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Calls for Presentations
Linux Plumbers Networking Track CFP
Linux networking maintainer David Miller has put out a call for proposals for a two-day networking track at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC). "We are seeking talks of 40 minutes in length, accompanied by papers of 2 to 10 pages in length." The deadline for proposals is July 11. LPC will be held November 13-15 in Vancouver and the networking track will be held the first two days.
CFP Deadlines: February 15, 2018 to April 16, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 15 | July 9 July 15 |
SciPy 2018 | Austin, TX, USA |
| February 16 | April 9 April 13 |
OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2018 | Boulder, CO, USA |
| February 18 | June 13 June 14 |
FOSS Backstage | Berlin, Germany |
| February 18 | July 28 July 30 |
State of the Map 2018 | Milan, Italy |
| February 28 | March 30 April 2 |
Easterhegg 2018 | Würzburg, Germany |
| February 28 | March 8 | Glustered 2018 | Bologna, Italy |
| March 2 | July 17 July 18 |
International Faust Conference | Mainz, Germany |
| March 4 | June 25 June 27 |
LinuxCon+ContainerCon+Cloudopen China | Beijing, China |
| March 5 | June 1 June 2 |
PyCon Taiwan | Taipei, Taiwan |
| March 8 | June 5 June 7 |
SambaXP 2018 Conference | Göttingen, Germany |
| March 11 | April 23 | foss-north 2018 | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| March 12 | August 11 August 17 |
Akademy | Vienna, Austria |
| March 15 | June 7 June 10 |
Linux Audio Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| March 18 | June 20 June 22 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 18 | June 20 June 22 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 19 | May 3 May 5 |
Linuxwochen Wien 2018 | Vienna, Austria |
| March 21 | May 4 May 5 |
PyDays Vienna | Vienna, Austria |
| March 25 | May 7 May 10 |
8th RISC-V Workshop | Barcelona, Spain |
| March 30 | May 22 May 23 |
Infoshare 2018 | Gdańsk, Poland |
| March 30 | September 24 September 27 |
ApacheCon North America | Montreal, Canada |
| March 31 | July 2 July 4 |
Pass the SALT 2018 | Lille, France |
| April 3 | August 17 August 19 |
DevConf.us 2018 | Boston, MA, USA |
| April 4 | June 4 June 6 |
PyCon Israel 2018 | Israel |
| April 15 | July 7 July 12 |
Libre Software Meeting | Strasbourg, France |
| April 15 | June 22 June 24 |
XenProject Developer and Design Summit | Nanjing, China |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
SCaLE 16x Reminders
SCaLE 16X – the 16th annual Southern California Linux Expo – will take place March 8-11 in Pasadena, CA. Some events at this year's conference include Open Source Legal Training, LPI sessions and exams, Embedded Linux Engineer training, and Libre Graphics sessions.Events: February 15, 2018 to April 16, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| February 15 | Linux FAST Summit '18 | Oakland, CA, USA |
| February 20 February 21 |
Automotive Grade Linux | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 6 March 8 |
Open Source Leadership Summit | Sonoma Valley, CA, USA |
| March 8 March 11 |
AsiaBSDCon 2018 | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 8 | Glustered 2018 | Bologna, Italy |
| March 8 | Icinga Camp Berlin 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| March 8 March 11 |
SCALE 16x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 9 | Incontro Devops Italia 2018 | Bologna, Italy |
| March 12 March 14 |
Embedded Linux Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
| March 12 March 14 |
OpenIoT Summit | Portland, OR, USA |
| March 19 March 23 |
Linaro Connect | Hong Kong, China |
| March 22 March 25 |
FOSSASIA Summit | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 23 March 25 |
LibreOffice Conference Indonesia | Surabaya, Indonesia |
| March 24 March 25 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 26 March 28 |
Open Networking Summit | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| March 30 April 2 |
Easterhegg 2018 | Würzburg, Germany |
| April 9 April 11 |
QCon.ai Applied AI for Developers | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| April 9 April 12 |
‹Programming› 2018 | Nice, France |
| April 9 April 13 |
OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop 2018 | Boulder, CO, USA |
| April 11 April 14 |
MiniDebConf Curitiba 2018 | Curitiba, Brazil |
| April 14 April 15 |
Prague Makerfaire | Prague, Czech Republic |
| April 14 April 15 |
curl up 2018 | Stockholm, Sweden |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary February 8, 2018 to February 14, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-1 | clamav | 2018-02-09 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-6 | exim | 2018-02-13 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-2 | go | 2018-02-09 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-3 | go-pie | 2018-02-09 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-7 | mpv | 2018-02-13 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-4 | plasma-workspace | 2018-02-09 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201802-5 | sthttpd | 2018-02-12 | |
| Debian | DLA-1281-1 | LTS | advancecomp | 2018-02-13 |
| Debian | DLA-1277-1 | LTS | audacity | 2018-02-12 |
| Debian | DLA-1279-1 | LTS | clamav | 2018-02-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4107-1 | stable | django-anymail | 2018-02-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1274-1 | LTS | exim4 | 2018-02-10 |
| Debian | DSA-4110-1 | stable | exim4 | 2018-02-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1282-1 | LTS | graphicsmagick | 2018-02-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4111-2 | stable | libreoffice | 2018-02-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4111-1 | stable | libreoffice | 2018-02-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1278-1 | LTS | librsvg | 2018-02-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4106-1 | stable | libtasn1-6 | 2018-02-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1272-1 | LTS | mailman | 2018-02-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4108-1 | stable | mailman | 2018-02-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4105-2 | stable | mpv | 2018-02-09 |
