I am incredibly pleased to announce that linux.conf.au 2013 will be hosted by Canberra, Australia between 28 January 2013 to 2 February 2013. As the director for 2013 I have been blessed with a simply incredible team who has done fantastic work during the bid process, and I am confident that we will pull off…
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Its a good sign that they’re already making fun of me, right?
So, today on IRC… 16:07 <mikal> So, breakfast catering at the student accommodation… Will there be bacon? 16:07 <ctudball> mikal: You have my permission to riot if there is no bacon. 16:07 <mikal> Yay! 16:07 <mikal> Real coffee? 16:08 <ctudball> mikal: No. 16:08 <mikal> ! … 16:10 <mikal> I can still add breakfast to my…
Canberra’s LCA2013 bid
I’m really proud of the hard work that all of the Canberra 2013 team has done in preparing our bid for LCA 2013. I just sent off the emails making our bid formal. Here’s what I said on the linux-aus mailing list: Hello. I am pleased to present Canberra’s bid for linux.conf.au 2013. It is…
Canberra officially expresses interest in hosting LCA in 2013
For those playing along at home, you will have noticed that there is a pretty keen group of people in Canberra who intend to bid for LCA 2013. Linux Australia has now called for formal expressions of interest, and I just sent ours in. I wont repost it here, but instead will suggest you checkout…
The mechanics of bidding for LCA
As I sit here reading the notes from the Future LCAs birds of a feather at LCA2011, I’ve come to the realization that most of the conversation was about the mechanics of what is required for an LCA bid. It can be daunting to know what needs to be done in order to have a…
LCA 2012: Ballarat
So, a million people have blogged and tweeted about this, so I’m going to keep this short. Congratulations to Ballarat on their winning 2012 bid. They’ve stepped up for what is a massive job, with the added complications of being the first to try something a little new. As a ghost I appreciate them being…
Contact details for the Canberra LCA 2013 bid
Hi. I just wanted to quickly let people know that if they’re interested in being kept informed about the bid for LCA 2013 to be in Canberra, you should subscribe to our mailing list at http://lists.clug.org.au/listinfo/canberra2013. We’ll send regular updates to that list as we hit important deadlines during the bid process. [btags:]
LCA 2013 bid process opens – Canberra at the ready!
For the last several months, a small group of people in Canberra including myself have been preparing a bid for LCA 2013. This is not just to give us more time to make the conference the most awesome, froody LCA you’ve ever been to. No – 2013 is also the centenary of the founding of…
Things I’m taking to the Arduino miniconf
I figured I’d go to the Arduino miniconf and help out with the assembly tutorial. That got me thinking about what I should take that’s relatively small, but likely to be helpful. So far I’ve got: My butane soldering iron and solder (I’m not packing butane though, I’ll have to find that up there) De-soldering…
Registered
I’m registered for LCA 2011! I wasn’t expecting to be able to come due to a clash with a work event, but then they moved that event. So, I’m pretty happy about that. Have you registered yet? Early bird closes soon…