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Calls for Presentations
Sonoj Convention 2018
The second annual Sonoj Convention will take place October 27-28 in Cologne, Germany. "The convention is focusing on the combination of music production and open source software with a priority on practical music production." The call for talks, demonstrations, and workshops is open and no deadline is specified. Space is limited and registration is required.
CFP Deadlines: July 19, 2018 to September 17, 2018
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| August 19 | February 4 | The Annual International Copyleft Conference 2019 | Brussels, Belgium |
| August 20 | October 15 October 18 |
Tcl/Tk Conference | Houston, TX, USA |
| August 27 | November 5 November 7 |
MesosCon 2018 | New York, NY, USA |
| August 31 | October 10 October 12 |
PyCon ZA 2018 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| September 9 | November 13 November 15 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Vancouver, BC, Canada |
| September 9 | October 25 | Real-Time Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| September 10 | November 9 November 13 |
PyCon Canada 2018 | Toronto, Canada |
| September 10 | October 25 | Tracing Summit 2018 | Edinburgh, UK |
| September 15 | November 8 | Open Source Camp | Nürnberg, Germany |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Invitation to the EuroPython Society General Assembly 2018
EuroPython attendees and EuroPython Society (EPS) members are invited to attend this year’s EPS General Assembly (GA), which will run as an in-person meeting at the upcoming EuroPython 2018, held in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK from July 23-29. Tickets for EuroPython are available at late bird ticket prices.Events: July 19, 2018 to September 17, 2018
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| July 16 July 19 |
OSCON 2018 | Portland, OR, USA |
| 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 |
| August 17 August 19 |
DevConf.us 2018 | Boston, MA, USA |
| August 23 August 26 |
LVEE 2018 | Minsk, Belarus |
| August 24 August 28 |
PyCon AU 2018 | Sydney, Australia |
| August 25 August 26 |
Free and Open Source Software Conference | Sankt Augustin, Germany |
| August 25 | FOSScon | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| August 25 August 26 |
Linux Developers Conference Brazil | Campinas, Brazil |
| August 25 August 26 |
Nextcloud Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| August 25 August 31 |
Linux Bier Wanderung | Jedovnice, Moravia, Czech Republic |
| August 27 August 28 |
Linux Security Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| August 27 September 2 |
FOSS4G Dar es Salaam 2018 | Dar es Salaam, Tanzania |
| August 28 September 1 |
EuroSciPy 2018 | Trento, Italy |
| August 29 August 31 |
Open Source Summit | Vancouver, Canada |
| September 3 September 4 |
Research Software Engineers' Conference 2018 | Birmingham, UK |
| September 5 September 6 |
DPDK Userspace | Dublin, Ireland |
| September 5 September 8 |
Radare conference 2018 | Barcelona, Spain |
| September 6 September 9 |
Libre Application Summit | Denver, CO, USA |
| September 7 September 8 |
Swiss Perl Workshop | Bern, Switzerland |
| September 11 September 14 |
Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit | Lizumerhuette, Austria |
| September 12 September 13 |
Devopsdays Berlin 2018 | Berlin, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary July 12, 2018 to July 18, 2018
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-10 | curl | 2018-07-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-5 | lib32-curl | 2018-07-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-6 | lib32-libcurl-compat | 2018-07-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-7 | lib32-libcurl-gnutls | 2018-07-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-8 | libcurl-compat | 2018-07-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-9 | libcurl-gnutls | 2018-07-17 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-3 | qutebrowser | 2018-07-11 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201807-4 | thunderbird | 2018-07-17 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2112 | C6 | firefox | 2018-07-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2113 | C7 | firefox | 2018-07-11 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2180 | C6 | gnupg2 | 2018-07-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2181 | C7 | gnupg2 | 2018-07-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2164 | C6 | kernel | 2018-07-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2123 | C7 | python | 2018-07-13 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2162 | C6 | qemu-kvm | 2018-07-13 |
| Debian | DLA-1428-1 | LTS | 389-ds-base | 2018-07-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4248-1 | stable | blender | 2018-07-17 |
| Debian | DLA-1420-1 | LTS | cinnamon | 2018-07-13 |
| Debian | DLA-1426-1 | LTS | cups | 2018-07-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4249-1 | stable | ffmpeg | 2018-07-17 |
| Debian | DSA-4245-1 | stable | imagemagick | 2018-07-14 |
| Debian | DLA-1422-1 | LTS | kernel | 2018-07-14 |
| Debian | DLA-1422-2 | LTS | kernel | 2018-07-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4246-1 | stable | mailman | 2018-07-15 |
| Debian | DSA-4247-1 | stable | ruby-rack-protection | 2018-07-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1419-1 | LTS | ruby-sprockets | 2018-07-12 |
| Debian | DLA-1421-1 | LTS | ruby2.1 | 2018-07-14 |
| Debian | DLA-1429-1 | LTS | sssd | 2018-07-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1425-1 | LTS | thunderbird | 2018-07-14 |
| Debian | DSA-4244-1 | stable | thunderbird | 2018-07-13 |
| Debian | DSA-4250-1 | stable | wordpress | 2018-07-18 |
| Debian | DLA-1427-1 | LTS | znc | 2018-07-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-98ab6b4e56 | F27 | botan2 | 2018-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-57779d51c1 | F28 | curl | 2018-07-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-9695e9b0ed | F28 | docker | 2018-07-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d1a767f9f3 | F27 | firefox | 2018-07-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-a85d9a73ad | F28 | firefox | 2018-07-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-7e8c49a451 | F27 | git-annex | 2018-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-e22c8eb218 | F28 | git-annex | 2018-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-cdccabb23d | F27 | glpi | 2018-07-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c766d7c0f0 | F28 | glpi | 2018-07-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-e5a8b72d0d | F28 | hadoop | 2018-07-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-93a507fd0f | F27 | jetty | 2018-07-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-48b73ed393 | F28 | jetty | 2018-07-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d82a45d9ab | F28 | kernel | 2018-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-50075276e8 | F28 | kernel | 2018-07-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d82a45d9ab | F28 | kernel-tools | 2018-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-c894f896fd | F28 | knot-resolver | 2018-07-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-fd29597fa4 | F27 | rubygem-sprockets | 2018-07-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-2735a12b72 | F28 | rubygem-sprockets | 2018-07-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-abe4d2383e | F27 | singularity | 2018-07-14 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-d7125c3900 | F28 | singularity | 2018-07-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-93a43993aa | F28 | soundtouch | 2018-07-16 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-73e30969a4 | F28 | thunderbird | 2018-07-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-e92359c3b8 | F27 | visualboyadvance-m | 2018-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-fde7a2f291 | F28 | visualboyadvance-m | 2018-07-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-623df1e98d | F28 | wordpress | 2018-07-15 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-62394ac295 | F27 | xapian-core | 2018-07-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-3ecacade34 | F28 | xapian-core | 2018-07-13 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2018-1a467757ce | F27 | xen | 2018-07-13 |
| Gentoo | 201807-01 | tqdm | 2018-07-17 | |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0314 | 6 | cantata | 2018-07-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0308 | 6 | chromium-browser-stable | 2018-07-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0315 | 6 | flash-player-plugin | 2018-07-13 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0307 | 5, 6 | graphviz | 2018-07-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0313 | 6 | mailman | 2018-07-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0310 | 6 | nikto | 2018-07-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0311 | 6 | perl-Archive-Zip | 2018-07-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0309 | 6 | redis | 2018-07-11 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2018-0312 | 5, 6 | w3m | 2018-07-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1961-1 | 15.0 | exiv2 | 2018-07-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1953-1 | 15.0 | libvorbis | 2018-07-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1924-1 | 15.0 42.3 | nextcloud | 2018-07-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1962-1 | 42.3 | nodejs6 | 2018-07-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1963-1 | 15.0 | nodejs8 | 2018-07-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1958-1 | 15.0 | openslp | 2018-07-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1969-1 | singularity | 2018-07-16 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1955-1 | 15.0 | slurm | 2018-07-14 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2018:1956-1 | 15.0 | tiff | 2018-07-14 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2180 | OL6 | gnupg2 | 2018-07-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2181 | OL7 | gnupg2 | 2018-07-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-2181 | OL7 | gnupg2 | 2018-07-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4172 | OL5 | kernel | 2018-07-17 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2018-4172 | OL6 | kernel | 2018-07-17 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2175-01 | EL6 | flash-plugin | 2018-07-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2180-01 | EL6 | gnupg2 | 2018-07-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2181-01 | EL7 | gnupg2 | 2018-07-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2172-01 | EL5 | kernel | 2018-07-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2171-01 | EL5.9 | kernel | 2018-07-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2018:2216-01 | EL7.2 | kernel | 2018-07-17 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2180-1 | SL6 | gnupg2 | 2018-07-12 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2018:2181-1 | SL7 | gnupg2 | 2018-07-16 |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-192-01 | bind | 2018-07-12 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-192-02 | curl | 2018-07-12 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2018-198-01 | mutt | 2018-07-17 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1950-1 | SLE12 | gdk-pixbuf | 2018-07-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1938-2 | SLE15 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2018-07-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1938-1 | SLE15 | java-1_8_0-openjdk | 2018-07-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1952-1 | SLE15 | kernel-azure | 2018-07-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1951-1 | SLE15 | libopenmpt | 2018-07-13 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1968-1 | SLE12 | openssl | 2018-07-16 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1972-1 | OS7 SLE12 | perl | 2018-07-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1977-1 | SLE15 | perl | 2018-07-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1936-2 | SLE15 | php7 | 2018-07-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1936-1 | SLE15 | php7 | 2018-07-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1971-1 | SLE12 | python-paramiko | 2018-07-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1937-2 | SLE15 | rsyslog | 2018-07-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1937-1 | SLE15 | rsyslog | 2018-07-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1925-1 | SLE15 | slurm | 2018-07-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1935-1 | OS7 SLE12 | ucode-intel | 2018-07-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1926-1 | SLE15 | ucode-intel | 2018-07-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:1981-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2018-07-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3713-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | cups | 2018-07-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3715-1 | 16.04 17.10 | dns-root-data | 2018-07-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3716-1 | 16.04 | dnsmasq | 2018-07-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3712-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | libpng, libpng1.6 | 2018-07-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3712-2 | 12.04 | libpng | 2018-07-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3717-2 | 12.04 | policykit-1 | 2018-07-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3717-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | policykit-1 | 2018-07-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3714-1 | 14.04 16.04 17.10 18.04 | thunderbird | 2018-07-12 |
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