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Pomerantz and Peek: Fifty shades of open

Jeffrey Pomerantz and Robin Peek seek to disambiguate the word "open", as it is used or misused today. Examples include open source, open access, open society, open knowledge, open government, and so on. "From the common ancestor Free Software, the term “open” diversified, filling a wide range of niches. The Open Source Definition gave rise to a number of other definitions, articulating openness for everything from hardware to knowledge. Inspired by the political philosophy of openness, the Open Society Institute funded the meeting at which the Budapest Open Access Initiative declaration was created. Open Access then gave rise to a wide range of other opens concerned with scholarship, publication, and cultural heritage generally. This spread of openness can be seen as the diversification of a powerful idea into a wide range of resources and services. It can also be seen more importantly as the arrival, society-wide, of an idea whose time has come ... an idea with political, legal, and cultural impacts." (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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PGConf Silicon Valley 2016 - Call for papers

PGConfSV takes place November 14-16 in South San Francisco, California. "Anyone and everyone in the PostgreSQL community is encouraged to submit a talk. We will focus on maintaining diversity in our speakers and guests and especially encourage underrepresented groups to apply. Talks will be accepted up until July 7th, Midnight PST."

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Call for Papers - PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2016

PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2016 will be held November 1-4 in Tallin, Estonia. "It will cover topics for PostgreSQL users, developers and contributors, as well as decision and policy makers." The call for proposals ends August 7.

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CFP Deadlines: May 19, 2016 to July 18, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
July 13	October 25 October 28	OpenStack Summit	Barcelona, Spain
July 15	October 12	Tracing Summit	Berlin, Germany
July 15	September 7 September 9	LibreOffice Conference	Brno, Czech Republic
July 15	October 11	Real-Time Summit 2016	Berlin, Germany

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EuroPython 2016 Keynote: Nicholas Tollervey

The EuroPython team has announced the first keynote speaker, Nicholas Tollervey, for EuroPython 2016 (July 17-24 in Bilbao, Spain). "[Tollervey] was a founding member of the London Python Code Dojo, created and organized PyCon UK’s education track and is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation. He also proposed, coordinated and contributed to the PSF’s partnership with the BBC in the creation of the micro:bit."

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Netdev 1.2 conference

The next Netdev conference will be held October 5-7 in Tokyo, Japan. The call for proposals will begin June 1 and end August 15.

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Events: May 19, 2016 to July 18, 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 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 24	Open Source Bridge	Portland, OR, USA
June 21 June 22	Deutsche OpenStack Tage	Köln, Deutschland
June 21 June 28	Wikimania	Esino Lario, Italy
June 21 June 25	Third Julia Conference	Cambridge, MA, USA
June 22 June 24	USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Denver, CO, USA
June 22 June 26	openSUSE Conference 2016	Nürnberg, Germany
June 23 July 1	DebCamp	Cape Town, South Africa
June 24 June 25	French Perl Workshop 2016	Paris, France
June 24	Swiss PostgreSQL Day	Rapperswil, Switzerland
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 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
July 11 July 17	SciPy 2016	Austin, TX, USA
July 13 July 15	ContainerCon Japan	Tokyo, Japan
July 13 July 14	Automotive Linux Summit	Tokyo, Japan
July 13 July 15	LinuxCon Japan	Tokyo, Japan
July 14 July 16	REST Fest UK 2016	Edinburgh, UK
July 17 July 24	EuroPython 2016	Bilbao, Spain

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