Announcements

FSF gives awards to Matthew Garrett, Outreach Program for Women

The Free Software Foundation has announced that its annual award for the advancement of free software has gone to Matthew Garrett for his work making Linux support UEFI secure boot systems. The award for projects of social benefit went to the Outreach Program for Women.

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FSFE: Computers in the post-Snowden era

The Free Software Foundation Europe is asking people to sign a petition requesting an unfettered choice of the operating system on telephones, laptops and other computing devices. "The revelations from Edward Snowden concerning massive surveillance of communications demonstrates the need for each person to be able to control their computers and phones. Yet computer and telephone manufacturers and retailers [typically] impose on users programs that jeopardise their privacy. Each person should therefore have the opportunity to refuse to pay for non-Free software, and be allowed to choose the programs that run on their telephone and computer."

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The AllSeen Alliance Announces Newest Members

The AllSeen Alliance has announced that Audio Partnership, Beechwoods Software, Beijing Winner Micro Electronics, CA Engineering, Imagination Technologies and Two Bulls are joining the alliance as community members. "Since launching in December 2013, the AllSeen Alliance has brought together 41 organizations to collaborate on an open software framework based on the AllJoyn open source project."

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Verizon Terremark Joins LF and New LF Members Collaborate on Connected Car Technology

The Linux Foundation has two announcements. The first is that Verizon Terremark has joined as a gold member. "Verizon Terremark's next generation cloud offering, Verizon Cloud, was announced in October and is now in public beta. It includes a IaaS platform, Verizon Cloud Compute, and an object-based storage service, Verizon Cloud Storage, that are built for the enterprise but nimble enough to meet the needs of small and medium-sized businesses, individual IT departments and software developers."

In other news, four companies have joined the Automotive Grade Linux Steering Committee; Advanced Driver Information Technology GmbH, ATS Advanced Telematic Systems GmbH, GlobalLogic, and OBIGO. "The Linux Foundation's AGL initiative continues to grow rapidly as the auto industry realizes that Linux -- both highly customizable and extremely powerful -- provides newfound control and innovation opportunities that are simply not possible with a proprietary operating system."

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Verizon Joins OIN

Open Invention Network (OIN) has announced that Verizon Communications has joined OIN as a licensee. "As the first major communications service provider to enroll in the OIN community, Verizon, a global leader in broadband, wireline, and wireless communications services, is demonstrating its commitment to open source software and the associated development efforts that benefit the entire communications industry."

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FSFE: Open Letter to EU institutions: Time to support Open Standards

The Free Software Foundation Europe and Open Forum Europe wrote an open letter to the European Parliament and the European Commission asking for improved support for open standards. "The letter also raises the issue of video formats. Currently, it is difficult or impossible for Free Software users to follow the proceedings of the Parliament and the Council in real time, because the live video streams of these organisations rely on proprietary technology. This is a problem which OFE and FSFE have highlighted for many years."

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LF Collaborative Development Trends Report

The Linux Foundation has announced the release of the first-ever Collaborative Development Trends Report. "Companies in diverse industries across the globe are increasingly joining together to share development resources and build common open source code bases on which they can diversify their own products and services. These methods are dramatically disrupting the way technologies are being built and distributed: Linux, OpenStack, Hadoop, OpenDaylight and more are changing the way developers and business managers approach the world’s most complex technology challenges." Registration is required to access the full report.

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Call for Papers for UK PostgreSQL conferences

Two one day conferences will be taking place in a British country house near London. Char(14), "an international conference focused on Clustering, HA and Replication techniques, tools and user experiences", takes place July 8. PGday UK follows on July 9. The call for papers closes April 17.

