Announcements

MOSS supports four more open source projects

The Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program has awarded $300,000 to four projects this quarter. "On the Foundational Technology track, we awarded $100,000 to Redash, a tool for building visualizations of data for better decision-making within organizations, and $50,000 to Review Board, software for doing web-based source code review. Both of these pieces of software are in heavy use at Mozilla. We also awarded $100,000 to Kea, the successor to the venerable ISC DHCP codebase, which deals with allocation of IP addresses on a network. Mozilla uses ISC DHCP, which makes funding its replacement a natural move even though we haven’t deployed it yet. On the Mission Partners track, we awarded $56,000 to Speech Rule Engine, a code library which converts mathematical markup into vocalised form (speech) for the sight-impaired, allowing them to fully appreciate mathematical and scientific content on the web." (Thanks to Paul Wise)

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Open Source Initiative Announces New Affiliate Member

The Open Source Initiative has announced that Powering Potential has joined the OSI as an Affiliate Member. "Powering Potential provides access to educational resources on solar-powered computers running open source software at schools in rural Tanzania. The technology initiative works to enhance education and stimulate imagination of students in Tanzania while respecting and incorporating values of the local culture."

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LLVM Cauldron 2016 slides and videos now online

LLVM Cauldron was held September 8 in Hebden Bridge, UK. Slides and videos are now available.

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Free Software Supporter Issue 102, October 2016

This issue of the Free Software Foundation's newsletter covers LibrePlanet, the GNU Bucks program, activists ask W3C not to allow DRM in HTML standard, Happy Software Freedom Day!, FSF joins KDE Advisory Board, Microsoft isn't forcing Lenovo to block free operating systems, and several other topics.

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Two Arduinos become one (Arduino Blog)

The schism between two Arduino companies (that we covered in March 2015) has apparently been settled. The poster child for the open hardware movement is now under one company "Arduino Holding" and a new not-for-profit Arduino Foundation has been started. "Massimo Banzi, Co-Founder of Arduino LLC, commented, 'Today is one of the best days in Arduino history. This allows us to start a new course for Arduino made of constructive dialogue and disruptive innovation in the education, Makers and IoT fields. The Arduino Foundation will allow us to champion the core values of the Arduino Community within the open-source ecosystem and to make our commitment to open-source stronger than ever. This is really a new beginning for Arduino!'" (Thanks to Paul Wise.)

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linux.conf.au 2017 - Kernel Miniconf CFP

There will be a Kernel Miniconf January 16-17, during linux.conf.au in Hobart, Australia. The call for papers closes November 21. "As with previous Kernel Miniconfs, the day will consist of a mixture of scheduled talks and "unconference" discussions/lightning talks. It is anticipated that talks will be mainly aimed at existing kernel developers, though don't let that stop you from coming if you’re less experienced! Interesting contributions relating to BSD and other Free Software operating systems will also be considered, though the focus will be primarily on Linux."

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CFP Deadlines: October 6, 2016 to December 5, 2016

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

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
October 19	November 19	eloop 2016	Stuttgart, Germany
October 25	May 8 May 11	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	Austin, TX, USA
October 26	November 5	Barcelona Perl Workshop	Barcelona, Spain
October 28	November 25 November 27	Pycon Argentina 2016	Bahía Blanca, Argentina
October 30	February 17	Swiss Python Summit	Rapperswil, Switzerland
October 31	February 4 February 5	FOSDEM 2017	Brussels, Belgium
November 11	November 11 November 12	Linux Piter	St. Petersburg, Russia
November 11	January 27 January 29	DevConf.cz 2017	Brno, Czech Republic
November 13	December 10	Mini Debian Conference Japan 2016	Tokyo, Japan
November 15	March 2 March 5	Southern California Linux Expo	Pasadena, CA, USA
November 15	March 28 March 31	PGConf US 2017	Jersey City, NJ, USA
November 18	February 18 February 19	PyCaribbean	Bayamón, Puerto Rico, USA
November 20	December 10 December 11	SciPy India	Bombay, India
November 21	January 16	Linux.Conf.Au 2017 Sysadmin Miniconf	Hobart, Tas, Australia
November 21	January 16 January 17	LCA Kernel Miniconf	Hobart, Australia
November 28	March 25 March 26	LibrePlanet 2017	Cambridge, MA, USA
December 1	April 3 April 6	‹Programming› 2017	Brussels, Belgium

If the CFP deadline for your event does not appear here, please tell us about it.

