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The pyconau call for proposals is now open, and runs until 28 May. I took my teenagers to pyconau last year and they greatly enjoyed it. I hadn’t been to a pyconau in ages, and ended up really enjoying thinking about things from topic areas I don’t normally need to think about. I think expanding…
LCA2015 will be in Auckland, New Zealand next year, and the Call for Proposals has just opened! The conference is one of the best venues in Australia and New Zealand to get word out about your Open Source project, as well as learning about the cool things that other people are doing. This is the…
I’ve just emailed this out to the relevant lists, but I figured it can’t hurt to post it here as well… linux.conf.au will be hosting the second OpenStack mini-conference to run in Australia. The first one was well attended, and this mini-conference will be the first OpenStack conference to be held on Australia’s west coast….
I just want to make sure that everyone knows that the LCA2014 call for proposals is open. There are two calls this time around — a call for proposals and a call for miniconfs. The call for proposals closes on 6 July, so you don’t have heaps of time left to submit something. So, if…
Conference t-shirts can’t be that hard, right? I certainly don’t remember them being difficult when Canberra last hosted linux.conf.au in 2005. I was the person who arranged all the swag for that conference, so I should remember. Yet here I am having spent hours on the phone with vendors, and surrounded with discarded sample t-shirts,…
The call for presentations opens on 1 June, which is only 11 days away! So if you’re thinking of speaking at the conference (a presentation, tutorial, or miniconference), now would be a good time to start thinking about what you’re going to say. While you’re thinking, please spare a thought for our web team, who…
It’s time to start thinking about your talk proposals, because the call for papers is only eight weeks away! For the 2013 conference, the papers committee are going to be focusing on deep technical content, and things we think are going to really matter in the future — that might range from freedom and privacy,…
It seems that stickers are a gas — they expand to occupy available space. We thought we’d ordered heaps of extra stickers to promote LCA 2013, but now we find ourselves running low. That’s not a huge problem, but I do wonder if they are getting used or are just in the bottom of people’s…
I imagine that most people saw this at the conference closing. However, for completeness and because I feel that if we’re going to put videos of other speakers online then I should suffer the same fate, here is the LCA 2013 announcement from Ballarat:
Canberra was announced as the host for LCA 2013 at the close of LCA 2012. As part of that closing, we handed out postcards and laptop stickers to delegates. However, we deliberately had extra printed on the theory that groups like LUGs, university computer societies and so forth would be interested in having promotional materials…