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FSFE: Show your love for Free Software

The Free Software Foundation Europe has a reminder that February 14 is "I love Free Software Day". "Every year on 14th February, the Free Software Foundation Europe asks all Free Software users to think about the hard-working people in the Free Software community and to show them their appreciation individually on this "I love Free Software"-Day."

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FSF JavaScript guidelines picked up by Posteo Webmail

The Free Software Foundation has announced that webmail provider Posteo has been working with the FSF to license and tag all JavaScript on their web site and webmail system so that it is immediately identifiable as free software. "They have also done everything possible to ensure that it is 100% compatible with the GNU LibreJS browser extension, which automatically blocks any potentially nonfree JavaScript making it easy to browse the Web in freedom. This is an outstanding effort in defense of the freedom of Posteo's users, and the company deserves recognition for it. We hope others will follow their lead."

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Second batch of ELC 2014 videos

More videos of sessions from the Embedded Linux Conference 2014 have been released. "The videos from Frank Rowand and Tim Bird of Sony Mobile Communications are in addition to the videos that were previously published by Free Electrons."

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The World’s Email Encryption Software Relies on One Guy, Who is Going Broke (ProPublica)

A lot of attention has been paid to this ProPublica article describing Werner Koch's difficulties getting funding for his GnuPG work. But do note the update: "After this article appeared, Werner Koch informed us that last week he was awarded a one-time grant of $60,000 from Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative. Werner told us he only received permission to disclose it after our article published. Meanwhile, since our story was posted, donations have also poured into Werner Koch's website donation page to the tune of nearly $50,000 so far."

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Linux Plumbers Conference call for proposals

The calls for proposals (CFPs) for Linux Plumbers Conference microconferences and refereed track presentations are now up. The conference will be held August 19-21 in Seattle, WA, co-located (and overlapping one day) with LinuxCon North America.

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FUDCon APAC 2015 - Call for Papers

FUDCon (Fedora Users and Developer's Conference) for the Asia-Pacific region will take place June 26-28 in Pune, India. The call for papers closes March 9.

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MiniDebConf Bucharest Call for Talks

The Debian Women project has announced the second edition of its MiniDebConf, to take place May 16-17 in Bucharest, Romania. "What makes this event special is that all our speakers will be people that identify themselves as women." The proposal deadline is March 15.

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CFP Deadlines: February 12, 2015 to April 13, 2015

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
April 6	May 20 May 22	SciPy Latin America 2015	Posadas, Misiones, Argentina

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NetDev 0.1 final schedule

NetDev 0.1 will take place February 14-17 in Ottawa, Canada. The final schedule has been released.

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Events: February 12, 2015 to April 13, 2015

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
April 9 April 12	Linux Audio Conference	Mainz, Germany
April 10 April 12	PyCon North America 2015	Montreal, Canada
April 11 April 12	Lyon mini-DebConf 2015	Lyon, France

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