Announcements
Brief items
International Day Against DRM
This year the International Day Against DRM will be held on May 6. The Free Software Foundation focuses on community with a wide variety of community groups, activist organizations, and businesses all taking part in the ninth International Day Against DRM.
The FSF's DefectiveByDesign campaign looks at how DRM
affects people with disabilities. "DRM is especially bad for those of us that face additional
hurdles using computers. It's beastly for blind people, who are
dependent on an audiobook market heavily laden with DRM.
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Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter - Issue 85, May 2015
The Free Software Foundation's monthly newsletter for May covers the International Day Against DRM, the Licensing and Compliance Lab interviews Matt Lee, DMCA exemption commenting process broken beyond repair, thousands of Spaniards leave Twitter for GNU social, GNU Mailman 3.0 released, GCC 5 release series update, and several other topics.FSFE Newsletter - May 2015
The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter looks at a secret Free Software action plan by the European Commission, interpretation of law restricting Free Software in Switzerland, Document Freedom Day, and much more.
Calls for Presentations
PGConf Silicon Valley CfP Now Open
PGConf Silicon Valley will be held November 17-18 in San Francisco, CA. The call for papers closes 15.CFP Deadlines: May 7, 2015 to July 6, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 28 | August 28 September 3 |
ownCloud Contributor Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| June 28 | November 11 November 13 |
LDAP Conference 2015 | Edinburgh, UK |
| June 30 | November 16 November 19 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference 2015 | Nuremberg, Germany |
| July 5 | October 27 October 29 |
Open Source Developers' Conference | Hobart, Tasmania |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
EuroPython 2015
EuroPython will take place July 20-26 in Bilbao, Spain. You may now vote for talks and apply for financial aid. Talk voting will be open until May 15.Events: May 7, 2015 to July 6, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 20 |
Croatian Linux User Conference | Zagreb, Croatia |
| May 18 May 22 |
OpenStack Summit | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| 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 |
| June 22 June 23 |
DockerCon15 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| June 23 June 26 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| June 23 June 25 |
Solid Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| June 23 June 26 |
Red Hat Summit | Boston, MA, USA |
| June 25 June 26 |
Swiss PostgreSQL Conference | Rapperswil, Switzerland |
| June 25 June 28 |
Linux Vacation Eastern Europe 2015 | Grodno, Belarus |
| June 26 June 28 |
FUDCon Pune 2015 | Pune, India |
| June 26 June 27 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2015 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| July 3 July 5 |
SteelCon | Sheffield, UK |
| July 4 July 10 |
Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre | Beauvais, France |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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