 Guys, we made it. We're here. It has been one eventful ten days. Guys, we apologise first up for the exercise you got in N515 for those that went there first, but it's good to get exercise first in the morning. You have to bear with this. These booklets finished printing on Saturday sometime. The eyelets went missing somewhere. So you just got a whole punch booklet yesterday. So there are a few changes. Can I please ask you to refer straight to the website in any case, and that should have the most recent schedule and all the rooms. I know all of you will have some access to some device to look at that. It's a beta version. It's a beta version. iCal will be updated when the schedule is updated. It's automatic. It just doesn't adhere to every standard you might want. Patches. I said that in the email. Patches are welcome. I need to make a quick announcement and change what I was going to do this morning in the slides. If anyone here is on the partners program, I apologise for not getting information out to you, but confirmation of buses only really came through Saturday afternoon and Saturday night. So partners program, if you have a partner or you are a partner, or even if a delegate got a partner's badge as someone did yesterday, please meet at the registration desk now. Today I sent out an email last night. Today it's the partners program is off to Lone Pine, Kuala Sanctuary. So meet at the registration desk now and someone will look after you. Okay, welcome. We're here and it's been an interesting 10 days. So what we thought we'd do is put a how-to together. How to replant 12 months work in 10 days. Find new venues not affected by flood waters. I've got some lovely photos of our old venue with sandbags against the power plants and substations. It's a wonderful looking photo I'll share during the week. Shame the sandbags were about three metres lower than the water. Rearranged social events. Some of our venues still have mud in them. What else do we have to do? Anxiously and frantically call venues and providers. That was probably the hardest part because people were answering us like Thursday and Friday this week. So when we said we'd send out a call on Monday night, we still were on the tethering edge there. So that was a difficult concept, that one. Re-planned the logistics of moving a large number of people around the city. We got some shuttle buses. Hands up if you use the shuttle buses we provided. Hands up if there was only one or two on that bus. Good. Okay, so the majority of the buses had people on. We need more. Great. Okay, you can Twitter that or whatever you want to identify it. Chat about it. Find out whether there's enough toilet paper at Urban Nest, whatever. Okay. So we had to get people around the city. We had to communicate with you guys, let you know what was happening. Our volunteers, we had to reschedule meetings, reschedule timetables. We had to rebuild a network. Reprint material. And reschedule all the rooms in the buildings. And a big thanks has to go out to the QUT staff here that we work with because it just would not have been possible without them. So we're very lucky that we are associated. The other thing is the great thing about this conference, it's really brought to you by the flood affected waters of Brisbane. All your Cisco switches that are sitting around here have actually been rescued from the floodwaters. And I think if you read one of my blog posts, you'll see the pictures of us rescuing these out of some of the stores. So it's a true Brisbane conference. Lots of events. Just some housekeeping to get started. Things you need to know. Evacuation, we hope that on the hill here, it's not going to be riverine affected. But please look at the, if there's, you'll have an alarm that goes off in these buildings. One will be a warning. The next one will be the get out of the building sort of alarm. We don't want chaos in an orderly fashion leave the room. At the entrance and exits of each room, there is a sign telling you where to go. Please make yourself aware of where to go. Near each of the buildings, there are amenities. So you'll be able to find in the foyer area up here different toilets and whatever you need. So around each venue, being a university, we have to have amenities. If you have trouble finding them, go to the regio desk. Read your email. I won't. But I'm asking you to read because that's where I will just send a message to. So if there's any changes, one of our team members will send it to LCA chat. If you are not on that list, please be on that list. We'll also try to do LCA announce if we remember. Transport, we've mentioned the transport. We've got buses for most things and most of our social events now have buses. If you have any problems, again, go to the regio desk and they will be able to help you there. Internet, you've found that. I'm not even going to go through that. We have first aid, St. John's in S204 or 205. So if there's any need for St. John's or ambulance or there's any accidents or anything like that, contact the regio desk or if you can get yourself to S204 or 205, we have St. John's on site for the whole week. We've located it down that way because that's where rocketry in Arduino is. You're welcome. Badges, wear