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FSFE Newsletter - September 2016

The Free Software Foundation Europe's newsletter for September covers FSFE Summit, FSFE's 15 years, news from the community, and several other topics.

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Tridgell: ArduPilot and DroneCode

Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell writes about the ArduPilot project's withdrawal from the Dronecode group. "Unfortunately DroneCode has a built-in flaw. The structure and bylaws of DroneCode are built around exceptional power for the Platinum members, giving them extraordinary control over the future of DroneCode. [...] Just how great a flaw that is has been shown by the actions of the Platinum members over the last two months. Due to their overwhelming desire to be able to make a proprietary autopilot stack the Platinum members staged what can only be called a coup. They removed all top level open source projects from DroneCode, leaving only their own nominees in the Technical Steering Committee. They passed a resolution requiring that all projects hand over control of all trademarks, accounts and domains to their control."

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CFP Deadlines: September 15, 2016 to November 14, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
November 11	November 11 November 12	Linux Piter	St. Petersburg, Russia
November 11	January 27 January 29	DevConf.cz 2017	Brno, Czech Republic
November 13	December 10	Mini Debian Conference Japan 2016	Tokyo, Japan

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

netdev 1.2 weekly update

Netdev 1.2 will take place October 5-7 in Tokyo, Japan. In this update we learn that David Miller will give a keynote titled "Fast Programmable Networks & Encapsulated Protocols" and Roopa Prabhu will give a talk on network interface configuration on a Linux NOS.

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Git microconference accepted into LPC 2016

There will be a Git microconference at Linux Plumber's Conference (November 1-4 in Santa Fe, New Mexico). "Rather than review this extensive history, this Micro Git Together instead focuses on what the next few years might bring. In addition, Junio Hamano will present on the state of the Git Union, Josh Triplett will present on the git-series project, and Steve Rostedt will present “A Maze Of Git Scripts All Alike”, in which Steve puts forward the radical notion that common function in various maintainers’ scripts could be pulled into Git itself. This should help lead into a festive discussion about the future of Git."

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Events: September 15, 2016 to November 14, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
September 9 September 15	ownCloud Contributors Conference	Berlin, Germany
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 23	PyCon JP 2016	Tokyo, Japan
September 20 September 21	Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop	Paris, France
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	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	LinuxDays 2016	Prague, Czechia
October 8 October 9	Gentoo Miniconf 2016	Prague, Czech Republic
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
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 October 23	Datenspuren 2016	Dresden, Germany
October 22	2016 Columbus Code Camp	Columbus, OH, USA
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 HK 2016	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
October 29 October 30	PyCon.de 2016	Munich, Germany
October 31 November 2	O’Reilly Security Conference	New York, NY, USA
October 31	PyCon Finland 2016	Helsinki, Finland
October 31 November 1	Linux Kernel Summit	Santa Fe, NM, 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
November 9 November 11	O’Reilly Security Conference EU	Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 11 November 12	Seattle GNU/Linux Conference	Seattle, WA, USA
November 11 November 12	Linux Piter	St. Petersburg, Russia
November 12 November 13	T-Dose	Eindhoven, Netherlands
November 12 November 13	Mini-DebConf	Cambridge, UK
November 12 November 13	PyCon Canada 2016	Toronto, Canada
November 13 November 18	The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis	Salt Lake City, UT, USA

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.