Announcements
Brief items
Microsoft joins The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation has announced that Microsoft has joined as a platinum member. "From cloud computing and networking to gaming, Microsoft has steadily increased its engagement in open source projects and communities. The company is currently a leading open source contributor on GitHub and earlier this year announced several milestones that indicate the scope of its commitment to open source development."
The Linux Foundation's Core Infrastructure Initiative Renews Funding for Reproducible Builds Project
The Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) has announced continued financial support for the Reproducible Builds Project. "The grant extends the contribution to include Debian developers Chris Lamb, Mattia Rizzolo, Ximin Luo and Vagrant Cascadian, as well as extending funding for Holger Levsen. Furthermore, this contribution adds support for Ed Maste, working with FreeBSD." (Thanks to Paul Wise)
Farewell to Rob Collins
The EuroPython Society shares the sad news that Rob Collins has passed away. "Many of you may know Rob from the sponsored massage sessions he regularly ran at EuroPython in recent years and which he continued to develop, taking them from a single man setup (single threaded process) to a group of people setup by giving workshops (multiprocessing) and later on by passing on his skills to more leaders (removing the GIL) to spread wellness and kindness throughout our conference series."
Articles of interest
FSFE: Russian Bill makes Free Software a Public Priority
The Free Software Foundation Europe covers a bill that will boost Free Software on multiple levels within the Russian Federation's public sector. "The draft, approved by the Russian Federation's Duma (lower chamber) in mid-October, requires the public sector to prioritise Free Software over proprietary alternatives, gives precedence to local IT businesses that offer Free Software for public tenders, and recognises the need to encourage collaboration with the global network of Free Software organisations and communities."
New Books
Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition--new from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has released "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts, 2nd Edition" by Dave Taylor and Brandon Perry.
Calls for Presentations
PGConf India 2017 - Call for Papers
India PostgreSQL User Group has announced that PGConf India 2017 will be held in Bengaluru on March 3, 2017. The call for papers deadline is December 31. "If you are doing something interesting with PostgreSQL, please submit a proposal. You might be one of the backend hackers or work on a PostgreSQL related project and want to share your know-how with others. You might be developing an interesting system using PostgreSQL as the foundation. Perhaps you migrated from another database to PostgreSQL and would like to share details. These, and other stories are welcome. Both users and developers are encouraged to share their experiences."
CFP Deadlines: November 17, 2016 to January 16, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| January 3 | May 17 May 21 |
PyCon US | Portland, OR, USA |
| January 6 | July 16 July 23 |
CoderCruise | New Orleans et. al., USA/Caribbean |
| January 8 | March 11 March 12 |
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage | Chemnitz, Germany |
| January 11 | February 15 February 16 |
Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| January 13 | May 22 May 24 |
Container Camp AU | Sydney, Australia |
| January 14 | March 22 March 23 |
Vault | Cambridge, MA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: November 17, 2016 to January 16, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 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 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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