From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Thu Dec 3 10:01:30 2020 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2020 09:01:30 +1000 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2021 - Keynote Announcement: Limor "Ladyada" Fried Message-ID: We're delighted to announce that Limor "Ladyada" Fried, electrical engineer and founder of Adafruit, will be one of our keynote speakers at linux.conf.au 2021. The conference is taking place online, worldwide, from Saturday 23 to Monday 25 January 2021. In her keynote, Limor will discuss how Python is snaking its way into hardware, Linux single board computers and more. Tickets are now available at linux.conf.au so jump on and grab yours to hear what Limor has to say. About Limor "Ladyada" Fried MIT engineer Limor Fried founded Adafruit in 2005. Her goal was to create the best place online for learning electronics and to make the best designed products for makers of all ages and skill levels. In the last 10 years, Adafruit has grown to over 100+ employees in the heart of New York City. Adafruit has expanded offerings to include tools, equipment, and electronics that Limor personally selects, tests, and approves before going into the Adafruit store. Limor was the first female engineer on the cover of WIRED magazine, awarded Entrepreneur Magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year, and was on the cover of Make: Vol. 57. She was a founding member of the New York City Industrial Business Advisory Council. Limor was named a White House Champion of Change in 2016. In 2018 she became one of "America's Top 50 Women in Tech" by Forbes Magazine. Adafruit is ranked #11 in the top 20 USA manufacturing companies and #1 in New York City by Inc. 5000 "fastest growing private companies." During the COVID-19 outbreak Adafruit Industries has been operating as an essential service and manufacturing business making PPE and medical device components. In 2020 Limor was appointed to the Small Business Sector Advisory Council by the City of New York to help restart the NYC economy post COVID-19 pandemic. We look forward to welcoming Limor to linux.conf.au 2021. But wait... there's more! We are pleased to announce that our schedule (https://linux.conf.au/schedule/) has been released! Wow what a wonderful list of speakers joining us for LCA2021. Also make sure you lock in your ticket ASAP to be able to get a Swag Badge (https://linux.conf.au/attend/swag-badge/). There are limited numbers left :) About linux.conf.au Australasia's grassroots Free and Open Source technologies conference, linux.conf.au, will be held online, worldwide, from Saturday 23 to Monday 25 January 2021. Running since 1999, linux.conf.au is the largest linux and open source conference in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference provides deeply technical presentations from industry leaders and experts on a wide array of subjects relating to open source projects, data and open government and community engagement. How to get tickets? Jump onto linux.conf.au to grab your ticket via your dashboard at https://linux.conf.au/dashboard/. If you need help convincing your employer to let you attend linux.conf.au 2021, we have a page to assist. Check out our why should your employees attend (https://linux.conf.au/attend/why-should-employees-attend/) page, and share it with your manager. --- Read this online at https://lca2021.linux.org.au/news/keynote-limor-fried/ From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Tue Dec 15 21:37:48 2020 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:37:48 +1000 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2021 - Keynote Announcement: Omoju Miller Message-ID: The good news keeps on coming! We're delighted to announce that Omoju Miller will be one of our keynote speakers at linux.conf.au 2021. The conference is taking place online, worldwide, from Saturday 23 to Monday 25 January 2021. In her keynote, Omoju will discuss participation in open source as a form of cognitive apprenticeship. She will map out how the transition step from novice to expert aligns with the progressions we see in the roles taken on in open source communities. Omoju will share ideas on how to make the transition from beginner to master faster by accessing what we know from education research. This follows the earlier announcement of our first keynote speaker, Limor Fried. Tickets are now available at linux.conf.au. Secure yours today to hear what Omoju and Limor have to say. ## About Omoju Miller Omoju Miller is the Technical Advisor to the CEO at GitHub. Her expertise is in the area of machine learning and computational intelligence. Previously, Omoju co-led Google's non-profit investment in computer science education and served as a volunteer advisor to the Obama administration's White House Presidential Innovation Fellows. Omoju joined Github in 2017 to help build recommendation engines for the popular open-source software development platform. She took on the role of Technical Advisor to the CEO in February 2020. Originally from Lagos, Nigeria, Omoju holds a doctoral degree in Computer Science Education from UC Berkeley. We look forward to welcoming Omoju to linux.conf.au 2021. ## About linux.conf.au Australasia's grassroots Free and Open Source technologies conference, linux.conf.au, will be held online, worldwide, from Saturday 23 to Monday 25 January 2021. Running since 1999, linux.conf.au is the largest linux and open source conference in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference provides deeply technical presentations from industry leaders and experts on a wide array of subjects relating to open source projects, data and open government and community engagement. ## How to get tickets? Jump onto linux.conf.au to grab your ticket via your dashboard (https://linux.conf.au/dashboard/). If you need help convincing your employer to let you attend linux.conf.au 2021, we have a page to assist. Check out our why should your employees attend (https://linux.conf.au/attend/why-should-employees-attend/) page, and share it with your employer. ## Have you seen our schedule yet? Have you noticed the room names? Each of the rooms are