Linux Australia plays host to an annual conference called linux.conf.au

Each year a different team bids for the right to organise linux.conf.au in their city. The conference is widely regarded, and prominent members of the world wide Free and Open Source Software community attend regularly.

In 2009 linux.conf.au is heading south to Tasmania for the first time. From the 19th to the 24th of January the University of Tasmania will be the scene for one of the world's best conferences for Free and Open Source Software developers and users. For more details check http://www.marchsouth.org/

Further details on the bidding and selection process, and information on how to organise the conference are made available on request to the Linux Australia committee.

History

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.

2008 - Melbourne: The 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?

http://lca2008.linux.org.au

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