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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: May 3, 2018 to July 2, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 4 | August 4 August 5 |
DevConf India | Bangalore, India |
| May 15 | October 29 October 30 |
OpenWrt Summit | Lisbon, Portugal |
| May 16 | October 18 October 19 |
Osmocom Conference 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| May 20 | August 11 August 12 |
GNOME.Asia Summit | Taipei, Taiwan |
| May 20 | July 11 July 13 |
Netdev 0x12 | Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| May 20 | July 23 July 29 |
EuroPython 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| May 23 | August 25 August 26 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | Sankt Augustin, Germany |
| May 24 | October 29 October 31 |
LISA18 | Nashville, TN, USA |
| May 30 | July 18 July 19 |
RISC-V Workshop in Chennai | Chennai, India |
| May 31 | August 28 September 1 |
EuroSciPy 2018 | Trento, Italy |
| June 1 | April 1 April 4 |
‹Programming› 2019 | Genova, Italy |
| June 1 | November 12 | RabbitMQ Summit 2018 | London, UK |
| June 3 | August 27 August 28 |
Linux Security Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| June 3 | October 24 October 26 |
PyCon.DE 2018 | Karlsruhe, Germany |
| June 7 | August 25 August 26 |
Linux Developers Conference Brazil | Campinas, Brazil |
| June 9 | June 11 June 12 |
Czech and Slovak Network Operators Group | Brno, Czech Republic |
| June 14 | September 26 | Open Source Backup Conference 2018 | Cologne , Germany |
| June 14 | October 24 October 26 |
KVM Forum 2018 | Edinburgh, UK |
| June 15 | August 11 August 12 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Taipei, Taiwan |
| June 17 | July 29 August 5 |
DebConf18 | Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| June 17 | September 20 September 23 |
EuroBSDcon 2018 | Bucharest, Romania |
| June 23 | June 23 June 24 |
Linuxwochen Linz | Linz, Austria |
| June 30 | September 12 September 13 |
Devopsdays Berlin 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| June 30 | September 5 September 8 |
Radare conference 2018 | Barcelona, Spain |
| June 30 | September 26 September 28 |
LibreOffice Conference | Tirana, Albania |
| June 30 | October 9 | PostgresConf South Africa 2018 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| July 1 | October 22 October 24 |
Open Source Summit Europe | Edinburgh, UK |
| July 1 | October 22 October 24 |
Embedded Linux Conference Europe | Edinburgh, UK |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Netdev 0x12 Conference update
Netdev 0x12 will take place July 11-13 in Montreal, Canada. Registration is open, and a tutorial and two more talks have been announced.The First Annual International Copyleft Conference
Software Freedom Conservancy has announced that it will coordinate the first conference focused entirely on copyleft licensing, strategy, enforcement, governance and best practices. The conference will take place February 4, 2019, following FOSDEM, in Brussels, Belgium.Events: May 3, 2018 to July 2, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| May 2 May 4 |
KubeCon+CloudNativeCon | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| May 3 May 5 |
Linuxwochen Wien 2018 | Vienna, Austria |
| May 4 May 5 |
PyDays Vienna | Vienna, Austria |
| May 7 May 10 |
8th RISC-V Workshop | Barcelona, Spain |
| May 7 May 13 |
Wireless-Meshup (Wireless Battle Mesh) | Berlin, Germany |
| May 9 May 13 |
PyCon | Cleveland, OH, USA |
| May 16 May 20 |
Mini-DebConf | Hamburg, Germany |
| May 17 May 18 |
Devopsdays Silicon Valley | Mountain View, CA, USA |
| May 18 May 19 |
French Perl Workshop 2018 | Paris, France |
| May 21 May 22 |
OpenMP UK Users' Conference | Oxford, UK |
| May 21 May 24 |
OpenStack Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| May 22 May 23 |
Infoshare 2018 | Gdańsk, Poland |
| May 23 May 27 |
DjangoCon Europe 2018 | Heidelberg, Germany |
| May 25 May 27 |
openSUSE Conference 2018 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| May 29 June 1 |
PGCon 2018 | Ottawa, Canada |
| May 31 June 1 |
Netconf | Boston, MA, USA |
| June 1 June 2 |
PyCon Taiwan | Taipei, Taiwan |
| June 4 June 6 |
PyCon Israel 2018 | Israel |
| June 5 June 7 |
SambaXP 2018 Conference | Göttingen, Germany |
| June 7 June 10 |
Linux Audio Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| June 8 June 9 |
Texas Linux Fest | Austin, TX, USA |
| June 8 June 10 |
South East Linux Fest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
| June 11 June 14 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conf | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 11 June 12 |
Czech and Slovak Network Operators Group | Brno, Czech Republic |
| June 12 June 14 |
O'Reilly Fluent Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 12 June 13 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| June 13 June 14 |
FOSS Backstage | Berlin, Germany |
| June 16 June 17 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2018 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| June 20 June 22 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 20 June 22 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 22 June 24 |
XenProject Developer and Design Summit | Nanjing, China |
| June 23 June 24 |
Linuxwochen Linz | Linz, Austria |
