linux.conf.au

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 Australian or New Zealand city every year, coordinated by Linux Australia and organised by local volunteers.

Last day of Linux.conf.au 2003

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

In 1999, Linux kernel hacker Rusty Russell organised the Conference of Australian Linux Users in Melbourne. The first conference held under the linux.conf.au name was held two years later in Sydney. The conference is generally held in a different Australian city each time; although from 2006 onward, New Zealand cities have also been hosts.

EventDateVenue and host cityKeynote SpeakersResources
CALU 1999Jul 9 – Jul 11 1999Monash University
Melbourne
Victoria		Jon 'maddog' Hall1999
linux.conf.au 2001Jan 17 – Jan 20 2001University of New South Wales
Sydney
New South Wales		Alan Cox,
David Miller,
Andrew Tridgell		2001
linux.conf.au 2002Feb 6 – Feb 9 2002University of Queensland
Brisbane
Queensland		Andrew Tridgell,
Jeremy Allison,
Michi Henning,
Theodore Tso		2002
linux.conf.au 2003Jan 20 – Jan 25 2003University of Western Australia
Perth
Western Australia		Rusty Russell,
Bdale Garbee,
Andrew Tridgell		2003
linux.conf.au 2004Jan 12 – Jan 17 2004University of Adelaide
Adelaide
South Australia		Bdale Garbee,
Jon 'maddog' Hall,
Havoc Pennington		2004
linux.conf.au 2005Apr 18 – Apr 23 2005Australian National University
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory		Andrew Tridgell,
Andrew Morton,
Eben Moglen		2005
linux.conf.au 2006Jan 23 – Jan 28 2006University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand		Mark Shuttleworth,
Damian Conway,
David Miller		2006
linux.conf.au 2007Jan 15 – Jan 20 2007University of New South Wales
Sydney
New South Wales		Kathy Sierra,
Andrew S. Tanenbaum,
Chris Blizzard		2007
linux.conf.au 2008Jan 28 – Feb 2 2008University of Melbourne
Melbourne
Victoria		Anthony Baxter,
Bruce Schneier,
Stormy Peters		2008
linux.conf.au 2009Jan 19 – Jan 24 2009University of Tasmania
Hobart
Tasmania[1]		Tom Limoncelli,
Angela Beesley,
Simon Phipps		2009
linux.conf.au 2010Jan 18 – Jan 23 2010Wellington Convention Centre
Wellington
New Zealand		Benjamin Mako Hill,
Gabriella Coleman,
Nathan Torkington,
Glyn Moody		2010
linux.conf.au 2011Jan 24 – Jan 29 2011Queensland University of Technology,
Brisbane
Queensland[2]		Mark Pesce,
Eric Allman,
Geoff Huston,
Vinton Cerf		2011
linux.conf.au 2012Jan 16 – Jan 21 2012University of Ballarat,
Ballarat
Victoria[3]		Karen Sandler,
Bruce Perens,
Paul Fenwick,
Jacob Appelbaum		2012
linux.conf.au 2013Jan 28 – Feb 2 2013Australian National University
Canberra
Australian Capital Territory		Andrew Huang,
Radia Perlman,
Bdale Garbee,
Tim Berners-Lee		2013
linux.conf.au 2014Jan 6 – Jan 10 2014University of Western Australia
Perth
Western Australia		Suelette Dreyfus,
Kate Chapman,
Matthew Garrett,
Jonathan Oxer		2014
linux.conf.au 2015Jan 12 – Jan 16 2015University of Auckland
Auckland
New Zealand		Bob Young,
Linus Torvalds,
Eben Moglen		2015
linux.conf.au 2016Feb 1 – Feb 5 2016Deakin University
Geelong
Victoria		Genevieve Bell,
Catarina Mota,
Jono Bacon,
George Fong		2016
linux.conf.au 2017Jan 16 – Jan 20 2017Wrest Point Convention Centre
Hobart
Tasmania		Robert M. "r0ml" Lefkowitz,
Nadia Eghbal,
Pia Waugh,
Dan Callahan		2017
linux.conf.au 2018Jan 22 – Jan 26 2018University of Technology Sydney
Sydney
New South Wales		Karen Sandler,
Jess Frazelle,
Matthew H. Todd,
Hugh Blemings[4]		2018
linux.conf.au 2019Jan 21 – Jan 25 2019University of Canterbury
Christchurch
New Zealand		Rory Aronson CEO FarmBot,
Dana Lewis OpenAPS,
Shannon Morse,
Rusty Russell		2019
linux.conf.au 2020Jan 13 – Jan 17 2020Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
Gold Coast
Queensland		Dr Sean Brady,
Donna Benjamin,
A/Prof Vanessa Teague,
Lizzie O’Shea		 2020
linux.conf.au 2021 Jan 2021[5] Virtual event
linux.conf.au 2022 Jan 2022[5] Canberra
Australian Capital Territory

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.
  • 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.[7] 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.[8]
  • 2010: over $33,000 raised for Wellington Lifeflight Helicopter Ambulance service.[9]
  • 2011: the event was almost washed out by the floods that devastated southern Queensland.[10]
  • 2016: preparations almost derailed by a massive storm just before the conference opened.[11]
  • 2021: in May 2020 Linux Australia announced that the planned 2021 conference in Canberra was postponed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a lightweight virtual conference would be held in 2021 instead.[5]

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
  1. "Hobart to host 2009 Linux conference". ITWire. 1 February 2008. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 1 February 2008.
  2. "LCA2011 – Follow The Flow!". 22 January 2010. Archived from the original on 1 February 2008. Retrieved 22 January 2010.
  3. "Ballarat wins Linux.conf.au 2012 bid". 28 January 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2011.
  4. http://lca2018.linux.org.au/news/
  5. Germaine, Sae Ra (6 May 2020). "Linux Australia Community Update & LCA2021 Information". Linux Australia. Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  6. Corbet, Jonathan (17 January 2004). "The great dunking". LWN.net. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
  7. Corbet, Jonathan (30 January 2008). "A moment from LCA2008". LWN.net.
  8. Kernel gets a new mascot Archived 2014-12-20 at the Wayback Machine – Linux Foundation – 19 March 2009
  9. Linux Enthusiasts raises over $33,000 to help save lives Archived 2010-05-21 at the Wayback Machine – Life Flight Trust – 8 February 2010
  10. Kidman, Angus (24 January 2011). "LCA 2011 Replanning shows importance of backup plans". Lifehacker.
  11. Crane, Courtney (27 January 2016). "Flash floods, hail and damage as wild weather batters Geelong". Geelong Advertiser.
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