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Kiwicon 9 Day 1 Afternoon

After a lunch of churros, main course not needed because it turned out the Food for the People bacon and egg butty that had for morning tea rendered a savoury lunch meal unnecessary,

Kiwicon 9 Day 1 Morning

So another year, and I'm back for another Kiwicon. If I have any misgivings about Kiwicon, it's that I didn't start going earlier in its existence. How,

linux.conf.au 2015 Day 4

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.

linux.conf.au 2015 Day 3

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

linux.conf.au 2015 Day 2

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