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CFP Deadlines: September 14, 2017 to November 13, 2017
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| October 31 | March 8 March 11 |
SCALE 16x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| November 2 | March 24 March 25 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| November 3 | February 3 February 4 |
FOSDEM 2018 | Brussels, Belgium |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Tracing Summit 2017 Schedule
The Tracing Summit will be held in Prague, Czech Republic on October 27, co-located with Open Source Summit Europe. The schedule has been posted.Mini-DebConf 2017 in Cambridge, UK
There will be a mini-DebConf November 23-26 in Cambridge, UK. "I'm expecting that we will end up discussing and working on the arm ports and other ARM-related topics at the very least, but there's also plenty of scope for other subjects for both sprint work and talks."
Events: September 14, 2017 to November 13, 2017
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| September 11 September 14 |
Open Source Summit NA 2017 | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 13 September 15 |
MesosCon North America | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| September 13 September 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference 2017 | 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 20 |
O’Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| September 18 September 19 |
OpenMP Conference | Stony Brook, NY, 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 |
Festival of the Commons | Athens, Greece |
| October 6 October 7 |
Seattle GNU/Linux Conference | Seattle, WA, USA |
| October 6 October 8 |
PyGotham | New York, NY, USA |
| 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 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conference | London, UK |
| October 18 October 20 |
Plone Conference 2017 | Barcelona, Spain |
| October 18 October 20 |
14º Congresso Latino-americano de Software Livre e Tecnologias Abertas | Foz do Iguacu, Brazil |
| October 21 October 22 |
Datenspuren | Dresden, Germany |
| October 21 | 7th Real-Time Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| 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 28 |
FOSS4G + SoTM Argentina 2017 | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| October 23 October 29 |
Privacyweek | Vienna (Wien), Austria |
| October 23 October 24 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| October 23 October 25 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 24 October 27 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017 | Warsaw, Poland |
| October 24 October 27 |
Linux Kernel Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 25 October 27 |
PyCon DE | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| October 25 October 27 |
KVM Forum 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 26 October 29 |
European Coreboot Conference 2017 | Bochum, Germany |
| October 26 October 27 |
OpenWrt Summit | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 26 October 27 |
Free Software and Open Source Symposium [CANCELLED] | Toronto, Canada |
| October 27 October 29 |
Mozilla Festival | London, UK |
| October 27 | Tracing Summit 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| October 28 October 29 |
Wine Project Annual Conference 2017 | Wrocław, Poland |
| October 28 October 29 |
freenode #live | Bristol, UK |
| October 30 November 1 |
O'Reilly Security Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| October 31 November 2 |
API Strategy & Practice Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| November 3 | SFLC’s Fall Conference | New York, NY, USA |
| November 3 November 4 |
Linux Piter #3 | Saint-Petersburg, Russia |
| November 4 November 5 |
Sonoj Convention | Cologne, Germany |
| November 4 November 5 |
Free Society Conference and Nordic Summit | Oslo, Norway |
| November 4 November 5 |
PyCon HK 2017 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| November 4 November 5 |
PyCon India 2017 | Delhi, India |
| November 4 November 5 |
OpenFest 2017 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
| November 6 November 8 |
OpenStack Summit | Sydney, Australia |
| November 7 November 9 |
Cuban Free Technologies Conferences | Havana, Cuba |
| November 8 November 10 |
Netdev 2.2 | Seoul, South Korea |
| November 9 November 10 |
International Hacking & Information Security Conference | Bucharest, Romania |
| November 11 | Linux Developer Conference Brazil | São Paulo, Brazil |
| November 11 November 12 |
Intel® HPC Developer Conference | Denver, CO, USA |
| November 12 November 17 |
Supercomputing 17 | Denver, CO, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary September 7, 2017 to September 13, 2017
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201709-3 | bluez | 2017-09-13 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201709-1 | chromium | 2017-09-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201709-4 | linux-hardened | 2017-09-13 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2685 | C6 | bluez | 2017-09-12 |
| CentOS | CESA-2017:2681 | C6 | kernel | 2017-09-12 |
| Debian | DSA-3972-1 | stable | bluez | 2017-09-13 |
| Debian | DSA-3970-1 | stable | emacs24 | 2017-09-12 |
| Debian | DLA-1095-1 | LTS | freerdp | 2017-09-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1087-2 | LTS | icedove | 2017-09-07 |
| Debian | DSA-3968-1 | stable | icedove | 2017-09-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1092-1 | LTS | libarchive | 2017-09-08 |
| Debian | DSA-3967-1 | stable | mbedtls | 2017-09-08 |
| Debian | DSA-3971-1 | stable | tcpdump | 2017-09-13 |
| Debian | DLA-1093-1 | LTS | tiff | 2017-09-09 |
| Debian | DLA-1094-1 | LTS | tiff3 | 2017-09-09 |
| Debian | DLA-1091-1 | LTS | unrar-free | 2017-09-07 |
