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Tracing Summit 2017 Call for Presentations and Discussions

The Tracing Summit will be held October 27 in Prague, Czech Republic, co-located with Open Source Summit Europe. "This event focuses on the tracing area, gathering people involved in development and end-users of tracing tools as well as trace analysis tools. The main target of this Tracing Summit is to provide room for discussion between people in the various areas that benefit from tracing, namely parallel, distributed and/or real-time systems, as well as kernel development." Half the day will be reserved for presentations and the proposal deadline is September 1.

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CFP Deadlines: July 13, 2017 to September 11, 2017

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
July 14	September 29 September 30	Ohio LinuxFest	Columbus, OH, USA
July 14	November 6 November 8	OpenStack Summit	Sydney, Australia
July 15	November 4 November 5	Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit	Oslo, Norway
July 18	October 6 October 8	PyGotham	New York, NY, USA
July 30	October 25 October 27	PyCon DE	Karlsruhe, Germany
July 31	December 4 December 6	PGconf.ASIA 2017	Tokyo, Japan
July 31	August 25 August 26	Swiss Perl Workshop	Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland
August 1	April 9 April 12	‹Programming› 2018	Nice, France
August 1	August 22 August 29	Nextcloud Conference	Berlin, Germany
August 1	September 26	OpenStack Days UK	London, UK
August 2	September 20 September 22	X.org Developers Conference	Mountain View, CA, USA
August 2	October 4 October 5	Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop	Paris, France
August 6	October 6 October 7	Seattle GNU/Linux Conference	Seattle, WA, USA
August 6	January 22 January 26	linux.conf.au	Sydney, Australia
August 7	October 24 October 27	PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017	Warsaw, Poland
August 9	September 30 October 1	RustFest Zürich	Zurich, Switzerland
August 13	October 21 October 22	GStreamer Conference 2017	Prague, Czech Republic
August 14	October 21 October 22	openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017	Tokyo, Japan
August 15	October 11 October 13	LibreOffice Conference 2017	Rome, Italy
August 15	October 14 October 16	GNOME.Asia Summit	Chongqing, China
August 18	November 11 November 12	Intel® HPC Developer Conference	Denver, CO, USA
August 21	December 6 December 8	CloudNativeCon + KubeCon North America 2017	Austin, TX, USA
August 21	October 16 October 20	Tcl/Tk Conference 2017	Houston, TX, USA
August 24	November 4 November 5	PyCon HK 2017	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
August 27	October 21 October 22	Datenspuren	Dresden, Germany
August 31	November 7 November 9	Cuban Free Technologies Conferences	Havana, Cuba
August 31	November 4 November 5	PyCon India 2017	Delhi, India
August 31	October 28 October 29	freenode #live	Bristol, UK
August 31	October 26 October 27	OpenWrt Summit	Prague, Czech Republic
September 1	October 5 October 6	PyCon South Africa	Cape Town, South Africa
September 1	October 27	Tracing Summit 2017	Prague, Czech Republic
September 3	October 21 October 22	All Systems Go!	Berlin, Germany
September 8	September 8 September 10	ORConf 2017	Hebden Bridge, UK

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Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit

The Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit (ALPSS) will be held from September 27-29 at the Lizumerhuette in Austria. "The goal of this conference is to discuss the hot topics in Linux storage and file systems, such as persistent memory, NVMe, multi-pathing, raw or open channel flash and I/O scheduling in a cool and relaxed setting with spectacular views in the Austrian alps."

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Power Management and Energy-awareness Microconference Accepted into LPC

The Power Management and Energy-awareness microconference has been accepted for this year's Linux Plumber's Conference, which runs September 13-15 in Los Angeles, CA. "The agenda this year will focus on a range of topics including CPUfreq core improvements and schedutil governor extensions, how to best use scheduler signals to balance energy consumption and performance and user space interfaces to control capacity and utilization estimates. We'll also discuss selective throttling in thermally constrained systems, runtime PM for ACPI, CPU cluster idling and the possibility to implement resume from hibernation in a bootloader."

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Events: July 13, 2017 to September 11, 2017

