Announcements
Brief items
FSF: Latest TPP leak shows systemic threat to software freedom
The Free Software Foundation looks at a leaked chapter of the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, "the multinational trade agreement that is being developed through a series of secret negotiations and aims to create a host of new restrictions." So what does this have to do with software? "
While all of this is bad news in general, one provision in the leaked document presents a particular threat to software freedom. Holders of copyright, patent, and other proprietary interests are now included in the definition of "investor." Given the destructive nature of these provisions, the fact that proprietary developers could use them to interfere with local government protections of users' rights is cause for alarm."
Calls for Presentations
Call for Papers, PostgreSQL Session #7
The 7th PostgreSQL Session will be held September 24 in Paris, France. "Talks can be either: a case study, a Proof of Concept, a tutorial, a benchmark, a presentation of a new feature, etc. Of course, we're open to propositions on any other migration related topics (monitoring, hardware, replication, etc.) !" The submission deadline is June 15.
CFP Deadlines: April 23, 2015 to June 22, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 15 | August 15 August 22 |
DebConf15 | Heidelberg, Germany |
| June 15 | September 24 | PostgreSQL Session 7 | Paris, France |
| June 15 | November 17 November 18 |
PGConf Silicon Valley | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| June 17 | October 5 October 7 |
LinuxCon Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| June 17 | October 5 October 7 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| June 19 | August 20 | Tracing Summit | Seattle, WA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
EuroPython 2015: Django Girls Workshop
There will be a Django Girls Workshop at EuroPython on July 20 in Bilbao, Spain. "We believe in the work that this group is doing to bring more women into technology, and we will work towards making EuroPython 2015 enjoyable and welcoming for these beginner programmers."
Events: April 23, 2015 to June 22, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 16 June 20 |
PGCon | Ottawa, Canada |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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