linux.conf.au 2015 News

Thank you all for being awesome!

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Just over a year ago in Perth, we invited you to a party at our place, and we feel as if that is exactly what #lca2015 has been.

You have Been Awesome guests, and it's been a great party.

We had fantastic feedback from our event venues. MOTAT told us that their volunteer enthusiasts who were staffing the exhibits really enjoyed the intelligent conversations that they had with you. The staff at Sweat Shop said that you were all extremely well behaved which was why they were happy to keep the bar open for as long as you wanted.

We couldn't have asked for more from our guests.

We had a great time, and now it's time to relax for a little while. The videos of the presentations and keynotes are now online, and we're uploading the slides as they come in.

Our Thanks To

  • Linux Australia for trusting us with this amazing event
  • Our Speakers, Miniconf Organisers and Keynote / Plenary presenters
  • Linus, Bdale, Andrew and Rusty for the Q&A Session on Friday
  • The delegates for joining us in Auckland for #lca2015
  • The Sponsors for their contributions to linux.conf.au
  • AV, Video and Network Team
  • Rego Desk
  • Partners Program Team
  • Room Runners
  • Our Drivers
  • Graphics and design team for our website, logos and associated swag
  • The ghosts of conferences past
  • ...and the team who have spent so much of the last year putting this event together

Some Numbers

As part of our closing session we provided some numbers regarding LCA 2015.
  • 0 - Unclaimed badges or bags at rego desk
  • 1 - Virtual session
  • 3 - Official social events for our attendees
  • 8 - Years since Cherie and Steven first attended #lca2007 in Sydney
  • 9 - Participants in our Keynote, Plenary and Q&A Sessions
  • 13 - Miniconfs
  • 89 - Main Program talks / tutorials
  • 470 - Days from being notified that Auckland would host #lca2015 until our closing ceremony
  • 650 - Average number of distinct devices on the conference delegate WiFi network
  • 715 - Days from the #lca2015 BoF held at #lca2013 in Canberra until the close of #lca2015
  • 3113 - Coffees served up by Tuihana Cafe
  • 3GB/s - Typical daily peak data utilisation on the conference WiFi network

To the future

The whole #lca2015 Auckland team wish the best of luck to the #lca2016 Geelong team...

Haere rā

Cherie and Steven Ellis

Thank you to Linus Torvalds for this mornings Q&A

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The #lca2015 team want to thank Linus, Bdale, Rusty and Andrew for the Q&A session which opened the conference this morning.

Linus Torvalds with Steven and Cherie Linus Q&A Audience

Friday Session - Q&A with Linus Torvalds

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Linus Torvalds

Way, way back in 2003, at LCA in Perth, there was a Q&A session with Linus Torvalds, Bdale Garbee and Andrew Tridgell. It’s time for a follow-up so at LCA 2015 in Auckland it’s going to happen!

The Q&A session is scheduled for 09:00 am Friday, 16 January 2015 and will be moderated by Bdale Garbee with the assistance of Andrew Tridgell.

Helsinki-born Linus, who simply calls himself a Software Engineer, was the principal force behind developing the Linux kernel. It all started from an initial usenet posting in August of 1991 and made what has proved to be a historic debut with the release of version 1.0 on March 14 1994.

In June 2003 Linus started working for Open Source Development Labs. After merging with the Free Standards Group it became the Linux Foundation where Linus continues to work as the project’s coordinator and is Chief Architect of the Linux kernel.

In 2005, after criticism for his use and alleged advocacy of BitKeeper, proprietary software for version-control in the Linux kernel, Linus wrote a free-software replacement for BitKeeper called GIT which is now the most widely-adopted version-control system for software development.

The LCA 2015 Auckland team would like to thank the Linux Foundation for their assistance in making this possible.

SWAG and sponsored items information page

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Below is info and pictures of some of the amazing swag in this year's bag! If you want to take home some extra SWAG then go see the lovely volunteers at reception and you will be able to purchase some extras. The prices are below. We have only limited stock, so be quick!

