Main Conference Monday, 20 Jan 2025

Conference times are in ACDT (UTC+1030). Current talks will be highlighted.

Room Panorama Rooms City Room 1 City Room 2 City Room 3

09:00AM

Monday Welcome
Mike O'Connor

09:10AM

Sustaining Open Source Software
Justin Warren

10:10AM

Morning Tea

10:45AM

Sandboxing untrusted code with WebAssembly
Katie Bell

Micrometer-Scale 3D Printing From Scratch With RepRapMicron
Vik Olliver

Dinit: an alternative new "init"
Davin McCall

Upgrade your Docs-As-Code Foo with the Vale Text Linter
Alec Clews

11:30AM

Room Changeover

11:40AM

Openness in academic institutions: A Beginner's Guide
Sarah Brundrett

Teaching CPUs to High School Students: Lessons, Hurdles, and Takeaways
Nicholas Miehlbradt

80% faster, 70% less memory: building a new high-performance, low-cost Prometheus query engine
Joshua Hesketh, Charles Korn

12:25PM

Lunch (uncatered)

01:30PM

The Storage Shift
Steven Ellis

Exploring the CERN Open Data using Open Software
Aman Desai, Albert Kong, Professor Paul Jackson

Navigating the AI Frontier: Secure Adoption of LLMs in FinTec
Rob Kenefeck

It's Proxies All The Way Down: Envoy/xDS 101
Jacob Taylor

02:15PM

Room Changeover

02:25PM

Everything Open is HopePunk
Nicola Nye

Using SimpleSAMLphp when you only have 20 users.
Ben Martin

What happened in production?! Instrumenting with OpenTelemetry
David Bell

03:10PM

Afternoon Tea

03:45PM

Please don't forget my parents! - Digital Exclusion is happening, so you all better know about it
Sae Ra Germaine

quiz: tiny VMs for kernel development
Rob Norris

P3.express: A libre, minimalist project management method
Nader K. Rad

Exploring Open Data in High Energy Physics with the ATLAS Detector
Albert Kong, Aman Desai

04:30PM

Room Changeover

04:40PM

Open justice within a justice reinvestment framework
Emma Davidson

Open source voice interfaces in 2025
Kit Biggs

Why 99% Of WordPress Vulnerabilities Are Utterly Irrelevant
Cameron Jones

05:25PM

Talks end

06:00PM

Linux Australia Annual General Meeting

07:00PM

Day End

09:00AM–09:10AM

Monday Welcome
Mike O'Connor

Panorama Rooms
ends 9:10 a.m.

09:10AM–10:10AM

Sustaining Open Source Software
Justin Warren

Panorama Rooms
ends 10:10 a.m.

10:10AM–10:45AM

Morning Tea


ends 10:45 a.m.

10:45AM–11:30AM

Sandboxing untrusted code with WebAssembly
Katie Bell

Panorama Rooms
ends 11:30 a.m.

Micrometer-Scale 3D Printing From Scratch With RepRapMicron
Vik Olliver

City Room 1
ends 11:30 a.m.

Dinit: an alternative new "init"
Davin McCall

City Room 2
ends 11:30 a.m.

Upgrade your Docs-As-Code Foo with the Vale Text Linter
Alec Clews

City Room 3
ends 12:25 p.m.

11:30AM–11:40AM

Room Changeover

City Room 1, Panorama Rooms, City Room 2
ends 11:40 a.m.

11:40AM–12:25PM

Openness in academic institutions: A Beginner's Guide
Sarah Brundrett

Panorama Rooms
ends 12:25 p.m.

Teaching CPUs to High School Students: Lessons, Hurdles, and Takeaways
Nicholas Miehlbradt

City Room 1
ends 12:25 p.m.

12:25PM–01:30PM

Lunch (uncatered)


ends 1:30 p.m.

01:30PM–02:15PM

The Storage Shift
Steven Ellis

Panorama Rooms
ends 2:15 p.m.

Exploring the CERN Open Data using Open Software
Aman Desai, Albert Kong, Professor Paul Jackson

City Room 1
ends 2:15 p.m.

