Announcements
Brief items
The Linux Foundation's fund for critical projects
The Linux Foundation has announced the creation of a "multi-million dollar" fund to support the development of critical projects that otherwise lack sufficient resources. "The first project under consideration to receive funds from the Initiative will be OpenSSL, which could receive fellowship funding for key developers as well as other resources to assist the project in improving its security, enabling outside reviews, and improving responsiveness to patch requests."
Red Hat acquires Inktank
Red Hat has announced that it has signed a deal to acquire Inktank, the company formed around the Ceph filesystem, for $175 million. "Combined with Red Hat's existing GlusterFS-based storage offering, the addition of Inktank positions Red Hat as the leading provider of open software-defined storage across object, block and file system storage."
Calls for Presentations
Akademy 2014 Call for Papers
Akademy 2014 will be held September 6-12 in Brno, Czech Republic. The call for papers deadline is May 18.Linux Security Summit 2014 -- CFP
The Linux Security Summit will take place August 18-19 in Chicago, IL. The call for papers is open until June 6.CFP Deadlines: May 1, 2014 to June 30, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Upcoming Events
Registration open for DebConf14
DebConf14 will take place August 23-31 in Portland, Oregon. "In past years, DebConf has been preceded by a separate DebCamp event, for developers to gather before the conference and collaborate in person on Debian. This year the team is trying a different approach, with a longer conference period allowing for blocks of talks to be mixed with blocks of coding time throughout the week. More information about the schedule will be made available when the Call for Papers is posted in the near future."
Events: May 1, 2014 to June 30, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 23 June 24 |
LF Enterprise End User Summit | New York, NY, USA |
| June 24 June 27 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, OR, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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