Linux.conf.au

Conference history

Event	Date	Venue and host city	Keynote Speakers	Resources
	Jul 9 – Jul 11 1999	Monash University Melbourne Victoria	Jon 'maddog' Hall
	Jan 17 – Jan 20 2001	University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales	Alan Cox, David Miller, Andrew Tridgell
	Feb 6 – Feb 9 2002	University of Queensland Brisbane Queensland	Andrew Tridgell, Jeremy Allison, Michi Henning, Theodore Tso
	Jan 20 – Jan 25 2003	University of Western Australia Perth Western Australia	Rusty Russell, Bdale Garbee, Andrew Tridgell
	Jan 12 – Jan 17 2004	University of Adelaide Adelaide South Australia	Bdale Garbee, Jon 'maddog' Hall, Havoc Pennington
	Apr 18 – Apr 23 2005	Australian National University Canberra Australian Capital Territory	Andrew Tridgell, Andrew Morton, Eben Moglen
	Jan 23 – Jan 28 2006	University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand	Mark Shuttleworth, Damian Conway, David Miller
	Jan 15 – Jan 20 2007	University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales	Kathy Sierra, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Chris Blizzard
	Jan 28 – Feb 2 2008	University of Melbourne Melbourne Victoria	Anthony Baxter, Bruce Schneier, Stormy Peters
	Jan 19 – Jan 24 2009	University of Tasmania Hobart Tasmania	Tom Limoncelli, Angela Beesley, Simon Phipps
	Jan 18 – Jan 23 2010	Wellington Convention Centre Wellington New Zealand	Benjamin Mako Hill, Gabriella Coleman, Nathan Torkington, Glyn Moody
	Jan 24 – Jan 29 2011	Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Queensland	Mark Pesce, Eric Allman, Geoff Huston, Vinton Cerf
	Jan 16 – Jan 21 2012	University of Ballarat, Ballarat Victoria	Karen Sandler, Bruce Perens, Paul Fenwick, Jacob Appelbaum
	Jan 28 – Feb 2 2013	Australian National University Canberra Australian Capital Territory	Andrew Huang, Radia Perlman, Bdale Garbee, Tim Berners-Lee
	Jan 6 – Jan 10 2014	University of Western Australia Perth Western Australia	Suelette Dreyfus, Kate Chapman, Matthew Garrett, Jonathan Oxer
	Jan 12 – Jan 16 2015	University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand	Bob Young, Linus Torvalds, Eben Moglen
	Feb 1 – Feb 5 2016	Deakin University Geelong Victoria	Genevieve Bell, Catarina Mota, Jono Bacon, George Fong
	Jan 16 – Jan 20 2017	Wrest Point Convention Centre Hobart Tasmania	Robert M. "r0ml" Lefkowitz, Nadia Eghbal, Pia Waugh, Dan Callahan
	Jan 22 – Jan 26 2018	University of Technology Sydney Sydney New South Wales	Karen Sandler, Jess Frazelle, Matthew H. Todd, Hugh Blemings
	Jan 21 – Jan 25 2019	University of Canterbury Christchurch New Zealand	Rory Aronson CEO FarmBot, Dana Lewis OpenAPS, Shannon Morse, Rusty Russell
	Jan 13 – Jan 17 2020	Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre Gold Coast Queensland	Dr Sean Brady, Donna Benjamin, A/Prof Vanessa Teague, Lizzie O’Shea
linux.conf.au 2021	Jan 2021	Virtual event
linux.conf.au 2022	Jan 2022	Canberra Australian Capital Territory

• 1999: CALU was conceived, bankrolled and executed by Linux kernel hacker Rusty Russell. It laid the foundation for a successful, strongly technical, eclectic and fun conference series.
• 2001: the first conference held under the linux.conf.au name.
• 2004: a major highlight was the dunking of Linus Torvalds for charity.
• 2006: the first conference to be held outside Australia, recognising the importance of the New Zealand Linux community.
• 2007: a new feature was an Open Day for non-conference attendees, in which community groups, interest groups and Linux businesses held stands and demonstrations.
• 2008: the second time the conference was held in Melbourne. 100 OLPC machines were distributed to random attendees to encourage development. The Speakers dinner was held at St Paul's Cathedral Chapter House, and the Penguin Dinner was held in conjunction with Melbourne's Night Market, playing on the title of Eric Raymond's book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar.
• 2009: during the Penguin Dinner, a substantial sum of money was raised for the Save Tasmanian Devils fund – and a pledge made to replace the Tux Logo with the conference mascot, Tuz, to help raise awareness.
• 2010: over $33,000 raised for Wellington Lifeflight Helicopter Ambulance service.
• 2011: the event was almost washed out by the floods that devastated southern Queensland.
• 2016: preparations almost derailed by a massive storm just before the conference opened.
• 2020: $24,342 raised and donated to Red Cross for Australian Bush-fire relief
• 2021: in May 2020 Linux Australia announced that the planned 2021 conference in Canberra was postponed until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a lightweight virtual conference would be held in 2021 instead.

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