Navigating the AI Frontier: Secure Adoption of LLMs in FinTec
Rob Kenefeck

City Room 2
ends 2:15 p.m.

It's Proxies All The Way Down: Envoy/xDS 101
Jacob Taylor

City Room 3
ends 3:10 p.m.

02:15PM–02:25PM

Room Changeover

City Room 1, Panorama Rooms, City Room 2
ends 2:25 p.m.

02:25PM–03:10PM

Everything Open is HopePunk
Nicola Nye

Panorama Rooms
ends 3:10 p.m.

Using SimpleSAMLphp when you only have 20 users.
Ben Martin

City Room 1
ends 3:10 p.m.

03:10PM–03:45PM

Afternoon Tea


ends 3:45 p.m.

03:45PM–04:30PM

Please don't forget my parents! - Digital Exclusion is happening, so you all better know about it
Sae Ra Germaine

Panorama Rooms
ends 4:30 p.m.

quiz: tiny VMs for kernel development
Rob Norris

City Room 1
ends 4:30 p.m.

P3.express: A libre, minimalist project management method
Nader K. Rad

City Room 2
ends 4:30 p.m.

Exploring Open Data in High Energy Physics with the ATLAS Detector
Albert Kong, Aman Desai

City Room 3
ends 5:25 p.m.

04:30PM–04:40PM

Room Changeover

City Room 1, Panorama Rooms, City Room 2
ends 4:40 p.m.

04:40PM–05:25PM

Open justice within a justice reinvestment framework
Emma Davidson

Panorama Rooms
ends 5:25 p.m.

Open source voice interfaces in 2025
Kit Biggs

City Room 1
ends 5:25 p.m.

Why 99% Of WordPress Vulnerabilities Are Utterly Irrelevant
Cameron Jones

City Room 2
ends 5:25 p.m.

05:25PM–06:00PM

Talks end


ends 6 p.m.

06:00PM–07:00PM

Linux Australia Annual General Meeting

City Room 1
ends 7 p.m.

07:00PM

Day End

Main Conference Tuesday, 21 Jan 2025

Conference times are in ACDT (UTC+1030). Current talks will be highlighted.

Room Panorama Rooms City Room 1 City Room 2 City Room 3

09:00AM

Tuesday Welcome
Mike O'Connor

09:10AM

Skill Trees: Gamifying The Hard Things
Steph Piper

10:10AM

Morning Tea

10:45AM

The Token Wars: Why not everything should be open
Kathy Reid

Detecting Cosmic Ray Muons
Robert Hart

Folios and filesystems - A new frontier for Btrfs to explore
Wenruo Qu

An Introduction to Capture the Flag
Rob Kenefeck

11:30AM

Room Changeover

11:40AM

Everything Open All At Once: Just how *open* do we want *everything* to be, really?
itgrrl

How to have modern fun with old fonts
Nathan Willis

My front door key is 32 bytes long
Kirin van der Veer

12:25PM

Lunch (uncatered)

01:30PM

Enhancing spatial safety in the Linux kernel: Fixing thousands of -Wfamnae warnings
Gustavo A. R. Silva

Towards Editing Programs via Abstract Syntax Trees
Clinton Roy

Facilitation - How Might We "make it easier" for people to collaborate onsite and online?
Donna Benjamin

02:15PM

Room Changeover

02:25PM

A Big Live Demo of Kanidm
William Brown

The programmers cryptography toolbox
Triss Healy

Things I learn from teaching Open Source in college
Vladimir Roudakov

03:10PM

Afternoon Tea

03:45PM

Koha - not your average library system
Aleisha Amohia

Partly Cloudy IPA - joining cloud VMs to FreeIPA
Fraser Tweedale

Beyond TAP: polyglot testing with exeter
David Gibson

Using siril to see the invisible
Peter Lieverdink

04:30PM

Room Changeover

04:40PM

The circle of life: The Digital Skills GitBook project
Sara King

All the wonderful things you can do with StackRox
Shane Boulden

Cargo Cult Standards Compliance: Proprietary Standards in an Open Source World
Sam Bishop

05:25PM

Talks end

Please take the time to explore Adelaide on your way to the Penguin Dinner.

