History of linux.conf.au

History

Over the last 11 years linux.conf.au has grown from strength to strength. Hosted each year in one of Australasia's major centres, in 2010 linux.conf.au will be hosted by New Zealand's capital city, Wellington.

It all started in Melbourne back in 1999, with CALU: Conference of Australian Linux Users which was held at Monash University over 3 days in July 1999.

Renamed to linux.conf.au in 2001 it has grown to become one of the world's best technical Linux conferences.

It continues to be run by community volunteers for the community volunteers that have made Linux and Free and Open Source Software the phenomenon it is today.

2009 - Hobart

The University of Tasmania

Keynotes:

Tom Limoncelli
Angela Beesley
Simon Phipps

LCA2009 website

2008 - Melbourne

University of Melbourne

Keynotes:

Bruce Schneier - Reconceptualizing Security
Stormy Peters - Would you do it again for free?
Anthony Baxter - Two Snake Enter, One Snake Leave?

LCA2008 website

2007 - Sydney

University of New South Wales

Keynotes

Chris Blizzard - Moving the Needle: The One Laptop Per Child Project
Dr. Andrew S. Tanenbaum - Reliable Computing
Kathy Sierra - Creating Passionate Users

LCA2007 website

2006 - Dunedin

University of Otago

Keynotes

Dave Miller - 3 talks - Niagra, Linux TCP Developments and Kernel Developer Social Interactions
Damian Conway - Sex and Violence: Technical and Social Lessons from the Perl 6 Development Process.
Mark Shuttleworth - Improving Collaboration Between Open Source Projects

LCA2006 website

2005 - Canberra

Australian National University

Keynotes

Andrew Tridgell - SAMBA development model
Andrew Morton - 2.6 kernel development (management)
Eben Moglen - Free Software, Future threats and challenges - Free radio.

LCA2005 website

2004 - Adelaide

The University of Adelaide

Keynotes

Jon "Maddog" Hall - Programmers Are From Mars, Users/Managers/Companies are from Venus
Bdale Garbee - Where Would You Like One Hundred Thousand Users to Go Today?
havoc - The state of the Open-Source Desktop

LCA2004 website

2003 - Perth

The University of Western Australia

Keynotes

Paul "Rusty" Russell - Hacking the kernel and looking cool while driving a fast car
Bdale Garbee - Herding Wild Cats and Related Adventures - An Inside Look at the Debian Project
Andrew Tridgell - Network analysis techniques

LCA2003 website