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EuroPython 2019: Call for Proposals
EuroPython will take place July 8-14 in Basel, Switzerland. "We’re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: programming from novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organization. EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience." The deadline is May 12.
CFP Deadlines: May 2, 2019 to July 1, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
---|---|---|---|
May 6 | August 17 August 18 |
Conference for Open Source Coders, Users & Promoters | Taipei, Taiwan |
May 9 | September 6 September 9 |
PyColorado | Denver, CO, USA |
May 12 | July 21 July 28 |
DebConf 2019 | Curitiba, Brazil |
May 12 | July 8 July 14 |
EuroPython 2019 | Basel, Switzerland |
May 13 | August 23 August 28 |
GNOME User and Developer Conference | Thessaloniki, Greece |
May 23 | August 10 August 11 |
FrOSCon 2019 | St. Augustin (near Cologne), Germany |
May 26 | June 8 June 9 |
MiniDebConf Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
May 26 | June 28 June 30 |
Akademy-es 2019 | Vigo, Spain |
May 28 | May 28 May 29 |
Czech and Slovak Network Operators Group | Brno, Czech Republic |
May 31 | September 11 September 12 |
Cloud Foundry Summit Europe | The Hague, The Netherlands |
May 31 | August 19 August 21 |
Linux Security Summit | San Diego, CA, USA |
May 31 | September 7 September 13 |
Akademy 2019 | Milan, Italy |
May 31 | October 19 October 20 |
OGGCAMP 19 | Manchester, UK |
May 31 | September 19 September 20 |
DPDK Userspace 2019 | Bordeaux, France |
June 1 | September 3 September 6 |
Open Source Firmware Conference 2019 | Sunnyvale & Menlo Park, CA, USA |
June 8 | June 21 June 22 |
GNU Guile & Guix Days | Strasbourg, France |
June 15 | October 30 November 1 |
KVM Forum 2019 | Lyon, France |
June 16 | September 23 September 25 |
Open Networking Summit | Antwerp, Belgium |
June 18 | October 28 October 30 |
USENIX 33rd Large Installation System Administration Conference | Portland, OR, USA |
June 22 | October 5 October 6 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Bali, Indonesia |
June 30 | October 8 October 9 |
PostgresConf South Africa 2019 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
June 30 | September 11 September 13 |
PostgresOpen | Orlando, FL, USA |
June 30 | September 11 September 13 |
LibreOffice Conference | Almeria, Spain |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: May 2, 2019 to July 1, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
Date(s) | Event | Location |
---|---|---|
April 30 May 2 |
Linux Storage, Filesystem & Memory Management Summit | San Juan, Puerto Rico |
May 1 May 9 |
PyCon 2019 | Cleveland, OH, USA |
May 2 May 4 |
Linuxwochen Österreich 2019 - Wien | Wien, Austria |
May 3 May 4 |
PyDays Vienna 2019 | Vienna, Austria |
May 4 May 5 |
Latch-Up 2019 | Portland, OR, USA |
May 14 May 15 |
Open Source Data Center Conference | Berlin, Germany |
May 16 | Open Source Camp | #3 Ansible | Berlin, Germany |
May 17 May 18 |
BSDCan - The BSD Conference | Ottawa, Canada |
May 18 May 19 |
Linuxwochen Linz 2019 | Linz, Austria |
May 18 May 19 |
Open Source Conference Albania | Trana, Albania |
May 19 May 20 |
Cephalocon Barcelona 2019 | Barcelona, Spain |
May 20 May 23 |
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe | Barcelona, Spain |
May 20 May 24 |
Annual Conference of the Koha Library System Community | Dublin, Ireland |
May 24 May 26 |
openSUSE Conference | Nürnberg, Germany |
May 25 May 26 |
Mini-DebConf Marseille | Marseille, France |
May 28 May 29 |
Czech and Slovak Network Operators Group | Brno, Czech Republic |
May 28 May 30 |
Percona Live Open Source Database Conference | Austin, TX, USA |
May 29 May 30 |
DevOps Days Toronto 2019 | Toronto, Canada |
May 29 June 2 |
Libre Graphics Meeting | Saarbrücken, Germany |
May 30 May 31 |
PGCon 2019 | Ottawa, Canada |
May 31 June 1 |
Texas Linux Fest | Dallas, TX, USA |
June 3 June 4 |
PyCon Israel 2019 | Ramat Gan, Israel |
June 4 June 6 |
sambaXP 2019 | Goettingen, Germany |
June 4 June 5 |
UK OpenMP Users' Conference | Edinburgh, UK |
June 8 June 9 |
MiniDebConf Hamburg | Hamburg, Germany |
June 14 June 15 |
Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2019 | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
June 14 June 16 |
