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and EverywhereTech Founder Catarina Mota to headline
linux.conf.au 2016</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;">Open
hardware luminary, TED Fellow and future materials industry
leader, Catarina Mota, will be one of four outstanding keynotes
for linux.conf.au in February 2016. Mota is co-founder of
openMaterials.org - a project dedicated to furthering
exploration of ‘smart materials’ - conductive ink, electronics
that run off energy generated by the human body and new
generations of plastics that have memory. She recently founded
Everywhere Tech - an organisation facilitating open source
technology transfer to foster resilient communities around the
world. </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;">Her
passion is to encourage the ‘maker’ in all of us - motivating a
new generation’s interest in science, technology and
collaboration. This passion extends to her current pursuits -
doctoral academic research into the social impact of open and
collaborative practices for the development of technologies. </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;">"I'm
very much looking forward to the wonderful LCA. Long before
there was open source hardware/materials, there was open source
software and Linux - I can't wait for the opportunity to learn
from the community who paved the way for the rest of us."</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
2IC Kathy Reid was delighted to announce Ms Mota 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;">“I
first heard Catarina speak at LinuxCon Europe in Barcelona in
2012 and was simply awestruck. Her passion, her empathy, and
sincere desire to make the world a better place through
technology is so incredibly inspirational. Catarina’s work at
the intersection of technology, collaboration and humanity is
such a natural fit for linux.conf.au 2016’s theme of ‘Life is
better with Linux’. We’re honoured to be able to welcome her to
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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href="http://linux.org.au" style="text-decoration:none;"><span
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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#linux.conf.au on freenode.net</span></p>
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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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