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Seth Vidal RIP

The Daily Durham site is reporting that Fedora developer Seth Vidal has been killed in a hit-and-run accident. Seth was perhaps best known as the creator of the "Yum" package management system; he will be much missed in the community.

Update: see also this note from Fedora project leader Robyn Bergeron. "To say he will be missed is an understatement. He has been a colleague, a team member, a source of wisdom and advice, and above all, a friend and inspiration to countless people in the Fedora community over the past decade. His seminal and invaluable work in Fedora and free software will live on for years to come, and the legacy of his spirit will stay with the community, and with many of us individually, forever."

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FSFE Newsletter - July 2013

The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter for July covers GPL enforcement, the European Commission and vendor lock-in, surveillance, free software in Turkey, and several other topics.

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linux.conf.au CFP deadline extended

For those of you who haven't gotten around to putting in your linux.conf.au speaking proposals yet: you now have a little more time. "The Call for Proposals (CFP) has now been open for four weeks, and the quality of submissions so far has been fantastic. Originally scheduled to be closed this week, the papers committee has agreed to extend the deadline by two weeks, as there's been some requests for extension from potential speakers, and we want to make sure that everyone a chance to have their proposal considered!" The new deadline is July 20.

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Puppet Camp Munich

Puppet Camp will take place November 28 in Munich, Germany. This announcement states that the call for papers deadline is October 15, but the web site says October 1. It's probably best to get your proposals in sooner rather than later.

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UKUUG - FLOSS UK DEVOPS - Call for Papers

FLOSS UK 'DEVOPS' will take place March 18-20, 2014 in Brighton, UK. The call for papers closes November 15, 2013.

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CFP Deadlines: July 11, 2013 to September 9, 2013

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
September 6	October 4 October 5	Open Source Developers Conference France	Paris, France

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Events: July 11, 2013 to September 9, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
September 3 September 5	GanetiCon	Athens, Greece
September 6 September 8	Kiwi PyCon 2013	Auckland, New Zealand
September 6 September 8	State Of The Map 2013	Birmingham, UK

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.