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
July 9 July 16	EuroPython 2017	Rimini, Italy
July 10 July 16	SciPy 2017	Austin, TX, USA
July 16 July 21	IETF 99	Prague, Czech Republic
July 16 July 23	CoderCruise	New Orleans et. al., USA/Caribbean
July 22 July 27	Akademy 2017	Almería, Spain
July 28 August 2	GNOME Users And Developers European Conference 2017	Manchester, UK
August 3 August 8	PyCon Australia 2017	Melbourne, Australia
August 5 August 6	Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters	Taipei, Taiwan
August 6 August 12	DebConf 2017	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 9 August 11	The Perl Conference	Amsterdam, Netherlands
August 9 August 13	Wikimania	Montréal, Canada
August 11 August 12	PGConf US	Seattle, WA, USA
August 13 August 18	DjangoCon US	Spokane, WA, USA
August 16 August 18	Golang UK conference	London, UK
August 18 August 20	QtCon Brasil 2017	São Paulo, Brasil
August 18 August 20	State of the Map	Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan
August 19 August 20	Free and Open Source Software Conference	St. Augustin (near Cologne), Germany
August 22 August 29	Nextcloud Conference	Berlin, Germany
August 23 August 25	JupyterCon	New York, NY, USA
August 25 August 26	Swiss Perl Workshop	Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland
August 25 August 27	GNU Hackers' Meeting 2017	Kassel, Germany
August 26	FOSSCON	Philadelphia, PA, USA
August 28 September 1	10th European Conference on Python in Science	Erlangen, Germany
September 6 September 8	PostgresOpen	Silicon Valley, CA, USA
September 6 September 9	Radare conference 2017	Barcelona, Spain
September 7	ML Family Workshop	Oxford, UK
September 8 September 9	PyCon Japan	Tokyo, Japan
September 8	OCaml Users and Developers Workshop	Oxford, UK
September 8 September 10	GNU Tools Cauldron 2017	Prague, Czech Republic
September 8 September 10	ORConf 2017	Hebden Bridge, UK

If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Alert summary July 6, 2017 to July 12, 2017

