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Linux Foundation teams up with edX to build free online Linux course

The Linux Foundation has announced that it is building a massive open online course (MOOC) with edX, the non-profit learning platform created by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "The Linux Foundation and edX are partnering to develop a MOOC program that will help address this issue by making basic Linux training materials available to all for free. Previously a $2,400 course, Introduction to Linux will be the first class available as a MOOC and will be free to anyone, anywhere. The Linux Foundation is among a new group of member organizations edX announced today who will contribute courses to the platform. EdX’s MOOC’s are an increasingly popular way to provide for unlimited participation and open access to learning material to people anywhere in the world via the web. These programs also provide interactive users forums where students and professors can build communities, similar to the way in which the Linux community collaborates. MOOCs have recently generated enrollments for individual classes of 60,000 or more students."

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FSFE Newsletter – March 2014

This month the Free Software Foundation Europe Newsletter looks at vendor lock-in in the UK, why Open Standards aren't enough, motivation for Free Software contributors, and much more.

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Google's coding internship summer program reaches 10th year (opensource.com)

The 2014 edition of Google's Summer of Code (GSoC) marks the tenth year of the program. Opensource.com covers a few of this year's 190 mentoring organizations. "What is likely to remain the same this year is the overwhelming response from students from all over the world who want the chance to work on free and open source projects with mentoring organizations that Google has hand-picked. Carol Smith, Open Source Programs Manager at Google, tells us that to date GSoC students have helped generate over 50 million lines of open source code to date, from over 8,500 student developers."

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SCALE 12X: A long-overdue Thank You

The Southern California Linux Expo team presents a postmortem of last month's event, and a thank you to all involved. "The SCALE Team would like to thank everyone who made it to the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel for the three days that made up one great show. The team would also like to thank the speakers and session leads who made the show a learning experience for all. We would also like to recognize all the people who make the show run – the volunteers who put in what seems like endless hours – to make this the best, and largest, community-run show in North America."

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"Is parallel programming hard?", first edition

Paul McKenney has announced that the first edition of his 500-page book Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? is available in electronic form; a printed version will follow soon. The entire book is available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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Call for Proposals: PyCon AU 2014

PyCon Australia will take place August 1-3 in Brisbane. The call for proposals deadline is April 25. "Presentation subjects may range from reports on open source, academic or commercial projects; or even tutorials and case studies. If a presentation is interesting and useful to the Python community, it will be considered for inclusion in the program."

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CFP Deadlines: March 13, 2014 to May 12, 2014

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
May 9	June 10 June 11	Distro Recipes 2014 - canceled	Paris, France

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LUG 2014 agenda announced

Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS) has announced the agenda for the 12th Annual Lustre User Group (LUG) conference, to be held April 8-10 in Miami, Florida. The event will feature 29 sessions including the inaugural Lustre Annual Report from OpenSFS and "deep technical presentations from DataDirect Networks, Intel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NetApp, Oakridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), TITECH (Japan), and Xyratex."

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Sneak Preview of oSC14 Sessions

The openSUSE conference will take place April 24-28, in Dubrovnik, Croatia. The conference organizers present a sneak preview of some of the approved sessions. The call for proposals is still open for the business track. "For end users, the openSUSE Conference features a series of interesting talks. For starters, ownCloud fans will enjoy the talk by Jos Poortvliet about ownCloud at home and the cloud features in more talks with sessions on databases (MySQL) and groupware tools. Desktop users will appreciate an update on what is going on in and to be expected from the KDE community (also Jos Poortvliet), the Jolla phone by Michal Hrušecký and more is coming."

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Events: March 13, 2014 to May 12, 2014

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
May 8 May 10	LinuxTag	Berlin, Germany

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