Announcements
Brief items
Cloudius Systems, HSA Foundation and Valve Join Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation has three new members; Cloudius Systems, HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation and Valve. "The newest Linux Foundation members represent both nascent open source endeavors as well as established industry leaders. Companies from diverse markets, such as gaming, cloud computing and virtualization are seeing the value of Linux and collaborative development to put them out in front of competitors. For example, Valve recently announced its plans to expand its Steam platform, with 65 million active accounts and games from hundreds of developers, into the living room with the Steam Machines project. An innovative living room device, the Steam Machines will be powered by a Linux-based operating system dubbed the Steam OS. At the same time, emerging cloud, virtualization, big data and device-driven computing companies are taking advantage of open development and collaboration to ignite innovation." (Thanks to Ben Boeckel)
FLOSS 2013: The survey for Open Source contributors 10 years later
The first FLOSS survey was launched in 2002. Now a second survey is underway. The deadline for taking the survey is December 6. "This time not only developers, but all kind of contributors to Open Source projects are asked to participate. How has the community changed in the last 10 years? In how far are the points of view similar? How is the composition of the community nowadays?"
Free Software Foundation Giving Guide
The FSF has released a giving guide for the holiday season. "'The Giving Guide is a map through the minefield of restrictive electronics and Web services that many will be seeking as gifts this season, just as one might shop for fair labor products from worker-owned cooperatives, or environmentally friendly products from local sources. There's no need to sacrifice your freedom or the freedom of the people you care about,' said Libby Reinish, campaigns manager for the FSF."
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter Issue 68, November 2013
The Free Software Foundation's newsletter for November covers the 2013 Giving Guide, free software at iD Programming Academy, LibrePlanet 2014, GNU/Linux game based on lost NASA archives, Rockstar vs. Google, DRM in cars, and several other topics.
New Books
Node.js the Right Way--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Node.js the Right Way" by Jim R. Wilson.Perl One-Liners--New from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has released "Perl One-Liners" by Peteris Krumins.
Calls for Presentations
Distributions Developer Devroom: Call for Participation
There will be a cross-distribution miniconference at FOSDEM (February 1-2, 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. The call for participation for this miniconference is open until December 22.CFP Deadlines: December 5, 2013 to February 3, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 15 | February 21 February 23 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| December 31 | April 8 April 10 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| January 7 | March 15 March 16 |
Chemnitz Linux Days 2014 | Chemnitz, Germany |
| January 10 | January 18 January 19 |
Paris Mini Debconf 2014 | Paris, France |
| January 15 | February 28 March 2 |
FOSSASIA 2014 | Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
| January 15 | April 2 April 5 |
Libre Graphics Meeting 2014 | Leipzig, Germany |
| January 17 | March 26 March 28 |
16. Deutscher Perl-Workshop 2014 | Hannover, Germany |
| January 19 | May 20 May 24 |
PGCon 2014 | Ottawa, Canada |
| January 19 | March 22 | Linux Info Tag | Augsburg, Germany |
| January 22 | May 2 May 3 |
LOPSA-EAST 2014 | New Brunswick, NJ, USA |
| January 28 | June 19 June 20 |
USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| January 30 | July 20 July 24 |
OSCON 2014 | Portland, OR, USA |
| January 31 | March 29 | Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2014 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| January 31 | March 24 March 25 |
Linux Storage Filesystem & MM Summit | Napa Valley, CA, USA |
| January 31 | March 15 March 16 |
Women MiniDebConf Barcelona 2014 | Barcelona, Spain |
| January 31 | May 15 May 16 |
ScilabTEC 2014 | Paris, France |
| February 1 | April 29 May 1 |
Android Builders Summit | San Jose, CA, USA |
| February 1 | April 7 April 9 |
ApacheCon 2014 | Denver, CO, USA |
| February 1 | March 26 March 28 |
Collaboration Summit | Napa Valley, CA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: December 5, 2013 to February 3, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 6 | CentOS Dojo | Austin, TX, USA |
| December 10 December 11 |
2013 Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software | Pasadena, USA |
| December 13 December 15 |
SciPy India 2013 | Bombay, India |
| December 27 December 30 |
30th Chaos Communication Congress | Hamburg, Germany |
| January 6 | Sysadmin Miniconf at Linux.conf.au 2014 | Perth, Australia |
| January 6 January 10 |
linux.conf.au | Perth, Australia |
| January 13 January 15 |
Real World Cryptography Workshop | NYC, NY, USA |
| January 17 January 18 |
QtDay Italy | Florence, Italy |
| January 18 January 19 |
Paris Mini Debconf 2014 | Paris, France |
| January 31 | CentOS Dojo | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 1 February 2 |
FOSDEM 2014 | Brussels, Belgium |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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