| June 23 June 24 |
Prague Maker Faire | Prague, Czech Republic |
| June 25 June 27 |
LinuxCon+ContainerCon+Cloudopen China | Beijing, China |
| June 29 July 1 |
WineConf 2018 | The Hague, The Netherlands |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary April 26, 2018 to May 2, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201804-10 | drupal | 2018-04-29 | |
| Debian | DSA-4182-1 | stable | chromium-browser | 2018-04-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1365-1 | LTS | drupal7 | 2018-04-26 |
| Debian | DSA-4180-1 | stable | drupal7 | 2018-04-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1362-1 | LTS | gcc-4.9-backport | 2018-04-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1363-1 | LTS | ghostscript | 2018-04-25 |
| Debian | DSA-4186-1 | stable | gunicorn | 2018-04-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4187-1 | stable | kernel | 2018-05-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4188-1 | stable | kernel | 2018-05-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1368-1 | LTS | libvorbis | 2018-04-29 |
| Debian | DSA-4185-1 | stable | openjdk-8 | 2018-04-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1364-1 | LTS | openslp-dfsg | 2018-04-25 |
| Debian | DSA-4181-1 | stable | roundcube | 2018-04-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4184-1 | stable | sdl-image1.2 | 2018-04-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1367-1 | LTS | slurm-llnl | 2018-04-28 |
| Debian | DSA-4183-1 | stable | tor | 2018-04-28 |
| Debian | DLA-1366-1 | LTS | wordpress | 2018-04-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a3b7c7eb79 | F27 | PackageKit | 2018-04-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-58b0c6a60e | F26 | anki | 2018-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-70fac3f07e | F27 | anki | 2018-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b73bfea3af | F26 | boost | 2018-04-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-97c275d576 | F27 | boost | 2018-04-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8b35c531db | F26 | composer | 2018-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9d1ff4b802 | F27 | composer | 2018-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d7ea552cde | F26 | cups-filters | 2018-04-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f2e1c09437 | F27 | cups-filters | 2018-04-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-226dac231f | F26 | ghostscript | 2018-04-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-3247413570 | F27 | ghostscript | 2018-04-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-6dc9145693 | F27 | glusterfs | 2018-05-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a9615e2a1e | F26 | gsoap | 2018-04-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-b7a613ea5d | F27 | gsoap | 2018-04-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-3564527be4 | F28 | haproxy | 2018-05-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8ff86925c3 | F27 | memcached | 2018-04-29 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-63de5f3f6b | F26 | mod_http2 | 2018-04-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-0050f7c0d1 | F26 | perl | 2018-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-0050f7c0d1 | F26 | perl-Module-CoreList | 2018-04-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d7ea552cde | F26 | qpdf | 2018-04-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f2e1c09437 | F27 | qpdf | 2018-04-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-604574c943 | F27 | xen | 2018-05-01 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0216 | 6 | anki | 2018-04-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0214 | 6 | libofx | 2018-04-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0212 | 6 | ming | 2018-04-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0211 | 5, 6 | sox | 2018-04-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0213 | 6 | webkit2 | 2018-04-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0215 | 6 | xdg-user-dirs | 2018-04-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1104-1 | 42.3 | Chromium | 2018-04-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1123-1 | 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2018-05-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1120-1 | 42.3 | flac | 2018-05-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1101-1 | 42.3 | mysql-community-server | 2018-04-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1095-1 | 42.3 | perl | 2018-04-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1119-1 | 42.3 | quassel | 2018-05-02 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1093-1 | 42.3 | zsh | 2018-04-27 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1169 | OL7 | corosync | 2018-04-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1270 | OL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-04-30 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4088 | OL5 | kernel | 2018-05-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4084 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-04-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4087 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-05-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4088 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-05-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4089 