Announcements
Brief items
The end for Mandriva
An anonymous reader has pointed out that Mandriva is currently being liquidated (page in French). The company brought in €553,000 in 2013, but that is seemingly not enough to keep it going in 2015. It is a sad end for a company that has been pursuing the desktop Linux dream since 1998.Mourning Marco Pesenti Gritti
The GNOME community is mourning the loss of developer Marco Pesenti Gritti, who passed away on May 23. "He was the most passionate and dedicated hacker I knew, and I know he was extremely respected in the GNOME community, for his work on Epiphany, Evince and Sugar among many others, just like he was at litl. Those who knew him personally know he was also an awesome human being."
Articles of interest
White House sides with Oracle, tells Supreme Court APIs are copyrightable (ArsTechnica)
Ars Technica reports that the US Justice Department has sided with Oracle in its dispute with Google. "The dispute centers on Google copying names, declarations, and header lines of the Java APIs in Android. Oracle filed suit, and in 2012, a San Francisco federal judge sided with Google. The judge ruled that the code in question could not be copyrighted. Oracle prevailed on appeal, however. A federal appeals court ruled that the "declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of the API packages are entitled to copyright protection." Google maintained that the code at issue is not entitled to copyright protection because it constitutes a "method of operation" or "system" that allows programs to communicate with one another." (Thanks to Martin Michlmayr)
Calls for Presentations
Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2015 - Call for Participation
Embedded Linux Conference Europe will take place October 5-7 in Dublin, Ireland. The call for participation deadline is June 17. "Presentations should be of a technical nature, covering topics related to the use of Linux in embedded systems. Topics related to consumer electronics are particularly encouraged, but any proposals about Linux that are of general relevance to most embedded developers are welcome."
OSDC 2015 Call for Papers
Open Source Developers' Conference (OSDC) will take place October 27-29 in Hobart, Tasmania. The call for papers is open until July 5. "The focus for OSDC 2015 is Opening Up For A Better World. Open source software, hardware and standards facilitate higher quality technology, better security and faster innovation; open data allows us to better discover and understand the world we live in; open government aims to ensure that citizens can participate in their democracy; open access publishing exists to spread knowledge and allow that knowledge to be built upon. Open by design is the best default."
CFP Deadlines: May 29, 2015 to July 28, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 15 | October 8 October 9 |
CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| July 15 | October 27 October 30 |
OpenStack Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| July 15 | November 6 November 8 |
Jesień Linuksowa 2015 | Hucisko, Poland |
| July 17 | October 2 October 3 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2015 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| July 19 | September 25 September 27 |
PyTexas 2015 | College Station, TX, USA |
| July 24 | September 22 September 23 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2015 | Paris, France |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: May 29, 2015 to July 28, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 15 July 19 |
Wikimania Conference | Mexico City, Mexico |
| July 18 July 19 |
NetSurf Developer Weekend | Manchester, UK |
| July 20 July 24 |
O'Reilly Open Source Convention | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 20 July 26 |
EuroPython 2015 | Bilbao, Spain |
| July 25 July 31 |
Akademy 2015 | A Coruña, Spain |
| July 27 July 31 |
OpenDaylight Summit | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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