Conference Schedule
Main Conference Thursday, 13 Jan 2022
Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.
| Room | Venueless | 
|---|---|
| 05:30PM | Newcomers Session Donna Benjamin, Nicola Nye, Steven Ellis and Hugh Blemings An annual tradition of linux.conf.au, the Newcomers Session is an opportunity for first time attendees (and those who enjoy coming along year after year...) to find out more about the conference and everything it has to offer. An informal session, it's hosted by a number of folk who have attended one or more (for some, many more) LCAs in the past. Please join us in the Newcomers Session room in Venueless. | 
| 06:30PM | Day End | 
05:30PM–06:30PM
Newcomers Session
Donna Benjamin, Nicola Nye, Steven Ellis and Hugh Blemings
An annual tradition of linux.conf.au, the Newcomers Session is an opportunity for first time attendees (and those who enjoy coming along year after year...) to find out more about the conference and everything it has to offer.
An informal session, it's hosted by a number of folk who have attended one or more (for some, many more) LCAs in the past. Please join us in the Newcomers Session room in Venueless.
    
    Venueless
    
    ends 6:30 p.m.
  
06:30PM
Day End
Main Conference Friday, 14 Jan 2022
Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.
10:10AM–10:40AM
Morning Tea
    
    
    
    ends 10:40 a.m.
  
      GLAM Miniconf Opening
      
      Sae Ra Germaine, Clinton Roy
    
    
    
    GO GLAM x Community — 
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 10:50 a.m.
  
      Kernel Miniconf Opening
      
      Andrew Donnellan
    
    
    
    Kernel — 
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 10:50 a.m.
  
      Sys Admin Miniconf Opening
      
      Simon Lyall, Ewen McNeill
    
    
    
    System Administration — 
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 10:50 a.m.
  
10:50AM–11:20AM
      Intro to Swagbadge 2022, the SAOs and the software
      
      Andy Gelme, Jonathan Oxer, Nicola Nye
    
    
    
    Open Hardware — 
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 11:20 a.m.
  
      Citation Network Analysis from Scratch
      
      Claire Daniel
    
    
    
    GO GLAM x Community — 
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 11:20 a.m.
  
      State of futex2
      
      André Almeida
    
    
    
    Kernel — 
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 11:20 a.m.
  
      On the Importance of Visibility
      
      Allan Shone
    
    
    
    System Administration — 
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 11:20 a.m.
  
11:20AM–11:30AM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 11:30 a.m.
  
11:30AM–12:00PM
      MicroROS, combining advanced robotics and low-cost embedded systems
      
      Brett Downing
    
    
    
    Open Hardware — 
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends noon
  
Finding aids as open data: Access points to data-drive stories of the past
Bonnie Wildie
Replay of talk from LCA2020
    
    
    GO GLAM x Community — 
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends noon
  
      So you want to torture RCU?
      
      Paul McKenney
    
    
    
    Kernel — 
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends noon
  
      MariaDB Database per user, on demand (aka systemd multi-instance socket activated)
      
      Daniel Black
    
    
    
    System Administration — 
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends noon
  
12:00PM–01:20PM
Lunch
    
    
    
    ends 1:20 p.m.
  
01:20PM–01:50PM
      When things go wrong and how we fix them
      
      Jonathan Oxer, Andy Gelme
    
    
    
    Open Hardware — 
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 1:50 p.m.
  
      How we opened up our private museum collection API
      
      Simon Loffler
    
    
    
    GO GLAM x Community — 
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 1:50 p.m.
  
      To the Cloud and Beyond, Accessing Files Remotely from Linux via SMB3.1.1
      
      Steven French
    
    
    
    Kernel — 
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 1:50 p.m.
  
      Learning about slightly more advanced  networking with linux
      
      Paul Warren
    
    
    
    System Administration — 
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 1:50 p.m.
  
01:50PM–02:00PM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 2 p.m.
  
02:00PM–02:30PM
      The Rockling FPGA Audio processor and Theremin SAO and Party Button SAO
      
      Andy Gelme, Jonathan Oxer
    
    
    
    Open Hardware — 
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 2:30 p.m.
  
      Shovel-ready GLAMR graduates - what disciplinary skills do you want?
      
      Kathryn Greenhill
    
    
    
    GO GLAM x Community — 
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 2:30 p.m.
  
      eBPF 101
      
      Muhammad Falak R Wani
    
    
    
    Kernel — 
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 2:30 p.m.
  
      Avoiding DNS Pain
      
      Kieran Jacobsen
    
    
    
    System Administration — 
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 2:30 p.m.
  
02:30PM–02:40PM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 2:40 p.m.
  
02:40PM–03:10PM
      Open Hardware Weather Radar
      
      Tishampati Dhar
    
    
    
    Open Hardware — 
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
    
    
    GO GLAM x Community — 
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
      A mechanism to isolate CPU topology information in the Linux kernel -- CPU Namespace
      
      Pratik Rajesh Sampat, Gautham R. Shenoy
    
    
    
    Kernel — 
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
      “Why are they asking me to do this?” or Adventures in IR Land
      
      Gyle dela Cruz
    
    
    
    System Administration — 
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
03:10PM–03:40PM
Afternoon Tea
    
    
    
    ends 3:40 p.m.
  
