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FSF, SFLC and OSI to fight software patents in U.S. Supreme Court

The Free Software Foundation has joined forces with the Software Freedom Law Center and the Open Source Initiative in filing an amicus brief in software patent case *Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank* before the United States Supreme Court. "The jointly filed brief argues that the "machine or transformation" inquiry employed by the Court in *Bilski v. Kappos* is the correct, and exclusive, bright line test for patent eligibility of computer-implemented inventions. It says that not only do software idea patents fail established tests for patentability; they also violate the First Amendment."

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Free Software Supporter - Issue 71

The February 2014 issue of Free Software Supporter is out, with news from the Free Software Foundation. Topics include: FSF seeks Web Developer, FSF's next seminar on GPL Enforcement and Legal Ethics, FSF joins forces with SFLC and OSI to fight software patents, LibrePlanet, GNU MediaGoblin campaign, LulzBot TAZ 3 3D printer FSF-certified, and much more.

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PyCon Sweden 2014

PyCon Sweden will be held May 20-21 in Stockholm, Sweden. The call for proposals deadline is March 16.

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oSC14 Keynote Confirmed

The schedule for the openSUSE Conference is coming together. The conference will be held April 25-28 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The openSUSE board will open the conference on Friday and Michael Meeks will be the opening keynote speaker on Saturday. The call for papers deadline has been extended until March 31.

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Ohio LinuxFest 2014 Call for Presentations

Ohio LinuxFest will take place October 24-26 in Columbus, Ohio. They are looking for presentations on October 24-25. The CfP deadline is July 24, but the sooner the better.

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CFP Deadlines: March 6, 2014 to May 5, 2014

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
March 31	July 18 July 20	GNU Tools Cauldron 2014	Cambridge, England, UK
March 31	September 15 September 19	GNU Radio Conference	Washington, DC, USA
March 31	June 2 June 4	Tizen Developer Conference 2014	San Francisco, CA, USA
March 31	April 25 April 28	openSUSE Conference 2014	Dubrovnik, Croatia
April 3	August 6 August 9	Flock	Prague, Czech Republic
April 4	June 24 June 27	Open Source Bridge	Portland, OR, USA
April 5	June 13 June 14	Texas Linux Fest 2014	Austin, TX, USA
April 7	June 9 June 10	DockerCon	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 14	May 24	MojoConf 2014	Oslo, Norway
April 17	July 9	PGDay UK	near Milton Keynes, UK
April 17	July 8	CHAR(14)	near Milton Keynes, UK
April 18	November 9 November 14	Large Installation System Administration	Seattle, WA, USA
April 18	June 23 June 24	LF Enterprise End User Summit	New York, NY, USA
April 24	October 6 October 8	Operating Systems Design and Implementation	Broomfield, CO, USA
April 25	August 1 August 3	PyCon Australia	Brisbane, Australia
April 25	August 18	7th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test	San Diego, CA, USA
May 1	July 14 July 16	2014 Ottawa Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Canada
May 1	May 12 May 16	Wireless Battle Mesh v7	Leipzig, Germany
May 2	August 20 August 22	LinuxCon North America	Chicago, IL, USA
May 2	August 20 August 22	CloudOpen North America	Chicago, IL, USA
May 3	May 17	Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference - Italia	Cesena, Italy
May 4	July 26 August 1	Gnome Users and Developers Annual Conference	Strasbourg, France

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FSFE: Registration opens for Document Freedom Day 2014

The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced open registration for Document Freedom Day. "This year the campaign day is March 26th, when people who believe in fair access to communications technology and Open Standards will again present, perform, and demonstrate."

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Events: March 6, 2014 to May 5, 2014

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
March 31 April 4	FreeDesktop Summit	Nuremberg, Germany
April 2 April 4	Networked Systems Design and Implementation	Seattle, WA, USA
April 2 April 5	Libre Graphics Meeting 2014	Leipzig, Germany
April 3	Open Source, Open Standards	London, UK
April 7 April 8	4th European LLVM Conference 2014	Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
April 7 April 9	ApacheCon 2014	Denver, CO, USA
April 8 April 10	Open Source Data Center Conference	Berlin, Germany
April 8 April 10	Lustre User Group Conference	Miami, FL, USA
April 11 April 13	PyCon 2014	Montreal, Canada
April 11	Puppet Camp Berlin	Berlin, Germany
April 12 April 13	State of the Map US 2014	Washington, DC, USA
April 14 April 17	Red Hat Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 25 April 28	openSUSE Conference 2014	Dubrovnik, Croatia
April 26 April 27	LinuxFest Northwest 2014	Bellingham, WA, USA
April 29 May 1	Embedded Linux Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
April 29 May 1	Android Builders Summit	San Jose, CA, USA
May 1 May 4	Linux Audio Conference 2014	Karlsruhe, Germany
May 2 May 3	LOPSA-EAST 2014	New Brunswick, NJ, USA

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