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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: February 13, 2020 to April 13, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 15 | June 17 June 18 |
[ONLINE] stackconf 2020 | Berlin, Germany |
| February 15 | March 25 March 28 |
[POSTPONED] MiniDebConf Maceió 2020 | Maceió, Brazil |
| February 16 | June 29 July 2 |
[VIRTUAL] Open Source Summit/Embedded Linux Conference North America | Austin, TX, USA |
| February 28 | June 23 June 25 |
[CANCELED] IcingaConf 2020 | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| February 28 | May 26 May 28 |
[VIRTUAL] sambaXP 2020 | Berlin, Germany |
| February 28 | June 23 June 25 |
[ONLINE] Postgres Vision 2020 | Boston, MA, USA |
| March 6 | July 6 July 9 |
[Virtual] XenProject Developer and Design Summit 2020 | |
| March 8 | June 25 June 26 |
[CANCELED] Postgres Ibiza 2020 | Ibiza, Spain |
| March 27 | July 7 July 8 |
[CANCELED] PostgresLondon 2020 | London, United Kingdom |
| March 29 | June 20 June 21 |
International Conference on Networks, Blockchain and Internet of Things | Dubai, UAE |
| March 31 | June 19 | [CANCELED] Open Source Camp | #5 Bareos | Berlin, Germany |
| March 31 | July 1 July 2 |
[ONLINE] Linux Security Summit North America | Austin, TX, USA |
| April 4 | August 20 | [Virtual] RustConf | online |
| April 6 | July 10 | [CANCELED] PGDay Russia 2020 | St. Petersburg, Russia |
| April 12 | July 23 July 26 |
[Virtual] EuroPython 2020 | Online |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: February 13, 2020 to April 13, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| February 18 February 20 |
PyCon Namibia | Windhoek, Namibia |
| March 3 | Open Source 101 | Columbia, SC, USA |
| March 5 March 6 |
Incontro DevOps Italia | Bologna, Italy |
| March 5 March 8 |
Southern California Linux Expo | Pasadena, CA, USA |
| March 14 March 15 |
[CANCELED] LibrePlanet | Boston, MA, USA |
| March 19 March 22 |
[CANCELED] FOSSASIA OpenTechSummit | Singapore, Singapore |
| March 23 March 24 |
[CANCELED] Indico Workshop 3 | Geneva, Switzerland |
| March 23 March 25 |
Supercomputing Frontiers Europe | Warsaw, Poland |
| March 23 March 27 |
[CANCELED] Postgres Conference 2020 | New York, NY, USA |
| March 23 March 27 |
[CANCELED] SUSECON 2020 | was Dublin, Online only |
| March 25 March 28 |
[POSTPONED] MiniDebConf Maceió 2020 | Maceió, Brazil |
| March 29 April 1 |
[POSTPONED] foss-north | Göteborg, Sweden |
| March 30 April 2 |
POSTPONED: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2020 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary February 6, 2020 to February 12, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arch Linux | ASA-202002-3 | chromium | 2020-02-07 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202002-1 | python-django | 2020-02-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202002-2 | sudo | 2020-02-06 | |
| Arch Linux | ASA-202002-2 | sudo | 2020-02-06 | |
| CentOS | CESA-2019:2079 | C7 | Xorg | 2020-02-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0375 | C7 | kernel-rt | 2020-02-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0366 | C7 | qemu-kvm | 2020-02-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2018:2916 | C7 | spamassassin | 2020-02-06 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:0471 | C6 | spice-gtk | 2020-02-11 |
| Debian | DLA-2099-1 | LTS | checkstyle | 2020-02-10 |
| Debian | DLA-2098-1 | LTS | ipmitool | 2020-02-09 |
| Debian | DLA-2101-1 | LTS | libemail-address-list-perl | 2020-02-12 |
| Debian | DLA-2100-1 | LTS | libexif | 2020-02-10 |
| Debian | DSA-4618-1 | stable | libexif | 2020-02-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4619-1 | stable | libxmlrpc3-java | 2020-02-06 |
| Debian | DLA-2097-1 | LTS | ppp | 2020-02-09 |
| Debian | DLA-2096-1 | LTS | ruby-rack-cors | 2020-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-339d413324 | F31 | glib2 | 2020-02-10 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-c32e4b271c | F30 | glibc | 2020-02-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-0a2dd63bf0 | F30 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d735a887d1 | F30 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-270ef80e9e | F30 | libasr | 2020-02-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a861033a4d | F31 | libasr | 2020-02-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3838c8ea98 | F31 | libuv | 2020-02-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-ff2fe47ba4 | F31 | mingw-SDL2 | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a718b79006 | F30 | mingw-gdk-pixbuf | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-418ce730df | F31 | mingw-gdk-pixbuf | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-659277b3b8 | F30 | nethack | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-517b2845a1 | F31 | nethack | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3838c8ea98 | F31 | nghttp2 | 2020-02-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-3838c8ea98 | F31 | nodejs | 2020-02-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-4a8f110332 | F30 | nodejs-mixin-deep | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f80e5c0d65 | F31 | nodejs-mixin-deep | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1f1c94907b | F30 | nodejs-set-value | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-582515fa8a | F31 | nodejs-set-value | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-766ce5adae | F31 | nodejs-yarn | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-270ef80e9e | F30 | opensmtpd | 2020-02-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a861033a4d | F31 | opensmtpd | 2020-02-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-24ded2cd52 | F31 | poppler | 2020-02-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-8493201e90 | F31 | python-feedgen | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-b2c1f6cc75 | F30 | runc | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-46ecc60897 | F31 | runc | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-f92cd0e72b | F30 | samba | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-cb7b7181a0 | F30 | sox | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-bb5c663b83 | F31 | texlive-base | 2020-02-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-67590fbf08 | F31 | upx | 2020-02-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-edf53cd770 | F31 | xar | 2020-02-07 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0078 | 7 | chromium-browser-stable | 2020-02-09 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0076 | 7 | mgetty | 2020-02-09 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0075 | 7 | openslp | 2020-02-09 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0080 | 7 | qtbase5 | 2020-02-09 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0079 | 7 | spamassassin | 2020-02-09 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0081 | 7 | sudo | 2020-02-09 |
