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Introduction

Let's get some context and mention what were the stand out happenings of LCA's past. If you were there, your memories are our best resource.

Sydney 15 - 20 Jan 2007

Keynotes:

  • Chris Blizzard
  • Andrew Tannenbaum
  • Kathy Sierra

Highlights:

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

Team Leader: Jeff Waugh

Dunedin 23-28 Jan 2006

Not in Australia => LCA increases its reach.

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

Highlights:

  • Van Jacobsen

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

Team Leader: Mike Beattie

Canberra 18-23 Apr 2005

  • The couches made for a great collaberative environment
  • Elizabeth Garbee - 11 yo talking about Game Level Design

Keynotes:

  • Tridge - 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/

Team Leader: Steven Hanley

Adelaide 12-17 Jan 2004

  • Linus dunking.
  • Tux Ice Sculptures and Dinner

Keynotes:

  • maddog - Programmers Are From Mars, Users/Managers/Companies are from Venus
  • bdale - 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/

Team Leader: Michael Davies

Perth 22-25 Jan 2003

  • IIRC they had a great video they made which was screened at the 2002 conf. It had a big Tux going around Perth and ending up at the conf venue.

Keynotes:

  • 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

Links:

Core Team

  • Tony Breeds-Taurima, Co-Chair LCA, PLUG
  • James Bromberger, Co-Chair LCA, PLUG
  • Mark Tearle, Treasurer LCA, UCC
  • Bernard Blackham, Secretary LCA, PLUG
  • James Henstridge, Gnome
  • Nick Bannon, PLUG
  • James Andrewortha, UCC
  • Anand Kumria, Treasurer, Linux Australia

Brisbane 6-9 Feb 2002

Keynotes:

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

Links:

Papers Committee

  • Robert Brockway
  • David Leonard
  • Ian Peake
  • Martin Pool
  • Rusty Russell
  • Anthony Towns

Organising Committee

  • Anthony Towns
  • Jason Parker
  • Brad Marshall
  • Raymond Smith
  • Mark Suter
  • Gary Curtis
  • Clinton Roy
  • Anand Kumria
  • Rusty Russell

Sydney 17-20 Jan 2001

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

Links:

Melbourne CALU 9-11 July 1999

Melbourne: The seedling that started it all. http://www.linux.org.au/conf/1999

Organisers: Rusty Russell, Nathan Bailey, Terry Dawson.

Keynote: Jon 'maddog' Hall

Take No Prisoners (Venimus, Vidimus, Dolavimus)

  • A tale of courage
  • What really makes Linux unique
  • What can we do?

Annotated Photos - courtesy of LUV

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