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Calls for Presentations
All Things Open 2019 Call for Papers
All Things Open will take place October 13-15 in Raleigh, NC. The call for papers closes March 15.CFP Deadlines: February 7, 2019 to April 8, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| March 25 | May 3 May 4 |
PyDays Vienna 2019 | Vienna, Austria |
| April 1 | June 3 June 4 |
PyCon Israel 2019 | Ramat Gan, Israel |
| April 2 | August 21 August 23 |
Open Source Summit North America | San Diego, CA, USA |
| April 2 | August 21 August 23 |
Embedded Linux Conference NA | San Diego, CA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Netdev 0x13 Conference update
Registration is open and early bird rates are still available for Netdev, which will take place March 20-22 in Prague, Czech Republic. This update covers several newly accepted workshops, tutorials, and talks. Submissions are still being evaluated, so there are more to come.EPS: Announcing the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant
The EuroPython Society (EPS) has announced the Guido van Rossum Core Developer Grant, to help core developers come to EuroPython. "To help with growing the team, putting it more into the spotlight and give them a place to meet, demonstrate their work and a stage to invite new developers, we decided to give Python Core Developers free entry to future EuroPython conferences, starting with EuroPython 2019 in Basel, Switzerland." [July 8-14].
Events: February 7, 2019 to April 8, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 10 |
SCALE 17x | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 7 March 8 |
Hyperledger Bootcamp | Hong Kong |
| 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 March 24 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 23 | Kubernetes Day | Bengaluru, India |
| March 23 March 26 |
Linux Audio Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| March 29 March 31 |
curl up 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| April 1 April 5 |
SUSECON 2019 | Nashville, TN, USA |
| April 1 April 4 |
‹Programming› 2019 | Genova, Italy |
| April 2 April 4 |
Cloud Foundry Summit | Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| April 3 April 5 |
Open Networking Summit | San Jose, CA, USA |
| April 5 April 6 |
openSUSE Summit | Nashville, TN, USA |
| April 5 April 7 |
Devuan Conference | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| April 6 | Pi and More 11½ | Krefeld, Germany |
| April 7 April 10 |
FOSS North | Gothenburg, Sweden |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary January 31, 2019 to February 6, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201901-18 | ghostscript | 2019-01-31 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:3140 | C7 | GNOME | 2019-02-01 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0194 | C7 | bind | 2019-02-01 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0218 | C6 | firefox | 2019-02-01 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0219 | C7 | firefox | 2019-02-01 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0163 | C7 | kernel | 2019-02-01 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0201 | C7 | systemd | 2019-02-01 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0159 | C6 | thunderbird | 2019-02-01 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0160 | C7 | thunderbird | 2019-02-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1656-1 | LTS | agg | 2019-02-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1657-1 | LTS | debian-security-support | 2019-02-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4385-1 | stable | dovecot | 2019-02-05 |
| Debian | DLA-1659-1 | LTS | drupal7 | 2019-02-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1648-1 | LTS | firefox-esr | 2019-01-30 |
| Debian | DSA-4379-1 | stable | golang-1.7 | 2019-02-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4380-1 | stable | golang-1.8 | 2019-02-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1654-1 | LTS | libav | 2019-02-06 |
| Debian | DLA-1651-1 | LTS | libgd2 | 2019-01-30 |
| Debian | DSA-4384-1 | stable | libgd2 | 2019-02-04 |
| Debian | DSA-4381-1 | stable | libreoffice | 2019-02-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1652-1 | LTS | libvncserver | 2019-01-31 |
| Debian | DSA-4383-1 | stable | libvncserver | 2019-02-03 |
| Debian | DLA-1655-1 | LTS | mariadb-10.0 | 2019-02-01 |
| Debian | DSA-4378-1 | stable | php-pear | 2019-01-30 |
| Debian | DLA-1658-1 | LTS | phpmyadmin | 2019-02-01 |
| Debian | DLA-1653-1 | LTS | postgis | 2019-01-31 |
| Debian | DLA-1650-1 | LTS | rssh | 2019-01-30 |
| Debian | DSA-4382-1 | stable | rssh | 2019-02-02 |
| Debian | DLA-1649-1 | LTS | spice | 2019-01-30 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-ba3cbcfd20 | F29 | binutils | 2019-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-901feba171 | F28 | docker | 2019-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a034423db8 | F29 | docker | 2019-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-723711c645 | F28 | docker-latest | 2019-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-f5b57646b7 | F29 | docker-latest | 2019-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-aa99c99f24 | F28 | firefox | 2019-02-02 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-c565c2c7f0 | F29 | firefox | 2019-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-d6717436ee | F29 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-aabdaa013d | F29 | kernel | 2019-02-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-96b31a9602 | F29 | kernel | 2019-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4002b91800 | F28 | kernel-headers | 2019-02-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7d3500d712 | F28 | kernel-headers | 2019-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-aabdaa013d | F29 | kernel-headers | 2019-02-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-96b31a9602 | F29 | kernel-headers | 2019-02-05 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4002b91800 | F28 | kernel-tools | 2019-02-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-aabdaa013d | F29 | kernel-tools | 2019-02-01 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-077cd6f168 | F28 | moodle | 2019-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-d8ec88b21e | F29 | moodle | 2019-01-31 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-fbd2bad9f9 | F28 | wireshark | 2019-01-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0052 | 6 | bluez | 2019-01-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0060 | 6 | firefox | 2019-02-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0056 | 6 | ghostscript | 2019-01-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0058 | 6 | gitolite | 2019-01-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0059 | 6 | libvorbis | 2019-01-31 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0061 | 6 | netatalk | 2019-02-03 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0053 | 6 | php-tcpdf | 2019-01-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0057 | 6 | phpmyadmin | 2019-01-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0055 | 6 | virtualbox | 2019-01-30 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0054 | 6 | zeromq | 2019-01-30 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0128-1 | 42.3 | avahi | 2019-02-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0132-1 | 15.0 | firefox | 