Announcements
Brief items
LWN reaches voting age
Just a quick note to point out that the very first LWN Weekly Edition came out on January 22, 1998. So we have now been at it for eighteen years. To say we would have been surprised by that idea in 1998 is a serious understatement. Many thanks to LWN's reader community for keeping us going for all this time!Zemlin on the Linux Foundation's by-law changes
Linux Foundation leader Jim Zemlin explains the recent changes in the organization's by-laws. "First, The Linux Foundation Board structure has not changed. The same individuals remain as directors, and the same ratio of corporate to community directors continues as well. What we did do was to act on a long-discussed perception that the value we provide to individual supporters could be improved, for the first time in a decade. And that the process for recruiting community directors should be changed to be in line with other leading organizations in our community and industry." He also speaks out against the personal attacks that have appeared in conversations about this change.
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: January 28, 2016 to March 28, 2016
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 29 | April 20 April 21 |
Vault 2016 | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| February 1 | April 25 April 29 |
OpenStack Summit | Austin, TX, USA |
| February 1 | June 22 June 24 |
USENIX Annual Technical Conference | Denver, CO, USA |
| February 1 | April 4 April 8 |
OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop | Monterey, CA, USA |
| February 2 | March 29 March 31 |
Collaboration Summit | Lake Tahoe, CA, USA |
| February 5 | April 4 April 6 |
Embedded Linux Conference | San Diego, CA, USA |
| February 5 | April 4 April 6 |
OpenIoT Summit | San Diego, CA, USA |
| February 6 | February 12 February 14 |
Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe Winter Edition 2016 | Minsk, Belarus |
| February 8 | April 7 April 8 |
SRECon16 | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| February 10 | April 23 April 24 |
LinuxFest Northwest | Bellingham, WA, USA |
| February 12 | May 9 May 13 |
ApacheCon North America | Vancouver, Canada |
| February 15 | March 11 March 13 |
Zimowisko Linuksowe TLUG | Puck, Poland |
| February 23 | April 9 April 10 |
OSS Weekend | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| February 28 | April 6 | PostgreSQL and PostGIS, Session #8 | Lyon, France |
| February 28 | May 10 May 12 |
Samba eXPerience 2016 | Berlin, Germany |
| February 28 | April 18 April 19 |
Linux Storage, Filesystem & Memory Management Summit | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| February 28 | June 21 June 22 |
Deutsche OpenStack Tage | Köln, Deutschland |
| February 28 | June 24 June 25 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2016 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| March 1 | April 23 | DevCrowd 2016 | Szczecin, Poland |
| March 6 | July 17 July 24 |
EuroPython 2016 | Bilbao, Spain |
| March 9 | June 1 June 2 |
Apache MesosCon | Denver, CO, USA |
| March 10 | May 14 May 15 |
Open Source Conference Albania | Tirana, Albania |
| March 12 | April 26 | Open Source Day 2016 | Warsaw, Poland |
| March 15 | April 28 May 1 |
Mini-DebCamp & DebConf | Vienna, Austria |
| March 20 | April 28 April 30 |
Linuxwochen Wien 2016 | Vienna, Austria |
| March 25 | July 11 July 17 |
SciPy 2016 | Austin, TX, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Edward Snowden will kick off LibrePlanet 2016
The Free Software Foundation has announced that the opening keynote for LibrePlanet 2016: Fork the System, will be a conversation with National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden and American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Technologist Daniel Kahn Gillmor. LibrePlanet will take place March 19-20 in Cambridge, MA.Events: January 28, 2016 to March 28, 2016
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| January 30 January 31 |
Free and Open Source Developers Meeting | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 1 | MINIXCon 2016 | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| February 1 | Sysadmin Miniconf | Geelong, Australia |
| February 1 February 5 |
linux.conf.au | Geelong, Australia |
| February 5 February 7 |
DevConf.cz 2016 | Brno, Czech Republic |
| February 10 | The Block Chain Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| February 10 February 12 |
netdev 1.1 | Seville, Spain |
| February 12 February 14 |
Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe Winter Edition 2016 | Minsk, Belarus |
| February 24 February 25 |
AGL Member's Meeting | Tokyo, Japan |
| February 27 | Open Source Days | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| March 1 | Icinga Camp Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| March 1 March 6 |
Internet Freedom Festival | Valencia, Spain |
| March 8 March 10 |
Fluent 2016 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| March 9 March 11 |
18th German Perl Workshop | Nürnberg, Germany |
| March 10 March 12 |
Studencki Festiwal Informatyczny (Students' Computer Science Festival) | Cracow, Poland |
| March 11 March 13 |
PyCon SK 2016 | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| March 11 March 13 |
Zimowisko Linuksowe TLUG | Puck, Poland |
| March 14 March 17 |
Open Networking Summit | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| March 14 March 18 |
CeBIT 2016 Open Source Forum | Hannover, Germany |
| March 16 March 17 |
Great Wide Open | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| March 18 March 20 |
FOSSASIA 2016 Singapore | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 19 March 20 |
Chemnitzer Linux Tage 2016 | Chemnitz, Germany |
| March 19 March 20 |
LibrePlanet | Boston, MA, USA |
| March 23 | Make Open Source Software 2016 | Bucharest, Romania |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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