Announcements
Brief items
Karen Sandler joins Conservancy's Management Team
Software Freedom Conservancy has announced that Karen M. Sandler is the Conservancy's new Executive Director. "Bradley M. Kuhn, outgoing Executive Director, gratefully passes the torch to his long-time colleague Karen Sandler. While Kuhn's work as Conservancy's President and on its Board of Directors remain unchanged, Kuhn's new full-time staff role is titled “Distinguished Technologist”."
GNOME News announces
Karen's departure as GNOME Foundation Executive Director. "Though Karen will no longer be the GNOME Foundation Executive Director, she will still be a part of the GNOME project. She has announced her intention to run for the Board of Directors, and wrote “I will stay on as pro bono counsel, and of course I’ll continue volunteering in other ways.”
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The Document Foundation announces the Document Liberation Project
The Document Foundation has launched the Document Liberation Project. "The Document Liberation Project was created in the hope that it would empower individuals, organizations, and governments to recover their data from proprietary formats and provide a mechanism to transition that data into open file formats, returning effective control over the content from computer companies to the actual authors. Since the birth of LibreOffice in 2010, several community members have taken it upon themselves to improve format interoperability with proprietary applications. Encouraged by community interest, even from outside the LibreOffice project, the developers have so far provided read support for proprietary file formats including MS Visio, CorelDraw, MS Publisher, Apple Keynote, and a handful of different old Macintosh formats. In addition to LibreOffice, import libraries for these file formats are used by Abiword, Calligra, CorelDRAW File Viewer, Inkscape and Scribus."
Ubuntu One service shutting down
Canonical has announced the imminent shutdown of its "Ubuntu One" cloud storage service. "As of today, it will no longer be possible to purchase storage or music from the Ubuntu One store. The Ubuntu One file services will not be included in the upcoming Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release, and the Ubuntu One apps in older versions of Ubuntu and in the Ubuntu, Google, and Apple stores will be updated appropriately. The current services will be unavailable from 1 June 2014; user content will remain available for download until 31 July, at which time it will be deleted."
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter - Issue 72, March 2014
The Free Software Foundation's monthly newsletter covers LibrePlanet, Free Software awards, Samsung Galaxy backdoor, introduction to new intern Jaewoo Cho, interview with Roman Telezhinsky, and several other topics.Best Quotes from the Linux Kernel Developer Panel (Linux.com)
Linux.com presents a few quotes from the Kernel Developer Panel at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit. Kernel developers Greg Kroah-Hartman, Jens Axboe, Dave Chinner, Matthew Garrett, and Mel Gorman participated in the panel discussion, moderated by Jon Corbet. A video accompanies the article.
The Linux kernel is one of the largest collaborative software projects in the history of the world and has almost nothing in the way of formalized management structure. We have people who have a strong operating systems background who have been contributing code, and then we have people like me. I have a background in fruit fly genetics and yet someone lets me get close to the Linux kernel; this seems wrong. And then we have people who are genuinely kids in their bedroom. It's a miracle it works as well as it does. We should be astonished that we're able to get it so right so much of the time.
-- Matthew Garrett
New highs for LibrePlanet
The Free Software Foundation summarizes the recently concluded LibrePlanet conference. "What does it mean when, over a single year, the number of people who come to LibrePlanet more than doubles? It means that the free software movement is strong and growing. It means we have a fighting chance to protect our freedom and privacy in the digital world, and that we are inspiring new people to join us."
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: April 3, 2014 to June 2, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 12 | July 19 July 20 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| May 18 | September 6 September 12 |
Akademy 2014 | Brno, Czech Republic |
| May 19 | September 5 | The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| May 23 | August 23 August 24 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | St. Augustin (near Bonn), Germany |
| May 30 | September 17 September 19 |
PostgresOpen 2014 | Chicago, IL, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
PyCon Italia 5
PyCon Italia will be held May 23-25, 2014, in Florence, Italy. "The conference is addressed to organizations and companies, software developers, system administrator who use or want to use Python for automation, other IT-specialists and project managers interested in learning about python, and also hobby enthusiasts who find a great platform in Python."
Events: April 3, 2014 to June 2, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 12 May 16 |
Wireless Battle Mesh v7 | Leipzig, Germany |
| May 12 May 16 |
OpenStack Summit | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| May 13 May 16 |
Samba eXPerience | Göttingen, Germany |
| May 15 May 16 |
ScilabTEC 2014 | Paris, France |
| May 17 | Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference - Italia | Cesena, Italy |
| May 20 May 24 |
PGCon 2014 | Ottawa, Canada |
| May 20 May 21 |
PyCon Sweden | Stockholm, Sweden |
| May 20 May 22 |
LinuxCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| May 21 May 22 |
Solid 2014 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| May 23 May 25 |
FUDCon APAC 2014 | Beijing, China |
| May 23 May 25 |
PyCon Italia | Florence, Italy |
| May 24 | MojoConf 2014 | Oslo, Norway |
| May 24 May 25 |
GNOME.Asia Summit | Beijing, China |
| May 30 | SREcon14 | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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