Announcements

Google Summer of Code 2014 and Google Code-in 2013/14

Google has announced its next Summer of Code program a bit earlier than usual because they will be celebrating an anniversary: "To date, the program has produced 50 million lines of open source code from more than 8,500 student developers—and in 2014, we'll mark the 10th anniversary of Google Summer of Code." The program will be getting larger and, this year, participants are getting larger stipends.

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FSF Opens Nominations for the 16th Annual Free Software Awards

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and the GNU Project have announced the opening of nominations for the 16th annual Free Software Awards. The Free Software Awards include the Award for the Advancement of Free Software and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit. "In the case of both awards, previous winners are not eligible for nomination, but renomination of other previous nominees is encouraged. Only individuals are eligible for nomination for the Advancement of Free Software Award (not projects), and only projects can be nominated for the Social Benefit Award (not individuals)."

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FSFE Newsletter - October 2013

The October issue of the Free Software Foundation Europe covers the GNU project's 30th anniversary, local Fellowship events, FSFE joined a coalition which launched a list of 13 International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communication Surveillance, free software in education, updated Open Hardware License, and several other topics.

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Intel powers an Arduino for the first time with new “Galileo” board (ars technica)

Ars technica covers Intel's announcement of the Galileo development board, which contains a Quark 32-bit x86 CPU and is targeted at the "Internet of Things". It was designed in conjunction with Arduino and has connections for existing Arduino "shields" in addition to USB, Ethernet, RS-232 serial, and PCIe. "Intel will be donating 50,000 Galileo boards to universities around the world as part of the collaboration, and it will be available to hobbyists for $60 or less by November 29. That price makes Galileo quite competitive with existing Arduino boards, most of which aren't as feature complete. Intel promises full compatibility with Arduino software and existing hardware, which could make this a very attractive board for complex projects." Galileo is also open hardware, with schematics and other information available at its home page.

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White paper: the economic value of the Long Term Support Initiative

The Linux Foundation has announced the availability of a white paper (registration required) estimating the economic value of the Long Term Support Initiative, an effort which supports stable kernel releases for the consumer electronics industry. The resulting value is about $3 million per release. "LTSI is important because device makers are doing significant back-porting, bug testing and driver development on their own, which carries substantial cost in terms of time-to-market, as well as development and engineering effort to maintain those custom kernels. Through collaboration in this initiative, these CE vendors are reducing the duplication of effort currently prevalent in the consumer electronics industry. This new paper helps calculate that total cost savings in more definite terms."

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Mini-Debconf in Cambridge, UK

There will be a mini-DebConf November 14-17 in Cambridge, UK. That includes a mini-DebCamp November 14-15 and the regular conference November 16-17. "In terms of talks for the weekend, I've had lots of offers from various people but relatively few detailed proposals. That means that the talk schedule is still very open yet. If you're wanting to talk to people about stuff you've been doing in and around Debian, or you have insights that you'd like to share, now is your time!"

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Want to run the Linux Plumbers Conference in 2014?

The Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board is currently accepting applications from groups wishing to organize the 2014 Linux Plumber's Conference; the current plan is to co-locate that conference with LinuxCon Europe in Düsseldorf, Germany, but hosting it in Chicago with LinuxCon North America is also a possibility. See this page for information about out to put together a bid; the deadline is November 3.

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CFP Deadlines: October 10, 2013 to December 9, 2013

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
November 22	March 22 March 23	LibrePlanet 2014	Cambridge, MA, USA
November 24	December 13 December 15	SciPy India 2013	Bombay, India
December 1	February 7 February 9	devconf.cz	Brno, Czech Republic
December 1	March 6 March 7	Erlang SF Factory Bay Area 2014	San Francisco, CA, USA
December 2	January 17 January 18	QtDay Italy	Florence, Italy
December 3	February 21 February 23	conf.kde.in 2014	Gandhinagar, India

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Events: October 10, 2013 to December 9, 2013

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
November 18 November 21	2013 Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Canada
November 22 November 24	Python Conference Spain 2013	Madrid, Spain
November 25	Firebird Tour: Prague	Prague, Czech Republic
November 28	Puppet Camp	Munich, Germany
November 30 December 1	OpenPhoenux Hardware and Software Workshop	Munich, Germany
December 6	CentOS Dojo	Austin, TX, USA

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