Announcements
Brief items
US Supreme Court rules against software patents
In April, LWN reported on the case of Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International, which addresses the issue of whether ideas implemented in software are patentable. The ruling [PDF] is now in: a 9-0 decision against patentability. "We hold that the claims at issue are drawn to the abstract idea of intermediated settlement, and that merely requiring generic computer implementation fails to transform that abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention."
No more updates for Freecode
The Freecode site (once known as Freshmeat), has announced that they are no longer updating entries. "Freecode has been the Web's largest index of Linux, Unix and cross-platform software, and mobile applications. Thousands of applications, which are preferably released under an open source license, were meticulously cataloged in the Freecode database, but links to new applications and releases are no longer being added. Each entry provides a description of the software, links to download it and to obtain more information, and a history of the project's releases."
Articles of interest
Steps to diversity in your open source group (Opensource.com)
Opensource.com covers a talk by Coraline Ehmke about diversity in open source. "She came at the topic from the angle of diversity as a value of the culture of our groups. By now we've heard from many open source thought leaders on why we need diversity in open source—arguments mainly center around the more people of the greater population that we include in our groups, and make feel welcome to our groups, the better our results will be. Why? Coraline points to a study indicating that groupthinking is a real thing—we tend to agree with and value the things that are said and done by other people that are simply like us. So, the presence of someone different in our group increases accuracy by reducing knee-jerk agreements."
New Books
The Software Test Engineer's Handbook, 2nd Ed.: New from Rocky Nook
Rocky Nook has released "The Software Test Engineer's Handbook, 2nd Edition" by Graham Bath and Judy McKay.
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: June 26, 2014 to August 25, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| August 15 | September 25 September 26 |
Kernel Recipes | Paris, France |
| August 15 | August 25 | CentOS Dojo Paris, France | Paris, France |
| August 15 | November 3 November 5 |
Qt Developer Days 2014 NA | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| August 15 | October 20 October 21 |
Tizen Developer Summit Shanghai | Shanghai, China |
| August 18 | October 18 October 19 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Beijing, China |
| August 22 | October 3 October 5 |
PyTexas 2014 | College Station, TX, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: June 26, 2014 to August 25, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 21 June 28 |
YAPC North America | Orlando, FL, 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 |
| August 15 August 17 |
GNU Hackers' Meeting 2014 | Munich, Germany |
| August 18 August 19 |
Linux Security Summit 2014 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| August 18 August 20 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Chicago, IL, USA |
| August 18 | 7th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test | San Diego, CA, USA |
| August 18 August 19 |
Xen Developer Summit North America | Chicago, IL, USA |
| August 19 | 2014 USENIX Summit on Hot Topics in Security | San Diego, CA, USA |
| August 20 August 22 |
USENIX Security '14 | San Diego, CA, USA |
| August 20 August 22 |
LinuxCon North America | Chicago, IL, USA |
| August 20 August 22 |
CloudOpen North America | Chicago, IL, USA |
| August 22 August 23 |
BarcampGR | Grand Rapids, MI, USA |
| August 23 August 31 |
Debian Conference 2014 | Portland, OR, USA |
| August 23 August 24 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | St. Augustin (near Bonn), Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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