linux.conf.au
Prior to the pandemic of the early 2020s, linux.conf.au was the premier Linux and open source conference for Australia and New Zealand. The conference was held in person nearly-annually between 1999 and 2020, and moved to a different city in Australia or New Zealand every year. The conference attracted project leads and industry luminaries from all over the world, regularly hosting over 600 delegates.
linux.conf.au events traditionally spanned 5 days, with two days of ‘Miniconfs’ – special interest tracks – and three days of main conference talks.
linux.conf.au was volunteer-run, with volunteer teams spending 18-24 months in preparation before the event.
If you are interested in hosting linux.conf.au in your city, please contact Linux Australia.
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.
2022 – Online, Anywhere On Earth
Keynotes:
- Liz Fong-Jones
- Jono Bacon
- Kathy Reid
- Brian Kernighan
2021 – Online, Anywhere On Earth
2020 – Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre: Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
Keynotes:
- Dr Sean Brady
- Donna Benjamin
- A/Prof Vanessa Teague
- Lizzie O’Shea
2019 – University of Canterbury: Christchurch, New Zealand
Keynotes:
- Rory Aronson
- Dana Lewis
- Shannon Morse
- Rusty Russell
2018 – University of Technology: Sydney, New South Wales
Keynotes:
- Matthew Todd
- Karen Sandler
- Hugh Blemings
- Jess Frazelle
2017 – Wrest Point: Hobart, Tasmania
Keynotes:
- Pia Waugh
- Dan Callahan
- Nadia Eghbal
- Robert M. “r0ml” Lefkowitz
2016 – Geelong: Deakin University – Waterfront Campus
Keynotes:
- George Fong
- Catarina Mota
- Jono Bacon
- Genevieve Bell
2015 – Auckland: University of Auckland
2014 – Perth: University of Western Australia
Keynotes:
- Dr Suelette Dreyfus
- Kate Chapman
- Matthew Garrett
- Jonathan Oxer
2013 – Canberra: Australian National University
Keynotes:
- Bdale Garbee
- Radia Perlman
- “Bunnie” Huang
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee
2012 – Ballarat: University of Ballarat
Keynotes:
- Bruce Perens
- Paul Fenwick
- Karen Sandler
- Jacob Appelbaum
2011 – Brisbane: Queenland University of Technology
2010 – Wellington: Wellington Convention Centre
Keynotes:
- Gabriella Coleman
- Benjamin Mako Hill
- Glyn Moody
- Nathan Torkington
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?
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://www.linux.org.au/conf/2008/programme/presentations.html
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
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
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.
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
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
2002 – Brisbane: The University of Queensland
Keynotes
- Andrew Tridgell & Jeremy Allison – Ten Years of SAMBA
- Michi Henning – Computing Fallacies
- Theodore Tso – Ten Years of Linux
2001 – Sydney: University of New South Wales
Keynotes
- Alan Cox – World Domination: Classified Progress Report and Briefing
- David Miller – A Zero-copy and Delayed Fragment Reassembly Framework for Linux
- Andrew Tridgell – Inside the mind of… TiVo
1999 – Melbourne: Monash University
Keynote
- Jon “Maddog” Hall – Take No Prisoners (Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus)
