Earlier this afternoon, I waved goodbye to a very heavily packed three tonne truck carrying pretty much all of our linux.conf.au 2007 gear to UNSW, a striking image marking the end of our planning and preparation phase. Now it’s for real!
Over this weekend the Seven Team and our merry band of helpers will be bumping [...]
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 [...]
December 14, 2006 – 13:56
32 days to go.
Another cat out of the bag! This time it’s Chris Blizzard, keynoting at linux.conf.au 2007… Chris is a director of the Mozilla Corporation, heads up One Laptop Per Child software development at Red Hat, and has hacked on numerous projects including Mozilla and GNOME. Addicted to the bleeding edge and driving mass [...]
Though we looked around for a house near UNSW to rent for a couple of weeks, it turns out that Pants Palais is the ideal crash spot for the Seven Team during linux.conf.au 2007. It’s reasonably close, already houses three of the organisers (Lindsay, Pia and I), packs two bathrooms and is blessed with phat [...]
November 28, 2006 – 18:53
48 days to go.
We’ve been leaping out of our skins to reveal our first keynote speaker, and now we can! He’s a scholar and a gentleman, and leads a double life as a kernel hacker extraordinaire. Without this man, we may have missed an entire generation of kernel hackers, and certainly wouldn’t have had a [...]
November 16, 2006 – 13:29
Please send us to linux.conf.au is such an audacious and well-prepared stunt (much like their previous work, pictured above), that we’d be heartless not to support it. At least for the first attempt at a stunt like this.
Four students, who have to suffer the injustice of living, learning and working in the Open [...]
Within 24 hours of opening the floodgates, we received the 100th registration for linux.conf.au 2007.
Get in quick — on-site accommodation and places at the Penguin Dinner are limited!
75 days to go.
Registration has opened, with early bird discounts available until mid November! Due to issues with our payment gateway that have delayed this announcement, we will not be able to accept payment immediately. Please register, and as soon as our credit card facilities are up and running, we will contact you for payment.
The [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I paced around a bit, furrowed my brow, scratched my chin, massaged my temples, and pressed the big red button. The first round of CFP talk and tutorial feedback emails hit the streets, with 77 positives, 16 backups and 183 negatives.
It was hard reading through the test logs, looking at the people and [...]
We were confident that linux.conf.au 2007 would rock before we’d seen any talk, tutorial or miniconf proposals. Now we’re just flat-out gobsmacked.
The night before the Boston Summit, I joined the linux.conf.au 2007 programme review team meeting by phone. Despite the horror of a 19:00 to 02:00 meeting, I had it easy: Our reviewers had already [...]
