Announcements
Brief items
A change of lawyers at the FSF
The Free Software Foundation has announced that Eben Moglen has stepped down as the organization's general counsel; there is no word on who his replacement will be. "The FSF looks forward to working together in other capacities with Professor Moglen and SFLC on future projects to advance the free software movement and use of the GNU General Public License (GPL)."
Heiki Lõhmus takes over FSFE vice-presidency from Alessandro Rubini
The Free Software Foundation Europe has announced that Alessandro Rubini has resigned as vice-president of the FSFE and Heiki Lõhmus will be taking over that role.New Directors Join Linux Foundation Board
The Linux Foundation has announced the appointment of Erica Brescia, co-founder and COO of Bitnami; Jeff Garzik, co-founder of Bloq; and Nithya A. Ruff, director of Western Digital’s Open Source Strategy Office, to its Board of Directors. Ms. Ruff and Ms. Brescia join as At-Large Directors, and Mr. Garzik comes on board as the representative of Linux Foundation Silver members.
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter Issue 103, November 2016
This edition of the Free Software Foundation's newsletter covers nominations for Free Software Awards, LibrePlanet call for papers, a licensing resource series, DMCA anti-circumvention rules, and much more.Eben Moglen on GPL Compliance and Building Communities: What Works (Linux.com)
Linux.com has a transcript of Eben Moglen's talk in New York on October 28. "I have some fine clients and wonderful friends in this movement who have been getting rather angry recently. There is a lot of anger in the world, in fact, in politics. Our political movement is not the only one suffering from anger at the moment. But some of my angry friends, dear friends, friends I really care for, have come to the conclusion that they’re on a jihad for free software. And I will say this after decades of work—whatever else will be the drawbacks in other areas of life—the problem in our neighborhood is that jihad does not scale." There is a video of the talk available as well.
Calls for Presentations
FOSDEM Desktops DevRoom 2017 CfP
The Desktops DevRoom at FOSDEM (in Brussels, Belgium) will take place on February 5. The call for participation closes December 5. "Talks can be very specific, such as the advantages/disadvantages of distributing a desktop application with snap vs flatpak, or as general as using HTML5 technologies to develop native applications. Topics that are of interest to the users and developers of all desktop environments are especially welcome."
FOSDEM 2017 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom CFP
There will be a Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium February 4-5. The call for papers closes November 27. "Hackers, contributors and lawyers alike are encouraged to submit on any project policy or legal topic. Successful proposals will cover topics of interest at a medium to advanced level."
CFP Deadlines: November 3, 2016 to January 2, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| December 31 | March 2 March 3 |
PGConf India 2017 | Bengaluru, India |
| December 31 | April 3 April 7 |
DjangoCon Europe | Florence, Italy |
| January 1 | April 17 April 20 |
Dockercon | Austin, TX, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
EuroPython 2017 will be held in Rimini, Italy
The EuroPython Society (EPS) has announced the decision to accept the proposal from the Italian on-site team, backed by the Python Italia APS, to hold EuroPython 2017 in Rimini, Italy. The conference will be in July, although exact dates have not yet been set.Events: November 3, 2016 to January 2, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 |
| December 27 December 30 |
Chaos Communication Congress | Hamburg, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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