Announcements
Brief items
Code.org to receive part of LF individual membership dues
The Linux Foundation is holding its biannual membership drive. This time around LF will donate $25 to Code.org for every individual member who joins during June. "The Linux Foundation and Code.org share common values that include increasing contributions to computer science through education and training. Code.org is also a non-profit organization and is dedicated to expanding participation in computer science by making it available in more schools and increasing participation by women and underrepresented students of color. The organization’s vision is that every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer programming. The Linux Foundation is offering an opportunity to individuals who want to extend their support for Linux to include increasing opportunities for people to learn programming of all types."
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter - Issue 74, May 2014
The Free Software Foundation newsletter for May covers the partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to support DRM, International Day Against DRM, Tehnoetic wireless USB adapter is FSF-certified, interview with Ciaran Gultnieks of F-Droid, FSF job opening, FSF statement on Court of Appeals ruling in Oracle v Google, and several other topics.FSFE Newsletter – June 2014
The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter for June looks at privacy and Gmail, the security of Android apps, DRM, and much more.The unexpected outcome of the Open Source Seed Initiative's licensing debate (Opensource.com)
Over at Opensource.com, Jack Kloppenburg—one of the founders of the Open Source Seed Initiative (OSSI) that is trying to apply open source ideas to the genetic material in plant seeds—describes the switch from a licensing approach to that of a "pledge". "In February of 2014, OSSI made the hard but considered decision to abandon efforts to develop a legally defensible license and to shift to a pledge. This moves OSSI’s discourse and action from the legal field to the terrain of norms and ethics. We have found this shift to be stimulating, reinvigorating, and productive. The licensing approach was pulling us into a policing and bureaucratic orientation that was not congenial. Although our pledge is likely not legally binding, it is easily transmissible, it is viral, it is an uncompromising commitment to free exchange and use, and it is a very effective tool for outreach and education."
New Books
New from No Starch Press: "Penetration Testing"
No Starch Press has released "Penetration Testing" by Georgia Weidman.
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: June 5, 2014 to August 4, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 21 | October 21 October 24 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2014 | Madrid, Spain |
| July 24 | October 6 October 8 |
Qt Developer Days 2014 Europe | Berlin, Germany |
| July 24 | October 24 October 26 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2014 | Columbus, Ohio, USA |
| July 25 | September 22 September 23 |
Lustre Administrators and Developers workshop | Reims, France |
| July 27 | October 14 October 16 |
KVM Forum 2014 | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| July 27 | October 24 October 25 |
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference | Seattle, WA, USA |
| July 30 | October 16 October 17 |
GStreamer Conference | Düsseldorf, Germany |
| July 31 | October 23 October 24 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium | Toronto, Canada |
| August 1 | August 4 | CentOS Dojo Cologne, Germany | Cologne, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
LinuxCon/CloudOpen North America Schedule Announced
The Linux Foundation has announced the schedule and program for LinuxCon and CloudOpen North America, taking place August 20-22, 2014 in Chicago, IL. "Featuring more than 140 sessions and keynotes, LinuxCon and CloudOpen are co-located with a Community Development Workshop presented by community expert Jono Bacon, the Linux Kernel Summit, Linux Security Summit, #MesosCon, OpenDaylight Project Mini-Summit, a UEFI Mini-Summit, and Xen Project User Summit. CloudOpen is the only technical conference that focuses on the open cloud and those projects that comprise it all in one place, including CloudStack, Ceph, Gluster, KVM, OpenStack, Puppet, SaltStack, Xen Project and more."
Events: June 5, 2014 to August 4, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 21 July 27 |
EuroPython 2014 | Berlin, Germany |
| July 26 August 1 |
Gnome Users and Developers Annual Conference | Strasbourg, France |
| August 1 August 3 |
PyCon Australia | Brisbane, Australia |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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