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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: June 14, 2018 to August 13, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| July 3 | August 25 | FOSScon | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| July 15 | August 24 August 26 |
YAPC::Europe Cluj 2016 | Cluj-Napoca, Romania |
| July 15 | August 8 August 11 |
Flock to Fedora | Dresden, Germany |
| July 16 | October 25 October 26 |
Linux Security Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| July 23 | September 17 September 21 |
Linaro Connect | Vancouver, Canada |
| July 25 | September 26 September 28 |
X.org Developer Conference | A Coruña, Spain |
| July 27 | September 6 September 9 |
Libre Application Summit | Denver, CO, USA |
| July 27 | September 5 September 6 |
DPDK Userspace | Dublin, Ireland |
| July 30 | September 28 September 30 |
All Systems Go! 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
| July 30 | January 21 January 25 |
linux.conf.au 2019 | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| July 31 | November 5 November 8 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| July 31 | October 12 October 13 |
Ohio LinuxFest 2018 | Columbus, OH, USA |
| August 1 | November 15 | NLUUG (fall conference) | Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| August 1 | August 23 August 26 |
LVEE 2018 | Minsk, Belarus |
| August 6 | October 23 October 26 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2018 | Lisbon, Portugal |
| August 7 | September 7 September 8 |
Swiss Perl Workshop | Bern, Switzerland |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Netdev 0x12:Keynote Speaker - Van Jacobson
Netdev has announced that Van Jacobson will be a keynote speaker at the conference, which will be held July 11-13 in Montreal, Canada.Events: June 14, 2018 to August 13, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| June 11 June 14 |
O'Reilly Velocity Conf | San Jose, CA, USA |
| June 12 June 14 |
O'Reilly Fluent Conference | San Jose, CA, USA |
| 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 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 20 June 22 |
Open Source Summit Japan | Tokyo, Japan |
| June 22 June 24 |
XenProject Developer and Design Summit | Nanjing, China |
| June 23 June 24 |
Prague Maker Faire | Prague, Czech Republic |
| June 23 June 24 |
Linuxwochen Linz | Linz, Austria |
| June 25 June 27 |
LinuxCon+ContainerCon+Cloudopen China | Beijing, China |
| June 29 July 1 |
WineConf 2018 | The Hague, The Netherlands |
| July 2 July 4 |
Pass the SALT 2018 | Lille, France |
| July 6 July 11 |
GUADEC | Almería, Spain |
| July 7 July 12 |
Libre Software Meeting | Strasbourg, France |
| July 9 July 15 |
SciPy 2018 | Austin, TX, USA |
| July 11 July 13 |
Netdev 0x12 | Montréal, Québec, Canada |
| July 14 July 15 |
Community Leadership Summit | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 16 July 19 |
OSCON 2018 | Portland, OR, USA |
| July 17 July 18 |
International Faust Conference | Mainz, Germany |
| July 18 July 19 |
RISC-V Workshop in Chennai | Chennai, India |
| July 21 July 27 |
DebCamp 2018 | Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| July 23 July 29 |
EuroPython 2018 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| July 28 | DebConf18 Open Day | Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| July 28 July 30 |
State of the Map 2018 | Milan, Italy |
| July 29 August 5 |
DebConf18 | Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| August 4 August 5 |
DevConf India | Bangalore, India |
| August 7 August 11 |
JuliaCon 2018 | London, UK |
| August 8 August 11 |
Flock to Fedora | Dresden, Germany |
| August 11 August 12 |
GNOME.Asia Summit | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 11 August 12 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 11 August 12 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters 2018 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| August 11 August 17 |
Akademy | Vienna, Austria |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Event Reports
Linux Audio Conference videos available
The 2018 Linux Audio Conference has just concluded in Berlin. A substantial set of videos of talks from the event has already been published, with the rest slated to appear in the near future.
