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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: February 28, 2019 to April 29, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| April 12 | July 9 July 11 |
Xen Project Developer and Design Summit | Chicago, IL, USA |
| April 15 | August 26 August 30 |
FOSS4G 2019 | Bucharest, Romania |
| April 15 | May 18 May 19 |
Open Source Conference Albania | Trana, Albania |
| April 21 | May 25 May 26 |
Mini-DebConf Marseille | Marseille, France |
| April 24 | October 27 October 30 |
27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles | Huntsville, Ontario, Canada |
| April 25 | September 21 September 23 |
State of the Map | Heidelberg, Germany |
| April 28 | September 2 September 6 |
EuroSciPy 2019 | Bilbao, Spain |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
LibrePlanet 2019: Coming to Cambridge, MA
LibrePlanet will take place March 23-24 in Cambridge, MA. This announcement covers registration, some presentations, and a call for volunteers and sponsors.2019 Linux Plumbers Conference planning is underway
LPC will be held September 9-11 in Lisbon, Portugal; colocated with the Kernel Summit. A call for proposals should be announced soon.Events: February 28, 2019 to April 29, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | pgDay Israel 2019 | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| March 14 March 17 |
FOSSASIA | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 14 | Icinga Camp Berlin | Berlin, Germany |
| 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 26 |
Linux Audio Conference | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| March 23 | Kubernetes Day | Bengaluru, India |
| March 23 March 24 |
LibrePlanet | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| March 29 March 31 |
curl up 2019 | Prague, Czech Republic |
| April 1 April 4 |
‹Programming› 2019 | Genova, Italy |
| April 1 April 5 |
SUSECON 2019 | Nashville, TN, USA |
| 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 |
| April 10 April 12 |
DjangoCon Europe | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| April 13 | OpenCamp Bratislava | Bratislava, Slovakia |
| April 13 April 17 |
ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS Conference on Virtual Execution Environments | Providence, RI, USA |
| April 18 | Open Source 101 | Columbia, SC, USA |
| April 26 April 27 |
Grazer Linuxtage | Graz, Austria |
| April 26 April 27 |
KiCad Conference 2019 | Chicago, IL, USA |
| April 28 April 30 |
Check_MK Conference #5 | Munich, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary February 21, 2019 to February 27, 2019
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-201902-25 | bind | 2019-02-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201902-27 | elasticsearch | 2019-02-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201902-26 | kibana | 2019-02-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201902-28 | logstash | 2019-02-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201902-22 | msmtp | 2019-02-25 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201902-21 | python-mysql-connector | 2019-02-25 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201902-24 | systemd | 2019-02-26 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-201902-23 | thunderbird | 2019-02-26 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0373 | C6 | firefox | 2019-02-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0374 | C7 | firefox | 2019-02-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0375 | C7 | flatpak | 2019-02-20 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0416 | C6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-02-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0415 | C6 | kernel | 2019-02-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0420 | C6 | polkit | 2019-02-26 |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:0368 | C7 | systemd | 2019-02-20 |
| Debian | DSA-4395-2 | stable | chromium | 2019-02-27 |
| Debian | DLA-1689-1 | LTS | elfutils | 2019-02-25 |
| Debian | DLA-1691-1 | LTS | exiv2 | 2019-02-26 |
| Debian | DLA-1686-1 | LTS | freedink-dfarc | 2019-02-24 |
| Debian | DLA-1690-1 | LTS | liblivemedia | 2019-02-26 |
| Debian | DLA-1692-1 | LTS | phpmyadmin | 2019-02-27 |
| Debian | DSA-4377-3 | stable | rssh | 2019-02-22 |
| Debian | DLA-1687-1 | LTS | sox | 2019-02-24 |
| Debian | DLA-1688-1 | LTS | waagent | 2019-02-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7a554204c1 | F29 | SDL | 2019-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1fccede810 | F29 | createrepo_c | 2019-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1fccede810 | F29 | dnf | 2019-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1fccede810 | F29 | dnf-plugins-core | 2019-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1fccede810 | F29 | dnf-plugins-extras | 2019-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-f455ef79b8 | F28 | docker | 2019-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4dc1e39b34 | F29 | docker-latest | 2019-02-23 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3f9a71578d | F28 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-02-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-362387a66d | F28 | java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32 | 2019-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-b084fa3ea5 | F29 | java-1.8.0-openjdk-aarch32 | 2019-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7bdeed7fc5 | F29 | kernel | 2019-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-16de0047d4 | F28 | kernel-headers | 2019-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7bdeed7fc5 | F29 | kernel-headers | 2019-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-16de0047d4 | F28 | kernel-tools | 2019-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-7bdeed7fc5 | F29 | kernel-tools | 2019-02-26 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-50ca715929 | F29 | koji | 2019-02-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1fccede810 | F29 | libcomps | 2019-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1fccede810 | F29 | libdnf | 2019-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3d38ab031e | F28 | mgetty | 2019-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-da586db907 | F29 | mgetty | 2019-02-27 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4e72b179e4 | F29 | pagure | 2019-02-24 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-387e017332 | F29 | poppler | 2019-02-25 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-963ea958f9 | F28 | runc | 2019-02-21 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2019-afade40f3d | F28 | spice | 2019-02-23 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0096 | 6 | giflib | 2019-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0091 | 6 | irssi | 2019-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0097 | 6 | kernel | 2019-02-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0098 | 6 | kernel-linus | 2019-02-21 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0095 | 6 | libexif | 2019-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0102 | 6 | libreoffice | 2019-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0101 | 6 | libtiff | 