them. If you don't have them, you may find that you won't get into things. So please wear them. We know who you are and other people know who you are. There is an harassment policy on the website and this would have went out months and months ago if you are unfamiliar with how you should be behaving. Go and read it. I'm sure most of us here, though, know how to behave. Sponsors. Important people. The people we want on board each year. These are the people that we need to thank and we want to thank up front. We have HP and IBM who are our Emperor Penguin sponsors. We have Intel and Google who are our King Penguin sponsors. Our Royal Penguin sponsors, Catalyst and Qualcomm. Our Rockhopper Penguin sponsors, Canonical, Red Hat, Anker, Nokia and all our supporting partners. Our supporting partners are as important as any of our other sponsors. They have done a lot to help us get here and, as I said before, the way we have moved things around the university from one campus to another has just been incredible. So these people have done a lot of behind-the-work scenes for us. We also want to give a huge thanks to the following people and this is not limited to just these people. I have forgotten this at 3 o'clock when I was putting this together this morning. I know I've forgotten people and things to say here. Huge thanks to the volunteers up front. We have a number of volunteers wearing a shirt similar to what I'm wearing here which will be very similar. A big thanks to those guys because at the last minute they've done amazing things and they've pulled off some incredible stuff in the last 10 days for us. They've come to training sessions and they've made sure that this conference actually works. So while we have a core team that's been organising this, we need to thank these sponsors. These volunteers up front. The LCA Ghosts. So that's the people that have run conferences before. A big thanks needs to go out to these guys because they've guided us up until most recently. We've had to take a few different turnarounds in the last 10 days because none of them had had experience with floods in their conferences. The Papers Committee. So the Papers Committee, they're the guys who are responsible for choosing what you're going to go and see today. So a big thanks to those guys because that was a long day but a good day. The speakers, I'd like to thank all the speakers up front and I'd like to thank all of you guys for helping make this happen. So everyone, thank you. And it's going to be a great conference. It's going to be great weather, as you can tell. What I'm going to do now is pass over to John Fulito, who's president of Linux Australia and he's going to say a few kind words. Thanks, Sean. Good morning, everyone. First, on behalf of Linux Australia, welcome everyone to Linux.com for you. Even with recent events, it looks like this is shaping up to be another amazing conference. First of all, so last night a whole heap of the ghosts were having some drinks together and we sort of, you know, were chatting about past conferences and this conference and I sort of posed the question, what would you have done if one and a half weeks before your conference you'd lost your venue and the city was flooded and all sorts of various disasters. And I think the general consensus from most ghosts present is we would have crawled into a corner and just cried for the next one and a half weeks. So look, these guys have done an absolutely amazing job. The amount of work that they've had to do in the last 10 days. So I'd again like to just extend a huge thank you to these guys. I can't comprehend the amount of work that they've been doing to make it possible for us to be here today. Behind the scenes, I mean, I've been in Europe the last month so I've been trying to deal with all of this from there and we came close to sort of, you know, going can we do this or not. But these guys have just done an amazing job. It's been great. So a quick thing that we try and do every year. Can everyone that went to Wellington please stand? Okay, that's not bad. I've got a list because there's been a lot of LCA's now. Okay. Sit down if you weren't in Tasmania. Yes, remain standing if you were in Tasmania. I'm in Brisbane. Sit if you weren't at Melbourne Conference in 2008. Really? Okay. Sit down if you weren't in Sydney in 2007. Okay. If you weren't in Dunedin in 2006. Can't read my writing. Okay. If you weren't in Canberra. Please sit. If you weren't in Adelaide in 04. Perth, 2003. No, you can't stand up again. Brisbane, 02. Dammit. We lose some. Okay. Sydney, 01. Finally, who is still at Calo? Up to you four people that are still standing and make sure you go to every single LCA from now on. Okay, next up the... On Wednesday afternoon at what time is the AGM? It's in your programs. The Linux Australia AGM is on Wednesday. I'd encourage people to turn up. One interesting thing about Linux Australia is that a lot of people come to the conference. There's a lot of people on the mailing list, although not a lot of mail, so you don't have to stand up and participate. So I encourage you to come to the AGM. We specifically put it on the Wednesday rather than right at the end of the conference to try and encourage more people to come rather