Paris B-A

linux.conf.au 2009 finished yesterday in Hobart. It was run at my home university, UTAS. A great time was had by all. The three keynotes were all pretty interesting and there was a great spread of talks over all of the miniconfs and during LCA itself.  My favourite talks were, in no particular order:

• Did Hell Freeze Over? by Lawrence Crumpton (from Microsoft)

• Beyond Open Source by Arthur Sale (Professor of Computing at UTAS)

• FOSS games and the law by Nic Suzor (EFA Australia and Law Academic)

• PHP Architecture, Scalability, and Security by Rasmus Lerdorf (Creator of PHP)

• The Art of Klingon programming and What’s New in Perl 5.10? (double feature) by Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)

• Awesome things you’ve missed in Perl by Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)

• Geek My Ride by Jonathan Oxer and Jared Herbohn (Car Nerds)

• Open Source for Model Rocket Design by Bdale Garbee (Beardless)