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CFP Deadlines: January 24, 2019 to March 25, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 31 | May 14 May 15 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
| February 2 | May 28 May 30 |
Percona Live Open Source Database Conference | Austin, TX, USA |
| February 3 | May 24 May 26 |
openSUSE Conference | Nürnberg, Germany |
| February 4 | April 18 | Open Source 101 | Columbia, SC, USA |
| February 8 | April 26 April 27 |
KiCad Conference 2019 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| February 10 | April 7 April 10 |
FOSS North | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| February 14 | April 13 | OpenCamp Bratislava | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| February 15 | April 30 May 2 |
Linux Storage, Filesystem & Memory Management Summit | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| February 16 | May 29 May 30 |
DevOps Days Toronto 2019 | Toronto, Canada |
| February 22 | June 24 June 26 |
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit | Shanghai , China |
| February 28 | May 16 | Open Source Camp | #3 Ansible | Berlin, Germany |
| February 28 | June 4 June 6 |
sambaXP 2019 | Goettingen, Germany |
| March 4 | June 14 June 15 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2019 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| March 10 | April 6 | Pi and More 11½ | Krefeld, Germany |
| March 17 | June 4 June 5 |
UK OpenMP Users' Conference | Edinburgh, UK |
| March 19 | October 13 October 15 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
| March 24 | July 17 July 19 |
Automotive Linux Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 24 | July 17 July 19 |
Open Source Summit | Tokyo, Japan |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Netdev 0x13 Conference update
Netdev will take place March 20-22 in Prague, Czech Republic. This update covers accepted workshops and talks.Debian Bug Squashing Party (BSP) in Gothenburg, Sweden
There will be a Bug Squashing Party in Gothenburg, Sweden, on April 7. "The BSP will be held as part of the foss-north 2019 who have offered Debian a room as part of the conference's "Community Day". Free tickets to the conference itself will be provided by the organisers."
Events: January 24, 2019 to March 25, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| January 21 January 25 |
linux.conf.au 2019 | Christchurch, New Zealand |
| January 25 January 27 |
DevConf.cz | Brno, Czechia |
| January 28 January 30 |
Enigma 2019 Security and Privacy Ideas That Matter | Burlingame, CA, USA |
| January 31 | FedGeoDay 2019 | Washington D.C., USA |
| February 2 February 3 |
FOSDEM | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 4 | The Annual International Copyleft Conference 2019 | Brussels, Belgium |
| February 25 February 26 |
Vault Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference | Boston, MA, USA |
| February 26 February 28 |
16th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation | Boston, MA, USA |
| March 5 March 6 |
Automotive Grade Linux Member Meeting | Tokyo, Japan |
| March 7 March 8 |
Hyperledger Bootcamp | Hong Kong |
| March 7 March 10 |
SCALE 17x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 9 | DPDK Summit Bangalore 2019 | Bangalore, India |
| March 10 | OpenEmbedded Summit | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 12 March 14 |
Open Source Leadership Summit | Half Moon Bay, CA, USA |
| March 14 | Icinga Camp Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| March 14 | pgDay Israel 2019 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| March 14 March 17 |
FOSSASIA | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 19 March 21 |
PGConf APAC | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 20 | Open Source Roundtable at Game Developers Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| March 20 March 22 |
Netdev 0x13 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| March 21 | gRPC Conf | Sunnyvale, CA, USA |
| March 23 | Kubernetes Day | Bengaluru, India |
| March 23 March 24 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 23 March 26 |
Linux Audio Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary January 17, 2019 to January 23, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0059 | C7 | libvncserver | 2019-01-16 |
| Debian | DLA-1637-1 | LTS | apt | 2019-01-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1637-1 | LTS | apt | 2019-01-22 |
| Debian | DSA-4371-1 | stable | apt | 2019-01-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1636-1 | LTS | aria2 | 2019-01-22 |
| Debian | DSA-4370-1 | stable | drupal7 | 2019-01-17 |
| Debian | DLA-1638-1 | LTS | libjpeg-turbo | 2019-01-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1635-1 | LTS | sssd | 2019-01-17 |
| Debian | DLA-1639-1 | LTS | systemd | 2019-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-41a3fb1d64 | F29 | electrum | 2019-01-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b6ce519120 | F28 | gitolite3 | 2019-01-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b276ee69a8 | F29 | gitolite3 | 2019-01-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-972e3107bd | F29 | gvfs | 2019-01-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-f812c9fb22 | F29 | kernel | 2019-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-20a89ca9af | F28 | kernel-headers | 2019-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-509c133845 | F28 | kernel-headers | 2019-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-f812c9fb22 | F29 | kernel-headers | 2019-01-17 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-20a89ca9af | F28 | kernel-tools | 2019-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-c6044b3fce | F28 | matrix-synapse | 2019-01-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4d914f9257 | F29 | matrix-synapse | 2019-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a018522ba3 | F29 | mingw-libjpeg-turbo | 2019-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-2e385f97e2 | F29 | mingw-libvorbis | 2019-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-9eb0ae6296 | F28 | openssh | 2019-01-22 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-8deebad756 | F28 | perl-Email-Address | 2019-01-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-026d5ab23d | F29 | perl-Email-Address | 2019-01-18 