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Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: August 13, 2020 to October 12, 2020
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 14 | October 2 October 5 |
PyCon India 2020 | Virtual |
| August 28 | October 8 October 9 |
PyConZA 2020 | Online |
| September 1 | September 14 | GNU Radio Conference | Virtual |
| September 13 | October 13 October 15 |
Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2020 | Online |
| September 15 | October 24 October 25 |
[Cancelled] T-Dose 2020 | Geldrop (Eindhoven), Netherlands |
| September 18 | October 10 October 11 |
Arch Linux Conf 2020 Online | Online |
| September 23 | November 7 November 8 |
RustFest Global | Online |
| October 1 | December 1 December 3 |
Open Source Firmware Conference | online |
| October 7 | November 28 November 29 |
EmacsConf 2020 | Online |
| October 11 | November 7 November 8 |
OpenFest 2020 | online |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: August 13, 2020 to October 12, 2020
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| August 13 August 21 |
Netdev 0x14 | Virtual |
| August 20 | [Virtual] RustConf | online |
| August 23 August 29 |
DebConf20 | online |
| August 25 August 27 |
Linux Plumbers Conference | Virtual |
| August 26 August 28 |
[Canceled] FOSS4G Calgary | Calgary, Canada |
| August 28 | Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit | Virtual |
| September 4 September 11 |
Akademy 2020 | Virtual, Online |
| September 9 September 10 |
State of the Source Summit | online |
| September 13 September 18 |
The C++ Conference 2020 | Online |
| September 14 | GNU Radio Conference | Virtual |
| September 16 September 18 |
X.Org Developer's Conference 2020 | online |
| September 18 | [Postponed to 2021] PGDay Austria 2020 | Vienna, Austria |
| September 22 September 24 |
Linaro Virtual Connect | online |
| September 29 October 1 |
ApacheCon 2020 | Online |
| October 2 October 5 |
PyCon India 2020 | Virtual |
| October 2 October 3 |
PyGotham TV | Online |
| October 3 October 4 |
Handmade Seattle 2020 | Online |
| October 6 October 8 |
2020 Virtual LLVM Developers' Meeting | online |
| October 8 October 9 |
PyConZA 2020 | Online |
| October 10 October 11 |
Arch Linux Conf 2020 Online | Online |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Security updates
Alert summary August 6, 2020 to August 12, 2020
| Dist. | ID | Release | Package | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CentOS | CESA-2020:3233 | C6 | firefox | 2020-08-07 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:3253 | C7 | firefox | 2020-08-07 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:2985 | C6 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-08-07 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:2968 | C7 | java-1.8.0-openjdk | 2020-08-07 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:2969 | C7 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-08-07 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:3281 | C7 | libvncserver | 2020-08-07 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:3284 | C6 | postgresql-jdbc | 2020-08-07 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:3285 | C7 | postgresql-jdbc | 2020-08-07 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:3345 | C6 | thunderbird | 2020-08-07 |
| CentOS | CESA-2020:3344 | C7 | thunderbird | 2020-08-07 |
| Debian | DLA-2314-1 | LTS | clamav | 2020-08-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4745-1 | stable | dovecot | 2020-08-12 |
| Debian | DSA-4742-1 | stable | firejail | 2020-08-06 |
| Debian | DLA-2321-1 | LTS | firmware-nonfree | 2020-08-11 |
| Debian | DLA-2320-1 | LTS | golang-github-seccomp-libseccomp-golang | 2020-08-11 |
| Debian | DLA-2315-1 | LTS | gupnp | 2020-08-06 |
| Debian | DSA-4741-1 | stable | json-c | 2020-08-05 |
| Debian | DLA-2317-1 | LTS | pillow | 2020-08-08 |
| Debian | DLA-2322-1 | LTS | roundcube | 2020-08-11 |
| Debian | DSA-4744-1 | stable | roundcube | 2020-08-12 |
| Debian | DLA-2316-1 | LTS | ruby-kramdown | 2020-08-09 |
| Debian | DSA-4743-1 | stable | ruby-kramdown | 2020-08-10 |
| Debian | DLA-2318-1 | LTS | wpa | 2020-08-09 |
| Debian | DLA-2319-1 | LTS | xrdp | 2020-08-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-cac5ae9b6e | F31 | ark | 2020-08-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d5b33b6e6c | F31 | cutter-re | 2020-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-aa51efe207 | F32 | cutter-re | 2020-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-8d634e31c0 | F32 | kernel | 2020-08-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-c3ca827d31 | F32 | libmetalink | 2020-08-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-fed59ab473 | F31 | nodejs | 2020-08-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-754b711a58 | F32 | nodejs | 2020-08-11 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-5a31ccfe66 | F32 | postgresql-jdbc | 2020-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-826b24c329 | F31 | python2 | 2020-08-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-efb908b6a8 | F31 | python36 | 2020-08-12 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-1ddd5273d6 | F32 | python36 | 2020-08-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-87c0a0a52d | F32 | python37 | 2020-08-06 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-d5b33b6e6c | F31 | radare2 | 2020-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-aa51efe207 | F32 | radare2 | 2020-08-07 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-9f31ce1df2 | F31 | rpki-client | 2020-08-08 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-25d8011cb4 | F32 | rpki-client | 2020-08-09 |
