Announcements
Articles of interest
FCC votes for Internet “fast lanes” but could change its mind later (Ars Technica)
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has voted for the so-called "Internet fast lanes", as Ars Technica reports. "In response to earlier complaints, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler expanded the requests for comment in the NPRM [Notice of Proposed Rulemaking]. For example, the FCC will ask the public whether it should bar paid prioritization completely. It will ask whether the rules should apply to cellular service in addition to fixed broadband, whereas the prior rules mostly applied just to fixed broadband. The NPRM will also ask the public whether the FCC should reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service. This will likely dominate debate over the next few months. Classifying broadband as a telecommunications service would open it up to stricter “common carrier” rules under Title II of the Communications Act. The US has long applied common carrier status to the telephone network, providing justification for universal service obligations that guarantee affordable phone service to all Americans and other rules that promote competition and consumer choice."
TechView: Linus Torvalds, Inventor of Linux (Huffington Post)
The Huffington Post has an interview with Linus Torvalds. "I think very few people get to feel like they have actually made a difference, and let me tell you, it's a good feeling to have. I was never very interested in the commercial side, and to me the people and companies who were able to take Linux and use it commercially are the people who did what I simply would never have had the drive to do. And it was needed, and useful, so I'm actually very grateful for the commercial entities: they've allowed me to concentrate on the parts I enjoy."
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: May 22, 2014 to July 21, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 30 | November 18 November 20 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| July 1 | September 5 September 7 |
BalCCon 2k14 | Novi Sad, Serbia |
| July 4 | October 31 November 2 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| July 5 | November 7 November 9 |
Jesień Linuksowa | Szczyrk, Poland |
| July 7 | August 23 August 31 |
Debian Conference 2014 | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 11 | October 13 October 15 |
CloudOpen Europe | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| July 11 | October 13 October 15 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| July 11 | October 13 October 15 |
LinuxCon Europe | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| July 11 | October 15 October 17 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| July 14 | August 15 August 17 |
GNU Hackers' Meeting 2014 | Munich, Germany |
| July 15 | October 24 October 25 |
Firebird Conference 2014 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| July 20 | January 12 January 16 |
linux.conf.au 2015 | Auckland, New Zealand |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: May 22, 2014 to July 21, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| May 20 May 24 |
PGCon 2014 | Ottawa, Canada |
| 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 |
| July 1 July 2 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| July 5 July 11 |
Libre Software Meeting | Montpellier, France |
| July 5 July 6 |
Tails HackFest 2014 | Paris, France |
| July 6 July 12 |
SciPy 2014 | Austin, Texas, USA |
| July 8 | CHAR(14) | near Milton Keynes, UK |
| July 9 | PGDay UK | near Milton Keynes, UK |
| July 14 July 16 |
2014 Ottawa Linux Symposium | Ottawa, Canada |
| July 18 July 20 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2014 | Cambridge, England, UK |
| July 19 July 20 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| July 20 July 24 |
OSCON 2014 | Portland, OR, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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