Conference Schedule
Main Conference Monday, 20 Jan 2025
Conference times are in ACDT (UTC+1030). Current talks will be highlighted.
09:00AM–09:10AM
Monday Welcome
Plenary
ends 9:10 a.m.
09:10AM–10:10AM
Keynote
Plenary
ends 10:10 a.m.
10:10AM–10:45AM
morning tea
ends 10:45 a.m.
Micrometer-Scale 3D Printing From Scratch With RepRapMicron
Vik Olliver
Room A
ends 11:30 a.m.
Dinit: an alternative new "init"
Davin McCall
Room B
ends 11:30 a.m.
Upgrade your Docs-As-Code Foo with the Vale Text Linter
Alec Clews
Tutorial Room
ends 12:25 p.m.
11:30AM–11:40AM
Room Changeover
Room A, Plenary, Room B
ends 11:40 a.m.
11:40AM–12:25PM
Openness in academic institutions: A Beginner's Guide
Sarah Brundrett
Plenary
ends 12:25 p.m.
Teaching CPUs to High School Students: Lessons, Hurdles, and Takeaways
Nicholas Miehlbradt
Room A
ends 12:25 p.m.
80% faster, 70% less memory: building a new high-performance, low-cost Prometheus query engine
Joshua Hesketh, Charles Korn
Room B
ends 12:25 p.m.
12:25PM–01:30PM
lunch
ends 1:30 p.m.
Exploring the CERN Open Data using Open Software
Aman Desai, Albert Kong, Professor Paul Jackson
Room A
ends 2:15 p.m.
Navigating the AI Frontier: Secure Adoption of LLMs in FinTec
Rob Kenefeck
Room B
ends 2:15 p.m.
It's Proxies All The Way Down: Envoy/xDS 101
Jacob Taylor
Tutorial Room
ends 3:10 p.m.
02:15PM–02:25PM
Room Changeover
Room A, Plenary, Room B
ends 2:25 p.m.
Using SimpleSAMLphp when you only have 20 users.
Ben Martin
Room A
ends 3:10 p.m.
What happened in production?! Instrumenting with OpenTelemetry
David Bell
Room B
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
Plenary
ends 4:30 p.m.
quiz: tiny VMs for kernel development
Rob Norris
Room A
ends 4:30 p.m.
P3.express: A libre, minimalist project management method
Nader K. Rad
Room B
ends 4:30 p.m.
Exploring Open Data in High Energy Physics with the ATLAS Detector
Albert Kong, Aman Desai
Tutorial Room
ends 5:25 p.m.
04:30PM–04:40PM
Room Changeover
Room A, Plenary, Room B
ends 4:40 p.m.
04:40PM–05:25PM
Open justice within a justice reinvestment framework
Emma Davidson
Plenary
ends 5:25 p.m.
Open source voice interfaces in 2025
Kit Biggs
Room A
ends 5:25 p.m.
Why 99% Of WordPress Vulnerabilities Are Utterly Irrelevant
Cameron Jones
Room B
ends 5:25 p.m.
05:25PM–06:00PM
Free time
ends 6 p.m.
06:00PM–07:00PM
Linux Australia Annual General Meeting
Room A
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.
09:00AM–09:10AM
Tuesday Welcome
Plenary
ends 9:10 a.m.
09:10AM–10:10AM
Keynote
Plenary
ends 10:10 a.m.
10:10AM–10:45AM
morning tea
ends 10:45 a.m.
Detecting Cosmic Ray Muons
Robert Hart
Room A
ends 11:30 a.m.
Folios and filesystems - A new frontier for Btrfs to explore
Wenruo Qu
Room B
ends 11:30 a.m.
An Introduction to Capture the Flag
Rob Kenefeck
Tutorial Room
ends 12:25 p.m.
11:30AM–11:40AM
Room Changeover
Room A, Plenary, Room B
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
Plenary
ends 12:25 p.m.
How to have modern fun with old fonts
Nathan Willis
Room A
ends 12:25 p.m.
My front door key is 32 bytes long
Kirin van der Veer
Room B
ends 12:25 p.m.