| Fedora | FEDORA-2020-a496a39b00 | F31 | webkit2gtk3 | 2020-08-07 |
| Gentoo | 202008-04 | apache | 2020-08-08 | |
| Gentoo | 202008-03 | ark | 2020-08-08 | |
| Gentoo | 202008-07 | chromium | 2020-08-12 | |
| Gentoo | 202008-02 | global | 2020-08-08 | |
| Gentoo | 202008-05 | gthumb | 2020-08-08 | |
| Gentoo | 202008-06 | iproute2 | 2020-08-08 | |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1183-1 | 15.1 15.2 | ark | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1154-1 | 15.1 15.2 | chromium | 2020-08-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1161-1 | oSB SLE-15-SP1 | chromium | 2020-08-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1155-1 | 15.2 | firefox | 2020-08-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1189-1 | 15.2 | firefox | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1189-1 | 15.2 | firefox | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1178-1 | 15.1 | go1.13 | 2020-08-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1194-1 | 15.2 | go1.13 | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1194-1 | 15.2 | go1.13 | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1168-1 | 15.1 | grub2 | 2020-08-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1169-1 | 15.2 | grub2 | 2020-08-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1175-1 | 15.1 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-08-10 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1191-1 | 15.2 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1191-1 | 15.2 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1153-1 | 15.1 | kernel | 2020-08-06 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1162-1 | 15.1 | libX11 | 2020-08-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1164-1 | 15.2 | libX11 | 2020-08-08 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1182-1 | 15.2 | libX11 | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1172-1 | 15.2 | opera | 2020-08-09 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1177-1 | 15.1 | perl-XML-Twig | 2020-08-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1156-1 | 15.2 | python-rtslib-fb | 2020-08-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1156-1 | 15.2 | python-rtslib-fb | 2020-08-07 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1179-1 | 15.1 | thunderbird | 2020-08-11 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1188-1 | 15.1 | wireshark | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1188-1 | 15.1 | wireshark | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1190-1 | 15.2 | xen | 2020-08-12 |
| openSUSE | openSUSE-SU-2020:1190-1 | 15.2 | xen | 2020-08-12 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-3053 | OL8 | container-tools:ol8 | 2020-08-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5801 | OL6 | kernel | 2020-08-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5801 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-08-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5804 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-08-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5805 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-08-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5804 | OL7 | kernel | 2020-08-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-5805 | OL8 | kernel | 2020-08-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-3385 | OL8 | libvncserver | 2020-08-11 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-3280 | OL8 | nss and nspr | 2020-08-06 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-3345 | OL6 | thunderbird | 2020-08-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-3344 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-08-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-3344 | OL7 | thunderbird | 2020-08-10 |
