Announcements

The GNU ethical repository criteria

The Free Software Foundation has announced the posting of a set of criteria meant to be used for judging the suitability of code-hosting sites. "The criteria emphasize protection of privacy (including accessibility through the Tor network), functionality without nonfree JavaScript, compatibility with copyleft licensing and philosophy, and equal treatment of all users' traffic."

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Red Hat acquires Ansible

Red Hat has announced that it is acquiring Ansible, the company behind the Ansible configuration management system. "Ansible's automation capabilities, together with Red Hat's existing management portfolio, will help users drive down the cost and complexity of deploying and managing both cloud-native and traditional applications across hybrid cloud environments." LWN looked at Ansible in August.

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Elections for TDF Board of Directors

Nominations are open for The Document Foundation board of directors. "We kindly ask nominees who would like to stand for elections to provide a 75 words statement on their candidacy as continuous text (so no bullet lists or multiple paragraphs)."

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Videos from the Tracing Summit 2015

The Tracing Summit took place last August, colocated with LinuxCon NA. Videos of the presentations are available.

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Appeals Court Gives Google A Clear And Total Fair Use Win On Book Scanning (Techdirt)

Here's a lengthy Techdirt article looking through the US Appeals Court ruling that Google's scanning of books constitutes fair use under copyright law. "Thus, while authors are undoubtedly important intended beneficiaries of copyright, the ultimate, primary intended beneficiary is the public, whose access to knowledge copyright seeks to advance by providing rewards for authorship."

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CiviCRM: a key part of the free software movement

The Free Software Foundation covers the CiviCRM User Summit. "CiviCRM is a free software success story, and it's become an integral to our work at the FSF. We're thankful to everyone who also works on it, submitting bug reports, programming, testing, and translating. We look forward to being part of its community for many years to come, and using it to win more victories for free software."

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SciPy India 2015: call for papers

SciPy India 2015 will be held December 14-16 in Bombay, India. The call for papers ends November 24.

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CFP Deadlines: October 22, 2015 to December 21, 2015

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
November 23	March 19 March 20	LibrePlanet	Boston, MA, USA
November 24	December 14 December 16	SciPy India 2015	Bombay, India
November 24	May 16 May 19	OSCON 2016	Austin, TX, USA
November 30	February 1	MINIXCon 2016	Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 30	February 5 February 7	DevConf.cz 2016	Brno, Czech Republic
December 12	February 1	Sysadmin Miniconf	Geelong, Australia
December 20	February 10 February 12	netdev 1.1	Seville, Spain

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SFLC Fall Conference

The Software Freedom Law Center's Fall Conference will take place on October 30 in New York City. An RSVP is appreciated if you are planning to attend. There will also be live stream for those unable to attend in person.

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SCALE 14x: Cory Doctorow keynotes

Cory Doctorow will be a keynote speaker at SCALE 14x, which will take place January 21-24, 2016 in Los Angeles, CA. This announcement also contains a reminder that the call for papers closes October 30.

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DebConf16 fundraising help requested

DebConf16, the annual Debian conference, will take place in Cape Town, South Africa, in July of 2016. Sponsors are needed to help fund the conference. "We are particularly interested in organisations that are either entirely new to sponsoring Debian, or have not sponsored Debian recently (as we are already in touch with our recent supporters)."

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Events: October 22, 2015 to December 21, 2015

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 19 October 22	ZendCon 2015	Las Vegas, NV, USA
October 19 October 22	Perl Dancer Conference 2015	Vienna, Austria
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	PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2015	Vienna, Austria
October 27 October 29	Open Source Developers' Conference	Hobart, Tasmania
October 27 October 30	OpenStack Summit	Tokyo, Japan
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	Jesień Linuksowa 2015	Hucisko, Poland
November 6 November 8	Dublin blockchain hackathon	Dublin, Ireland
November 7 November 8	OpenFest 2015	Sofia, Bulgaria
November 7 November 8	PyCON HK 2015	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
November 7 November 9	PyCon Canada 2015	Toronto, Canada
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 11	Open Compliance Summit	Yokohama, Japan
November 10 November 12	Allseen Alliance Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
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
November 16 November 19	Open Source Monitoring Conference 2015	Nuremberg, Germany
November 17 November 18	PGConf Silicon Valley	San Francisco, CA, USA
November 18 November 19	Paris Open Source Summit	Paris, France
November 18 November 22	Build Stuff 2015	Vilnius, Lithuania
November 19 November 21	FOSSETCON 2015	Orlando, Florida, USA
November 19	NLUUG fall conference 2015	Bunnik, The Netherlands
November 20 November 22	FUEL GILT Conference 2015	Pune, India
November 20 November 22	Postgres User Conference China 2015	Beijing, China
November 21 November 22	PyCon Spain 2015	Valencia, Spain
November 21 November 22	Capitole du Libre 2015	Toulouse, France
November 21	LinuxPiter Conference	Saint-Petersburg, Russia
November 28	Technical Dutch Open Source Event	Eindhoven, The Netherlands
December 4 December 5	Haskell in Leipzig	Leipzig, Germany
December 5 December 6	openSUSE.Asia Summit	Taipei, Taiwan
December 8 December 9	Node.js Interactive	Portland, OR, USA
December 14 December 16	SciPy India 2015	Bombay, India

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