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| by Sam Varghese | |
| Friday, 01 February 2008 | |
  
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This was announced at the conclusion of the 2008 conference at the Melbourne University today. It is understood that Brisbane was also a strong contender to host the 2009 event. The Queensland capital hosted the 2002 event . However, Linux Australia, the patron of the conference, is understood to have decided on Hobart in order to boost the interest in the Linux operating system on the island. Brisbane has a strong community of free and open source software people, with the one of the better known among them being Anthony Towns, who was leader of the Debian GNU/Linux Project for a year from April 2006. Hobart had also made a bid for this year's conference but was beaten to the punch by Melbourne. Ben Powell and Leah Duncan, president and secretary respectively of the Tasmanian Linux Users Group, are co-chairing the organising committee for linux.conf.au 2009. The only two cities to have played host twice are Melbourne (1999 and 2008) and Sydney (2001 and 2007 ). |
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