USENIX Community Roundup: May 20, 2013

Survey: Have you filled out the 2013 USENIX Community Survey yet? If not, you're in luck because we extended the deadline. You have until May 22 (noon PT) to participate in the survey and raffle for a 16GB Nexus 7.

Student Grants: USENIX Federated Conferences Week '13 grant deadline is today. A limited number of student grants are available to pay for travel, accommodations, and registration fees to enable full-time students to attend the conferences week. (Also read How a USENIX Student Grant Can Lead to a Career in Technology.)

New Magazine: Have you heard about our new online publication, ;login: logout? USENIX members get free access as part of their membership. Read Selena's article for a peek at what's inside our first issue: The Disambiguator: Learning about Operating Systems.

FCW '13: What is Federated Conferences Week? It's a week full of awesome: https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw13 Registration is open for 2013 USENIX Federated Conferences Week. Early bird registration deadline is June 3, so register soon to save $$.

USENIX Security '13: The 22nd USENIX Security Symposium will be held in Washington D.C., August 14-16. Workshops will precede the symposium on August 12 and 13. Co-located workshops include:

• EVT/WOTE '13: 2013 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections — Monday–Tuesday, August 12–13, 2013
• CSET '13: 6th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test — Monday, August 12, 2013
• HealthTech '13: 2013 USENIX Workshop on Health Information Technologies Safety, Security, Privacy, and Interoperability of Health Information Technologies — Monday, August 12, 2013
• LEET '13: 6th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats — Monday, August 12, 2013
• FOCI '13: 3rd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet — Tuesday, August 13, 2013
• HotSec '13: 2013 USENIX Summit on Hot Topics in Security — Tuesday, August 13, 2013
• WOOT '13: 7th USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies — Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Open Access: Watch open access videos from past USENIX events at: https://www.usenix.org/conferences/multimedia

LISA '13: By request, we opened pre-registration for LISA '13 early. We hope to see you in Washington D.C., November 3-8, for another great LISA conference.

Open Source Projects for Newbies: In other news, I recently wrote an article on 7 open source projects to cut your teeth on (and the ones to avoid). Which open source projects do you recommend for first-time contributors? Let us know about them in the comments.

G+ Hangout: In April, we held a G+ Hangout and discussed how to encourage women speakers. Watch the video online. Which topics would you like us to discuss in upcoming G+ hangouts? Please let us know about them in the comments.

Interviews: If you or someone you know would like to contribute to our series of interviews with women in advanced computing, email me at rikki@usenix.org. And if you are speaking at an upcoming USENIX event and would like to participate in an interview to give the USENIX community a preview of what you plan to cover, please send me an email.