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favourite Bacon to headline linux.conf.au</span></h1>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Newly-appointed
Director of Community at GitHub, Jono Bacon, will be one of four
outstanding keynotes for linux.conf.au in February 2016. Bacon,
formerly Community Manager at Canonical - the company behind
Linux distribution Ubuntu, and author of the best-selling ‘The
Art of Community’, will deliver insights into building strong,
effective, diverse and successful technical communities. </span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Bacon
shared his enthusiasm for keynoting linux.conf.au. “I am
absolutely delighted to be joining you all in Geelong in 2016.
LCA is a cornerstone in the global Linux and Open Source
movement and I am not only excited about speaking but also
getting to know all the attendees at the event”, Bacon says.</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Conference
Director, David Bell, was thrilled to announce Mr Bacon as
Keynote Speaker. </span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">“Our
theme for linux.conf.au 2016 is ‘Life is better with Linux’ -
and the strength of our Linux and open source communities
contribute significantly to that aspiration. Robust, diverse,
and inclusive communities happen by design, not accident, and
Jono has done an enormous amount to shape that. It’s truly an
honour to be able to host him in Geelong in February.”</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">One
of the most respected technical conferences in Australia, Linux
Conference Australia (linux.conf.au) will make Geelong home
between 1st-5th February 2016. The conference is expected to
attract over 500 national and international professional and
hobbyist developers, technicians and innovative hardware
specialists, and will feature nearly 100 Speakers and
presentations over five days. Deakin University’s stunning
Waterfront Campus will host the conference, leveraging state of
the art networking and audio visual facilities. </span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">The
conference delivers Delegates a range of presentations and
tutorials on topics such as open source hardware, open source
operating systems and open source software, storage, containers
and related issues such as patents, copyright and technical
community development. </span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;">Linux</span></a><span
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is a computer operating system, in the same way that MacOS,
Windows, Android and iOS are operating systems. It can be used
on desktop computers, servers, and increasingly on mobile
devices such as smartphones and tablets. </span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Linux
embodies the ‘open source’ paradigm of software development,
which holds that source code – the code that is used to give
computers and mobile devices functionality – should be ‘open’.
That is, the source code should be viewable, modifiable and
shareable by the entire community. There are a number of
benefits to the open source paradigm, including facilitating
innovation, sharing and re-use. The ‘open’ paradigm is
increasingly extending to other areas such as open government,
open culture, open health and open education.</span></p>
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Delegates and Speakers are encouraged to remain up to date with
conference news through one of the following channels;</span></p>
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@linuxconfau, hashtag #lca2016</span></p>
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#linux.conf.au on freenode.net</span></p>
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mailing list:</span><a
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warmly encourage you to forward this announcement to technical
communities you may be involved in. </span></p>
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