Announcements

Announcing the KDE Advisory Board

KDE e.V. introduces the KDE Advisory Board. "One of the core goals of the Advisory Board is to provide KDE with insights into the needs of the various organizations that surround us. We are very aware that we need the ability to combine our efforts for greater impact and the only way we can do that is by adopting a more diverse view from outside of our organization on topics that are relevant to us. This will allow all of us to benefit from one another's experience."

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Garrett: Microsoft aren't forcing Lenovo to block free operating systems

Matthew Garrett looks at the real problem behind the inability of some Lenovo laptops to run Linux. "The real problem here is that Intel do very little to ensure that free operating systems work well on their consumer hardware - we still have no information from Intel on how to configure systems to ensure good power management, we have no support for storage devices in "RAID" mode and we have no indication that this is going to get better in future. If Intel had provided that support, this issue would never have occurred."

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LibrePlanet call for proposals

The next LibrePlant will be held March 25-26, 2017 in the Boston, MA area. "This year, the theme of LibrePlanet is "The Roots of Freedom." This encompasses the historical "roots" of the free software movement -- the Four Freedoms, the GNU General Public License and copyleft, and a focus on strong security and privacy protections -- and the concept of roots as a strong foundation from which the movement grows." The call for proposals closes November 14.

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CFP Deadlines: September 29, 2016 to November 28, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
November 15	March 2 March 5	Southern California Linux Expo	Pasadena, CA, USA
November 15	March 28 March 31	PGConf US 2017	Jersey City, NJ, USA
November 18	February 18 February 19	PyCaribbean	Bayamón, Puerto Rico, USA
November 20	December 10 December 11	SciPy India	Bombay, India
November 21	January 16	Linux.Conf.Au 2017 Sysadmin Miniconf	Hobart, Tas, Australia
November 21	January 16 January 17	LCA Kernel Miniconf	Hobart, Australia

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Netdev 1.2 updates

Netdev 1.2 takes place October 5-7 in Tokyo, Japan. The final program is available, plus some travel tips, and more.

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SFLC 2016 Annual Conference at Columbia Law School

The Software Freedom Law Center has announced the program for its conference, to be held October 28 in New York, NY. "We have assembled what we think will be a very lively and interesting program, which you can find summarized below. The ideas are free as in freedom, and---as always---attendance, NYS continuing legal education credits, lunch, and the various drinks are free as in beer."

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Events: September 29, 2016 to November 28, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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	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	PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2016	Tallin, Estonia
November 1 November 4	Linux Plumbers Conference	Santa Fe, NM, USA
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
November 14 November 16	PGConfSV 2016	San Francisco, CA, USA
November 14	The Third Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
November 14 November 18	Tcl/Tk Conference	Houston, TX, USA
November 16 November 18	ApacheCon Europe	Seville, Spain
November 16 November 17	Paris Open Source Summit	Paris, France
November 17	NLUUG (Fall conference)	Bunnik, The Netherlands
November 18 November 20	GNU Health Conference 2016	Las Palmas, Spain
November 18 November 20	UbuCon Europe 2016	Essen, Germany
November 19	eloop 2016	Stuttgart, Germany
November 21 November 22	Velocity Beijing	Beijing, China
November 24	OWASP Gothenburg Day	Gothenburg, Sweden
November 25 November 27	Pycon Argentina 2016	Bahía Blanca, Argentina

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