Announcements
Brief items
Tor Summer of Privacy
The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have announced a mentoring program entitled the "Tor Summer of Privacy" (TorSoP). Akin to the Google Summer of Code, TorSoP will provide financial support and mentorship for a group of students to work on privacy-related free software. Three student positions are available this year; applications will be accepted through April 10. More details (including project ideas) are provided on the TorSoP page.
Mourning Chris Yeoh
From the OpenStack community comes the sad announcement of the passing of Chris Yeoh, a longtime free-software developer. "Chris was humble, helpful and honest. The OpenStack and broader Open Source communities are poorer for his passing." Those with memories of Chris are encouraged to contribute them to a collection being put together for his daughter.
Articles of interest
FSFE Newsletter - April 2015
The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter for April covers Executive Director Jonas Öberg visits Boston, FSFE supports the Christoph Hellwig GNU GPL enforcement lawsuit, a joint statement on the use of Open Standards in the European Commission, and several other topics.
New Books
Teach Your Kids to Code -- New from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has released "Teach Your Kids to Code" by Bryson Payne.
Calls for Presentations
Call for Presentations for GUADEC 2015
GUADEC is the annual conference of the GNOME community. This year GUADEC will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden from August 7-9. The call for papers deadline is May 3.1st Call For Papers - 22nd Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2015)
Tcl'2015 will take place October 19-23 in Manassas, Virginia. The call for papers closes August 24. "The program committee is asking for papers and presentation proposals from anyone using or developing with Tcl/Tk (and extensions)."
CFP Deadlines: April 9, 2015 to June 8, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 31 | October 2 October 4 |
PyCon India 2015 | Bangalore, India |
| June 1 | November 18 November 22 |
Build Stuff 2015 | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| June 1 | July 3 July 5 |
SteelCon | Sheffield, UK |
| June 5 | August 20 August 21 |
Linux Security Summit 2015 | Seattle, WA, USA |
| June 6 | September 29 September 30 |
Open Source Backup Conference 2015 | Cologne, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
ownCloud Contributor Conference 2015
The ownCloud Contributor Conference will take place August 28-September 3 in Berlin, Germany. Registration is open. "Anybody interested in contributing to and improving ownCloud, be it through coding, design, testing, documentation or translating should absolutely join us. Implementing creative, unique ideas or just fixing that annoying problem – that is how ownCloud got where it is and that is how we move forward."
Events: April 9, 2015 to June 8, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| May 30 May 31 |
Linuxwochen Linz 2015 | Linz, Austria |
| June 1 June 2 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 3 June 5 |
LinuxCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 3 June 6 |
Latin American Akademy | Salvador, Brazil |
| June 5 June 7 |
PyCon APAC 2015 | Taipei, Taiwan |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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