linux.conf.au

History Unearthed

cafuego — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:14:15 +1100

After winning the LUV presidency, Donna got handed a few boxes of paperwork with, amongst the MySQL 3.x manuals and Fedora Core 1 and 2 CDs, a little gem. Well, three little gems actually. Three glossy CALU flyers :-)

Which reminds, me. Have you registed for linux.conf.au 2009 yet?

Spotted ...

cafuego — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:26:36 +1000

I was looking through the linux.conf.au site when having a go at registering earlier today and spotted a dark, furry item in one of the photos of the paper ctte face 2 face meeting. And I don't mean the vice president ;-)

Circled. Looks supiciously like the lca 2009 logo....

lca programme available

cafuego — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:27:30 +1000

Yay!

The linux.conf.au 2009 programme is now available. Lots of good stuff!

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cafuego — Sun, 25 May 2008 14:24:40 +1000

A quick update on LCA2009. The zookeepr hackathon has been progressing nicely over this weekend, so it looks like the call for proposals can be opened as per scheduled, even if the computer says "no" ;-)

Taswegia

cafuego — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:47:53 +1100

The ghosts of conference(s) past meeting took place in Hobart over the past weekend and some members of the Mel8ourne team as well as a few other previous LCA organisers all got together with the LCA09 team to pass on information and share experiences.

I had been to Tasmania for a few days many moons ago, but had forgotten what Tasmania looked like. Wonderful, even though the grass is a sickly green instead of a healthy brown like on the mainland. If nothing else, 2009 will be the most beautiful LCA to date.

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cafuego — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:04:38 +1100

After some more SQL, some pointing and clicking, some jiggery and a fair bit of pokery, some more useless graphs have appeared. The paper committee members rated all proposals on a scale of -2 to +2, and this of course lends itself to the creation of ~~lies~~ statistics.

This gives you an idea of the average rating assigned by day on which the rated proposal was submitted. This data is split out for all proposals, rejected proposals and accepted proposals. Note how a high rating does not mean an automatic place in the programme.

This chart gives you an indication of what score a reviewer is likely to assign a talk, depending on which day of the week it is. I've thrown in the standard deviation as well. Mainly, this is because I wanted to do a radar chart and haven't done one yet.

Note how reviewers will assign lower scores on a Monday (with a pronounced disagreement) and much higher scores (and more agreement) on Thursdays.

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cafuego — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:13:33 +1100

After doing some more poking around in the database and twiddling with Gnumeric, I have another pretty graph with usseless stats. This one shows the ratio of accepted versus rejected talk and tutorial proposals by date.

Offhand it seems your chances of having a proposal accepted are higher if you submit in the week just before or after the deadline.

No prizes for guessing when the submission deadline was.

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cafuego — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:14:42 +1100

After a few questions on IRC as to what the numbers were on the distro, editor and shell fields for linux.conf.au registrants and a tiny bit of egging on to make me do graphs, here is the first cut; DistroWars, EditorWars and ShellWars.

That's a hands down win for Ubuntu and deb based distros in general.

vim ftw. What else is there to say?

And this speaks for itself.

Note that on distros and editors, I've had to group a few single entries into 'Other', so that the graph was actually readable.

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cafuego — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:27:33 +1100

... not dead yet!

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cafuego — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 13:09:44 +1100

Looming it is, this conference. We've nearly sold out of non-keynote tickets as well now - 5 left!

This means we can shift the focus of promotion to Open Day, on February 2. We're hoping to attract lots of interested people and have cool stuff to show them. Donna did some posters yesterday, which we will put up at libraries and other public places around town.

In other news, there is a silly competition for LCA-goers. If you're attending you should bring a pencil sharpener and upload a photo of this sharpener to Sharpenr!

All attendees get to vote on the best/silliest sharpener and the winner receives a prize - provided they can both produce the sharpener at the conference and use it to successfully sharpen a pencil in front of an audience.