So I flew down to Brisbane to attend WordCamp, the main WordPress Conference in Australia. It is run over the weekend for two days with two streams and an evening of drinks and food on Saturday. The breakdown of genders at the conference was amazing there was a near 50/50 split for attendees and speakers. There was also a great focus on catering for accessibility with Australian Sign Language translator present. The mixture of talks…
Sadly this year will be the last Portland OSCON for abit :/ next year it seems we are heading to Austin, Texas Convention Centre. At the moment the grape vine is that it will be there for at least two years. Whilst I enjoy Austin and glad to ssee the Open Source love spread to a start-up hotbed and share the knowledge, I am going to miss Portland. I love going to Portland to catch…
So after presenting FireFoxOS talk at LinuxCon Chicago and getting an overwhelming good response I decided to put the talk forward for LinuxConf Australia. So I got accepted for the talk at LinuxConf Australia which was awesome and a humbling experience. This year (2015) it was in Auckland, New Zealand and yes I had never been to New Zealand before apart from a short stop over on the way home from Canada. So I was…
One of my favourite all time conferences in Australia is Joomla Day. I have been hanging around the Joomla community since its inception and was a proud user of Mambo (Hey you know it came from an Australian Melbourne University right?) So it is a conference that I do like to attend even if I am not working directly on the code base. So I was happy that I would be back in Australia to…
So getting selected for a talk at LinuxCon America was well what can I say a dream come true for me. I was very happy to also be talking about FireFoxOS and the use of Linux, a nice deep technical talk for my first one at a Linux Conference. There is not much to say but WOW about the conference I had been to a LinuxCon Europe before but this was my first American one.…
So after years of living vicariously through Paul Fenwicks and many others of my friends tweets streams around OSCON time, as I was in Portland why not attend and well yeah for being able to teach at Kids Day. There is not much to say here but I saw so many of my long time Open Source pals, meet a ton of new ones and also got to hear and partake in discussions with some…