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hello everyone and welcome to the
closing of lca 2022
we've got a few things to go through and
a few people to recognize so please
stick around with us for the time being
it's time for a virtual door price is
the last one for the the whole
conference
um this afternoon we have a final
one-year subscription to the sizzle for
uh and a 20 discount voucher with no
starch press to give away
remember
be sure to note if you've won and get
into the regular channel to claim
um and
here we go we have
tim palmer wins the sizzle
and
cheryl collett wins no starch press so
that's tim palmer
and charcoal so please go and see sarah
in the reggio okay moving along
we're going to start today by presenting
the rusty wrench award i'd like to
introduce you to last year's recipient
ryan verner over to you ryan
hi all
the rusty wrench is awarded for
significant contributions to the open
source community it is the highest honor
linux australia can bestow
the award is named after rusty russell
the founder of this event that we now
call linuxconf iu and was the first
recipient of this award
this year we are proud to award this
honour to someone who has worked on
integrating open source culture into the
wider community for a significant amount
of time having helped lead a national
organization advocating for open source
principles for nine years has been
involved with a fight against software
patents
helped to push the principles of open
source into education and works towards
marrying open source and the commercial
world
it is with great pleasure we award this
year's rusty wrench to dive lane
wow i'm incredibly surprised i have to
say it was
a total um unexpected
pleasure to see that i was even in the
consideration for this much less having
being the recipient of it i'm really
honored
so dave i think we'll send the real
world to you soon but because our
virtual event i believe we've got a
virtual rusty ranch to give to you so we
won't be able to see it but those at
home will be able to see it so uh
i believe i have it here
i'm gonna hand it over to you
i'm ready for it
all right okay
got it thank you very much wow
it's very exciting to join such an
august group of people so yes i'm
thrilled thank you
all right so i suppose it's my turn now
is it i believe so
all right well much like the starship
enterprise the rusty wrench award is a
revered technological marvel that will
break into two pieces as
soon as you least expect it
uh moving on
gonna focus the right window
um
so we're coming to the end it's time to
say goodbye philosophies come and go
theologies rise and fall but the
aphorism abides all good things must
come to an end and boy howdy is this
thing about to end
but not after a final word from our
fantastic sponsors
one of our two emperor penguin sponsors
ibm
our other emperor penguin sponsor google
our king penguin sponsors arm and red
hat
our royal penguin sponsors
our ideally penguin sponsors and i'll
note that calabre are one of the two
sponsors for the live captioning of our
keynote sessions
and our fairy penguin sponsor elastic
who also sponsored the live captioning
of our keynote sessions
our wonderful contributor level ticket
holders
and our in-kind sponsors sticker mule
the sizzle and no starch press and don't
forget there are still discount codes
available on the conference website for
all our sponsors please go and check the
website for details
our carbon footprint trees reduction
trees are planted planted by 15 trees
and we had
ashton from mine's eye creative
performing live illustrations of all
keynotes barring a couple of technical
difficulties with the canadian canadian
blizzard last night
i think it looked fabulous and i hope
we'll have high-res copies of these
available for our attendees sometimes
sometime to be able to look at and pour
over
we'll also be printing out large format
copies of these to give to our
respective keynote speakers as well
we'd like to thank our av providers next
day video and ctrix for helping put on
this event special thanks uh also to our
core av team for the hard work ryan
verner chris michael patrick dan and
jordan you to venulis the open source
platform we've been using for the past
two years for linux.com and other linux
australia conferences
uh thank you to linux australia for
placing their trustness to run lca2022
and i would now like to hand over to
josh hesketh to say a few words about
the session selection committee you
there josh
i am am i audible
yes
excellent all right thank you very much
mark uh yeah so i was the chair for the
paper session selection committee this
year uh i'd like to first and foremost
thank all of the speakers for the last
two days and also on friday with the
mini conf uh we've just had fantastic
talks all around uh i can't thank you
enough the amount of time that you've
spent in writing those talks and
practicing and rehearsing and presenting
them it's been an absolute pleasure to
watch and and i'm really i've got a huge
list of
videos i want to watch over the next
week as well that i wasn't able to watch
live
so thank you very much
uh i also want to thank everybody who
put in a paper to present
