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lca photos

GNOME hackers: Malcolm, Glynn, JamesH, Havoc, Keithp, jdub

More photos are linked from the lca wiki: Photos.

posted Tue 20 Jan 2004 in /conf/lca2004 | link

havoc

Havoc Pennington did a good talk on the GNOME desktop.

"Open Source creates more opportunities for more people — users, businesses, developers."

posted Sat 17 Jan 2004 in /conf/lca2004 | link

Bdale

Bdale did a good talk on the ideas of community.

“You haven't lived until you've seen four thousand passionate Brazillians jumping up and down on their chairs shouting ‘Software Libre!’.”

“You can't have a vision until you've established every one has a shared set of values.”

“You're all going to be using Debian eventually, so you might as well get it over with...”

posted Fri 16 Jan 2004 in /conf/lca2004 | link

linux.conf.au started

I'm in Adelaide for the start of linux.conf.au.

This morning we had a great talk from Keith Packard from HP about his cairo graphics work. Robert Collins soothed my fears about arch. So pretty! I think spending 80% of CPU on repainting an analog clock is a perfectly reasonable. :-)

Many cool people are here; apparently over 500 altogether.

posted Wed 14 Jan 2004 in /conf/lca2004 | link

linux.conf.au 2004 programme out

Linux.Conf.Au 2004 announces conference programme!

Our much anticipated conference programme is now officially released into the wild, sporting a new and improved format - with 4 simultaneous streams, just to make your job harder in choosing which paper presentation to attend! :-)

We've divided our tutorials and paper presentations into 4 categories - low-level programming, high-level programming, applications and advocacy/community/case-studies - so you can better match your interests to the papers.

So now there's no excuse not to hop onto your closest web browser and navigate to http://lca2004.linux.org.au/register/ where you can register and pay for your attendance at LCA 2004 in January 2004.

Be quick though - conference registrations have already passed 100, and are storming their way towards 150, so if you're planning on coming, sign up now for the fun!

And as another quick update - since we've last contacted you we've been pretty busy. On our website we've announced :

• conference artwork and posters;
• Speex encoding;
• the "Linux and OSS in Government miniconf";
• Oracle, AARNet, CommSecure, Inetd & Adrenalin as sponsors;
• an "About SA" web page, as well as an FAQ;
• FIXITs (BOFs with a purpose);
• the Live CD project; and
• the "OLS Best Speaker" award winner.

Whew! It's been a busy month! But wait, there's more cool things to come.... You'll just have to check our website lca2004.linux.org.au regularly to find out more (and while you're there, why not register? :-)

posted Thu 30 Oct 2003 in /conf/lca2004 | link

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