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SPI board election results are available

Software in the Public Interest (SPI) has completed its 2016 board elections. There were two open seats on the board in addition to four board members whose terms were expiring. The six newly elected members of the board are Luca Filipozzi, Joerg Jaspert, Jimmy Kaplowitz, Andrew Tridgell, Valerie Young, and Martin Zobel-Helas. The full results, including voter statistics, are also available.

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Free Software Supporter Issue 100, August 2016

The Free Software Foundation's monthly newsletter covers Microsoft Edge and Netflix, beware of contradictory “support”, protect your privacy, GNOME Board of Directors announced, compulsory routers, French "Digital Republic" bill, and several other topics.

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Ingebrigtsen: The End of Gmane?

On his blog, Gmane creator and maintainer Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen warns that the email-to-news (and web) gateway may be disappearing soon. The site, which is hosted by his employer, has been under a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack for the last few weeks, but there are other problems as well. "And now the DDoS stuff, which I have no idea why is happening, but I can only assume that somebody is angry about something. Probably me being a wise ass. So… it’s been 14 years… I’m old now. I almost threw up earlier tonight because I’m so stressed about the situation. I should retire and read comic books and watch films. Oh, and the day job. Work, work, work. Oh, and Gnus. I’m thinking about ending Gmane, at least as a web site. Perhaps continue running the SMTP-to-NNTP bridge? Perhaps not? I don’t want to make 20-30K mailing lists start having bouncing addresses, but I could just funnel all incoming mail to /dev/null, I guess…" The site, which has been relied on by many (including LWN) since it started in 2002, is down now and it appears to be unclear when (or if) it will be back.

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The Book of R -- new from No Starch Press

No Starch Press has released "The Book of R" by Tilman M. Davies.

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Last chance to submit linux.conf.au talks

The CFP deadline for the 2017 linux.conf.au (January 16-20, Hobart) is August 5; the organizers are warning that, contrary to the usual LCA tradition, that deadline will not be extended this year. So anybody who thinks they may want to speak at LCA should get going on a proposal; see the CFP page for instructions.

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OpenWrt Summit RFP

OpenWrt Summit will take place October 13 in Berlin, Germany. The proposal deadline is August 19. "As a community centered conference, we invite users, developers, employees of companies who use OpenWrt and anyone interested in OpenWrt or LEDE to submit a speaking/session proposal for the OpenWrt Summit."

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PyConZA 2016 - Second Call for Speakers

PyConZA 2016 will take place October 6-7 in Cape Town, South Africa. The call for proposals will remain open until slots are filled. There are presentation slots, as well as tutorials, demos, sprints, and open spaces. PyConZA offers a mentorship program for inexperienced speakers.

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SCALE 15X CFP open

Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 15X) will take place March 2-5, 2017 in Pasadena, CA. The call for presentations closes November 15. "As the event has every year, SCALE 15X will have a wide variety of tracks available, and a list of tracks -- as well as instructions on how to submit -- are listed on the SCALE 15X CFP page at http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/15x/cfp"

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CFP Deadlines: August 4, 2016 to October 3, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
September 9	November 16 November 18	ApacheCon Europe	Seville, Spain
September 12	November 14 November 18	Tcl/Tk Conference	Houston, TX, USA
September 12	October 29 October 30	PyCon.de 2016	Munich, Germany
September 13	December 6	CHAR(16)	New York, NY, USA
September 15	October 21 October 23	Software Freedom Kosovo 2016	Prishtina, Kosovo
September 25	November 4 November 6	FUDCon Phnom Penh	Phnom Penh, Cambodia
September 30	November 12 November 13	T-Dose	Eindhoven, Netherlands
September 30	December 3	NoSlidesConf	Bologna, Italy
September 30	November 5 November 6	OpenFest 2016	Sofia, Bulgaria
September 30	November 29 November 30	5th RISC-V Workshop	Mountain View, CA, USA
September 30	December 27 December 30	Chaos Communication Congress	Hamburg, Germany
October 1	October 22	2016 Columbus Code Camp	Columbus, OH, USA

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Tracing Summit 2016 schedule is now available

The the schedule for the Tracing Summit 2016 is available. The summit will be held in Berlin, Germany on October 12, co-located with the Embedded Linux Conference Europe.

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Wireless Workshop accepted into the 2016 Kernel Summit and LPC

There will be a wireless workshop during the Kernel Summit (October 31-November 1) and Linux Plumbers Conference (November 1-4) in Santa Fe, NM.

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Events: August 4, 2016 to October 3, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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	KVM Forum 2016	Toronto, Canada
August 24 August 26	YAPC::Europe Cluj 2016	Cluj-Napoca, Romania
August 25 August 26	Xen Project Developer Summit	Toronto, Canada
August 25 August 26	Linux Security Summit 2016	Toronto, Canada
August 25 August 26	The Prometheus conference	Berlin, Germany
August 25 August 28	Linux Vacation / Eastern Europe 2016	Grodno, Belarus
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
September 7 September 9	LibreOffice Conference	Brno, Czech Republic
September 8	LLVM Cauldron	Hebden Bridge, UK
September 8 September 9	First OpenPGP conference	Cologne, Germany
September 9 September 11	Kiwi PyCon 2016	Dunedin, New Zealand
September 9 September 15	ownCloud Contributors Conference	Berlin, Germany
September 9 September 10	RustConf 2016	Portland, OR, USA
September 9 September 11	GNU Tools Cauldron 2016	Hebden Bridge, UK
September 13 September 16	PostgresOpen 2016	Dallas, TX, USA
September 15 September 17	REST Fest US 2016	Greenville, SC, USA
September 15 September 19	PyConUK 2016	Cardiff, UK
September 16 September 22	Nextcloud Conference	Berlin, Germany
September 19 September 23	Libre Application Summit	Portland, OR, USA
September 20 September 23	PyCon JP 2016	Tokyo, Japan
September 20 September 21	Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop	Paris, France
September 20 September 22	Velocity NY	New York, NY, USA
September 21 September 23	X Developers Conference	Helsinki, Finland
September 22 September 23	European BSD Conference	Belgrade, Serbia
September 23 September 25	OpenStreetMap State of the Map 2016	Brussels, Belgium
September 23 September 25	PyCon India 2016	Delhi, India
September 26 September 28	Cloud Foundry Summit Europe	Frankfurt, Germany
September 26 September 27	Open Source Backup Conference	Cologne, Germany
September 27 September 29	OpenDaylight Summit	Seattle, WA, USA
September 28 September 30	Kernel Recipes 2016	Paris, France
September 28 October 1	systemd.conf 2016	Berlin, Germany
September 30 October 2	Hackers Congress Paralelní Polis	Prague, Czech Republic
October 1 October 2	openSUSE.Asia Summit	Yogyakarta, Indonesia

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