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Remembering Thomas Wood

The GNOME project mourns the passing of Thomas Wood, commonly known as ‘thos’ on irc. "Thomas was a long time contributor to the GNOME Art project, where he curated GTK+ Themes, backgrounds, login screens, and icons. In later years, he also worked on the control center and maintained the GNOME Backgrounds module. Outside of GNOME, he worked on the Moblin platform, which enabled various technologies key to GNOME 3, like GNOME Shell and Clutter."

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FSF fundraiser a success

The Free Software Foundation has announced that its winter fundraiser was a success, raising $452,000 and gaining 495 new members. "In addition to feeling humbled by your generosity, we get some heartening takeaways from those numbers. More people than ever are supporting the FSF's work defending user freedom -- in addition to welcoming more new members than in any previous fundraiser, more people gave, and gave more generously, than in the past."

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Secret Lab: It's OK to abandon your project (Opensource.com)

Opensource.com covers a linux.conf.au talk by Paris Buttfield-Addison and Jon Manning of Secret Lab. "Secret Lab participates in hackathons to subtly subvert that mission by making interesting games based on data. They don't even care if anyone ever plays the game again. But they've won quite a few national awards along the way. In particular, they've done so through participation in several GovHack events, which are Australia/New Zealand hackathons built around government data sources."

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CFP Deadlines: February 18, 2016 to April 18, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
April 15	June 27 July 1	12th Netfilter Workshop	Amsterdam, Netherlands
April 15	June 22 June 26	openSUSE Conference 2016	Nürnberg, Germany

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MiniDebConf at FOSSASIA

There will be a MiniDebConf at FOSSASIA 2016 in Singapore. FOSSASIA will be held March 18-20. "Please note that the extent of Debian's participation at this event will depend on the number of volunteers. There is sufficient commitment for talks to go ahead in a room dedicated to Debian and for a table where Debian-related materials can be distributed with or without volunteers present."

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Vault Storage Conference Program Announced

Vault, the Linux storage and filesystems conference, will be held April 20-21 in Raleigh, NC. The lineup of keynote speakers and educational sessions for Vault have been announced.

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EuroPython 2016

EuroPython will take place July 17-24 in Bilbao, Spain. The conference website has been launched.

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Events: February 18, 2016 to April 18, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
February 24 February 25	AGL Member's Meeting	Tokyo, Japan
February 27	Open Source Days	Copenhagen, Denmark
March 1 March 6	Internet Freedom Festival	Valencia, Spain
March 1	Icinga Camp Berlin	Berlin, Germany
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	Zimowisko Linuksowe TLUG	Puck, Poland
March 11 March 13	PyCon SK 2016	Bratislava, Slovakia
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
March 29 March 31	Collaboration Summit	Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
April 1	DevOps Italia	Bologna, Italy
April 4 April 6	Web Audio Conference	Atlanta, GA, USA
April 4 April 6	Embedded Linux Conference	San Diego, CA, USA
April 4 April 6	OpenIoT Summit	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
April 11 April 13	O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference	New York, NY, USA
April 15 April 17	PyCon Italia Sette	Firenze, Italia
April 15 April 17	Akademy-es 2016	Madrid, Spain
April 15 April 18	Libre Graphics Meeting	London, UK
April 16	15. Augsburger Linux Info Tag	Augsburg, Germany

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