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-05-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4084 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-04-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4087 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-05-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4089 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-05-02 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1060 | OL7 | pcs | 2018-04-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1243-01 | OSCP | OpenShift Container Platform 3.1 | 2018-04-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1241-01 | OSCP | OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 | 2018-04-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1239-01 | OSCP | OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 | 2018-04-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1237-01 | OSCP | OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 | 2018-04-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1235-01 | OSCP | OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 | 2018-04-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1233-01 | OSCP | OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 | 2018-04-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1231-01 | OSCP | OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 | 2018-04-29 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1229-01 | OSCP | OpenShift Container Platform 3.8 | 2018-04-28 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1227-01 | OSCP | OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 | 2018-04-27 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1253-01 | EL6.4 EL6.5 EL6.6 EL6.7 EL7.2 EL7.3 | apr | 2018-04-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1268-01 | EL6 | glusterfs | 2018-04-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1269-01 | EL7 | glusterfs | 2018-04-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1270-01 | EL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-04-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1252-01 | EL5.9 | kernel | 2018-04-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1267-01 | EL7 | openvswitch | 2018-04-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1274-01 | EL7 | python-paramiko | 2018-05-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1275-01 | EL7 | redhat-virtualization-host | 2018-05-02 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1254-01 | SCL | rh-mysql56-mysql | 2018-04-26 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1224-1 | SL7 | PackageKit | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1169-1 | SL7 | corosync | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1099-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0849-1 | SL7 | gcc | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0805-1 | SL7 | glibc | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0878-1 | SL7 | golang | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1270-1 | SL6 | java-1.7.0-openjdk | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1191-1 | SL7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1062-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0666-1 | SL7 | krb5 | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1223-1 | SL7 | librelp | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1055-1 | SL7 | libvncserver | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1058-1 | SL7 | libvorbis | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0855-1 | SL7 | ntp | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0980-1 | SL7 | openssh | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0998-1 | SL7 | openssl | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1200-1 | SL7 | patch | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1060-1 | SL7 | pcs | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0913-1 | SL7 | policycoreutils | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0816-1 | SL7 | qemu-kvm | 2018-04-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:0842-1 | SL7 | xdg-user-dirs | 2018-04-30 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-120-01 | libwmf | 2018-04-30 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-120-02 | mozilla | 2018-04-30 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-116-01 | openvpn | 2018-04-26 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1121-1 | SLE12 | corosync | 2018-05-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1080-1 | SLE11 | kernel | 2018-04-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1077-1 | SLE11 | kvm | 2018-04-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1072-1 | SLE12 | zsh | 2018-04-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3627-2 | 18.04 | apache2 | 2018-04-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3636-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | ghostscript | 2018-04-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3629-3 | 18.04 | mysql-5.7 | 2018-04-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3637-1 | 17.10 18.04 | wavpack | 2018-04-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3635-1 | 16.04 17.10 | webkit2gtk | 2018-04-30 |
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