Announcements

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.

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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."

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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!"

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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.

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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

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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."

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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

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