Announcements

OASIS gains ANSI accreditation

OASIS, the standards group that developed the OpenDocument Format, has completed the process of becoming accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The Standards Blog covers the announcement. "Receiving accreditation accomplishes two goals: first, it provides a third-party validation that the SSO in question meets a set of articulated goals that have been internationally agreed to be valuable and important. And second, it qualifies the SSO to have its standards be considered by ISO/IEC for adoption, without having to resort to one of the less formal processes available to consortia (such as the Publicly Available Standard, or PAS process – for which OASIS qualified in 2005, in order to submit its OpenDocument Format for adoption as an ISO/IEC standard)."

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Industry Leaders Collaborate on OpenDaylight Project

The Linux Foundation has announced the OpenDaylight Project, a community-led and industry-supported open source framework that will create a more open and transparent approach to Software-Defined Networking (SDN). "Founded on the principles of open and transparent development, OpenDaylight unites technology industry leaders to establish the largest SDN open source project to date, with the goal of a common and open SDN platform for developers to utilize, contribute to and build commercial products and technologies upon. The OpenDaylight Project is committed to furthering adoption of SDN as well as accelerating innovation on top of the platform in new and differentiated ways in a vendor-neutral and open environment where anyone can participate based on the merit of their contributions." Founding members include Big Switch Networks, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Ericsson, IBM, Juniper Networks, Microsoft, NEC, Red Hat and VMware.

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Mentoring Organizations for Google Summer of Code 2013 Announced

Google has announced the mentoring organizations accepted for this year's Summer of Code.

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Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition -- from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has released "Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition" by Michael W. Lucas.

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2nd Call For Papers, 20th 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 is open until June 22.

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Events: April 11, 2013 to June 10, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
May 22 May 25	LinuxTag 2013	Berlin, Germany
May 22 May 24	Tizen Developer Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
May 22 May 23	Open IT Summit	Berlin, Germany
May 23 May 24	PGCon 2013	Ottawa, Canada
May 24 May 25	GNOME.Asia Summit 2013	Seoul, Korea
May 27 May 28	Automotive Linux Summit	Tokyo, Japan
May 28 May 29	Solutions Linux, Libres et Open Source	Paris, France
May 29 May 31	Linuxcon Japan 2013	Tokyo, Japan
May 30	Prague PostgreSQL Developers Day	Prague, Czech Republic
May 31 June 1	Texas Linux Festival 2013	Austin, TX, USA
June 1 June 4	European Lisp Symposium	Madrid, Spain
June 1 June 2	Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia 2013	Fermo, Italy
June 3 June 5	Yet Another Perl Conference: North America	Austin, TX, USA
June 4	Magnolia CMS Lunch & Learn	Toronto, ON, Canada
June 6 June 9	Nordic Ruby	Stockholm, Sweden
June 7 June 9	SouthEast LinuxFest	Charlotte, NC, USA
June 7 June 8	CloudConf	Paris, France
June 8 June 9	AdaCamp	San Francisco, CA, USA
June 9	OpenShift Origin Community Day	Boston, MA, USA

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