Announcements

OSI annual report

The Open Source Initiative has published its annual report [PDF] for 2015. "In 2015 we bid fond-farewell to long time President Simon Phipps and welcomed Allison Randal as the new OSI Board President. Simon, who was first elected to the Board in 2010 and became President in 2012, opted not to run for President in his final year on the Board in order to help transition the new President. Simon's presidency will be remembered for his work to transform the OSI into a member-led organization, giving voice to our individual and affiliate members in Board elections and opening up opportunities for direct participation through Working Groups and Incubator Projects." (Thanks to Martin Michlmayr)

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The new Board of Directors of The Document Foundation

The Document Foundation has announced its new Board of Directors. "Elected as directors are, in order of votes: Marina Latini (Studio Storti), Michael Meeks (Collabora), Thorsten Behrens (CIB), Jan Holesovsky (Collabora), Osvaldo Gervasi (independent), Simon Phipps (independent) and Eike Rathke (Red Hat). Elected as deputies are, in order of votes: Norbert Thiebaud (independent), Bjoern Michaelsen (Canonical) and Andreas Mantke (independent). The board has elected Marina Latini as Chairwoman and Michael Meeks as Deputy Chairman."

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Kirkland: ZFS licensing and Linux

Dustin Kirkland justifies Ubuntu's plans to ship the ZFS filesystem kernel module. "And zfs.ko, as a self-contained file system module, is clearly not a derivative work of the Linux kernel but rather quite obviously a derivative work of OpenZFS and OpenSolaris. Equivalent exceptions have existed for many years, for various other stand alone, self-contained, non-GPL and even proprietary (hi, nvidia.ko) kernel modules."

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EuroPython 2016: Call for Proposals

EuroPython will take place July 17-24 in Bilbao, Spain. The call for proposals closes March 6. "We’re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: programming from novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organization. EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience." Early-bird ticket sales are open. Regular sales will begin after the early-bird tickets sell out.

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CfP: MiniDebConf Vienna

There will be a MiniDebConf at Linuxwochen Wien in Vienna, Austria. MiniDebCamp will be held April 28-29, followed by the mini-conference April 30-May 1. The call for proposals closes March 15.

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Flock 2016 update

Registration is open for Flock to Fedora, which will be held August 2-5 in Krakow, Poland. The call for submissions for talks and workshops is open until April 8.

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openSUSE Conference returns to Nuremberg

The openSUSE Conference will take place June 22-26 in Nuremberg, Germany. See the announcement for more details. The call for papers closes April 15.

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CFP Deadlines: February 25, 2016 to April 25, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
April 24	August 20 August 21	Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters	Taipei, Taiwan

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Get ready to Fork the System at LibrePlanet

Registration is open for LibrePlanet, which will be held March 19-20 in Cambridge, MA. "This year's conference program will examine how free software creates the opportunity of a new path for its users, allows developers to fight the restrictions of a system dominated by proprietary software by creating free replacements, and is the foundation of a philosophy of freedom, sharing, and change. Sessions like "Yes, the FCC might ban your operating system" and "GNU/Linux and Chill: Free software on a college campus" will offer insights about how to resist the dominance of proprietary software, which is often built in to university policies and government regulations."

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Power Management and Energy-Awareness Microconference

The Power Management and Energy-Awareness Microconference has been accepted into the 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference, which will be held November 2-4 in Santa Fe, NM. "This microconference will look at elimination of timers from cpufreq governors, unifying idle management in SoCs with power resources shared between CPUs and I/O devices, load balancing utilizing workload consolidation and/or platform energy models to improve energy-efficiency and/or performance, improving CPU frequency selection efficiency by utilizing information provided by the scheduler in intel_pstate and cpufreq governors, idle injection (CFS-based vs. play idle with kthreads), ACPI compliance tests (from the power management perspective) and more."

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Events: February 25, 2016 to April 25, 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	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
March 29 March 31	Collaboration Summit	Lake Tahoe, CA, USA
April 1	DevOps Italia	Bologna, Italy
April 4 April 8	OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop	Monterey, 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 6	OpenIoT Summit	San Diego, 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 18	Libre Graphics Meeting	London, UK
April 15 April 17	PyCon Italia Sette	Firenze, Italia
April 15 April 17	Akademy-es 2016	Madrid, Spain
April 16	15. Augsburger Linux Info Tag	Augsburg, Germany
April 18 April 19	Linux Storage, Filesystem & Memory Management Summit	Raleigh, NC, USA
April 18 April 20	PostgreSQL Conference US 2016	New York, NY, USA
April 20 April 21	Vault 2016	Raleigh, NC, USA
April 21 April 24	GNOME.Asia Summit	Delhi, India
April 23	DevCrowd 2016	Szczecin, Poland
April 23 April 24	LinuxFest Northwest	Bellingham, WA, USA

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