[lca-announce] OpenMaterials and EverywhereTech Founder Catarina Mota to headline linux.conf.au 2016

[linux.conf.au Announcements]

  OpenMaterials and EverywhereTech Founder Catarina Mota to headline
  linux.conf.au 2016


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.


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.


"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."


Conference 2IC Kathy Reid was delighted to announce Ms Mota as Keynote 
Speaker.


“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.”


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.


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.


Linux <http://linux.org.au>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.


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.


Potential Delegates and Speakers are encouraged to remain up to date 
with conference news through one of the following channels;


Website:http://lcabythebay.org.au

Twitter: @linuxconfau, hashtag #lca2016

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/lcabythebay

Google+:https://www.google.com/+LcabythebayOrgAu

Lanyrd:http://lanyrd.com/2016/linuxconfau/

IRC: #linux.conf.au on freenode.net

Email: info at lcabythebay.org.au

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We warmly encourage you to forward this announcement to technical 
communities you may be involved in.

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