Steven Hanley wrote:
Mikal (Michael Still) ran something along these lines in Canberra not long after lca2005 and he pointed out it was a lot easier to run and organise at the time. He submitted a plan to La at the time for how to do this one a national scale.
Didn't actually run, wrote proposal / plan for.
Simple one day events on open software related stuff regularly around Australia, much cheaper to attend, much easier to run.
Mikal