Announcements

OPW becomes Outreachy

The effort formerly known as the FOSS Outreach Program for Women has just been rebranded as Outreachy and moved under the Software Freedom Conservancy's organizational umbrella. "The upcoming round of internships is open to women (cis and trans), trans men, genderqueer people, and all participants of the Ascend Project regardless of gender. We are planning to expand the program to more participants from underrepresented backgrounds in the future."

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Libreboot X200 laptop now FSF-certified to respect your freedom

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has awarded Respects Your Freedom (RYF) certification to the Libreboot X200 laptop. "The Libreboot X200 is a refurbished and updated laptop based on the Lenovo ThinkPad X200. In order to produce a laptop that achieved the Free Software Foundation's certification guidelines, the developers at Gluglug had to replace the low-level firmware as well as the operating system. Microsoft Windows was replaced with the FSF-endorsed Trisquel GNU/Linux operating system, which includes the GNOME 3 desktop environment. The free software boot system of Libreboot and the GNU GRUB 2 bootloader were adapted to replace the stock proprietary firmware, which included a BIOS, Intel's Management Engine (ME) system, and Intel's Active Management Technology (AMT) firmware."

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2014 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners

The LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners have been announced. There was three-way tie for Desktop Distribution of the Year with Linux Mint, Slackware, and Ubuntu topping the list. There are 32 categories in all.

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Free Software Supporter - Issue 82, February 2015

The February edition of the Free Software Foundation's newsletter covers Happy GNU year 2015!, LibrePlanet 2015, "User Liberation" video, interview with Aaron Wolf of Snowdrift.coop, new GNU releases, and much more.

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FSFE Newsletter – February 2015

The Free Software Foundation Europe's newsletter covers I ♥ Free Software day (on February 14), Fellowship elections, and several other topics.

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You can now petition the European Union to 'fix my document' (Opensource.com)

Opensource.com covers an effort, initiated by Open Forum Europe (OFE), to help the European Union (EU) institutions live up to their commitments to support open document formats when communicating with the public. "Inspired by the pothole identification and alert site and app, fixmystreet.com, OFE, through its fixmydocuments.eu, is giving a crowd-sourced voice to public frustration with software interoperability limitations that stand in the way of citizens who are seeking to communicate and interact with government. It should be noted, however, this is more than a vehicle through which to vent. Many parts of the EU are legitimately working hard to implement ODF, the open document format for office applications. Fixmydocuments.eu will help them better identify software and documents that are presenting the most pressing and immediate problems. As an added benefit, it should not go unnoticed that more fully deploying ODF and other open standards will help the EU avoid vendor lock-in."

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No Starch Press and Humble Bundle Present the Brainiac Book Bundle

No Starch Press has joined Humble Bundle to present the Humble Brainiac Book Bundle.

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CFP Deadlines: February 5, 2015 to April 6, 2015

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
March 31	July 25 July 31	Akademy 2015	A Coruña, Spain
March 31	May 4 May 5	CoreOS Fest	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 3	May 2 May 3	Kolab Summit 2015	The Hague, Netherlands
April 4	May 30 May 31	Linuxwochen Linz 2015	Linz, Austria

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NetDev 0.1 weekly update

Registration is still open for NetDev 0.1 (February 14-17 in Ottawa, Canada), and a few discount hotel room are still available. The schedule has been released.

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SCALE 2015

This SCALE update covers the final schedule, submit an UpSCALE Talk, sign up for the Linux Class, and registration. SCALE will take place February 19-22, in Los Angeles, CA.

A second update announces the keynote speakers and an Ally Skills Workshop led by the Ada Initiative.

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Events: February 5, 2015 to April 6, 2015

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
March 16 March 17	SREcon15	Santa Clara, CA, USA
March 17 March 19	OpenPOWER Summit	San Jose, CA, USA
March 21 March 22	LibrePlanet 2015	Cambridge, MA, USA
March 21 March 22	Kansas Linux Fest	Lawrence, Kansas, USA
March 23 March 25	Android Builders Summit	San Jose, CA, USA
March 23 March 25	Embedded Linux Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
March 24 March 26	FLOSSUK DevOps Conference	York, UK
March 25 March 27	PGConf US 2015	New York City, NY, USA
March 26	Enlightenment Developers Day North America	Mountain View, CA, USA
March 28 March 29	Journées du Logiciel Libre	Lyon, France

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