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SourceForge dumps DevShare

The SourceForge hosting site has announced that it has a new owner (BIZX, LLC, along with Slashdot) and that it will be getting rid of the controversial DevShare program, which was covered here in 2013. "As of last week, the DevShare program was completely eliminated. The DevShare program delivered installer bundles as part of the download for participating projects. We want to restore our reputation as a trusted home for open source software, and this was a clear first step towards that. We’re more interested in doing the right thing than making extra short-term profit."

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FSFE: I love Free Software Day 2016

The Free Software Foundation Europe asks all free software users to think of the hardworking people contributing to the Free Software we all depend on. "In the Free Software society we exchange a lot of criticism. We write bug reports, tell others how they can improve the software, ask them for new features, and generally are not shy about criticising others. There is nothing wrong about that. It helps us to constantly improve. But sometimes we forget to show the hardworking people behind the software our appreciation. We should not underestimate the power of a simple "thank you" to motivate Free Software contributors in their important work for society. The 14th of February (a Sunday this year) is the ideal day to do that."

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Linux.conf.au 2016 videos

Videos from linux.conf.au (February 1-5, 2016, Geelong, Australia) have been posted to the conference web site; they are also mirrored on YouTube.

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License compatibility and relicensing by Richard Stallman

Richard Stallman has published a new guide titled License compatibility and relicensing. "Gnu.org is home to a whole host of resources on free software licensing, including frequently asked questions about GNU licenses and our list of free software licenses. Our license list contains information on which licenses are compatible with the GNU General Public License as well as a brief description of what it means to be compatible. This latest article by Stallman provides a more in-depth explanation of what compatibility means and the different ways in which it is achieved."

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It’s Been 20 Years Since This Man Declared Cyberspace Independence (Wired)

Wired talks with John Perry Barlow on the 20th anniversary of his Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace. "In the modern era of global NSA surveillance, China’s Great Firewall, and FBI agents trawling the dark Web, it’s easy to write off Barlow’s declaration as early dotcom-era hubris. But on his document’s 20th anniversary, Barlow himself wants to be clear: He stands by his words just as much today as he did when he clicked “send” in 1996."

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Faust Awards 2016 : call for participation

The Faust Open-Source Software Competition is intended to promote innovative high-quality free audio software developed with the Faust programming language, as well as development tools build around the Faust compiler itself. "To participate, the software must be provided with source code and licensed with a Free/Open Source license. A substantial part of the software must be written in Faust and the Faust source code must be provided. As part of the review process, the software will be built from the sources. All source code, license, video demonstration, installation instructions, and any other documentation must be available on a public web page. License compatibility with other open source software is encouraged. Dependencies on non-open source third-party software are discouraged, with the exception of operating systems and freely available commercial packages." The submission deadline is June 1.

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Flock 2016

Flock, the Fedora contributor conference, will take place August 2-5 in Krakow, Poland. Registration and talk submission are open. "The Flock 2016 conference will feature four full days of talks, workshops, hackfests, and sprints. Your submission is encouraged, since we want to fill the schedule with good content. And of course there will be opportunities to interact with other contributors throughout the conference."

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CFP Deadlines: February 11, 2016 to April 11, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
April 1	May 26	NLUUG - Spring conference 2016	Bunnik, The Netherlands
April 2	May 2 May 3	PyCon Israel 2016	Tel Aviv, Israel
April 7	April 8 April 10	mini Linux Audio Conference 2016	Berlin, Germany
April 8	August 2 August 5	Flock to Fedora	Krakow, Poland

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Events: February 11, 2016 to April 11, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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 18	CeBIT 2016 Open Source Forum	Hannover, Germany
March 14 March 17	Open Networking Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
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
March 29 March 31	Collaboration Summit	Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
April 1	DevOps Italia	Bologna, Italy
April 4 April 6	OpenIoT Summit	San Diego, CA, USA
April 4 April 6	Web Audio Conference	Atlanta, GA, USA
April 4 April 6	Embedded Linux Conference	San Diego, CA, USA
April 4 April 8	OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop	Monterey, CA, USA
April 5 April 7	Lustre User Group 2016	Portland, OR, USA
April 6	PostgreSQL and PostGIS, Session #8	Lyon, France
April 7 April 8	SRECon16	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 8 April 10	mini Linux Audio Conference 2016	Berlin, Germany
April 9 April 10	OSS Weekend	Bratislava, Slovakia

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