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A Turing award for Michael Stonebraker

The ACM has announced that the 2014 A. M. Turing award has gone to Michael Stonebraker. Among many other things, he was the original creator of the database management system now known as PostgreSQL.

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Sébastien Jodogne, ReGlue are Free Software Award winners

Free Software Foundation executive director John Sullivan has announced the winners of the FSF's annual Free Software Awards. The Award for the Advancement of Free Software went to Sébastien Jodogne for his work on free software medical imaging. The Award for Projects of Social Benefit was given to Reglue, which gives GNU/Linux computers to underprivileged children and their families in Austin, TX.

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Kat Walsh joins FSF board of directors

The Free Software Foundation has announced the addition of Kat Walsh to its board of directors. "A lawyer with extensive background in the free culture movement, Walsh brings a wealth of experience with law and licensing to the FSF board. In particular, her skills will help support and oversee the FSF's licensing work on the GNU General Public License (GPL) as well as the LGPL and GFDL. Kat worked as a staff lawyer at Creative Commons, where she was on the team that drafted the last major revision to the family of Creative Commons licenses, completed in November 2013 with the release of the 4.0 licenses." (Thanks to Jim Garrison)

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Meet Cyanogen, The Startup That Wants To Steal Android From Google (Forbes)

Forbes takes a look at Cyanogen, and its prospects in the phone market. "Cyanogen has a chance to snag as many as 1 billion handsets, more than the total number of iPhones sold to date, according to some analysts. Fifty million people already run Cyanogen on their phones, the company says. Most went through the hours-long process of erasing an Android phone and rebooting it with Cyanogen. [Kirt] McMaster is now persuading a growing list of phone manufacturers to make devices with Cyanogen built in, rather than Google’s Android. Their phones are selling out in record time. Analysts say each phone could bring Cyanogen a minimum of $10 in revenue and perhaps much more."

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LibrePlanet 2015: Highlights and what comes next

The Free Software Foundation looks back on LibrePlanet 2015: Free Software Everywhere, which happened March 21-22. "With approximately 350 people in attendance, we kept pace with last year—with a few improvements. In particular, our tech team did a fantastic job improving our video feeds, with peak usage at around 300 simultaneous views. We also worked hard to streamline the registration process, reducing time spent waiting in the registration line before Richard Stallman's Saturday morning keynote, with few hiccups." Videos will be available at the LibrePlanet video archive.

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FSFE: Worldwide more than 50 events about Open Standards

The Free Software Foundation Europe has a reminder that Document Freedom Day is happening from March 24 12:00 UTC until March 26 12:00 UTC. "Document Freedom Day is the global campaign for document liberation by local groups throughout the world. So far more than 50 groups registered their events in over 25 countries ranging from Asia, Europa, Africa, to South and North America."

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New Release by Rocky Nook – Advanced Software Testing, Volume 3, 2nd Edition

Rocky Nook has released "Advanced Software Testing, Volume 3, 2nd Edition" by Rex Black and Jamie Mitchell.

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Call for submissions: Libre Graphics magazine 2.4

Libre Graphics magazine is a print publication devoted to showcasing and promoting work created with Free/Open Source Software. The magazine is seeking submissions for it's 2.4 issue on capture. "We’re looking for work, both visual and textual, exploring the concept of capture, as it relates to or is done with F/LOSS art and design. All kinds of capture, metaphorical or literal, are welcome. Whether it’s a treatise on the politics of photo capture in public places, a series of photos taken using novel F/LOSS methods, documentation of a homebrew 3D scanner, any riff on the idea of capture is invited. We encourage submissions for articles, showcases, interviews and anything else you might suggest." The submission deadline is May 11.

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CFP Deadlines: March 26, 2015 to May 25, 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
May 23	August 22 August 23	Free and Open Source Software Conference	Sankt Augustin, Germany
May 23	May 23 May 25	Wikimedia/MediaWiki European Hackathon	Lyon, France

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Two microconferences accepted for the Linux Plumbers Conference

The 2015 Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) has announced that two microconferences have been accepted for the event, which will be held August 19-21 in Seattle. The Checkpoint/Restart and Energy-aware scheduling and CPU power management microconferences will be held at LPC. Registration for the conference will open on March 27 and it will be co-located with LinuxCon North America, which will be held August 17-19.

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openSUSE Conference and Kolab Summit

openSUSE Conference 2015 will be held with Kolab Summit 2015 May 1-4 in The Hague, Netherlands. Registration is open and the call for papers ends March 31. "The conferences will bring together a wide variety of Free & Open Source contributors to collaborate on one of the major Linux distribution and FOSS projects, as well as showcasing the possibilities of free open source software to enterprise."

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Events: March 26, 2015 to May 25, 2015

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
May 18 May 22	OpenStack Summit	Vancouver, BC, Canada
May 18 May 20	Croatian Linux User Conference	Zagreb, Croatia
May 19 May 21	SAMBA eXPerience 2015	Goettingen, Germany
May 20 May 22	SciPy Latin America 2015	Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
May 21 May 22	ScilabTEC 2015	Paris, France
May 23 May 24	Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia - 2015	Milan, Italy
May 23 May 25	Wikimedia/MediaWiki European Hackathon	Lyon, France

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