Announcements

Announcing the shutdown of the Ada Initiative

The Ada Initiative has announced that it is shutting down in mid-October. In the four years since it was founded, the organization has accomplished a lot to help create a less hostile environment for women in open technology and open culture. "We are proud of what we accomplished with the support of many thousands of volunteers, sponsors, and donors, and we expect all of our programs to continue on in some form without the Ada Initiative." Essentially, the organization found it hard to find others with the same "experiences, skills, strengths and passions" as co-founders Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner when they wanted to change roles within the initiative. "The Ada Initiative will shut down in approximately mid-October after using our remaining funds to complete our current obligations and do the tasks necessary to shut down the organization properly. We have several Ally Skills Workshops booked or in the process of being booked during our remaining months of operation. (We will not be booking additional Ally Skills Workshops through the Ada Initiative, but we will refer clients to other people who are teaching the Ally Skills Workshop.) We will teach Impostor Syndrome training classes in Sydney and Oakland in August, and release the materials under the Creative Commons Attribution Sharealike license. We will do the work to keep the Ada Initiative's web content online and available after the Ada Initiative shuts down."

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Coalition Announces New ‘Do Not Track’ Standard for Web Browsing

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), privacy company Disconnect and a coalition of Internet companies have announced a stronger “Do Not Track” (DNT) setting for Web browsing—"a new policy standard that, coupled with privacy software, will better protect users from sites that try to secretly follow and record their Internet activity, and incentivize advertisers and data collection companies to respect a user’s choice not to be tracked online."

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Mourning Nóirín Plunkett

Here are a couple sad notes from the Ada Initiative and the Apache Software Foundation on the abrupt passing of Nóirín Plunkett. "Nóirín was an Apache httpd contributor, ASF board member, VP and ApacheCon organizer. Nóirín's passionate contributions and warm personality will be sorely missed. Many considered Nóirín a friend and viewed Nóirín's work to improving 'Women in Technology' as a great contribution to this cause."

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Free Software Supporter - Issue 88, August 2015

This edition of the Free Software Foundation's newsletter covers the FSF 30th birthday party, fall internships with the FSF, SeaGL, Replicant update, GCC 5.2, a statement on Canonical's updated licensing terms, ProteanOS, and much more.

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FSFE Newsletter - August 2015

The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter looks at a reply to EU consultation on copyright, patents, and trade secrets, How to deal with firmware restrictions, European Coordinators Meeting, Matthias Kirschner interview, and several other topics.

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systemd.conf 2015 Announcement and CfP

The first systemd.conf will take place November 5-7 in Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany. "At systemd.conf 2015 we will discuss the state and future of the Linux core platform and plumbing. The intended audience of the conference are developers, distribution packagers as well as devops professionals. The conference will consist of presentations as well as an extended hackfest." The call for presentations closes August 31.

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ELCE 2015 Technical Showcase - Call for demonstrations

There will be a technical showcase during the Embedded Linux Conference Europe, in Dublin, Ireland. The showcase will be on October 6 and the deadline for proposals is September 7.

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CFP Deadlines: August 6, 2015 to October 5, 2015

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
September 21	March 8 March 10	Fluent 2016	San Francisco, CA, USA
September 25	December 5 December 6	openSUSE.Asia Summit	Taipei, Taiwan
September 27	November 9 November 11	KubeCon	San Francisco, CA, USA
September 28	November 14 November 15	PyCon Czech 2015	Brno, Czech Republic
September 30	November 28	Technical Dutch Open Source Event	Eindhoven, The Netherlands
September 30	November 7 November 8	OpenFest 2015	Sofia, Bulgaria
September 30	December 27 December 30	32. Chaos Communication Congress	Hamburg, Germany
October 1	April 4 April 6	Web Audio Conference	Atlanta, GA, USA
October 2	October 29	FOSS4G Belgium 2015	Brussels, Belgium
October 2	December 8 December 9	Node.js Interactive	Portland, OR, USA

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DebConf15 schedule and featured speakers announced

Debconf15, which will be held in Heidelberg, Germany August 15-23, has announced its schedule as well as four featured speakers: Allison Randal, President, Open Source Initiative and Distinguished Technologist, HP; Peter Eckersly, Chief Computer Scientist, Electronic Frontier Foundation; John Sullivan, Executive Director, Free Software Foundation; and Jon 'maddog' Hall, Executive Director, Linux International. "The DebConf content team is pleased to announce the schedule of DebConf15, the forthcoming Debian Developers Conference. From a total of nearly 100 talk submissions, the team selected 75 talks. Due to the high number of submissions, several talks had to be shortened to 20 minute slots, of which a total of 30 talks have made it to the schedule. In addition, around 50 meetings and discussions (BoFs) have been organized so far, as well as several other events like lightning talk sessions, live demos, a movie screening, a poetry night or stand-up comedy."

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Events: August 6, 2015 to October 5, 2015

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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 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
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	Unikernel Users Summit at Texas Linux Fest	San Marcos, TX, USA
August 21	Golang UK Conference	London, UK
August 21 August 22	Texas Linux Fest	San Marcos, TX, USA
August 22 August 23	Free and Open Source Software Conference	Sankt Augustin, Germany
August 22	FOSSCON 2015	Philadelphia, PA, USA
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	X.org Developer Conference 2015	Toronto, Canada
September 16 September 18	PostgresOpen 2015	Dallas, TX, USA
September 19 September 20	WineConf 2015	Vienna, Austria
September 21 September 23	Octave Conference 2015	Darmstadt, Germany
September 21 September 25	Linaro Connect San Francisco 2015	San Francisco, CA, USA
September 22 September 23	Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2015	Paris, France
September 22 September 24	NGINX Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
September 23 September 25	LibreOffice Conference	Aarhus, Denmark
September 23 September 25	Surge 2015	National Harbor, MD, USA
September 24	PostgreSQL Session 7	Paris, France
September 25 September 27	PyTexas 2015	College Station, TX, USA
September 28 September 30	OpenMP Conference	Aachen, Germany
September 28 September 30	Nagios World Conference 2015	Saint Paul, MN, USA
September 29 September 30	Open Source Backup Conference 2015	Cologne, Germany
September 30 October 2	Kernel Recipes 2015	Paris, France
October 1 October 2	PyConZA 2015	Johannesburg, South Africa
October 2 October 3	Ohio LinuxFest 2015	Columbus, OH, USA
October 2 October 4	PyCon India 2015	Bangalore, India

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