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CFP Deadlines: March 27, 2014 to May 26, 2014

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
March 31	July 18 July 20	GNU Tools Cauldron 2014	Cambridge, England, UK
March 31	September 15 September 19	GNU Radio Conference	Washington, DC, USA
March 31	June 2 June 4	Tizen Developer Conference 2014	San Francisco, CA, USA
March 31	April 25 April 28	openSUSE Conference 2014	Dubrovnik, Croatia
April 3	August 6 August 9	Flock	Prague, Czech Republic
April 4	June 24 June 27	Open Source Bridge	Portland, OR, USA
April 5	June 13 June 14	Texas Linux Fest 2014	Austin, TX, USA
April 7	June 9 June 10	DockerCon	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 14	May 24	MojoConf 2014	Oslo, Norway
April 17	July 9	PGDay UK	near Milton Keynes, UK
April 17	July 8	CHAR(14)	near Milton Keynes, UK
April 18	November 9 November 14	Large Installation System Administration	Seattle, WA, USA
April 18	June 23 June 24	LF Enterprise End User Summit	New York, NY, USA
April 24	October 6 October 8	Operating Systems Design and Implementation	Broomfield, CO, USA
April 25	August 1 August 3	PyCon Australia	Brisbane, Australia
April 25	August 18	7th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test	San Diego, CA, USA
May 1	July 14 July 16	2014 Ottawa Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Canada
May 1	May 12 May 16	Wireless Battle Mesh v7	Leipzig, Germany
May 2	August 20 August 22	LinuxCon North America	Chicago, IL, USA
May 2	August 20 August 22	CloudOpen North America	Chicago, IL, USA
May 3	May 17	Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference - Italia	Cesena, Italy
May 4	July 26 August 1	Gnome Users and Developers Annual Conference	Strasbourg, France
May 9	June 10 June 11	Distro Recipes 2014 - canceled	Paris, France
May 12	July 19 July 20	Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters	Taipei, Taiwan
May 18	September 6 September 12	Akademy 2014	Brno, Czech Republic
May 19	September 5	The OCaml Users and Developers Workshop	Gothenburg, Sweden
May 23	August 23 August 24	Free and Open Source Software Conference	St. Augustin (near Bonn), Germany

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Events: March 27, 2014 to May 26, 2014

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
March 26 March 28	Collaboration Summit	Napa Valley, CA, USA
March 26 March 28	16. Deutscher Perl-Workshop 2014	Hannover, Germany
March 29	Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2014	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
March 31 April 4	FreeDesktop Summit	Nuremberg, Germany
April 2 April 4	Networked Systems Design and Implementation	Seattle, WA, USA
April 2 April 5	Libre Graphics Meeting 2014	Leipzig, Germany
April 3	Open Source, Open Standards	London, UK
April 7 April 8	4th European LLVM Conference 2014	Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
April 7 April 9	ApacheCon 2014	Denver, CO, USA
April 8 April 10	Open Source Data Center Conference	Berlin, Germany
April 8 April 10	Lustre User Group Conference	Miami, FL, USA
April 11 April 13	PyCon 2014	Montreal, Canada
April 11	Puppet Camp Berlin	Berlin, Germany
April 12 April 13	State of the Map US 2014	Washington, DC, USA
April 14 April 17	Red Hat Summit	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 25 April 28	openSUSE Conference 2014	Dubrovnik, Croatia
April 26 April 27	LinuxFest Northwest 2014	Bellingham, WA, USA
April 29 May 1	Embedded Linux Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
April 29 May 1	Android Builders Summit	San Jose, CA, USA
May 1 May 4	Linux Audio Conference 2014	Karlsruhe, Germany
May 2 May 3	LOPSA-EAST 2014	New Brunswick, NJ, USA
May 8 May 10	LinuxTag	Berlin, Germany
May 12 May 16	Wireless Battle Mesh v7	Leipzig, Germany
May 12 May 16	OpenStack Summit	Atlanta, GA, USA
May 13 May 16	Samba eXPerience	Göttingen, Germany
May 15 May 16	ScilabTEC 2014	Paris, France
May 17	Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference - Italia	Cesena, Italy
May 20 May 24	PGCon 2014	Ottawa, Canada
May 20 May 21	PyCon Sweden	Stockholm, Sweden
May 20 May 22	LinuxCon Japan	Tokyo, Japan
May 21 May 22	Solid 2014	San Francisco, CA, USA
May 23 May 25	FUDCon APAC 2014	Beijing, China
May 23 May 25	PyCon Italia	Florence, Italy
May 24	MojoConf 2014	Oslo, Norway
May 24 May 25	GNOME.Asia Summit	Beijing, China

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