Security updates
Alert summary June 7, 2018 to June 13, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201806-4 | chromium | 2018-06-09 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201806-5 | firefox | 2018-06-10 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201806-7 | flashplugin | 2018-06-10 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201806-3 | krb5 | 2018-06-09 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201806-6 | p7zip | 2018-06-10 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201806-2 | radare2 | 2018-06-07 | |
| Debian | DSA-4220-1 | stable | firefox-esr | 2018-06-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4224-1 | stable | gnupg | 2018-06-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4223-1 | stable | gnupg1 | 2018-06-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4222-1 | stable | gnupg2 | 2018-06-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4219-1 | stable | jruby | 2018-06-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4221-1 | stable | libvncserver | 2018-06-08 |
| Debian | DSA-4218-1 | stable | memcached | 2018-06-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4225-1 | stable | openjdk-7 | 2018-06-10 |
| Debian | DSA-4226-1 | stable | perl | 2018-06-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4227-1 | stable | plexus-archiver | 2018-06-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-79792e0c64 | F27 | batik | 2018-06-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-168af81706 | F28 | batik | 2018-06-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-f91531043d | F28 | elfutils | 2018-06-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-579ff80ed8 | F27 | java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32 | 2018-06-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-40c4930c83 | F28 | java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32 | 2018-06-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-0a0da2f3b7 | F27 | qt3 | 2018-06-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-17843a895b | F28 | qt3 | 2018-06-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-99eed1942f | F28 | remctl | 2018-06-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8f5a50e4d7 | F27 | slurm | 2018-06-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d54c4f6452 | F28 | slurm | 2018-06-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8d8f0e1643 | F27 | sqlite | 2018-06-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-8926f39fa4 | F28 | wireless-tools | 2018-06-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-aec846c0ef | F27 | xen | 2018-06-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0276 | 5, 6 | SDL_image | 2018-06-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0275 | 6 | corosync | 2018-06-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0273 | 6 | gimp | 2018-06-06 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0274 | 6 | qtpass | 2018-06-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1629-1 | 15.0 | ImageMagick | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1616-1 | 15.0 42.3 | MozillaFirefox, mozilla-nss | 2018-06-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1624-1 | 15.0 | curl | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1633-1 | 15.0 | glibc | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1600-1 | 42.3 | glibc | 2018-06-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1631-1 | 42.3 | kernel-firmware | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1621-1 | 15.0 | libvirt | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1622-1 | 42.3 | libvorbis | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1595-1 | 15.0 | mariadb | 2018-06-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1634-1 | 15.0 | mupdf | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1632-1 | 15.0 | prosody | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1627-1 | 42.3 | prosody | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1628-1 | 15.0 | qemu | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1625-1 | 15.0 | slf4j | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1596-1 | 15.0 | xdg-utils | 2018-06-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1623-1 | 15.0 | xen | 2018-06-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1564-1 | 42.3 | zziplib | 2018-06-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4126 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-06-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4126 | OL7 | kernel | 2018-06-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-1836 | OL7 | plexus-archiver | 2018-06-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1820-01 | EL7 | Red Hat Virtualization | 2018-06-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1815-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2018-06-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1825-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2018-06-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1827-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2018-06-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1812-01 | RHS | java-1.7.1-ibm | 2018-06-07 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1826-01 | EL6.7 | kernel | 2018-06-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1836-01 | EL7 | plexus-archiver | 2018-06-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:1837-01 | SCL | rh-maven33-plexus-archiver and rh-maven35-plexus-archiver | 2018-06-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:1836-1 | SL7 | plexus-archiver | 2018-06-12 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-159-01 | gnupg2 | 2018-06-08 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-157-01 | mozilla | 2018-06-06 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1576-1 | ceph | 2018-06-07 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1566-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 | git | 2018-06-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1602-1 | SLE11 | icu | 2018-06-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1571-1 | OS7 SLE12 | kernel-firmware | 2018-06-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1570-1 | SLE12 | kernel-firmware | 2018-06-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1567-1 | SLE12 | kernel-firmware | 2018-06-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1614-1 | OS7 SLE12 | libvirt | 2018-06-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1565-1 | SLE12 | libvorbis | 2018-06-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1638-1 | SLE11 | mailman | 2018-06-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1601-1 | SLE11 | memcached | 2018-06-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1660-1 | OS8 | pdns | 2018-06-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1662-1 | SLE12 | poppler | 2018-06-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1652-1 | SLE12 | slurm | 2018-06-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1661-1 | OS7 SLE12 | ucode-intel | 2018-06-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1659-1 | SLE11 | wpa_supplicant | 2018-06-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1603-1 | SLE11 | xen | 2018-06-08 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1658-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2018-06-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1582-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2018-06-07 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3683-1 | 18.04 | bind9 | 2018-06-13 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3682-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | firefox | 2018-06-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3675-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | gnupg, gnupg2 | 2018-06-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3681-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | imagemagick | 2018-06-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3674-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2018-06-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3672-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | liblouis | 2018-06-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3680-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | libvirt | 2018-06-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3678-1 | 18.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm | 2018-06-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3676-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2018-06-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3677-1 | 17.10 | linux, linux-raspi2 | 2018-06-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3678-2 | 16.04 | linux-azure | 2018-06-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3678-3 | 18.04 | linux-azure | 2018-06-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3677-2 | 16.04 | linux-hwe, linux-gcp, linux-oem | 2018-06-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3674-2 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2018-06-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3676-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws | 2018-06-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3679-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | qemu | 2018-06-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3673-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | unbound | 2018-06-07 |
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