Announcements

FSF, Conservancy publish principles for community-oriented GPL enforcement

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced a collaboration with Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) on "The Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement", which describes what it means to do GPL enforcement in a way that is oriented toward gaining compliance (also: SFC announcement). "'GPL enforcement is mostly an educational process working with people who have made honest mistakes, but it must be undertaken with care and thoughtfulness. Our goal is not to punish or censure violators, but to help them come into compliance. Abiding by these principles aids our work in bringing about that outcome,' said FSF's licensing and compliance manager, Joshua Gay.

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The Real-Time Linux Collaborative Project

The Linux Foundation has announced the formation of a collaborative project to support the ongoing development of the realtime kernel patch set. "The RTL Collaborative Project will focus on pushing critical code upstream to be reviewed and eventually merged into the mainline Linux kernel where it will receive ongoing support. This will save the industry millions of dollars in research and development. It will also improve quality of the code through robust upstream kernel test infrastructure, since anything maintained in the mainline kernel is collectively supported by thousands of developers and hundreds of companies around the world." As part of the project, the Foundation has appointed Thomas Gleixner into a Fellow position.

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The 2015 Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board elections

The nomination process has begun for the 2015 election of the Technical Advisory Board for the Linux Foundation. That election will happen on October 26 at the Kernel Summit in Seoul, South Korea. There are five positions to be filled; terms are for two years.

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Open Invention Network Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary

Open Invention Network (OIN) marks its ten year anniversary. "Since its founding in 2005, Open Invention Network has grown its community to over 1,700 participants – from sizable multinational companies to key open source projects to emerging businesses. OIN has expanded its strategic patent portfolio to more than 1,000 worldwide patents and applications. In parallel, the zone of patent non-aggression that is defined by OIN’s Linux System definition has evolved to include more than 2,300 software packages, which ensures freedom of action in core functionality for global open source projects and technology platforms such as Linux, Red Hat, SUSE, Android, Open Stack and Apache."

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FSFE Newsletter - October 2015

The Free Software Foundation Europe newsletter for October covers FSFE elections and other news from Bucharest, FSFE’s evaluation of the EU Parliament copyright report, Tidying up PDFreaders, FSFE Switzerland, FSFE Fellow interview, and several other topics.

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LibrePlanet 2016

LibrePlanet 2016 will be held March 19-20 in the Boston area. The call for proposals is open now, until November 16. "LibrePlanet is defined by its combination of technical talks with non-technical sessions on free software activism, culture and current events. We are especially interested to see proposals from people who use free software or apply its values for social benefit, from academic research to community organizing, education to medicine and the arts."

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CFP Deadlines: October 8, 2015 to December 7, 2015

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
October 15	November 21	LinuxPiter Conference	Saint-Petersburg, Russia
October 26	April 11 April 13	O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference	New York, NY, USA
October 30	January 30 January 31	Free and Open Source Developers Meeting	Brussels, Belgium
October 30	January 21 January 24	SCALE 14x - Southern California Linux Expo	Pasadena, CA, USA
October 31	November 20 November 22	FUEL GILT Conference 2015	Pune, India
November 2	December 4 December 5	Haskell in Leipzig	Leipzig, Germany
November 23	March 19 March 20	LibrePlanet	Boston, MA, USA
November 24	December 14 December 16	SciPy India 2015	Bombay, India
November 24	May 16 May 19	OSCON 2016	Austin, TX, USA
November 30	February 1	MINIXCon 2016	Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 30	February 5 February 7	DevConf.cz 2016	Brno, Czech Republic

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Events: October 8, 2015 to December 7, 2015

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 8	OpenWrt Summit	Dublin, Ireland
October 8 October 9	CloudStack Collaboration Conference Europe	Dublin, Ireland
October 8 October 9	GStreamer Conference 2015	Dublin, Ireland
October 9	Innovation in the Cloud Conference	San Antonio, TX, USA
October 10	Poznańska Impreza Wolnego Oprogramowania	Poznań, Poland
October 10	Programistok	Białystok, Poland
October 10 October 11	OpenRISC Conference 2015	Geneva, Switzerland
October 14 October 16	XII Latin American Free Software	Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
October 17	Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference	Lancaster, PA, USA
October 18 October 20	2nd Check_MK Conference	Munich, Germany
October 19 October 22	ZendCon 2015	Las Vegas, NV, USA
October 19 October 22	Perl Dancer Conference 2015	Vienna, Austria
October 19 October 23	Tcl/Tk Conference	Manassas, VA, USA
October 21 October 22	Real Time Linux Workshop	Graz, Austria
October 23 October 24	Seattle GNU/Linux Conference	Seattle, WA, USA
October 24 October 25	PyCon Ireland 2015	Dublin, Ireland
October 26	Korea Linux Forum	Seoul, South Korea
October 26 October 28	Kernel Summit	Seoul, South Korea
October 26 October 28	OSCON	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
October 26 October 28	Samsung Open Source Conference	Seoul, South Korea
October 27 October 30	OpenStack Summit	Tokyo, Japan
October 27 October 29	Open Source Developers' Conference	Hobart, Tasmania
October 27 October 30	PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2015	Vienna, Austria
October 29	FOSS4G Belgium 2015	Brussels, Belgium
October 30	Software Freedom Law Center Conference	New York, NY, USA
November 3 November 5	EclipseCon Europe 2015	Ludwigsburg, Germany
November 5 November 7	systemd.conf 2015	Berlin, Germany
November 5 November 8	mini-DebConf	Cambridge, UK
November 6 November 8	Dublin blockchain hackathon	Dublin, Ireland
November 6 November 8	Jesień Linuksowa 2015	Hucisko, Poland
November 7 November 8	OpenFest 2015	Sofia, Bulgaria
November 7 November 9	PyCon Canada 2015	Toronto, Canada
November 7 November 8	PyCON HK 2015	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
November 8 November 13	Large Installation System Administration Conference	Washington, D.C., USA
November 9 November 11	PyData NYC 2015	New York, NY, USA
November 9 November 11	KubeCon	San Francisco, CA, USA
November 10 November 12	Allseen Alliance Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
November 10 November 11	Open Compliance Summit	Yokohama, Japan
November 10 November 13	Black Hat Europe 2015	Amsterdam, The Netherlands
November 11 November 13	LDAP Conference 2015	Edinburgh, UK
November 14 November 15	NixOS Conference 2015	Berlin, Germany
November 14 November 15	PyCon Czech 2015	Brno, Czech Republic
November 15 November 20	Supercomputing 15	Austin, TX, USA
November 16 November 19	Open Source Monitoring Conference 2015	Nuremberg, Germany
November 17 November 18	PGConf Silicon Valley	San Francisco, CA, USA
November 18 November 22	Build Stuff 2015	Vilnius, Lithuania
November 18 November 19	Paris Open Source Summit	Paris, France
November 19	NLUUG fall conference 2015	Bunnik, The Netherlands
November 19 November 21	FOSSETCON 2015	Orlando, Florida, USA
November 20 November 22	FUEL GILT Conference 2015	Pune, India
November 20 November 22	Postgres User Conference China 2015	Beijing, China
November 21 November 22	PyCon Spain 2015	Valencia, Spain
November 21 November 22	Capitole du Libre 2015	Toulouse, France
November 21	LinuxPiter Conference	Saint-Petersburg, Russia
November 28	Technical Dutch Open Source Event	Eindhoven, The Netherlands
December 4 December 5	Haskell in Leipzig	Leipzig, Germany
December 5 December 6	openSUSE.Asia Summit	Taipei, Taiwan

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