Announcements
Brief items
Google Code shutting down
Google has announced that the Google Code repository is shutting down. "As developers migrated away from Google Code, a growing share of the remaining projects were spam or abuse. Lately, the administrative load has consisted almost exclusively of abuse management. After profiling non-abusive activity on Google Code, it has become clear to us that the service simply isn’t needed anymore." New project creation has been stopped already; the final pulling of the plug will be in January 2016.
Articles of interest
The GNU Manifesto Turns Thirty (New Yorker)
The New Yorker notes the 30th anniversary of the GNU Manifesto. "Stallman was one of the first to grasp that, if commercial entities were going to own the methods and technologies that controlled computers, then computer users would inevitably become beholden to those entities. This has come to pass, and in spades. Most computer users have become dependent on proprietary code provided by companies like Apple, Facebook, and Google, the use of which comes with conditions we may not condone or even know about, and can’t control; we have forfeited the freedom to adapt such code according to our needs, preferences, and personal ethics."
Utah software company’s decade-old suit against IBM revived (SL Tribune)
The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the SCO Group's lawsuit against IBM is once again alive and moving in Federal court. "In addition to its claims of IBM misappropriation of code, SCO alleges that IBM executives and lawyers directed the company's Linux programmers to destroy source code on their computers after SCO made its allegations. The company's other remaining claims are that IBM's actions amounted to unfair competition and interference with its contracts and business relations with other companies."
Calls for Presentations
Kolab Summit 2015
Kolab Summit will be held May 2-3 in the The Hague, Netherlands, co-located with the openSUSE conference. The call for papers ends April 1. "Keynotes from Georg Greve, CEO of Kolab Systems AG, and Jeroen van Meeuwen, lead Kolab architect, will open the speaking schedule, providing a look at what is coming for Kolab in 2015 and beyond. Lead developers from Roundcube, the worlds most popular webmail application, along with key participants from KDE Kontact, cyrus-imap, Seafile, OpenChange and more will in attendance and presenting talks."
EuroPython 2015: Call for Proposals
EuroPython will be held in Bilbao, Spain, July 20-26. Proposals must be submitted by April 14. "We’re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: programming from novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organization. EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience."
PostgresOpen 2015 - Call For Papers
PostgresOpen will be held September 16-18 in Dallas, TX. The deadline for submitting talks is May 17. "We're looking for presentations on any topic related to PostgreSQL including, but not limited to, case studies, experiences, tools and utilities, migration stories, existing features, new feature development, benchmarks, performance tuning, and more!"
DebConf15: Call for Proposals
The DebConf Content team has announced the call for proposals for DebConf15, which will be held in Heidelberg, Germany August 15-22. The deadline is June 15.CFP Deadlines: March 19, 2015 to May 18, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 28 | July 20 July 26 |
EuroPython 2015 | Bilbao, Spain |
| April 30 | August 7 August 9 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2015 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| May 1 | August 17 August 19 |
LinuxCon North America | Seattle, WA, USA |
| May 1 | September 10 September 13 |
International Conference on Open Source Software Computing 2015 | Amman, Jordan |
| May 1 | August 19 August 21 |
KVM Forum 2015 | Seattle, WA, USA |
| May 1 | August 19 August 21 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Seattle, WA, USA |
| May 2 | August 12 August 15 |
Flock | Rochester, New York, USA |
| May 3 | August 7 August 9 |
GUADEC | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| May 3 | May 23 May 24 |
Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia - 2015 | Milan, Italy |
| May 8 | July 31 August 4 |
PyCon Australia 2015 | Brisbane, Australia |
| May 15 | September 28 September 30 |
OpenMP Conference | Aachen, Germany |
| May 17 | September 16 September 18 |
PostgresOpen 2015 | Dallas, TX, USA |
| May 17 | August 13 August 17 |
Chaos Communication Camp 2015 | Mildenberg (Berlin), Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Announcing Libre Graphics Meeting 2015
Libre Graphics Meeting will be held April 29-May 2 in Toronto, Canada. "Developers and prominent users of software projects like Inkscape, Gimp, Scribus, Fontforge, My Paint, Blender, and Krita—among many others— come together to show off their projects and discuss them with the larger Libre Graphics community. Not only is Libre Graphics Meeting an exciting and motivating moment for developers and users of all kinds, from typographers to illustrators, designers and video artists, it's is also a unique moment for users and developers of free software to collide and share ideas beyond the confined space of mailing-lists, bug trackers or forums."
Events: March 19, 2015 to May 18, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 29 May 2 |
Libre Graphics Meeting 2015 | Toronto, Canada |
| May 1 May 4 |
openSUSE Conference | The Hague, Netherlands |
| May 2 May 3 |
Kolab Summit 2015 | The Hague, Netherlands |
| May 4 May 5 |
CoreOS Fest | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| May 6 May 8 |
German Perl Workshop 2015 | Dresden, Germany |
| May 7 May 9 |
Linuxwochen Wien 2015 | Wien, Austria |
| May 8 May 10 |
Open Source Developers' Conference Nordic | Oslo, Norway |
| May 12 May 13 |
PyCon Sweden 2015 | Stockholm, Sweden |
| May 12 May 14 |
Protocols Plugfest Europe 2015 | Zaragoza, Spain |
| May 13 May 15 |
GeeCON 2015 | Cracow, Poland |
| May 14 May 15 |
SREcon15 Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| May 16 May 17 |
11th Intl. Conf. on Open Source Systems | Florence, Italy |
| May 16 May 17 |
MiniDebConf Bucharest 2015 | Bucharest, Romania |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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