than go home on flights. So do come, raise any things. If there's anything you think Linux Australia should be doing, if you want to help out, if you want to join a subcommittee, we've got lots of teams that are doing various things in terms of sponsorship and media and admin. Please turn up. The other important thing is the Linux Australia buses. There's no real voting involved because only one person is standing. All the ordinary committee members I think there's four or five people standing in these three slots. So please vote. Most of you are Linux Australia members. If you're not, go to the website, sign up. Go and vote. Linux Australia has expanded some of the stuff that we're doing in the last year. We're now supporting a lot more conferences. Linux Australia now runs as well as LCA. We now run Drupal Down Under, WordCamp and there's a couple of other conferences that are sort of coming our way. So we're expanding that. We're trying to support more of the open source ecosystem. So please get involved and help out. I'll put out a little bit of a pimp for WordCamp. WordCamp's on in about five or six weeks in Melbourne. So please look into that if you're a WordPress person. LCA 2013. LCA 2012. LCA will be announced at the closing ceremony as it usually is. 2013. We'll be opening the bid process fairly early this year. You'll probably see an email on the timetable in the next couple of weeks. Start talking to people now. We'll probably have a bof at some stage if we haven't cooked one up already. There is a team that is already fairly well prepared. They want us to open the bid process now so that they can put their bid in. So that's, I think, raises the challenge. Look, a little bit of work needs to get put in to put in a bid for an LCA. But it's not a whole lot. It is something achievable in a couple of weeks. So I encourage you to talk to people from your home state, your home city, get together and see if there's other people interested. I know there's a whole heap of people in Sydney that are interested in doing something. There's people in Canberra. I heard some inkling of something in Adelaide. Start a wiki page. Put some names up. See if there's anyone interested. Get together. Talk about it. Look, last year, I'd just like to thank the sponsors again. They put a lot of effort into making LCA possible in terms of cash mainly and for the smaller sponsors in kind. Without those, LCA wouldn't be possible. But also a lot of the stuff that Linux Australia tries to do wouldn't be possible. Linux Australia basically is run off the profit of all the conferences that we do. So those sponsors are pretty critical and they help us do things throughout the year. So that's all from me. Thanks, John. I'd like to now invite Carol to come up and she has a few words to say about some of the Google stuff that's happening. Hi, everybody. I have a... Hi, my name is Carol Smith. You might have known my previous person in this position, Leslie Hawthorne. I can't be here today, but I am stepping into big shoes. I work at Google in the open source programs office and if you're not familiar with our team, we do a whole bunch of outreach to the open source community. We attend conferences like this. We help sponsor a lot of these conferences. And my job specifically is I work on the summer of code program. How many of you have heard of the summer of code program? Oh, wow. That's awesome. Thank you. Okay, then my next slide is not quite as useful since most of you have already heard of it, but I will not read everything off of this slide. You can get the highlights, but for those of you who aren't familiar with the program, summer of code is basically an online internship where we work with open source organizations in our community. Last year was 150 organizations and university students work on a project over the summertime between basically April and September to contribute code back to their open source organization and basically get involved in the community and create more open source code get more involved in the development process. It's kind of a win-win situation for everybody. Students get to put their open source work on their resume. They often get future work with these open source organizations. I have some stats about the program from this past year. We had 1026 students accepted. It was actually supposed to be 1031. It was going to be all nice and prime, and then we had a couple students drop out right after we accepted them, which was kind of unfortunate. We had 89% of our students pass last year, which was our best year yet, which was great. This program has been running for six years now, so really great program. The open source organizations from around the world, many of whom I'm sure you've heard of and worked with in the past, over 2,000 mentors and organization administrators participated. It was actually kind of closer to 2,500, but I was a little less generous with the numbers, but we had a ton of mentors and organization admins participate, and really they are kind of the heart of this whole program if we didn't have them to mentor these students on this open source software. This program wouldn't work at all, so a huge thanks to them. 2010 was a really great year, so I have a very