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of Internet Australia George Fong to keynote linux.conf.au 2016
Geelong</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;">Regional
and rural technology advocate, Federation University Council
Member, former lawyer and Chair of Internet Australia, George
Fong, will be one of four outstanding keynotes for linux.conf.au
in February 2016. Eminently respected within the region for his
tireless efforts in advancing technology access, governance and
inclusion, his advice and counsel is sought far and wide. </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;">Most
recently, Fong has been a driving force in the rebranding of the
Internet Society of Australia into Internet Australia,
transforming the organisation to be relevant and representative
of a broad cross-section of Australians. </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;">“Internet
Australia is the peak body representing everyone who uses the
Internet. Much of our work is dedicated to keeping the Internet
as open and free from undue government interference as possible
and seeing innovation thrive in the sector. It goes without
saying that a significant part of that process is fueled by the
open source and linux community.”</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;">There
are new challenges in maintaining the integrity and utility of
the Internet. Those challenges are redefining who we are in the
technical community and what our roles and responsibilities are
for communities and businesses nationally and internationally”</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 that Mr Fong would
be keynoting. </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;">“We’re
delighted to be able to bring George’s considered wisdom,
academic intellect and world view to linux.conf.au 2016 Geelong
- LCA By the Bay. The need for well researched, inclusive and
representative technology policies is more important than ever
given the disruption the world faces in coming years”.</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
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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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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;">Website:</span><a
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@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
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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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</span><span
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mailing list:</span><a
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</span><span
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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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