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 are bringing up the entire zookeepr instance so that the CFP will work properly.
We’ve been getting heaps of stuff done over the past few months. We’ve had a “ghosts” meeting (a meeting with former LCA directors), found conference and social venues, and are gearing up for the Call For Presentations.
We’ve signed a contract for the keynote venue, which I think you will all really enjoy. We have also locked in our booking for the lecture theatres, which is now working its way through the ANU process. For social events, we’ve got a great venue for the penguin dinner, and have shortlisted venues for the speakers’ dinner and the professional delegates’ networking session. We’re taking a bit of extra time here because we want venues that are special, and not just the ones which first came to mind.
The ghosts meeting went really well and I think we learnt some important things. The LCA 2013 team is a bit unusual, because so many of us have been on a LCA core team before, but that gave us a chance to dig into things which deserved more attention and skip over the things which are self-evident. We want to take the opportunity in 2013 to have the most accessible, diverse and technically deep conference that we possibly can, and there was a lot of discussion around those issues. We’ve also had it drummed into us that communications with delegates is vitally important and you should expect our attempts to communicate to ramp up as the conference approaches.
I’m really excited about the progress we’ve made so far, and I feel like we’re in a really good state right now. As always, please feel free to contact the LCA2013 team at contact@lca2013.linux.org.au if you have any questions.