SecureDrop and Alexandre Oliva are 2016 Free Software Awards winners

The Free Software Foundation has announced the winners of the 2016 Free Software Awards. The Award for Projects of Social Benefit went to SecureDrop and the Award for the Advancement of Free Software went to Alexandre Oliva. "SecureDrop is an anonymous whistleblowing platform used by major news organizations and maintained by Freedom of the Press Foundation. Originally written by the late Aaron Swartz with assistance from Kevin Poulsen and James Dolan, the free software platform was designed to facilitate private and anonymous conversations and secure document transfer between journalists and sensitive sources."

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Video hardware hacking in the Google Summer of Code

The TimVideos project has announced that it's part of the Google Summer of Code project, and that GSoC isn't just about programming. "Due to the focus on hardware, we are very interested in students who are interested in things like FPGAs, VHDL/Verilog and other HDLs, embedded C programming and operating systems and electronic circuit/PCB design". The project is working on video-recording hardware; its work has been used at a number of conferences, including linux.conf.au, PyCon, and DebConf.

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Google's new open-source site

Google has announced the launch of opensource.google.com. "Today, we’re launching opensource.google.com, a new website for Google Open Source that ties together all of our initiatives with information on how we use, release, and support open source. This new site showcases the breadth and depth of our love for open source. It will contain the expected things: our programs, organizations we support, and a comprehensive list of open source projects we've released. But it also contains something unexpected: a look under the hood at how we "do" open source."

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OSI at ChickTech's ACT-W Conferences

The Open Source Initiative has been offered exhibit space during ACT-W conferences and is looking for help in staffing a booth. "With seven locations, we simply cannot attend them all of the conferences, so we're reaching out to the OSI community to find local folks from each city (or near by) who would like to attend the conference (on our dime) and help staff the OSI exhibit booth to raise awareness and adoption of open source software."

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Practical Packet Analysis -- third edition of best-selling guide

No Starch Press has released "Practical Packet Analysis, 3rd Edition" by Chris Sanders.

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EuroPython 2017: Call for Proposals is open

EuroPython will take place July 9-16 in Rimini, Italy. The call for proposals closes April 16. "We’re looking for proposals on every aspect of Python: programming from novice to advanced levels, applications and frameworks, or how you have been involved in introducing Python into your organization. EuroPython is a community conference and we are eager to hear about your experience."

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Linux Security Summit 2017 - CFP

The Linux Security Summit (LSS) will take place September 14-15 in Los Angeles, CA. The call for papers closes June 5. "We're seeking a diverse range of attendees, and welcome participation by people involved in Linux security development, operations, and research. The LSS is a unique global event which provides the opportunity to present and discuss your work or research with key Linux security community members and maintainers. It’s also useful for those who wish to keep up with the latest in Linux security development, and to provide input to the development process."

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CFP Deadlines: March 30, 2017 to May 29, 2017

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
March 31	June 26 June 28	Deutsche Openstack Tage 2017	München, Germany
April 1	April 22	16. Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2017	Augsburg, Germany
April 2	August 18 August 20	State of the Map	Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan
April 10	August 13 August 18	DjangoCon US	Spokane, WA, USA
April 10	July 22 July 27	Akademy 2017	Almería, Spain
April 14	June 30	Swiss PGDay	Rapperswil, Switzerland
April 16	July 9 July 16	EuroPython 2017	Rimini, Italy
April 18	October 2 October 4	O'Reilly Velocity Conference	New York, NY, USA
April 20	April 28 April 29	Grazer Linuxtage 2017	Graz, Austria
April 20	May 17	Python Language Summit	Portland, OR, USA
April 23	July 28 August 2	GNOME Users And Developers European Conference 2017	Manchester, UK
April 28	September 21 September 22	International Workshop on OpenMP	Stony Brook, NY, USA
April 30	September 21 September 24	EuroBSDcon 2017	Paris, France
May 1	May 13 May 14	Linuxwochen Linz	Linz, Austria
May 1	October 5	Open Hardware Summit 2017	Denver, CO, USA
May 2	October 18 October 20	O'Reilly Velocity Conference	London, UK
May 5	June 5 June 7	coreboot Denver2017	Denver, CO, USA
May 6	September 13 September 15	Linux Plumbers Conference 2017	Los Angeles, CA, USA
May 6	September 11 September 14	Open Source Summit NA 2017	Los Angeles, CA, USA
May 7	August 3 August 8	PyCon Australia 2017	Melbourne, Australia
May 15	June 3	Madrid Perl Workshop	Madrid, Spain
May 21	June 24	Tuebix: Linux Conference	Tuebingen, Germany

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ANNOUNCE: netdev 2.1 conference Schedule out

The conference schedule for Netdev 2.1 has been posted. Netdev will take place April 6-8 in Montreal, Canada.

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Events: March 30, 2017 to May 29, 2017

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
March 28 March 31	PGConf US 2017	Jersey City, NJ, USA
April 3 April 7	DjangoCon Europe	Florence, Italy
April 3 April 6	‹Programming› 2017	Brussels, Belgium
April 3 April 6	Open Networking Summit	Santa Clara, CA, USA
April 3 April 4	Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit	Pisa, Italy
April 5 April 6	Dataworks Summit	Munich, Germany
April 6 April 8	Netdev 2.1	Montreal, Canada
April 10 April 13	IXPUG Annual Spring Conference 2017	Cambridge, UK
April 17 April 20	Dockercon	Austin, TX, USA
April 21	Osmocom Conference 2017	Berlin, Germany
April 22	16. Augsburger Linux-Infotag 2017	Augsburg, Germany
April 26	foss-north	Gothenburg, Sweden
April 28 April 29	Grazer Linuxtage 2017	Graz, Austria
April 28 April 30	Penguicon	Southfield, MI, USA
May 2 May 4	3rd Check_MK Conference	Munich, Germany
May 2 May 4	samba eXPerience 2017	Goettingen, Germany
May 2 May 4	Red Hat Summit 2017	Boston, MA, USA
May 4 May 6	Linuxwochen Wien 2017	Wien, Austria
May 4 May 5	Lund LinuxCon	Lund, Sweden
May 6 May 7	LinuxFest Northwest	Bellingham, WA, USA
May 6 May 7	Community Leadership Summit 2017	Austin, TX, USA
May 6 May 7	Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference - Italy	Vicenza, Italy
May 8 May 11	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	Austin, TX, USA
May 8 May 11	OpenStack Summit	Boston, MA, USA
May 8 May 11	6th RISC-V Workshop	Shanghai, China
May 13 May 14	Open Source Conference Albania 2017	Tirana, Albania
May 13 May 14	Linuxwochen Linz	Linz, Austria
May 16 May 18	Open Source Data Center Conference 2017	Berlin, Germany
May 17	Python Language Summit	Portland, OR, USA
May 17 May 21	PyCon US	Portland, OR, USA
May 18 May 20	Linux Audio Conference	Saint-Etienne, France
May 22 May 24	Container Camp AU	Sydney, Australia
May 22 May 25	PyCon US - Sprints	Portland, OR, USA
May 22 May 25	OpenPOWER Developer Congress	San Francisco, CA, USA
May 23	Maintainerati	London, UK
May 24 May 26	PGCon 2017	Ottawa, Canada
May 26 May 28	openSUSE Conference 2017	Nürnberg, Germany

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