2019-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0092 | 6 | poppler | 2019-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0100 | 6 | spice | 2019-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0099 | 6 | spice-gtk | 2019-02-22 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0094 | 6 | tcpreplay | 2019-02-20 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2019-0093 | 6 | zziplib | 2019-02-20 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0235-1 | GraphicsMagick | 2019-02-22 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0238-1 | ansible | 2019-02-23 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0232-1 | 15.0 | build | 2019-02-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0252-1 | 15.0 | docker-runc | 2019-02-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0243-1 | 15.0 | dovecot23 | 2019-02-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0248-1 | 15.0 | firefox | 2019-02-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0261-1 | 15.0 | gvfs | 2019-02-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0247-1 | kauth | 2019-02-26 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0242-1 | 15.0 42.3 | kauth | 2019-02-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0242-1 | 15.0 42.3 | kauth | 2019-02-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0237-1 | mosquitto | 2019-02-23 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0233-1 | 15.0 | mosquitto | 2019-02-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0234-1 | 42.3 | nodejs6 | 2019-02-22 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0240-1 | pspp, spread-sheet-widget | 2019-02-25 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0244-1 | 11.4 | python-Jinja2 | 2019-02-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0245-1 | 15.0 | python-numpy | 2019-02-26 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0239-1 | python-python-gnupg | 2019-02-23 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0254-1 | 15.0 | qemu | 2019-02-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0255-1 | 15.0 | systemd | 2019-02-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0249-1 | thunderbird | 2019-02-26 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0251-1 | 15.0 | thunderbird | 2019-02-27 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:0250-1 | 42.3 | thunderbird | 2019-02-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0416 | OL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-02-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0415 | OL6 | kernel | 2019-02-26 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2019-0420 | OL6 | polkit | 2019-02-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0396-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2019-02-25 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0374-01 | EL7 | firefox | 2019-02-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0375-01 | EL7 | flatpak | 2019-02-19 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0416-01 | EL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-02-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0415-01 | EL6 | kernel | 2019-02-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0420-01 | EL6 | polkit | 2019-02-26 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0368-01 | EL7 | systemd | 2019-02-19 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0373-1 | SL6 | firefox | 2019-02-21 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0374-1 | SL7 | firefox | 2019-02-21 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0375-1 | SL7 | flatpak | 2019-02-21 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0416-1 | SL6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2019-02-26 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0415-1 | SL6 | kernel | 2019-02-26 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0420-1 | SL6 | polkit | 2019-02-26 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:0368-1 | SL7 | systemd | 2019-02-21 |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-054-01 | file | 2019-02-23 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2019-057-01 | openssl | 2019-02-26 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0505-1 | SLE15 | amavisd-new | 2019-02-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0498-1 | SLE12 | apache2 | 2019-02-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0504-1 | SLE15 | apache2 | 2019-02-27 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0499-1 | SLE12 | ceph | 2019-02-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0495-1 | SLE15 | containerd, docker, docker-runc, golang-github-docker-libnetwork, runc | 2019-02-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0470-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2019-02-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0466-1 | OS7 SLE12 | kernel-firmware | 2019-02-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0496-1 | SLE15 | openssh | 2019-02-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0449-1 | SLE12 | php5 | 2019-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0450-1 | OS7 SLE12 | procps | 2019-02-20 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0483-1 | OS7 | python-Django | 2019-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0482-1 | OS7 SLE12 | python | 2019-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0481-1 | OS7 | python-amqp, python-oslo.messaging, python-ovs, python-paramiko, python-psql2mysql | 2019-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0489-1 | OS7 SLE12 | qemu | 2019-02-26 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0471-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2019-02-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0457-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2019-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0480-1 | SLE15 | supportutils | 2019-02-25 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2018:3033-2 | OS7 SLE12 | texlive | 2019-02-21 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0469-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2019-02-22 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:0497-1 | SLE15 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-02-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3893-2 | 12.04 | bind9 | 2019-02-25 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3893-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | bind9 | 2019-02-22 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3896-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | firefox | 2019-02-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3866-2 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | ghostscript | 2019-02-21 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3866-3 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | ghostscript | 2019-02-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3894-1 | 14.04 16.04 | gnome-keyring | 2019-02-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3895-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | ldb | 2019-02-26 |
| Ubuntu | USN-3897-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 18.10 | thunderbird | 2019-02-26 |
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