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FSF seeks nominations for the Free Software Awards

The Free Software Foundation is seeking nominations for the Free Software Awards. "The Free Software Awards include the Award for the Advancement of Free Software and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit. The awards are presented each year at the LibrePlanet free software conference, and at the same time nominations for the next year's awards open."

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FSFE: "Freedomvote" and the Swiss national election

FSFE Switzerland has started the "Freedomvote" campaign, in cooperation with the "Swiss Open Systems User Group“ (/ch/open). "The campaign offers an online portal that lists those candidates who will run for election, and their opinion towards Internet policy, Free Software, and open data formats." Swiss national parliament elections (Nationalrat- / Ständeratswahlen) will be held on October 18, 2015.

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Italian Defense migrates to LibreOffice

The Document Foundation reports that LibreItalia Association NGO and the Italian Defense have adopted LibreOffice for Office Automation. "Signed by Sonia Montegiove, President of Associazione LibreItalia NGO, and Ruggiero Di Biase, Rear Admiral and General Manager of the Italian Ministry of Defense Information Systems, the collaboration agreement is focused on the adoption of LibreOffice as open source productivity application for Office Automation. With the adoption of LibreOffice, the Italian Ministry of Defense complies with Law 83 of June 22, 2012, which provides a framework for the adoption of open source software by Italian public administrations, to replace proprietary software."

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Presidential candidate Lawrence Lessig goes one on one with Ars Technica

A bit far afield, perhaps, but Lawrence Lessig is the co-founder of Creative Commons and a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright and trademark. Ars Technica talks with Lawrence about his bid for the US presidency. "Ars: Does your copyleft past help or hurt your presidential bid? Lessig: Whatever you call it, I have the right position on copyright—namely, that it is essential, but needs to be updated to the digital age. If people want to challenge that position, then I’d have to make fair use of the words of Harry Callahan: “Go ahead, make my day.”"

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Library Suspends Tor Node After DHS Intimidation (EFF DeepLinks)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is running a story on its DeepLinks blog that the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire has suspended its Tor node deployment—at least temporarily—due to criticism by the local police department (we covered the launch of the Kilton library's Tor node in August). The EFF post says that the criticism originated when "a regional Department of Homeland Security office contacted the local police to spread fear, uncertainty, and doubt about Tor. The police got in touch with the library board, who suspended the program until they could vote on it on September 15." The EFF has set up a page at which interested parties can sign a petition showing support for the library, and has written its own letter of support to the Lebanon library board. The Library Freedom Project, which is handling the details of running Kilton's Tor node, has also written about the incident and promises further updates after the library board meeting.

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Library’s Tor relay now restored (Ars Technica)

Last week we reported that the Kilton Public Library in Lebanon, New Hampshire suspended its Tor node deployment due to criticism by the local police department. Ars Technica now reports that the Tor relay has been restored. "As Ars reported earlier, the goal of the Library Freedom Project is to set up Tor exit relays in as many of these ubiquitous public institutions as possible. As of now, only about 1,000 exit relays exist worldwide. If this plan is successful, it could vastly increase the scope and speed of the famed anonymizing network. For now, Kilton has a middle relay but has plans to convert it to an exit relay. A middle relay passes traffic to another relay before departing the Tor network on the exit relay."

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The DevConf.cz 2016 Call For Participation is now open

DevConf.cz will take place February 5-7, 2016 in Brno, Czech Republic. The call for participation deadline is November 30.

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CFP Deadlines: September 17, 2015 to November 16, 2015

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
November 2	December 4 December 5	Haskell in Leipzig	Leipzig, Germany

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SFLC Annual Conference

Software Freedom Law Center's Fall Conference, "FOSS and Global Entrepreneurialism", will be held October 30 in New York City, NY. There will be a panel on license compliance dispute resolution, a presentation of new work on designing non-profit organizations, and much more.

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Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK

There will be a mini-DebConf November 5-8 in Cambridge, UK. There will be a two-day mini-DebCamp followed by two days of conference. "I'm expecting that we will end up discussing and working on the arm ports and other ARM-related topics at the very least, but there's also plenty of scope for other subjects for both sprint work and talks."

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Events: September 17, 2015 to November 16, 2015

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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 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	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	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	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	Korea Linux Forum	Seoul, South Korea
October 26 October 28	Kernel Summit	Seoul, South Korea
October 26 October 28	OSCON	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
October 26 October 28	Samsung Open Source Conference	Seoul, South Korea
October 27 October 30	OpenStack Summit	Tokyo, Japan
October 27 October 29	Open Source Developers' Conference	Hobart, Tasmania
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
November 3 November 5	EclipseCon Europe 2015	Ludwigsburg, Germany
November 5 November 7	systemd.conf 2015	Berlin, Germany
November 5 November 8	mini-DebConf	Cambridge, UK
November 6 November 8	Dublin blockchain hackathon	Dublin, Ireland
November 6 November 8	Jesień Linuksowa 2015	Hucisko, Poland
November 7 November 8	OpenFest 2015	Sofia, Bulgaria
November 7 November 9	PyCon Canada 2015	Toronto, Canada
November 7 November 8	PyCON HK 2015	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
November 8 November 13	Large Installation System Administration Conference	Washington, D.C., USA
November 9 November 11	PyData NYC 2015	New York, NY, USA
November 9 November 11	KubeCon	San Francisco, CA, USA
November 10 November 12	Allseen Alliance Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
November 10 November 11	Open Compliance Summit	Yokohama, Japan
November 10 November 13	Black Hat Europe 2015	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
November 11 November 13	LDAP Conference 2015	Edinburgh, UK
November 14 November 15	NixOS Conference 2015	Berlin, Germany
November 14 November 15	PyCon Czech 2015	Brno, Czech Republic
November 15 November 20	Supercomputing 15	Austin, TX, USA

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