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Free Software Supporter - Issue 75, June 2014

The June edition of the Free Software Foundation's newsletter covers Reset the Net day and the Email Self-Defense guide, the Tor Challenge, a US Supreme Court patent decision, Intel's Active Management Technology, Replicant at the 15th Libre Software Meeting, and several other topics.

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Nelson: The new 501(c)(3) and the future of free software in the United States

Jim Nelson looks at why the Yorba Foundation was denied 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status, and what that means for other free software projects. "Last year there was a bit of a dust-up—a scandal to some, a distraction to others, depending on their politics—when many right-wing nonprofit organizations in the United States began complaining they were being unfairly targeted by the IRS. Media inquiries determined IRS examiners were given “BOLOs” (Be On The Lookout) for certain keywords in 501(c) applications, including “Open Source Software”." (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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Embedded Linux Conference Europe - Call for Participation

Embedded Linux Conference Europe will take place October 13-15, 2014 in Düsseldorf, Germany. The call for participation closes July 11. "Presentations should be of a technical nature, covering topics related to use of Linux in embedded systems. Topics related to consumer electronics are particularly encouraged, but any proposals about Linux that are of general relevance to most embedded developers are welcome."

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CFP Deadlines: July 3, 2014 to September 1, 2014

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
August 31	October 13	Tracing Summit 2014	Düsseldorf, Germany
August 31	October 25 October 26	T-DOSE 2014	Eindhoven, Netherlands

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Events: July 3, 2014 to September 1, 2014

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
August 25	CentOS Dojo Paris, France	Paris, France
August 26 August 31	ownCloud Contributor Conference and Hackathon	Berlin, Germany
August 27 August 30	LaKademy 2014	São Paulo, Brazil

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.