From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Wed Oct 4 09:05:43 2017 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 09:05:43 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] Early Bird ticket sales for linux.conf.au 2018 are open! Message-ID: The linux.conf.au 2018 team are happy to announce that Early Bird ticket sales are now open! Early Bird tickets will be available until the 1st of November or until our initial allocation runs out. Get in early to receive a discount to one of the Asia Pacific?s greatest grassroots open source based conferences. Early Bird pricing is as follows: Fairy Penguin Sponsor: $1849 ($150 discount on regular price) Professional: $849 ($150 discount on regular price) Hobbyist: $349 ($100 discount on regular price) Student tickets are also available for purchase, but due to their already heavily discounted rate there is no additional early bird discount available. For more information visit: https://linux.conf.au/attend See you all there in January! Bruce Crawley, James Polley and the linux.conf.au 2018 team. From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Wed Oct 4 12:35:33 2017 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 12:35:33 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] Official call for bids for linux.conf.au 2020 - LCA 2020 Message-ID: Hi everyone, As the very keen among us know, plans are coming along really well for linux.conf.au 2018 in Sydney and tickets are now available at https://linux.conf.au. We're very much looking forward to seeing you all there, and seeing all the hard work that Bruce Crawley, James Polley and the Sydney team have been doing to deliver a wonderful event. In the meantime, it's time to start thinking about plans for 2020. We may already have informal expressions of interest from two cities, but I can neither confirm nor deny this. Last year, Council assessed bids for LCA2019, and the winning city will be announced at the close of LCA2018 in January next year *cough, Antarctica* ;-) The timeline for the LCA2020 bid? * Earlier this year: Council seeks Expressions of Interest in running linux.conf.au 2020 * October - formal Bids are requested to host linux.conf.au 2020 * November 10th - Submission of formal bids closes * December / January - Council clarifies any questions regarding the bids and reviews them * Quarter 1 2018 - Council conducts Site Inspections with shortlisted Bid Teams * Early 2018 - Council decides on the winning city and informs the Bid Teams * January 2019 - Winning bid is announced at linux.conf.au in $CITY_FOR_LCA2019 If you've ever sat in the back of a LUG meeting or an LCA talk, or had an informal chat to someone about running an LCA, now is the time to put that idea into action. If you were the person two seats back listening in, go bug that person to put in a bid. If you haven't already, the first thing to do is to send an email to council at linux.org.au to let us know you are thinking of submitting a bid. You should also CC linux-aus at linux.org.au, this might help you find other people keen on helping you out. Once you've done that here are two documents to help you get started: * https://wiki.linux.org.au/Linux.conf.au_Bid_Guidelines * https://wiki.linux.org.au/LCA_HOWTO The first outlines what is required for the bid process, while the second gives a fairly detailed overview of the sorts of things you need to think about when preparing to run an LCA, and provides example bid documents. We have more bid documents that aren't linked here which we can provide. There is also a comprehensive Event Portal with lots of useful information on how to run a successful event at: https://wiki.linux.org.au/Linux_Australia:Events_Portal So go out, get your team together, talk to some venues/vendors and start bidding to run the next awesome LCA! Armed with your amazing organising skills, this is your opportunity to show off your city, do what you always wanted to do at LCA, add something extra special to the conference and have a say in the programme of the conference. This is something you will remember for a lifetime and gain life-long friends, professional contacts and the experience looks amazing on a resume. Not to mention, it?s great fun to run! Once you've finalised your bid document then please send to Council at linux.org.au and linux-aus at linux.org.au. If you are thinking of bidding, please put your hand up sooner rather than later so that the Council can make sure you get the support you need to prepare a high quality bid. Please don?t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or need any help in preparing your bid. Please do forward this on to anyone you think may be interested. 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Coming from a legal background she has also worked as general counsel of the Software Freedom Law Center before becoming executive director of the GNOME Foundation. We are as pleased to welcome her back to LCA as a keynote speaker as she is to be back for another year. For more details about the conference and to purchase your tickets please visit our website at http://linux.conf.au Everyone is encouraged to remain up to date with conference news through one of the following channels: Twitter: @linuxconfau, hashtag #lca2018 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/linuxconferenceaustralia LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/linuxconfau IRC: #linux.conf.au on freenode.net Announce mailing list: http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/lca-announce Regards Bruce Crawley, James Polley and the linux.conf.au 2018 team From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Sun Oct 22 18:06:01 2017 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2017 18:06:01 