06:00PM

Penguin Dinner

For Penguin Dinner ticket holders only.

Adelaide Zoo, Attenborough Room

08:00PM

Day End

09:00AM–09:10AM

Tuesday Welcome
Mike O'Connor

Panorama Rooms
ends 9:10 a.m.

09:10AM–10:10AM

Skill Trees: Gamifying The Hard Things
Steph Piper

Panorama Rooms
ends 10:10 a.m.

10:10AM–10:45AM

Morning Tea


ends 10:45 a.m.

10:45AM–11:30AM

The Token Wars: Why not everything should be open
Kathy Reid

Panorama Rooms
ends 11:30 a.m.

Detecting Cosmic Ray Muons
Robert Hart

City Room 1
ends 11:30 a.m.

Folios and filesystems - A new frontier for Btrfs to explore
Wenruo Qu

City Room 2
ends 11:30 a.m.

An Introduction to Capture the Flag
Rob Kenefeck

City Room 3
ends 12:25 p.m.

11:30AM–11:40AM

Room Changeover

City Room 1, Panorama Rooms, City Room 2
ends 11:40 a.m.

11:40AM–12:25PM

Everything Open All At Once: Just how *open* do we want *everything* to be, really?
itgrrl

Panorama Rooms
ends 12:25 p.m.

How to have modern fun with old fonts
Nathan Willis

City Room 1
ends 12:25 p.m.

My front door key is 32 bytes long
Kirin van der Veer

City Room 2
ends 12:25 p.m.

12:25PM–01:30PM

Lunch (uncatered)


ends 1:30 p.m.

01:30PM–02:15PM

Enhancing spatial safety in the Linux kernel: Fixing thousands of -Wfamnae warnings
Gustavo A. R. Silva

Panorama Rooms
ends 2:15 p.m.

City Room 1
ends 2:15 p.m.

Towards Editing Programs via Abstract Syntax Trees
Clinton Roy

City Room 2
ends 2:15 p.m.

02:15PM–02:25PM

Room Changeover

City Room 1, Panorama Rooms, City Room 2
ends 2:25 p.m.

02:25PM–03:10PM

A Big Live Demo of Kanidm
William Brown

Panorama Rooms
ends 3:10 p.m.

The programmers cryptography toolbox
Triss Healy

City Room 1
ends 3:10 p.m.

Things I learn from teaching Open Source in college
Vladimir Roudakov

City Room 2
ends 3:10 p.m.

03:10PM–03:45PM

Afternoon Tea


ends 3:45 p.m.

03:45PM–04:30PM

Koha - not your average library system
Aleisha Amohia

Panorama Rooms
ends 4:30 p.m.

Partly Cloudy IPA - joining cloud VMs to FreeIPA
Fraser Tweedale

City Room 1
ends 4:30 p.m.

Beyond TAP: polyglot testing with exeter
David Gibson

City Room 2
ends 4:30 p.m.

Using siril to see the invisible
Peter Lieverdink

City Room 3
ends 5:25 p.m.

04:30PM–04:40PM

Room Changeover

City Room 1, Panorama Rooms, City Room 2
ends 4:40 p.m.

04:40PM–05:25PM

The circle of life: The Digital Skills GitBook project
Sara King

Panorama Rooms
ends 5:25 p.m.

All the wonderful things you can do with StackRox
Shane Boulden

City Room 1
ends 5:25 p.m.

05:25PM–06:00PM

Talks end

Please take the time to explore Adelaide on your way to the Penguin Dinner.


ends 6 p.m.

06:00PM–08:00PM

Penguin Dinner

For Penguin Dinner ticket holders only.

Adelaide Zoo, Attenborough Room


ends 8 p.m.

08:00PM

Day End

Main Conference Wednesday, 22 Jan 2025

Conference times are in ACDT (UTC+1030). Current talks will be highlighted.

