From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Tue Oct 4 09:28:02 2016 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 15:28:02 -0700 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2017 tickets are now available! Message-ID: We?d like you to come to Hobart to discover the Future of Open Source. Tickets and accommodation for linux.conf.au 2017 are now available! Early Bird Discounts are available on the first 165 tickets we sell, or until October 31, whichever comes first. linux.conf.au 2017 is being held in Hobart, Tasmania from Monday 16 January through to Friday 20 January 2017. To find out more about our ticket options, please visit https://linux.conf.au/attend and for accommodation options, visit https://linux.conf.au/attend/accommodation All our tickets provide access to all five days at the conference, and include complimentary morning and afternoon tea, as well as a fully catered lunch on each day of the conference. Our limited-edition linux.conf.au 2017 t-shirts are available until December 1, and we?ll include a free t-shirt with every ticket sold before then too. Our Professional Tickets ($999 regular price, plus a $150 early bird discount) are our all-access pass: as well as your conference attendance and complimentary t-shirt, your ticket includes access to the exclusive Opening Reception and Networking Breakfast (this year?s PDNS) on Monday morning, and a free ticket to the conference?s signature Penguin Dinner on Wednesday night. For those of you who want to support the community even more, our Fairy Penguin Sponsor ticket ($1999 regular, plus a $150 early bird discount) comes with all the benefits of a professional ticket, but we?ll also put your company?s logo on the conference website, and mention you during our conference plenary sessions. For those of you attending out-of-pocket, we offer discounted tickets. Our Hobbyist ticket ($449 regular, plus a $100 early bird discount) is available to the general public and represents the best price that we can make available. Hobbyists can purchase a seat at the Penguin Dinner for an additional cost. Our student ticket ($160 regular price only) is further discounted, for those who can provide a current student ID card on arrival at the conference. Our student tickets are offered below cost, as a form of investment in growing the next generation of the Free and Open Source Software community. Additional tickets to the penguin dinner are available for $95 for adults; further t-shirts are available at $25 per shirt. For more information on all of our ticket options, see https://linux.conf.au/attend We?re also very happy to offer two exclusive accommodation options for our attendees: Budget-style accommodation is available at the University of Tasmania Apartments and can be purchased alongside your ticket. Single rooms are available for $420 for 6 nights, checking in on Sunday 15 January and checking out on Saturday 21 January. Each room shares 2 bathrooms per block of 6 bedrooms. The room rate includes a full cooked breakfast each morning, and complimentary transport to and from the conference venue at Wrest Point. We also have exclusive rates at the hotel next to our conference venue. Wrest Point has a wide variety of rooms available exclusively to linux.conf.au attendees, starting at $149 per night for 3.5-star Motor Inn rooms, through to 4.5-star Suites. For further information on our accommodation options, including how to book, see https://linux.conf.au/attend/accommodation == About linux.conf.au 2017 == linux.conf.au is a community-driven conference about the Linux operating system and the vibrant ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year by local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. In 2017, linux.conf.au is welcoming you to Hobart, Tasmania, on Monday 16 through to Friday 20 January. Ticket sales are now open: see https://linux.conf.au/attend We thank our Emperor Penguin Sponsors, IBM and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for their generous contribution to the conference. For more information, please visit https://linux.conf.au -- --Christopher Neugebauer Conference Director - linux.conf.au - January 2017 - Hobart Tickets on sale now - linux.conf.au/attend From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Tue Oct 11 09:27:47 2016 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 15:27:47 -0700 Subject: [lca-announce] Introducing linux.conf.au 2017's first keynote speaker -- Robert M. "r0ml" Lefkowitz In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Does Open Source have a part to play in the future? At linux.conf.au 2017, software architect and open source strategist, Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz will reflect on how to continue the democratisation of software even as Linux and Open Source software have become ubiquitous. We're pleased to welcome r0ml to present a keynote at linux.conf.au 2017, to be held from Monday 16 January until Friday 20 January at the Wrest Point Convention Centre in Hobart, Tasmania. A limited number of Early Bird tickets for linux.conf.au 2017 are still available. You can find more details about our ticket options at https://linux.conf.au/attend In his keynote, _Keeping Linux Great_, r0ml will help us to consider the role of Free Software in a technological landscape that has changed substantially in the years since Linux was first released: The underlying motivation for Linux and Free Software was (and is) to democratise software -- making it more accessible to all. This goal has been especially successful for developers, with Open Source tools becoming a key part of development of even proprietary software. Is this the limit of the democratisation that Free Software can achieve? What new strategies can be developed to continue the democratisation of software and keep Linux great? We?re looking forward finding out how r0ml can help us answer these questions. Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz is the Chief Architect at Warby Parker, a US-based technology-enabled lifestyle brand. In 2015, Fast Company named Warby Parker the most innovative company in the world. Prior to Warby Parker, he worked mostly in the financial and telecommunications industries, acting as Chief Architect at AT&T Wireless and Vice President of Data Services at Asurion and Morgan Stanley. In 2006 he was named a Distinguished Engineer of the ACM. At one of his first seven jobs, r0ml was the Public Software Librarian for a timesharing company -- seven years before the GNU manifesto. In 2000, he became the first person at Merrill Lynch to install Linux, and as a result, his computer was confiscated by the IT department. In response, he became the Director of Open Source Strategy for Merrill Lynch, and secured the email address r at ml.com -- he regrets the loss of that address. r0ml (who can be found on Twitter as @r0ml) is an enthusiastic, albeit not very accomplished, fencer and juggler, and enjoys studying obscure programming languages. He grew up in Brazil, with a French mother and Chinese father of Russian ancestry. He would love to say something about his wife, Gina, and their seven children, but space does not permit. You can find this announcement at https://linux.conf.au/about/news/r0ml-keynote/ and more details about r0ml's keynote at https://linux.conf.au/schedule/presentation/107/ == About linux.conf.au 2017 == linux.conf.au is a community-driven conference about the Linux operating system and the vibrant ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year by local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. In 2017, linux.conf.au is welcoming you to Hobart, Tasmania, on Monday 16 through to Friday 20 January. Tickets are now available -- see https://linux.conf.au/attend for details. We thank our Emperor Penguin Sponsors, IBM and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for their generous contribution to the conference. For more information, please visit https://linux.conf.au -- --Christopher Neugebauer Conference Director - linux.conf.au - January 2017 - Hobart Tickets on sale now! https://linux.conf.au/attend -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Tue Oct 18 09:27:15 2016 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 15:27:15 -0700 Subject: [lca-announce] Nadia Eghbal, Open Source Sustainability Researcher, is keynoting linux.conf.au 2017 Message-ID: Does Open Source have a sustainable future? One of linux.conf.au 2017's four keynote speakers, Nadia Eghbal will help you find out! linux.conf.au's focus in 2017 is The Future of Open Source, so we're delighted to welcome Nadia, a noted researcher on sustainability in Open Source. She'll be sharing her insights on the inherent tension between keeping code free and better supporting the people who maintain that code. linux.conf.au 2017 is taking place in Hobart, Tasmania between Monday 16 January and tickets are now on sale. For more information, see https://linux.conf.au/attend Previously working in venture capital, in January 2016, Nadia started investigating Open Source as the "digital infrastructure" upon which the tech industry is built. Her initial reports painted a worrying view of the sustainability of Open Source software: Many Open Source projects -- ones that form the vital digital infrastructure that many big organisations in tech and government rely upon -- aren't in very good shape. Much of Open Source is not well-funded, and depends heavily on the contribution of free time on the part of a small pool of maintainers. She also highlighted that despite building their success on this infrastructure, much of the leadership in the tech industry was largely unaware of these issues. This research culminated in _Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure_, a 142-page report published by the Ford Foundation, that highlights the scale of the problem: """ Everybody relies on shared code to write software, including Fortune 500 companies, government, major software companies and startups. In a world driven by technology, we are putting increased demand on those who maintain our digital infrastructure. Yet because these communities are not highly visible, the rest of the world has been slow to notice. In the face of unprecedented demand, the costs of not supporting our digital infrastructure are numerous. No individual company or organisation is incentivised to address the public good problem alone. """ More recently, Nadia has joined GitHub, focusing on finding ways that GitHub can empower open source maintainers to create and nurture thriving, healthy open source projects. You can find this announcement on the web at https://linux.conf.au/about/news/nadia-keynote/ and purchase tickets at https://linux.conf.au/attend == More from Nadia Eghbal == - How I Stumbled Upon The Internet's Biggest Blind Spot ( https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet-s-biggest-blind-spot-b9aa23618c58 ) - Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure ( http://www.fordfoundation.org/library/reports-and-studies/roads-and-bridges-the-unseen-labor-behind-our-digital-infrastructure/ ) == About linux.conf.au 2017 == linux.conf.au is a community-driven conference about the Linux operating system and the vibrant ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year by local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. In 2017, linux.conf.au is welcoming you to Hobart, Tasmania, on Monday 16 through to Friday 20 January. Tickets are now available -- see https://linux.conf.au/attend for details. We thank our Emperor Penguin Sponsors, IBM and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for their generous contribution to the conference. For more information, please visit https://linux.conf.au -- --Christopher Neugebauer Conference Director - linux.conf.au - January 2017 - Hobart Tickets on sale now! https://linux.conf.au/attend From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Tue Oct 25 09:25:35 2016 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:25:35 -0700 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2017 Keynote: Australia's Open Government pioneer, Pia Waugh! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: How are the principles of Open Source shaping the future of government and society? linux.conf.au 2017 is proud to welcome one of Australia's great shapers of open government and open data, Pia Waugh as a keynote presenter. linux.conf.au 2017 is being held from Monday 16 January until Friday 20 January 2017. Pia is one of four keynotes speakers, joining Open Source strategist Robert M "@r0ml" Lefkowitz and sustainability researcher Nadia Eghbal. Tickets are now on sale: for more details, see https://linux.conf.au/attend Pia Waugh has been no stranger to linux.conf.au since the beginning of the conference. Indeed, ten years ago you could find Pia on stage as one of the co-organisers of linux.conf.au 2007 in Sydney. We're delighted to welcome her back to main stage at linux.conf.au, where she'll be sharing experience of how the approaches and culture of open source are shaping government and society at large. In her keynote, _Choose Your Own Adventure, Please!_, Pia argues that whilst society is seeing a shift -- characterised by Open Source and Open Government -- from central to distributed co-operation, and from closed to open systems, many of our assumptions, laws and social rules are based on centricity, scarcity and closed as both the default and desired state. She continues: "We have come to a fascinating fork in our collective road where we can choose to either maintain a world that relies upon outdated models of scarcity that rely upon inequality, or we can explore new models of surplus and opportunity to see where we go next, together." Pia has a long history as a one of the early leaders of the Australian Open Source community: she was a board member of Software Freedom International and OLPC Australia. She was instrumental in the early years of linux.conf.au's parent organisation, Linux Australia, as President and then Vice President, transforming the organisation into a peak body for the Linux and Open Source community in Australia. Not long after her stint helping run linux.conf.au, Pia turned her attention to openness in government: first as an ICT Policy advisor to Senator Kate Lundy, where she was involved in the Gov 2.0 agenda and the internationally-recognised Public Sphere initiative for co-developing government policy with the public. She later joined the public sector, building the Australian Government's Open Data agenda, including rebooting data.gov.au, improving public access to government data, and helping government agencies improve the culture and practices around open data. Pia's unique position in both government and the Open Source community led to her founding the non-profit and community-run GovHack initiative: an annual hackathon that encourages the public to develop Open Source software projects around government datasets. Pia was also involved in the early stages of the Australian Digital Transformation Office, helping to establish a vision and direction for the office, but returned to the open data agenda before leaving work a year ago to have her first child. Whilst studying on maternity leave, Pia developed an interest in the role of regulators in society. Pia returned to work in September at AUSTRAC, the Australian financial intelligence agency where she will be working on international projects, open data and new approaches to regulation, continuing her interest and vision to establish "government as an API". Pia blogs semi-regularly at http://pipka.org and is found on Twitter at @piawaugh (https://twitter.com/piawaugh). == About linux.conf.au 2017 == linux.conf.au is a community-driven conference about the Linux operating system and the vibrant ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year by local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. In 2017, linux.conf.au is welcoming you to Hobart, Tasmania, on Monday 16 through to Friday 20 January. Ticket are now open -- for more information, see https://linux.conf.au/attend. We thank our Emperor Penguin Sponsors, IBM and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for their generous contribution to the conference. 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