Announcements
Brief items
Cyanogen Inc.
CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik has disclosed that he and sixteen others are now doing their CyanogenMod work as part of a company founded for that purpose — and that they have been doing so since April. "You have probably seen the pace of development pick up drastically over the past few months. More devices supported, bigger projects such as CM Account, Privacy Guard, Voice+, a new version of Superuser, and secure messaging. We vastly improved our infrastructure. We’re doing more bug fixes, creating more features, and improving our communication. We think that the time has come for your mobile device to truly be yours again, and we want to bring that idea to everybody." The first new thing will be an easier installer, but there is very little information on what the business model will be.
IBM Announces $1 Billion Linux Investment for Power Systems
IBM has announced plans to invest $1 billion over the next five years in new Linux and open source technologies for IBM's Power Systems servers. "Two immediate initiatives announced, a new client center in Europe and a Linux on Power development cloud, focus on rapidly expanding IBM's growing ecosystem supporting Linux on Power Systems which today represents thousands of independent software vendor and open source applications worldwide."
CloudOn Joins The Document Foundation Advisory Board
The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced that CloudOn is now a member of its Advisory Board. "CloudOn is a productivity platform that allows users to create, edit and share documents in real time across devices."
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: September 19, 2013 to November 18, 2013
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 1 | November 28 | Puppet Camp | Munich, Germany |
| October 4 | November 15 November 17 |
openSUSE Summit 2013 | Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA |
| November 1 | January 6 | Sysadmin Miniconf at Linux.conf.au 2014 | Perth, Australia |
| November 4 | December 10 December 11 |
2013 Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software | Pasadena, USA |
| November 15 | March 18 March 20 |
FLOSS UK 'DEVOPS' | Brighton, England, UK |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
GNU 30th anniversary
The GNU 30th anniversary celebration and hackathon will take place September 28-29 in Cambridge, MA. "GNU lovers from all over the world will converge on MIT in Cambridge, MA for cake, coding, and a special address from Richard Stallman. If you want to attend the event in person, there is still time to register! If you'll be watching online, be sure to tune in to the event page on Saturday the 28th at 17:00 EDT."
CentOS Dojo New Orleans
The next CentOS Dojo will take place September 30 in New Orleans, LA. It will be colocated with the Cpanel conference. "Our focus for this Dojo is onpremise and hosting specific talks."
Events: September 19, 2013 to November 18, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 18 September 20 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | New Orleans, LA, USA |
| September 19 September 20 |
Linux Security Summit | New Orleans, LA, USA |
| September 19 September 20 |
Open Source Software for Business | Prato, Italy |
| September 19 September 20 |
UEFI Plugfest | New Orleans, LA, USA |
| September 20 September 22 |
PyCon UK 2013 | Coventry, UK |
| September 23 September 27 |
Tcl/Tk Conference | New Orleans, LA, USA |
| September 23 September 25 |
X Developer's Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| September 24 September 26 |
OpenNebula Conf | Berlin, Germany |
| September 24 September 25 |
Kernel Recipes 2013 | Paris, France |
| September 25 September 27 |
LibreOffice Conference 2013 | Milan, Italy |
| September 26 September 29 |
EuroBSDcon | St Julian's area, Malta |
| September 27 September 29 |
GNU 30th anniversary | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| September 30 | CentOS Dojo and Community Day | New Orleans, LA, USA |
| October 3 October 5 |
Open World Forum 2013 | Paris, France |
| October 3 October 4 |
PyConZA 2013 | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 4 October 5 |
Open Source Developers Conference France | Paris, France |
| October 7 October 9 |
Qt Developer Days | Berlin, Germany |
| October 12 October 14 |
GNOME Montreal Summit | Montreal, Canada |
| October 12 October 13 |
PyCon Ireland | Dublin, Ireland |
| October 14 October 19 |
PyCon.DE 2013 | Cologne, Germany |
| October 17 October 20 |
PyCon PL | Szczyrk, Poland |
| October 19 | Central PA Open Source Conference | Lancaster, PA, USA |
| October 19 | Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013 | Hong Kong, China |
| October 20 | Enlightenment Developer Day 2013 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| October 21 October 23 |
KVM Forum | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 21 October 23 |
LinuxCon Europe 2013 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 21 October 23 |
Open Source Developers Conference | Auckland, New Zealand |
| October 22 October 24 |
Hack.lu 2013 | Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| October 22 October 23 |
GStreamer Conference | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 23 | TracingSummit2013 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 23 October 25 |
Linux Kernel Summit 2013 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 23 October 24 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| October 24 October 25 |
Embedded LInux Conference Europe | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 24 October 25 |
Xen Project Developer Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 24 October 25 |
Automotive Linux Summit Fall 2013 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 October 27 |
Blender Conference 2013 | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| October 25 October 27 |
vBSDcon 2013 | Herndon, Virginia, USA |
| October 26 October 27 |
T-DOSE Conference 2013 | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| October 26 October 27 |
PostgreSQL Conference China 2013 | Hangzhou, China |
| October 28 November 1 |
Linaro Connect USA 2013 | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| October 28 October 31 |
15th Real Time Linux Workshop | Lugano, Switzerland |
| October 29 November 1 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2013 | Dublin, Ireland |
| November 3 November 8 |
27th Large Installation System Administration Conference | Washington DC, USA |
| November 5 November 8 |
OpenStack Summit | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| November 6 November 7 |
2013 LLVM Developers' Meeting | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| November 8 | PGConf.DE 2013 | Oberhausen, Germany |
| November 8 | CentOS Dojo and Community Day | Madrid, Spain |
| November 8 November 10 |
FSCONS 2013 | Göteborg, Sweden |
| November 9 November 11 |
Mini DebConf Taiwan 2013 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| November 9 November 10 |
OpenRheinRuhr | Oberhausen, Germany |
| November 13 November 14 |
Korea Linux Forum | Seoul, South Korea |
| November 14 November 17 |
Mini-DebConf UK | Cambridge, UK |
| November 15 November 16 |
Linux Informationstage Oldenburg | Oldenburg, Germany |
| November 15 November 17 |
openSUSE Summit 2013 | Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA |
| November 17 November 21 |
Supercomputing | Denver, CO, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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