Announcements

Announcing The Journal of Open Source Software

The Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) has been announced. JOSS is an open source, developer-friendly journal for research software packages. "As academics, it's important for us to be able to measure the impact of our work, but available tools & metrics are woefully lacking when it comes to tracking research output that doesn't look like a paper. A 2009 survey of more than 2000 researchers found that > 90% of them consider software important or very important to their work — but even if you've followed this GitHub guide for archiving a GitHub repository with Zenodo (and acquired a DOI in the process), citations to your work probably aren't being counted by the people that matter." (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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Mozilla Open Source Support: Now Open To All Projects

The Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS), an award program focused on supporting open source and free software, was launched last year. The first track provided support for software projects that Mozilla uses or relies on. This year MOSS is open "to any open source project in the world which is undertaking an activity that meaningfully furthers Mozilla’s mission." In other words, projects that help to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. "So if you think your project qualifies, we encourage you to apply. Applications for the Mission Partners track are open as of today. (Applications for Foundational Technology also remain open.) You can read more about our selection criteria and committee on the wiki. The budget for this track for 2016 is approximately US$1.25 million."

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Free Software Supporter Issue 97, May 2016

The Free Software Foundation's monthly newsletter covers a job opening, International Day Against DRM, ethical evaluations of code-hosting services, Linux and ZFS, LibrePlanet, U.S. Federal Source Code Policy, and several other topics.

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FSF: Day Against DRM in review

The International Day Against DRM was May 3, and the Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign looks at some of the activities that took place. "On the Day, US activists set up a lunch meeting with the World Wide Web Consortium to implore them not to build a universal DRM system into the Web. A group in Dhaka, Bangladesh set up a huge banner about privacy and restrictions in front of a Sony store. Italian anti-DRM organizers repeated what's now become a tradition of 8-bit music parties for the Day. Bloggers and writers spread our message through the net, with noted scifi writer Cory Doctorow publishing an article in The Guardian. And more organizations participated than any other year, broadcasting the message of the Day Against DRM to tech policy, literary, free culture, and hacker communities. DRM-free bookstores O'Reilly, Packt Publishing, Leanpub, No Starch Press, and the Pragmatic Bookshelf made their own statement by offering promotions for the day."

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Second Oracle v. Google trial could lead to huge headaches for developers (ars technica)

Ars technica reports on the restart of Oracle v.Google, the fight over Google's use of the Java APIs in Android. "So now, it's back to a jury. Oracle has won its bid to be able to use copyright as a powerful legal sword. But Google can still dodge that sword by convincing a jury that Android's use of APIs constitutes fair use—in other words, relatively small and justified."

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Boehm: How to campaign for the cause of software freedom

On his blog, Mirko Boehm reports on a multi-day workshop where the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and the Peng! Collective teamed up to look at new and innovative ways to get out the message about free software. "These campaigns translate abstract, distant risks or worries into concrete, tangible calls to action. By being provocative, they break the mold and reach a wide audience online and through traditional media. They are “cat content for social change”, as our tutors put it. Campaigners are being urged to stop preaching or complaining, and to start using positive communication combined with subversive PR work instead. Such messaging needs punchlines, which requires some kind of hyperbole – dadaism, hijacking attention, or provocation." (Thanks to Paul Wise.)

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65% of companies are contributing to open source projects (Opensource.com)

The Future of Open Source Survey aims to examine trends in open source. It's hosted by Black Duck and North Bridge. Opensource.com looks at the results. "The 2016 Future of Open Source Survey analyzed responses from nearly 3,400 professionals. Developers made their voices heard in the survey this year, comprising roughly 70% of the participants. The group that showed exponential growth were security professionals, whose participation increased by over 450%. Their participation shows the increasing interest in ensuring that the open source community pays attention to security issues in open source software and securing new technologies as they emerge."

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Ohio LinuxFest 2016 Call for Presentations

Ohio LinuxFest will take place October 7-8 in Columbus, Ohio. The call for presentations closes July 22. "Presentations relating to any free and open source software, not just Linux, are welcome. Areas where we've had talks in the past include networking, system administration, development, and community building."

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CFP Deadlines: May 12, 2016 to July 11, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
July 7	November 14 November 16	PGConfSV 2016	San Francisco, CA, USA

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Tracing Microconference Accepted into 2016 Linux Plumbers Conference

The Tracing microconference has returned to the Linux Plumbers Conference, which takes place November 2-4 in Santa Fe, NM. "Topics proposed for this year's event include new features in the BPF compiler collection, perf, and ftrace; visualization frameworks; large-scale tracing and distributed debugging; always-on analytics and monitoring; do-it-yourself tracing tools; and, last but not least, a kernel-tracing wishlist."

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Events: May 12, 2016 to July 11, 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 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
June 20 June 23	OPNFV Summit	Berlin, Germany
June 21 June 24	Open Source Bridge	Portland, OR, USA
June 21 June 25	Third Julia Conference	Cambridge, MA, USA
June 21 June 22	Deutsche OpenStack Tage	Köln, Deutschland
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	French Perl Workshop 2016	Paris, France
June 24 June 25	Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2016	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
June 24	Swiss PostgreSQL Day	Rapperswil, Switzerland
June 24 June 25	devopsdays Silicon Valley 2016	Mountain View, CA, USA
June 27 July 1	12th Netfilter Workshop	Amsterdam, Netherlands
June 27 July 1	Hack in Paris	Paris, France
July 2 July 9	DebConf16	Cape Town, South Africa
July 8 July 9	Texas Linux Fest	Austin, TX, USA

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