Open-source luminary Bruce Perens fails to escape after explaining the importance of open software for democracy.
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\n\tHardware hacking seems increasingly popular. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to identify everything photographed here at the Arduino mini-conference at LCA2012.
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\n\tImage credit: (Brett James “SuperRoach”, CC BY 1.0)
\n\tWell, this shirt, anyway. Jenna Downing turns one of the oversized LCA2012 T-shirts into a dress.
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\n\tImage credit: (Brett James “SuperRoach”, CC BY 1.0)
\n\tAndrew Tridgell, best known for his role in developing the open-source Samba implementation of Microsoft’s networking protocols, launches his semi-autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), one of the hardware-hacking highlights of LCA 2012.
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\n\tImage credit: (Christopher Neugebauer “chrisjrn”, CC BY-SA 2.0)
\n\tImage credit: (Christopher Neugebauer “chrisjrn”, CC BY-SA 2.0)
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\n\t\tImage credit: (Stilgherrian/ZDNet Australia)
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\n\tThe Project Horus team prepares to launch one of their high-altitude balloons from Linux.conf.au. This particular balloon was a 100-gram envelope carrying a 50-gram payload that included GPS receiver, temperature sensors, and a telemetry transmitter controlled by a miniature Linux computer. The balloon reached an altitude of around 22,500 metres, and a speed of nearly 150 kilometres per hour before bursting and eventually falling into Port Phillip Bay. It was never recovered.
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\n\tImage credit: (Stilgherrian/ZDNet Australia)
\n\tSome LCA2112 sessions were technical. Very technical. Too technical for some.
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\n\tThese chaps kept the LCA2012 Wi-Fi network running smoothly for the entire week, with support from AARNet. Later, they may have been seen drinking.
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\n\tImage credit: (Brett James “SuperRoach”, CC BY 1.0)
\n\tOnce you’ve seen this picture, you can skip Appelbaum’s one-and-a-half-hour keynote presentation. Unless you want to, you know, learn anything.
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\n\tImage credit: (Michael Davies “mrda”, CC BY-SA 2.0)
\n\tThe Linux.conf.au organising team receive a standing ovation in the conference’s final session. And a telescope each. Linux.conf.au 2013 will be at the Australian National University in Canberra from 28 January to 2 February.
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\n\tImage credit: (Michael Davies “mrda”, CC BY-SA 2.0)
