linux.conf.au

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. 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 council.

In 2017 linux.conf.au will return to Hobart, the capital of Tasmania. See hobart.lca2017.org for more info.

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.

2017 - Wrest Point: Hobart, Tasmania

Keynotes:

Stay Tuned

LCA2017 website

2016 - Geelong: Deakin Univeristy - Waterfront Camp

Keynotes: linux.conf.au Geelong

George Fong
Catarina Mota
Jono Bacon
Genevieve Bell

LCA2016 website

2015 - Auckland: University of Auckland

Keynotes: linux.conf.au Auckland

Eben Moglen
Linus Torvalds
Bob Young

LCA2015 website

2014 - Perth: University of Western Australia

Keynotes:

Dr Suelette Dreyfus
Kate Chapman
Matthew Garrett
Jonathan Oxer

LCA2014 website

2013 - Canberra: Australian National University

Keynotes:

Bdale Garbee
Radia Perlman
"Bunnie" Huang
Sir Tim Berners-Lee

LCA2013 website

2012 - Ballarat: University of Ballarat

Keynotes:

Bruce Perens
Paul Fenwick
Karen Sandler
Jacob Appelbaum

LCA2012 website

2011 - Brisbane: Queenland University of Technology

Keynotes:

Eric Allman
Vint Cerf
Geoff Huston
Mark Pesce

LCA2011 website

Penguins Visiting: linux.conf.au 2010 Wellington, New Zealand.

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://www.linux.org.au/conf/2008/programme/presentations.html

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/