03:40PM–04:10PM
      Useful Reality - Assistive wearable tech on a budget
      
      Christopher Biggs
    
    
    
    Open Hardware — 
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 4:10 p.m.
  
      AI4LAM - Grassroots Action
      
      Ingrid Mason, Katherine Jarvie
    
    
    
    GO GLAM x Community — 
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 4:10 p.m.
  
      Merging an existing framework into KernelCI
      
      Alice Ferrazzi
    
    
    
    Kernel — 
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 4:10 p.m.
  
      Automation for the People: One man's journey to automate his homelab
      
      Iain Dickson
    
    
    
    System Administration — 
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 4:10 p.m.
  
04:10PM–04:20PM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 4:20 p.m.
  
04:20PM–04:50PM
      Automating hardware test & measurement
      
      Julien Goodwin
    
    
    
    Open Hardware — 
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 4:50 p.m.
  
      Moving to self managed OA publishing
      
      jessie lymn
    
    
    
    GO GLAM x Community — 
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 4:50 p.m.
  
      Kernel Testing with KUnit: Bridging the Gap
      
      David Gow
    
    
    
    Kernel — 
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 4:50 p.m.
  
      VMs + Containers = The Perfect Wedding
      
      Sreejith Anujan
    
    
    
    System Administration — 
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 4:50 p.m.
  
04:50PM–05:00PM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 5 p.m.
  
05:00PM–05:30PM
      Hardware design of the OHMC2022 Rockling & Swag Badge and OHMC close
      
      Robert Powers
    
    
    
    Open Hardware — 
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 5:30 p.m.
  
      Musicbrainz.org and wikidata.org
      
      Daniel Sobey
    
    
    
    GO GLAM x Community — 
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 5:30 p.m.
  
      (Ab)using GitHub Actions for building & testing kernels
      
      Russell Currey
    
    
    
    Kernel — 
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 5:30 p.m.
  
      Playtime with configuration: from script to galaxy
      
      Ser Heang TAN
    
    
    
    System Administration — 
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 5:30 p.m.
  
05:30PM–05:45PM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 5:45 p.m.
  
05:45PM–06:45PM
      Communities are systems: What can systems thinking teach us when it comes to communities?
      
      Kathy Reid
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 6:45 p.m.
  
06:45PM
Day End
Main Conference Saturday, 15 Jan 2022
Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.
09:10AM–10:10AM
      The Conflict and Burnout Survival Guide: Handling When Things Go Wrong
      
      Jono Bacon
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 10:10 a.m.
  
10:10AM–10:45AM
Morning Tea
    
    
    
    ends 10:45 a.m.
  
10:45AM–11:30AM
      Meaningful Bounds Checking in the Linux Kernel
      
      Kees Cook
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 11:30 a.m.
  
      Add depth! Stereoscopic imagery for everyone
      
      Florian Haas
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 11:30 a.m.
  
      When STEM Becomes STEAM We All Benefit: Breaking out of our professional silos
      
      Yvonne Perkins
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 11:30 a.m.
  
      Bringing WebM Alpha support to GStreamer
      
      Nicolas Dufresne
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 11:30 a.m.
  
11:30AM–11:40AM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 11:40 a.m.
  
11:40AM–12:25PM
      Kernel Hardening for 32-bit Arm Processors
      
      Keith Packard
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 12:25 p.m.
  
      Memory management with MMTk: lessons learned from replacing Ruby's garbage collector
      
      Angus Atkinson
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 12:25 p.m.
  
      Qiskit: Building a quantum computing community
      
      Anna Phan
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 12:25 p.m.
  
      Let’s Make a Game
      
      Paris Buttfield-Addison
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 12:25 p.m.
  
12:25PM–01:30PM
Lunch
    
    
    
    ends 1:30 p.m.
  
      Send in the chown()s - systemd containers in user namespaces
      
      Fraser Tweedale
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 2:15 p.m.
  
      How To Annoy The Government With FOI Requests
      
      Justin Warren
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 2:15 p.m.
  
      20 years of NSA Security Enhanced Linux, a Retrospective
      
      Russell Coker
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 2:15 p.m.
  
02:15PM–02:25PM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 2:25 p.m.
  
      Electrifying the Knitted Universe
      
      Sarah Spencer
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
      What C and C++ can do and when do you need Assembly?
      
      Alexander Krizhanovsky
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
      Visualising and tracing requests through a cluster: Intergrating OpenTracing into OpenStack Swift
      
      Matthew Oliver
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
03:10PM–03:45PM
Afternoon Tea
    
    
    
    ends 3:45 p.m.
  