Southeast Linux Fest | Charlotte, NC, USA |
June 21 June 22 |
GNU Guile & Guix Days | Strasbourg, France |
June 24 June 26 |
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit | Shanghai , China |
June 28 June 30 |
Akademy-es 2019 | Vigo, Spain |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary April 25, 2019 to May 1, 2019
Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
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Arch Linux | ASA-201904-12 | chromium | 2019-04-26 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201904-10 | libpng | 2019-04-26 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201904-11 | openssh | 2019-04-26 | |
CentOS | CESA-2019:0818 | C7 | kernel | 2019-04-30 |
CentOS | CESA-2019:0638 | C7 | openwsman | 2019-04-30 |
CentOS | CESA-2019:0809 | C7 | ovmf | 2019-04-30 |
Debian | DLA-1768-1 | LTS | checkstyle | 2019-04-28 |
Debian | DLA-1766-1 | LTS | evolution | 2019-04-26 |
Debian | DLA-1765-1 | LTS | gpac | 2019-04-25 |
Debian | DLA-1769-1 | LTS | gst-plugins-base0.10 | 2019-04-28 |
Debian | DLA-1770-1 | LTS | gst-plugins-base1.0 | 2019-04-28 |
Debian | DSA-4437-1 | stable | gst-plugins-base1.0 | 2019-04-29 |
Debian | DSA-4436-1 | stable | imagemagick | 2019-04-28 |
Debian | DSA-4435-1 | stable | libpng1.6 | 2019-04-27 |
Debian | DLA-1772-1 | LTS | libvirt | 2019-04-30 |
Debian | DLA-1764-1 | LTS | mercurial | 2019-04-25 |
Debian | DLA-1767-1 | LTS | monit | 2019-04-26 |
Debian | DLA-1763-1 | LTS | putty | 2019-04-24 |
Debian | DLA-1762-1 | LTS | systemd | 2019-04-24 |
Debian | DLA-1762-2 | LTS | systemd | 2019-04-26 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-8b8c774b84 | F28 | aria2 | 2019-04-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-fa61af95b3 | F29 | aria2 | 2019-04-29 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1e8a4c6958 | F29 | kernel | 2019-04-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1b986880ea | F28 | kernel-headers | 2019-04-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1e8a4c6958 | F29 | kernel-headers | 2019-04-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1b986880ea | F28 | kernel-tools | 2019-04-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-1e8a4c6958 | F29 | kernel-tools | 2019-04-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-6a756fe3a5 | F28 | libX11 | 2019-04-30 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-79cb2bb18e | F28 | libmediainfo | 2019-05-01 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-9d1e542c57 | F29 | libmediainfo | 2019-05-01 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-d348f5a9e7 | F30 | php-horde-horde | 2019-05-01 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-e29ba2d34a | F30 | php-horde-turba | 2019-05-01 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-3ee6a7adf2 | F28 | php-symfony | 2019-04-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-f8db687840 | F29 | php-symfony | 2019-04-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-2a7f472198 | F28 | php-symfony3 | 2019-04-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-a3ca65028c | F29 | php-symfony3 | 2019-04-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-32067d8b15 | F29 | php-symfony4 | 2019-04-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-95eb49ef49 | F29 | poppler | 2019-04-30 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-04a42e480b | F29 | python-jinja2 | 2019-04-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-8560719e80 | F28 | python-urllib3 | 2019-04-30 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-019c5314a0 | F28 | samba | 2019-04-30 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-74f7603660 | F29 | wpewebkit | 2019-04-30 |
Gentoo | 201904-24 | ming | 2019-04-24 | |
