Announcements

More money for Cyanogen Inc.

Cyanogen Inc. has announced another round of venture funding, said to be on the order of $22 million. "What does this mean for you as a CM user? Not much yet, except that you’ll see more new things from us more often. We will continue to invest in the community by way of increased resources, sponsoring more events, and of course staying open. You’ll see new apps and features from us, new services, and also more devices which run CM out of the box."

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Free Software Supporter - Issue 69, December 2013

The December issue of the Free Software Foundation's newsletter covers fund raising, LibrePlanet, Defective by Design visits an Apple store, Gluglug X60 Laptop now certified, end-of-life for Ututo, and several other topics.

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Taking stock of 2013′s crowdfunded Linux devices (LinuxGizmos)

LinuxGizmos.com has a survey of crowdfunded Linux-based device projects launched in 2013. "Of the 19 such products listed below, five were never successfully crowdfunded. Of these unfunded devices, all but one appear to be moving forward with alternative funding. In fact, one — CrystalFontz America’s CFA10036 module — has already shipped. That leaves Canonical’s doomed, yet history making Ubuntu Edge smartphone as the only 'failure.'"

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LinuxDevices content returns to the net

LinuxDevices founder Rick Lehrbaum has announced the return of a great deal of historical embedded Linux content to the web. "The LinuxDevices Archive is searchable and also available from a calendar interface, so you can click on any month of any year between 1999 and 2012 and see what pops up. Although some stories did not survive the various transitions between content management systems, the Archive includes over 14,000 LinuxDevices posts, most with images intact, including news, product showcases, and special articles and editorials. So far, just about everything we’ve searched for has emerged in good shape."

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MiniDebConf 2014 Barcelona Call for Proposals

Debian Women has announced a MiniDebConf that will take place March 15-16 in Barcelona, Spain. The call for proposals closes January 31. "The idea behind the conference is not to talk about women in free software, or women in Debian, but rather to make discussion about Debian subjects more inclusive for women. If you agree with this goal, spread the word. Forward this call for potential speakers and help us make this event a great success!"

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LSF/MM 2014 call for proposals

The 2014 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit will be held March 24-25 in Napa Valley, California. The call for proposals is out now for those who would like to participate; the deadline is January 31, but those who need visas to attend should get theirs in earlier. For those unfamiliar with this event, see LWN's coverage of the 2013 Summit for an overview of the type of discussion held there.

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CFP Deadlines: January 2, 2014 to March 3, 2014

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
February 3	May 1 May 4	Linux Audio Conference 2014	Karlsruhe, Germany
February 5	March 20	Nordic PostgreSQL Day 2014	Stockholm, Sweden
February 8	February 14 February 16	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe Winter 2014	Minsk, Belarus
February 9	July 21 July 27	EuroPython 2014	Berlin, Germany
February 14	May 12 May 16	OpenStack Summit	Atlanta, GA, USA
February 27	August 20 August 22	USENIX Security '14	San Diego, CA, USA

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

Events: January 2, 2014 to March 3, 2014

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
February 3 February 4	Config Management Camp	Gent, Belgium
February 4 February 5	Open Daylight Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
February 7 February 9	Django Weekend Cardiff	Cardiff, Wales, UK
February 7 February 9	devconf.cz	Brno, Czech Republic
February 14 February 16	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe Winter 2014	Minsk, Belarus
February 21 February 23	conf.kde.in 2014	Gandhinagar, India
February 21 February 23	Southern California Linux Expo	Los Angeles, CA, USA
February 25	Open Source Software and Govenrment	McLean, VA, USA
February 28 March 2	FOSSASIA 2014	Phnom Penh, Cambodia

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