Announcements
Brief items
30 years of GNU
Richard Stallman launched the GNU project on September 27, 1983 — thirty years ago. "GNU will be able to run Unix programs, but will not be identical to Unix. We will make all improvements that are convenient, based on our experience with other operating systems. In particular, we plan to have longer filenames, file version numbers, a crashproof file system, filename completion perhaps, terminal-independent display support, and eventually a Lisp-based window system through which several Lisp programs and ordinary Unix programs can share a screen. Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages. We will have network software based on MIT's chaosnet protocol, far superior to UUCP. We may also have something compatible with UUCP." Some of the details may not have come out as envisioned, but the big idea has held up well.
Articles of interest
Free Software Supporter - Issue 66
The September edition of the Free Software Foundation's newsletter covers a job opening, a new DRM FAQ, GNU's 30th anniversary, and several other topics.
New Books
Practical Programming, 2nd Edition--New from Pragmatic Bookshelf
Pragmatic Bookshelf has released "Practical Programming, 2nd Edition" by Paul Gries, Jennifer Campbell, and Jason Montojo.
Calls for Presentations
CFP Deadlines: October 3, 2013 to December 2, 2013
The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.
| Deadline | Event Dates | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 4 | November 15 November 17 |
openSUSE Summit 2013 | Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA |
| November 1 | January 6 | Sysadmin Miniconf at Linux.conf.au 2014 | Perth, Australia |
| November 4 | December 10 December 11 |
2013 Workshop on Spacecraft Flight Software | Pasadena, USA |
| November 15 | March 18 March 20 |
FLOSS UK 'DEVOPS' | Brighton, England, UK |
| November 22 | March 22 March 23 |
LibrePlanet 2014 | Cambridge, MA, USA |
| November 24 | December 13 December 15 |
SciPy India 2013 | Bombay, India |
| December 1 | February 7 February 9 |
devconf.cz | Brno, Czech Republic |
| December 1 | March 6 March 7 |
Erlang SF Factory Bay Area 2014 | San Francisco, CA, USA |
If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
Upcoming Events
Events: October 3, 2013 to December 2, 2013
The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| October 3 October 5 |
Open World Forum 2013 | Paris, France |
| October 3 October 4 |
PyConZA 2013 | Cape Town, South Africa |
| October 4 October 5 |
Open Source Developers Conference France | Paris, France |
| October 7 October 9 |
Qt Developer Days | Berlin, Germany |
| October 12 October 14 |
GNOME Montreal Summit | Montreal, Canada |
| October 12 October 13 |
PyCon Ireland | Dublin, Ireland |
| October 14 October 19 |
PyCon.DE 2013 | Cologne, Germany |
| October 17 October 20 |
PyCon PL | Szczyrk, Poland |
| October 19 | Central PA Open Source Conference | Lancaster, PA, USA |
| October 19 | Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013 | Hong Kong, China |
| October 20 | Enlightenment Developer Day 2013 | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| October 21 October 23 |
KVM Forum | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 21 October 23 |
LinuxCon Europe 2013 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 21 October 23 |
Open Source Developers Conference | Auckland, New Zealand |
| October 22 October 24 |
Hack.lu 2013 | Luxembourg, Luxembourg |
| October 22 October 23 |
GStreamer Conference | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 23 | TracingSummit2013 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 23 October 25 |
Linux Kernel Summit 2013 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 23 October 24 |
Open Source Monitoring Conference | Nuremberg, Germany |
| October 24 October 25 |
Embedded LInux Conference Europe | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 24 October 25 |
Xen Project Developer Summit | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 24 October 25 |
Automotive Linux Summit Fall 2013 | Edinburgh, UK |
| October 25 October 27 |
Blender Conference 2013 | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| October 25 October 27 |
vBSDcon 2013 | Herndon, Virginia, USA |
| October 26 October 27 |
T-DOSE Conference 2013 | Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| October 26 October 27 |
PostgreSQL Conference China 2013 | Hangzhou, China |
| October 28 November 1 |
Linaro Connect USA 2013 | Santa Clara, CA, USA |
| October 28 October 31 |
15th Real Time Linux Workshop | Lugano, Switzerland |
| October 29 November 1 |
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2013 | Dublin, Ireland |
| November 3 November 8 |
27th Large Installation System Administration Conference | Washington DC, USA |
| November 5 November 8 |
OpenStack Summit | Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| November 6 November 7 |
2013 LLVM Developers' Meeting | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| November 8 | PGConf.DE 2013 | Oberhausen, Germany |
| November 8 | CentOS Dojo and Community Day | Madrid, Spain |
| November 8 November 10 |
FSCONS 2013 | Göteborg, Sweden |
| November 9 November 11 |
Mini DebConf Taiwan 2013 | Taipei, Taiwan |
| November 9 November 10 |
OpenRheinRuhr | Oberhausen, Germany |
| November 13 November 14 |
Korea Linux Forum | Seoul, South Korea |
| November 14 November 17 |
Mini-DebConf UK | Cambridge, UK |
| November 15 November 16 |
Linux Informationstage Oldenburg | Oldenburg, Germany |
| November 15 November 17 |
openSUSE Summit 2013 | Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA |
| November 17 November 21 |
Supercomputing | Denver, CO, USA |
| November 18 November 21 |
2013 Linux Symposium | Ottawa, Canada |
| November 22 November 24 |
Python Conference Spain 2013 | Madrid, Spain |
| November 25 | Firebird Tour: Prague | Prague, Czech Republic |
| November 28 | Puppet Camp | Munich, Germany |
| November 30 December 1 |
OpenPhoenux Hardware and Software Workshop | Munich, Germany |
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.
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