Against the odds, Linux.conf.au 2011 kicks off in Brisbane

Due to the flood crisis, the location of the conference had to be changed at late notice and is being held at the Kelvin Grove campus at the Queensland University of Research.

The first two days of LCA is more often than not devoted to specialist "miniconfs" of varying topics. This year miniconf topics include business, cloud computing, mobile, government, graphics and even rocketry.

On Tuesday, Google vice president and chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf will deliver the keynote address earlier the main conference programme starts on Wednesday.

The conference is not all business-related

The conference is not all business-related, with a few fun sessions on building a Linux powered coffee roaster, growing food and space exploration with open source software.

Wireless communications will as well feature at this year's LCA with presentations by Paul Gardner-Stephen on the Serval Project for mesh telephony and the Dili Village Telco "Mesh Potato" project by David Rowe.

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