Announcements
Brief items
Trouble at Cyanogen
Cyanogen Inc. has put out a terse press release announcing the departure of founder (and CyanogenMod creator) Steve Kondik. See this rather less terse Android Police article for Kondik's view of the matter. The future of the CyanogenMod distribution seems unclear at this point; if it goes forward, it may have to do so with a different name.
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter Issue 104, December 2016
This month the Free Software Foundation's newsletter covers fundraising, RMS receives the GNU Health Social Medicine Award, Licensing and Compliance Lab interviews Micah Lee, 2016 Ethical Tech Giving Guide, and much more.
New Books
Scratch Coding Cards--learn to program one card at a time
No Starch Press has released "Scratch Coding Cards" created by Natalie Rusk.
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: December 8, 2016 to February 6, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| January 31 | May 16 May 18 |
Open Source Data Center Conference 2017 | Berlin, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: December 8, 2016 to February 6, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| December 10 December 11 |
SciPy India | Bombay, India |
| December 10 | Mini Debian Conference Japan 2016 | Tokyo, Japan |
| December 27 December 30 |
Chaos Communication Congress | Hamburg, Germany |
| January 16 January 20 |
linux.conf.au 2017 | Hobart, Australia |
| January 16 | Linux.Conf.Au 2017 Sysadmin Miniconf | Hobart, Tas, Australia |
| January 16 January 17 |
LCA Kernel Miniconf | Hobart, Australia |
| January 18 January 19 |
WikiToLearnConf India | Jaipur, Rajasthan, India |
| January 27 January 29 |
DevConf.cz 2017 | Brno, Czech Republic |
| February 2 February 3 |
Git Merge 2017 | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 4 February 5 |
FOSDEM 2017 | Brussels, Belgium |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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