Morning Tea (catered)
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URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: morning tea DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T101000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T104500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:58@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Morning Tea (catered)
\nUCX Lounge - Level A Buil ding 1
URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: morning tea DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T101000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T104500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:61@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Morning Tea (catered)
\nUCX Lounge - Level A Buil ding 1
URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Encouraging democratic participation with software DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T113000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:1@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Vanessa Teague\nI'll give an overview of what Democra cy Developers is building to explain - and encourage participation in - Au stralian democracy. This will be part demo and part interactive session in viting the audience to suggest improvements or alternatives.\n\nWe'll disc uss\n- explaining elections and preferential voting (encouraging people to see where their vote goes)\,\n- explaining current parliamentary bills an d encouraging people to engage with their representatives about something they care about.\n\nSee https://gitlab.com/democracydevelopers/ LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/19/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Automated testing of circuit boards with Testomatic DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T113000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:2@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jonathan Oxer\nIf you build a circuit board it's usua lly fairly simple to flash firmware onto it and make sure it's working. It might take you 5 or 10 minutes. No problem!\n\nBut what if you've built 1 00 PCBs? Or 1000? Now you're doing the mental arithmetic and realising tha t you'll be flashing and testing boards until Eastermas :-(\n\nPCB assembl y factories use expensive tools to automate the process\, including flying probe testers and pogo pin jigs. Building a tester can sometimes be a big ger and more complicated project than the board you're trying to test.\n\n Testomatic is a project to build a fully Open Source PCB testing system co nsisting of a test chassis\, Python test-runner software\, a service for s toring test records and making them searchable\, and reference designs for pogo test modules that you can adapt to suit your specific project. By le veraging the Testomatic framework you can create a flash/test system with most of the work already done for you\, and build on it to suit your own n eeds. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/36/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Penguin Nurse: An Open Source Approach to Health Tracking DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T113000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:3@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brian May\nThere are countless apps for recording per sonal health data—Samsung Health\, Google Fit\, Apple Fitness\, Oura\, S oundcore\, mySymptoms Food Diary\, and many more. But most come with the s ame set of limitations: your data is locked into a vendor’s cloud\, tied to a single device\, only exportable through tedious manual steps\, or re stricted to the metrics the app’s authors consider important. The result ? I found myself juggling multiple trackers—one for food\, one for exerc ise\, one for bathroom habits\, and so on—with no way to connect the dot s.\n\nSo I built my own. [Penguin Nurse](https://github.com/brianmay/pengu in_nurse/) is an open-source health tracker that gives full control of dat a storage\, letting users choose their own PostgreSQL database backend. Bu ilt with Rust and the [Dioxus framework](https://dioxuslabs.com/)\, it run s as a full-stack application and is designed to be flexible\, transparent \, and extensible.\n\nThis talk will explore why I created Penguin Nurse\, how it’s built\, what it can (and can’t) do today\, and where it’s heading next. Also: there will be photos of birds. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/23/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Practical PKI: A hands-on X.509 workshop DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:10@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Fraser Tweedale\nTLS and X.509 certificates are an in tegral part of Internet\nsecurity\, yet their inner workings can feel like a black box. In\nthis tutorial we will explore a variety of certificate use cases and\npractice certificate management activities. Attendees will gain an\nunderstanding of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) fundamentals\, X.509\nanatomy\, and practical skills centred on FreeIPA (an open source\n identity management system featuring a certificate authority).\n\nBesides the pervasive TLS (SSL) WebPKI use case\, X.509 certificates\nare widely u sed in enterprise environments for Smart Card\nauthentication\, Kerberos P KINIT\, and 802.1X EAP system\nauthentication. This makes X.509 and certi ficate management\nessential knowledge for systems and network administrat ors and\nDevOps engineers.\n\nUsing FreeIPA (Red Hat Identity Management) as our hands-on\nplatform\, this tutorial will cover a variety of topics a nd scenarios\nincluding:\n\n- X.509 and PKI fundamentals (short presentati on)\n- Using OpenSSL to generate keys and create certificate signing\n re quests (CSRs)\n- ACME (Let's Encrypt) certificate management\n- FreeIPA's PKI capabilities: requesting certificates\, configuring\n certificate pro files and sub-CAs\, and enabling ACME issuance\n- External signing and ren ewal of the FreeIPA CA\n- Smart Card authentication on Linux hosts\n\nThe session will conclude with a brief overview of current\ndirections in PKI and X.509 including ACME\, Certificate\nTransparency\, the evolving revoca tion landscape and post-quantum\ncryptography.