Announcements

SPI officers

Software in the Public Interest has announced that the board appointed Martin Michlmayr president, Joerg Jaspert vice-president, Michael Schultheiss treasurer, and Valerie Young secretary.

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The Document Foundation and the FSFE strengthen their relationship

The Document Foundation (TDF) and the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) have announced that FSFE is joining the Advisory Board of TDF and, at the same time, TDF is becoming an associated organization of the FSFE.

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FSFE Newsletter - August 2016

This edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter covers "Free and Open Source Security Audit" needs feedback, Italy plans to stop its explicit support for Free Software in e-Government, news from the community, and several other topics.

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FSF releases FY2015 Annual Report

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has published its fiscal year 2015 Annual Report. "The Annual Report reviews the Foundation's activities, accomplishments, and financial picture. The report examines the impact of the FSF's programs, and FY2015's major events, including LibrePlanet and our thirtieth anniversary."

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The Joy of Coding! Humble Book Bundle presented by No Starch Press

No Starch Press teamed up with Humble Bundle to present the Humble Book Bundle: The Joy of Coding. Pay what you want for a selection of books on coding.

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CFP Deadlines: August 18, 2016 to October 17, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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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Mini-DebConf in Cambridge, UK

There will be a mini-DebCamp/DebConf November 10-13 in Cambridge, UK. "I'm expecting that we will end up discussing and working on the arm ports and other ARM-related topics at the very least, but there's also plenty of scope for other subjects for both sprint work and talks."

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Events: August 18, 2016 to October 17, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
August 18 August 21	Camp++ 0x7e0	Komárom, Hungary
August 18 August 20	GNU Hackers' Meeting	Rennes, France
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 September 9	First OpenPGP conference	Cologne, Germany
September 8	LLVM Cauldron	Hebden Bridge, UK
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 22	Velocity NY	New York, NY, USA
September 20 September 21	Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop	Paris, France
September 20 September 23	PyCon JP 2016	Tokyo, Japan
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 27	Open Source Backup Conference	Cologne, Germany
September 26 September 28	Cloud Foundry Summit Europe	Frankfurt, 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
October 3 October 5	OpenMP Conference	Nara, Japan
October 4 October 6	LinuxCon Europe	Berlin, Germany
October 4 October 6	ContainerCon Europe	Berlin, Germany
October 5 October 7	International Workshop on OpenMP	Nara, Japan
October 5 October 7	Netdev 1.2	Tokyo, Japan
October 6 October 7	PyConZA 2016	Cape Town, South Africa
October 7 October 8	Ohio LinuxFest 2016	Columbus, OH, USA
October 8 October 9	Gentoo Miniconf 2016	Prague, Czech Republic
October 8 October 9	LinuxDays 2016	Prague, Czechia
October 10 October 11	GStreamer Conference	Berlin, Germany
October 11	Real-Time Summit 2016	Berlin, Germany
October 11 October 13	Embedded Linux Conference Europe	Berlin, Germany
October 12	Tracing Summit	Berlin, Germany
October 13 October 14	Lua Workshop 2016	San Francisco, CA, USA
October 13	OpenWrt Summit	Berlin, Germany

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