Announcements

Chris Beard Named CEO of Mozilla

Mitchell Baker announced that Chris Beard has been appointed CEO of Mozilla Corp. "Over the years, Chris has led many of Mozilla’s most innovative projects. We have relied on his judgment and advice for nearly a decade. Chris has a clear vision of how to take Mozilla’s mission and turn it into industry-changing products and ideas."

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An Indiegogo campaign for the Ottawa Linux Symposium

Andrew Hutton, the organizer of the Ottawa Linux Symposium, has put together an Indiegogo campaign to try to raise funds for this event, which has fallen on hard times in recent years. "When I admitted that this year would likely be the last OLS many people expressed a desire to do something to help. This crowdfunding campaign is the best way I could think of to reach out and offer the community a way to help."

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An Interview with Karen Sandler (Model View Culture)

Over at Model View Culture, Adam Saunders interviews Karen Sandler, executive director of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) and formerly the executive director of the GNOME Foundation. Sandler talks about SFC, the Outreach Program for Women, as well as being a cyborg: "I was diagnosed with a heart condition and needed a pacemaker/defibrillator, and none of the device manufacturers would let me see the source code that was to be literally sewn into my body and connected to my heart. My life relies on the proper functioning of software every day, and I have no confidence that it will. The FDA generally doesn't review the source code of medical devices nor can the public. But multiple researchers have shown that these devices can be maliciously hacked, with fatal consequences. Once you start considering medical devices, you quickly start to realize that it's all kinds of software that is life and society-critical - cars, voting machines, stock markets... It's essential that our software be safe, and the only way we can realistically expect that to be the case over time is by ensuring that our software is free and open. If there's catastrophic failure at Medtronic (the makers of my defibrillator), for example, I wouldn't be able to fix a bug in my own medical device."

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PyTexas 2014 Conference

PyTexas will take place October 3-5 in College Station, Texas. The call for proposals closes August 22. "We are currently looking for speakers and tutorials in all disciplines. Know about GIS, Scientific Computing, Math, Web, Standard Library, or have an itch to present your personal projects? We want you!"

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CFP Deadlines: July 31, 2014 to September 29, 2014

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
September 1	October 2 October 3	PyCon ZA 2014	Johannesburg, South Africa
September 1	October 28 October 29	2014 LLVM Developers' Meeting	San Jose, CA, USA
September 2	November 11	Korea Linux Forum	Seoul, South Korea
September 7	October 4 October 5	Iberian minority language groups reach out to open source	Santiago de Compostela, Spain
September 8	November 10 November 14	21'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference	Portland, Oregon, USA
September 10	October 8 October 10	X Developers Conference	Bordeaux, France
September 11	October 6 October 9	Perl::Dancer Conference 2014	Hancock, NY, USA
September 14	December 27 December 30	31st Chaos Communication Congress	Hamburg, Germany
September 17	October 25 October 28	PyconFR	Lyon, France

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Events: July 31, 2014 to September 29, 2014

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
September 2 September 5	LibreOffice Conference	Bern, Switzerland
September 5 September 7	BalCCon 2k14	Novi Sad, Serbia
September 5	The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop	Gothenburg, Sweden
September 6 September 12	Akademy 2014	Brno, Czech Republic
September 7 September 12	CppCon	Bellevue, WA, USA
September 11 September 13	Free and Open Source Software Expo and Technology Conference	Orlanda, Florida, USA
September 12 September 14	Kiwi PyCon	Wellington, New Zealand
September 15 September 19	GNU Radio Conference	Washington, DC, USA
September 15 September 19	Linaro Connect USA 2014	Burlingame, CA, USA
September 17 September 19	PostgresOpen 2014	Chicago, IL, USA
September 19 September 21	Octave Conference 2014	Montréal, Canada
September 22 September 23	Open Source Backup Conference	Köln, Germany
September 22 September 23	Lustre Administrators and Developers workshop	Reims, France
September 25 September 26	Kernel Recipes	Paris, France
September 26 September 28	PyCon India	Bangalore, India
September 27 September 28	EuroBSDCon 2014	Sofia, Bulgaria

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