Announcements

The FSF seeks nominations for the annual Free Software Awards

The Free Software Foundation and the GNU Project are asking for nominations for the 19th annual Free Software Awards. The Award for the Advancement of Free Software will be presented to "an individual who has made a great contribution to the progress and development of free software, through activities that accord with the spirit of free software" and the Award for Projects of Social Benefit will be presented to "the project or team responsible for applying free software, or the ideas of the free software movement, in a project that intentionally and significantly benefits society in other aspects of life." The deadline for nominations is November 6.

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Announcing Google Code-in 2016 and Google Summer of Code 2017

The Google Open Source Programs Office has announced Google Code-in 2016 and Google Summer of Code 2017. Google Code-in is for students from 13-17 years of age who would like to explore open source. "Students will find opportunities to learn and get hands on experience with tasks from a range of categories. This structure allows students to stretch themselves as they take on increasingly more challenging tasks." Students will begin on November 28.

Student applications for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) open on March 20, 2017. Applications for interested open source organizations open on January 19. GSoC "provides university students from around the world with an opportunity to take their skills and hone them by contributing to open source projects during their summer break from university."

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FSFE Newsletter - October 2016

This edition of the Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter covers internship opportunities, FSFE Summit retrospective, and several other topics.

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Here's Why Software Patents Are in Peril (Fortune)

Fortune covers a ruling [PDF] by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that invalidates three patents asserted against anti-virus companies Symantec and Trend Micro. "The most important part of the decision, which has created a stir among the patent bar, is a concurrence by Circuit Judge Haldane Mayer. In striking down a key claim from U.S. Patent 5987610, which claims a monopoly on using anti-virus tools within a phone network, Mayer says it is time to acknowledge that a famous Supreme Court 2014 decision known as “Alice” basically ended software patents altogether."

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FSF: Tim Berners-Lee just gave us an opening to stop DRM in Web standards

The Free Software Foundation's Defective By Design campaign reports that Tim Berners-Lee decided not to exercise his power to extend the development timeline for the Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) Web technology standard. "Berners-Lee made his surprising decision on Tuesday, as explained in an email announcement by W3C representative Philippe Le Hégaret. Instead of granting a time extension — as he has already done once — Berners-Lee delegated the decision to the W3C's general decision-making body, the Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee includes diverse entities from universities to companies to nonprofits, and it is divided as to whether EME should be part of Web standards. It is entirely possible that the Advisory Committee will reject the time extension and terminate EME development, marking an important victory for the free Web."

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CFP Deadlines: October 13, 2016 to December 12, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
November 28	March 25 March 26	LibrePlanet 2017	Cambridge, MA, USA
December 1	April 3 April 6	‹Programming› 2017	Brussels, Belgium
December 10	February 21 February 23	Embedded Linux Conference	Portland, OR, USA
December 10	February 21 February 23	OpenIoT Summit	Portland, OR, USA

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

LibrePlanet 2017: "The Roots of Freedom"

LibrePlanet will take place March 25-26, 2017 in Boston, MA. The FSF has a reminder that registration is open and the proposal deadline is November 14.

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Events: October 13, 2016 to December 12, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 11 October 13	Embedded Linux Conference Europe	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.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 November 18	Tcl/Tk Conference	Houston, TX, USA
November 14	The Third Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
November 16 November 17	Paris Open Source Summit	Paris, France
November 16 November 18	ApacheCon Europe	Seville, Spain
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
November 29 December 2	Open Source Monitoring Conference	Nürnberg, Germany
November 29 November 30	5th RISC-V Workshop	Mountain View, CA, USA
December 3	NoSlidesConf	Bologna, Italy
December 3	London Perl Workshop	London, England
December 6	CHAR(16)	New York, NY, USA
December 10	Mini Debian Conference Japan 2016	Tokyo, Japan
December 10 December 11	SciPy India	Bombay, India

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