Announcements
Brief items
Community activists are the stars of International Day Against DRM
The Free Software Foundation's DefectiveByDesign campaign looks back at the ninth International Day Against DRM. "Protestors at the New York City Apple store were evicted by uncomfortable security guards. Principled cooks in Italy created painfully spicy -- but tasty-looking -- DRM-themed snacks to illustrate the bait-and-switch deception of DRM-encumbered media. And a solitary activist took on the entire University of Illinois at Chicago campus with nothing but a few hundred flyers and an unflappable attitude. As of the time of this writing, we've heard about three times as many organized events as last year, a total of fifteen. Great job, anti-DRM community!"
Articles of interest
Ada Initiative newsletter
The Ada Initiative has announced a new Executive Director. Also in the news; a graphic novel about Ada Lovelace book and and more workshops.
Calls for Presentations
Call for Papers - PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2015
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2015 will be held October 27-30 in Vienna, Austria. Talks may be in English or German. The submission deadline is August 7.CFP Deadlines: May 14, 2015 to July 13, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Events: May 14, 2015 to July 13, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| June 22 June 23 |
DockerCon15 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| June 23 June 26 |
Red Hat Summit | Boston, MA, USA |
| June 23 June 25 |
Solid Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| June 23 June 26 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, Oregon, USA |
| June 25 June 26 |
Swiss PostgreSQL Conference | Rapperswil, Switzerland |
| June 25 June 28 |
Linux Vacation Eastern Europe 2015 | Grodno, Belarus |
| June 26 June 27 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2015 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| June 26 June 28 |
FUDCon Pune 2015 | Pune, India |
| July 3 July 5 |
SteelCon | Sheffield, UK |
| July 4 July 10 |
Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre | Beauvais, France |
| July 6 July 12 |
SciPy 2015 | Austin, TX, USA |
| July 7 July 10 |
Gophercon | Denver, CO, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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