unfortunately not everyone makes the cut
we get a large number of submissions and
we take less than half of them for a
conference typically so it's very
competitive
but don't let that discourage you the
um
for future years if you want any
feedback on on what your submissions
were feel free to reach out to myself or
the session selection committee be happy
to provide it but honestly it just comes
down to we have so many good talks we
just can't fit them all in so please
keep putting them in
i also want to thank my fellow session
selection committee members as you can
see on the screen
we
are quite a large team because we want
to give every presentation
at least half a dozen reviews or
thereabouts uh oftentimes many more so
we ended up doing well over a thousand
reviews between us each one takes some
time to research the the content to see
if it's something we want to place into
the conference so it's a significant
amount of effort so um a heartwarm
thanks to all those people
uh
so yeah i just want to say if you're
thinking about future lcas
obviously we're not quite sure what 2023
holds for us yet but start thinking
about what you might want to present if
that interests you or start thinking
about what you'd like to see at an lca
even if you're not someone who wants to
speak themselves you might know someone
who does or you might know hey it would
be great to see more talks on topic x uh
you can go poke people in that sub
community and see if they want to submit
so i'll end on that and say thank you to
everyone cheers
thanks joel yes it's um
it's great to have all this work done
for us it makes it so much easier
all right um i shall head on again i
think we've got another throw soon
um
we're very grateful to our mini conf
organizers for putting on four wonderful
mini comps namely goglam hosted by sarah
germain and clinton roy open hardware
brought to you by john oxa and andy
gelmi
systems administration hosted by simon
lyle and ewan mcneil and the colonel
miniconf brought to you by andrew
dunnellon
so of our speakers we had 30 mini con
and 48 main conference sessions apart
from a couple of late minute pre-record
substitutions
i'd like to thank all our speakers for
taking the time and effort to present
for us
the talks are the main point of lca
after all and without these we're
nothing
i'd also like to thank the very many
more people who submitted proposals that
sadly we were unable to accept and you
can blame the session selection
committee for that
thanks to our absolutely amazing uh
keynotes and lock note
we were really
we have really heartfelt thanks for
brian kernighan
kathy reed jono bacon and liz fong jones
similarly enormous thanks to last
night's pdns entertainment the legendary
anthony green soon to be filling your tv
screens a bit later in the year if
you're in australia
buy a couple of technical glitches it
was a fantastic dive into electoral
statistics
uh you might have noticed there's a
bumper crop down at the keynote farm
this year we thought we might collect
some extras for you
now this is what you call burying the
lead
we're nearly at the end of slides for
the closing session on the last day of
the conference
and only now i enunciate that the theme
for this year's lca is community
this theme is what influenced all our
keynotes and speakers to form and
customize their presentations
and nothing in lca says community more
than our horde of volunteers
these people collectively work quickly
and efficiently kind of like a nerdy
beehive to make this conference run
smoothly and enjoyably i'd like to ask
all attendees to please consider
volunteering for future lca or linux
australia events the old hands could
really use the help and some might need
a bit of a break soon too
aside from the excitement and
camaraderie you get entry to all
sessions including pdns meals and
transport for in-person events covered
um and you also get little keys like
this little embroidered iron-on patch
coming soon to a mailbox near you
i'd now like to invite joel addison to
say a few words as the president of
president of linux australia you there
joel
you're on ruto
no i'm not
so thank you and miles for introducing
me
um my name is joel ellison and for those
of you who don't know as of yesterday
i'm the president of linux australia so
i've just got a couple of things to say
today on behalf of the rest of council
for those of you not aware linux
australia is the body representing open
source groups in australia a big part of
what we do is help run conferences for a
variety of communities
with this event linuxconfigure being our
flagship event
i'd like to start off today by thanking
someone who's been a part of linux
australia for many years sarah germain
sarah has been a member of linux
australia's council for the past eight
years studying as a council member and
stepping up to secretary for four years
and president for the past three years
she's poured a huge amount of time and
energy into this organization and we are
all very grateful for all that she has
done
thank you very much sarah for your
dedication to the team including running
linux confetti for the past two years
for the first time in a while sarah is
