From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Wed Aug 29 21:19:57 2018 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 11:19:57 -0000 Subject: [lca-announce] Official call for bids for linux.conf.au 2021 - LCA 2021 Message-ID: Hi everyone, ? As the very keen among us know, plans are coming along really well for linux.conf.au 2019 in Christchurch and more information is available at https://linux.conf.au. We're very much looking forward to seeing you all there. ? In the meantime, it's time to start thinking about plans for 2021. ? Last year, Council assessed bids for LCA2020, and the winning city will be announced at the close of LCA2019 in January next year *cough, Cairns* ;-) ? The timeline for the LCA2021 bid: Earlier this year: Council seeks Expressions of Interest in running linux.conf.au 2021 August - formal Bids are requested to host linux.conf.au 2021 October 27th - Submission of formal bids closes November / December - Council clarifies any questions regarding the bids and reviews them Quarter 1 2019 - Council conducts Site Inspections with shortlisted Bid Teams Early 2019 - Council decides on the winning city and informs the Bid Teams January 2020 - Winning bid is announced at linux.conf.au in $CITY_FOR_LCA2021 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 onto anyone you think may be interested. ? Looking forward to seeing your bids! ? Sae Ra -- Sae Ra Germaine Secretary Linux Australia secretary at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Fri Aug 31 12:15:11 2018 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2018 02:15:11 -0000 Subject: [lca-announce] LCA 2019 update Message-ID: Hearing rumours that folk are panicing about the silence... We've picked a bumper crop of papers for this years LCA, thank you everyone that submitted a proposal. Acceptances are going out bit by bit - don't panic if you haven't heard anything: we can't send them all at once because this is basically a three-way handshake: proposal, offer, accept - and until we've got all the accepts back in a lot of proposals get stuck in limbo. Registrations will be opening in October we hope, will update you as soon as we can. Thanks, LCA 2019 Team