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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><tt><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So as you may have heard, linux.conf.au 2021 will be taking a bit of a different flavour. As the COVID-19 pandemic is still a thing we will be running “LCA2021 Online” (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lca2021.linux.org.au">https://lca2021.linux.org.au</a>) instead of holding LCA2021 in Canberra as originally announced. </span></tt></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><tt><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We’re all volunteers ourselves and we need more – we can’t run the conference by ourselves, particularly during the week of the conference itself. </span></tt></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><tt><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Anyone who has volunteered before will tell you it’s a very busy time, but also very worthwhile. It’s satisfying to know that you’ve helped everyone at the conference to get the most out of it. It’s very rewarding to know that you’ve made a positive difference to someone’s day.</span></tt></p>
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Sae Ra Germaine
President
Linux Australia
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:president@linux.org.au">president@linux.org.au</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://linux.org.au">http://linux.org.au</a>
Linux Australia Inc
GPO Box 4788
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
ABN 56 987 117 479</pre>
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