Announcements
Brief items
"Cloud Native Computing Foundation" launched
The Linux Foundation has announced the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. "This new organization aims to advance the state-of-the-art for building cloud native applications and services, allowing developers to take full advantage of existing and to-be-developed open source technologies. Cloud native refers to applications or services that are container-packaged, dynamically scheduled and micro services-oriented. Founding organizations include AT&T, Box, Cisco, Cloud Foundry Foundation, CoreOS, Cycle Computing, Docker, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Google, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Joyent, Kismatic, Mesosphere, Red Hat, Switch SUPERNAP, Twitter, Univa, VMware and Weaveworks. Other organizations are encouraged to participate as founding members in the coming weeks, as the organization establishes its governance model."
Open Document Format (ODF) 1.2 published as International Standard
The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF) Version 1.2 has been published as International Standard 26300:2015 by ISO/IEC. "ODF 1.2 is supported by all the leading office suites, and by a large number of other applications. It has been adopted by the UK Cabinet Office as the reference for all documents exchanged with the UK Government, and is currently proposed as the reference standard by the Référentiel Général d'Interopérabilité 1.9.9 of the French Government. In addition, ODF 1.2 has been adopted by many European public administrations."
Calls for Presentations
2nd Annual Web Audio Conference - submissions now open
Web Audio Conference (WAC) will be held April 4-6, 2016 in Atlanta, GA. "WAC is an international conference dedicated to web audio technologies and applications. The conference welcomes web developers, music technologists, computer musicians, application designers, researchers, and people involved in web standards. The conference addresses research, development, design, and standards concerned with emerging audio-related web technologies such as Web Audio API, Web RTC, WebSockets and Javascript. It is open to industry engineers, R&D scientists, academic researchers, artists, and students." The call for submissions closes October 1.
CFP Deadlines: July 23, 2015 to September 21, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| August 17 | November 19 November 21 |
FOSSETCON 2015 | Orlando, Florida, USA |
| August 19 | September 16 September 18 |
X.org Developer Conference 2015 | Toronto, Canada |
| August 24 | October 19 October 23 |
Tcl/Tk Conference | Manassas, VA, USA |
| August 31 | November 21 November 22 |
PyCon Spain 2015 | Valencia, Spain |
| August 31 | October 19 October 22 |
Perl Dancer Conference 2015 | Vienna, Austria |
| August 31 | November 5 November 7 |
systemd.conf 2015 | Berlin, Germany |
| August 31 | October 9 | Innovation in the Cloud Conference | San Antonio, TX, USA |
| August 31 | November 10 November 11 |
Open Compliance Summit | Yokohama, Japan |
| September 1 | October 1 October 2 |
PyConZA 2015 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| September 6 | October 10 | Programistok | Białystok, Poland |
| September 12 | October 10 | Poznańska Impreza Wolnego Oprogramowania | Poznań, Poland |
| September 15 | November 9 November 11 |
PyData NYC 2015 | New York, NY, USA |
| September 15 | November 14 November 15 |
NixOS Conference 2015 | Berlin, Germany |
| September 20 | October 26 October 28 |
Samsung Open Source Conference | Seoul, South Korea |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: July 23, 2015 to September 21, 2015
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2015 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| August 7 August 9 |
GUADEC | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 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 22 |
DebConf15 | Heidelberg, Germany |
| August 15 August 16 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 16 August 23 |
LinuxBierWanderung | Wiltz, Luxembourg |
| August 17 August 19 |
LinuxCon North America | Seattle, WA, USA |
| August 19 August 21 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Seattle, WA, USA |
| August 19 August 21 |
KVM Forum 2015 | Seattle, WA, USA |
| August 20 August 21 |
Linux Security Summit 2015 | Seattle, WA, USA |
| August 20 | Tracing Summit | Seattle, WA, USA |
| August 20 August 21 |
MesosCon | Seattle, WA, USA |
| August 21 | Golang UK Conference | London, UK |
| August 21 | Unikernel Users Summit at Texas Linux Fest | San Marcos, TX, USA |
| August 21 August 22 |
Texas Linux Fest | San Marcos, TX, USA |
| August 22 | FOSSCON 2015 | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| August 22 August 23 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | Sankt Augustin, Germany |
| August 28 September 3 |
ownCloud Contributor Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| August 29 | EmacsConf 2015 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| September 2 September 6 |
End Summer Camp | Forte Bazzera (VE), Italy |
| September 10 September 13 |
International Conference on Open Source Software Computing 2015 | Amman, Jordan |
| September 10 September 12 |
FUDcon Cordoba | Córdoba, Argentina |
| September 11 September 13 |
vBSDCon 2015 | Reston, VA, USA |
| September 15 September 16 |
verinice.XP | Berlin, Germany |
| September 16 September 18 |
PostgresOpen 2015 | Dallas, TX, USA |
| September 16 September 18 |
X.org Developer Conference 2015 | Toronto, Canada |
| September 19 September 20 |
WineConf 2015 | Vienna, Austria |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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