From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Tue Nov 1 09:30:31 2016 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2016 09:30:31 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2017 keynote -- Dan Callahan explores designing for failure Message-ID: How can the future of Open Source build upon the failures of the past? linux.conf.au 2017 is turning to former Mozilla Persona developer, Dan Callahan to help us understand. One of the great frontiers of Open Source is in public infrastructure: Open standards built around Open Source code should, in theory, allow developers to select infrastructure without fear of vendor lock-in. But who deploys that infrastructure? And what happens when major deployers of that infrastructure go away? We're delighted to welcome Dan Callahan to linux.conf.au 2017's keynote stage, to share important lessons from such a piece of Open Source infrastructure. linux.conf.au is being held in Hobart, Tasmania from Monday 16 January 2017 until Friday 20 January 2017. Tickets are now on sale: you can find out more about our ticket options from https://linux.conf.au/attend Dan works as a Software Engineer in Developer Relations at Mozilla, whom he joined five years ago to work on Persona, a decentralised browser-based identity and authentication system, which aimed to replace passwords on the web with stronger cryptographic approaches. Persona has been covered previously at linux.conf.au, including in 2013, where presenter Fran?ois Marier underscored the importance of open source identity projects for the security and privacy of users, stating that: "Identity is a very significant piece of Internet infrastructure, and so it is critical that the solution that gets widely adopted be free-as-in-freedom, cross-browser, distributed and ruthlessly focused on making it easy for developers and end-users." Despite noble goals and clear needs, development on Persona was halted three years ago, and Mozilla plan to shut down the servers for Persona by the end of 2016. Dan's keynote, _Designing for Failure_, is a retrospective of the technical and human factors encountered during the shutdown of Persona: Why didn't Persona succeed? How did the shutdown affect the organisations that depended upon Persona? And why, despite being a protocol with an open specification, didn't a community-backed replacement for Persona emerge? We'll get the answers to these questions and more, but Dan asks a deeper question: How can we design software and services robust enough to not just gracefully degrade, but to gracefully die? Come and learn from the past, so that we can better build the robust, decentralised Open Source infrastructure of the future. === About linux.conf.au 2017 === linux.conf.au is a community-driven conference about the Linux operating system and the vibrant ecosystem of Free and Open Source Software that has grown up around it. Run in a different Australian or New Zealand city each year by local volunteers, LCA invites more than 500 people to learn from the people who shape the future of Open Source. In 2017, linux.conf.au is welcoming you to Hobart, Tasmania, on Monday 16 through to Friday 20 January. Ticket are now open -- for more information, see https://linux.conf.au/attend. We thank our Emperor Penguin Sponsors, IBM and Hewlett Packard Enterprise for their generous contribution to the conference. For more information, please visit https://linux.conf.au -- --Christopher Neugebauer Conference Director - linux.conf.au - January 2017 - Hobart Tickets on sale now! https://linux.conf.au/attend From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Fri Nov 18 09:30:19 2016 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 09:30:19 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2017 assistance grants are now available, with thanks to GitHub Message-ID: linux.conf.au is a conference about the Future of Open Source. It?s being held in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia from Monday 16 January to Friday 20 January 2017. If you need help to attend, look no further! With the help of GitHub, we?re offering grants to help with ticket costs, travel, accommodation, and other accessibility expenses for linux.conf.au in Hobart. - Applications Close: Friday 2 December (anywhere on earth) - Recipients Notified: Friday 9 December - Apply: https://linux.conf.au/attend/grants/apply These grants form a key part of our outreach and inclusion efforts at linux.conf.au. We want to make sure that as many people as possible can attend the event, regardless of financial ability or their background. Grants may be for full or partial travel expenses, accommodation at one of our preferred accommodation providers, a ticket to the conference, or other assistance that helps overcome barriers to your attendance. The grant application process is open to everyone who needs financial assistance, but our budget is limited, so we will give priority to applicants with a clear vision for what they want to achieve by attending linux.conf.au 2017. For reference, the form includes the following two questions, which require 1-2 paragraphs to answer: - Why do you want to attend linux.conf.au? What experience do you have that you want to build on at linux.conf.au? - How would you and the communities you're a part of benefit from your attendance at linux.conf.au? Because travel to Australia can be expensive, we may only be able to provide limited travel assistance to applicants outside the Australia and New Zealand region. Applications open on Thursday 17 November. Applications close on Friday 2 December. We will award our first grants on Friday 9 December. To apply, please fill out our application form at https://linux.conf.au/attend/grants/apply If you have any questions, please e-mail team at hobart.lca2017.org -- --Christopher Neugebauer Conference Director - linux.conf.au - January 2017 - Hobart Tickets on sale now! https://linux.conf.au/attend From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Fri Nov 25 10:08:36 2016 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2016 10:08:36 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2017 is looking for volunteers Message-ID: Hello there! We?re looking for volunteers to help make linux.conf.au 2017 a huge success! If you?ve volunteered before and just want to apply, all the details are at https://linux.conf.au/attend/volunteer -- for everyone else, read on! We?re just over 50 days from the start of the conference, but we can?t run the conference on our own. We need help to check attendees in when they arrive, to operate AV equipment such as audio gear and cameras, to direct people around the venue, ensuring our rooms run to schedule, as well as setting up and packing down the conference. Anyone who has been a volunteer before will tell you that it?s an extremely busy but worthwhile time. It?s rewarding to know that you?ve helped everybody at the conference to get the most out of it. There's nothing quite like knowing that you've made a difference. You don't just get to meet the delegates and speakers, you get to know many of them while helping them as well. You get a unique opportunity to get behind the scenes and close to the action. You can forge new relationships with amazing, interesting, wonderful people you might not ever get the chance to meet any other way. In return for your help we'll provide you with morning and afternoon tea, lunch, and a clean t-shirt each day, and if you ask nicely we might even write you a letter of reference at the end of the week. Depending on the number of volunteers and workload, we'll also try our best to schedule things to let volunteers go to their favourite talks. For more information, please visit https://linux.conf.au/attend/volunteer -- we have full details of what we need from our volunteers. We review and approve applications regularly. -- --Christopher Neugebauer Conference Director - linux.conf.au - January 2017 - Hobart Tickets on sale now! https://linux.conf.au/attend