Announcements

AMD joins The Document Foundation advisory board

The Document Foundation has announced that AMD has joined its advisory board and will be working to support the acceleration of LibreOffice on its processors using the HSA architecture. "HSA is an innovative computing architecture that enables CPU, GPU and other processors to work together in harmony on a single piece of silicon by seamlessly moving the right tasks to the best suited processing element. This makes it possible for larger, more complex applications to take advantage of the power that has traditionally been reserved for more focused tasks. While the biggest impact will be for AMD APU users, supporting benefits of the work will improve the LibreOffice core data structures enabling larger spreadsheets to calculate faster for all users.

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Bruce Schneier Joins EFF Board of Directors

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced that security expert Bruce Schneier has joined its Board of Directors. "Schneier is widely acclaimed for his criticism and commentary on everything from network security to national security. His insight is particularly important as we learn more and more about the unconstitutional surveillance programs from the National Security Agency and the depth and breadth of data the NSA is collecting on the public."

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Doug Engelbart RIP

GigaOM is reporting that Doug Engelbart, famous as the inventor of the mouse, has passed away. Another pioneer is gone.

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Free Software Supporter, Issue 63

The June edition of the Free Software Foundation newsletter covers a statement on PRISM revelations, FSF-certified device from ThinkPenguin, MediaGoblin 0.4.0, LibreWRT, and several other topics.

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IRS Puts Open Source Projects Under Microscope, Spawns Nonprofit Black Hole (Wired)

Wired looks at delays for open-source-oriented groups in getting their applications for non-profit status accepted—or denied—by the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Open source is on a list of organization types that require extra scrutiny from the IRS—"Tea Party" groups making that list have been in the news over the last month or so. "That has provided the documentary evidence for a phenomenon that many open source project leaders know all too well: For the past four years, it's been close to impossible to get an open source project approved for 501(c)(3) classification — a nonprofit status that allows supporters to make tax-exempt donations to the organization. Take the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, which builds open-source mapping software called OSGeo. It first applied for 501(c)(3) status more than five years ago, according to Tyler Mitchell, the former executive director of the foundation. 'It's not resolved today,' he says. 'You'll just keep thinking that it will be resolved in a couple of weeks. It never will be. '"

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Unix luminary among seven missing at sea (The Register)

The Register reports that the schooner Nina, carrying Evi Nemeth and others, has been lost at sea. "One of the shining lights of the world of Unix, retired CU professor Evi Nemeth, is among a group of sailors missing at sea near New Zealand. The author of system administration tomes covering both Unix and Linux – and, incidentally a mathematician of sufficient quality to identify problems with Diffie-Helman encryption – has spent much of her retirement sailing."

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FSFE: German Parliament elections: The parties' positions on Free Software

The Free Software Foundation Europe has published its Free Software related election questions for this fall's elections to the German parliament. "First, something pleasant: SPD, the Greens, the Pirate party, the Linke and the Free Voters want software where development was funded by the public administration to be published under a free licence."

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CFP Deadlines: July 4, 2013 to September 2, 2013

