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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: July 27, 2017 to September 25, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 15 | November 4 November 5 |
OpenFest 2017 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| September 20 | November 8 November 10 |
Netdev 2.2 | Seoul, South Korea |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: July 27, 2017 to September 25, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
State of the Map | Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan |
| August 18 August 20 |
QtCon Brasil 2017 | São Paulo, Brasil |
| 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 9 |
Radare conference 2017 | Barcelona, Spain |
| September 6 September 8 |
PostgresOpen | Silicon Valley, CA, USA |
| September 7 | ML Family Workshop | Oxford, UK |
| September 8 September 10 |
ORConf 2017 | Hebden Bridge, UK |
| September 8 September 10 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| September 8 | OCaml Users and Developers Workshop | Oxford, UK |
| September 8 September 9 |
PyCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| September 11 September 14 |
Open Source Summit NA 2017 | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 13 September 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference 2017 | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 13 September 15 |
MesosCon North America | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 14 September 15 |
Linux Security Summit | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 15 September 17 |
Balkan Computer Congress | Vojvodina, Serbia |
| September 18 September 19 |
OpenMP Conference | Stony Brook, NY, USA |
| September 18 September 20 |
O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| September 20 September 22 |
X.org Developers Conference | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| September 21 September 22 |
International Workshop on OpenMP | Stony Brook, NY, USA |
| September 21 September 24 |
EuroBSDcon 2017 | Paris, France |
| September 22 September 24 |
VideoLAN developers days | Paris, France |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary July 20, 2017 to July 26, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1759 | C6 | freeradius | 2017-07-19 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1793 | C7 | graphite2 | 2017-07-21 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1789 | C6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-21 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:1789 | C7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-21 |
| Debian | DSA-3916-1 | stable | atril | 2017-07-21 |
| Debian | DLA-1025-2 | LTS | bind9 | 2017-07-25 |
| Debian | DSA-3904-2 | stable | bind9 | 2017-07-23 |
| Debian | DLA-1037-1 | LTS | catdoc | 2017-07-24 |
| Debian | DSA-3917-1 | stable | catdoc | 2017-07-23 |
| Debian | DLA-1036-1 | LTS | gsoap | 2017-07-24 |
| Debian | DSA-3918-1 | stable | icedove | 2017-07-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1038-1 | LTS | libtasn1-3 | 2017-07-24 |
| Debian | DLA-1033-1 | LTS | memcached | 2017-07-20 |
| Debian | DSA-3919-1 | stable | openjdk-8 | 2017-07-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1034-1 | LTS | php5 | 2017-07-21 |
| Debian | DLA-1035-1 | LTS | qemu | 2017-07-21 |
| Debian | DSA-3920-1 | stable | qemu | 2017-07-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1039-1 | LTS | rkhunter | 2017-07-25 |
| Debian | DSA-3915-1 | stable | ruby-mixlib-archive | 2017-07-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-758fafed81 | F24 | GraphicsMagick | 2017-07-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-6c52e2d731 | F25 | GraphicsMagick | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0446b53fd8 | F26 | GraphicsMagick | 2017-07-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-cc0b92f6c1 | F25 | glpi | 2017-07-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a40590256c | F26 | glpi | 2017-07-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-5d6a9e0c9c | F25 | heimdal | 2017-07-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-2afe501b36 | F26 | heimdal | 2017-07-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-114e1abf9d | F26 | irssi | 2017-07-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-605557de96 | F24 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-98548b066b | F25 | kernel | 2017-07-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-deb70b495e | F26 | kernel | 2017-07-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-bd6aa662fc | F24 | knot | 2017-07-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b0a2770a9b | F25 | knot | 2017-07-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-d3d38a53f9 | F26 | knot | 2017-07-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-081fc9ad77 | F24 | knot-resolver | 2017-07-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-92643d70b7 | F25 | knot-resolver | 2017-07-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-e6aaef4475 | F26 | knot-resolver | 2017-07-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-71c47e1e82 | F24 | krb5 | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8e9d9771c4 | F25 | krb5 | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-e5b36383f4 | F26 | krb5 | 2017-07-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-2d8a1226d1 | F25 | libmwaw | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-941058c1f1 | F24 | librsvg2 | 2017-07-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-cf1a42722d | F25 | librsvg2 | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-cf36278519 | F26 | librsvg2 | 2017-07-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-aa44293a53 | F24 | nodejs | 2017-07-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-81522ac6d8 | F25 | nodejs | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-7c1621d2e8 | F26 | nodejs | 2017-07-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-790ff602a6 | F24 | perl-XML-LibXML | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-534f300508 | F25 | perl-XML-LibXML | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3d5354d30f | F26 | perl-XML-LibXML | 2017-07-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-1a8bebaab4 | F24 | phpldapadmin | 2017-07-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-346836a623 | F25 | phpldapadmin | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-05888dd4fe | F26 | phpldapadmin | 2017-07-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-efdd962fee | F25 | putty | 2017-07-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f941184db1 | F25 | qemu | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-98bed96d12 | F24 | qt5-qtwebengine | 2017-07-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c22a8af4e9 | F25 | rubygem-rack-cors | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-61689edaf4 | F24 | spice | 2017-07-20 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-704c201dbb | F26 | subversion | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-37f68e3534 | F24 | webkitgtk4 | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-944e86b623 | F24 | yara | 2017-07-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-1d46019681 | F25 | yara | 2017-07-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-088b16a69a | F26 | yara | 2017-07-24 |