| Mageia | MGASA-2020-0077 | 7 | xmlrpc | 2020-02-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0170-1 | 15.1 | ImageMagick | 2020-02-05 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0187-1 | 15.1 | ceph | 2020-02-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0210-1 | chromium | 2020-02-12 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0189-1 | 15.1 | chromium | 2020-02-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0209-1 | 15.1 | libqt5-qtbase | 2020-02-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0204-1 | 15.1 | nginx | 2020-02-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0208-1 | 15.1 | systemd | 2020-02-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0179-1 | ucl | 2020-02-06 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0180-1 | upx | 2020-02-06 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:0207-1 | 15.1 | wicked | 2020-02-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0335 | OL8 | grub2 | 2020-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0378 | OL7 | ipa | 2020-02-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0378 | OL7 | ipa | 2020-02-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0374 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-02-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5533 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-02-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5533 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-02-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0339 | OL8 | kernel | 2020-02-07 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0366 | OL7 | qemu-kvm | 2020-02-05 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-0471 | OL6 | spice-gtk | 2020-02-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0464-01 | EL8.0 | 389-ds:1.4 | 2020-02-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0467-01 | EL6 | java-1.7.1-ibm | 2020-02-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0468-01 | EL7 | java-1.7.1-ibm | 2020-02-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0469-01 | EL6 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2020-02-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0470-01 | EL7 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2020-02-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0465-01 | EL8 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2020-02-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0466-01 | EL6.6 | nss-softokn | 2020-02-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:0471-01 | EL6 | spice-gtk | 2020-02-11 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0374-1 | SL7 | kernel | 2020-02-06 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:0471-1 | SL6 | spice-gtk | 2020-02-11 |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-042-01 | firefox | 2020-02-11 | |
| Slackware | SSA:2020-042-02 | thunderbird | 2020-02-11 | |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0372-1 | SLE12 | LibreOffice | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0376-1 | SLE12 | docker-runc | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0375-1 | SLE15 | docker-runc | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0360-1 | SLE12 | e2fsprogs | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0349-1 | SLE15 | libqt5-qtbase | 2020-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0346-1 | SLE15 | libqt5-qtbase | 2020-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0348-1 | SLE15 | nginx | 2020-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0356-1 | SLE12 | pcp | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0357-1 | SLE15 | pcp | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0355-1 | SLE15 | pcp | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0352-1 | SLE12 | php7 | 2020-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0359-1 | SLE15 | rubygem-rack | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0331-1 | OS7 OS8 SLE12 SES5 | systemd | 2020-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0353-1 | SLE12 | systemd | 2020-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0335-1 | SLE15 | systemd | 2020-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0358-1 | SLE12 | wicked | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0351-1 | SLE12 | wicked | 2020-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0369-1 | SLE12 | wicked | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0347-1 | SLE15 | wicked | 2020-02-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0370-1 | SLE15 | wicked | 2020-02-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:0334-1 | OS7 SLE12 | xen | 2020-02-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4276-1 | 18.04 | Yubico PIV Tool | 2020-02-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4270-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | exiv2 | 2020-02-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4277-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.10 | libexif | 2020-02-11 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4274-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.10 | libxml2 | 2020-02-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4250-2 | 18.04 19.10 | mariadb-10.1, mariadb-10.3 | 2020-02-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4267-1 | 16.04 | mbedtls | 2020-02-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4271-1 | 18.04 19.10 | mesa | 2020-02-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4272-1 | 14.04 16.04 18.04 19.10 | pillow | 2020-02-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4273-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | python-reportlab | 2020-02-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4275-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | qtbase-opensource-src | 2020-02-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4269-1 | 16.04 18.04 19.10 | systemd | 2020-02-05 |
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