	LF Enterprise End User Summit	New York, NY, USA
May 14 May 17	SambaXP 2013	Göttingen, Germany
May 15 May 19	DjangoCon Europe	Warsaw, Poland
May 16	NLUUG Spring Conference 2013	Maarssen, Netherlands

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