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CFP Deadlines: April 27, 2017 to June 26, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 28 | September 21 September 22 |
International Workshop on OpenMP | Stony Brook, NY, USA |
| April 30 | September 21 September 24 |
EuroBSDcon 2017 | Paris, France |
| May 1 | May 13 May 14 |
Linuxwochen Linz | Linz, Austria |
| May 1 | October 5 | Open Hardware Summit 2017 | Denver, CO, USA |
| May 2 | October 18 October 20 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | London, UK |
| May 5 | June 5 June 7 |
coreboot Denver2017 | Denver, CO, USA |
| May 6 | September 13 September 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference 2017 | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| May 6 | September 11 September 14 |
Open Source Summit NA 2017 | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| May 7 | August 3 August 8 |
PyCon Australia 2017 | Melbourne, Australia |
| May 15 | June 3 | Madrid Perl Workshop | Madrid, Spain |
| May 21 | June 24 | Tuebix: Linux Conference | Tuebingen, Germany |
| May 29 | September 6 September 8 |
PostgresOpen | Silicon Valley, CA, USA |
| May 29 | June 24 June 25 |
Enlightenment Developer Days 2017 | Valletta, Malta |
| May 30 | July 3 July 7 |
13th Netfilter Workshop | Faro, Portugal |
| May 30 | October 10 October 12 |
Qt World Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| May 31 | September 7 | ML Family Workshop | Oxford, UK |
| May 31 | September 8 | OCaml Users and Developers Workshop | Oxford, UK |
| May 31 | October 23 October 29 |
Privacyweek | Vienna (Wien), Austria |
| June 1 | September 18 September 19 |
OpenMP Conference | Stony Brook, NY, USA |
| June 5 | September 25 September 26 |
Open Source Backup Conference 2017 | Köln, Germany |
| June 5 | September 14 September 15 |
Linux Security Summit | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| June 5 | September 8 September 9 |
PyCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 8 | August 25 August 27 |
GNU Hackers' Meeting 2017 | Kassel, Germany |
| June 11 | August 6 August 12 |
DebConf 2017 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| June 15 | October 25 October 27 |
KVM Forum 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| June 15 | August 9 August 11 |
The Perl Conference | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| June 16 | October 31 November 2 |
API Strategy & Practice Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| June 20 | June 26 June 28 |
19th German Perl Workshop 2017 in Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
| June 24 | August 28 September 1 |
10th European Conference on Python in Science | Erlangen, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
GNU Hackers' Meeting
The GNU Hackers' Meeting will take place in Hessen, Germany on August 25-27. "The GNU Hackers' Meeting is a friendly, semi-formal forum to discuss technical, social, and organizational issues concerning free software and GNU. This is a great opportunity to meet GNU maintainers and active contributors. This year, accommodation and all meals are included in the cost of registration." The call for participation is open until June 8.
Events: April 27, 2017 to June 26, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| April 28 April 30 |
Penguicon | Southfield, MI, USA |
| April 28 April 29 |
Grazer Linuxtage 2017 | Graz, Austria |
| May 2 May 4 |
Red Hat Summit 2017 | Boston, MA, USA |
| May 2 May 4 |
samba eXPerience 2017 | Goettingen, Germany |
| May 2 May 4 |
3rd Check_MK Conference | Munich, Germany |
| May 4 May 5 |
Lund LinuxCon | Lund, Sweden |
| May 4 May 6 |
Linuxwochen Wien 2017 | Wien, Austria |
| May 6 May 7 |
Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference - Italy | Vicenza, Italy |
| May 6 May 7 |
LinuxFest Northwest | Bellingham, WA, USA |
| May 6 May 7 |
Community Leadership Summit 2017 | Austin, TX, USA |
| May 8 May 11 |
OpenStack Summit | Boston, MA, USA |
| May 8 May 11 |
O'Reilly Open Source Convention | Austin, TX, USA |
| May 8 May 11 |
6th RISC-V Workshop | Shanghai, China |
| May 13 May 14 |
Linuxwochen Linz | Linz, Austria |
| May 13 May 14 |
Open Source Conference Albania 2017 | Tirana, Albania |
| May 16 May 18 |
Open Source Data Center Conference 2017 | Berlin, Germany |
| May 17 | Python Language Summit | Portland, OR, USA |
| May 17 May 21 |
PyCon US | Portland, OR, USA |
| May 18 May 20 |
Linux Audio Conference | Saint-Etienne, France |
| May 22 May 25 |
PyCon US - Sprints | Portland, OR, USA |
| May 22 May 24 |
Container Camp AU | Sydney, Australia |
| May 22 May 25 |
OpenPOWER Developer Congress | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| May 23 | Maintainerati | London, UK |
| May 24 May 26 |
PGCon 2017 | Ottawa, Canada |
| May 26 May 28 |
openSUSE Conference 2017 | Nürnberg, Germany |
| May 31 June 2 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 1 June 2 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 3 | Madrid Perl Workshop | Madrid, Spain |
| June 5 June 7 |
coreboot Denver2017 | Denver, CO, USA |
| June 9 | PgDay Argentina 2017 | Santa Fe, Argentina |
| June 9 June 10 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2017 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| June 9 June 11 |
SouthEast LinuxFest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
| June 12 June 14 |
PyCon Israel | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| June 12 June 15 |
OPNFV Summit | Beijing, China |
| June 18 June 23 |
The Perl Conference | Washington, DC, USA |
| June 19 June 20 |
LinuxCon + ContainerCon + CloudOpen China | Beijing, China |
| June 20 June 22 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 20 June 23 |
Open Source Bridge | Portland, OR, USA |
| June 20 June 22 |
O’Reilly Fluent Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 23 June 24 |
QtDay 2017 | Florence, Italy |
| June 24 | Tuebix: Linux Conference | Tuebingen, Germany |
| June 24 June 25 |
