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==See also== |
Revision as of 02:48, 22 December 2018
linux.conf.au (often abbreviated as lca) is Australasia's regional Linux and Open Source conference. It is a roaming conference, held in a different city every year, coordinated by Linux Australia and organised by local volunteers.
The conference is a non-profit event, with any surplus funds being used to seed the following year's conference and to support the Australian Linux and open source communities. The name is the conference's URL, using the uncommon second-level domain .conf.au.
Conference history
Highlights from past conferences include:
- 1999, CALU (Conference of Australian Linux Users) was conceived, bankrolled (via his personal credit card) and executed by Linux kernel hacker Rusty Russell. It laid the foundation for a successful, strongly technical, eclectic and fun conference series.
- 2001, the first conference held under the linux.conf.au name.
- 2004, a major highlight was the dunking of Linus Torvalds for charity.[5]
- 2006, the first conference to be held outside Australia, recognising the importance of the New Zealand Linux community.
- 2007, a new feature was an Open Day for non-conference attendees, in which community groups, interest groups and Linux businesses held stands and demonstrations.
- 2008, the second time the conference was held in Melbourne. 100 OLPC machines were distributed to random attendees to encourage development.[6] The Speakers dinner was held at St Paul's Cathedral Chapter House, and the Penguin Dinner was held in conjunction with Melbourne's Night Market, playing on the title of Eric Raymond's book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
- 2009, during the Penguin Dinner, a substantial sum of money was raised for the Save Tasmanian Devils fund - and a pledge made to replace the Tux Logo with the conference mascot, Tuz, to help raise awareness.[7]
- 2010, over $33,000 raised for Wellington Lifeflight Helicopter Ambulance service.[8]
- 2011, the event was almost washed out by the floods that devastated southern Queensland.[9]
- 2016, preparations almost derailed by a massive storm just before the conference opened.[10]
Miniconfs
Since 2002, a key feature of the conference are the associated "miniconfs". These are half - 2 days streamed gatherings run before the main conference. They have their own programme, but are open for any conference attendee to participate in.
The first event to have a miniconf was in 2002, with the Debian Miniconf, organised by James Bromberger. This was based upon the idea that DebConf 1 in Bordeaux was a "mini-conf" of the French Libre Software Meeting. The concept grew in 2004, with the Open-Source in Government (ossig) miniconf, EducationaLinux, Debian Miniconf and GNOME.conf.au. In 2010 the Arduino Miniconf was introduced by Jonathan Oxer, the author of Practical Arduino.
Miniconfs have included those devoted to computer programming, education, security, multimedia, arduino and system administration.
See also
References
- ^ "Hobart to host 2009 Linux conference". ITWire. 2008-02-01. Archived from the original on 2008-02-01. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
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- ^ http://lca2018.linux.org.au/news/
- ^ "The great dunking". LWN. 17 January 2004. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
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(help) - ^ A moment from LCA2008 - LWN.net - 30 January 2008 by Jon Corbet
- ^ Kernel gets a new mascot Archived 2014-12-20 at the Wayback Machine - Linux Foundation - 19 March 2009
- ^ Linux Enthusiasts raises over $33,000 to help save lives Archived 2010-05-21 at the Wayback Machine - Life Flight Trust - 8 February 2010
- ^ [1] Angus Kidman - Replanning shows importance of backup plans, Lifehacker - 24 January 2011
- ^ [2] Geelong Advertiser - Flash floods, hail and damage as wild weather batters Geelong