Announcements
Brief items
GNOME Foundation board of directors election results
The GNOME Foundation is governed by a seven-member board of directors who are elected annually. The just-completed vote had eleven people vying for those seats. Unless there is a challenge to the voting process, the new board members are: Sriram Ramkrishna, Ekaterina Gerasimova, Karen Sandler, Andrea Veri, Jeff Fortin, Tobias Mueller, and Marina Zhurakhinskaya. We looked at the question of corporate involvement in GNOME as one of the election issues being discussed in last week's edition.Join the Tor Challenge
The Free Software Foundation joins the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Tor Project, and Freedom of the Press Foundation in kicking off the Tor Challenge, an initiative intended to increase the number of operating Tor nodes. "We've long been supporters of Tor, and we're pumped to join our allies in promoting it. As we write this, there have already been 370 new relays set up in the past two days. [Let's help double that!]"
Krita Kicks Off 2.9 Development Effort with a Kickstarter Campaign
Krita is an open source digital painting application. The project has announced a kickstarter campaign to fund development for the next version, 2.9. The base goal of the campaign is to fund one developer to work full time on the 2.9 release. There is a stretch goal to fund an additional full time developer.Randa Meetings 2014 fundraising
The Randa Meeting is an annual KDE sprint that takes place in Randa, Switzerland. The KDE project is holding a fundraiser to support the Randa Meetings. "Participants donate their time to help improve the software you love and this is why we need money to cover hard expenses like accommodation and travel to get the volunteer contributors to Randa. If you are not attending, you can still support the Randa Meetings by making a donation. As in the past, the Randa Meetings will benefit everyone who uses KDE software."
Articles of interest
Kuhn: Why your project doesn't need a contributor licensing agreement
Bradley Kuhn tells free software projects that they need not worry about contributor license agreements. "Thus, I encourage those considering a CLA to look past the 'nice assurances we'd like to have — all things being equal' and focus on the 'what legal assurances our FLOSS project actually needs to assure its thrives'. I've spent years doing that analysis; I've concluded quite simply: in this regard, all a project and its legal home actually need is a clear statement and/or assent from the contributor that they offer the contribution under the project's known FLOSS license."
Calls for Presentations
The linux.conf.au 2015 CFP opens
Linux.conf.au 2015 will be held January 12-16 in Auckland, New Zealand. The call for papers has just gone out; submissions will be accepted through July 13.DebConf14 - Call for talks, BoFs and events
DebConf14 will take place July 23-31 in Portland, Oregon. The call for talks deadline in July 7. "Submissions are not limited to traditional talks: you could propose a performance, art installation, debate, or anything else."
CFP Deadlines: June 12, 2014 to August 11, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Events: June 12, 2014 to August 11, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 10 June 12 |
Ubuntu Online Summit 06-2014 | online, online |
| 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 |
| August 4 | CentOS Dojo Cologne, Germany | Cologne, Germany |
| August 6 August 9 |
Flock | Prague, Czech Republic |
| August 9 | Fosscon 2014 | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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