Announcements
Brief items
LinuxCon + CloudOpen + ContainerCon Become The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit for 2017
The Linux Foundation has announced that it is consolidating three conferences under one name going forward. LinuxCon, CloudOpen, and ContainerCon join together under the "Linux Foundation Open Source Summit" name. For 2017, that encompasses three events: OSS Japan in Tokyo May 31-June 2, OSS North America in Los Angeles September 11-13, and OSS Europe in Prague October 23-25. "The Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in North America and Europe will also contain a brand new event, Community Leadership Conference. Attendees will have access to sessions across all events in a single venue, enabling them to collaborate and share information across a wide range of open source topics and areas of technology. They can take advantage of not only unparalleled educational opportunities, but also an expo hall, networking activities, hackathons, additional co-located events and The Linux Foundation’s diversity initiatives, including free childcare, nursing rooms, non-binary restrooms and a diversity luncheon."
Articles of interest
Time is running out for NTP (InfoWorld)
InfoWorld looks at the underfunded NTP project. "NTP is more than 30 years old—it may be the oldest codebase running on the internet. Despite some hiccups, it continues to work well. But the project’s future is uncertain because the number of volunteer contributors has shrunk, and there’s too much work for one person—principal maintainer Harlan Stenn—to handle. When there is limited support, the project has to pick and choose what tasks it can afford to complete, which slows down maintenance and stifles innovation."
The UK is about to wield unprecedented surveillance powers (The Verge)
The Verge looks at legislation in the UK that would allow police and intelligence agencies to legally spy on its own people. "The legislation in question is called the Investigatory Powers Bill. It’s been cleared by politicians and awaits only the formality of royal assent before it becomes law. The bill will legalize the UK’s global surveillance program, which scoops up communications data from around the world, but it will also introduce new domestic powers, including a government database that stores the web history of every citizen in the country. UK spies will be empowered to hack individuals, internet infrastructure, and even whole towns — if the government deems it necessary."
Welte: Ten years anniversary of Openmoko
Harald Welte looks back at the Openmoko phone with a ten-year perspective (and an almost unreadable low-contrast web page). "So yes, the smartphone world is much more restricted, locked-down and proprietary than it was back in the Openmoko days. If we had been more successful then, that world might be quite different today. It was a lost opportunity to make the world embrace more freedom in terms of software and hardware."
New Books
Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python--new from No Starch Press
No Starch Press has released "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python" by Al Sweigart.
Calls for Presentations
FOSDEM 2017 - Distributions Devroom - CFP Extended
The Distributions Devroom at FOSDEM will take place February 4, in Brussels, Belgium. The call for participation deadline has been extended until December 2.CFP Deadlines: December 1, 2016 to January 30, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| January 20 | March 17 March 19 |
FOSS Asia | Singapore, Singapore |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: December 1, 2016 to January 30, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| January 16 | Linux.Conf.Au 2017 Sysadmin Miniconf | Hobart, Tas, Australia |
| January 16 January 17 |
LCA Kernel Miniconf | Hobart, Australia |
| January 16 January 20 |
linux.conf.au 2017 | Hobart, Australia |
| January 18 January 19 |
WikiToLearnConf India | Jaipur, Rajasthan, India |
| January 27 January 29 |
DevConf.cz 2017 | Brno, Czech Republic |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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