2019-02-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0133-1 | 42.3 | firefox | 2019-02-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0104-1 | 15.0 | ghostscript | 2019-01-31 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0103-1 | 42.3 | ghostscript | 2019-01-31 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0140-1 | 42.3 | kernel | 2019-02-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0139-1 | 15.0 | krb5 | 2019-02-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0138-1 | 42.3 | mysql-community-server | 2019-02-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0107-1 | pdns-recursor | 2019-01-31 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0131-1 | pdns-recursor | 2019-02-04 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0129-1 | 15.0 | python-paramiko | 2019-02-04 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0108-1 | 42.3 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-01-31 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0219 | OL7 | firefox | 2019-01-31 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0229 | OL7 | ghostscript | 2019-01-31 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0229 | OL7 | ghostscript | 2019-02-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4528 | OL6 | kernel | 2019-02-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-4528 | OL7 | kernel | 2019-02-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0230 | OL7 | polkit | 2019-01-31 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0230 | OL7 | polkit | 2019-02-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0231 | OL7 | spice | 2019-02-01 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0231 | OL7 | spice | 2019-01-31 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0232 | OL6 | spice-server | 2019-01-31 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0269 | OL6 | thunderbird | 2019-02-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0270 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2019-02-04 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0270 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2019-02-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0265-01 | EL7 | Red Hat Gluster Storage Web Administration | 2019-02-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0237-01 | EL7 | etcd | 2019-01-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0218-01 | EL6 | firefox | 2019-01-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0219-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2019-01-30 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0229-01 | EL7 | ghostscript | 2019-01-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0230-01 | EL7 | polkit | 2019-01-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0275-01 | SCL | rh-haproxy18-haproxy | 2019-02-05 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0231-01 | EL7 | spice | 2019-01-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0232-01 | EL6 | spice-server | 2019-01-31 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0271-01 | EL7.4 | systemd | 2019-02-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0269-01 | EL6 | thunderbird | 2019-02-04 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0270-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2019-02-04 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0218-1 | SL6 | firefox | 2019-01-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0219-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2019-01-30 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0229-1 | SL7 | ghostscript | 2019-01-31 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0230-1 | SL7 | polkit | 2019-01-31 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0231-1 | SL7 | spice | 2019-01-31 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0232-1 | SL6 | spice-server | 2019-01-31 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0269-1 | SL6 | thunderbird | 2019-02-05 |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-030-01 | kernel | 2019-01-30 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-032-01 | mariadb | 2019-02-01 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0249-1 | OS7 SLE12 | curl | 2019-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0248-1 | SLE15 | curl | 2019-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0232-1 | SLE15 | haproxy | 2019-02-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0221-1 | SLE15 | java-11-openjdk | 2019-02-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0222-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-02-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0224-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-02-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0224-1 | SLE15 | kernel | 2019-02-02 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0247-1 | SLE15 | lua53 | 2019-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0223-1 | SLE12 | python | 2019-02-01 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0243-1 | OS7 SLE12 | python3 | 2019-02-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0215-1 | SLE15 | python3 | 2019-01-31 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0230-1 | OS7 SLE12 | spice | 2019-02-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0229-1 | SLE12 | spice | 2019-02-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0231-1 | SLE12 | spice | 2019-02-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0241-1 | SLE12 | spice | 2019-02-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0242-1 | SLE15 | spice | 2019-02-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0228-1 | SLE15 | uriparser | 2019-02-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3876-2 | 12.04 | avahi | 2019-01-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3876-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | avahi | 2019-01-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3881-2 | 12.04 | dovecot | 2019-02-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3881-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | dovecot | 2019-02-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3874-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | firefox | 2019-01-30 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3880-1 | 14.04 | kernel | 2019-02-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3871-2 | 18.04 | kernel | 2019-01-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3877-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | libvncserver | 2019-01-31 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3878-1 | 18.10 | linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2 | 2019-02-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3879-1 | 16.04 | linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon | 2019-02-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3871-3 | 18.04 | linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-kvm, linux-oem, linux-raspi2 | 2019-02-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3871-4 | 16.04 | linux-hwe, linux-aws-hwe, linux-gcp | 2019-02-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3880-2 | 12.04 | linux-lts-trusty | 2019-02-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3879-2 | 14.04 | linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws | 2019-02-04 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3875-1 | 16.04 18.10 | openjdk-8, openjdk-lts | 2019-01-30 |
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