Events: October 6, 2016 to December 5, 2016

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
October 4 October 6	LinuxCon Europe	Berlin, Germany
October 4 October 6	ContainerCon Europe	Berlin, Germany
October 5 October 7	International Workshop on OpenMP	Nara, Japan
October 5 October 7	Netdev 1.2	Tokyo, Japan
October 6 October 7	PyConZA 2016	Cape Town, South Africa
October 7 October 8	Ohio LinuxFest 2016	Columbus, OH, USA
October 8 October 9	LinuxDays 2016	Prague, Czechia
October 8 October 9	Gentoo Miniconf 2016	Prague, Czech Republic
October 10 October 11	GStreamer Conference	Berlin, Germany
October 11	Real-Time Summit 2016	Berlin, Germany
October 11 October 13	Embedded Linux Conference Europe	Berlin, Germany
October 12	Tracing Summit	Berlin, Germany
October 13	OpenWrt Summit	Berlin, Germany
October 13 October 14	Lua Workshop 2016	San Francisco, CA, USA
October 17 October 19	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	London, UK
October 18 October 20	Qt World Summit 2016	San Francisco, CA, USA
October 21 October 23	Software Freedom Kosovo 2016	Prishtina, Kosovo
October 22	2016 Columbus Code Camp	Columbus, OH, USA
October 22 October 23	Datenspuren 2016	Dresden, Germany
October 25 October 28	OpenStack Summit	Barcelona, Spain
October 26 October 27	All Things Open	Raleigh, NC, USA
October 27 October 28	Rust Belt Rust	Pittsburgh, PA, USA
October 28 October 30	PyCon CZ 2016	Brno, Czech Republic
October 29 October 30	PyCon.de 2016	Munich, Germany
October 29 October 30	PyCon HK 2016	Hong Kong, Hong Kong
October 31	PyCon Finland 2016	Helsinki, Finland
October 31 November 1	Linux Kernel Summit	Santa Fe, NM, USA
October 31 November 2	O’Reilly Security Conference	New York, NY, USA
November 1 November 4	Linux Plumbers Conference	Santa Fe, NM, USA
November 1 November 4	PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2016	Tallin, Estonia
November 3	Bristech Conference 2016	Bristol, UK
November 4 November 6	FUDCon Phnom Penh	Phnom Penh, Cambodia
November 5	Barcelona Perl Workshop	Barcelona, Spain
November 5 November 6	OpenFest 2016	Sofia, Bulgaria
November 7 November 9	Velocity Amsterdam	Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 9 November 11	O’Reilly Security Conference EU	Amsterdam, Netherlands
November 11 November 12	Seattle GNU/Linux Conference	Seattle, WA, USA
November 11 November 12	Linux Piter	St. Petersburg, Russia
November 12 November 13	T-Dose	Eindhoven, Netherlands
November 12 November 13	Mini-DebConf	Cambridge, UK
November 12 November 13	PyCon Canada 2016	Toronto, Canada
November 13 November 18	The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
November 14 November 16	PGConfSV 2016	San Francisco, CA, USA
November 14	The Third Workshop on the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure in HPC	Salt Lake City, UT, USA
November 14 November 18	Tcl/Tk Conference	Houston, TX, USA
November 16 November 17	Paris Open Source Summit	Paris, France
November 16 November 18	ApacheCon Europe	Seville, Spain
November 17	NLUUG (Fall conference)	Bunnik, The Netherlands
November 18 November 20	GNU Health Conference 2016	Las Palmas, Spain
November 18 November 20	UbuCon Europe 2016	Essen, Germany
November 19	eloop 2016	Stuttgart, Germany
November 21 November 22	Velocity Beijing	Beijing, China
November 24	OWASP Gothenburg Day	Gothenburg, Sweden
November 25 November 27	Pycon Argentina 2016	Bahía Blanca, Argentina
November 29 November 30	5th RISC-V Workshop	Mountain View, CA, USA
November 29 December 2	Open Source Monitoring Conference	Nürnberg, Germany
December 3	NoSlidesConf	Bologna, Italy
December 3	London Perl Workshop	London, England

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