[AuckLUG] Linux conference

[Mark Foster]

On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Stuart R Mealor wrote:

> I was in Australia last week presenting at the Sydney Moodle Conference
> (Moodle is an Open Source Course Management System - http://moodle.org)
> and came across two things that I found quite interesting...
>
> The Linux Conference Australia - January 15th-16th 2007
> http://lca2007.linux.org.au/
>
> Apart from the fact that AuckLUG members might be interested in going
> themselves, I also wondered if we have such a high-profile event in New
> Zealand? (pardon my ignorance if we do!)

lca2006 was held in Dunedin. Close enough? =)


NZ on its own doesn't appear to have the critical mass required to set up 
a dedicated Linux Conference, though we (being the NZ Linux Users Group I 
guess) have had involvement in the 
Uniforum Conference (a since wound-up Computer Society style organisation) 
which essentially spun off the NZ Network Operators Group (NZNOG) 
conferences.

A 'Linux' Stream @ NZNOG isn't an impossibility, if people want to step up 
and organise it - may possibly be easier to become a component of a 
large routine which already has some established organisational backbone, 
than setting up a new one. (A new standalone Linux or Open-Source focussed 
event would be bloody cool - but theres a lot of work in it...)


Mark. (Past NZNOG / Uniforum Conference organizer among other things..)