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
July 6	September 23 September 27	Tcl/Tk Conference	New Orleans, LA, USA
July 8	October 21 October 23	Open Source Developers Conference	Auckland, New Zealand
July 15	August 16 August 18	PyTexas 2013	College Station, TX, USA
July 15	October 22 October 24	Hack.lu 2013	Luxembourg, Luxembourg
July 19	October 23 October 25	Linux Kernel Summit 2013	Edinburgh, UK
July 20	January 6 January 10	linux.conf.au	Perth, Australia
July 21	October 21 October 23	KVM Forum	Edinburgh, UK
July 21	October 21 October 23	LinuxCon Europe 2013	Edinburgh, UK
July 21	October 19	Central PA Open Source Conference	Lancaster, PA, USA
July 22	September 19 September 20	Open Source Software for Business	Prato, Italy
July 25	October 22 October 23	GStreamer Conference	Edinburgh, UK
July 28	October 17 October 20	PyCon PL	Szczyrk, Poland
July 29	October 28 October 31	15th Real Time Linux Workshop	Lugano, Switzerland
July 29	October 29 November 1	PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2013	Dublin, Ireland
July 31	November 5 November 8	OpenStack Summit	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
July 31	October 24 October 25	Automotive Linux Summit Fall 2013	Edinburgh, UK
August 7	September 12 September 14	SmartDevCon	Katowice, Poland
August 15	August 22 August 25	GNU Hackers Meeting 2013	Paris, France
August 18	October 19	Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013	Hong Kong, China
August 19	September 20 September 22	PyCon UK 2013	Coventry, UK
August 21	October 23	TracingSummit2013	Edinburgh, UK
August 22	September 25 September 27	LibreOffice Conference 2013	Milan, Italy
August 30	October 24 October 25	Xen Project Developer Summit	Edinburgh, UK
August 31	October 26 October 27	T-DOSE Conference 2013	Eindhoven, Netherlands
August 31	September 24 September 25	Kernel Recipes 2013	Paris, France
September 1	November 18 November 21	2013 Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Canada

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openSUSE Conference Sponsors Announced

The openSUSE Conference team has announced the sponsors for the openSUSE Conference 2013 which takes place July 18-22 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Sponsors include SUSE Linux GmbH, ARM, DevHdR, Oracle, and more.

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LPI Hosts Exam Labs at openSUSE 2013 Conference

The Linux Professional Institute will host an exam lab at the openSUSE Conference in Thessaloniki, Greece on July 20.

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Events: July 4, 2013 to September 2, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
July 1 July 7	EuroPython 2013	Florence, Italy
July 1 July 5	Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications	Montpellier, France
July 2 July 4	OSSConf 2013	Žilina, Slovakia
July 3 July 6	FISL 14	Porto Alegre, Brazil
July 5 July 7	PyCon Australia 2013	Hobart, Tasmania
July 6 July 11	Libre Software Meeting	Brussels, Belgium
July 8 July 12	Linaro Connect Europe 2013	Dublin, Ireland
July 12	PGDay UK 2013	near Milton Keynes, England, UK
July 12 July 14	GNU Tools Cauldron 2013	Mountain View, CA, USA
July 12 July 14	5th Encuentro Centroamerica de Software Libre	San Ignacio, Cayo, Belize
July 13 July 19	Akademy 2013	Bilbao, Spain
July 15 July 16	QtCS 2013	Bilbao, Spain
July 18 July 22	openSUSE Conference 2013	Thessaloniki, Greece
July 22 July 26	OSCON 2013	Portland, OR, USA
July 27 July 28	PyOhio 2013	Columbus, OH, USA
July 27	OpenShift Origin Community Day	Mountain View, CA, USA
July 31 August 4	OHM2013: Observe Hack Make	Geestmerambacht, the Netherlands
August 1 August 8	GUADEC 2013	Brno, Czech Republic
August 3 August 4	COSCUP 2013	Taipei, Taiwan
August 6 August 8	Military Open Source Summit	Charleston, SC, USA
August 7 August 11	Wikimania	Hong Kong, China
August 9 August 11	XDA:DevCon 2013	Miami, FL, USA
August 9 August 13	PyCon Canada	Toronto, Canada
August 9 August 12	Flock - Fedora Contributor Conference	Charleston, SC, USA
August 11 August 18	DebConf13	Vaumarcus, Switzerland
August 12 August 14	YAPC::Europe 2013 “Future Perl”	Kiev, Ukraine
August 16 August 18	PyTexas 2013	College Station, TX, USA
August 22 August 25	GNU Hackers Meeting 2013	Paris, France
August 23 August 24	Barcamp GR	Grand Rapids, MI, USA
August 24 August 25	Free and Open Source Software Conference	St.Augustin, Germany
August 30 September 1	Pycon India 2013	Bangalore, India

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