\n\nThis is an intermediate- level workshop. The intended audience is\nsystems and network administrat ors\, operations engineers\, security\npractitioners\, and anyone interest ed in web or network protocol\nsecurity.\n\nParticipants will be provided with access to preconfigured cloud\nenvironments on which they will undert ake the tutorial activities.\nThey will need a machine with Internet acces s and an SSH client\, and\nshould be comfortable in a Unix command line en vironment. LOCATION:Tutorial Room A (2B04) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Observability with OpenTelemetry and Elastic DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:11@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Grant Patterson\nThis will be a workshop focused on O penTelemetry and Elastic (Elasticsearch) using Elastic's Distribution for OpenTelemetry (EDOT). This session is perfect for anyone looking to level up their observability game and get better insights into their systems.\n\ n# Agenda - What We'll Cover\n- Getting Started: Quick intro to OpenTeleme try and EDOT\, plus what we'll achieve today\n- Logs & Metrics Setup: Conf igure the OpenTelemetry Collector using Semantic Conventions\n- Kubernetes Monitoring: Add K8s data sources and deploy a self-service monitoring sta ck\n- Trace Collection: Enable APM with zero code changes and auto-instrum ent Java services\n- Service Level Objectives: Set up and track SLOs for s ervice reliability\n- Data Analysis: Explore your logs\, metrics\, and tra ces using Kibana dashboards\n- Wrap-up & Questions\n\n# Prerequisites\n- L aptop with a modern web browser\, one of:\n - Chrome (>125)\n - Firefox (>124)\n - Safari (>17.3)\n - Edge (>125) LOCATION:Tutorial Room B (2B03) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:I accidentally became a FOSS maintainer and all I got was this lou sy insight into librarianship DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T113000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:20@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Hugh Rundle\nIn my day job I am a librarian\, managin g scholarly discovery and other technical systems at an Australian univers ity. In my non-work time I accidentally became a maintainer of [BookWyrm]( https://joinbookwyrm.com) – an open source distributed social reading a pplication built with Django and the ActivityPub protocol. \n\nIn this ta lk I will outline how many of the challenges and questions faced by BookWy rm developers mirror those of the library world. Thinking about these chal lenges in the context of BookWyrm has given me a new perspective on ways t hey can be tackled in libraries\, and a renewed belief in the future of li brarianship and the skills and knowledge within the profession. \n\nVolunt eering on FOSS projects can allow domain experts like librarians to play a nd experiment with aspects of their profession that their day jobs may not allow for\, enabling them to grow their skills and develop new insights.\ n\n**All attendees** will learn:\n\n*how FOSS projects can give you space to learn more in your area of expertise outside the limitations of a corpo rate or institutional workplace\n\n**Librarians** will learn:\n\n* how the y can make valuable contributions to FOSS projects of all kinds regardless of whether they know how to write code\n* how getting involved in project s like BookWyrm can help to ground concepts like Linked Open Data\, multip le ontologies and metadata normalisation\n\n**FOSS project maintainers** w ill learn:\n\n* strategies to attract and keep motivated contributors with diverse skill sets\n* how librarians can help you to organise and manage your project LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/25/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Evolution of the OCI Artifact Revolution DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T113000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:21@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Block\nIt is safe to say that Container images helped define the cloud native era. The success of containers was made po ssible by a rich ecosystem along with a set of standards defined by the Op en Container Initiative (OCI) which governs packaging\, distributing and r unning containers. While most users are familiar with traditional containe r images\, there’s an entirely separate type of OCI based content known as OCI Artifacts that has driven the most recent advances in cloud native technology and promises to lay the foundation for the next generation of i nnovation.\n\nOCI Artifacts enable arbitrary types of content to be packag ed and stored within container registries and have grown in popularity in recent years to support everything from software packages\, security asset s\, along with the next generation of AI and ML content. \n\nIn this sessi on\, attendees will learn the basics of OCI artifacts\, how they different iate from container images\, and how they are being used today. In additio n\, attendees will learn about the key Open Source projects that support t he management and use of OCI artifacts and how to get involved.\n\nBy bein g able to reuse well established infrastructure and patterns\, OCI artifac ts aim to support the challenges and use cases of today and the opportunit ies of tomorrow. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/38/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Don’t Trust Opaque Clouds\, Cryptographically Verify Instead! DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T113000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:22@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chris Butler\nThe principle of "Don't trust\, verify" is fundamental\, yet cloud computing often forces users to place implicit trust in opaque infrastructure and the organizations that audit the cloud s. Now you have options to follow that principle.\n\nConfidential computin g provides a fundamental change in this paradigm: hardware based trusted e xecution environments (TEEs) allow the cryptographic isolation of a users workload from underlying infrastructure providers\, and this isolation can be verified on demand using a remote attestation.\n\nThis talk will expla in the fundamentals of confidential computing including TEE’s and how re mote attestation can be used to verify the integrity of the TEE. After lay ing this foundation this talk will explore the overlapping projects in the ecosystem such as Trustee\, Keylime\, fs-verity\, Confidential Containers \; and what is required to assemble these projects in a way that allows yo u to cryptographic verify of your security posture. \n\nA short demo will be shown of how remote attestation works within the confidential container (Kata Containers & Trustee) ecosystem. The talk will be completed with ex ploring how you build systems to obtain value from the cryptographic verif ication in confidential computing. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/28/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Beginning with the Shell DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:29@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Peter Chubb\nThe POSIX Shell is a really powerful too l. If used properly\, it can ease your life considerably. If used improp erly it will get in your way.\n\nIn this tutorial you will learn when (and when not) to use a shell script to aid your work. We will cover the thi ngs that people mostly get wrong (quoting\, variable expansion)\, and best practices for efficient shell scripts (basically\, reworking things as a sequence of filters instead of using shell loops).\n\nYou will need to bri ng a laptop running Linux\, BSD\, or MacOSX\, and know how to get a termin al window on your laptop. You should have basic keyboard skills\, and kn ow how to use a text editor. We will be using standard tools like `grep`\ , `sed`\, `ls`\, `echo`\, etc.\, to explore what the shell can do and how it works. LOCATION:Tutorial Room A (2B04) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:RepRapMicron - The Next Small Thing In 3D Printing DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T113000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:41@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Vik Olliver\nIt's easiest to think of RepRapMicron as a multi-material 3D printer that makes millimetre-scale objects with micr on-scale precision. A device assembled from 3D printed parts that are larg e enough for mere mortals to fumble together with a screwdriver. It is che ap\, Open Source\, and made from readily available materials. While design ed to be useful for making tiny circuits and devices\, it acts as a protot ype for the design of a much smaller fabrication machine that it itself wi ll make.\n\nThe current modular system has allowed the hardware to continu ally evolve\, improving the precision and build volume. We'll show how it can deposit layers from UV printer resin and other materials\, like ionic gels for active electronic components\, and gold leaf for conductors. We'l l also need to take a look at smart material concepts with multiple materi al types in each layer.\n\nRepRapMicron is no longer the only player in th e field. Other community developers creating amazing new actuators that ca n move by **nanometres**. There is collaboration between these Open projec ts\, which are based on Open Source toolchains.\n\nThis presentation cover s the advances towards\, and new capabilities of\, micron-sized printed co mponents - and many new problems. Freeing a printed micron-scale widget fr om the print bed\, for example\, without flinging into oblivion. The old p roblems are still there\, of course: how to image\, manipulate\, and assem ble things that are far too small to see.\n\nAnd then\, inevitably\, there 's the ubiquitous nature of cat hair... LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/21/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lessons in Open Policy development from APNIC60 DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T113000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:42@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Tim Hildred\nThe open internet thrives on transparenc y\, but what happens when transparency conflicts with privacy? This talk p ulls back the curtain on the world of internet policy and governance by ex ploring a real-world example of this tension: PROP-162\, a proposal to rem ove unnecessary contact details from the APNIC Whois database. We'll show how the community-driven policy process allows stakeholders to debate and shape the rules that govern the internet's most fundamental information\, and why you should care about this open\, community-led process. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/51/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Books-As-Code DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T113000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:43@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alec Clews\nWe use Docs as Code to write our technica l documentation these days\, but what about writing a technical book?\n\nT his talks outlines Alec's experiences in taking his tools into retirement and writing a self published cybersecurity handbook for Australian seniors . \n\nThe talk focuses on the process of getting a book self published us ing Open Source Tools and Docs-As-Code workflows.