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Tag Archives: lca
Welcome to Wellington (Or: Incoherent early-morning brain dump)
I’m taking what scant morning time I have away from the conference today to let you know what I’m doing during it, isn’t that nice? Naturally, I’ve written this at 6:30AM, which is like 4:30AM Sydney Time: a fact that … Continue reading
LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf: CFP Closes on Friday!
And this time we mean it! Our CFP was extended by a month, and now you only have this week to get your presentation proposals in for the LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf! Our call for presentations closes on Friday … Continue reading
Tagged lca, lca2010, oplm, oplm2010
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LCA2010 — I’m registered
Registrations for Linux.conf.au 2010, being held in Wellington, New Zealand this January opened earlier this week — I’m registered (a bit of a no-brainer, given that I’m running a miniconf this year). Have you registered yet? Not sure if I … Continue reading
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AUC /dev/world/2009 and its consequences for the Open Source development community
AUC /dev/world/2009, the Apple University Consortium’s annual student (and university staff) developer conference was held this week in Canberra. DevWorld goes for two days, and consisted (this year) of about 90 enthusiastic Apple developers learning about popular Mac technologies. This … Continue reading
Tagged auc, devworld, devworld 2009, lca, rant
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Open Programming Languages Miniconf CFP Now Open
The LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf, to be held at Linux.conf.au 2010 in January 2010 (either on Monday 18th or Tuesday 19th January), invites presentations about all programming languages with an Open Source implementation, such as Perl, Python, C, PHP … Continue reading
Announcing the LCA2010 Open Programming Languages Miniconf
You may have caught the announcement yesterday about the miniconfs accepted for Linux.conf.au 2010 (to be held in January in Wellington) and noticed my name there… I’m running one of the miniconfs this year, along with Jacinta Richardson. It’s called … Continue reading
LCA2009 Day 5 — Friday
Friday’s keynote was fantastic — Simon Phipps (who retained his job at Sun Microsystems) spoke of the Third Wave of Free Software, which was an observation that Free Software (specifically not Open Source) is becoming a sensible business proposition. It’s … Continue reading
LCA2009 Day 4 — Thursday
The opening Keynote on Thursday was a discussion of the Wikimedia/Wikia project, which was overall not too bad. The highlight of the talk was the relaying the Parable of the Vegan, which was quite hilarious. Sadly, I don’t think the … Continue reading
LCA2009 Day 3 — Wednesday
Tom Limoncelli opened the conference proper with his keynote on “The Scarcity Mindset vs. The Abundance Mindset”, which was an interesting and insightful talk on how the modern abundance of computer hardware, coupled with open source software can help sysadmins … Continue reading
LCA2009 Day 2 — Tuesday
Tuesday I spent mostly at the Free as in Freedom miniconf, where I saw Arthur Sale’s talk on Open Access journals (where he outlined the changes that need to occur in the research publishing industry in order to support research … Continue reading
