Surprise speaker acceptance...

Sometimes you have an awful day at work, and you spend your spare nanoseconds thinking about where you'd like to work instead - full-time OSS of course :-) But then an email arrives in your mailbox that just makes your day - this time it was about Linux.Conf.Au 2004.

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

Sponsors and Postcards...

Sponsors: What's laughable right now is that a sponsor is hassling me to give them an invoice so they can give me money. They don't want to wait any longer to give me the cash. boggle.

Our demo hackable ucLinux devices have arrived. Time to start evaluating. Woohoo!

And... the next batch of LCA Postcards have arrived from the printers. Soon to be distributed across Australia at local LUGs. Registrations open September 1 (hopefully) - media blitz to occur RSN.

And on postcards, 300 or so OLS attendees should have got our postcard, which hopefully means we'll get some North Americans registering too.

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

My Linux.Conf.Au 2004 photos are now available...

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

Linux.Conf.Au update #2

Here is the current list of "miniconfs" we intend running in Adelaide in January. These will be running on the Monday and Tuesday preceeding the conference proper. These are getting to be serious events in their own right :-)

• Linux and Audio
• Debian Miniconf 3
• educationaLinux
• IPv6
• Python
• GNOME

What *is* interesting is that we're seeing demand for a low-cost miniconf only registration category for educationaLinux. It appears there are people in the education sector who aren't geeks, but would like to come and hear stuff about OSS, paying their own personal way. So we'll accommodate them.

Another strangety is IPv6. It appears aarnet are intending to run an IPv6 2 day conference about the same time, so it makes sense for our miniconf and that event to be one and the same thing - although the arrnet event would be a little more flashier than what IPv6 would have been by itself. So we'll have a different registration category for people wanting to go to just that event, and charge accordingly so we can meet their expectations.

These 2 miniconfs make things a little more difficult, but should it all just work, I reakon it'll be a great value add for the conf.

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

Interview

I got interviewed in linmagau this month in this article. Pretty nice for my interview to be sitting alongside one with akpm.

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

Free advertising:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Linux+Conference

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

LCA2004 Delegation

Dan is encouraging me to delegate more for organising Linux.Conf.Au 2004. I should listen more - I can't do everything.

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

LCA2004 Call for Papers

The LCA CFP has 4 weeks to run today. The flow of submissions has been steady, but I know there's a lot more still to come. Hint: Avoid the rush and submit now - the longer you leave it, the less chance of getting accepted :-)

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

Linux.Conf.Au 2004 - the day before:

The day before the conference starts (well the miniconfs anyway)... Been to the airport twice, picked up wildfire, jdub, mtearle, lathiat, leon. More to come later today, when that flight from SFO finally gets in. Hopefully L got my phone number, I don't want him stranded at the airport.

Ugly stuff going on with a part of the conf. Just wish requests could have been made a couple of weeks ago, not just the day before. sigh.

Started writing the conference opening last night, talking to speakers this morning lifted my spirits, many of them wrapped around too.

It's all very exciting, can't wait for this thing to start.

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

3 weeks to go!

Linux.Conf.Au 2004: The conference is coming along nicely with 3 weeks to go, with new speakers jra, corbet and willy added to our list of speakers. But not just that, some really nice things like corporates giving away great prizes for the Hackfest contest, FIXITs (BOFs with an outcome), and the Wireless CyberCafe. We've actually run out of things for companies to sponsor! :-)

The big surprise will get announced in a fortnight's time.

Registrations continue strongly - at the current rate of registrations, there's only 10-12 days or so before we sell out. So if you are planning on coming, you'd better get in quick! This is a hard-core developers conference, so if we're going to sell out I want to make sure the right sort of people are sitting on the seats.

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

1 week to go:

havoc: you will have no trouble getting people to come to your keynote. Seriously.

linux.conf.au is only a week away - everyone[1] came back from holidays today, so I didn't get many actions done. I think my list is sub-50 items, not mentioning writing the conference opening and closing. Needless to say, a few of my projects are getting neglected as a result.

Big things get announced hopefully tomorrow and Thursday. Hope embargoed press releases stay that way - don't want to scare certain people away >:->

Last conference comment for today: Go back and read our news page - I'm constantly amazed at the cool stuff that's we've organised!

[1] the conference sponsors, and just about every journalist in .au *And* they *all* called my mobile today.

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #

LCA2004 Conference Programme:

After a death-march stint last night, we've finally released the Linux.Conf.Au 2004 conference programme, the list of abstracts to be presented, and the speakers' bio's.

Whew! That was harder than I thought it'd be - there's been issues in scheduling, getting speakers who submitted abstracts to confirm, and website engine debugging fun. The system we've now got allows me to modify abstracts, speakers, timelslots, locations, all dynamically without going to the code. Very nice.

tech/linux-australia/lca2004 | 18 Jan 2004 | #