by michaeld

January 17, 2004

Linux.Conf.Au 2004 has all finished - thanks to sponsors, speakers and conference attendees alike!

Follow our wiki for event follow-ups, photos and reports.

Just FYI, we raised $AUD6280.45 for the Cystic Fibrosis Association by dunking Linus Torvalds and many other speakers and organisers. Thanks to those who got wet!

We also raised a little over $5500 for ITShare (ComputerBank in South Australia) by auctioning off a t-shirt signed by all our speakers.

And finally, we also raffled off an Apple PowerBook signed by Open-source luminaries, raising $2800 to be shared between Reachout and Canteen. Thanks to Apple for this wonderful donation!

See you all next year in Canberra!

Oracle questionaire winners announced!

by michaeld

January 18, 2004

The winner of the 3 Oracle hand-held GPS units given away as a raffle are Michael Cohen, Anshul Gupta and Neale Banks.

Linus Torvalds drew these names out of the box full of questionaire forms at the conference close.

Thanks again Oracle - these qre great prizes!

HP Work In Progress and FIXIT Winners announced!

by michaeld

January 18, 2004

The winner of the HP Works In Progress "best presentation" is Duncan Laurie. He'll receive an HP iPAQ, generously donated by HP!

The winning team of the HP FIXIT sessions is Robert Collins (leader), Mark Suter, Gavin Baker, Brian May and Dave Peterson. Each of these winners will receive an HP iPAQ, with Robert also getting a wireless networking card for being the leader.

The first runner up team of the HP FIXIT sessions is Daniel Stone (leader), Thom May, Matt Wilcox, Trent Lloyd, and Gus Lees. Daniel will be receiving an HP iPAQ, with all team members receiving a wireless networking card.

The second runner up team of the HP FIXIT sessions is Tim Ansell (leader), Colin Charles and Keith Packard. Tim will be receiving an HP iPAQ, with all team members receiving a wireless networking card.

Many thanks to HP for providing prizes for these conference events to encourage participation!

"Best Of" papers announced!

by michaeld

January 18, 2004

The best paper presentations for the conference can now be announced! They were:

Andrew "tridge" Tridgell with his paper on A tour of my junkcode directory.

Dan Shearer with his paper on Linux and Simulated Systems.

Steve Baker with his paper on The Gstreamer Multimedia Architecture.

Jeremy Malcolm with his paper on Could SCO v IBM Happen to You?

Congratulations speakers on gaining this recognition!

Hackfest Winner Announced!

by michaeld

January 18, 2004

The IBM HackFest prize winner, for a Tetribot named "beth", is Geoffrey Bennett.

His prize is an IBM pSeries deskside server model p615 with Dual 1.45GHz Power4+ CPUs, 4GBRAM, 2x146.8GB Ultra 3 SCSI 10,000 RPM Hard Disks, DVD ROM drive, 21" Colour CRT Monitor. SuSE Linux Enterprise server 8.2. with a retail value of over AU$39,000.

Wow! Congratulations Geoffrey! And thanks IBM for your generosity!

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