| Gentoo | 201707-15 | adobe-flash | 2017-07-22 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0215 | 5 | c-ares | 2017-07-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0218 | 5 | cinnamon-settings-daemon | 2017-07-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0214 | 5 | expat | 2017-07-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0211 | 5, 6 | flash-player-plugin | 2017-07-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0212 | 5 | gnutls | 2017-07-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0217 | 5 | graphite2 | 2017-07-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0221 | 5, 6 | gsoap | 2017-07-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0216 | 5, 6 | irssi | 2017-07-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0213 | 5 | libgcrypt | 2017-07-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0220 | 5 | libquicktime | 2017-07-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0210 | 5 | libtiff | 2017-07-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0208 | 5 | sane | 2017-07-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0209 | 5 | tnef | 2017-07-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0219 | 5 | wireshark | 2017-07-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1958-1 | 42.2 42.3 | Wireshark | 2017-07-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1899-1 | 42.2 | catdoc | 2017-07-19 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1959-1 | 42.3 | catdoc | 2017-07-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1933-1 | 42.2 | evince | 2017-07-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1957-1 | 42.2 42.3 | gsoap | 2017-07-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1960-1 | 42.2 42.3 | jasper | 2017-07-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1948-1 | 42.2 42.3 | rubygem-puppet | 2017-07-25 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:1934-1 | 42.3 | xorg-x11-server | 2017-07-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1793 | OL7 | graphite2 | 2017-07-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1789 | OL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-20 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-1789 | OL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1787-01 | OSP11.0/EL7 | collectd | 2017-07-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1793-01 | EL7 | graphite2 | 2017-07-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1792-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.6.0-sun | 2017-07-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1791-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.7.0-oracle | 2017-07-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1789-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1790-01 | EL6 EL7 | java-1.8.0-oracle | 2017-07-20 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:1798-01 | EL6.6 | kernel | 2017-07-24 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1793-1 | SL7 | graphite2 | 2017-07-21 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:1789-1 | SL6 SL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2017-07-20 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-202-01 | seamonkey | 2017-07-21 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-205-01 | tcpdump | 2017-07-24 | |
| Ubuntu | USN-3356-2 | 12.04 | expat | 2017-07-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3356-1 | 14.04 16.04 16.10 17.04 | expat | 2017-07-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3353-3 | 12.04 | heimdal | 2017-07-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3363-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | imagemagick | 2017-07-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3360-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2017-07-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3364-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2017-07-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3359-1 | 16.10 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2017-07-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3358-1 | 17.04 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2017-07-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3364-3 | 16.04 | linux-aws, linux-gke | 2017-07-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3361-1 | 16.04 | linux-hwe | 2017-07-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3360-2 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2017-07-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3364-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial | 2017-07-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3357-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | mysql-5.5, mysql-5.7 | 2017-07-20 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3357-2 | 12.04 | mysql-5.5 | 2017-07-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3307-2 | 12.04 | openldap | 2017-07-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3365-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.3 | 2017-07-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3353-4 | 12.04 | samba | 2017-07-24 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3355-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | spice | 2017-07-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3212-3 | 12.04 | tiff | 2017-07-19 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3362-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | xorg-server, xorg-server-hwe-16.04, xorg-server-lts-xenial | 2017-07-24 |
Kernel patches of interest
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