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mini-DebConf 2017 in Toulouse, France

There will be a mini-DebConf in Toulouse, France, in conjunction with "Capitole du Libre", on November 18-19. The call for talks closes September 30.

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LibrePlanet celebrates 10th anniversary; CFP and registration open now

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced that the tenth annual LibrePlanet free-software conference will be held March 24-25, 2018, in the Cambridge, MA. The theme for this year's conference is "Freedom. Embedded." The call for sessions closes November 2.

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CFP Deadlines: September 21, 2017 to November 20, 2017

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
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
November 17	January 26 January 28	DevConf.cz	Brno, Czech Republic

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Announcing Google Code-in 2017

Google Code-in is for students ages 13-17 to learn about and contribute to open source software. This year's code-in runs from November 28-January 17, 2018. Open-source organizations can apply to participate in Google Code-in starting on October 9, 2017.

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Events: September 21, 2017 to November 20, 2017

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
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	Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit	Lizumerhuette, Austria
September 27 September 29	Kernel Recipes 2017	Paris, France
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 7	Seattle GNU/Linux Conference	Seattle, WA, USA
October 6 October 8	PyGotham	New York, NY, USA
October 6 October 8	Festival of the Commons	Athens, Greece
October 7 October 8	MiniDebConf Prishtina	Prishtina, Kosovo
October 7 October 8	Silicon Valley Code Camp	San Jose, CA, USA
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	GStreamer Conference 2017	Prague, Czech Republic
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	All Systems Go!	Berlin, Germany
October 23 October 25	Open Source Summit Europe	Prague, Czech Republic
October 23 October 24	All Things Open	Raleigh, NC, USA
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 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 29	European Coreboot Conference 2017	Bochum, Germany
October 26 October 27	Free Software and Open Source Symposium [CANCELLED]	Toronto, Canada
October 26 October 27	OpenWrt Summit	Prague, Czech Republic
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
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	OpenFest 2017	Sofia, Bulgaria
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 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
November 18 November 19	Technical Dutch Open Source Event	Eindhoven, Netherlands
November 18 November 19	Toulouse mini-DebConf 2017	Toulouse, France
November 18 November 19	Capitole du Libre 2017	Toulouse, France