dedicated to a person that has had a great impact on linux.conf.au and Linux Australia. Tux Theatre - is named after Linux's mascot Tux (duh) but because we couldn't be in Tux's hometown Canberra for 2021 we thought we would dedicate the main theatre to Tux! Rusty R. Hall - named after Paul "Rusty" Russell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusty_Russell). He was the one who started all of this linux.conf.au mess when he organised the Conference of Australian Linux Users (CALU) in 1999, and which then helped initiate Linux Australia. Pia Andrews Conservatory - Pia Andrews (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pia_Andrews) is best known for her open government work and her years of contributions to Linux Australia. Pia is also a musician and a Conservatory in musical terms is a place for learning music so we thought calling the stream a Conservatory would be perfect! Blemings Labs - Now for those of you who doesn't know Hugh (turns out he doesn't have a Wikipedia page, someone please fix that!), Hugh has been an attendee at linux.conf.au at most, if not all, prior LCAs and is a previous Linux Australia President and Council Member. --- Read this online at https://lca2021.linux.org.au/news/keynote-omoju-miller/ From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Thu Dec 17 21:15:01 2020 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 21:15:01 +1100 Subject: [lca-announce] Submit to speak at a miniconf! TIME IS RUNNING OUT!!!!! Message-ID: Dear All, A quick reminder that Call for Sessions for Miniconfs is closing really really really soon (18th Dec AoE) and we really would like to see some fantastic sessions happening. The miniconfs are: * Kernel: https://linux.conf.au/programme/miniconfs/kernel/ * Open Hardware: https://linux.conf.au/programme/miniconfs/open-hardware/ * GO GLAM (Generous and Open Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums): https://linux.conf.au/programme/miniconfs/glam/ * System Administration: https://linux.conf.au/programme/miniconfs/system-administration/ [1] Also a shout out to the team that is managing the SwagBadge project for us. You have done amazing work and it's fantastic to see all these parcels going out! It's people like you who make this conference so awesome :) If you have any questions about the linux.conf.au 2021 please don't hesitate to reach out to us at contact at lca2021.linux.org.au Thanks! Sae Ra -- Sae Ra Germaine Chair, linux.conf.au 2021 President, Linux Australia president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au [2] Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 Links: ------ [1] https://linux.conf.au/programme/miniconfs/system-administration/ [2] http://linux.org.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au Tue Dec 22 11:24:24 2020 From: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au (linux.conf.au Announcements) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 10:24:24 +1000 Subject: [lca-announce] linux.conf.au 2021 - Keynote Announcement: Cory Doctorow Message-ID: Exciting news! We're thrilled to announce that Cory Doctorow will be one of our keynote speakers at linux.conf.au 2021. The conference is taking place online, worldwide, from Saturday 23 to Monday 25 January 2021. Be sure to grab a ticket to hear Cory explain how software freedom is essential to human freedom, and discuss the urgency of reclaiming our digital rights in an era of digital monopolies. ## About Cory Doctorow Cory Doctorow is a science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He's a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor; he is also a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina's School of Library and Information Science. Cory is the award-winning author of Walkaway, Little Brother, and Information Doesn't Want to Be Free (among many others). His latest book released earlier this year is Attack Surface, a standalone adult sequel to Little Brother. His novels have been translated into dozens of languages. Cory co-founded the open source peer-to-peer software company OpenCola. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a proponent of the Creative Commons organisation, using some of their licenses for his books. In his speeches, Cory Doctorow outlines key issues of the digital age - in particular, the confluence of intellectual property law, futurism and politics. According to Cory, digital copyright laws have, in general, not served either creators or users well since the dawn of the internet. You can follow Cory's blog at Pluralistic.net. We are looking forward to welcoming Cory to linux.conf.au 2021. ## About linux.conf.au Australasia's grassroots Free and Open Source technologies conference, linux.conf.au, will be held online, worldwide, from Saturday 23 to Monday 25 January 2021. Running since 1999, linux.conf.au is the largest linux and open source conference in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference provides deeply technical presentations from industry leaders and experts on a wide array of subjects relating to open source projects, data and open government and community engagement. ## How to get tickets? Jump onto linux.conf.au to grab your ticket via your dashboard (https://linux.conf.au/dashboard/). If you need help convincing your employer to let you attend linux.conf.au 2021, we have a page to assist. Check out our why should your employees attend (https://linux.conf.au/attend/why-should-employees-attend/) page, and share it with your employer. ## Have you received your SwagBadge yet? Our awesome Open Hardware team have been building the LCA2021 SwagBadge (https://linux.conf.au/attend/swag-badge/) for the past few months. They reached an exciting milestone this week, starting to send out badges to delegates! We wanted to send a very special shout out to our SwagBadge team: Jon Oxer, Andy Gelme, Nicola Nye, John Spencer and Andrew Nielsen. Without them all those parcels of goodies wouldn't have made it to our attendees. There are still some badges left, so if you're in Australia make sure you grab a ticket today and choose to get a SwagBadge! --- Read this online at https://lca2021.linux.org.au/news/keynote-cory-doctorow/