Announcements
Brief items
New Linux-based effort to support global civil infrastructure demands
The Linux Foundation has announced the Civil Infrastructure Platform, "an open source framework that will provide the software foundation needed to deliver essential services for civil infrastructure and economic development on a global scale." Civil infrastructure systems deliver critical services such as electric power, oil and gas, water, health care, communications, transportation and more. "
The Civil Infrastructure Platform will aim to work upstream with the Linux kernel and other open source projects to establish a “base layer” of industrial-grade software. This base layer will enable the use of software building blocks that meet safety, security, reliability and other requirements that are critical to industrial and civil infrastructure projects."
Articles of interest
FSFE Newsletter - April 2016
This edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter covers: EU Radio Directive threatens software freedom, US government demands publicly financed software to be published as Free Software, and more.Free Software Supporter Issue 96, April 2016
The Free Software Foundation's newsletter for April covers: Free Software Awards winners, protesting DRM, LibrePlanet recap, Licensing and Compliance Lab interviews Matt Lee, and more.
Calls for Presentations
1st Call For Papers - Tcl/Tk Conference
The 23rd Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2016) will be held November 14-18 in Houston, Texas. The call for papers deadline is September 12.CFP Deadlines: April 7, 2016 to June 6, 2016
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 26 | August 22 August 24 |
LinuxCon NA | Toronto, Canada |
| April 27 | August 12 August 14 |
GNOME Users and Developers European Conference | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| April 30 | June 11 | TÜBIX 2016 | Tübingen, Germany |
| April 30 | October 27 October 28 |
Rust Belt Rust | Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
| April 30 | August 25 August 26 |
The Prometheus conference | Berlin, Germany |
| May 1 | August 24 August 26 |
KVM Forum 2016 | Toronto, Canada |
| May 2 | June 24 June 25 |
devopsdays Silicon Valley 2016 | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| May 6 | October 26 October 27 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| May 6 | July 13 July 15 |
LinuxCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| May 8 | August 12 August 16 |
PyCon Australia 2016 | Melbourne, Australia |
| May 15 | July 2 July 9 |
DebConf16 | Cape Town, South Africa |
| May 15 | September 1 September 8 |
QtCon 2016 | Berlin, Germany |
| May 15 | June 11 June 12 |
Linuxwochen Linz | Linz, Austria |
| May 16 | October 31 November 2 |
O’Reilly Security Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| May 23 | October 17 October 19 |
O'Reilly Open Source Convention | London, UK |
| May 23 | August 20 August 21 |
FrOSCon - Free and Open Source Software Conference | Sankt-Augustin, Germany |
| May 24 | August 18 August 21 |
Camp++ 0x7e0 | Komárom, Hungary |
| May 24 | November 9 November 11 |
O’Reilly Security Conference EU | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| May 25 | October 5 October 7 |
International Workshop on OpenMP | Nara, Japan |
| May 29 | September 20 September 23 |
PyCon JP 2016 | Tokyo, Japan |
| May 30 | September 13 September 16 |
PostgresOpen 2016 | Dallas, TX, USA |
| June 3 | June 24 June 25 |
French Perl Workshop 2016 | Paris, France |
| June 4 | July 30 July 31 |
PyOhio | Columbus, OH, USA |
| June 5 | September 26 September 27 |
Open Source Backup Conference | Cologne, Germany |
| June 5 | September 9 September 10 |
RustConf 2016 | Portland, OR, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
miniLAC 2016 - Linux Audio Conference
There will be a mini Linux Audio Conference April 8-10 in Berlin, Germany.FSF: International Day Against DRM
The tenth International Day Against DRM will be May 3. "Bring the International Day Against DRM to your community. We support event planners of all experience levels by supplying printable materials, putting you in touch with other activists near you and online, and publicizing your event for maximum impact. Check out the amazing list of events from 2015's Day for inspiration and dive into the event planning guide."
systemd.conf 2016
This year's systemd.conf will take place September 28-October 1 in Berlin, Germany. The Call for Presentations will open soon.Events: April 7, 2016 to June 6, 2016
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| April 4 April 8 |
OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop | Monterey, CA, USA |
| April 5 April 7 |
Lustre User Group 2016 | Portland, OR, USA |
| 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 |
| April 25 April 29 |
OpenStack Summit | Austin, TX, USA |
| April 25 April 27 |
Cuba International Free Software Conference | Havana, Cuba |
| April 26 April 28 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| April 26 | Open Source Day 2016 | Warsaw, Poland |
| April 28 April 30 |
Linuxwochen Wien 2016 | Vienna, Austria |
| April 28 May 1 |
Mini-DebCamp & DebConf | Vienna, Austria |
| April 30 | Linux Presentation Day 2016.1 | many cities, Germany |
| May 1 June 29 |
Open Source Innovation Spring | Paris, France |
| May 2 May 5 |
FOSS4G North America | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| May 2 May 3 |
PyCon Israel 2016 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| May 9 May 13 |
ApacheCon North America | Vancouver, Canada |
| May 10 May 12 |
Samba eXPerience 2016 | Berlin, Germany |
| May 14 May 15 |
Community Leadership Summit 2016 | Austin, TX, USA |
| May 14 May 15 |
Open Source Conference Albania | Tirana, Albania |
| May 16 May 19 |
OSCON 2016 | Austin, TX, USA |
| May 17 May 21 |
PGCon - PostgreSQL Conference for Users and Developers | Ottawa, Canada |
| May 24 May 25 |
Cloud Foundry Summit | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| May 26 | NLUUG - Spring conference 2016 | Bunnik, The Netherlands |
| May 28 June 5 |
PyCon 2016 | Portland, OR, USA |
| June 1 June 2 |
Apache MesosCon | Denver, CO, USA |
| June 4 June 5 |
Coliberator 2016 | Bucharest, Romania |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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