Announcements
Brief items
EU to fund Free Software code review (FSFE)
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has commented on the most recent European Union (EU) budget—approved on December 17—that includes €1 million for auditing free-software programs that are used by the EU governmental bodies. The auditing is meant to find and fix security holes in those programs. "Even though these institutions are tightly locked into non-free file formats, much of their infrastructure is based on Free Software. 'This is a very welcome decision,' says FSFE's president Karsten Gerloff. 'Like most public bodies, the European institutions rely heavily on Free Software for their daily operations. It is good to see that the Parliament and the Commission will invest at least a little in improving the quality and the programs they use.'"
Defective by Design: Help us shut down DRM in 2015
The Free Software Foundation's Defective by Design campaign is raising funds to fight DRM. "Over the last year, we've doubled down on our communications and outreach, greatly improving the look and feel of our materials so that they put our their message front and center, without sacrificing the rigor and passion that makes DbD effective."
Articles of interest
Ada Initiative end of year report
The Ada Initiative presents its final report for 2014. "Since our last update in mid-2014 , we announced that we are growing by hiring a new executive director, a Linux kernel contributor donated $100,000, we ran 2 more AdaCamps (for a total of 3 AdaCamps on 3 continents), and taught 9 more Ally Skills Workshops. Keep reading for more details, and thanking you for being part of another fantastic year for women in open technology and culture!"
Kuhn: Toward Civil Behavior
Bradley M. Kuhn talks about abusive behavior in the FLOSS community. "In the politics of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS), some people regularly engage in behavior right on that line: berating, verbal abuse, and intimidation. These behaviors are consistently tolerated, accepted, and sometimes lauded in FLOSS projects and organizations. I can report from direct experience: if you think what happens on public mailing lists is bad, what happens on the private phone calls and in-person meetings is even worse. The types of behavior that would-be leaders employ would surely shock you." (Thanks to Paul Wise)
Best of open hardware in 2014 (Opensource.com)
Opensource.com wraps up its open hardware coverage for 2014. You'll find pointers to resources and articles previously published on Opensource.com throughout the year. "Open hardware is the physical foundation of the open movement. It is through understanding, designing, manufacturing, commercializing, and adopting open hardware, that we built the basis for a healthy and self-reliant community of open. And the year of 2014 had plenty of activities in the open hardware front."
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: December 25, 2014 to February 23, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| December 31 | March 17 March 19 |
OpenPOWER Summit | San Jose, CA, USA |
| January 1 | March 21 March 22 |
Kansas Linux Fest | Lawrence, Kansas, USA |
| January 2 | May 21 May 22 |
ScilabTEC 2015 | Paris, France |
| January 5 | January 12 | Linux.conf.au 2015 Multimedia and Music Miniconf | Auckland, New Zealand |
| January 5 | March 23 March 25 |
Android Builders Summit | San Jose, CA, USA |
| January 5 | February 11 February 12 |
Prague PostgreSQL Developer Days 2015 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| January 9 | March 23 March 25 |
Embedded Linux Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| January 10 | May 16 May 17 |
11th Intl. Conf. on Open Source Systems | Florence, Italy |
| January 11 | March 12 March 14 |
Studencki Festiwal Informatyczny / Academic IT Festival | Cracow, Poland |
| January 11 | March 11 | Nordic PostgreSQL Day 2015 | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| January 16 | March 9 March 10 |
Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit | Boston, MA, USA |
| January 19 | June 16 June 20 |
PGCon | Ottawa, Canada |
| January 19 | June 10 June 13 |
BSDCan | Ottawa, Canada |
| January 24 | February 14 February 17 |
Netdev 0.1 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| January 30 | April 25 April 26 |
LinuxFest Northwest | Bellingham, WA, USA |
| February 1 | April 13 April 17 |
ApacheCon North America | Austin, TX, USA |
| February 1 | April 29 May 2 |
Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 | Toronto, Canada |
| February 2 | July 20 July 24 |
O'Reilly Open Source Convention | Portland, OR, USA |
| February 6 | July 27 July 31 |
OpenDaylight Summit | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| February 8 | April 9 April 12 |
Linux Audio Conference | Mainz, Germany |
| February 9 | May 18 May 22 |
OpenStack Summit | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| February 10 | June 1 June 2 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| February 12 | June 3 June 5 |
LinuxCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| February 15 | March 1 March 6 |
Circumvention Tech Festival | Valencia, Spain |
| February 15 | May 1 May 4 |
openSUSE Conference | The Hague, Netherlands |
| February 16 | May 12 May 13 |
PyCon Sweden 2015 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| February 16 | April 13 April 14 |
2015 European LLVM Conference | London, UK |
| February 20 | March 26 | Enlightenment Developers Day North America | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| February 20 | May 13 May 15 |
GeeCON 2015 | Cracow, Poland |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: December 25, 2014 to February 23, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 27 December 30 |
31st Chaos Communication Congress | Hamburg, Germany |
| January 10 January 11 |
NZ2015 mini-DebConf | Auckland, New Zealand |
| January 12 | Linux.conf.au 2015 Multimedia and Music Miniconf | Auckland, New Zealand |
| January 12 January 16 |
linux.conf.au 2015 | Auckland, New Zealand |
| January 12 | LCA Kernel miniconf | Auckland, New Zealand |
| January 12 | LCA2015 Debian Miniconf | Auckland, New Zealand |
| January 13 | Linux.Conf.Au 2015 Systems Administration Miniconf | Auckland, New Zealand |
| January 23 | Open Source in the Legal Field | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| January 31 February 1 |
FOSDEM'15 Distribution Devroom/Miniconf | Brussels, Belgium |
| January 31 February 1 |
FOSDEM 2015 | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 2 February 5 |
Python Namibia | Windhoek, Namibia |
| February 6 February 8 |
DevConf.cz | Brno, Czech Republic |
| February 6 February 8 |
Taiwan mini-DebConf 2015 | Yuli Township, Taiwan |
| February 9 February 13 |
Linaro Connect Asia | Hong Kong, China |
| February 11 February 12 |
Prague PostgreSQL Developer Days 2015 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| February 14 February 17 |
Netdev 0.1 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada |
| February 18 February 20 |
Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit | Santa Rosa, CA, USA |
| February 19 February 22 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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