Announcements
Brief items
Linux Foundation to host Let's Encrypt
The Linux Foundation (LF) has announced
that it will serve as host of the Let's Encrypt
project, as well as the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).
Let's Encrypt is the free, automated SSL/TLS certificate authority
that was announced in November 2014 by the Electronic Frontier Foundation
(EFF) to provide TLS certificates for every domain on the web. ISRG is
the non-profit organization created to spearhead efforts like Let's
Encrypt (which, as of now, is ISRG's only public project). In the LF
announcement, executive director Jim Zemlin notes that "by
hosting this important encryption project in a neutral forum we can
accelerate the work towards a free, automated and easy security
certification process that benefits millions of people around the
world.
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Hate DRM? Tell the world on May 6th
The Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign has announced the International Day Against DRM on May 6. "We'll be gathering, protesting, making, and sharing, showing the world and the media that we insist on a future without DRM."
OIN Expands the Linux System Definition
Open Invention Network (OIN) has announced that it has updated its Linux System patent non-aggression coverage. "For this update, 115 new packages will be added to the Linux System, out of almost 800 proposed by various parties. Key additions are the reference implementations of the popular Go and Lua programming languages, Nginx, Openshift, and development tools like CMake and Maven. This update will represent an increase of approximately 5% of the total number of packages covered in the Linux System, a reflection of the incremental and disciplined nature of the update process."
X.org election results
As was discussed in this LWN article, the X.Org Foundation recently held an election to choose four board members and decide whether to change the organization's by-laws to enable it to become a member of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). The results are now available. The board members elected are Peter Hutterer, Martin Peres, Rob Clark, and Daniel Vetter. The measure to change the by-laws did not pass, though, despite receiving only two "no" votes, because the required two-thirds majority was not reached.
New Books
The GNU Make Book -- New from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has released "The GNU Make Book" by John Graham-Cumming.
Calls for Presentations
EuroPython 2015: Call for Proposals has been extended
EuroPython will take place July 20-26 in Bilbao, Spain. The call for papers deadline has been extended until April 28.CFP Deadlines: April 16, 2015 to June 15, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 11 | June 25 June 28 |
Linux Vacation Eastern Europe 2015 | Grodno, Belarus |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
2nd Swiss Postgres Conference
There will be a Swiss PostgreSQL Conference June 25-26 in Rapperswil, Switzerland. Registration is open and early bird rates are available until May 15.Events: April 16, 2015 to June 15, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| April 13 April 17 |
SEA Conference | Boulder, CO, USA |
| April 13 April 17 |
ApacheCon North America | Austin, TX, 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 |
| June 8 June 10 |
Yet Another Perl Conference 2015 | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| June 10 June 13 |
BSDCan | Ottawa, Canada |
| June 11 June 12 |
infoShare 2015 | Gdańsk, Poland |
| June 12 June 14 |
Southeast Linux Fest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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