The Musings of Chris Samuel » linux.conf.au http://www.csamuel.org Computers, science, archaeology and other random burblings Fri, 10 May 2013 13:06:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/ Volunteers for Flood Relief Sought at LCA2011 in Brisbane http://www.csamuel.org/2011/01/22/volunteers-for-flood-relief-sought-at-lca2011-in-brisbane http://www.csamuel.org/2011/01/22/volunteers-for-flood-relief-sought-at-lca2011-in-brisbane#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:58:05 +0000 Chris Samuel attendees flood brisbane volunteer lca linux conf au lca2011 conference http://www.csamuel.org/?p=2347 Continue reading →

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Volunteers for Flood Relief Sought at LCA2011 in Brisbane

]]> Pia Waugh has put up a page on the LCA wiki seeking to recruit and organise attendees who might want to help assist with the flood recovery in Brisbane. It says:

This page was set up for linux.conf.au attendees who are keen to do some volunteer work to assist the flood victims in Brisbane. A few hundred attendees throwing in a few hours or a day or so to help out will make an enormous difference to people who have lost so much. [...] Specific volunteer activities will be planned for the Sunday before the conference and the Saturday following the conference, and there will no doubt also be odd jobs here or there for those who find themselves with a free hour or so throughout the conference.

The page asks volunteers to list themselves there but currently they only have a couple of people on the sheet and I think they could do with some more publicity!

Unfortunately I don’t get to go to linux.conf.au these days (SC in the US is my one work conf now) otherwise I’d be pitching in too.. :-(

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Volunteers for Flood Relief Sought at LCA2011 in Brisbane

]]> http://www.csamuel.org/2011/01/22/volunteers-for-flood-relief-sought-at-lca2011-in-brisbane/feed 0 LCA 2008 Day 4 Photos http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/31/lca-2008-day-4-photos http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/31/lca-2008-day-4-photos#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:01:05 +0000 Chris Samuel 2008 photos flickr lca lca2008 mel8ourne melbourne victoria http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/31/lca-2008-day-4-photos Continue reading →

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LCA 2008 Day 4 Photos

]]> I have uploaded my photos from Thursday (Day 4) of Linux.Conf.Au 2008 at Melbourne University. They are exclusively of the RepRap that was being shown off today and a gathering of people experimenting with the wireless mesh and collaborative capabilities of the OLPC XO’s that were distributed yesterday. I’ve already heard of at least 2 bugs being found through this release of machines to developers (one by Jason White).

RepRap RepRap fabricated parts Closeup of a RepRap fabricated part. A mesh of OLPC XO users Do you think it's meant to do that ? OLPC XO distance measuring application

I’ve just rearranged & geocoded all my LCA 2008 photos on Flickr into a set per day, gathered together into a single collection, which makes life easier for people who just want to see what happened on what day! I’ve updated the links on previous blog entries to point to the right set for the day in question too.

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]]> http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/31/lca-2008-day-4-photos/feed 1 LCA 2008 Speakers Dinner and Day 3 Photos http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/30/lca-2008-speakers-dinner-and-day-3-photos http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/30/lca-2008-speakers-dinner-and-day-3-photos#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:36:33 +0000 Chris Samuel lca linux conf au lca2008 mel8ourne melbourne olpc laptop victoria http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/30/lca-2008-speakers-dinner-and-day-3-photos Continue reading →

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LCA 2008 Speakers Dinner and Day 3 Photos

]]> I’ve now uploaded more photos onto Flickr from the speakers dinner on Tuesday night held at St Pauls Chapter House (near the cathedral), built in 1891, a lovely building! I don’t have any photos from the day on Tuesday as I had to work.

Speakers dinner Avi up on the balcony St Pauls Chapter House Menu for the speakers dinner.

There are also photos from Day 3 (Wednesday) where at morning coffee there were LWN cakes to celebrate LWN’s 10th birthday and we were distributing OLPC XO laptops to various chosen delegates for them to go develop amazing things with (or give them to someone else who would). It was a great buzz to make peoples day like this, especially when they tell you what they could do with them!

LWN cakes OLPC XO laptops People using OLPC XO laptops Rusty Russell gives OLPC XO laptop to Jason White, a member of LUV John Dalton with OLPC XO laptop

Hence the LWN photo..

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LCA 2008 Speakers Dinner and Day 3 Photos

]]> http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/30/lca-2008-speakers-dinner-and-day-3-photos/feed 0 LCA OLPC photo on LWN http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/30/lca-olpc-photo-on-lwn http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/30/lca-olpc-photo-on-lwn#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:02:40 +0000 Chris Samuel lwn lca lca2008 olpc laptop melbourne http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/30/lca-olpc-photo-on-lwn This item originally posted here:

LCA OLPC photo on LWN

]]> This was something of a shock on LWN tonight.. :-)

Chris, Wen and Allan at LCA 2008 giving out OLPC's

I’ll have some more of my photos (including more OLPC shots) once they’re uploaded to Flickr.

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LCA OLPC photo on LWN

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Nokia to buy TrollTech ?

]]> Nokia and TrollTech (the people who write QT, the widget library that KDE uses, and who are a supporting sponsor of LCA 2008) are working out a purchase agreement (PDF joint letter).

Given that Nokia don’t seem to have a clue about open standards (Theora “proprietary” indeed) this doesn’t sound like a particularly promising deal to me. :-(

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Nokia to buy TrollTech ?

]]> http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/28/nokia-to-buy-trolltech/feed 0 LCA 2008 Day 1 Photos http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/28/lca-2008-day-1-photos http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/28/lca-2008-day-1-photos#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:11:17 +0000 Chris Samuel flickr 2008 photos lca2008 conference linux melbourne http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/28/lca-2008-day-1-photos This item originally posted here:

LCA 2008 Day 1 Photos

]]> Just uploaded 30 photos from Day 1 of Linux.Conf.Au 2008 into a new LCA2008 Day 1 set on Flickr.

Kelly Yeo and me at the rego desk Arjen Lentz registering OLPC laptops on display People relaxing under the LCA banner It lives! My creation, it lives! James plugs in the IBM Power 6 rack.. Hugh's rack, along with a happy James and Julian

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LCA 2008 Day 1 Photos

]]> http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/28/lca-2008-day-1-photos/feed 0 LCA2008 – Day 0! http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/27/lca2008-day-0 http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/27/lca2008-day-0#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:34:07 +0000 Chris Samuel lca2008 volunteer linux conference melbourne http://www.csamuel.org/2008/01/27/lca2008-day-0 Continue reading →

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LCA2008 – Day 0!

]]> Well today was Day 0 of LCA2008 and I was there as a volunteer helping out with lugging things, putting banners up, folding shirts and working on the registration1 desk.

I’ve also started uploading my photos from this to Flickr and it looks like I’m the first to do that (or at least tag them as such). :-)

Day 1 registration opens at 8am and I’m going to do my best to be there early (Connex permitting)!


  1. rego, in Australian [back]

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