linux.conf.au 2011 News

lca2011 - venue: QUT Kelvin Grove in 4 days

Submitted on 2011-01-20 00:51

BRISBANE, Australia - linux.conf.au has moved to QUT Kelvin Grove, after the Brisbane floods of last week.

Have you registered for the best FOSS conference yet? You have just 4 days left before it starts.

After much intense work, the conference venue is now officially confirmed as being at the Queensland University of Technology - Kelvin Grove campus. Unfortunately due to the damage sustained by the recent floods in Brisbane, the original buildings located at QUT - Gardens Point campus will not be available for the week of the conference.

QUT - Kelvin Grove campus is located on the edge of the CBD approx. 4km from the original location. Obviously, this does impact on current travel plans to the venue for many people. There are a number of options, including fast dedicated busways, and we will provide details about these shortly. The good thing is that there are many buses that run directly from the CBD and arrive directly on the Kelvin Grove campus. In the meantime you can refer to a map of the QUT Kelvin Grove Campus

Urbanest have had power restored and will be able to provide services to all lca2011 people with bookings there.

We do ask you to be patient as we work through all the logistics - but the conference will go ahead and no miniconfs or conference streams will be cancelled.

The team encourages everyone to still come to Brisbane and support local business and the community - we need your support!

http://lca2011.linux.org.au/

lca2011 prizes and registrations

Submitted on 2011-01-08 22:19

A long time ago the lca2011 team decided to have a small competition to capture the ideas of what people wanted at the next linux.conf.au. We received a lot of responses to this including some very very special requests for things like stickers and cup cakes. However, while we all wanted to have a conference full of stickers and pretty cup cakes and take on board as many other suggestions as feasibly possible, there was one suggestion that the team decided should be taken on board – that was the inclusion of a poster type session.

Alec Clews having made this suggestion through the competition website has received a complimentary conference registration including penguin dinner. Congratulations from the team Alec!

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lca2011 Volunteers, we want you!

Submitted on 2010-11-07 19:38

BRISBANE, Australia - linux.conf.au is calling for volunteers to assist with the conference in January of next year.

"lca is primarily about the FOSS community," said Shaun Nykist, lca2011 director. "Volunteering for an lca conference is a great way for people to give back to the community which has given us the great software which we all use. It is also the main reason that will bring us all together in Brisbane in January 2011."

lca2011 welcomes all those who would like to volunteer their time and help towards the running of the conference in Brisbane. Helping at a major conference like lca2011 can be a deeply rewarding experience and an opportunity to meet some exceptional people. There are a number of different volunteer roles that you can be involved in, including administration of the registration desk, operating cameras and audio-visual gear, and many other technical and non-technical tasks.

Anyone who would like to volunteer may now do so through the conference website at:

http://lca2011.linux.org.au/register/volunteer

and join the volunteers mailing list at:

http://lists.followtheflow.org/mailman/listinfo/volunteers/

lca2011 Early Bird Registrations about to sell out!

Submitted on 2010-11-05 15:15

BRISBANE, Australia - The linux.conf.au 2011 Early Bird Registrations have almost sold out!

If you've been following the linux.conf.au identi.ca and twitter posts, (and if not, why not do it now?) you'll know that the end of Early Bird registrations is just two days away.

The Early Bird registrations offer a significant discount on the regular conference pricing for Fairy Penguin, Professional and Hobbyist tickets.

lca2011 is shaping up as an exceptional conference, in a long line of brilliant linux.conf.au's. Along with the Rocketry & Southern Plumbers miniconf's we have many of the favourites. The line up of Presentations is breath taking, and we boast Geoff Huston, Eric Allman, Mark Pesce and Vinton G. Cerf as keynotes.

Take the opportunity to get your Early Bird registrations now, you wouldn't want to miss out!

lca2011 Announces Vint Cerf as Keynote

Submitted on 2010-10-21 18:49

Brisbane, Australia - The linux.conf.au 2011 organising team is proud to announce Vinton G. Cerf as a keynote speaker for lca2011.

Vinton G. Cerf has served as vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google since October 2005. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced, Internet-based products and services from Google. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world./

Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, Cerf was responsible for helping to guide corporate strategy development from the technical perspective. Previously, Cerf served as MCI’s senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use.

Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the U.S. National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award in 2004 for their work on the Internet protocols. The Turing award is sometimes called the “Nobel Prize of Computer Science.” In November 2005, President George Bush awarded Cerf and Kahn the Presidential Medal of Freedom for their work. The medal is the highest civilian award given by the United States to its citizens. In April 2008, Cerf and Kahn received the prestigious Japan Prize.

We would like to extend a hearty welcome to Vinton G. Cerf as a Keynote Speaker for lca2011.

About linux.conf.au

linux.conf.au is Australia's annual technical conference about Free Software. It is fun, informal, seriously technical and in 2011 it will also cater to a broader range of end users, including those new to this community. linux.conf.au draws together Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers from across the world.

More information can be found at http://followtheflow.org

lca2011 Announces Registrations now open

Submitted on 2010-10-14 21:21

Brisbane, Australia - The lca2011 organising team are delighted to announce that registrations are now open for linux.conf.au 2011.

With the official opening of the registrations for lca2011, those wishing to attend the world's best Linux conference can benefit from generously discounted Early Bird prices. These will be available till the 8th November or until sold out.

"After open discussion among the lca2011 organising team, we've arrived at competitive fresh prices for lca2011, taking special care to remember students", said Shaun Nykvist, lca2011 Director. "lca2011 is really shaping up to be another linux.conf.au to remember. From the new innovative Rocketry miniconf to our impressive Keynotes and the strong but broad range of relevant presentations, there is something for everyone. There are technical sessions for those who really want to delve into the deeper areas of linux and open source software, and there is also the less technical presentations for the end users."

