The Call for Papers (CFP) for ApacheCon 2011 ends this Friday, April 29 and event organizers are encouraging those from outside the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to submit proposals.

The KDE project accepted 51 students into this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program and announced the return of its own Season of KDE.

On April 26, 2011, Red Hat's DeLisa Alexander, executive vice president, People and Brand, and Lee Congdon, CIO, will participate in the North Carolina Technology Association (NCTA) 2011 Spring Conference.

Monetate announces its own Open Source Prize competition to highlight the importance of open source development and innovation during Philly Tech Week.

Announced today on the Fedora announce mailing list, the Fedora 15 (Lovelock) beta is now available for download.

The Call for Presentations (CFP) for the Ohio Linux Fest (OLF) end on May 1, 2011 and organizers are encouraging individuals to submit their proposals as soon as possible.

Oracle announced its intentions to move OpenOffice.org to a community-based open source project and to no longer offer a commercial version of Open Office.

OpenStack today announced the availability of the Cactus releases of Compute and Object Storage.