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CFP Deadlines: August 31, 2017 to October 30, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| September 30 | November 18 November 19 |
Technical Dutch Open Source Event | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| September 30 | November 18 November 19 |
Toulouse mini-DebConf 2017 | Toulouse, France |
| October 1 | December 6 December 7 |
Linux-Lab | Firenze, Italy |
| October 7 | November 11 | Linux Developer Conference Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
| October 15 | April 26 April 27 |
FLOSSUK – Spring Conference | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| October 24 | October 26 October 27 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium [CANCELLED] | Toronto, Canada |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
SFLC's Annual Conference at Columbia Law School
The Software Freedom Law Center will hold its Fall Conference on November 3 in New York, NY. "The 13th Anniversary Conference will run from 9:00am-5:00pm. Free lunch will be provided, along with all that talk about free software law. Free CLE credit via on-site registration. Admission is, well, free."
Events: August 31, 2017 to October 30, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 10 |
ORConf 2017 | Hebden Bridge, UK |
| September 8 | OCaml Users and Developers Workshop | Oxford, UK |
| September 8 September 9 |
PyCon Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| September 8 September 10 |
GNU Tools Cauldron 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 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 |
| September 25 September 26 |
Open Source Backup Conference 2017 | Köln, Germany |
| September 26 | OpenStack Days UK | London, UK |
| September 26 | Embedded Recipes 2017 | Paris, France |
| September 27 September 29 |
Kernel Recipes 2017 | Paris, France |
| September 27 September 29 |
Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit | Lizumerhuette, Austria |
| September 29 September 30 |
Ohio LinuxFest | Columbus, OH, USA |
| September 30 October 1 |
RustFest Zürich | Zurich, Switzerland |
| October 2 October 4 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| October 3 | PostgresqlConf South Africa | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 4 October 5 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop | Paris, France |
| October 5 | Open Hardware Summit 2017 | Denver, CO, USA |
| October 5 October 6 |
PyCon South Africa | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 6 October 8 |
PyGotham | New York, NY, USA |
| October 6 October 7 |
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference | Seattle, WA, USA |
| October 6 October 8 |
Festival of the Commons | Athens, Greece |
| October 7 October 8 |
Silicon Valley Code Camp | San Jose, CA, USA |
| October 7 October 8 |
MiniDebConf Prishtina | Prishtina, Kosovo |
| October 10 October 12 |
Qt World Summit | Berlin, Germany |
| October 11 October 13 |
LibreOffice Conference 2017 | Rome, Italy |
| October 14 October 16 |
GNOME.Asia Summit | Chongqing, China |
| October 16 October 20 |
Tcl/Tk Conference 2017 | Houston, TX, USA |
| October 18 October 20 |
14º Congresso Latino-americano de Software Livre e Tecnologias Abertas | Foz do Iguacu, Brazil |
| October 18 October 20 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | London, UK |
| October 18 October 20 |
Plone Conference 2017 | Barcelona, Spain |
| October 21 | 7th Real-Time Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 21 October 22 |
Datenspuren | Dresden, Germany |
| October 21 October 22 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2017 | Tokyo, Japan |
| October 21 October 22 |
GStreamer Conference 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 21 October 22 |
All Systems Go! | Berlin, Germany |
| October 23 October 25 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 23 October 24 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| October 23 October 25 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 23 October 28 |
FOSS4G + SoTM Argentina 2017 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| October 23 October 29 |
Privacyweek | Vienna (Wien), Austria |
| October 24 October 27 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017 | Warsaw, Poland |
| October 24 October 27 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 25 October 27 |
KVM Forum 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 25 October 27 |
PyCon DE | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| October 26 October 27 |
OpenWrt Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 26 October 29 |
European Coreboot Conference 2017 | Bochum, Germany |
| October 26 October 27 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium [CANCELLED] | Toronto, Canada |
| October 27 | Tracing Summit 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 27 October 29 |
Mozilla Festival | London, UK |
| October 28 October 29 |
Wine Project Annual Conference 2017 | Wrocław, Poland |
| October 28 October 29 |
freenode #live | Bristol, UK |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary August 24, 2017 to August 30, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201708-17 | salt | 2017-08-24 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201708-18 | thunderbird | 2017-08-24 | |
| Debian | DSA-3953-1 | stable | aodh | 2017-08-23 |
| Debian | DLA-1067-1 | LTS | augeas | 2017-08-26 |
| Debian | DSA-3956-1 | stable | connman | 2017-08-27 |
| Debian | DSA-3957-1 | stable | ffmpeg | 2017-08-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1065-1 | LTS | fontforge | 2017-08-26 |
| Debian | DSA-3958-1 | stable | fontforge | 2017-08-29 |
| Debian | DLA-1064-1 | LTS | freeradius | 2017-08-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1068-1 | LTS | git | 2017-08-27 |
| Debian | DSA-3959-1 | stable | libgcrypt20 | 2017-08-29 |
| Debian | DSA-3955-1 | stable | mariadb-10.1 | 2017-08-26 |
| Debian | DLA-1073-1 | LTS | openjdk-7 | 2017-08-29 |
| Debian | DSA-3954-1 | stable | openjdk-7 | 2017-08-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1066-1 | LTS | php5 | 2017-08-26 |
| Debian | DLA-1074-1 | LTS | poppler | 2017-08-29 |
