Upcoming Australian technical events

The Haecksen miniconf at linux.conf.au was a huge success, some reports on it include:

• Lana Brindley: Some of my best friends are unicorns
• Liz Henry: Linux.conf.nz and DrupalSouth, Linux.conf.au, Part 2
• Brianna Laugher: LCA recap - Code of our own
• Helen Varley Jamieson: haeksen miniconf part 1, part 2, part 3
• Pia Waugh: linux.conf.au 2010 – Day 1

The Haecksen miniconf is being held at LCA2010 today from 10:30 until 17:10 (Wellington NZ time, UTC+13).

Live streaming is available in WMV format as per these details.

linux.conf.au 2010 has announced the delegates selected for the Google Diversity Programme:

• Sara Falamaki
• Elizabeth Garbee
• Liz Henry
• Emma Jane Hogbin
• Nancy Mauro-Flude

Congratulations all.

Google is funding a diversity programme for LCA2010 (Wellington NZ, January), including women. Selected applicants will receive up to NZD1000 towards attendance at the conference.

Applications close THIS FRIDAY 2 October.

Applications for the National Computer Science School (NCSS) are now open. NCSS is a live-in school for Australian Year 11 and 12 students at which they learn programming and website development. They put some effort into attracting applications from both girls and from students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

It will be held from Saturday 2 January to Monday 11 January, 2010 (inclusive).

If you or someone you know can pass this information onto high school teachers and students, feel free to send it on.

LCA2010 (Wellington, New Zealand, January) has released their schedule of talks.

Women speakers are:

• Angela Byron, Drupal Under the Hood
• Anne Chin, The implications of using FOSS under Australian copyright and contract law
• Claudine Chionh, Unlocking the ivory tower: Free and open source software in collaborative humanities research
• Gabriella Coleman, Tuesday keynote
  

Google is sponsoring a Diversity Programme for LCA2010 in which Open Source contributors who are members of a minority group, including women, can apply to receive up to NZD1000 towards attendance at LCA2010 in January in New Zealand.

Applications for LCA2010 assistance from this program close on Friday 2 October 2009. See http://www.lca2010.org.nz/register/funding#GoogleDiversityProgramme for more information.

The Haecksen miniconf at linux.conf.au 2010 will highlight women who are working and playing with all sorts of technology in Australasia and the Pacific: smart crafters, OLPC volunteers and, of course, many FLOSS contributors.

The miniconf will be held during LCA2010 in Wellington, New Zealand, in January 2010.

Submissions to the miniconf are now open and close October 18 2009.

Thirteen other miniconfs will also run during LCA2010, and their calls for papers are also running.

The Open Source Developers Conference (Brisbane, 25–27 November 2009) has announced their programme.

Women speakers are:

• "Cultivating Codeless Contributors" by Melissa Draper
• "Remote Controlled Volunteers" by Karen Pauley
• "Just Get the Job Done! Serving the Community One Argument at a Time" by Jacinta Richardson

Registration for the conference is now open.

New Zealand LinuxChix member Joh Clarke's proposal for a Haecksen and Linuxchix miniconf at linux.conf.au 2010 (January 2010, Wellington, NZ) was announced as one of the chosen miniconfs.