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A cash crunch at the GNOME Foundation

The GNOME Foundation has announced that, due to cash flow problems, it is freezing all non-essential expenditures. "The issue has been caused by a number of factors. These include increased administrative overheads in the last few years due to the increased turnover which has been caused by to the Outreach Program for Women (OPW), and the associated payments going out while the associated income has been slow to come in." See the FAQ page for more information.

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Mozilla's interim CEO: Chris Beard

Mitchell Baker has announced that Chris Beard has been appointed to the board of directors and will be serving as the interim CEO. "In this time of transition there is no better person to lead us. Chris has one of the clearest visions of how to take the Mozilla mission and turn it into programs and activities and product ideas that I have ever seen. In the early years at Mozilla he was responsible for leading the Mozilla product, marketing and innovation teams. More recently, Chris was our CMO, leading user, developer and community engagement activities globally, including the initial launches of Firefox on Android and Firefox OS at MWC. Chris is the right person to lead us through this time and he is a strong candidate for CEO."

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Python Software Foundation opens membership to the entire Python community

During an April 13 keynote at PyCon, Van Lindberg, chair of the Python Software Foundation (PSF) board, announced that PSF membership would now be open to the entire community. It had previously been a self-sustaining membership, with current members nominating new members, but that has now changed. Community members can sign up as PSF members by way of a "Become a Member" button at the bottom of the Python home page. Filling out a a form and agreeing to the Code of Conduct is all that is required to join. Instead of the roughly 200 members reported at PyCon 2013, he would like to see 30,000 or more PSF members by the end of 2014. This is part of an effort to diversify the PSF in much the same way that the Python community itself has diversified over the years, Lindberg said.

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OSI Board Changes 2014

At the Open Source Initiative (OSI) blog, OSI President Simon Phipps announces the organization's new board members. "Three of the vacancies were allocated for filling by people selected by the Individual Members, and the other was assigned to the Affiliate Members (comprising open source related non-profit organisations). Using approval voting, the Individual members selected Allison Randal (68% approval), Richard Fontana (61% approval) and Leslie Hawthorn (42% approval) -- each to serve for one year -- and the Affiliate Members selected Stefano Zacchiroli to serve for three years." The changes to how board members are selected are part of OSI's recent restructuring moves, which will continue with the selection of next year's president—after which, Phipps says, the board plans to "meet with the Free Software Foundation and review our strategy for transformation. We are very grateful for your continued support and aim to make OSI ever more valuable both to its members and to the wider open source community."

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Raspberry Pi Foundation announces a new, small-and-modular form factor

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a forthcoming addition to the Pi lineup, the "Pi Compute Module," which is "a Raspberry Pi shrunk down to fit on a SODIMM with onboard memory, whose connectors you can customise for your own needs." The form factor is intended for those who are going to create their own boards on which to attach the module, although there will be a breakout board designed by the Foundation as well. The module includes the same System-on-Chip as the original Pi and the same eMMC flash storage module; in addition the SODIMM connector will apparently expose more pins than the credit-card form factor, so that "the full flexibility of the BCM2835 SoC (which means that many more GPIOs and interfaces are available as compared to the Raspberry Pi)." The expected release date is sometime in June.

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Postgres Open 2014 Call for Papers

The Postgres Open Program Committee has announced Postgres Open 2014, which will be held September 17-19 in Chicago, IL. Proposal submissions are due by May 30, 2014.

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CFP Deadlines: April 17, 2014 to June 16, 2014

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
June 6	September 22 September 23	Open Source Backup Conference	Köln, Germany
June 6	June 10 June 12	Ubuntu Online Summit 06-2014	online, online

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Events: April 17, 2014 to June 16, 2014

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
June 2 June 3	PyCon Russia 2014	Ekaterinburg, Russia
June 2 June 4	Tizen Developer Conference 2014	San Francisco, CA, USA
June 9 June 10	Erlang User Conference 2014	Stockholm, Sweden
June 9 June 10	DockerCon	San Francisco, CA, USA
June 10 June 12	Ubuntu Online Summit 06-2014	online, online
June 10 June 11	Distro Recipes 2014 - canceled	Paris, France
June 13 June 14	Texas Linux Fest 2014	Austin, TX, USA
June 13 June 15	State of the Map EU 2014	Karlsruhe, Germany
June 13 June 15	DjangoVillage	Orvieto, Italy

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