Announcements
Brief items
The GNOME Foundation gets a new director
The GNOME Foundation's long search for a new executive director has finally come to an end: Neil McGovern has taken the job. "McGovern is an experienced leader in Free Software projects and is best known for his role as Debian Project Leader from 2014-15. He has been on the Boards of numerous organizations, including Software in the Public Interest, Inc. and the Open Rights Group."
RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced that it has purchased the rights to the RethinkDB NoSQL database and contributed it to the Linux Foundation. In the process, the code was relicensed from the Affero GPLv3 to the Apache license. "RethinkDB is an open source, NoSQL, distributed document-oriented database that is in production use today by hundreds of technology startups, consulting firms and Fortune 500 companies, including NASA, GM, Jive, Platzi, the U.S. Department of Defense, Distractify and Matters Media. Some of Silicon Valley’s top firms invested $12.2 million over more than eight years in the RethinkDB company to build a state-of-the-art database system, but were unsuccessful in creating a sustainable business, and it shut down in October 2016."
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter Issue 106, February 2017
The Free Software Foundation's newsletter for February covers U.S. Copyright Office should end the broken DMCA anti-circumvention exemptions process, FSF Europe reports back on their experience at the 33rd Chaos Communication Congress, Summary Report: Internet Governance Forum, 2016 December in Jalisco, Mexico, Free FPGA, Free Software Directory meeting recaps, and several other topics.What to know before jumping into a career as an open source lawyer (opensource.com)
Luis Villa talks about the open-source lawyer career path on opensource.com. "First, going to law school is a gamble. Recent American law school graduates must fight fiercely for one of the few jobs that can cover their massive debt, and roughly 50% fail the California bar. And, the open source gamble is bigger, because the opportunities are even fewer."
Calls for Presentations
Postgres Vision 2017 Call for Papers
Postgres Vision will take place June 26-29 in Boston, MA. The call for papers deadline is February 24.Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel (OSPM-summit)
OSPM-summit will take place April 3-4 in Pisa, Italy. The deadline for submitting topics/presentations is February 26.Swiss PGDay 2017 - Call for Speakers has opened
Swiss PGDay will take place June 30 in Rapperswil, Switzerland. The call for speakers deadline is April 14.DebConf17: Call for Proposals
The DebConf Content team has announced the call for proposals for DebConf17, which will take place August 6-12 in Montreal, Canada. The deadline for proposals is June 4.CFP Deadlines: February 9, 2017 to April 10, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
ACLU Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Director Kade Crockford at LibrePlanet 2017
The Free Software Foundation has announced that Kade Crockford will be a keynote speaker at LibrePlanet (March 25-26 in Cambridge, MA). "Kade Crockford is the Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU of Massachusetts. Kade works to protect and expand core First and Fourth Amendment rights and civil liberties in the digital 21st century, focusing on how systems of surveillance and control impact not just society in general but their primary targets — people of color, Muslims, immigrants, and dissidents."
Netdev 2.1 Location and Hotel
The Netdev team has announced the conference location, Le Westin Montréal, in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. "Le Westin will also be the conference hotel. We have a special arrangement for all attendees to get special rates at the hotel. We would like to encourage attendees to book at this hotel." Netdev 2.1 takes place April 6-8.
Netdev 2.1 seeking netdev conferences reporter(s)
The Netdev team is seeking writers to cover the Netdev 2.1 conference, which will take place April 6-8 in Montreal, Canada.Events: February 9, 2017 to April 10, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
FOSS Asia | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 17 March 19 |
MiniDebConf Curitiba 2017 | Curitiba, Brazil |
| 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 |
| April 3 April 4 |
Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit | Pisa, Italy |
| April 3 April 6 |
‹Programming› 2017 | Brussels, Belgium |
| April 3 April 6 |
Open Networking Summit | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| April 3 April 7 |
DjangoCon Europe | Florence, Italy |
| April 5 April 6 |
Dataworks Summit | Munich, Germany |
| April 6 April 8 |
Netdev 2.1 | Montreal, Canada |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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