We had a very successful day, thanks to all speakers and attendees. Watch this site for the addition of slides and videos of talks.

If you have photos of the miniconf on the web, please contact us to share the link.

If you’re uploading to Flickr, tag as “linuxchix miniconf“, “linuxchix“, “lca2008” and “linux.conf.au“.

We’re underway! Welcome to everyone here, and others might want to drop into #aussiechix on irc.linuxchix.org to say hello to us.

LinuxChix miniconf t-shirts are available, featuring the 2008 miniconf logo. See Robyn’s instructions to order.

Official registration for linux.conf.au 2008 has sold out, but there are still a few classes of ticket left. There are tickets that give access to all but the keynotes and, importantly for us, there are day passes available, giving access to a miniconference day for only $49.50. If you’d like to come to the LinuxChix miniconference only, you can now buy a Tuesday day pass at the registration page.

Only 10% of places are still available at linux.conf.au 2008. If you’re coming, register as soon as possible.

The LinuxChix miniconf is now able to announce our final schedule. Our one day programme will feature the following presentations:

• “Heroes”, presented by Pia Waugh
• “So you want to be a sysadmin” presented by Joh Clarke
• “Not-common-enough code optimisations” presented by Jacinta Richardson
• “Memcache, keeping data in the handiest place: memory”, presented by Brenda Wallace
• “Who’s Behind Wikipedia?”, presented by Brianna Laugher
• “From behind the monitor: Communication challenges in open source projects”, presented by Adaora Oniya
• “Community work, adult education, computer recycling/refurbishing all using Linux”, presented by Robyn Manning and Kylie Willison
• “What does a community manager do?” presented by Stormy Peters

Please join us on Tuesday the 29th January 2008 at linux.conf.au at the University of Melbourne for the LinuxChix miniconf; open to all linux.conf.au attendees.

linux.conf.au 2008 is close to running out of registration places, with only 20% still available for sale as of today. Register soon to make sure that you get one of the remaining places.

Remember: everyone attending the LinuxChix miniconf needs to be registered for linux.conf.au 2008.

Some changes to our timeslots and the unfortunate cancellations of two miniconf speakers mean that the LinuxChix miniconf at linux.conf.au 2008 will be re-issuing its schedule shortly. The upside is that we have the opportunity to expand several of our talks to full slots. Stand by!

The schedule for our LinuxChix miniconf at linux.conf.au is now available at our Schedule page. The miniconf will be held on Tuesday January 29 2008, and will feature talks by eleven women on topics ranging from programming techniques to community management.

Don’t forget that in order to come you must be registered to attend linux.conf.au 2008. Early bird registration (20% off) closes on the 17th of November 2007 or when early bird places run out, whichever happens first. After that, you will need to pay the full registration fee. Register through the online registration system.