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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: August 29, 2019 to October 28, 2019
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
---|---|---|---|
August 30 | October 10 October 11 |
PyCon ZA 2019 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
August 31 | November 12 November 15 |
Linux Application Summit | Barcelona, Spain |
August 31 | November 7 | Open Source Camp | #4 Foreman | Nuremberg, Germany |
September 2 | October 3 | PostgresqlConf South Africa | Cape Town, South Africa |
September 9 | October 26 | FOSS XR Conference | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
September 13 | October 26 | The Future is Open | Rochester, NY, USA |
September 14 | October 31 | Real-time Linux Summit - At ELCE 2019 | Lyon, France |
September 16 | November 4 November 8 |
Tcl 2019 - 26th Annual Tcl/Tk Conference | Houston, TX, USA |
September 22 | December 9 | Open FinTech Forum | New York, NY, USA |
October 2 | November 2 November 3 |
OpenFest 2019 | Sofia, Bulgaria |
October 4 | November 2 November 3 |
Konference OpenAlt | Brno, Czechia |
October 6 | November 16 November 17 |
Capitole du Libre 2019 | Toulouse, France |
October 25 | March 23 March 27 |
[CANCELED] SUSECON 2020 | was Dublin, Online only |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: August 29, 2019 to October 28, 2019
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
Date(s) | Event | Location |
---|---|---|
August 26 August 30 |
FOSS4G 2019 | Bucharest, Romania |
September 2 September 6 |
EuroSciPy 2019 | Bilbao, Spain |
September 3 September 6 |
Open Source Firmware Conference 2019 | Sunnyvale & Menlo Park, CA, USA |
September 4 September 6 |
GNU Hackers Meet | Madrid, Spain |
September 6 September 9 |
PyColorado | Denver, CO, USA |
September 7 September 13 |
Akademy 2019 | Milan, Italy |
September 9 September 11 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Lisbon, Portugal |
September 9 September 11 |
HashiConf 2019 | Seattle, WA, USA |
September 11 September 13 |
PostgresOpen | Orlando, FL, USA |
September 11 September 12 |
Cloud Foundry Summit Europe | The Hague, The Netherlands |
September 11 September 13 |
LibreOffice Conference | Almeria, Spain |
September 12 | Kernel Maintainer Summit | Lisbon, Portugal |
September 12 September 15 |
GNU Tools Cauldron | Montreal, Canada |
September 16 September 20 |
GNU Radio Conference 2019 | Huntsville, AL, USA |
September 19 September 20 |
DPDK Userspace 2019 | Bordeaux, France |
September 20 September 22 |
All Systems Go! 2019 | Berlin, Germany |
September 21 September 23 |
State of the Map | Heidelberg, Germany |
September 21 | Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference | Lancaster, PA, USA |
September 23 September 24 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2019 | Paris, France |
September 23 September 25 |
Open Networking Summit | Antwerp, Belgium |
September 25 September 27 |
Kernel Recipes | Paris, France |
October 1 October 4 |
Alpine Linux Persistence and Storage Summit | Lizumerhütte, Tyrol, Austria |
October 2 | OpenInfra Days Italy 2019 | Milan, Italy |
October 2 October 4 |
X.Org Developer's Conference | Montreal, Canada |
October 3 | OpenInfra Days Italy 2019 | Rome, Italy |
October 4 October 5 |
Linux Piter 2019 | Saint Petersburg, Russia |
October 5 October 6 |
openSUSE.Asia Summit | Bali, Indonesia |
October 7 October 9 |
LinuxConf [ZA] | Johannesburg, South Africa |
October 8 October 9 |
PostgresConf South Africa 2019 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
October 8 | Introduction to Coccinelle | Munich, Germany |
October 8 October 11 |
Zeek Week (formerly BroCon) | Seattle, WA, USA |
October 10 October 11 |
PyCon ZA 2019 | Johannesburg, South Africa |
October 10 October 13 |
Ubucon Europe 2019 | Sintra, Portugal |
October 12 October 13 |
WineConf 2019 | Toronto, Canada |
October 13 October 15 |
All Things Open | Raleigh, NC, USA |
October 15 October 18 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe | Milan, Italy |
October 19 | GNU/LinuxDay in Vorarlberg | Dornbirn, Austria |
October 19 October 20 |
OGGCAMP 19 | Manchester, UK |
October 22 October 23 |
LLVM Dev Mtg | San Jose, CA, USA |
October 25 October 27 |
NixCon | Brno, Czech Republic |
October 26 | FOSS XR Conference | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
October 26 | The Future is Open | Rochester, NY, USA |
October 26 October 27 |
Sonoj Convention | Cologne, Germany |
October 27 October 30 |
27th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles | Huntsville, Ontario, Canada |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary August 22, 2019 to August 28, 2019
Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
---|---|---|---|---|
Arch Linux | ASA-201908-11 | firefox | 2019-08-24 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201908-9 | libreoffice-still | 2019-08-24 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201908-13 | nginx | 2019-08-24 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201908-12 | nginx-mainline | 2019-08-24 | |
Arch Linux | ASA-201908-10 | subversion | 2019-08-24 | |
Debian | DSA-4509-1 | stable | apache2 | 2019-08-26 |
Debian | DLA-1896-1 | LTS | commons-beanutils | 2019-08-24 |
Debian | DLA-1893-1 | LTS | cups | 2019-08-22 |
Debian | DSA-4510-1 | stable | dovecot | 2019-08-28 |
Debian | DSA-4508-1 | stable | h2o | 2019-08-24 |
Debian | DLA-1894-1 | LTS | libapache2-mod-auth-openidc | 2019-08-23 |
Debian | DLA-1895-1 | LTS | libmspack | 2019-08-23 |
Debian | DSA-4505-1 | stable | nginx | 2019-08-22 |
Debian | DLA-1886-2 | LTS | openjdk-7 | 2019-08-23 |
Debian | DSA-4506-1 | stable | qemu | 2019-08-24 |
Debian | DSA-4507-1 | stable | squid | 2019-08-24 |
Debian | DLA-1897-1 | LTS | tiff | 2019-08-25 |
