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The conference, better known as LCA, is scheduled to be held at the Australian National University from January 28 to February 2.

Of the three mini-confs, two will be devoted to topics around systems administration and the third will cover open hardware, in this case the Arduino.

One of the sysadmin mini-confs is titled systems administration and the other will cover advances in Linux security. The former will be of interest to professionals who look after Linux systems; the latter will deal with advances in embedded and mobile markets, covering Android, Chromium and Tizen.

The Arduino was first introduced to the LCA by a former Linux Australia president, Jonathan Oxer, in 2010 when he gave a talk about it which proved to be extremely popular. In 2011, there was a mini-conference devoted to it; next year the mini-conf devoted to this little computer system will make a comeback.

The mini-conferences will be held on the first two days of conference week, with the main event taking up the remaining three days.