Gentoo | 201904-25 | qemu | 2019-04-24 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1295-1 | GraphicsMagick | 2019-04-30 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1272-1 | 15.0 42.3 | GraphicsMagick | 2019-04-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1284-1 | 15.0 | ceph | 2019-04-28 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1277-1 | kauth | 2019-04-26 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1291-1 | 15.0 | libssh2_org | 2019-04-29 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1290-1 | 42.3 | libssh2_org | 2019-04-29 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1288-1 | 15.0 | libvirt | 2019-04-29 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1294-1 | 42.3 | libvirt | 2019-04-29 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1275-1 | 15.0 | lxc, lxcfs | 2019-04-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1265-1 | 15.0 | openexr | 2019-04-24 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1293-1 | 42.3 | php7 | 2019-04-29 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1273-1 | 15.0 | python | 2019-04-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1282-1 | 15.0 | python3 | 2019-04-26 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1274-1 | 42.3 | qemu | 2019-04-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1292-1 | 42.3 | samba | 2019-04-29 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1264-1 | 15.0 | slurm | 2019-04-24 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1281-1 | 42.3 | wget | 2019-04-26 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1283-1 | 15.0 | xerces-c | 2019-04-26 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1276-1 | 42.3 | xmltooling | 2019-04-26 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:0902-01 | SCL | rh-python35-python | 2019-04-29 |
Slackware | SSA:2019-116-01 | bind | 2019-04-26 | |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1033-1 | OS7 SLE12 | ImageMagick | 2019-04-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1019-1 | SLE15 | ImageMagick | 2019-04-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1091-1 | OS7 SLE12 | atftp | 2019-04-29 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14033-1 | SLE11 | atftp | 2019-04-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1039-1 | OS7 SLE12 | freeradius-server | 2019-04-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1102-1 | SLE12 | glibc | 2019-04-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1122-1 | OS7 SLE12 | hostinfo, supportutils | 2019-04-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1018-1 | SLE15 | jasper | 2019-04-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1111-1 | SLE12 | libjpeg-turbo | 2019-04-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1060-1 | OS7 SLE12 | libssh2_org | 2019-04-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14031-1 | SLE11 | libssh2_org | 2019-04-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1042-1 | SLE12 | libvirt | 2019-04-26 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1000-1 | SLE12 | ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs | 2019-04-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1001-1 | SLE15 | ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs | 2019-04-24 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14030-1 | SLE11 | openssh | 2019-04-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1124-1 | SLE12 | openssl | 2019-04-30 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1037-1 | SLE12 | samba | 2019-04-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1040-1 | SLE15 | samba | 2019-04-26 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1030-1 | SLE12 | webkit2gtk3 | 2019-04-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1038-1 | SLE12 | wireshark | 2019-04-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1036-1 | SLE15 | wireshark | 2019-04-25 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1088-1 | OS7 SLE12 | wpa_supplicant | 2019-04-30 |
Ubuntu | USN-3956-1 | 16.04 18.04 18.10 19.04 | bind9 | 2019-04-25 |
Ubuntu | USN-3961-1 | 18.10 19.04 | dovecot | 2019-04-30 |
Ubuntu | USN-3959-1 | 16.04 18.04 18.10 19.04 | evince | 2019-04-29 |
Ubuntu | USN-3958-1 | 16.04 18.04 18.10 | gst-plugins-base0.10, gst-plugins-base1.0 | 2019-04-29 |
Ubuntu | USN-3962-1 | 18.04 18.10 | libpng1.6 | 2019-04-30 |
Ubuntu | USN-3963-1 | 18.04 18.10 19.04 | memcached | 2019-05-01 |
Ubuntu | USN-3957-1 | 16.04 18.04 18.10 19.04 | mysql-5.7 | 2019-04-29 |
Ubuntu | USN-3922-3 | 12.04 | php5 | 2019-04-25 |
Ubuntu | USN-3955-1 | 16.04 18.04 18.10 | tcpflow | 2019-04-25 |
Ubuntu | USN-3960-1 | 18.04 18.10 19.04 | wavpack | 2019-04-30 |
Kernel patches of interest
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[PATCH V2] mm: Allow userland to request that the kernel clear memory
on release
Apr 24
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