special announcement for all of you today, and you guys are the first ones to hear this. Drum roll, please. You guys are awesome. We're going to do it again this year. This is our great logo for this year. I'm actually very, very excited about this logo. So we're going to be doing it again this year, and I am here right now to ask all of you to please start talking about the program. Please, please get the word out, and I have some resources here available to you. Since all of you, most of you have already heard of this program, some of you probably already are familiar with these. You can direct people to code.google.com slash SOC, which is sort of the main homepage for these things. Google Melange is where we administer the whole program from. It has FAQs and timeline, which will be available in about two hours, which is when the program actually opens on the web. And this little Google link down here will get you a direct link to our flyers for this year so that you can start printing out flyers. I'm also actually after this talk I'm going to be running over to the printer to print out flyers to give to all of you, so I will have those available later. We will also have some summer of coach swag for all of you as well to take and give out as you see fit. And mostly, you know, this program really works on word of mouth. This is, we are leaving it to all of you. I now leave it in your hands to get the word out about this program. So print out flyers, give them to students, consider translating the flyer into a language and sending it to me so we can give it to other people. Host a meetup about the program, give a presentation about the program. I don't have the presentation templates up just yet for this year's program, but they will be available in the next couple of days. So please give a presentation or talk about the program with whoever you can and tell everybody you know about it and encourage them to participate. Summer of coach is happening this year. And I'm not going to take questions now because I'm sure you guys are all waiting for morning tea, but that's my email address so if you have any questions want to talk about the program, want to ask me anything about what's going on please email me. Hooray! Thank you. Thanks Kara. Okay. I suppose starting an LCA is probably not an LCA unless you give something away. Okay. So we do have something to give away this morning. Everyone can have that. Okay. So drum roll please again. Is Andrew Brown here? Andrew. Come on down. What we're going to do is actually give you our presentation box. You are lucky. You get a Lamote. We might give you the power cord. And we might also give you the Ethernet cable because someone dodged that up yesterday when they were crimping it. What Andrew has is a Lamote by Longsoon. Longsoon. Get the pronunciation correct. It is a MIPS-based mini computer. As you see it does work. We just did our presentation on it. Do you want to borrow it for a few more hours? I got a few more to give away through the week. Okay. So he is going to tell us all about these things over the next four days. But we've only had a little opportunity to play with these when they arrived. They are a great little box and I know some of the team have been looking at trying to use them for all sorts of home entertainment sort of things. So you are going to find out a little bit more about these over the next few days. They're a nice little box, easy to carry on a plane and I'm sure you can set it up. If you get one of these and you have trouble using it, talk to someone in our core team and they will help you get started if you've never played with that sort of stuff. So, Andrew, thank you. Guys, we have a few more prizes throughout the week. Generally they will be during the keynotes, but not always. So you will find out about them. We've got a few things arranged. We've had to change a few things as well, obviously. We're not going to take up a lot of your time this morning. We have many comms full schedules today. I know some of the guys that want itching to get started on Arduino or building rockets or whatever is happening in the program today. So, morning tea is at 10 o'clock. We have a few minutes until 10 o'clock. We still have some registrations out there that have been happening or need to be finalised. Bear with the caterers as they get morning tea on and enjoy the day and make the most of it. If you're not there, you're not going to see the great stuff that's happening and talk to people. Okay guys, that's it. One question. Okay, so, if you want lunch there is going to... This is important. I know it's been discussed. Morning teas, afternoon teas are provided. On Wednesday you will have lunch provided for you as well. Okay? On each of the other days there is a cafeteria just here outside of F Block in the building called C. If you walk outside of F Block at the top and go to your left you'll go to another cafeteria. If you want to venture down the road you can find a whole heap of shops and have a look on the map, have a look on the wiki. The stuff is there. So, you'll find a whole heap of shopping centres and stuff there. And for those that came to the newbie session there are no hobbies. Okay. We'll leave it there guys. Thanks.