Linux Australia facilitates an annual conference called linux.conf.au

Each year a different team bids for the right to organise linux.conf.au in their city. The conference is widely regarded, and prominent members of the world wide Free and Open Source Software community attend regularly.

In 2011 linux.conf.au is heading to Brisbane. From the 24th to the 29th of January the Queensland capital will play host to one of the world's best conferences for Free and Open Source Software developers and users. For more details check http://lca2011.linux.org.au/

Further details on the bidding and selection process, and information on how to organise the conference are made available on request to the Linux Australia committee.

History

It all started in Melbourne back in 1999, with CALU: Conference of Australian Linux Users which was held at Monash University over 3 days in July 1999.

Renamed to linux.conf.au in 2001 it has grown to become one of the world's best technical Linux conferences.

It continues to be run by community volunteers for the community volunteers that have made Linux and Free and Open Source Software the phenomenon it is today.

2010 - Wellington: Wellington Convention Centre

Keynotes:

Gabriella Coleman
Benjamin Mako Hill
Glyn Moody
Nathan Torkington

LCA2010 website

2009 - Hobart: The University of Tasmania

Keynotes:

Tom Limoncelli - The Scarcity Mindset vs. The Abundance Mindset
Angela Beesley - The future of Wikipedia and The Wikimedia Foundation
Simon Phipps - Open, Free and Profitable?

LCA2009 website

2008 - Melbourne: The University of Melbourne

Keynotes

Bruce Schneier - Reconceptualizing Security.
Stormy Peters - Would you do it again for free?
Anthony Baxter - Two Snake Enter, One Snake Leave?

Other presentations, video and audio - http://lca2008.linux.org.au/programme/presentations

lca2008.linux.org.au

2007 - Sydney: University of New South Wales

Keynotes

Chris Blizzard - Moving the Needle: The One Laptop Per Child Project
Dr. Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Reliable Computing
Kathy Sierra - Creating Passionate Users

Other presentations, video and audio - http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2007/Programme.html

lca2007.linux.org.au

2006 - Dunedin: University of Otago

Keynotes

Dave Miller - 3 talks - Niagra, Linux TCP Developments and Kernel Developer Social Interactions
Damian Conway - Sex and Violence: Technical and Social Lessons from the Perl 6 Development Process.
Mark Shuttleworth - Improving Collaboration Between Open Source Projects

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2006/

2005 - Canberra - Australian National University

Keynotes

Andrew Tridgell - SAMBA development model
Andrew Morton - 2.6 kernel development (management)
Eben Moglen - Free Software, Future threats and challenges - Free radio.

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2005/

2004 - Adelaide: The University of Adelaide

Keynotes

Jon "Maddog" Hall - Programmers Are From Mars, Users/Managers/Companies are from Venus
Bdale Garbee - Where Would You Like One Hundred Thousand Users to Go Today?
havoc - The state of the Open-Source Desktop

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2004/

BIB: Birds in Black

2003 - Perth: The University of Western Australia

Keynotes

Paul "Rusty" Russell - Hacking the kernel and looking cool while driving a fast car
Bdale Garbee - Herding Wild Cats and Related Adventures - An Inside Look at the Debian Project
Andrew Tridgell - Network analysis techniques

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2003/