Re: [Linux-aus] New name for linux.conf.au in 2007

[Tim Connors <tconnors+la@astro.swin.edu.au>]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Mark Phillips wrote:

> 
> > > > On 1/9/07, David Lloyd <lloy0076@adam.com.au> wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Would you be willing to put together a bid for Linux.Conf.Maralinga 2009
> > > >> with me?
> > > >
> 
> Ummm I have to agree that a bid should be mounted for
> linux.conf.Maralinga for 3009.
> 
> Maralinga solves two of the perennial problems with ease,
> 
> 1) a site, the old disused barracks and homes used in the tests, very
> likely vacant and thus cheap rental, and
> 
> 2) over the last few years with the designated three colours needed for
> the conference t-shirts we are running out of suitable colour
> combinations. Admittedly I liked NZ's the best but then I am partial to
> black t-shirts anyway. So a suitable colour for the main attendee
> t-shirts for Maralinga would be fluorescent glow in the dark green. The
> bid team leaders and heloers could have that amazing bright blue that
> comes from deacaying meat.

You mean cherenkov radiation?  Shiny!

-- 
Tim Connors
http://site.aao.gov.au/twc