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a6511b0eed | F28 | php | 2019-01-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-aa6036fcb3 | F29 | php | 2019-01-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-d4d8af2c22 | F28 | radare2 | 2019-01-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-5750ad7485 | F29 | radare2 | 2019-01-19 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e818eaa0ac | F29 | syslog-ng | 2019-01-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0039 | 6 | gthumb | 2019-01-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0050 | 6 | libcaca | 2019-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0048 | 6 | libmp4v2 | 2019-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0043 | 6 | libssh | 2019-01-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0047 | 6 | libxml2 | 2019-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0051 | 6 | pdns-recursor | 2019-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0046 | 6 | perl-Email-Address | 2019-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0042 | 6 | php | 2019-01-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0049 | 6 | php-pear-HTML_QuickForm | 2019-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0044 | 6 | podofo | 2019-01-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0040 | 6 | python-django16 | 2019-01-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0041 | 6 | rdesktop | 2019-01-18 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0045 | 6 | wavpack | 2019-01-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0053-1 | 15.0 | LibVNCServer | 2019-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0054-1 | 15.0 42.3 | gitolite | 2019-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0065-1 | 15.0 | kernel | 2019-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0063-1 | 15.0 | krb5 | 2019-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0061-1 | 42.3 | libunwind | 2019-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0058-1 | 15.0 42.3 | live555 | 2019-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0052-1 | 42.3 | mutt | 2019-01-17 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0066-1 | 42.3 | podofo | 2019-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0081-1 | 15.0 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-01-23 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0068-1 | 42.3 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-01-21 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0057-1 | 15.0 | wget | 2019-01-18 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0064-1 | 42.3 | zeromq | 2019-01-18 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0109 | OL7 | perl | 2019-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0054-01 | OSP10.0 | ansible | 2019-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0053-01 | OSP10.0 | openvswitch | 2019-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0081-01 | OSP13.0 | openvswitch | 2019-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0109-01 | EL7 | perl | 2019-01-21 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0085-01 | OSP13.0 | pyOpenSSL | 2019-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0051-01 | OSP10.0 | python-django | 2019-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0082-01 | OSP13.0 | python-django | 2019-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0148-01 | OSP7.0/EL7.4 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2019-01-23 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0052-01 | OSP10.0 | redis | 2019-01-16 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0094-01 | OSP13.0 | redis | 2019-01-16 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0109-1 | SL7 | perl | 2019-01-22 |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-022-01 | httpd | 2019-01-22 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0128-1 | SLE12 | PackageKit | 2019-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0134-1 | SLE12 | freerdp | 2019-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0111-1 | OS7 SLE12 | krb5 | 2019-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0113-1 | SLE12 | krb5 | 2019-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0127-1 | SLE12 | libraw | 2019-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0133-1 | SLE15 | libraw | 2019-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0119-1 | SLE12 | mariadb | 2019-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0117-1 | SLE12 | nodejs4 | 2019-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0118-1 | SLE15 | nodejs8 | 2019-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0132-1 | OS7 SLE12 | openssh | 2019-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:13931-1 | SLE11 | openssh | 2019-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0125-1 | SLE12 | openssh | 2019-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0126-1 | SLE15 | openssh | 2019-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0139-1 | SLE12 | python-urllib3 | 2019-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0112-1 | SLE15 | soundtouch | 2019-01-17 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0135-1 | OS7 SLE12 | systemd | 2019-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0137-1 | SLE15 | systemd | 2019-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0138-1 | SLE12 | wireshark | 2019-01-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0130-1 | SLE15 | wireshark | 2019-01-18 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0110-1 | SLE15 | zeromq | 2019-01-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3863-2 | 12.04 | apt | 2019-01-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3863-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | apt | 2019-01-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3862-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | irssi | 2019-01-17 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3707-2 | 12.04 | ntp | 2019-01-23 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3861-2 | 12.04 | policykit-1 | 2019-01-16 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3865-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | poppler | 2019-01-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3864-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | tiff | 2019-01-22 |
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