12:25PM–01:30PM
lunch
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
Plenary
ends 2:15 p.m.
Navigating the Declining Funding for FOSS Organizations
Karen Sandler
Room A
ends 2:15 p.m.
Towards Editing Programs via Abstract Syntax Trees
Clinton Roy
Room B
ends 2:15 p.m.
Facilitation - How Might We "make it easier" for people to collaborate onsite and online?
Donna Benjamin
Tutorial Room
ends 3:10 p.m.
02:15PM–02:25PM
Room Changeover
Room A, Plenary, Room B
ends 2:25 p.m.
The programmers cryptography toolbox
Triss Healy
Room A
ends 3:10 p.m.
Things I learn from teaching Open Source in college
Vladimir Roudakov
Room B
ends 3:10 p.m.
03:10PM–03:45PM
afternoon tea
ends 3:45 p.m.
Partly Cloudy IPA - joining cloud VMs to FreeIPA
Fraser Tweedale
Room A
ends 4:30 p.m.
Beyond TAP: polyglot testing with exeter
David Gibson
Room B
ends 4:30 p.m.
Using siril to see the invisible
Peter Lieverdink
Tutorial Room
ends 5:25 p.m.
04:30PM–04:40PM
Room Changeover
Room A, Plenary, Room B
ends 4:40 p.m.
04:40PM–05:25PM
The circle of life: The Digital Skills GitBook project
Sara King
Plenary
ends 5:25 p.m.
All the wonderful things you can do with StackRox
Shane Boulden
Room A
ends 5:25 p.m.
Cargo Cult Standards Compliance: Proprietary Standards in an Open Source World
Sam Bishop
Room B
ends 5:25 p.m.
05:25PM–06:00PM
Free time
ends 6 p.m.
06:00PM–08:00PM
Penguin Dinner
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.
09:00AM–09:10AM
Wednesday Welcome
Plenary
ends 9:10 a.m.
09:10AM–10:10AM
Keynote
Plenary
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
Plenary
ends 11:30 a.m.
Aiko Services: An open-source framework for creating awesome Machine Learning applications
andy gelme
Room A
ends 11:30 a.m.
You've been laid off. Now what?
Mike Jang
Room B
ends 11:30 a.m.
Capture the Flag
Rob Kenefeck
Tutorial Room
ends 3:10 p.m.
11:30AM–11:40AM
Room Changeover
Room A, Plenary, Room B
ends 11:40 a.m.
OpenActa/Haystack: a key/value store for logs with interlinking of related fields
Arjen Lentz
Room A
ends 12:25 p.m.
Modularisation of Open-Hardware to Tackle the Digital Winter
Paul Gardner-Stephen
Room B
ends 12:25 p.m.
12:25PM–01:30PM
lunch
Room A, Plenary, Room B
ends 1:30 p.m.
01:30PM–02:15PM
Kiddo's first conference talk: A psychological journey
Senn Oon
Plenary
ends 2:15 p.m.
The Magic Jigsaw: the process of designing an open source/hardware music tracker
Maksim Lin
Room A
ends 2:15 p.m.
Creating a USB stick to boot Linux ISOs without wiping the device
Greg Darke
Room B
ends 2:15 p.m.
02:15PM–02:25PM
Room Changeover
Room A, Plenary, Room B
ends 2:25 p.m.
02:25PM–03:10PM
tips to build and repair empathy with other teams
Cait Macleod
Plenary
ends 3:10 p.m.
Open source your code, not your keys and secrets
Alistair Chapman
Room A
ends 3:10 p.m.
My Home Network: reducing reliance on multinationals
Peter Chubb
Room B
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
Plenary
ends 4:30 p.m.
I come to bury Ansible, not to praise it!
Daryl Tester
Room A
ends 4:30 p.m.
Did you get my message?
Paul Schulz
Room B
ends 4:30 p.m.
Tutorial Room
ends 4:30 p.m.
04:30PM–04:40PM
Room Changeover
Room A, Plenary, Room B
ends 4:40 p.m.
04:40PM–05:25PM
Lightning Talks & Conference Close
Plenary
ends 5:25 p.m.
05:25PM
Day End