The SWAG will be on sale after all people have completed registration on Wednesday morning.



Mi Power Bank 10400mAh

Mi Power Bank

This USB charger has rave reviews, due it's form factor and the amount of power it is able to pack into it's small size. The Mi Power Bank contains LG Lithium-ion batteries that can endure 500+ recharge cycles and a rated capacity of 3.6V/10400mAh (TYP). See www.mi.com for more details.

LCA Price: $NZ 40.00


Usage
  • The micro-USB port is used to recharge the power bank. It is best to use a 2.0A or higher charger for this.
  • The standard USB port is used to charge your target device (for example, your phone).
  • There are four white lights beside the power button used to indicate the power bank's charge. Each light represents 25% of the total charge available. For example, if all four lights are lit then the powerbank is 75-100% full.
  • To see the current charge in the power bank press-and-release the power button.
  • Plugging your target device into the standard USB port starts charging your target device automatically.
  • To briefly suspend charging of your target device without unplugging it from the power bank, hold down the "power" button on the power bank. Releasing the button will resume charging the target device.
  • When you disconnect your target device from the standard USB port the power bank will shut itself down automatically after 2 minutes.


LCA Bag (rucksack)

LCA Bag

The LCA bag by Freeset Global is made under fair trade working conditions using sustainable or organic materials. Freeset Global are serious about bettering the lives of their producers and they also re-invest all profits back to the communities that create our products.

Price: $NZ 10.00


The Coffee Cup

Coffee Cup

The trendy coffee cups are made in New Zealand by CUPPACOFFEECUP. These recyclable coffee cups are made from food-grade polypropylene, which means they are hardy enough for you to reuse them many times, and when you do dispose of them they can be recycled into new consumer goods.

If wish a different design for your coffee cup, take it back to the registration desk and we can exchange it.

Price: $NZ 10.00

Stickers

We should probably mention the stickers and toiletries - they're free - please take them - we have hundreds of them. :-)

Thursday Plenary: What the Foo?

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On Thursday, as part of our taking a different approach to keynote sessions for linux.conf.au 2015, we’re offering representatives from 3 leaders in open source to give us their “15 minutes of foo” to start our day. We expect this will be interesting, enlightening and entertaining.

Cooper Lees - Facebook

Cooper Lees

Representing Facebook we’ve got Cooper Lees providing an insight into the numerous open source projects they leverage every day, how they are working upstream, and innovations like the Open Compute Projects and FBOSS (their linux switch/router project).

Cooper is a Production Engineer in the Network PE team at Facebook in Menlo Park, CA, originally hailing from Wollongong, NSW, Australia. Network PE help the ‘true’ Network Engineers automate the network, not re-invent the wheel and take on existing Facebook technologies that solve their problem. Outside of being a nerd, Cooper enjoys playing Cricket, AFL (yes, in the Bay area) and Snowboarding in Tahoe as much as possible.

Carol Smith - Google

Carol Smith

Google Summer of code is now 10 years old, and Carol Smith from Google will be provide an update on the project and how this is benefiting the open source community in our part of the world.

Carol Smith is an Open Source Programs Manager at Google. She has managed the Google Summer of Code program for 5 years. She has a degree in Journalism from California State University, Northridge.

Mark McLoughlin - Red Hat

Mark McLoughlin

Then from Red Hat we’ve Mark McLoughlin with some insight on some of the innovation we should see in 2015. Mark will give a whirlwind tour of recent technology shifts - covering everything from virtualization, containers, IaaS, PaaS, SDN, scale-out storage, Big Data, DevOps and more - and how they are all coming together to form the basis of today's agile data center.

Mark McLoughlin is a consulting engineer at Red Hat and has spent over a decade contributing to and leading open source projects like GNOME, Fedora, KVM, qemu, libvirt, oVirt and, of course, OpenStack. Mark is a member of OpenStack’s technical committee and the OpenStack Foundation board of directors. He contributes mostly to Oslo, Nova and TripleO but will happily dive in to any project.