03:45PM–04:30PM
      Upstream Accessibility: A Contributor's Guide
      
      Dawn E. Collett
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 4:30 p.m.
  
      Some tentative first steps towards a Star Trek universal communicator
      
      Greg Baker
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 4:30 p.m.
  
      GStreamer and ROS a tale of two messaging frameworks
      
      Brett Downing
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 4:30 p.m.
  
      Boldly Going, Running Linux in Space
      
      Sam Bishop
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 4:30 p.m.
  
04:30PM–04:40PM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 4:40 p.m.
  
      Made to Measure? The Biases and Boundaries of Biometrics
      
      Lilly Ryan
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 5:25 p.m.
  
      NorNet – A Linux- and Open-Source-Software-based International Platform for Networking Research
      
      Thomas Dreibholz
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 5:25 p.m.
  
      Virtual Events: Behind the scenes of an engaging community conference
      
      Ryan Verner
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 5:25 p.m.
  
05:25PM–06:30PM
Talks end
    
    
    
    ends 6:30 p.m.
  
06:30PM–06:45PM
Professional Delegates Networking Session (PDNS)
Includes special guest speaker Antony Green.
For professional ticket holders and speakers only.
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 6:45 p.m.
  
08:00PM
Day End
Main Conference Sunday, 16 Jan 2022
Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.
10:10AM–10:45AM
Morning Tea
    
    
    
    ends 10:45 a.m.
  
10:45AM–11:30AM
      The Security Community Expressed As Too Many Venn Diagrams
      
      Casey Schaufler
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 11:30 a.m.
  
      More than words: Reviewing and updating your information architecture
      
      Lana Brindley
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 11:30 a.m.
  
      Paperback: A Digital Will and Backup System for the Reasonably Paranoid
      
      Aleksa Sarai
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 11:30 a.m.
  
      Building an Ephemeral World
      
      Steven Ellis
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 11:30 a.m.
  
11:30AM–11:40AM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 11:40 a.m.
  
11:40AM–12:25PM
      Live and synchronous! Contribute to the Open Practice Library.
      
      Donna Benjamin
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 12:25 p.m.
  
      Performance Testing of Prometheus Based Metric Platforms
      
      Brian Groux
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 12:25 p.m.
  
      The seL4 Foundation – growing through upheaval
      
      Gernot Heiser
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 12:25 p.m.
  
      Developing, testing and deploying open infrastructure with Zuul for the OpenDev collabatory
      
      Ian Wienand
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 12:25 p.m.
  
12:25PM–01:30PM
Lunch
    
    
    
    ends 1:30 p.m.
  
01:30PM–02:15PM
      Open Source/Hardware has changed Retro Computing
      
      Randall Crook
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 2:15 p.m.
  
      WHAT Was Too Slow?!? (When sprintf() Is A Performance Bottleneck)
      
      David Fetter
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 2:15 p.m.
  
      Integration, data sharing, opensource, and the agtech startup ecosystem
      
      Lyndsey Jackson
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 2:15 p.m.
  
      Velociraptor - Dig Deeper in Linux
      
      Mike Cohen
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 2:15 p.m.
  
02:15PM–02:25PM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 2:25 p.m.
  
02:25PM–03:10PM
      Why your encrypted Database isn't secure: practical attacks against encrypted OSS databases
      
      Dan Draper
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
      Engineering Kindness
      
      John Contad
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
      Persistent Memory plus RDMA, new age remote device
      
      Xiao Yang
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
      Roll for Initiative: how to make the world of AI a more ethical place
      
      J Rosenbaum
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 3:10 p.m.
  
03:10PM–03:45PM
Afternoon Tea
    
    
    
    ends 3:45 p.m.
  
03:45PM–04:30PM
      Becoming a tyrant: Implementing secure boot in embedded devices
      
      Irving Tjiptowarsono
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 4:30 p.m.
  
      What does Linux Australia do all year?
      
      Julien Goodwin, Sae Ra Germaine
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 4:30 p.m.
  
      Footguns and factorisation: how to make users of your cryptographic library successful
      
      Lindsay Holmwood
    
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 4:30 p.m.
  
      gprofng: The Next Generation GNU Profiling Tool
      
      Ruud van der Pas
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 4:30 p.m.
  
04:30PM–04:40PM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 4:40 p.m.
  
04:40PM–05:25PM
      Compact C Type Format in the GNU Toolchain
      
      Indu Bhagat, Nick Alcock
    
    
    Kaya Theatre
    
    ends 5:25 p.m.
  
      Automation for Debian Packaging
      
      Jelmer Vernooij
    
    
    Wominjeka Theatre
    
    ends 5:25 p.m.
  
    
    Yuma Theatre
    
    ends 5:25 p.m.
  
      Confessions of a Crypto Miner
      
      Tishampati Dhar
    
    
    Kia Ora Theatre
    
    ends 5:25 p.m.
  
05:25PM–05:35PM
Room Changeover
    
    
    
    ends 5:35 p.m.
  
06:00PM
Day End