Announcements
Brief items
The Linux Foundation launches the JS Foundation
The Linux Foundation has announced that the JS Foundation is now a Linux Foundation Project. "The JS Foundation is committed to help JavaScript application and server-side projects cultivate best practices and policies that promote high quality standards and broad, diverse contributions for long-term sustainability. Today the JS Foundation touts a new open, technical governance structure and also announces a Mentorship Program to help encourage a culture of collaboration and sustainability throughout the JavaScript community. Initial projects being welcomed into the mentorship program include: Appium, Interledger.js, JerryScript, Mocha, Moment.js, Node-RED and webpack."
Articles of interest
Celebrating open standards around the world
Opensource.com celebrates World Standards Day on October 14. "Whether in the world of software, where without standards we would have been unable to connect the world through the Internet and the World Wide Web, or the physical world, where standards make nearly everything you buy easier, more useful, and safer, the world would be a difficult place to navigate without standards. And critical to the useful of standards is making them available to all in an accessible, free format, unencumbered by legal or other hurdles."
New Books
Practical Forensic Imaging--new from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has released "Practical Forensic Imaging" by Bruce Nikkel.Understanding ECMAScript 6 -- new from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has released "Understanding ECMAScript 6" by Nicholas C. Zakas.
Calls for Presentations
SciPy India 2016
SciPy India will take place December 10-11 at IIT Bombay, India. The call for papers is open until November 20. "We look forward to your submissions on the use of Python for scientific computing and education. This includes pedagogy, exploration, modeling, and analysis from both applied and developmental perspectives. We welcome contributions from academia as well as industry."
<Programming> 2017: Call for papers
<Programming> 2017 will take place April 3-6 in Brussels, Belgium. "<Programming> 2017 accept scholarly papers including essays that advance the knowledge of programming. Almost anything about programming is in scope, but in each case there should be a clear relevance to the act and experience of programming." The deadline for paper submissions is December 1. There is also a call for Workshop proposals, with a deadline of November 15.
CFP Deadlines: October 20, 2016 to December 19, 2016
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Upcoming Events
Events: October 20, 2016 to December 19, 2016
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 1 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Santa Fe, NM, USA |
| October 31 | PyCon Finland 2016 | Helsinki, Finland |
| 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 November 6 |
OpenFest 2016 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 5 | Barcelona Perl Workshop | Barcelona, Spain |
| 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 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 14 November 16 |
PGConfSV 2016 | San Francisco, CA, 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 |
| November 29 November 30 |
5th RISC-V Workshop | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| November 29 December 2 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nürnberg, Germany |
| 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 |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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