"1st European Lisp Symposium, Bordeaux, France, May 22-23, 2008, LaBRI, Université Bordeaux 1 [...] We also encourage submissions about past approaches that have been largely forgotten about, as long as they are presented in a new setting. We invite submissions in two categories: original contributions and work-in-progress papers..."

This year's EuroPython event will take place from the 17th to the 24th of July in Birmingham, UK and the conference organisers are currently seeking submissions from attendees for talks, papers and tutorials that cover all aspects of Python

Asay had an interesting answer that he volunteered as a concept later in the call (fat lot of value I added). He suggested that in a future licensing scheme, companies that employ open source code internally could elect to contribute cash instead of open code

Community jury invites speakers to send in papers for the four tracks: development, community building, marketing, and the ODF MasterClass until July 22nd. The first LibOCon will take place in Paris from October 12th to 15th.

"O’Reilly, the organisers of Ubuntu Live, have just issued the call for papers for Ubuntu Live 2008. The theme of the event is “Taking it Further”, which I think is perfect for Ubuntu this year! ..."

The call for papers is now open for the 9th annual Red Hat Summit. The deadline to submit is January 4, 2013. The summit itself will be June 11-14, 2013 in Boston, MA, USA.

The Linux Expo of Southern California has opened the Call For Papers for the 6th Annual Southern California Linux Expo, to be held February 8th, 9th, & 10th, 2008

Tired of all the knee-jerk banter from fanboys about whose operating system is the most secure? So are the organizers of the CanSecWest security conference, which will be held in Vancouver later this month. And with a contest awarding as much as $25,000 worth of prizes, they're likely to breathe fresh life into a stale debate.

AsiaBSDCon is announcing a call for papers. It is a conference for users and developers on BSD based systems and will next be held in Tokyo, in 14-17 March, 2013. The conference is for anyone developing, deploying and using systems based on FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, Darwin and MacOS X.