| Debian | DSA-3969-1 | stable | xen | 2017-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-c708c044e3 | F25 | chromium | 2017-09-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-bb4c07b01a | F26 | file | 2017-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-a3a8638a60 | F25 | kernel | 2017-09-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-6764d16965 | F26 | kernel | 2017-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-10c74147f9 | F26 | krb5 | 2017-09-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-86cfcbbae8 | F25 | libstaroffice | 2017-09-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-3abea58794 | F25 | mbedtls | 2017-09-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-15ad4721e3 | F25 | mimedefang | 2017-09-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-77e8bc720a | F26 | mimedefang | 2017-09-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-fe4f93fde4 | F26 | mingw-libidn2 | 2017-09-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-deefb26e8b | F25 | mingw-openjpeg2 | 2017-09-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f7a73de98d | F25 | mingw-openjpeg2 | 2017-09-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-43390e73b1 | F26 | mingw-openjpeg2 | 2017-09-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-deefb26e8b | F25 | openjpeg2 | 2017-09-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-f285db3668 | F25 | openjpeg2 | 2017-09-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-20214ad330 | F26 | rubygems | 2017-09-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2017-bdd0b565ef | F25 | thunderbird | 2017-09-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0336 | 5, 6 | bzr | 2017-09-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0337 | 5, 6 | libarchive | 2017-09-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0334 | 6 | libgcrypt | 2017-09-10 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2017-0335 | 5, 6 | tcpdump | 2017-09-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2393-1 | 42.2 42.3 | gdk-pixbuf | 2017-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2384-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2017-09-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2410-1 | 42.3 | libidn2 | 2017-09-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2409-1 | 42.3 | mpg123 | 2017-09-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2392-1 | 42.2 42.3 | postgresql94 | 2017-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2391-1 | 42.2 42.3 | postgresql96 | 2017-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2398-1 | 42.2 | xen | 2017-09-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2017:2394-1 | 42.3 | xen | 2017-09-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2685 | OL6 | bluez | 2017-09-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2685 | OL7 | bluez | 2017-09-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2681 | OL6 | kernel | 2017-09-13 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2017-2679 | OL7 | kernel | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2685-01 | EL6 EL7 | bluez | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2676-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2017-09-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2702-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2017-09-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2693-01 | EL7 | instack-undercloud | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2687-01 | OSP8.0 | instack-undercloud | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2681-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2683-01 | EL6.4 | kernel | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2707-01 | EL6.5 | kernel | 2017-09-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2682-01 | EL6.7 | kernel | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2679-01 | EL7 | kernel | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2706-01 | EL7.2 | kernel | 2017-09-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2680-01 | EL7.3 | kernel | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2704-01 | EL7 | kernel-rt | 2017-09-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2705-01 | MRG2 | kernel-rt | 2017-09-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2698-01 | OSP7.0/EL7 | openvswitch | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2692-01 | OSP8.0 | openvswitch | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2678-01 | SCL | rh-postgresql94-postgresql | 2017-09-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2017:2677-01 | SCL | rh-postgresql95-postgresql | 2017-09-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2685-1 | SL6 SL7 | bluez | 2017-09-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2681-1 | SL6 | kernel | 2017-09-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2017:2679-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2017-09-12 |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-251-01 | bash | 2017-09-08 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-255-01 | emacs | 2017-09-12 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-255-02 | libzip | 2017-09-12 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-251-02 | mariadb | 2017-09-08 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2017-251-03 | tcpdump | 2017-09-08 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2390-1 | SLE12 | evince | 2017-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2389-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2017-09-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2416-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2017-09-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2017:2420-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2017-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3413-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | bluez | 2017-09-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3412-1 | 17.04 | file | 2017-09-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3414-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.04 | qemu | 2017-09-13 |
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