Announcements
Brief items
Conservancy Seeks Your Questions on GPL Enforcement
Software Freedom Conservancy has announced a long-term campaign to increase education and understanding about community-driven GPL enforcement processes. "Conservancy invites developers and other Open Source and Free Software contributors to email their questions on GPL enforcement to <enforcement-questions@sfconservancy.org>. Conservancy cannot promise to answer every question; Conservancy will use the collected questions over the coming months to provide more educational and informational materials about GPL enforcement, and in particular about Conservancy's GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers."
The Document Foundation 2014 Annual Report
The Document Foundation (TDF) has announced its 2014 Annual Report is available. "TDF Annual Report starts with a Review of 2014, with highlights about TDF and LibreOffice, and a summary of financials and budget."
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter - Issue 86, June 2015
This month the Free Software Foundation's newsletter covers The International Day Against DRM (2015/2016), the Licensing and Compliance Lab interviews François Marier, Sysadmin adventures, Asking Obama to protect encryption, FSF announces deputy director search, LibrePlanet videos, FSF is hiring, and several other topics.
Calls for Presentations
Final Call for DebConf15 Proposals
The deadline for DebConf15 proposals is June 15. Some have already been approved. DebConf15 will take place August 15-22 in Heidelberg, Germany.linux.conf.au 2016 Geelong - Call for Papers
The 2016 edition of linux.conf.au will take place February 1-5 in Geelong, Australia. The theme for the conference is *Life is better with Linux.* The call for papers closes July 6.PyTexas Call For Proposals
PyTexas will take place September 25-27 in College Station, TX. "We love both experienced and first time speakers, so no matter what your age or background, summon your inner honey badger and submit your talk ideas." The deadline is July 19.
XDC2015: Call for papers
The X.org Developer Conference will be held September 16-18 in Toronto, Canada. "As usual, we are open to talks across the layers of the graphics stack, from the kernel to desktop environments / graphical applications and about how to make things better for the developers who build them." The CfP deadline is August 19.
CFP Deadlines: June 4, 2015 to August 3, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 31 | October 26 October 28 |
Kernel Summit | Seoul, South Korea |
| July 31 | October 24 October 25 |
PyCon Ireland 2015 | Dublin, Ireland |
| July 31 | November 3 November 5 |
EclipseCon Europe 2015 | Ludwigsburg, Germany |
| August 2 | February 1 February 5 |
linux.conf.au | Geelong, Australia |
| August 2 | October 21 October 22 |
Real Time Linux Workshop | Graz, Austria |
| August 2 | August 22 | FOSSCON 2015 | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
EuroPython 2015: More than 200 sessions waiting for you
The call for papers is over and 205 sessions were chosen for EuroPython 2015, which will take place July 20,26 in Bilbao, Spain.Events: June 4, 2015 to August 3, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 25 |
Solid Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| June 23 June 26 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, Oregon, 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 |
| 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 |
| July 30 July 31 |
Tizen Developer Summit | Bengaluru, India |
| July 31 August 4 |
PyCon Australia 2015 | Brisbane, Australia |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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