Announcements
Brief items
Goodbye to GNU Libreboot
Richard Stallman has announced that the Libreboot project is no longer a GNU project. "A few months ago, the maintainer of GNU Libreboot decided not to work on Libreboot for the GNU Project any more. That was her decision to make. She also asserted that Libreboot was no longer a GNU package -- something she could not unilaterally do. The GNU Project had to decide what to do in regard to Libreboot. We have decided to go along with the former GNU maintainer's wishes in this case..."
Tracing Summit 2016 videos
The Tracing Summit 2016 was held in Berlin, Germany on October 12. Videos of the sessions are available on YouTube and may also be accessed from the schedule.
Articles of interest
FSFE Annual Report 2016
The Free Software Foundation Europe presents its annual report for 2016. "It has been a busy year for the FSFE. Upholding the principles of Free Software and protecting citizens' from being exploited are ongoing challenges we tackled from a variety of angles. We (and by "we", we mean the staff and volunteers at the FSFE) pored over hundreds of pages of policies and legislations, looking for loopholes through which Free Software could be attacked."
Calls for Presentations
Vault CFP deadline approaching
The Vault Storage and Filesystems conference will be held March 22 and 23 in Cambridge, MA, USA, immediately after the Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit. The call for presentations expires on January 14, and the conference organizers would really like to get a few more proposals in before then. Developers interested in speaking at a technical Linux event are encourage to sign up.(Also, don't forget the LWN CFP deadlines calendar, which is a good way to stay on top of conference proposal deadlines.)
<Programming> 2017: Call for workshop, symposium & poster submissions
<Programming> 2017 (The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming) will take place April 3-6 in Brussels, Belgium. There will be 10 co-located events at the 2017 conference. The announcement contains information about the call for participation for these co-located events.CFP Deadlines: January 12, 2017 to March 13, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| February 6 | May 8 May 11 |
OpenStack Summit | Boston, MA, USA |
| February 12 | June 9 June 10 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2017 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| February 18 | March 18 | Open Source Days Copenhagen | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| February 24 | June 26 June 29 |
Postgres Vision | Boston, MA, USA |
| February 26 | April 3 April 4 |
Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit | Pisa, Italy |
| February 27 | April 6 April 8 |
Netdev 2.1 | Montreal, Canada |
| February 28 | May 18 May 20 |
Linux Audio Conference | Saint-Etienne, France |
| February 28 | May 2 May 4 |
samba eXPerience 2017 | Goettingen, Germany |
| March 1 | May 6 May 7 |
LinuxFest Northwest | Bellingham, WA, USA |
| March 4 | May 31 June 2 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 6 | June 18 June 23 |
The Perl Conference | Washington, DC, USA |
| March 7 | August 23 August 25 |
JupyterCon | New York, NY, USA |
| March 12 | April 26 | foss-north | Gothenburg, Sweden |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Embedded Linux Conf + OpenIoT Summit Agenda Announced
The Linux Foundation has announced the program for Embedded Linux Conference + OpenIoT Summit NA, which takes place February 21-23 in Portland, OR. Keynote speakers include Linus Torvalds (in discussion with Dirk Hohndel), robotics expert Guy Hoffman, and Intel's Imad Sousou.SCALE 15X: Registration open for SCALE
Registration is open for the Southern California Linux Expo or SCALE 15X, held March 2-5 in Pasadena, CA.Events: January 12, 2017 to March 13, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| February 2 February 3 |
Git Merge 2017 | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 4 February 5 |
FOSDEM 2017 | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 7 February 9 |
AnacondaCON | Austin, TX, USA |
| February 14 February 16 |
Open Source Leadership Summit | Lake Tahoe, CA, USA |
| February 15 February 16 |
Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| February 17 | Swiss Python Summit | Rapperswil, Switzerland |
| February 18 February 19 |
PyCaribbean | Bayamón, Puerto Rico, USA |
| February 20 February 24 |
OpenStack Project Teams Gathering | Atlanta, GA, USA |
| February 21 February 23 |
Embedded Linux Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| February 21 February 23 |
OpenIoT Summit | Portland, OR, USA |
| March 2 March 5 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 2 March 3 |
PGConf India 2017 | Bengaluru, India |
| March 6 March 10 |
Linaro Connect | Budapest, Hungary |
| March 7 | Icinga Camp Berlin 2017 | Berlin, Germany |
| March 10 March 12 |
conf.kde.in 2017 | Guwahati, Assam, India |
| March 11 March 12 |
Chemnitzer Linux-Tage | Chemnitz, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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