sitting in the audience instead of you
know being up here on stage presenting
so hopefully this is the start of a
well-earned rest for you i hope you can
enjoy having some time back
and we'll try not to ask you too many
questions
there's a nice bottle of gin coming your
way very soon as well
thank you sarah
next i'd like to turn my attention to
our lca organizing team for this year
please welcome myles our conference
director and neil our treasurer to the
stage
the past couple of years have been quite
unexpected
and these two have been with us on an
ever-changing journey as we've worked
out what to do with lynx confe you
moving from an in-person event to online
i know miles is going to say a few
things about this soon but they
originally signed up to help run an
in-person event in 2021
and they've ended up running an online
event this year
so first to neil
thank you for spending time your time to
wrangle our budget having to deal with
disappearing bank accounts and sponsor
payments going to overseas accounts in
the process
as a token of our appreciation a very
nice bottle of whiskey will be coming
your way very soon
thank you and i hope you enjoy it
well thank you um i i have to say i have
a fair dose of imposter syndrome sitting
here at the moment because my role seems
to have largely been
avoiding work by volunteering other
people and i should probably especially
apologize to miles
who about two years ago i said hey would
you like to be involved in helping to
run an lca and here he is right at the
front of the uh the pack of
insert your own adjective there
and i'd also like to give a quick shout
out to my my wife jenny who's been a big
help uh and particularly with the
graphics but to the whole team it's been
an absolute privilege and i really do
think that i'm the last person that
should be
uh here accepting thanks it's been been
a wonderful experience and hopefully
i'll see you all at uh at future lcas
thank you
yeah thank you very much neil
and now miles
there's been a lot of you for come up to
speed with in a very short time and
you've handled it extremely well i must
say
now at every team meeting it feels like
you've managed to have some new toy that
you're playing with or change your
computer setup that you're trying out
so to say thanks to you
we're going to add something to your
collection
a do-it-yourself keyboard
voucher is coming your way
so you can build your own keyboard from
the ground up
i'm really looking forward to seeing the
final product
cool
well thanks very much for that um i
don't have any words written down here
so i could just introduce you again but
um really it's uh it's been a bit of an
odyssey this one
um but you know it's really good to
actually have it you know get it
complete i think
yeah it's been great working with both
of you so thank you both i know that
sarah and myself were very pleased to be
hand
able to hand the event onto a new team
and you've been very great at leading
the team to around this event
so thank you both and i'll hand back to
miles
thank you
who am i clapping here
all right um
getting back to the slides all right so
we're getting real close now um which is
the one that goes forward it's this one
isn't it oh there we go
sorry
so
thanks to the organizing team for
another herculean effort um ariana are
volunteers for person jenny our design
master joel our main technocrat jonathan
a lead roadie
uh michael a sponsor safari major
myself i just sanitize the door knobs
and keep the copy defensive stocked uh
neil our beam controller
and sarah who did something at the l.a
council i can't remember it's too long
ago
and then will the speaker's ring master
in stable hand
now i'd like to add a very special thank
you to
rob bolland so
many you remember rob being involved in
with volunteer coordination in previous
in-person lcas in early 2019 rob led a
bid to have lca hosted in canberra again
in 2021
we announced the spec the successful bid
at lca 2020 on the gold coast uh then
just about a week after the event the
covert 19 pandemic broke out of china
just as we paid our first venue deposit
the lockdown started
within a couple of months we'd realized
we'd have to postpone the in-person con
event at least a year
sarah and the team swung in to perform
lca 2021 online instead then later again
in 2021 it became apparent that we
couldn't really rely on being able to
run the conference in person in 2022
either
so we decided to shelve the camera
conference indefinitely
sadly rob and understandably although
the team at the time were really there
for the the physical camera conference
and had to withdraw for the online
conference and i fully understand and
respect that
maybe one day we'll be able to dust this
plan off again but we wouldn't have got
this far without rob in the first place
anyway
so thanks rob for taking it as far as
you could
and here we go
we're at the end of lca 2022
it's kind of goodbye but
if we have possibly the rest of the core
team online we can bring them in
embarrassing them in real time
we got josh joel
we got all the people we could get
anyway
well done everyone it was really good
anyway
waving out to the close
bye
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