Announcements
Brief items
Hildon Foundation assumes ownership of Maemo trademarks
The Hildon Foundation announced that it has reached an agreement with Nokia over the trademarks and other branding assets of the Maemo project. The agreement transfers the trademarks, pending trademark applications, and domain names—including maemo.org—to Hildon, who will take on "full responsibility and liability for the maintenance and support of all the activity that is and will be on-going on the Maemo Website.
" While undoubtedly a victory for the still-active Maemo community centered around Hildon, the announcement points out that Hildon will not be undertaking customer support for the existing Maemo devices.
The Document Foundation joins the Open Source Business Alliance
The Document Foundation (TDF) has joined the Open Source Business Alliance (OSB Alliance). "'The Open Source Business Alliance has been a key stakeholder for LibreOffice, and for several members of the LibreOffice ecosystem. They have funded several interoperability features with Microsoft OOXML, and are an important source of information on the situation of large LibreOffice deployments', says Thorsten Behrens, TDF Chairman."
Articles of interest
EFF: Protect Yourself from Electronic Spying with 'Surveillance Self-Defense'
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has released an updated version of its 'Surveillance Self-Defense' report. "Surveillance Self-Defense includes briefings on important security issues, tutorials on using specific privacy software like PGP and OTR, and guides for specific categories of users, like human rights activists or journalism students."
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: October 30, 2014 to December 29, 2014
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 1 | April 10 April 12 |
PyCon North America 2015 | Montreal, Canada |
| November 7 | December 5 December 7 |
SciPy India | Bombay, India |
| November 9 | March 21 March 22 |
LibrePlanet 2015 | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| November 30 | January 13 | Linux.Conf.Au 2015 Systems Administration Miniconf | Auckland, New Zealand |
| December 1 | February 6 February 8 |
DevConf.cz | Brno, Czech Republic |
| December 1 | March 11 March 12 |
Vault Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference | Boston, MA, USA |
| December 7 | January 31 February 1 |
FOSDEM'15 Distribution Devroom/Miniconf | Brussels, Belgium |
| December 8 | February 18 February 20 |
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit | Santa Rosa, CA, USA |
| December 10 | February 19 February 22 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| December 14 | January 12 | LCA Kernel miniconf | Auckland, New Zealand |
| December 17 | March 25 March 27 |
PGConf US 2015 | New York City, NY, USA |
| December 21 | January 10 January 11 |
NZ2015 mini-DebConf | Auckland, New Zealand |
| December 21 | January 12 | LCA2015 Debian Miniconf | Auckland, New Zealand |
| December 23 | March 13 March 15 |
FOSSASIA | Singapore |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
LCA 2015 Call for Volunteers
Linux.conf.au is coming to Auckland, New Zealand January 12-16. "Volunteers are needed to register our delegates, show them to their accommodation, guide them around the University and transport them here and there. They will also manage our speakers by making sure that their presentations don't overrun, recording their presentations and assisting them in many other ways during their time at the conference. Anyone who has been a volunteer before will tell you that it’s an extremely busy time, but so worthwhile. It’s rewarding to know that you’ve helped everybody at the conference to get the most out of it. There's nothing quite like knowing that you've made a difference."
Events: October 30, 2014 to December 29, 2014
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 31 November 2 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| November 1 November 2 |
OpenFest 2014 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 3 November 5 |
Qt Developer Days 2014 NA | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| November 3 November 7 |
OpenStack Summit | Paris, France |
| November 4 November 7 |
Open Source Developers' Conference 2014 | Gold Coast, Australia |
| November 6 November 9 |
mini-DebConf | Cambridge, UK |
| November 7 November 9 |
Jesień Linuksowa | Szczyrk, Poland |
| November 8 | Open Source Days | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| November 9 November 14 |
Large Installation System Administration | Seattle, WA, USA |
| November 10 November 14 |
21'th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| November 11 | Korea Linux Forum | Seoul, South Korea |
| November 13 | Hackaday Munich | Munich, Germany |
| November 16 November 21 |
Supercomputing 14 | New Orleans, LA, USA |
| November 17 November 21 |
ApacheCon Europe | Budapest, Hungary |
| November 18 November 20 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| November 19 November 21 |
CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe | Budapest, Hungary |
| November 21 November 23 |
Debian Bug Squashing Party in Munich | Munich, Germany |
| November 22 November 23 |
AdaCamp Bangalore | Bangalore, India |
| November 25 | New Directions in Operating Systems | London, UK |
| November 29 November 30 |
OpenPhoenux Hard and Software Workshop | Munich, Germany |
| December 5 December 7 |
SciPy India | Bombay, India |
| December 27 December 30 |
31st Chaos Communication Congress | Hamburg, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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