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Top 10 FOSS legal stories in 2016 (opensource.com)

Mark Radcliffe surveys the most important legal issues surrounding free and open-source software on opensource.com. "The challenge for the Linux community is to decide when to bring litigation to enforce the GPLv2. What it means in many situations is that to be compliant is currently left to individual contributors rather than being based on a set of community norms. As Theodore Ts'o noted, this issue really concerns project governance. Although permitting individual contributors to make these decisions may be the Platonic ideal, the tradeoff is ambiguity for users trying to be compliant as well as the potential for rogue members of the community (like McHardy) to create problems. The members of the Linux community and other FOSS communities need to consider how they can best assist the members of their community to understand what compliance means and to determine when litigation might be useful in furtherance of the community's goals."

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SambaXP Conference

The Samba eXPerience conference will take place May 2-4, in Göttingen, Germany. The call for papers is open until the end of February.

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Linux Plumbers Conference call for microconferences

The 2017 Linux Plumbers Conference is set for September 13 to 15 in Los Angeles, California. The core of this event is the microconferences, focused gatherings that address a specific range of problems. The call for microconferences for the 2017 event is now out. "Good microconferences result in solutions to these problems and concerns, while the best microconferences result in patches that implement those solutions."

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CFP Deadlines: February 23, 2017 to April 24, 2017

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
April 10	August 13 August 18	DjangoCon US	Spokane, WA, USA
April 10	July 22 July 27	Akademy 2017	Almería, Spain
April 14	June 30	Swiss PGDay	Rapperswil, Switzerland
April 16	July 9 July 16	EuroPython 2017	Rimini, Italy
April 18	October 2 October 4	O'Reilly Velocity Conference	New York, NY, USA
April 20	April 28 April 29	Grazer Linuxtage 2017	Graz, Austria
April 20	May 17	Python Language Summit	Portland, OR, USA
April 23	July 28 August 2	GNOME Users And Developers European Conference 2017	Manchester, UK

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Here's a sneak peek at LibrePlanet 2017

The Free Software Foundation presents a look at what to expect at LibrePlanet, which will take place in Cambridge, MA, March 25-26.

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Netdev 2.1 updates

Netdev 2.1 will take place April 6-8 in Montreal, Canada. The team has announced new sponsors and another accepted proposal. The call for proposals has been extended until February 27.

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Events: February 23, 2017 to April 24, 2017

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
February 20 February 24	OpenStack Project Teams Gathering	Atlanta, GA, USA
February 21 February 23	OpenIoT Summit	Portland, OR, USA
February 21 February 23	Embedded Linux Conference	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
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
April 3 April 6	Open Networking Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 3 April 4	Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit	Pisa, Italy
April 3 April 7	DjangoCon Europe	Florence, Italy
April 3 April 6	‹Programming› 2017	Brussels, Belgium
April 5 April 6	Dataworks Summit	Munich, Germany
April 6 April 8	Netdev 2.1	Montreal, Canada
April 10 April 13	IXPUG Annual Spring Conference 2017	Cambridge, UK
April 17 April 20	Dockercon	Austin, TX, USA
April 21	Osmocom Conference 2017	Berlin, Germany
April 22	16. Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2017	Augsburg, Germany

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