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Suspect in kernel.org breakin arrested

The US Department of Justice has announced that it has arrested a suspect in the 2011 kernel.org breakin. "[Donald Ryan] Austin is charged with causing damage to four servers located in the Bay Area by installing malicious software. Specifically, he is alleged to have gained unauthorized access to the four servers by using the credentials of an individual associated with the Linux Kernel Organization. According to the indictment, Austin used that access to install rootkit and trojan software, as well as to make other changes to the servers".

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Linux Foundation conference videos

The Linux Foundation has released videos from LinuxCon and ContainerCon and the Linux Security Summit.

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Videos from QtCon/Akademy

Videos from QtCon and Akademy are available on YouTube.

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Free Software Supporter Issue 101, September 2016

This month the Free Software Foundation's monthly newsletter covers the FSF annual report, meeting recaps, interview with Stefano Zacchiroli, EFF lawsuit against DRM, the Libre Tea Computer Card, h-node hardware directory, and much more.

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FSFE: Julia Reda, MEP: "Proprietary Software threatens Democracy"

The Free Software Foundation Europe covers Julia Reda's talk at QtCon on Free Software in the European Public Sector. "Ms Reda, a member of the EU Parliament for the Pirate Party, explained how proprietary software, software that forbids users from studying and modifying it, has often left regulators in the dark, becoming a liability for and often a threat to the well-being and health of citizens. An example of this, she said, is the recent Dieselgate scandal, in which auto-mobile manufacturers installed software that cheated instruments that measured fumes in test environments, only to spew illegal amounts of toxic exhaust into the atmosphere the moment they went on the road."

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Danko: Next steps for Gmane

LWN previously reported that Gmane creator and maintainer Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen shut down the website and was contemplating shutting down the service entirely. Martin Danko now reports that Gmane has a new maintainer. "I petitioned some of our directors to allow us to offer to take it over and in the end we entered into agreement with Lars to take over Gmane. The assets of Gmane have been placed into a UK company Gmane Ltd. As part of the agreement, we have received the INN spool with all the articles but none of the code that drives the site. We’ve started rebuilding parts of the site just to get it back online, its not perfect and there are pieces missing but we’re working on building all the functionality back into the site." (Thanks to Brian Thomas)

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3rd Call For Papers - 23rd Annual Tcl/Tk Conference (Tcl'2016)

Tcl'2016 will take place November 14-18 in Houston, Texas. Abstracts and proposals are due September 12.

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CFP Deadlines: September 9, 2016 to November 8, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
October 19	November 19	eloop 2016	Stuttgart, Germany
October 25	May 8 May 11	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	Austin, TX, USA
October 26	November 5	Barcelona Perl Workshop	Barcelona, Spain
October 28	November 25 November 27	Pycon Argentina 2016	Bahía Blanca, Argentina
October 30	February 17	Swiss Python Summit	Rapperswil, Switzerland
October 31	February 4 February 5	FOSDEM 2017	Brussels, Belgium

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Audio workshop accepted for Linux Plumbers Conference and Kernel Summit

There will be an audio workshop at LPC (co-located with the Kernel Summit). LPC will be held November 1-4 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. "Topics include low-latency audio, use of the clock API, propagating digital configuration through dynamic audio power management (DAPM), integration of HDA and ASoC, SoundWire ALSA use-case managemer (UCM) scalability, standardizing HDMI and DisplayPort interfaces, Media Controller API integration, and a number of topics relating to the multiple userspace users of Linux-kernel audio, including Android and ChromeOS as well as the various desktop-oriented Linux distributions."

LPC registration is open with a limited number of slots available. There will also be a small number of late registrations available starting on October 1.

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Nextcloud Conference: Keynote Speakers

The Nextcloud Conference will take place September 16-22 in Berlin, Germany. Jane Silber, CEO of Canonical, and Karen Sandler, Executive Director at the Software Freedom Conservancy, will be keynote speakers.

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Events: September 9, 2016 to November 8, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
September 7 September 9	LibreOffice Conference	Brno, Czech Republic
September 8 September 9	First OpenPGP conference	Cologne, Germany
September 9 September 11	GNU Tools Cauldron 2016	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 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 21	Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop	Paris, France
September 20 September 22	Velocity NY	New York, NY, USA
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	PyCon India 2016	Delhi, India
September 23 September 25	OpenStreetMap State of the Map 2016	Brussels, Belgium
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
October 3 October 5	OpenMP Conference	Nara, Japan
October 4 October 6	ContainerCon Europe	Berlin, Germany
October 4 October 6	LinuxCon Europe	Berlin, Germany
October 5 October 7	Netdev 1.2	Tokyo, Japan
October 5 October 7	International Workshop on OpenMP	Nara, 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 October 13	Embedded Linux Conference Europe	Berlin, Germany
October 11	Real-Time Summit 2016	Berlin, Germany
October 12	Tracing Summit	Berlin, Germany
October 13	OpenWrt Summit	Berlin, Germany
October 13 October 14	Lua Workshop 2016	San Francisco, CA, USA
October 17 October 19	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	London, UK
October 18 October 20	Qt World Summit 2016	San Francisco, CA, USA
October 21 October 23	Software Freedom Kosovo 2016	Prishtina, Kosovo
October 22	2016 Columbus Code Camp	Columbus, OH, USA
October 22 October 23	Datenspuren 2016	Dresden, Germany
October 25 October 28	OpenStack Summit	Barcelona, Spain
October 26 October 27	All Things Open	Raleigh, NC, USA
October 27 October 28	Rust Belt Rust	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
October 28 October 30	PyCon CZ 2016	Brno, Czech Republic
October 29 October 30	PyCon.de 2016	Munich, Germany
October 29 October 30	PyCon HK 2016	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
October 31	PyCon Finland 2016	Helsinki, Finland
October 31 November 1	Linux Kernel Summit	Santa Fe, NM, USA
October 31 November 2	O’Reilly Security Conference	New York, NY, USA
November 1 November 4	Linux Plumbers Conference	Santa Fe, NM, USA
November 1 November 4	PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2016	Tallin, Estonia
November 3	Bristech Conference 2016	Bristol, UK
November 4 November 6	FUDCon Phnom Penh	Phnom Penh, Cambodia
November 5	Barcelona Perl Workshop	Barcelona, Spain
November 5 November 6	OpenFest 2016	Sofia, Bulgaria
November 7 November 9	Velocity Amsterdam	Amsterdam, Netherlands

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