Announcements
Brief items
FOSDEM videos
Videos from FOSDEM sessions are available in mp4 format. WebM versions will become available later. (Thanks to Scott Dowdle)
Articles of interest
Living free: recent updates to the DRM-free Living Guide
The Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign has updated its Guide to DRM-free Living. "The guide now contains over 200 entries for places to get DRM-free ebooks, movies, and music. Included among the new additions are Leanpub, a platform for authors to write and publish programming books and Rebellion Publishing, which sells graphic novels and comics."
Calls for Presentations
Call for events: Be a part of Document Freedom Day 2015
The Free Software Foundation Europe has issued a call for events for Document Freedom Day, March 25. "If you are running a local event, we may be able to offer funding of your local activities or your local print runs - thanks to DFD's generous sponsors. To get inspired, take a look at what other groups from Mexico to Japan did last year."
SciPy Latin América 2015 - Call for Proposals
SciPy Latin América will take place May 20-22 in Posadas, Misiones, Argentina. The call for proposals closes April 6.CFP Deadlines: February 26, 2015 to April 27, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 14 | April 14 April 15 |
Palmetto Open Source Software Conference | Columbia, SC, USA |
| April 15 | June 12 June 14 |
Southeast Linux Fest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
| April 17 | June 11 June 12 |
infoShare 2015 | Gdańsk, Poland |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: February 26, 2015 to April 27, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 13 April 17 |
SEA Conference | Boulder, CO, USA |
| April 13 April 17 |
ApacheCon North America | Austin, TX, USA |
| April 13 April 14 |
AdaCamp Montreal | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| April 13 April 14 |
2015 European LLVM Conference | London, UK |
| April 14 April 15 |
Palmetto Open Source Software Conference | Columbia, SC, USA |
| April 16 April 17 |
Global Conference on Cyberspace | The Hague, Netherlands |
| April 17 April 19 |
Dni Wolnego Oprogramowania / The Open Source Days | Bielsko-Biała, Poland |
| April 21 | pgDay Paris | Paris, France |
| April 21 April 23 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| April 23 | Open Source Day | Warsaw, Poland |
| April 24 | Puppet Camp Berlin 2015 | Berlin, Germany |
| April 24 April 25 |
Grazer Linuxtage | Graz, Austria |
| April 25 April 26 |
LinuxFest Northwest | Bellingham, WA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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