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] Miniconfs, Main Schedule, Accommodation and more! Message-ID: Hi everyone, The linux.conf.au 2018 team have been busy working to progress the conference forward. To that end we would like to announce the following: Miniconf Call for Proposals --------------------------- Our list of miniconfs for linux.conf.au 2018 is available here: https://linux.conf.au/programme/miniconfs/ A number of the miniconfs are accepting submissions right now! Others are creating their talk schedule in other ways - this is something that is left entirely up to the organiser of the miniconf. We encourage everyone to take a look through the list and see if there is a miniconf you would like to submit to. What are miniconfs? Miniconfs are dedicated, specialised day-long tracks organised by community members and held on the first 2 days of the conference. First introduced at linux.conf.au 2002, they are now a traditional element of the conference. They were originally intended as an incubator -- both of future conferences and speakers -- and have now grown into their entity. Main Conference Schedule ------------------------ We are extremely pleased to let everyone know that the linux.conf.au 2018 website now has a link to the main conference schedule covering Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the conference. We hope that everyone is able to find talks that they like there. A huge thanks to this year?s papers selection committee for all their hard work in determining this schedule. With over 380 submissions this would not have been possible without them. https://rego.linux.conf.au/schedule/ Accommodation ------------- We have spent many months talking to various accommodation vendors and have struck a few deals to try and make attending the conference a bit easier if you are coming from out of town. Please take a look at what is on offer at: https://linux.conf.au/attend/accommodation/ Early Bird Ticket Sales ----------------------- A huge thanks to everyone who have secured their Early Bird tickets already! We are currently on target to close the early bird registrations on the 31st of October. Don?t delay if you are after a discounted ticket to a fantastic conference! Hobbyists will pay $349 instead of the regular $449 for a saving of $100 Professionals will pay $849 instead of the regular $999 for a saving of $150 Fairy Penguin Sponsors will pay $1849 instead of the regular $1999 for a saving of $150 Sponsorship ----------- Sponsorship opportunities are still available for linux.conf.au 2018. Sponsors of linux.conf.au have a unique opportunity to reach a large number of influential industry professionals and help improve the community at a grassroots level. Every person who attends linux.conf.au is passionate about software, open source and open ideals. For more information on how your company can be involved visit: https://linux.conf.au/sponsors/ --------------------------- Thank you to everyone involved and we look forward to seeing you all there in January! Regards Bruce Crawley, James Polley and the LCA2018 team From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Wed Oct 25 07:15:25 2017 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:15:25 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2018 keynote announcement #2! Message-ID: The LCA2018 team would like to formally announce container developer and open source advocate Jess Frazelle as a keynote presenter at the upcoming linux.conf.au 2018 conference being hosted at UTS in Sydney from January 22-26. Jess recently started at Microsoft where she enthusiastically continues to work on containers, Open Source, and Linux. Prior to that she has worked as a software engineer at Google and after that at Docker. She has been a maintainer of Docker, contributor to RunC, Kubernetes and Golang as well as other projects. She loves all things involving Linux namespaces and cgroups and is probably most well known for running desktop applications in containers and her work on making containers secure. Early Bird tickets are selling fast, and will no longer be available after the 31st of October - you can save up to $150 of the regular ticket price if you order before then. Visit https://linux.conf.au to register before Early Bird tickets run out! We hope you all make her feel very welcome and we hope to see you all in Sydney this coming January. Bruce Crawley, James Polley and the linux.conf.au 2018 team From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Mon Oct 30 07:17:41 2017 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 07:17:41 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2018 keynote announcement #3! Message-ID: The LCA2018 team would like to formally announce a pioneer in the field of Open Source Research, Matthew Todd, as a keynote presenter at the upcoming linux.conf.au 2018 conference being hosted at UTS in Sydney from January 22-26. Matthew has spearheaded initiatives such as the Open Source Malaria and Open Source Pharmacy projects which aim to provide a new approach by borrowing ideals and concepts from the open source software industry and applying them to his own. Originally from the UK, Matthew moved to Australia in 2005 and is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Chemistry at Sydney University. His work in the Open Science movement has received a lot of interest and found a lot of like minded supported within this field. Our discounted Early Bird ticket sales close in just a few days from now, on the 31st of October - more information and pricing is available at https://linux.conf.au/attend/ We?re excited to have an opportunity to hear Matthew's perspectives and we hope to see you all in Sydney in January. Bruce Crawley, James Polley and the linux.conf.au 2018 team