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linux.conf.au (often abbreviated as lca or LCA) is Australasia's regional Linux and Open Source conference. It is a roaming conference, held in a different Australian or New Zealand city every year, coordinated by Linux Australia and organised by local volunteers.

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The conference is a non-profit event, with any surplus funds being used to seed the following year's conference and to support the Australian Linux and open source communities. The name is the conference's URL, using the uncommon second-level domain .conf.au.

Although several online events were ran post-COVID, since 2023 Linux Australia has instead auspiced Everything Open. This is a shorter three-day conference that follows a similar format - but without the additional two days of Miniconfs.

Conference history

In 1999, Linux kernel hacker Rusty Russell organised the Conference of Australian Linux Users in Melbourne. The first conference held under the linux.conf.au name was held two years later in Sydney. The conference is generally held in a different Australian city each time; although from 2006 onward, New Zealand cities have also been hosts.

EventDateVenue and host cityKeynote SpeakersResources
CALU 1999 Jul 9 – Jul 11 1999 Monash University
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Melbourne
Victoria 		Jon 'maddog' Hall 1999
linux.conf.au 2001 Jan 17 – Jan 20 2001 University of New South Wales
Flag of New South Wales.svg Sydney
New South Wales 		Alan Cox,
David Miller,
Andrew Tridgell 		2001
linux.conf.au 2002 Feb 6 – Feb 9 2002 University of Queensland
Flag of Queensland.svg Brisbane
Queensland 		Andrew Tridgell,
Jeremy Allison,
Michi Henning,
Theodore Tso 		2002
linux.conf.au 2003 Jan 20 – Jan 25 2003 University of Western Australia
Flag of Western Australia.svg Perth
Western Australia 		Rusty Russell,
Bdale Garbee,
Andrew Tridgell 		2003
linux.conf.au 2004 Jan 12 – Jan 17 2004 University of Adelaide
Flag of South Australia.svg Adelaide
South Australia 		Bdale Garbee,
Jon 'maddog' Hall,
Havoc Pennington 		2004
linux.conf.au 2005 Apr 18 – Apr 23 2005 Australian National University
Flag of the Australian Capital Territory.svg Canberra
Australian Capital Territory 		Andrew Tridgell,
Andrew Morton,
Eben Moglen 		2005
linux.conf.au 2006 Jan 23 – Jan 28 2006 University of Otago
Flag of New Zealand.svg Dunedin
New Zealand 		Mark Shuttleworth,
Damian Conway,
David Miller 		2006
linux.conf.au 2007 Jan 15 – Jan 20 2007 University of New South Wales
Flag of New South Wales.svg Sydney
New South Wales 		Kathy Sierra,
Andrew S. Tanenbaum,
Chris Blizzard 		2007
linux.conf.au 2008 Jan 28 – Feb 2 2008 University of Melbourne
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Melbourne
Victoria 		Anthony Baxter,
Bruce Schneier,
Stormy Peters 		2008
linux.conf.au 2009 Jan 19 – Jan 24 2009 University of Tasmania
Flag of Tasmania.svg Hobart
Tasmania [1] 		Tom Limoncelli,
Angela Beesley,
Simon Phipps 		2009
linux.conf.au 2010 Jan 18 – Jan 23 2010 Wellington Convention Centre
Flag of New Zealand.svg Wellington
New Zealand 		Benjamin Mako Hill,
Gabriella Coleman,
Nathan Torkington,
Glyn Moody 		2010
linux.conf.au 2011 Jan 24 – Jan 29 2011 Queensland University of Technology,
Flag of Queensland.svg Brisbane
Queensland [2] 		Mark Pesce,
Eric Allman,
Geoff Huston,
Vinton Cerf 		2011
linux.conf.au 2012 Jan 16 – Jan 21 2012 University of Ballarat,
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Ballarat
Victoria [3] 		Karen Sandler,
Bruce Perens,
Paul Fenwick,
Jacob Appelbaum 		2012
linux.conf.au 2013 Jan 28 – Feb 2 2013 Australian National University
Flag of the Australian Capital Territory.svg Canberra
Australian Capital Territory 		Andrew Huang,
Radia Perlman,
Bdale Garbee,
Tim Berners-Lee 		2013
linux.conf.au 2014 Jan 6 – Jan 10 2014 University of Western Australia
Flag of Western Australia.svg Perth
Western Australia 		Suelette Dreyfus,
Kate Chapman,
Matthew Garrett,
Jonathan Oxer 		2014
linux.conf.au 2015 Jan 12 – Jan 16 2015 University of Auckland
Flag of New Zealand.svg Auckland
New Zealand 		Bob Young,
Linus Torvalds,
Eben Moglen 		2015
linux.conf.au 2016 Feb 1 – Feb 5 2016 Deakin University
Flag of Victoria (Australia).svg Geelong
Victoria 		Genevieve Bell,
Catarina Mota,
Jono Bacon,
George Fong		 2016
linux.conf.au 2017 Jan 16 – Jan 20 2017 Wrest Point Convention Centre
Flag of Tasmania.svg Hobart
Tasmania 		Robert M. "r0ml" Lefkowitz,
Nadia Eghbal,
Pia Waugh,
Dan Callahan		 2017
linux.conf.au 2018 Jan 22 – Jan 26 2018 University of Technology Sydney
Flag of New South Wales.svg Sydney
New South Wales 		Karen Sandler,
Jess Frazelle,
Matthew H. Todd,
Hugh Blemings [4] 		2018
linux.conf.au 2019 Jan 21 – Jan 25 2019 University of Canterbury
Flag of New Zealand.svg Christchurch
New Zealand 		Rory Aronson CEO FarmBot,
Dana Lewis OpenAPS,
Shannon Morse,
Rusty Russell 		2019
linux.conf.au 2020 Jan 13 – Jan 17 2020 Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre
Flag of Queensland.svg Gold Coast
Queensland 		Dr Sean Brady,
Donna Benjamin,
A/Prof Vanessa Teague,
Lizzie O’Shea		 2020
linux.conf.au 2021 Jan 23- Jan 25 2021 [5] Virtual event Limor Fried,
Omoju Miller,
Cory Doctorow 		2021
linux.conf.au 2022 Jan 14 – Jan 16 2022 [5] Virtual event Liz Fong-Jones,
Jono Bacon,
Kathy Reid,
Brian Kernighan 		2022

Highlights from past conferences include:

Miniconfs

Since 2002, a key feature of the conference are the associated "miniconfs". These are half – 2 days streamed gatherings run before the main conference. They have their own programme, but are open for any conference attendee to participate in.

The first event to have a miniconf was in 2002, with the Debian Miniconf, organised by James Bromberger. This was based upon the idea that DebConf 1 in Bordeaux was a "mini-conf" of the French Libre Software Meeting. The concept grew in 2004, with the Open-Source in Government (ossig) miniconf, EducationaLinux, Debian Miniconf and GNOME.conf.au. In 2010 the Arduino Miniconf was introduced by Jonathan Oxer, the author of Practical Arduino.

Miniconfs have included those devoted to computer programming, education, security, multimedia, arduino and system administration.

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