| Debian | DLA-1271-1 | LTS | postgresql-9.1 | 2018-02-07 |
| Debian | DLA-1280-1 | LTS | pound | 2018-02-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4109-1 | stable | ruby-omniauth | 2018-02-10 |
| Debian | DLA-1273-1 | LTS | simplesamlphp | 2018-02-09 |
| Debian | DLA-1276-1 | LTS | tomcat-native | 2018-02-11 |
| Debian | DLA-1275-1 | LTS | uwsgi | 2018-02-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-318b5d74bd | F26 | tomcat-native | 2018-02-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7b1517bc6e | F27 | tomcat-native | 2018-02-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-0ad6e73ac0 | F27 | w3m | 2018-02-08 |
| Gentoo | 201802-01 | virtualbox | 2018-02-11 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0122 | 6 | 389-ds-base | 2018-02-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0124 | 6 | gcc | 2018-02-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0125 | 6 | kernel | 2018-02-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0121 | 6 | libtasn1 | 2018-02-08 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0123 | 6 | p7zip | 2018-02-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0396-1 | 42.3 | ImageMagick | 2018-02-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0406-1 | 42.3 | docker, docker-runc, containerd, | 2018-02-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0389-1 | 42.3 | flatpak | 2018-02-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0420-1 | 42.3 | freetype2 | 2018-02-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0421-1 | 42.3 | ghostscript | 2018-02-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0434-1 | 42.3 | ipsec-tools | 2018-02-13 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0419-1 | 42.3 | jhead | 2018-02-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0408-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2018-02-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0429-1 | 42.3 | leptonica | 2018-02-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0393-1 | 42.3 | libjpeg-turbo | 2018-02-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0388-1 | 42.3 | libsndfile | 2018-02-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0418-1 | 42.3 | libxml2 | 2018-02-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0400-1 | 42.3 | mariadb | 2018-02-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0405-1 | 42.3 | mupdf | 2018-02-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0398-1 | plasma5-workspace | 2018-02-08 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0397-1 | 42.3 | plasma5-workspace | 2018-02-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0394-1 | 42.3 | pound | 2018-02-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0402-1 | 42.3 | python-mistune | 2018-02-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:0399-1 | 42.3 | spice-vdagent | 2018-02-08 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4025 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4025 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-02-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0299-01 | OSP11.0/EL7 | collectd | 2018-02-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0303-01 | OSP11.0 | erlang | 2018-02-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0285-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2018-02-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0316-01 | SCL | httpd24-apr | 2018-02-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0292-01 | EL5 | kernel | 2018-02-09 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0315-01 | OSP11.0 | openstack-aodh | 2018-02-13 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:0314-01 | OSP11.0 | openstack-nova | 2018-02-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1 | OS6 SLE12 | docker, docker-runc, containerd, golang-github-docker-libnetwork | 2018-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0414-1 | SLE12 | freetype2 | 2018-02-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0383-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0437-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-02-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0416-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2018-02-09 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0428-1 | SLE12 | libreoffice | 2018-02-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:0438-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2018-02-14 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3560-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | QEMU | 2018-02-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3565-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | exim4 | 2018-02-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3544-2 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | firefox | 2018-02-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3561-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | libvirt | 2018-02-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3569-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | libvorbis | 2018-02-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3563-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | mailman | 2018-02-08 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3562-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | miniupnpc | 2018-02-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3566-1 | 14.04 | php5 | 2018-02-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3564-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | postgresql-9.3, postgresql-9.5, postgresql-9.6 | 2018-02-09 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3567-1 | 14.04 | puppet | 2018-02-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3568-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 | wavpack | 2018-02-12 |
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