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Garrett: Remembering David MacKay

Matthew Garrett remembers David MacKay, shortly after his passing. "I was already aware of the importance of free software in terms of developers, but working with David made it clear to me how important it was to users as well. A community formed around Dasher, helping us improve it and allowing us to develop support for new use cases that made the difference between someone being able to type at two words per minute and being able to manage twenty. David saw that this collaborative development would be vital to creating something bigger than his original ideas, and it succeeded in ways he couldn't have hoped for." (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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PostgresOpen 2016 - Call For Papers

PostgresOpen will be held September 13-16 in Dallas, Texas. The call for papers closes May 30. "Presentations can be on any topic related to PostgreSQL, including, but not limited to, case studies, experiences, tools and utilities, migration stories, existing features, new feature development, benchmarks, performance tuning, and more!"

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CFP Deadlines: April 21, 2016 to June 20, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
June 10	August 25 August 26	Linux Security Summit 2016	Toronto, Canada
June 11	October 3 October 5	OpenMP Conference	Nara, Japan
June 15	September 8 September 9	First OpenPGP conference	Cologne, Germany
June 15	November 16 November 17	Paris Open Source Summit	Paris, France

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EuroPython 2016: Schedule online

The schedule for EuroPython has been announced. The conference runs July 17-24 in Bilbao, Spain. "With over 180 sessions, over 150 speakers, one day for workshops, 5 days of talks, training, keynotes, lightning talks and open spaces, followed by 2 days of sprints, EuroPython will be one of the most exciting and vibrant Python events this year."

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PCI Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

LPC will be held November 2-4 in Santa Fe, NM. The PCI Microconference will look at PCI support in the kernel. "One issue with current PCI support is that resource allocation is handled on a per-architecture basis, leading to duplicate code, and, worse yet, duplicate bugs. This microconference will therefore look into possible consolidation of this code." There will also be discussions of firmware issues, hardware quirks, power management, and more.

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Events: April 21, 2016 to June 20, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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 27	Cuba International Free Software Conference	Havana, Cuba
April 25 April 29	OpenStack Summit	Austin, TX, USA
April 26 April 28	Open Source Data Center Conference	Berlin, Germany
April 26	Open Source Day 2016	Warsaw, Poland
April 28 May 1	Mini-DebCamp & DebConf	Vienna, Austria
April 28 April 30	Linuxwochen Wien 2016	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
June 11 June 12	Linuxwochen Linz	Linz, Austria
June 11	TÜBIX 2016	Tübingen, Germany
June 14 June 15	PyData Paris 2016	Paris, France
June 19 June 21	DockerCon	Seattle, WA, USA

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