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The ACM 2015 technical awards

The Association for Computing Machinery has announced the recipients of its 2015 technical awards. They are Brent Walters, Michael Luby, Eric Horvitz, and: "Richard Stallman, recipient of the ACM Software System Award for the development and leadership of GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), which has enabled extensive software and hardware innovation, and has been a lynchpin of the free software movement."

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X.Org votes to join SPI

The results of the X.Org election are in. There were two things up for a vote: four seats on the board of directors and amending the bylaws to join Software in the Public Interest (SPI). Unlike last year's election, this year's vote met the required 2/3 approval to join SPI (61 voters out of 65 members, with 54 voting "Yes", 4 "No", and 3 "Abstain"). In addition, Egbert Eich, Alex Deucher, Keith Packard, and Bryce Harrington were elected to the board.

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FSFE Newsletter - May 2016

This edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter covers EU jeopardises its goals in standardisation with FRAND licensing, European Commission vs Google Android, and much more.

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Humble Book Bundle: Hacking, presented by No Starch Press

No Starch Press and Humble Bundle present the "Humble Book Bundle: Hacking". "The bundle includes a selection of the company's finest--such as worldwide best seller "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation"; classics like "Hacking the Xbox"; and more recent best sellers like "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python," "Black Hat Python," and "Practical Malware Analysis." This bundle is a true bargain--valued at over US $350--and with Humble Bundle's pay-what-you-want model, customers can pay whatever price they think is fair."

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DebConf16 Call for Proposals deadline extended

The call for proposals deadline for DebConf has been extended until May 15. DebConf will be held July 2-9 in Cape Town, South Africa.

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EuroPython 2016: Extra Hot Topics - Call for Proposals

There will be a second call for proposals for EuroPython open only June 4-12. This call is strictly reserved for hot topics, emerging technologies, brand new developments in software & hardware, and recent results in research and science. EuroPython will take place July 17-24 in Bilbao, Spain.

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Tracing Summit 2016 Call for Presentations

There will be a Tracing Summit on October 12 in Berlin, Germany, co-located with the Embedded Linux Conference. "The Tracing Summit is organized by the Linux Foundation Diagnostic and Monitoring Workgroup (http://diamon.org). This event focuses on the tracing area, gathering people involved in development and end-users of tracing tools as well as trace analysis tools. The main target of this Tracing Summit is to provide room for discussion between people in the various areas that benefit from tracing, namely parallel, distributed and/or real-time systems, as well as kernel development." The call for proposals ends July 15.

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CFP Deadlines: May 5, 2016 to July 4, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
June 20	September 9 September 11	Kiwi PyCon 2016	Dunedin, New Zealand
June 22	September 19 September 23	Libre Application Summit	Portland, OR, USA
June 26	October 11 October 13	Embedded Linux Conference Europe	Berlin, Germany
June 30	November 29 December 2	Open Source Monitoring Conference	Nürnberg, Germany

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Early LinuxCon + ContainerCon keynotes announced

The Linux Foundation has announced the lineup of early keynote speakers for LinuxCon and ContainerCon. Speakers include Cory Doctorow, Margaret Heffernan, Ainissa Ramirez, and Linus Torvalds. LinuxCon and ContainerCon will take place August 22-24 in Toronto, Canada.

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Events: May 5, 2016 to July 4, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
May 1 June 29	Open Source Innovation Spring	Paris, France
May 2 May 5	FOSS4G North America	Raleigh, NC, USA
May 9 May 13	ApacheCon North America	Vancouver, Canada
May 10 May 12	Samba eXPerience 2016	Berlin, Germany
May 14 May 15	Open Source Conference Albania	Tirana, Albania
May 14 May 15	Community Leadership Summit 2016	Austin, TX, USA
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	TÜBIX 2016	Tübingen, Germany
June 11 June 12	Linuxwochen Linz	Linz, Austria
June 14 June 15	PyData Paris 2016	Paris, France
June 19 June 21	DockerCon	Seattle, WA, USA
June 20 June 23	OPNFV Summit	Berlin, Germany
June 21 June 22	Deutsche OpenStack Tage	Köln, Deutschland
June 21 June 24	Open Source Bridge	Portland, OR, USA
June 21 June 25	Third Julia Conference	Cambridge, MA, USA
June 21 June 28	Wikimania	Esino Lario, Italy
June 22 June 26	openSUSE Conference 2016	Nürnberg, Germany
June 22 June 24	USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Denver, CO, USA
June 23 July 1	DebCamp	Cape Town, South Africa
June 24 June 25	Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2016	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
June 24 June 25	devopsdays Silicon Valley 2016	Mountain View, CA, USA
June 24	Swiss PostgreSQL Day	Rapperswil, Switzerland
June 24 June 25	French Perl Workshop 2016	Paris, France
June 27 July 1	Hack in Paris	Paris, France
June 27 July 1	12th Netfilter Workshop	Amsterdam, Netherlands
July 2 July 9	DebConf16	Cape Town, South Africa

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