| Debian | DLA-1070-1 | LTS | qemu | 2017-08-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1071-1 | LTS | qemu-kvm | 2017-08-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1069-1 | LTS | tenshi | 2017-08-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1075-1 | LTS | wordpress | 2017-08-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8bd521abc9 | F26 | augeas | 2017-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-97eb475d93 | F25 | cvs | 2017-08-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-e5a78c5ca9 | F26 | cvs | 2017-08-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-be3df4fe14 | F25 | java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32 | 2017-08-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-721314e3b3 | F26 | java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32 | 2017-08-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-4336d64e21 | F26 | kernel | 2017-08-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-bf74db7147 | F26 | krb5 | 2017-08-28 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-67a3755b96 | F26 | libsndfile | 2017-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f03b04acbb | F26 | mercurial | 2017-08-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c27a947af1 | F25 | nginx | 2017-08-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-aecd25b8a9 | F26 | nginx | 2017-08-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-9148fe36b9 | F25 | postgresql | 2017-08-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-8d74f1c135 | F26 | taglib | 2017-08-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-0dfa70ae35 | F26 | thunderbird | 2017-08-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-b8fa8e1a13 | F26 | xen | 2017-08-26 |
| Gentoo | 201708-09 | AutoTrace | 2017-08-26 | |
| Gentoo | 201708-10 | jbig2dec | 2017-08-26 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0298 | 6 | apache | 2017-08-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0306 | 5, 6 | augeas | 2017-08-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0317 | 5, 6 | chromium | 2017-08-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0310 | 5 | dbus | 2017-08-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0314 | 5, 6 | flash-player-plugin | 2017-08-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0297 | 5, 6 | graphicsmagick | 2017-08-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0311 | 5, 6 | groovy, groovy18 | 2017-08-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0320 | 5 | gstreamer0.10-plugins-base, gstreamer1.0-plugins-base | 2017-08-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0300 | 5 | gstreamer1.0 | 2017-08-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0308 | 5 | heimdal | 2017-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0309 | 5 | kernel-linus | 2017-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0296 | 6 | kernel-tmb | 2017-08-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0315 | 5 | kmail(kdepimlibs4) | 2017-08-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0319 | 5 | libgit2 | 2017-08-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0318 | 5, 6 | libgxps | 2017-08-29 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0307 | 5 | libice | 2017-08-25 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0312 | 5 | libmodplug | 2017-08-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0313 | 5 | miniupnpc | 2017-08-26 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0299 | 5, 6 | openjpeg2 | 2017-08-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0301 | 5 | perltidy | 2017-08-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0316 | 5, 6 | postgresql9.3/4/6 | 2017-08-28 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0303 | 5, 6 | thunderbird | 2017-08-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0302 | 5 | unrar | 2017-08-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0304 | 6 | unrar | 2017-08-24 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0305 | 5, 6 | xmlsec1 | 2017-08-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2249-1 | 42.2 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2017-08-24 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2271-1 | 42.2 42.3 | ImageMagick | 2017-08-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2289-1 | 42.2 42.3 | exim | 2017-08-29 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2270-1 | 42.3 | freeradius-server | 2017-08-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2273-1 | 42.2 42.3 | gnome-shell | 2017-08-28 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2272-1 | 42.3 | openvswitch | 2017-08-28 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3609 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-08-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-3609 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-08-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2534 | OL6 | thunderbird | 2017-08-24 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2534 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2017-08-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2533-01 | EL7.2 EL7.3 | bind | 2017-08-24 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2557-01 | OSP9.0 | instack-undercloud | 2017-08-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2553-01 | OSP9.0 | openvswitch | 2017-08-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2550-01 | EL6 | poppler | 2017-08-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2551-01 | EL7 | poppler | 2017-08-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2538-01 | SCL | rh-nginx110-nginx | 2017-08-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2534-01 | EL6 EL7 | thunderbird | 2017-08-24 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2551-1 | SL7 | poppler | 2017-08-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2534-1 | SL6 SL7 | thunderbird | 2017-08-24 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2280-1 | OS6 SLE12 | java-1_7_1-ibm | 2017-08-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2281-1 | SLE11 | java-1_7_1-ibm | 2017-08-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2263-1 | OS6 SLE12 | java-1_8_0-ibm | 2017-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2286-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2017-08-29 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2264-1 | SLE12 | libzypp | 2017-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2258-1 | SLE11 | postgresql94 | 2017-08-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2294-1 | SLE12 | quagga | 2017-08-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3403-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | ghostscript | 2017-08-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3406-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2017-08-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3405-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-gke, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2017-08-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3404-1 | 17.04 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2017-08-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3404-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe | 2017-08-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3406-2 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2017-08-29 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3405-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial | 2017-08-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3199-3 | 12.04 | python-crypto | 2017-08-28 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3402-1 | 16.04 17.04 | python-pysaml2 | 2017-08-24 |
Kernel patches of interest
Kernel releases
Architecture-specific
Dietmar Eggemann
arm, arm64, cpufreq: frequency- and cpu-invariant accounting support for task scheduler
Aug 25
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