Announcements

The Open Mainframe Project

The Linux Foundation has announced the launch of the Open Mainframe Project. "In just the last few years, demand for mainframe capabilities have drastically increased due to Big Data, mobile processing, cloud computing and virtualization. Linux excels in all these areas, often being recognized as the operating system of the cloud and for advancing the most complex technologies across data, mobile and virtualized environments. Linux on the mainframe today has reached a critical mass such that vendors, users and academia need a neutral forum to work together to advance Linux tools and technologies and increase enterprise innovation."

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GUADEC videos released

GUADEC was held in Gothenburg, Sweden on August 7–9. Videos of the presentations are available.

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FSF30: Get in on the party and User Freedom Summit

The Free Software Foundation will have a 30th birthday party in Boston, Massachusetts on October 3. There will be a User Freedom Summit in the daytime, before the party. "We know that not every free software fan can join us in person in Boston -- so we're hosting a party network where you can promote your own party (we'll even offer some ideas for making your event lots of fun!) We'll have a livestream of the Boston party, and welcome photos and reports from your own parties, too!"

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Happy 24th birthday, Linux kernel (Opensource.com)

Opensource.com wishes Linux a happy 24th birthday, with a brief timeline of Linux history. "There's some debate in the Linux community as to whether we should be celebrating Linux's birthday today or on October 5 when the first public release was made, but Linus says he is O.K. with you celebrating either one, or both! So as we say happy birthday, let's take a quick look back at the years that have passed and how far we have come."

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Ubuntu on the Mainframe: Interview with Canonical's Dustin Kirkland (Linux.com)

Linux.com has an interview with Dustin Kirkland of Canonical's Ubuntu Product and Strategy team, about Ubuntu on the mainframe and more. "Canonical is doing a lot of different things in the enterprise space, to solve different problems. One of the interesting works going on at Canonical is Fan networking. We all know that the world is running out of IPv4 addresses (or already has). The obvious solution to this problem is IPv6, but it’s not universally available. Kirkland said, "There are still places where IPv6 doesn't exist -- little places like Amazon web services where you end up finding lots of containers." The problem multiplies as many instances in cloud need IP addresses. "Each of those instances can run hundreds of containers, each of those containers then needs to be addressable," said Kirkland."

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Speaking Opportunities: O'Reilly Fluent 2016 - Developing the Web

The O'Reilly Fluent Conference will take place March 8-10, 2016 in San Francisco, CA. "Fluent covers the full scope of the Web Platform and associated technologies, including WebGL, CSS3, mobile APIs, Node.js, AngularJS, ECMAScript 6, and more." The call for papers closes September 21.

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CFP Deadlines: August 27, 2015 to October 26, 2015

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
October 15	November 21	LinuxPiter Conference	Saint-Petersburg, Russia

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Events: August 27, 2015 to October 26, 2015

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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 12	FUDcon Cordoba	Córdoba, Argentina
September 10 September 13	International Conference on Open Source Software Computing 2015	Amman, Jordan
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
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 24	NGINX Conference	San Francisco, CA, USA
September 22 September 23	Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2015	Paris, France
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	Nagios World Conference 2015	Saint Paul, MN, USA
September 28 September 30	OpenMP Conference	Aachen, Germany
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 4	PyCon India 2015	Bangalore, India
October 2 October 3	Ohio LinuxFest 2015	Columbus, OH, USA
October 5 October 7	LinuxCon Europe	Dublin, Ireland
October 5 October 7	Qt World Summit 2015	Berlin, Germany
October 5 October 7	Embedded Linux Conference Europe	Dublin, Ireland
October 8	OpenWrt Summit	Dublin, Ireland
October 8 October 9	CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe	Dublin, Ireland
October 8 October 9	GStreamer Conference 2015	Dublin, Ireland
October 9	Innovation in the Cloud Conference	San Antonio, TX, USA
October 10	Programistok	Białystok, Poland
October 10	Poznańska Impreza Wolnego Oprogramowania	Poznań, Poland
October 10 October 11	OpenRISC Conference 2015	Geneva, Switzerland
October 14 October 16	XII Latin American Free Software	Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
October 17	Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference	Lancaster, PA, USA
October 18 October 20	2nd Check_MK Conference	Munich, Germany
October 19 October 23	Tcl/Tk Conference	Manassas, VA, USA
October 19 October 22	ZendCon 2015	Las Vegas, NV, USA
October 19 October 22	Perl Dancer Conference 2015	Vienna, Austria
October 21 October 22	Real Time Linux Workshop	Graz, Austria
October 23 October 24	Seattle GNU/Linux Conference	Seattle, WA, USA
October 24 October 25	PyCon Ireland 2015	Dublin, Ireland

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