Announcements

Statement of netfilter project on GPL enforcement

The netfilter project declared its official endorsement of the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement as published by the Software Freedom Conservancy and the Free Software Foundation. "The software of the netfilter project is primarily released under the GNU General Public License. We strongly believe that license compliance is an important factor in the Free Software model. In the absence of voluntary license compliance, license enforcement is a necessary tool to ensure all parties adhere to the same set of fair rules as set forth by the license."

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FSF: Protect your privacy

The Free Software Foundation has issued a call for action to oppose amendments to Rule 41 of the US Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure that threaten internet privacy. The changes will go into effect December 1 unless a bipartisan bill called the Stopping Mass Hacking Act is approved. "The FSF opposes these changes and — in spite of its misleading use of the word "hacking" — supports the Stopping Mass Hacking Act (S. 2952, H.R. 5321), bipartisan legislation that would block the changes. The two bills are currently under review by the Judiciary Committees of the US Senate and House. **Take action: Free software activists around the world can tell the US Congress to pass the Stopping Mass Hacking Act** by using the EFF's No Global Warrants tool or by looking up your representatives if you're in the US. Not in the US? Raise your concerns with your government representative."

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FSF's Defective by Design campaign continues to oppose Web DRM standard

The Free Software Foundation reports that Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), a proposed technological standard for web-based DRM, has moved to the next phase of development within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). "The EME standardization effort, sponsored by streaming giants like Google and Netflix, aims to take advantage of the W3C's influence over Web technology to make it cheaper and more efficient to impose DRM systems. As of yesterday, the EME proposal is now upgraded from Working Draft to Candidate Recommendation within the W3C's process. Under the W3C's rules there are at least three more chances to pull the plug on EME before it becomes a ratified standard, also known as a W3C Recommendation."

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Free Software Supporter Issue 99, July 2016

The Free Software Foundation's monthly newsletter covers net neutrality in Europe, LibrePlanet, GNU Hackers' Meeting, Intel & ME, and why we should get rid of ME, LulzBot TAZ 6 3D printer now FSF-certified, Licensing and Compliance Lab interviews Brett Smith, A Quick Guide to GPLv3, GCC 5.4, and several other topics.

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TDF and FSFE support Software Heritage

The Document Foundation and the Free Software Foundation Europe have both released announcements supporting the Software Heritage project.

TDF: "Software Heritage is an essential building block for preserving, enhancing and sharing the scientific and technical knowledge that is increasingly embedded in software; it also contributes to our ability to access all the information stored in digital form."

FSFE: "The Heritage stores only Free Software, in other words, software that can be used, studied, adapted and shared freely with others; and this is because the Software Heritage initiative relies on being able to share the software it stores. The Software Heritage website is designed to be a useful tool for professionals, scientists, educators and end-users."

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Arduino Project Handbook -- new from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has released "Arduino Project Handbook" by Mark Geddes.

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linux.conf.au 2017 in Hobart -- Talk, Tutorial, and Miniconf submissions

The Call for Proposals for linux.conf.au 2017 is open until August 5. LCA will take place January 16-20 in Hobart, Tasmania. "If you’re working with Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware, if you’re exploring openness in a field outside of technology, or if you’re doing something that you think will be interesting to people interested in Open Source, we want to hear from you!"

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CFP Deadlines: July 8, 2016 to September 6, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
July 22	October 7 October 8	Ohio LinuxFest 2016	Columbus, OH, USA
July 24	September 20 September 21	Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop	Paris, France
July 30	August 25 August 28	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2016	Grodno, Belarus
July 31	September 9 September 11	GNU Tools Cauldron 2016	Hebden Bridge, UK
July 31	October 29 October 30	PyCon HK 2016	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
August 1	October 6 October 7	PyConZA 2016	Cape Town, South Africa
August 1	September 28 October 1	systemd.conf 2016	Berlin, Germany
August 1	October 8 October 9	Gentoo Miniconf 2016	Prague, Czech Republic
August 1	November 11 November 12	Seattle GNU/Linux Conference	Seattle, WA, USA
August 3	October 1 October 2	openSUSE.Asia Summit	Yogyakarta, Indonesia
August 5	January 16 January 20	linux.conf.au 2017	Hobart, Australia
August 7	November 1 November 4	PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2016	Tallin, Estonia
August 7	October 10 October 11	GStreamer Conference	Berlin, Germany
August 8	September 8	LLVM Cauldron	Hebden Bridge, UK
August 15	October 5 October 7	Netdev 1.2	Tokyo, Japan
August 17	September 21 September 23	X Developers Conference	Helsinki, Finland
August 19	October 13	OpenWrt Summit	Berlin, Germany
August 20	August 27 September 2	Bornhack	Aakirkeby, Denmark
August 20	August 22 August 24	7th African Summit on FOSS	Kampala, Uganda
August 21	October 22 October 23	Datenspuren 2016	Dresden, Germany
August 24	September 9 September 15	ownCloud Contributors Conference	Berlin, Germany
August 31	November 12 November 13	PyCon Canada 2016	Toronto, Canada
August 31	October 31	PyCon Finland 2016	Helsinki, Finland
September 1	November 1 November 4	Linux Plumbers Conference	Santa Fe, NM, USA
September 1	November 14	The Third Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
September 5	November 17	NLUUG (Fall conference)	Bunnik, The Netherlands

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Events: July 8, 2016 to September 6, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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
July 30 July 31	PyOhio	Columbus, OH, USA
August 2 August 5	Flock to Fedora	Krakow, Poland
August 10 August 12	MonadLibre 2016	Havana, Cuba
August 12 August 14	GNOME Users and Developers European Conference	Karlsruhe, Germany
August 12 August 16	PyCon Australia 2016	Melbourne, Australia
August 18 August 20	GNU Hackers' Meeting	Rennes, France
August 18 August 21	Camp++ 0x7e0	Komárom, Hungary
August 20 August 21	FrOSCon - Free and Open Source Software Conference	Sankt-Augustin, Germany
August 20 August 21	Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters	Taipei, Taiwan
August 22 August 24	ContainerCon	Toronto, Canada
August 22 August 24	LinuxCon NA	Toronto, Canada
August 22 August 24	7th African Summit on FOSS	Kampala, Uganda
August 24 August 26	YAPC::Europe Cluj 2016	Cluj-Napoca, Romania
August 24 August 26	KVM Forum 2016	Toronto, Canada
August 25 August 26	The Prometheus conference	Berlin, Germany
August 25 August 26	Xen Project Developer Summit	Toronto, Canada
August 25 August 28	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2016	Grodno, Belarus
August 25 August 26	Linux Security Summit 2016	Toronto, Canada
August 27 September 2	Bornhack	Aakirkeby, Denmark
August 31 September 1	Hadoop Summit Melbourne	Melbourne, Australia
September 1 September 7	Nextcloud Conference	Berlin, Germany
September 1 September 8	QtCon 2016	Berlin, Germany
September 2 September 4	FSFE summit 2016	Berlin, Germany

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