From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Sat Dec 11 12:15:45 2021 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2021 11:15:45 +1000 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2022 - PDNS Special Guest: Antony Green Message-ID: Delegates attending our Professional Delegates Networking Session will hear from our special guest speaker Antony Green. Antony will be joining us to talk about the statistical processes used to call Australian elections. What is the available data, what assumptions are made to predict results, and how is the Australian process more robust than in the United States? Our Professional level delegates will be able to hear Antony speak at the Professional Delegates Networking Session (PDNS) on the evening of Saturday 15 January. If you have not yet bought a ticket to linux.conf.au 2022, now is a great time to register to attend at https://lca2022.linux.org.au/attend/tickets/. For those of you who are having a difficult time convincing your employer to let you attend, we have a helpful guide to assist, available at https://lca2022.linux.org.au/attend/why-should-employees-attend/. ## About Antony Green Antony Green is best known as Chief Election Analyst with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and is the face of television election coverages in Australia. Antony has worked for the ABC since 1989. In that time he has worked on more than 80 federal, state and territory elections. He has also worked on local government elections, numerous by-elections and covered elections in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Canada. Antony designed the ABC's election night computer analysis system. Antony studied at the University of Sydney and was awarded a Bachelor of Science in Pure Mathematics and Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Economics with Honours in politics. He was granted an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Sydney in 2014 and appointed an Adjunct Professor in the University of Sydney's Department of Government and International Relations in 2015. Antony was recognised in the 2017 Queen's birthday honours list when he was appointed an Officer in the Order of Australia. The citation was "for distinguished service to the broadcast media as an analyst and commentator for state and federal elections, and to the community as a key interpreter of Australian democracy". We look forward to welcoming Antony at linux.conf.au 2022. ---- Read this online at https://lca2022.linux.org.au/news/pdns-guest-speaker-antony-green/ From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Wed Dec 15 22:48:52 2021 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 21:48:52 +1000 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2022 - Keynote: Kathy Reid Message-ID: Today we're announcing our third keynote speaker for linux.conf.au 2022, Kathy Reid! Kathy will be speaking about how communities are systems too, and how thinking about them in the same ways we think about computers can reveal insights into creating and maintaining them. Many of us work with systems in our professional lives. Most likely, they take the form of cyber- or cyber-physical systems, where the constituent components - boxen, VAXen, Docksen, ESPen, are quite literally connected - possibly over some form of internet protocol. These systems may be orchestrated or organic - but always serve a purpose. They can co-operate, collide and compete with each other (and then there were 15 standards). They can operate loosely or be tightly controlled. They exist for a brief period of time (less brief if they contain COBOL), until they are disassembled, disaggregated and decommed back to electrons and e-waste. But what about the people in those systems? How are they connected? Why are they part of the system? Or not? What roles do they serve? What are their inputs and outputs? Plot twist! Communities are systems too! The concepts we use for thinking about computer and cyber systems can also be used to uncover insights about communities, and how we go about creating, curating and concluding them. ## About Kathy Reid Kathy Reid works at the intersection of open source, emerging technologies and the technical communities who shape and are shaped by them. Over the last 20 years, she has held several technical and community leadership positions, including as Digital Platforms and Operations Manager at Deakin University, Director of Developer Relations at Mycroft AI, and President of Linux Australia. More recently she has worked in voice and conversational AI at Mozilla and NVIDIA, helping to create speech technology that works well for everyone. Kathy holds Arts and Science undergraduate degrees from Deakin University, an MBA (Computing) from Charles Sturt University, a Master in Applied Cybernetics (MAppCyber) from Australian National University, as well as several ITIL certifications. In 2019, she was one of 16 people from across the world chosen as the first to co-create a Masters Program in a new branch of engineering at the Australian National University's School of Cybernetics, where she is now a PhD Candidate, researching voice dataset documentation as a way to create more responsible technology. We look forward to welcoming Kathy at linux.conf.au 2022. ---- Read this online at https://lca2022.linux.org.au/news/keynote-kathy-reid/ From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Sat Dec 18 12:46:19 2021 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2021 11:46:19 +1000 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2022 - Keynote: Brian Kernighan Message-ID: Our fourth keynote for linux.conf.au 2022 is Brian Kernighan. Brian will be speaking about the early days of Unix at Bell Labs, how it came about, some of the good and bad ideas that eventuated from it, and where Unix is headed. In barely 50 years, the Unix operating system has gone from a tiny two-person experiment in a New Jersey attic to a multi-billion dollar industry whose products and services are an integral part of the world's computing infrastructure. Along the way, there have been many changes, but a surprisingly large amount is much the same as when it started. How did this come about? What are the good ideas in Unix that have been preserved and even spread? What are the good ideas that have fallen by the wayside? What are the not so good ideas that have prospered? And what might the future hold? ## About Brian Kernighan Brian Kernighan received his PhD from Princeton in 1969, and was in the Computing Science Research center at Bell Labs until 2000. He is now a professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton, where he writes short programs and longer books. The latter are better than the former, and certainly need less maintenance. We look forward to welcoming Brian at linux.conf.au 2022. ---- Read this online at https://lca2022.linux.org.au/news/keynote-brian-kernighan/