Announcements

Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

Google has announced that Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) will be published on GitHub under the Apache2 license in March. GEE is an enterprise product that allows developers to build and host their own private maps and 3D globes. This release includes GEE Fusion, GEE Server, and GEE Portable Server source code. "Feedback is important to us and we’ve heard from our customers that GEE remains in-use in mission-critical applications. Many customers have not transitioned to other technologies. Open-sourcing GEE allows our customer community to continue to improve and evolve the project in perpetuity. Note that the Google Earth Enterprise Client, Google Maps JavaScript® API V3 and Google Earth API will not be open sourced. The Enterprise Client will continue to be made available and updated. However, since GEE Fusion and GEE Server are being open-sourced, the imagery and terrain quadtree implementations used in these products will allow third-party developers to build viewers that can consume GEE Server Databases." (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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G.729 Consortium patents expired

Sipro reports that the patents on the G.729 audio data compression algorithm expired January 1, 2017. (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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FSFE Newsletter - February 2017

This month the Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter covers why Open Science matters and the FSFE's position on Horizon 2020, the annual report, FSFE joins TDF, FSFE summit, and several other topics.

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Netdev 2.1 update

Netdev 2.1 will take place April 6-8 in Montreal, Canada. The call for papers is open until February 20. The first talk has been accepted: "Evaluating and improving kernel stack performance for datagram sockets from the perspective of RDBMS applications" by Varadhan Sowmini and Dave Tushar.

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Announcing JupyterCon

JupyterCon will take place August 22-25 in New York, NY. The call for speakers ends March 7. ""Project Jupyter is an effort over 15 years in the making. What began as IPython while I was a student has evolved into a cross-language platform for data science, research, and education, thanks to the tireless work of an incredible community. JupyterCon will be our first conference, an opportunity for this community to come together to learn from each other, spur new ideas and set directions for the project's future evolution. I can't wait to see what new and unexpected things are being done with these tools, and where we will go from here," says Fernando Perez, who chairs JupyterCon with Andrew Odewahn, O'Reilly's CTO."

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CFP Deadlines: February 2, 2017 to April 3, 2017

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
March 15	May 13 May 14	Open Source Conference Albania 2017	Tirana, Albania
March 18	June 19 June 20	LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China	Beijing, China
March 20	May 4 May 6	Linuxwochen Wien 2017	Wien, Austria
March 27	July 10 July 16	SciPy 2017	Austin, TX, USA
March 28	October 23 October 24	All Things Open	Raleigh, NC, USA
March 31	June 26 June 28	Deutsche Openstack Tage 2017	München, Germany
April 1	April 22	16. Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2017	Augsburg, Germany
April 2	August 18 August 20	State of the Map	Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan

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Vault Linux Storage & Filesystems Conference speakers announced

The Linux Foundation has announced the speaker lineup for the Vault Linux Storage & Filesystems Conference, taking place March 22-23 in Cambridge, MA. "Facebook’s Josef Bacik, Oracle’s Martin Petersen, and Red Hat’s Rik van Riel will also give a keynote recap of the invitation-only Linux Storage, Filesystem & Memory Management Summit, which will be held directly preceding Vault in the same venue. The summit gathers foremost development and research experts and kernel subsystem maintainers to map out and implement improvements to the Linux filesystem, storage and memory management subsystems that will make their way into the mainline kernel in the coming years."

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Sumana Harihareswara's keynote will close LibrePlanet 2017

The Free Software Foundation announced that Sumana Harihareswara will be a keynote speaker at LibrePlanet (March 25-26 in Cambridge, MA). "Sumana Harihareswara first started using GNU/Linux in the late 1990s. Since then, she has contributed to a number of projects (including GNOME, MediaWiki, Zulip, and GNU Mailman), and become a leader, speaker, and advocate for free software and communities. From 2014-2015, she served as a member of the Ada Initiative Board of Directors. Within the software industry, she has been a community manager, writer, and project manager, working with Collabora, GNOME, QuestionCopyright.org, Fog Creek Software, Behavior, and Salon.com."

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Events: February 2, 2017 to April 3, 2017

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
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 3	PGConf India 2017	Bengaluru, India
March 2 March 5	Southern California Linux Expo	Pasadena, CA, USA
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
March 16 March 17	IoT Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
March 17 March 19	MiniDebConf Curitiba 2017	Curitiba, Brazil
March 17 March 19	FOSS Asia	Singapore, Singapore
March 18	Open Source Days Copenhagen	Copenhagen, Denmark
March 18 March 19	curl up - curl meeting 2017	Nuremberg, Germany
March 20 March 21	Linux Storage, Filesystem & Memory Management Summit	Cambridge, MA, USA
March 22 March 23	Vault	Cambridge, MA, USA
March 25 March 26	LibrePlanet 2017	Cambridge, MA, USA
March 28 March 31	PGConf US 2017	Jersey City, NJ, USA

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