Enlightenment Developer Days 2017 | Valletta, Malta |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary April 20, 2017 to April 26, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201704-5 | chromium | 2017-04-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201704-6 | firefox | 2017-04-21 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201704-4 | nss | 2017-04-20 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201704-7 | weechat | 2017-04-24 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1105 | C6 | bind | 2017-04-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1095 | C7 | bind | 2017-04-19 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1104 | C6 | firefox | 2017-04-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1106 | C7 | firefox | 2017-04-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1109 | C6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-04-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1108 | C7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-04-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1100 | C6 | nss and nss-util | 2017-04-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1100 | C6 | nss and nss-util | 2017-04-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1100 | C7 | nss and nss-util | 2017-04-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1100 | C7 | nss and nss-util | 2017-04-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:0987 | C7 | qemu-kvm | 2017-04-19 |
| Debian | DLA-913-1 | LTS | activemq | 2017-04-24 |
| Debian | DLA-915-1 | LTS | botan1.10 | 2017-04-25 |
| Debian | DLA-908-1 | LTS | chicken | 2017-04-23 |
| Debian | DLA-906-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2017-04-21 |
| Debian | DSA-3831-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2017-04-20 |
| Debian | DLA-905-1 | LTS | ghostscript | 2017-04-20 |
| Debian | DLA-903-1 | LTS | hunspell-en-us | 2017-04-20 |
| Debian | DSA-3832-1 | stable | icedove | 2017-04-20 |
| Debian | DSA-3833-1 | stable | libav | 2017-04-24 |
| Debian | DLA-909-1 | LTS | libcroco | 2017-04-23 |
| Debian | DLA-910-1 | LTS | libreoffice | 2017-04-23 |
| Debian | DLA-914-1 | LTS | minicom | 2017-04-24 |
| Debian | DLA-916-1 | LTS | mysql-5.5 | 2017-04-25 |
| Debian | DSA-3834-1 | stable | mysql-5.5 | 2017-04-25 |
| Debian | DLA-917-1 | LTS | rtmpdump | 2017-04-26 |
| Debian | DLA-911-1 | LTS | tiff | 2017-04-24 |
| Debian | DLA-912-1 | LTS | tiff3 | 2017-04-24 |
| Debian | DLA-904-1 | LTS | uzbek-wordlist | 2017-04-20 |
| Debian | DLA-907-1 | LTS | xen | 2017-04-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3f40aa3d64 | F25 | ansible | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7c9a9b2b36 | F24 | backintime | 2017-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8dce7a3940 | F25 | backintime | 2017-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0a876b0ba5 | F24 | bind | 2017-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-6b639afc9c | F24 | collectd | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-80763c8c03 | F25 | collectd | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-87e23bcc34 | F24 | firefox | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-31c64a0bbf | F25 | firefox | 2017-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-1aa946d52b | F25 | icu | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-25358a23ad | F25 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-db6864b797 | F24 | jenkins-xstream | 2017-04-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a902f8db61 | F25 | jenkins-xstream | 2017-04-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-55a8f10223 | F25 | libarchive | 2017-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-15e7445d67 | F25 | libdwarf | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-34f6e70fdd | F25 | libnl3 | 2017-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9042085060 | F24 | nss-softokn | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9042085060 | F24 | nss-util | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b4d4a46af6 | F25 | pcre | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9c6430c2e2 | F25 | pcre2 | 2017-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-68cdc567e9 | F24 | php-onelogin-php-saml | 2017-04-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-06f4b88ceb | F25 | php-onelogin-php-saml | 2017-04-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d9d620366e | F24 | php-pear-CAS | 2017-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-2a90185a04 | F25 | php-pear-CAS | 2017-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c0ef6054d7 | F25 | python-django | 2017-04-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a66ca10c22 | F24 | tigervnc | 2017-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5764721de5 | F24 | xstream | 2017-04-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b83c0eeab0 | F25 | xstream | 2017-04-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0111 | 5 | chromium-browser-stable | 2017-04-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0114 | 5 | flash-player-plugin | 2017-04-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0112 | 5 | gimp | 2017-04-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0116 | 5 | icu | 2017-04-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0115 | 5 | proftpd | 2017-04-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0113 | 5 | wireshark | 2017-04-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1063-1 | 42.1 42.2 | bind | 2017-04-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1100-1 | chromium | 2017-04-25 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1098-1 | 42.1 42.2 | chromium | 2017-04-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1099-1 | 42.1 42.2 | firefox | 2017-04-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1079-1 | 42.1 | gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base | 2017-04-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1076-1 | 42.1 | gstreamer-plugins-good | 2017-04-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1066-1 | 42.2 | gstreamer-plugins-good | 2017-04-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1088-1 | 42.1 42.2 | mozilla-nss | 2017-04-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1087-1 | 42.2 | wireshark | 2017-04-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1078-1 | 42.2 | xen | 2017-04-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1105 | OL6 | bind | 2017-04-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1104 | OL6 | firefox | 2017-04-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1106 | OL7 | firefox | 2017-04-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1109 | OL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-04-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1108 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-04-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1100 | OL6 | nss and nss-util | 2017-04-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1100 | OL7 | nss and nss-util | 2017-04-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1105-01 | EL6 | bind | 2017-04-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1124-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2017-04-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1104-01 | EL6 | firefox | 2017-04-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1106-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2017-04-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1161-01 | RHSCL 2.4 | httpd24-httpd | 2017-04-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1119-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.6.0-sun | 2017-04-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1118-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.7.0-oracle | 2017-04-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1109-01 | EL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-04-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1108-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-04-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1117-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.8.0-oracle | 2017-04-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1126-01 | EL6.2 | kernel | 2017-04-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1125-01 | EL7.2 | kernel | 2017-04-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1100-01 | EL6 EL7 | nss and nss-util | 2017-04-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1101-01 | EL5 | nss | 2017-04-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1103-01 | EL5.9 | nss | 2017-04-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1102-01 | EL6.2 EL6.4 EL6.5 EL6.6 EL6.7 EL7.2 | nss-util | 2017-04-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1162-01 | RHSCL 2.4 | python27 | 2017-04-26 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1105-1 | SL6 | bind | 2017-04-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1104-1 | SL6 | firefox | 2017-04-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1106-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2017-04-21 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1109-1 | SL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-04-21 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1108-1 | SL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-04-21 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1100-1 | SL6 SL7 | nss and nss-util | 2017-04-20 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1102-1 | SL6 SL7 | nss-util | 2017-04-20 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-114-01 | firefox | 2017-04-24 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-112-01 | mozilla | 2017-04-22 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-112-02 | ntp | 2017-04-22 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-112-03 | proftpd | 2017-04-22 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1102-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2017-04-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1067-1 | SLE12 | ruby2.1 | 2017-04-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1081-1 | SLE11 | xen | 2017-04-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:1080-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2017-04-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3259-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | bind9 | 2017-04-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3262-1 | 17.04 | curl | 2017-04-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3260-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | firefox | 2017-04-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3263-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | freetype | 2017-04-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3264-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2017-04-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3265-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-gke, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2017-04-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3266-1 | 16.10 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2017-04-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3266-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe | 2017-04-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3264-2 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2017-04-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3265-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial | 2017-04-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3261-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 | qemu | 2017-04-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3268-1 | 17.04 | qemu | 2017-04-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3267-1 | 17.04 | samba | 2017-04-25 |
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