History

linux.conf.au is coming home.

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.

[ map: LCA Locations ]

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

http://lca2007.linux.org.au/

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

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2006/

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.

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2005/

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

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2004/

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

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2003/

2002 - Brisbane: The University of Queensland

Keynotes

Andrew Tridgell & Jeremy Allison - Ten Years of SAMBA
Michi Henning - Computing Fallacies
Theodore Tso - Ten Years of Linux

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2002/

2001 - Sydney: University of New South Wales

Keynotes

Alan Cox - World Domination: Classified Progress Report and Briefing
David Miller - A Zero-copy and Delayed Fragment Reassembly Framework for Linux
Andrew Tridgell - Inside the mind of... TiVo

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2001/

1999 - Melbourne: Monash University

Keynote

Jon "Maddog" Hall - Take No Prisoners (Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus)

http://www.linux.org.au/conf/1999