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The Apache Software Foundation Announces 100 Million Downloads of Apache OpenOffice

The Apache Software Foundation has announced that Apache OpenOffice has been downloaded 100 million times. "Official downloads at openoffice.org are hosted by SourceForge, where users can also find repositories for more than 750 extensions and over 2,800 templates for OpenOffice."

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Plant Breeders Release First 'Open Source Seeds' (NPR)

NPR has a look at the cross-pollination of open source software and agriculture, resulting in the release of the first "Open Source Seeds". The new Open Source Seed Initiative was formed to put seeds, and, more importantly, their genetic material, into a protected commons, so they will be available in perpetuity. "At an event on the campus of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, backers of the new Open Source Seed Initiative will pass out 29 new varieties of 14 different crops, including carrots, kale, broccoli and quinoa. Anyone receiving the seeds must pledge not to restrict their use by means of patents, licenses or any other kind of intellectual property. In fact, any future plant that's derived from these open source seeds also has to remain freely available as well." (Thanks to Rich Brown.)

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LAC14 interview series

Gabriel Nordeborn has started a series of interviews with people involved with the Linux Audio Conference, which will be held May 1-4 in Karlsruhe, Germany. As of this writing interviews with Miller Puckette, Robin Gareus, and Albert Graef are available.

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Raspberry Pi, 2nd Edition--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Raspberry Pi, 2nd Edition" by Maik Schmidt.

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CFP Deadlines: April 24, 2014 to June 23, 2014

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
June 20	August 18 August 19	Linux Security Summit 2014	Chicago, IL, USA

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Events: April 24, 2014 to June 23, 2014

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
June 17 June 20	2014 USENIX Federated Conferences Week	Philadelphia, PA, USA
June 19 June 20	USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Philadelphia, PA, USA
June 20 June 22	SouthEast LinuxFest	Charlotte, NC, USA
June 21 June 28	YAPC North America	Orlando, FL, USA
June 21 June 22	AdaCamp Portland	Portland, OR, USA

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