Keynotes
Cooper Lees - Facebook
* Facebook open source all their infrastructure code (btrfs, HHVM, etc, etc).
* 100s of GitHub reports, 1000s of contributers.
* 10x growth in pull requests in the last 2 years.
Keynote - Bob Young
* Don't interrupt a good story with the facts (as long as they're within an order of magnitude of reality).
* Used the M word.
* "I
Keynote: Eben Moglen
* Patent warfare broke out as predicted - the cst has been so high that even many of the proponents of using patents have begun to rethink their strategy.
* The courts
A shorter hike to LCA this year, being located in Auckland. As always, the jaunt up from Wellington takes less time than the taxi from the airport takes to get into the city;
Opening
Pyro and metlstorm dancing. Kiwicon delivers on entertaining openings. metl was clearly gleeful at "spending your money on smoke machines and fire."
Root Causes: Complex System Failures and Security Incident