Announcements
Brief items
The 2015 EFF Pioneer Awards
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced the recipients of its Pioneer Awards for 2015: Caspar Bowden, The Citizen Lab, Annriette Esterhuysen and the Association for Progressive Communications, and Kathy Sierra. "This extraordinary group of winners have all focused on the users, striving to give everyone the access, power, community, and protection they need in order to create and participate in our digital world."
Flock 2015 videos available
Videos from Flock, the Fedora contributor conference, are available on YouTube.
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter - Issue 89, September 2015
This edition of the Free Software Foundation newsletter covers a new version of the Emacs Manual, make your site LibreJS-friendly, Software Freedom Day, the state of federation, happy 18th birthday GNOME, an interview with Fellow Neil McGovern, and much more.Microsoft, Google, Amazon, others, aim for royalty-free video codecs (Ars Technica)
Ars Technica reports that Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Cisco, Intel, Netflix, and Amazon have launched a new consortium, the Alliance for Open Media. "The Alliance for Open Media would put an end to this problem [of patent licenses and royalties]. The group's first aim is to produce a video codec that's a meaningful improvement on HEVC. Many of the members already have their own work on next-generation codecs; Cisco has Thor, Mozilla has been working on Daala, and Google on VP9 and VP10. Daala and Thor are both also under consideration by the IETF's netvc working group, which is similarly trying to assemble a royalty-free video codec."
ownCloud Contributor Conference Announcements
The ownCloud Contributor Conference 2015 (August 28-September 3 in Berlin, Germany) started off with some big announcements, including the publishing of the User Data Manifesto 2.0, the creation of the ownCloud Security Bug Bounty Program, and the release of the ownCloud Proxy app. "Designed for those of you who want your own private, secure “Dropbox” and don’t want the hassle of configuring routers, firewalls and DNS entries for access from anywhere, at any time, ownCloud Proxy is for you. It comes installed as an ownCloud community app in the new ownCloud community appliance, connects to relay servers in the cloud, and provides anytime, anywhere access to your files, on your PC running in your home network, quickly and easily. And, of course, you can grab it from the ownCloud app store and add it to an existing ownCloud server if you already have one running."
FSFE supports recognition for User Data Rights
The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced its support of the publication of the User Data Manifesto 2.0. "Today, users are increasingly using online services to perform their daily computing, whether it is for social networking, for collaboration, or for sharing pictures, among many other activities. Thus, users are losing control over their own data more than ever."
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: September 3, 2015 to November 2, 2015
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| October 26 | April 11 April 13 |
O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| October 30 | January 30 January 31 |
Free and Open Source Developers Meeting | Brussels, Belgium |
| October 30 | January 21 January 24 |
SCALE 14x - Southern California Linux Expo | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| October 31 | November 20 November 22 |
FUEL GILT Conference 2015 | Pune, India |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Kernel Recipes 2015
Kernel Recipes will be held September 30-October 2 in Paris, France. This year the speakers include Greg Kroah-Hartman, Willy Tarreau, Eric Leblond, Laurent Pinchart, William Dauchy, Frédéric Weisbecker, David Woodhouse, Jens Axboe, François Romieu, Kevin Hilman, Mike Turquette, Jan Kara, Stefan Hajnoczi, Bruno Cornec, and Yves-Alexis Perez.SCALE 14x: Want to make history? Volunteer!
SCALE 14x – the Southern California Linux Expo – will be held from January 21-24, 2016, in Pasadena CA. SCALE community-run event and is in need of volunteers. "We are looking for volunteers who can assist the current SCALE teams in the areas of registration, A/V, graphics design, room monitoring, speaker introductions, and more."
Events: September 3, 2015 to November 2, 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 |
| 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 25 |
Linaro Connect San Francisco 2015 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| September 21 September 23 |
Octave Conference 2015 | Darmstadt, Germany |
| 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 3 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2015 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| October 2 October 4 |
PyCon India 2015 | Bangalore, India |
| October 5 October 7 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| October 5 October 7 |
LinuxCon Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| October 5 October 7 |
Qt World Summit 2015 | Berlin, Germany |
| October 8 October 9 |
CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe | Dublin, Ireland |
| October 8 | OpenWrt Summit | Dublin, Ireland |
| October 8 October 9 |
GStreamer Conference 2015 | Dublin, Ireland |
| October 9 | Innovation in the Cloud Conference | San Antonio, TX, USA |
| October 10 | Poznańska Impreza Wolnego Oprogramowania | Poznań, Poland |
| October 10 | Programistok | Białystok, 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 22 |
Perl Dancer Conference 2015 | Vienna, Austria |
| October 19 October 22 |
ZendCon 2015 | Las Vegas, NV, USA |
| October 19 October 23 |
Tcl/Tk Conference | Manassas, VA, USA |
| 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 |
| October 26 October 28 |
OSCON | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| October 26 October 28 |
Samsung Open Source Conference | Seoul, South Korea |
| October 26 | Korea Linux Forum | Seoul, South Korea |
| October 26 October 28 |
Kernel Summit | Seoul, South Korea |
| October 27 October 29 |
Open Source Developers' Conference | Hobart, Tasmania |
| October 27 October 30 |
OpenStack Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| October 27 October 30 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2015 | Vienna, Austria |
| October 29 | FOSS4G Belgium 2015 | Brussels, Belgium |
| October 30 | Software Freedom Law Center Conference | New York, NY, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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