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Top 10 FOSS legal developments of 2014 (Opensource.com)

Mark Radcliffe covers some legal developments from 2014, on Opensource.com. "Governments are one of the most important users of software but have had a mixed record in using and contributing to FOSS (free and open source software). The EC recently announced that it intends to remove the barriers that may hinder code contributions to FOSS projects. In particular, the EC wants to clarify legal aspects, including intellectual property rights, copyright, and which author or authors to name when submitting code to the upstream repositories. Pierre Damas, Head of Sector at the Directorate General for IT, hopes that such clarification will motivate many of the EC’s software developers and functionaries to promote the use of FOSS at the EC."

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EFL Dev Day US 2015

Enlightenment Developers Day will take place March 26 in Mountain View, CA. The call for papers deadline is February 20.

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CFP Deadlines: January 15, 2015 to March 16, 2015

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
February 24	April 24	Puppet Camp Berlin 2015	Berlin, Germany
February 28	May 19 May 21	SAMBA eXPerience 2015	Goettingen, Germany
February 28	July 15 July 19	Wikimania Conference	Mexico City, Mexico
February 28	June 26 June 27	Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2015	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
March 1	April 24 April 25	Grazer Linuxtage	Graz, Austria
March 1	April 17 April 19	Dni Wolnego Oprogramowania / The Open Source Days	Bielsko-Biała, Poland
March 2	May 12 May 14	Protocols Plugfest Europe 2015	Zaragoza, Spain
March 6	May 8 May 10	Open Source Developers' Conference Nordic	Oslo, Norway
March 7	June 23 June 26	Open Source Bridge	Portland, Oregon, USA
March 9	June 26 June 28	FUDCon Pune 2015	Pune, India
March 15	May 7 May 9	Linuxwochen Wien 2015	Wien, Austria
March 15	May 16 May 17	MiniDebConf Bucharest 2015	Bucharest, Romania

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NetDev 0.1 new proposals accepted

NetDev 0.1 will take place February 14-17 in Ottawa, Canada. This announcement covers some new proposals that were recently accepted. "All of the accepted proposals are new work. A couple of proposals have been returned for rework prior to acceptance. There are still more excellent proposals currently making their way through the technical committee vetting process. The committee has so far been very impressed with the quality of proposals submitted."

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Ready for SCALE 13x?

The Southern California Linux Expo will take place February 19-22. Registration is open for the event and also a Linux Basics Class. Submissions are still open for UpSCALE talks.

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Announcing AdaCamp Montreal

AdaCamp Montreal is a bilingual English/French event that will take place April 13-14 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. "The event will involve an unconference held over the two days, along with evening social events."

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Events: January 15, 2015 to March 16, 2015

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
January 12 January 16	linux.conf.au 2015	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
March 1 March 6	Circumvention Tech Festival	Valencia, Spain
March 9 March 10	Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory Management Summit	Boston, MA, USA
March 9 March 12	FOSS4G North America	San Francisco, CA, USA
March 11 March 12	Vault Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference	Boston, MA, USA
March 11	Nordic PostgreSQL Day 2015	Copenhagen, Denmark
March 12 March 14	Studencki Festiwal Informatyczny / Academic IT Festival	Cracow, Poland
March 13 March 15	FOSSASIA	Singapore
March 13 March 15	GStreamer Hackfest 2015	London, UK

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