Professional - The Professional rate is the standard conference rate. This rate applies to most people who have their companies pay the conference fees and charge it as a professional development expense, or for individuals who can legitimately claim it is a tax deduction. The benefits of a Professional registration include such things as:

Attendance at the Professional Delegates Networking Session
1 free ticket to the Penguin Dinner
Listing as a Professional Delegate

Hobbyist - The Hobbyist rate is heavily discounted for free software enthusiasts who are paying out of their own pockets and would otherwise find it difficult to attend.

Student - This discounted rate is reserved for College or University Students. lca2011 offers this rate as a form of investment in the future of the free and open source software community.

About linux.conf.au

More information can be found at http://lca2011.linux.org.au

lca2011 Announces Third Keynote Speaker

Submitted on 2010-10-03 12:10

Brisbane, Australia - The linux.conf.au 2011 organising team is proud to announce the third confirmed keynote speaker for lca2011.

He is the Chief Scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry serving the Asia Pacific region. He is an author and researcher who has been closely involved with the development of the Internet for many years, particularly in Australia, where he is known for the initial build of the Internet within the Australian academic and research sector with the Australian Academic and Research Network (AARNet).

He is a pre-eminent researcher on IPv4 exhaustion and is undertaking research into Internet infrastructure, IP Technologies and address distribution policies. Consequently, he has made many presentations to global government and technical forums including the OECD, ITU, ICANN, APEC and IETF. Prior to his role at APNIC, he was the Chief Scientist at Telstra, providing lead instruction in the construction of Telstra's Internet service offerings, domestically and internationally.

He has authored many books dealing with IP technology along with many papers and columns. He has been a member of the Internet Architecture Board since 1999 and served as its Executive Director from 2001 to 2005. He is actively involved in the IETF, currently chairing two working groups.

We'd like extend a sincere welcome to Geoff Huston (B.Sc., M.Sc.) our third Keynote Speaker for lca2011.

About linux.conf.au

More information can be found at http://followtheflow.org

lca2011 Announces Second Keynote Speaker

Submitted on 2010-09-23 11:30

Brisbane, Australia - The lca2011.linux.org.au organising team is proud to announce the second confirmed keynote speaker for lca2011.

Our second confirmed keynote speaker for lca2011 is the original author of Sendmail, co-founder and Chief Scientist of Sendmail, Inc., and co-author of Sendmail, published by O'Reilly and Associates. He has presented numerous papers on email and programming and while at U.C. Berkeley, he was the chief programmer on the INGRES relational database management project. He then led the Mammoth project to provide large-scale research software and hardware infrastructure. He has also designed database user and application interfaces at Britton Lee (later Sharebase) and has contributed to the Ring Array Processor project for neural-network-based speech recognition at the International Computer Science Institute.

For several years he co-authored the “C Advisor” column for Unix Review magazine and is on the Editorial Review Board of ACM Queue magazine, the Board of Trustees of Cal Performances, and is a former member of the Board of Directors of the USENIX Association. He has been active with the IETF (most recently as co-author of the DomainKeys Identified Mail specification). He received his M.S. in Computer Science from Berkeley in 1980.

He has had an extraordinary effect on communications throughout the world which can be seen to have had an impact on all of us in some way or another.

We would like to extend a hearty welcome to Eric Allman our second confirmed Keynote Speaker for lca2011.

About linux.conf.au

More information can be found at http://followtheflow.org

lca2011 Draft Schedule is available!

Submitted on 2010-09-21 14:53

Brisbane, Australia - The lca2011 organising team are very pleased to announce the first draft schedule of presentations for lca2011.

A draft schedule of presentations, full of breadth and depth, is now available. The schedule contains a large number of International presenters as well as local presenters. Topics range from cloud computing and HTML5 to Kernel innovations and Databases as well as a FOSS powered Telco in Dili and a Linux powered coffee roaster. linux.conf.au 2011 runs for a full week starting Monday 24th January, with presentations, tutorials, a number of significant Keynote presentations, 15 Miniconfs and an Open Day.

"I look on this Schedule as a thing of great beauty" says Marco Ostini, Papers Chair of lca2011 "It's like a glance across today's global FOSS community. It contains presentations which include innovation, boldness and significant improvements, as well talks that include heart and thoughtfulness. It's been a lot of hard work, and is not yet complete but gives people a strong guide that lca2011 in Brisbane will be a stunner"

For more information, please refer to the lca2011 Schedule.

About linux.conf.au

More information can be found at http://followtheflow.org

lca2011 Announces First Keynote Speaker

Submitted on 2010-09-14 19:25

Brisbane, Australia - The lca2011.linux.org.au organising team is proud to announce the first confirmed keynote speaker for lca2011.

Mark Pesce is an inventor, writer, educator and broadcaster. He is the co-developer of the Virtual Reality Markup Language (VRML) which forms a basis for 3D rendering used in millions of computers worldwide. His work at US universities included initiating 3D and interactive arts programs.

As an educator, Mark founded graduate programs in interactive media at both the University of Southern California’s world-famous Cinema School, and the Australian Film, Radio and Television School. For the last six years, Mark has been a panelist and judge on the ABC’s hit series "The New Inventors", as well as a regular commentator on technology and society for Triple J's Hack, the 7.30 Report, the 7PM Project, and ABC Local Radio.

In 2006, Mark founded FutureSt, a Sydney consultancy dedicated to helping clients negotiate the challenges presented by our hyper-connected future.

We'd like extend a warm welcome to Mark Pesce our first confirmed Keynote Speaker for lca2011

About linux.conf.au

More information can be found at http://followtheflow.org