Dist.	ID	Release	Package	Date
Arch Linux	ASA-201707-10		flashplugin	2017-07-11
Arch Linux	ASA-201707-9		lib32-flashplugin	2017-07-11
Arch Linux	ASA-201707-6		lib32-gnutls	2017-07-11
Arch Linux	ASA-201707-7		libdwarf	2017-07-11
Arch Linux	ASA-201707-11		nginx	2017-07-12
Arch Linux	ASA-201707-12		nginx-mainline	2017-07-12
Arch Linux	ASA-201707-8		tor	2017-07-11
CentOS	CESA-2017:1679	C6	bind	2017-07-05
CentOS	CESA-2017:1680	C7	bind	2017-07-05
CentOS	CESA-2017:1681	C7	qemu-kvm	2017-07-05
Debian	DSA-3904-1	stable	bind9	2017-07-08
Debian	DSA-3902-1	stable	jabberd2	2017-07-05
Debian	DLA-1020-1	LTS	jetty	2017-07-10
Debian	DLA-1021-1	LTS	jetty8	2017-07-11
Debian	DLA-1014-1	LTS	libclamunrar	2017-07-05
Debian	DLA-1015-1	LTS	libgcrypt11	2017-07-06
Debian	DLA-1017-1	LTS	mpg123	2017-07-08
Debian	DLA-1019-1	LTS	phpldapadmin	2017-07-09
Debian	DLA-1016-1	LTS	radare2	2017-07-06
Debian	DSA-3907-1	stable	spice	2017-07-11
Debian	DLA-1018-1	LTS	sqlite3	2017-07-09
Debian	DLA-1022-1	LTS	tiff	2017-07-11
Debian	DSA-3903-1	stable	tiff	2017-07-05
Debian	DLA-1023-1	LTS	tiff3	2017-07-11
Debian	DSA-3906-1	stable	undertow	2017-07-11
Debian	DSA-3905-1	stable	xorg-server	2017-07-09
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3ac2e9b354	F25	GraphicsMagick	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-02008fed70	F26	GraphicsMagick	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-001f135337	F24	bind	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-d04f7ddd73	F25	bind	2017-07-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-30f678e62a	F26	bind	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-001f135337	F24	bind-dyndb-ldap	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-d04f7ddd73	F25	bind-dyndb-ldap	2017-07-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-167cfa7b09	F25	bind99	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-87f1f8c798	F26	bind99	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-b8d76bef4e	F24	chromium-native_client	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-167cfa7b09	F25	dhcp	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-87f1f8c798	F26	dhcp	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-001f135337	F24	dnsperf	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-d04f7ddd73	F25	dnsperf	2017-07-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-6874606e19	F26	drupal7	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-a44f9aa38b	F24	expat	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-2c5635cd97	F25	expat	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-6b1f07acd9	F24	flatpak	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-cf9599a306	F24	httpd	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-81976b6a91	F26	httpd	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-75c571778e	F25	irssi	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-2f30e218e7	F26	irssi	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-1206f87545	F24	jetty	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-03954b6dc4	F25	jetty	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-4e2312892e	F26	jetty	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-03954b6dc4	F25	jetty-alpn	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-03954b6dc4	F25	jetty-test-helper	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-a11f853361	F25	kdepim4	2017-07-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-bb1ecba1bc	F25	kf5-messagelib	2017-07-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-f68c93aaac	F25	kmail	2017-07-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-014d67fa9d	F24	libdb	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-372bb1edb3	F25	libdb	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-2b68e14594	F26	libdb	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-22107b1986	F26	libgcrypt	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-2cfb239358	F24	libsndfile	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-708adeb9b6	F25	libsndfile	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-bce18ed3f2	F26	mingw-LibRaw	2017-07-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-749f4c7d2a	F24	mosquitto	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-79886ea453	F25	mosquitto	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-d76189b06d	F26	mosquitto	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-64f47504e4	F26	ocaml	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-299525e757	F24	php-horde-Horde-Image	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-6f7d6fbccc	F25	php-horde-Horde-Image	2017-07-06
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-28387b61fd	F26	php-horde-Horde-Image	2017-07-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-06d7ff5a5d	F24	pius	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-d3bc944153	F25	pius	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-808dbfe1d3	F26	pius	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-58cde32413	F25	qt5-qtwebengine	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-39ffa92327	F26	qt5-qtwebkit	2017-07-08
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-794c18b62d	F26	tomcat	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-bff1b87765	F25	webkitgtk4	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-c3149b5fcb	F25	xen	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-5c6a9b07a3	F26	xen	2017-07-07
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-47487b1223	F24	yara	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-fa52efdf32	F25	yara	2017-07-12
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-156d12fa2f	F26	yara	2017-07-11
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-5c8a4ebccd	F26	zabbix	2017-07-07
Gentoo	201707-08		feh	2017-07-08
Gentoo	201707-14		gajim	2017-07-10
Gentoo	201707-02		game-music-emu	2017-07-08
Gentoo	201707-07		jasper	2017-07-08
Gentoo	201707-13		libcroco	2017-07-09
Gentoo	201707-04		libsndfile	2017-07-08
Gentoo	201707-12		man-db	2017-07-09
Gentoo	201707-09		nm-applet	2017-07-08
Gentoo	201707-05		openslp	2017-07-08
Gentoo	201707-03		phpmyadmin	2017-07-08
Gentoo	201707-11		roundcube	2017-07-08
Gentoo	201707-06		virglrenderer	2017-07-08
Gentoo	201707-10		vlc	2017-07-08
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0202	5	ffcall,clisp	2017-07-07
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0201	5	libffi	2017-07-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1798-1	42.2	GraphicsMagick	2017-07-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1803-1	42.2	apache2	2017-07-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1809-1	42.2	bind	2017-07-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1797-1	42.2	clamav	2017-07-06
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1807-1	42.2	dovecot22	2017-07-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1824-1		irssi	2017-07-08
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1823-1	42.2	irssi	2017-07-08
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1825-1	42.2	kernel	2017-07-08
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1801-1	42.2	libICE	2017-07-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1802-1	42.2	libXdmcp	2017-07-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1822-1	42.2	libgcrypt	2017-07-08
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1806-1	42.2	libquicktime	2017-07-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1810-1	42.2	libxml2	2017-07-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1800-1	42.2	php7	2017-07-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1811-1	42.2	vim	2017-07-07
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:1826-1	42.2	xen	2017-07-08
Oracle	ELSA-2017-1679	OL6	bind	2017-07-05
Oracle	ELSA-2017-1680	OL7	bind	2017-07-05
Oracle	ELSA-2017-1721	OL6	httpd	2017-07-11
Oracle	ELSA-2017-1723	OL6	kernel	2017-07-11
Oracle	ELSA-2017-1681	OL7	qemu-kvm	2017-07-05
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:1685-01	RHV-M 4.1	ansible	2017-07-06
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:1731-01	EL6	flash-plugin	2017-07-12
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:1721-01	EL6	httpd	2017-07-11
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:1723-01	EL6	kernel	2017-07-11
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:1715-01	EL6.4	kernel	2017-07-11
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2017:1721-1	SL6	httpd	2017-07-11
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2017:1723-1	SL6	kernel	2017-07-11
Slackware	SSA:2017-190-01		irssi	2017-07-09
Slackware	SSA:2017-191-01		libtirpc	2017-07-10
Slackware	SSA:2017-188-01		php	2017-07-07
Slackware	SSA:2017-191-02		rpcbind	2017-07-10
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:1790-1	SLE11	ncurses	2017-07-06
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:1815-1	SLE12	ncurses	2017-07-07
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:1832-1	OS6 SLE12	spice	2017-07-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:1837-1	SLE11	spice	2017-07-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:1836-1	SLE12	spice	2017-07-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:1839-1	SLE12	spice	2017-07-11
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:1812-1	OS6 SLE12	xen	2017-07-07
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:1795-1	SLE12	xen	2017-07-06
Ubuntu	USN-3349-1	14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04	ntp	2017-07-05
Ubuntu	USN-3350-1	14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04	poppler	2017-07-07
Ubuntu	USN-3348-1	14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04	samba	2017-07-05
Ubuntu	USN-3321-1	14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04	thunderbird	2017-07-05

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