| Oracle | ELSA-2020-3341 | OL8 | thunderbird | 2020-08-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3379-01 | EL6.5 | bind | 2020-08-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3378-01 | EL6.6 | bind | 2020-08-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3433-01 | EL7.4 | bind | 2020-08-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3377-01 | EL6 | chromium-browser | 2020-08-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3387-01 | EL6 | java-1.7.1-ibm | 2020-08-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3388-01 | EL7 | java-1.7.1-ibm | 2020-08-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3386-01 | EL8 | java-1.8.0-ibm | 2020-08-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3432-01 | EL7.4 | kernel | 2020-08-12 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3389-01 | MRG | kernel-rt | 2020-08-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3385-01 | EL8 | libvncserver | 2020-08-10 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3410-01 | OSP15 | python-paunch and openstack-tripleo-heat-templates | 2020-08-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3406-01 | OSP16.0 | python-paunch and openstack-tripleo-heat-templates | 2020-08-11 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3345-01 | EL6 | thunderbird | 2020-08-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3344-01 | EL7 | thunderbird | 2020-08-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3341-01 | EL8 | thunderbird | 2020-08-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3343-01 | EL8.0 | thunderbird | 2020-08-06 |
| Red Hat | RHSA-2020:3342-01 | EL8.1 | thunderbird | 2020-08-06 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:3345-1 | SL6 | thunderbird | 2020-08-06 |
| Scientific Linux | SLSA-2020:3344-1 | SL7 | thunderbird | 2020-08-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2167-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | LibVNCServer | 2020-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2194-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | dpdk | 2020-08-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2147-1 | SLE15 | firefox | 2020-08-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2200-1 | SLE12 | google-compute-engine | 2020-08-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2143-1 | SLE15 | java-11-openjdk | 2020-08-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2134-1 | OS7 SLE12 | kernel | 2020-08-05 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2152-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | kernel | 2020-08-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2156-1 | SLE12 | kernel | 2020-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2196-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | libX11 | 2020-08-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2197-1 | SLE15 | libX11 | 2020-08-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2217-1 | SLE15 | libreoffice | 2020-08-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2173-1 | SLE12 | perl-XML-Twig | 2020-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2172-1 | SLE15 | perl-XML-Twig | 2020-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2149-1 | SLE15 | postgresql10 and postgresql12 | 2020-08-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2157-1 | OS7 OS8 OS9 SLE12 SES5 | python-ipaddress | 2020-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2216-1 | SLE12 | python36 | 2020-08-12 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2140-1 | OS6 OS7 | rubygem-actionview-4_2 | 2020-08-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2179-1 | SLE15 | thunderbird | 2020-08-10 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2199-1 | SLE15 | webkit2gtk3 | 2020-08-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2198-1 | SLE15 | webkit2gtk3 | 2020-08-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2144-1 | SLE15 | wireshark | 2020-08-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2171-1 | OS8 SLE12 SES5 | xen | 2020-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2141-1 | OS9 SLE12 | xen | 2020-08-06 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14448-1 | SLE11 | xen | 2020-08-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2166-1 | SLE12 | xen | 2020-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2159-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2020-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2158-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2020-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2160-1 | SLE15 | xen | 2020-08-07 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:14447-1 | SLE11 | xorg-x11-libX11 | 2020-08-11 |
| SUSE | SUSE-SU-2020:2142-1 | SLE15 | xrdp | 2020-08-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4456-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | dovecot | 2020-08-12 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4455-1 | 12.04 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 | nss | 2020-08-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4453-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | openjdk-8 | 2020-08-05 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4451-2 | 12.04 14.04 | ppp | 2020-08-06 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4454-2 | 12.04 14.04 | samba | 2020-08-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4454-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | samba | 2020-08-10 |
| Ubuntu | USN-4457-1 | 16.04 18.04 20.04 | software-properties | 2020-08-12 |
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