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Videos from systemd.conf 2015

The videos of the talks from the inaugural systemd.conf event have been posted. There are about two-dozen talks on the development of systemd itself and systems that use it.

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Videos and Slides from Kernel Recipes

Videos and slides from the 4th edition of Kernel Recipes are available. "This edition brought together nearly twenty speakers, a hundred of registered people for the three days conference. This year again many discussions, punctuated by drawings of Frank Tizzoni. This edition was the opportunity to attend a live release of the stable kernel, the 03/14/54 version, called "Kernel Recipes"."

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FSFE Newsletter - November 2015

This edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe's newsletter covers FSFE to EU: Think global, go Free Software!, What the cloud is going on?, FSFE’s legislative push against compulsory routers, Remember Sony rootkit?, and several other topics.

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TPP has provision banning requirements to transfer or access source code (Knowledge Ecology International)

Knowledge Ecology International looks at Article 14.17 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which has a provision banning requirements to transfer or provide access to software source code. "I'm wondering how the GPL fares here, and how much money Microsoft spent lobbying to get this included in the TPP, or if the NSA has a role in this. One aspect of this provision is that governments cannot insist on source code transparency, for mass market software, even to address concerns over security or interoperability."

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FSF: Time to act on TPP is now

The Free Software Foundation opposes the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and encourages others to take action. "The FSF has been warning users of the dangers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) for many years now. The TPP is an agreement negotiated in secret nominally for the promotion of trade, yet entire chapters of it are dedicated to implementing restrictions and regulations on computing and the Internet. In April of 2015, a leaked draft of the agreement revealed a whole host of problems. From extensions to the term of copyright, confusing provisions on software patents, and spreading the worst aspects of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's (DMCA) Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) provisions beyond the United States, the TPP negotiations were and are an attack on user freedom." There will be a rally and march to stop TPP on November 16 in Washington, D.C., and a hackathon on November 17.

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SFC: GPL Enforcement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

The Software Freedom Conservancy weighs in on the TPP. "Many people have criticized the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty since the text was released. In particular, some of the terms in the agreement are bad for software freedom and other social justice causes. Despite the TPP's stated intention to bring "social benefits" in addition to economic growth, the terms of TPP work against social benefits and awards too much power and control to large multinational corporations, including proprietary software companies." SFC finds the provision banning requirements to transfer or provide access to software source code confusing, but it will not have much impact on copyleft licensing. (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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Security Devroom @ FOSDEM'16

There will be a security devroom at FOSDEM 2016, in Brussels, Belgium, on the topic of "Security and Privacy in modern software". The devroom will be open January 30. The call for talks closes December 10.

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CFP Deadlines: November 12, 2015 to January 11, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
December 31	April 26 April 28	Open Source Data Center Conference	Berlin, Germany
January 3	May 28 June 5	PyCon 2016	Portland, OR, USA
January 8	March 19 March 20	Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2016	Chemnitz, Germany
January 10	April 15 April 17	PyCon Italia Sette	Firenze, Italia

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

NetDev 1.1 Registration open

Registration is open for netdev 1.1, the community-driven Linux networking conference, in Sevilla, Spain, February 10-12, 2016. "If you yearn for the old community tech driven conferences where you mingle with fellow geeks (only these would be Linux networking geeks) then this would be it. There will be no marketing flashy openings. There will just be a pure feed of Linux networking."

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Events: November 12, 2015 to January 11, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
November 8 November 13	Large Installation System Administration Conference	Washington, D.C., USA
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	LinuxPiter Conference	Saint-Petersburg, Russia
November 21 November 22	PyCon Spain 2015	Valencia, Spain
November 21 November 22	Capitole du Libre 2015	Toulouse, France
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
December 27 December 30	32. Chaos Communication Congress	Hamburg, Germany
January 8	Fairphone Workshop	Amsterdam, Netherlands

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.