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How to get your conference talk submission accepted (opensource.com)

Over at opensource.com, Ruth Suehle covers a talk from the recent linux.conf.au (LCA). The talk looked at the process of choosing the talks for LCA, and what constitutes a good talk topic and abstract. There is lots of good information on putting together a talk proposal that is applicable well beyond just LCA. "When you write your submission, begin by looking at last year's program. See the depth and types of topics covered and think about why those were the ones that were submitted. If you can, take a look at blog posts from the previous year to see what people found the most interesting and popular." Don't forget the LWN.net CFP deadlines calendar to help keep track of upcoming CFPs.

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Linux Plumbers Conference call for refereed-track presentations

The 2014 Linux Plumbers conference will be held October 15 to 17 in Düsseldorf, Germany; the call for presentations in the refereed track has just gone out. "Refereed track presentations are similar to traditional presentations, but preferably involve significant face-to-face discussion and debate. These presentations should focus on some specific issue in the "plumbing" in the Linux system, where example Linux-plumbing components include core kernel subsystems, core libraries, windowing systems, management tools, device support, media creation/playback, and so on."

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CFP Deadlines: January 30, 2014 to March 31, 2014

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
March 10	June 9 June 10	Erlang User Conference 2014	Stockholm, Sweden
March 14	May 20 May 22	LinuxCon Japan	Tokyo, Japan
March 14	July 1 July 2	Automotive Linux Summit	Tokyo, Japan
March 14	May 23 May 25	FUDCon APAC 2014	Beijing, China
March 16	May 20 May 21	PyCon Sweden	Stockholm, Sweden
March 17	June 13 June 15	State of the Map EU 2014	Karlsruhe, Germany
March 21	April 26 April 27	LinuxFest Northwest 2014	Bellingham, WA, USA

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SCALE 12X: Expo schedule now available

The schedule for this year's Southern California Linux Expo is available. SCALE will take place February 21-23 in Los Angeles, CA.

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Speakers and venue announced for FSF's LibrePlanet 2014

LibrePlanet will take place March 22-23 in Cambridge, MA. Registration is open and speakers have been announced. The theme for this year's conference is "free software, free society".

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Events: January 30, 2014 to March 31, 2014

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
March 3 March 7	Linaro Connect Asia	Macao, China
March 6 March 7	Erlang SF Factory Bay Area 2014	San Francisco, CA, USA
March 15 March 16	Chemnitz Linux Days 2014	Chemnitz, Germany
March 15 March 16	Women MiniDebConf Barcelona 2014	Barcelona, Spain
March 18 March 20	FLOSS UK 'DEVOPS'	Brighton, England, UK
March 20	Nordic PostgreSQL Day 2014	Stockholm, Sweden
March 21	Bacula Users & Partners Conference	Berlin, Germany
March 22 March 23	LibrePlanet 2014	Cambridge, MA, USA
March 22	Linux Info Tag	Augsburg, Germany
March 24 March 25	Linux Storage Filesystem & MM Summit	Napa Valley, CA, USA
March 24	Free Software Foundation's seminar on GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics	Boston, MA, USA
March 26 March 28	Collaboration Summit	Napa Valley, CA, USA
March 26 March 28	16. Deutscher Perl-Workshop 2014	Hannover, Germany
March 29	Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2014	Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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