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style="font-size:24px;font-family:Lato;color:#111e70;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">OpenMaterials
        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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      style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><a
        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
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;">
        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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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Twitter:
        @linuxconfau, hashtag #lca2016</span></p>
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">Lanyrd:</span><a
        href="http://lanyrd.com/2016/linuxconfau/"
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style="font-size:14.666666666666666px;font-family:Lato;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;">IRC:
        #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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