December 21, 2007 – 2:12 pm
It’s 15:11pm and there are only 11 tickets left for linux.conf.au. WARNING: If you have registered but haven’t gotten around to paying yet then you are going to miss out. So hop to it. Otherwise you are going to be a sad panda.
Being Technical Guru for linux.conf.au 2007 was one of the most amazing experiences I’ve had in recent years. It was a lot of hard work but it was totally worth it. Having a room burst into applause at the penguin dinner when you say your the network guy is pretty unbelievable. I went up to [...]
December 2, 2006 – 11:59 am
Some of you may have noticed that we have been having a few problems with the linux.conf.au payment gateway. These have ranged from timeouts due to email and DNS issues to 500 server errors due to one or two bugs. For those of you worried about duplicate payments, don’t We were just sending duplicate receipts [...]
November 11, 2006 – 12:07 pm
We’ve just hit 250 registrations for linux.conf.au, only 5 days to go before early bird registrations close. So here are some interesting stats of the attendee breakdown so far: By Country Country Number Brazil 1 Canada 1 France 1 Ireland 1 Liberia 1 Nigeria 1 China 1 Singapore 1 Spain 1 UK 1 Croatia 4 [...]
October 9, 2006 – 3:32 pm
The seven review team met all day Saturday to work out which of the almost 300 submissions were going to make it into the conference. I had created some statistics based on the reviews the team had performed, this helped the team easily pick the coolest papers and the mildly cool for inclusion and exclusion. [...]
September 15, 2006 – 9:41 am
This Saturday is Software Freedom Day, the main Sydney event sponsored by SLUG will be being held at UNSW, more specific details can be found at the Sydney SFD page. As part of the lead up to linux.conf.au 2007, the AV Team is going to be using this day as a trial run to test [...]
September 12, 2006 – 9:02 am
At a couple of linux.conf.au meetings we kept coming across the same recurring theme, everything just seemed to be Pia’s fault So one dark and rainy night justblamepia.com was born. We even get to blame Pia for this post because the site isn’t even ready yet, it is supposed to get a spruce up (I [...]