Debian | DLA-1898-1 | LTS | xymon | 2019-08-26 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4bed83e978 | F29 | docker | 2019-08-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-5b54793a4a | F30 | docker | 2019-08-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-099575a123 | F30 | httpd | 2019-08-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-2b8ef08c95 | F30 | kubernetes | 2019-08-26 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-355f6e10c1 | F29 | libmodbus | 2019-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-4942e01cdc | F30 | libmodbus | 2019-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-099575a123 | F30 | mod_md | 2019-08-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-9013b5e75d | F29 | nfdump | 2019-08-24 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-0fbfb00cbb | F30 | nfdump | 2019-08-24 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-8a437d5c2f | F29 | nghttp2 | 2019-08-27 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-81985a8858 | F30 | nghttp2 | 2019-08-23 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-befd924cfe | F30 | nginx | 2019-08-22 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-5a6a7bc12c | F30 | nodejs | 2019-08-25 |
Fedora | FEDORA-2019-ac709da87f | F30 | patch | 2019-08-23 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1983-1 | 15.0 15.1 | ImageMagick | 2019-08-21 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2007-1 | dkgpg, libTMCG | 2019-08-25 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2000-1 | 15.1 | go1.12 | 2019-08-24 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1997-1 | neovim | 2019-08-24 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2017-1 | putty | 2019-08-27 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1985-1 | 15.0 15.1 | putty | 2019-08-21 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1988-1 | 15.0 | python | 2019-08-23 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1989-1 | 15.1 | python | 2019-08-23 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2005-1 | 15.1 | qbittorrent | 2019-08-25 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1994-1 | 15.0 15.1 | schismtracker | 2019-08-23 |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1999-1 | teeworlds | 2019-08-24 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:1990-1 | thunderbird | 2019-08-23 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2015-1 | vlc | 2019-08-26 | |
openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2019:2008-1 | zstd | 2019-08-25 | |
Oracle | ELSA-2019-2571 | OL7 | pango | 2019-08-27 |
Oracle | ELSA-2019-2571 | OL7 | pango | 2019-08-27 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2545-01 | RHAE2.6 | Ansible | 2019-08-21 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2544-01 | RHAE2.7 | Ansible | 2019-08-21 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2543-01 | RHAE2.8 | Ansible | 2019-08-21 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2542-01 | RHAE2.8 | Ansible | 2019-08-21 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2552-01 | RHOE | atomic-openshift-web-console | 2019-08-21 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2538-01 | EL7 | ceph | 2019-08-21 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2566-01 | EL7.5 | kernel | 2019-08-27 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2553-01 | EL7 | qemu-kvm-rhev | 2019-08-22 |
Red Hat | RHSA-2019:2565-01 | EL7.5 | ruby | 2019-08-27 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2079-1 | SL7 | Xorg | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2332-1 | SL7 | advancecomp | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2057-1 | SL7 | bind | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2075-1 | SL7 | binutils | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2162-1 | SL7 | blktrace | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2051-1 | SL7 | compat-libtiff3 | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2181-1 | SL7 | curl | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2060-1 | SL7 | dhcp | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2197-1 | SL7 | elfutils | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2048-1 | SL7 | exempi | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2101-1 | SL7 | exiv2 | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2037-1 | SL7 | fence-agents | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2157-1 | SL7 | freerdp and vinagre | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2462-1 | SL7 | ghostscript | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2281-1 | SL7 | ghostscript | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2118-1 | SL7 | glibc | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2145-1 | SL7 | gvfs | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2258-1 | SL7 | http-parser | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2343-1 | SL7 | httpd | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2141-1 | SL7 | kde-workspace | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2285-1 | SL7 | keepalived | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2029-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2137-1 | SL7 | keycloak-httpd-client-install | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2298-1 | SL7 | libarchive | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2047-1 | SL7 | libcgroup | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2308-1 | SL7 | libguestfs-winsupport | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2052-1 | SL7 | libjpeg-turbo | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2049-1 | SL7 | libmspack | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2130-1 | SL7 | libreoffice | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2290-1 | SL7 | libsolv | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2136-1 | SL7 | libssh2 | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2053-1 | SL7 | libtiff | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2294-1 | SL7 | libvirt | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2126-1 | SL7 | libwpd | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2169-1 | SL7 | linux-firmware | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2327-1 | SL7 | mariadb | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2276-1 | SL7 | mercurial | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2112-1 | SL7 | mod_auth_openidc | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2237-1 | SL7 | nss, nss-softokn, nss-util, and nspr | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2077-1 | SL7 | ntp | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2154-1 | SL7 | opensc | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2143-1 | SL7 | openssh | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2304-1 | SL7 | openssl | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2125-1 | SL7 | ovmf | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2033-1 | SL7 | patch | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2097-1 | SL7 | perl-Archive-Tar | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2046-1 | SL7 | polkit | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2022-1 | SL7 | poppler | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2189-1 | SL7 | procps-ng | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2030-1 | SL7 | python | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2035-1 | SL7 | python-requests | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2272-1 | SL7 | python-urllib3 | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2078-1 | SL7 | qemu-kvm | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2135-1 | SL7 | qt5 | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2110-1 | SL7 | rsyslog | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2028-1 | SL7 | ruby | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2099-1 | SL7 | samba | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2283-1 | SL7 | sox | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2229-1 | SL7 | spice-gtk | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2177-1 | SL7 | sssd | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2091-1 | SL7 | systemd | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2205-1 | SL7 | tomcat | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2178-1 | SL7 | udisks2 | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2336-1 | SL7 | unixODBC | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2159-1 | SL7 | unzip | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2280-1 | SL7 | uriparser | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2017-1 | SL7 | zsh | 2019-08-26 |
Scientific Linux | SLSA-2019:2196-1 | SL7 | zziplib | 2019-08-26 |
Slackware | SSA:2019-238-01 | kernel | 2019-08-26 | |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2237-1 | SLE15 | apache2 | 2019-08-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2219-1 | OS8 | ardana-ansible, ardana-db, ardana-freezer, ardana-glance, ardana-input-model, ardana-nova, ardana-osconfig, ardana-tempest, caasp-openstack-heat-templates, crowbar-core, crowbar-ha, crowbar-openstack, crowbar-ui, documentation-suse-openstack-cloud, galera-python-clustercheck, openstack-cinder, openstack-glance, openstack-heat, openstack-horizon-plugin-monasca-ui, openstack-horizon-plugin-neutron-fwaas-ui, openstack-ironic, openstack-keystone, openstack-manila, openstack-monasca-agent, openstack-monasca-api, openstack-monasca-persister, openstack-monasca-persister-java, openstack-murano, openstack-neutron, openstack-neutron-gbp, openstack-neutron-lbaas, openstack-nova, openstack-octavia, python-Beaver, python-oslo.db, python-osprofiler, python-swiftlm, venv-openstack-magnum, venv-openstack-monasca, venv-openstack-monasca-ceilometer, venv-openstack-murano, venv-openstack-neutron | 2019-08-26 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2236-1 | SLE12 | fontforge | 2019-08-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14155-1 | SLE11 | ghostscript-library | 2019-08-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2213-1 | SLE15 | go1.11 | 2019-08-23 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2214-1 | SLE15 | go1.12 | 2019-08-23 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:14151-1 | SLE11 | kvm | 2019-08-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2231-1 | SLE15 | libreoffice | 2019-08-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:1606-2 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | libssh2_org | 2019-08-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2227-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | libvirt | 2019-08-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2223-1 | SLE15 | podman, slirp4netns and libcontainers-common | 2019-08-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2228-1 | SLE15 | postgresql10 | 2019-08-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2159-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES4 SES5 | postgresql96 | 2019-08-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2211-1 | SLE15 | python-SQLAlchemy | 2019-08-23 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2212-1 | SLE15 | python-Twisted | 2019-08-23 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2221-1 | SLE12 | qemu | 2019-08-27 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2192-1 | SLE15 | qemu | 2019-08-21 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2209-1 | OS7 SES4 | rubygem-loofah | 2019-08-23 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2229-1 | SLE15 | slurm | 2019-08-28 |
SUSE | SUSE-SU-2019:2191-1 | SLE15 | wavpack | 2019-08-21 |
Ubuntu | USN-4110-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.04 | dovecot | 2019-08-28 |
Ubuntu | USN-4108-1 | 18.04 | libzstd | 2019-08-21 |
Ubuntu | USN-4109-1 | 18.04 | openjpeg2 | 2019-08-21 |
Kernel patches of interest
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Brendan Higgins
[PATCH v15 00/18] kunit: introduce KUnit, the Linux kernel unit
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Aug 23
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block: loop: add file format subsystem and QCOW2 file format driver
Aug 24
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