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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hello Everyone!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have been busy planning things with for Everything Open Gladstone 2024 and we thought we would put together a bit of a summary of what is happening so far:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">##SWAG!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We officially have 48 days left. Have you bought your tickets yet? While you are at it we have Swag available for purchase via Redbubble at: </span><a href="https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/158192555"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/158192555</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> We have everything from mouse pads, to hats, to blankets, to t-shirts, to hoodies, and duvet/doona covers for sale. Someone pretty please buy the throw blanket! (it looks so soft)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">##Tickets</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Tickets are still available and will be until the last day of the conference. But don’t leave it until the last minute because you’re running out of time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">##Buses</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Speaking of travel… although there are</span><a href="https://2024.everythingopen.au/attend/travel-accommodation"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">many ways to get to Gladstone for Everything Open 2024</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, we heard from many potential Delegates that airfares between Brisbane (BNE) and Gladstone (GLT) were cost prohibitive, dampening enthusiasm to attend </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">#EverythingOpen</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 2024.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While we can’t spin up a competing airline (Penguin Air, anyone?), we </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">can</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> put on a bus from Brisbane to Gladstone, and return from Gladstone to Brisbane, to get you to and from the conference. We are providing these busses for $40 each way. You can buy your bus ticket on the website with your conference tickets at https://2024.everythingopen.au/dashboard/<br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">##Keynotes</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have announced 3 amazing keynotes so far:</span></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Professor Aaron Quigley from CSIRO’s Data61</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Jana Dekanovska from CrowdStrike</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Geoff Huston from Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have one more announcement to come as well and we are VERY excited to have this person join us in Gladstone</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">##Sessions</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We have some incredible speakers joining us. Gernot Heiser, J Rosenbaum, Christopher Biggs, Liz Quilty, Clinton Roy, and Elise Elkerton just to name a few. Stay tuned for more speaker announcements :) <br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">##Sponsors</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A HUGE shout out goes to our sponsors. Our current sponsors are:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">King Penguin: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Google (</span><a href="https://opensource.google/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://opensource.google/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Royal Penguin: </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Red Hat (</span><a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/about"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.redhat.com/en/about</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And a special thanks goes to:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Sticker Mule (</span><a href="https://mule.to/p5yh"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://mule.to/p5yh</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Sizzle (have you subscribed yet? You should! Here’s the link: </span><a href="https://thesizzle.com.au/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://thesizzle.com.au/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">), </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">and our auspicing organisation Linux Australia (</span><a href="https://linux.org.au/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://linux.org.au/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br />More information will be coming out VERY SOON so keep an eye out on our various platforms:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mastodon:</span><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@EverythingOpen"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">@EverythingOpen@fosstodon.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, hashtag #EverythingOpen</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Twitter:</span><a href="https://twitter.com/_everythingopen"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">@_everythingopen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, hashtag #EverythingOpen</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">LinkedIn:</span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/everythingopen/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Everything Open</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facebook:</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/EverythingOpenConference/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Everything Open</span></a></li>
</ul>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Announce mailing list:</span><a href="https://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/eo-announce"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Everything Open Announce</span></a></p>
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