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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Thursday, 23 August 2007 | |
      
LCA 2008 will run from January 28 to February 2. Conference director Donna Benjamin is no geek but a long-time Linux user; in her own words, without coding skills, she finds it difficult to contribute to the community and hence decided to help on the organisational front. Ms Benjamin runs a small business, Creative Contingencies, which does some work with free and open source software; her husband Peter Lieverdink provides the PHP and MySQL expertise. She says the call for papers for LCA 2008 resulted in more than 220 proposals being received; the evaluation team of Rusty (iptables) Russell and Mary Gardiner will now select 60 to be presented at the conference. The list will be finalised by early September. Some of the proposals which do not find a place at the main conference will be allotted time for presentations on an open day at the end. As usual, there will be a number of mini conferences - the topics have already been finalised. Ms Benjamin says the LCA will this year have a community wireless mini conference as this is a field of increasing interest and LCA can help to bring together people who need solutions with those who already have them. Security technologist Bruce Schneier will be one of the keynote speakers. Schneier, an inventor of the Blowfish, Twofish and Yarrow algorithms and author of numerous books on security, is one of the world's best known and most pragmatic security experts. He will be joined by Stormy Peters, who formerly managed the open source program office at Hewlett Packard. Peters is now with a group called OpenLogic which "provides software, stacks and services that help enterprises to maximize the value of open source software." The third keynote will be announced shortly. |
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