New name for linux.conf.au in 2007

This year, linux.conf.au will be renamed. After lengthy debate on the Linux Australia mailing list, the Seven team has decided that the only way to make any progress on the issue without the community being crippled by consensus gridlock is to simply make a decision and move on. Ask for forgiveness, not permission, as they say.

Thus, as of the opening of the conference on January 15th, linux.conf.au will henceforth be known as linux.con f.au.

linux.con f.au

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This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on January 6, 2007 at 16:52, filed under Uncategorized and tagged lca2007. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

8 Comments

  1. Zhasper
    Posted January 6, 2007 at 17:30 | Permalink

    Oh dear…

  2. anthony baxter
    Posted January 6, 2007 at 17:46 | Permalink

    So how is that space between the n and the f pronounced? Maybe a glottal stop or a click?

  3. silvia
    Posted January 6, 2007 at 18:22 | Permalink

    a con linux - that can only be fau(x). What a nice typo! LOL!

  4. Mary
    Posted January 6, 2007 at 20:01 | Permalink

    This blog article is to be considered authoriative for the purposes of Wikipedia.

  5. jdub
    Posted January 6, 2007 at 20:20 | Permalink

    Mary, HA HA HA HA. *cough*

  6. David Lloyd
    Posted January 9, 2007 at 17:34 | Permalink

    Actually, it sort of sounds Chinese…

    Could we ask Pia what the correct tones to use would be?

    :P

  7. Jonathan Carter
    Posted January 9, 2007 at 19:39 | Permalink

    Well, it certainly looks like someone will be apologising :)

  8. roger barraud
    Posted January 13, 2007 at 13:27 | Permalink

    Looks like someone ordered the hats from a dickh ead…..
    :(

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  1. By harley.dennett.id.au - Harley Dennett on February 19, 2007 at 17:39

    stains down the front. He had the mandatory pony-tail and Robyn Hobb novel; if it wasn’t for the regretable goatee he was sporting, my geeky side just might have forced me to crawl over and ask him to marry me. Unfortunately he can’t make the recently renamed Linux.conf.au next week either, but my excuse ranks as more amusing, so I still win the geek cred. Like all training courses, we were required to list our goals. This, I have determined is an exercise in reminding people that satisfaction ceased being