Room Panorama Rooms City Room 1 City Room 2 City Room 3

09:00AM

Wednesday Welcome
Mike O'Connor

09:10AM

The past and future open library
Trish Hepworth

10:10AM

Morning Tea

10:45AM

Avast ye, we be getting the clouds shipshape! Cloud networking with Skupper
apollo bradshaw

Aiko Services: An open-source framework for creating awesome Machine Learning applications
andy gelme

You've been laid off. Now what?
Mike Jang

Capture the Flag
Rob Kenefeck

11:30AM

Room Changeover

11:40AM

Where did the money go?
Lyndsey Jackson

OpenActa/Haystack: a key/value store for logs with interlinking of related fields
Arjen Lentz

Modularisation of Open-Hardware to Tackle the Digital Winter
Paul Gardner-Stephen

12:25PM

Lunch (uncatered)

01:30PM

Kiddo's first conference talk: A psychological journey
Senn Oon

The Magic Jigsaw: the process of designing an open source/hardware music tracker
Maksim Lin

02:15PM

Room Changeover

02:25PM

tips to build and repair empathy with other teams
Cait Macleod

Open source your code, not your keys and secrets
Alistair Chapman

My Home Network: reducing reliance on multinationals
Peter Chubb

03:10PM

Afternoon Tea

03:45PM

Open source technology in spacecraft operations
Daniel Wardle

I come to bury Ansible, not to praise it!
Daryl Tester

Did you get my message?
Paul Schulz

Quiet Room

04:30PM

Room Changeover

04:40PM

Lightning Talks
Neill Cox

05:15PM

Conference Close
Mike O'Connor

05:25PM

Day End

09:00AM–09:10AM

Wednesday Welcome
Mike O'Connor

Panorama Rooms
ends 9:10 a.m.

09:10AM–10:10AM

The past and future open library
Trish Hepworth

Panorama Rooms
ends 10:10 a.m.

10:10AM–10:45AM

Morning Tea


ends 10:45 a.m.

10:45AM–11:30AM

Avast ye, we be getting the clouds shipshape! Cloud networking with Skupper
apollo bradshaw

Panorama Rooms
ends 11:30 a.m.

You've been laid off. Now what?
Mike Jang

City Room 2
ends 11:30 a.m.

Capture the Flag
Rob Kenefeck

City Room 3
ends 3:10 p.m.

11:30AM–11:40AM

Room Changeover

City Room 1, Panorama Rooms, City Room 2
ends 11:40 a.m.

11:40AM–12:25PM

Where did the money go?
Lyndsey Jackson

Panorama Rooms
ends 12:25 p.m.

Modularisation of Open-Hardware to Tackle the Digital Winter
Paul Gardner-Stephen

City Room 2
ends 12:25 p.m.

12:25PM–01:30PM

Lunch (uncatered)

City Room 1, Panorama Rooms, City Room 2
ends 1:30 p.m.

01:30PM–02:15PM

Kiddo's first conference talk: A psychological journey
Senn Oon

Panorama Rooms
ends 2:15 p.m.

City Room 2
ends 2:15 p.m.

02:15PM–02:25PM

Room Changeover

City Room 1, Panorama Rooms, City Room 2
ends 2:25 p.m.

02:25PM–03:10PM

tips to build and repair empathy with other teams
Cait Macleod

Panorama Rooms
ends 3:10 p.m.

Open source your code, not your keys and secrets
Alistair Chapman

City Room 1
ends 3:10 p.m.

My Home Network: reducing reliance on multinationals
Peter Chubb

City Room 2
ends 3:10 p.m.

03:10PM–03:45PM

Afternoon Tea


ends 3:45 p.m.

03:45PM–04:30PM

Open source technology in spacecraft operations
Daniel Wardle

Panorama Rooms
ends 4:30 p.m.

I come to bury Ansible, not to praise it!
Daryl Tester

City Room 1
ends 4:30 p.m.

Did you get my message?
Paul Schulz

City Room 2
ends 4:30 p.m.

Quiet Room

City Room 3
ends 4:30 p.m.

04:30PM–04:40PM

Room Changeover

City Room 1, Panorama Rooms, City Room 2
ends 4:40 p.m.

04:40PM–05:15PM

Lightning Talks
Neill Cox

Panorama Rooms
ends 5:15 p.m.

05:15PM–05:25PM

Conference Close
Mike O'Connor

Panorama Rooms
ends 5:25 p.m.

05:25PM

Day End