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

Alert summary September 14, 2017 to September 20, 2017

Dist.	ID	Release	Package	Date
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-15		apache	2017-09-18
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-16		ettercap	2017-09-18
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-10		ffmpeg	2017-09-18
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-6		flashplugin	2017-09-14
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-9		kernel	2017-09-15
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-7		lib32-flashplugin	2017-09-14
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-14		lib32-libgcrypt	2017-09-18
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-13		libgcrypt	2017-09-18
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-8		linux-lts	2017-09-14
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-12		linux-zen	2017-09-18
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-11		newsbeuter	2017-09-18
Arch Linux	ASA-201709-5		tcpdump	2017-09-13
CentOS	CESA-2017:2685	C7	bluez	2017-09-13
CentOS	CESA-2017:2771	C7	emacs	2017-09-20
CentOS	CESA-2017:2679	C7	kernel	2017-09-13
CentOS	CESA-2017:2728	C7	postgresql	2017-09-14
Debian	DSA-3980-1	stable	apache2	2017-09-20
Debian	DSA-3975-1	stable	emacs25	2017-09-15
Debian	DLA-1098-1	LTS	freexl	2017-09-17
Debian	DSA-3976-1	stable	freexl	2017-09-17
Debian	DLA-1100-1	LTS	gdk-pixbuf	2017-09-20
Debian	DSA-3978-1	stable	gdk-pixbuf	2017-09-18
Debian	DSA-3977-1	stable	newsbeuter	2017-09-18
Debian	DSA-3979-1	stable	pyjwt	2017-09-19
Debian	DLA-1097-1	LTS	tcpdump	2017-09-15
Debian	DSA-3974-1	stable	tomcat8	2017-09-15
Debian	DLA-1096-1	LTS	wordpress-shibboleth	2017-09-13
Debian	DSA-3973-1	stable	wordpress-shibboleth	2017-09-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-292c77b3c1	F25	FlightGear	2017-09-18
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-caa564d86f	F26	FlightGear	2017-09-17
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	ImageMagick	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	ImageMagick	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-c5d7fd07c5	F25	LibRaw	2017-09-16
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-80c4677540	F26	LibRaw	2017-09-15
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	WindowMaker	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	WindowMaker	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-7dacb3c21c	F25	augeas	2017-09-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	autotrace	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	autotrace	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-fe95a5b88b	F26	bluez	2017-09-13
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	converseen	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	converseen	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-e4609f71f6	F26	cyrus-imapd	2017-09-15
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	dmtx-utils	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	drawtiming	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	drawtiming	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	emacs	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-a1dc0ef38c	F26	emacs	2017-09-13
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	emacs	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-b7e6e4cfc1	F25	freexl	2017-09-17
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-6679a0a2e1	F26	freexl	2017-09-17
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-e7ae1ed967	F26	gdm	2017-09-15
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	gtatool	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	gtatool	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	imageinfo	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	imageinfo	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	inkscape	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	inkscape	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-769793738f	F26	jasper	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	k3d	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	k3d	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-7369ea045c	F26	kernel	2017-09-17
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	kxstitch	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	kxstitch	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-c98c2e8e7a	F26	libwmf	2017-09-13
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-63ff51c0dc	F26	libwpd	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-66adafeb3b	F25	lightdm	2017-09-15
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-d793fef58f	F26	lightdm	2017-09-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-bb5d87e9de	F25	mingw-libzip	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-4d4914a260	F26	mingw-libzip	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	perl-Image-SubImageFind	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	perl-Image-SubImageFind	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	pfstools	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	pfstools	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	php-pecl-imagick	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	php-pecl-imagick	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	psiconv	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	psiconv	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8614a6e905	F26	python-django	2017-09-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	q	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	q	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-b10e1a9166	F26	rawtherapee	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	ripright	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	ripright	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	rss-glx	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	rss-glx	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-e136d63c99	F25	ruby	2017-09-16
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	rubygem-rmagick	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	rubygem-rmagick	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	synfig	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	synfig	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	synfigstudio	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	synfigstudio	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	techne	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	techne	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-a00a087fd4	F25	tomcat	2017-09-15
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-ab0def38cd	F26	tomcat	2017-09-14
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	vdr-scraper2vdr	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	vdr-scraper2vdr	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-3a568adb31	F25	vips	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-8f27031c8f	F26	vips	2017-09-19
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-ed735463e3	F25	xen	2017-09-16
Fedora	FEDORA-2017-e399a9008c	F26	xen	2017-09-15
Gentoo	201709-02		binutils	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-05		chkrootkit	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-14		curl	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-08		gdk-pixbuf	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-11		gimps	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-10		git	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-07		kpathsea	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-04		mod_gnutls	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-12		perl	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-13		squirrelmail	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-09		subversion	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-06		supervisor	2017-09-17
Gentoo	201709-03		webkit-gtk	2017-09-17
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0340	5, 6	389-ds-base	2017-09-16
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0339	5, 6	flash-player-plugin	2017-09-14
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0345	5	kernel	2017-09-16
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0342	6	kernel	2017-09-16
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0347	5	kernel-linus	2017-09-16
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0344	6	kernel-linus	2017-09-16
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0346	5	kernel-tmb	2017-09-16
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0343	6	kernel-tmb	2017-09-16
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0338	5, 6	libsndfile	2017-09-14
Mageia	MGASA-2017-0341	5, 6	mpg123	2017-09-16
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:2482-1		chromium	2017-09-15
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:2491-1	42.2 42.3	chromium	2017-09-15
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:2483-1	42.2 42.3	cvs	2017-09-15
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:2501-1	42.2	ffmpeg, ffmpeg2	2017-09-16
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:2502-1	42.3	ffmpeg, ffmpeg2	2017-09-16
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:2495-1	42.2	kernel	2017-09-15
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:2494-1	42.3	kernel	2017-09-15
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:2488-1	42.2 42.3	libreoffice	2017-09-15
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:2513-1	42.3	qemu	2017-09-18
openSUSE	openSUSE-SU-2017:2514-1	42.3	xen	2017-09-18
Oracle	ELSA-2017-2771	OL7	emacs	2017-09-19
Oracle	ELSA-2017-3620	OL6	kernel	2017-09-19
Oracle	ELSA-2017-2679-1	OL7	kernel	2017-09-13
Oracle	ELSA-2017-3620	OL7	kernel	2017-09-19
Oracle	ELSA-2017-2728	OL7	postgresql	2017-09-14
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:2771-01	EL7	emacs	2017-09-19
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:2726-01	OSP11.0	instack-undercloud	2017-09-13
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:2732-01	EL6.2	kernel	2017-09-14
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:2731-01	EL6.6	kernel	2017-09-14
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:2760-01	EL6.7	kernel	2017-09-19
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:2770-01	EL7.3	kernel	2017-09-19
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:2727-01	OSP11.0	openvswitch	2017-09-13
Red Hat	RHSA-2017:2728-01	EL7	postgresql	2017-09-14
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2017:2771-1	SL7	emacs	2017-09-19
Scientific Linux	SLSA-2017:2728-1	SL7	postgresql	2017-09-14
Slackware	SSA:2017-261-01		httpd	2017-09-18
Slackware	SSA:2017-258-02		kernel	2017-09-15
Slackware	SSA:2017-261-02		libgcrypt	2017-09-18
Slackware	SSA:2017-261-03		ruby	2017-09-18
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:2529-1	OS6 SLE12	emacs	2017-09-20
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:2459-1	OS6 SLE12	kernel	2017-09-14
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:2525-1	SLE11	kernel	2017-09-19
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:2521-1	SLE12	kernel	2017-09-18
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:2523-1	SLE12	kernel	2017-09-19
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:2450-1	SLE11	xen	2017-09-13
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2017:2519-1	SLE12	xen	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3425-1	14.04 16.04 17.04	apache2	2017-09-19
Ubuntu	USN-3346-2	14.04 16.04 17.04	bind9	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3418-1	14.04 16.04 17.04	gdk-pixbuf	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3423-1	12.04	kernel	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3422-1	14.04	kernel	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3417-1	17.04	libgcrypt20	2017-09-14
Ubuntu	USN-3421-1	17.04	libidn2-0	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3424-1	14.04 16.04 17.04	libxml2	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3420-1	16.04	linux, linux-aws, linux-gke, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3419-1	17.04	linux, linux-raspi2	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3419-2	16.04	linux-hwe	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3422-2	12.04	linux-lts-trusty	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3420-2	14.04	linux-lts-xenial	2017-09-18
Ubuntu	USN-3415-2	12.04	tcpdump	2017-09-13
Ubuntu	USN-3415-1	14.04 16.04 17.04	tcpdump	2017-09-13
Ubuntu	USN-3416-1	14.04 16.04 17.04	thunderbird	2017-09-14

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