[Linux-aus] Everything Open 2024, IT'S HAPPENING!

[Rob Thomas]

Hi! I'm Troy McClure... Uh, I mean xrobau (or Rob), and you may
remember me from such
things as 'Honest' Rob's Used Car (and VoIP) Emporium at EO2023, or
'Why am I being
given a phone number just because I'm at LCA?'

Well, for those that don't know, my bluff was called, and I'm running
Everything Open
up here in Gladstone in about ... 10 days from now.

https://2024.everythingopen.au/

For those that are thinking of physically attending, NOW IS THE TIME TO GET YOUR
TICKETS! For those that are paying for their own flights, we have a
subsidised shuttle
to get you up here to Gladstone - all you need to do is get to
Brisbane, and we'll get
you up here and back (make sure you select that when purchasing a ticket!)

APNIC have also spotted the fantastic opportunity to help out regional
QLD, and are
running RPKI and IPv6 courses on the Monday and Friday before and after EO2024.
These courses are *free* for EO Delegates (but you don't need to be an
EO delegate
to attend, you can just do the courses on Monday and Friday if you're nearby!)

However, if you can't make it in person, we understand, which is why
we're offering an
Online-only ticket, which will be ALMOST as good as being here,
without having to
actually travel. These are pretty much at-cost, and are quite limited,
so if you're
interested, PLEASE register now. We only have a limited number of remote slots,
and it's going to be first in, best dressed. (I'm not sure if APNIC
are planning on
offering remote/online tickets to their courses - I suspect they are,
but please ask
them, that's nothing to do with us!)

We have an amazing list of talks and keynotes from some amazing people such as
Geoff Houston (AM), Jana Dekanovska, and Professor Aaron Quigley. Please see
their, and everyone else's, talks on https://2024.everythingopen.au

Moving on, now all the serious stuff is over, I'm sure no one AT ALL
is surprised that
I have a bunch of NON serious stuff planned, that I hope everyone will
have fun with.

Most of it is only going to be relevant to people who managed to make
it here, but one
thing that we had a great time with previously was 'LCA Plays Pokemon'.

Last time, that was done through our internal LCA phone system, but
THIS time I'm
hoping we can do it through the web, but *only* EO Delegates will be
able to send
commands.

Everyone else will only be able to watch via Twitch/YouTube/something.
I should warn
you that I haven't even STARTED to set this up, because it's a bit
more important that
I do actual critical stuff to run the conference, but I feel pretty
confident that I'll have some
time to get that up and running (I suspect it may be done through a
bot account on
Mastodon.au, so make sure you have fediverse account somewhere!)

Finally, we also have a Matrix Room - feel free to join it at
  https://app.element.io/#/room/#everythingopen:matrix.org

For REAL and SERIOUS announcements, we're putting them up on a couple of places,
https://fosstodon.org/@everythingopen and
https://www.facebook.com/EverythingOpenConference
as well as LinkedIn at
https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/everythingopen/ and I strongly
suggest
you follow all of them.

For extremely unreliable, non-serious announcements and quite probably
a large amount of
whinging and complaining, you will find me at https://facebook.com/xrobau and
https://mastodon.au/@xrobau (I am also the sucker that RUNS
mastodon.au, so if you're not
on the Fediverse already, feel free to sign up there) where everyone
will be able to watch me
have a quiet (or possibly not so quiet?) meltdown over the next week
as the conference gets
closer and closer!

I hope to see you all here, either physically or not!

--Rob Thomas
Conference Lead, Everything Open 2024, Gladstone, Australia