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FSFE welcomes adoption of copyright report in EP's JURI committee

The Free Software Foundation Europe takes a look at a report on the Copyright Directive that was adopted by the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parliament. "FSFE, which provided input to the MEPs on the Legal Affairs committee ahead of the vote, views the adopted report as largely positive. The committee generally supported the idea that copyright exceptions and limitations should apply equally both on- and offline. The MEPs also voted in favour of allowing authors to dedicate their works directly to the public domain."

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Best practices to build bridges between tech teams (Opensource.com)

Opensource.com has an interview with Robyn Bergeron about her current position as Operations Advocate at Elastic, and past roles (such as Fedora Project Leader). "The ELK stack (that's Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana), being incredibly flexible and adaptable to many use cases, appeals to both operations folks and developers—but my love for it really has grown from seeing how fantastically it has allowed folks working in ops to not just start more rapidly identifying that "something broke," but also to be able to visually identify the patterns that lead to those broken things. Getting to a point where you're not just on fire all the time fixing technology, and instead fixing the processes that lead to fires, or implementing ways to proactively avoid fires, is not just redeeming, but frees up time to do other things besides firefighting. People love breaking that loop, and it's fabulous being an advocate for something that is literally making people's work-life balance and general happiness levels better. I've been in those fires. It's not fun. It makes me happy to see users feeling awesome."

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RTLWS 17 Call for Papers

The 17th Real Time Linux Workshop will be held October 21 to 23 in Graz, Austria. The call for papers is out now; submissions are due by August 2.

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CFP Deadlines: June 18, 2015 to August 17, 2015

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
August 7	October 27 October 30	PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2015	Vienna, Austria
August 9	October 8 October 9	GStreamer Conference 2015	Dublin, Ireland
August 10	September 2 September 6	End Summer Camp	Forte Bazzera (VE), Italy
August 10	October 26	Korea Linux Forum	Seoul, South Korea
August 14	November 7 November 9	PyCon Canada 2015	Toronto, Canada
August 16	November 7 November 8	PyCON HK 2015	Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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EuroPython 2015: Schedule online

EuroPython will take place July 20-26 in Bilbao, Spain. The schedule is now available. "With over 200 sessions, over 180 speakers, 5 days of talks, trainings, keynotes, lightning talks and open spaces, followed by 2 days of sprints, EuroPython will be one of the most exciting and vibrant Python events this year."

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Akademy 2015 Talks announced

Akademy will take place July 25-31 in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. The talk program is available. The event is free but registration is required. "For most of the year, KDE—one of the largest free and open software communities in the world—works online by email, IRC, forums and mailing lists. Akademy provides all KDE contributors the opportunity to meet in person to foster social bonds, work on concrete technology issues, consider new ideas, and reinforce the innovative, dynamic culture of KDE. Akademy brings together artists, designers, developers, translators, users, writers, sponsors and many other types of KDE contributors to celebrate the achievements of the past year and help determine the direction for the next year. Hands-on sessions offer the opportunity for intense work bringing those plans to reality. The KDE Community welcomes companies building on KDE technology, and those that are looking for opportunities."

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Striving for more diversity at DebConf15

DebConf will take place August 15-22 in Heidelberg, Germany. DebConf is not just for Debian Developers. All members of the community active in different areas are encouraged to come. The DebConf team is designing a new diversity sponsorship program. "DebConf is not just for Debian Developers, we welcome all members of our community active in different areas, like translation, documentation, artwork, testing, specialized derivatives, and many other ways that help make Debian better. In fact, we would like to open DebConf to an even broader audience, and we strongly believe that more diversity at DebConf and in the Debian community will significantly help us towards our goal of becoming the Universal Operating System." Applications for sponsorship will be accecpted until July 6.

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DebConf15 Invited speakers

The DebConf team has announced some confirmed keynote speakers, including Bradley M. Kuhn, Werner Koch, Bdale Garbee, and Jacob Appelbaum.

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Events: June 18, 2015 to August 17, 2015

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
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 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
August 7 August 9	GUADEC	Gothenburg, Sweden
August 7 August 9	GNU Tools Cauldron 2015	Prague, Czech Republic
August 8 August 14	DebCamp15	Heidelberg, Germany
August 12 August 15	Flock	Rochester, New York, USA
August 13 August 17	Chaos Communication Camp 2015	Mildenberg (Berlin), Germany
August 15 August 16	I2PCon	Toronto, Canada
August 15 August 16	Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters	Taipei, Taiwan
August 15 August 22	DebConf15	Heidelberg, Germany
August 16 August 23	LinuxBierWanderung	Wiltz, Luxembourg

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