Wednesday Keynote Speaker - Bob Young

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Bob Young

Our Wednesday Keynote speaker is Bob Young, founder and chairman of Lulu.com, co-founder of Red Hat and the Center for Public Domain.

Bob Young is the founder and chairman of Lulu.com, a premiere international marketplace for new digital content on the Internet, with more than 300,000 recently published titles and more than 15,000 new creators from 80 different countries joining each week.

Lulu.com, founded in 2002, is Young's most recent endeavour. The success of this company has earned Young notable recognition; he was named one of the "Top 50 Agenda-Setters in the Technology Industry in 2006" and was ranked as the fourth "Top Entrepreneur for 2006," both by Silicon.com.

In 1993, Young co-founded Red Hat (NYSE: RHT), the open-source software company that gives hardware and software vendors a standard platform on which to certify their technology. Red Hat is a Fortune 500 company and chief rival to Microsoft. His success at Red Hat won him industry accolades, including nomination as one of Business Week's "Top Entrepreneurs" in 1999

Before founding Red Hat, Young spent 20 years at the helm of two computer-leasing companies that he founded. His experiences as a high tech entrepreneur combined with his innate marketing savvy led to Red Hat's success. His book, "Under the Radar", chronicles how Red Hat's open source strategy successfully won wide industry acceptance in a market previously dominated by proprietary binary-only systems. Young has also imparted the lessons learned from his entrepreneurial experiences through his contributions to the books to "You've GOT to Read This Book!" and "Chicken Soup for the Entrepreneur's Soul."

In 2000, Young co-founded the Center for Public Domain, a non-profit foundation created to bolster healthy conversation of intellectual property, patent and copyright law, and the management of the public domain for the common good. Grant recipients included the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Creative Commons, the Free Software Foundation, and the Future of Music Coalition.

In addition to enjoying fly fishing, Young collects calculators and antique typewriters, a nod to his beginnings as a typewriter salesman and can usually be found sporting a pair of red socks. However, instead of red on his head, Young now tips his orange hat.

The LCA 2015 Auckland Team

Tuesday Keynote Speaker - Professor Eben Moglen

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Eben Moglen

Today we have our first Keynote speaker - Professor Eben Moglen, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Law Center and professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School.

Professor Moglen's presentation is scheduled for 09:00 am Tuesday, 13 January 2015 so don't be late.

Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free software developers. He earned his PhD in History and his law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven.

After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School since 1987 and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia.

In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.

The LCA 2015 Auckland Team

linux.conf.au 2015 is low live #BeHere #lca2015

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Registration is downstairs (level 0) at the Owen G Glenn Business School at the University of Auckland.

We look forward to seeing you there, and we even have a coffee cart in the vicinity to keep those caffeine levels up.

Map of Owen G Glenn Building (OGGB)

OGGB Level 0


Look for redshirts around the University - they will be happy to point you in the right direction!

Minions in Red Shirt

Conference registration opens 2pm today #BeRegistered

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Registration this year will be downstairs (level 0) at the Owen G Glenn Business School at the University of Auckland.

We look forward to seeing you there, and we even have a coffee cart in the vicinity to keep those caffeine levels up.

Map of Owen G Glenn Building (OGGB)

Follow the yellow path starting on Level 1 (see map below) to the rego desk which is on level 0 (downstairs).

OGGB Level 1

The map below shows the level 0 (downstairs) of the OGGB building

OGGB Level 0


Look for redshirts around the University - they will be happy to point you in the right direction!

Minions in Red Shirt

Keynote Speaker - Professor Eben Moglen

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Eben Moglen

The LCA 2015 team is honoured to announce our first Keynote speaker - Professor Eben Moglen, Executive Director of the Software Freedom Law Center and professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School.

Professor Moglen's presentation is scheduled for 09:00 am Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free software developers. He earned his PhD in History and his law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven.

After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School since 1987 and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia.

In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.

We are especially grateful to Michael Davies for his efforts in bringing Professor Moglen to LCA 2015 in Auckland for us - thank you Michael!

The LCA 2015 Auckland Team

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