\n\nMany of the skills an d tools from Docs-As-Code work\, but a some didn't and a lot of new skills and tools had to be adopted.\n\nThis talk will help any computer geek \, who dreams of going into print\, understand the process of book writing an d some of the pitfalls. In particular it will outline how developers can u se their current skills to develop a 50K+ word manuscript.\n\nIt's a mixtu re of technical tips and lessons about book writing and publishing. Topics covered include:\n\n* Writing Docs vs. Writing a Book: Knowing your audie nce and identifying your assumptions. Writing for print vs writing for the web\n\n* Choosing Your Toolkit: Keep your current Dev tools\, but Markdo wn does not work at scale\n\n* Automation: Validation Tools and Adding a l ittle AI to your writing workflow\n\n* Self Publication vs Traditional Pub lication: Why you won't get rich either way\n\n* The many other things you didn't realise about writing a book: Book design\, timescales\, editing\, and other jobs.\n\n* Accessibility concerns and making content relevant f or a wider audience.\n\nHopefully Alec's book will be available by the con ference date.\n\nPeople not familiar with Docs As Code may want to review my LCA 2020 talk ahead of time at https://youtu.be/QqgaX8JFyB8?si=nNjCNEU 2eA3Z-upM&t=151 LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/10/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Make Whisper speak Australian with Mozilla Data Collective speech datasets DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T104500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:50@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kathy Reid\n## Prerequisites \n\n* You have an accoun t on [Mozilla Data Collective](https://datacollective.mozillafoundation.or g/)\n* Download the [Common Voice v24 English en-AU subset dataset](https: //datacollective.mozillafoundation.org/datasets/cmko7havo02f5nw07rbwwhowe) (1.92 Gb)\n* And rename it locally to `commonvoice-v24_en-AU.tar.gz`\n* E nsure you have an account on [HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co) \n* [An d create a fine-grained personal access token called `HF_TOKEN`](huggingfa ce.co/settings/tokens) with the following permissions:\n - User permissio ns -> Repositories -> "Read access to contents of all repos under your per sonal namespace"\n - User permissions -> Repositories -> "Write access to contents/settings of all repos under your personal namespace"\n - User p ermissions -> Inference -> "Make calls to Inference Providers"\n\n## Who i s this tutorial for and what problem does it solve? \n\nMany folks in the Everything Open community run open voice assistants of some description\, most likely Home Assistant with the Voice Preview. If you run Home Assista nt fully locally for privacy\, then under the hood you’re using `faster- whisper`\, an implementation of OpenAI’s Whisper speech recognition engi ne implemented in `cpp` for speech and efficiency. \n\nHowever\, `faster-w hisper` doesn’t always get it right\, especially if you speak Australian - or with another accent. \n\n_How might we make faster-whisper work bett er for voices like yours?_\n \n## Fine-tuning \n\nThe answer is fine-tunin g. In machine learning\, fine-tuning is the process of taking a trained mo del - like Whisper - and adjusting the internal weights and biases of the model - its internal mathematical representation - with data that has a cl oser distribution to the task you want to use the model for. In simple ter ms\, it means teaching Whisper how to speak Australian! \n\nBonza. Or if y ou’re from Radelaide\, heaps good. \n\n## Datasets for fine-tuning Whisp er \n\nBut where do you get data to fine-tune Whisper from? \n\nEnter the [Mozilla Data Collective](https://datacollective.mozillafoundation.org/). The new home of Mozilla Common Voice datasets\, the Mozilla Data Collectiv e is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre. Buil t by and for the community in a transparent and ethical way - unlike other datasets collected via less scrupulous means - the Mozilla Data Collectiv e houses one of the largest open English speech datasets in the world. MDC allows data contributors to create data — through Common Voice — cura te that data\, and then control who has access to that data for what purpo ses.\n\nAnd since 2022\, Mozilla Common Voice has allowed data contributor s to specify the accents they speak with - and luckily - there are about 7 00 unique speakers in the Common Voice dataset who’ve indicated they spe ak with an Australian accent. \n\nAnd we can use that data for fine-tuning Whisper\, and help `faster-whisper` - and Home Assistant - work better fo r our voices. \n\n## Tutorial specifics (100 mins) \n\n### Pre-requisites \n\n* The pre-prepared Australian-accented speech dataset \n* Python on y our workstation\n* Some exposure to Python code\, however the tutorial wil l go step by step\n\nOptional\n\n* A Hugging Face account\n* Ideally\, som e exposure to Hugging Face Transformers \n\n### 1-15 mins: Introduction an d context setting (15 mins)\n\n* Kathy will provide an introduction to spe ech recognition models\, and briefly outline why fine-tuning is often need ed to make a speech recognition model work for particular voices. \n* She will cover the Whisper models\, and an overview of the data that was used to train them - and explain why it has several shortcomings for uses such as Home Assistant. She will cover the trade-off between model size and acc uracy\, and why it is that smaller speech recognition models are used on e mbedded hardware\, such as the Home Assistant Voice Preview device.\n* She will provide an overview of the Common Voice dataset\, and how accents ar e represented in the dataset. \n* She will show how accent data can be ext racted from the Common Voice dataset\, but rather than spend the Tutorial time on this\, will provide a pre-extracted dataset for people to use. \n\ n### 15 mins - 35 mins: Environmental setup (20 mins) \n\n* Drawing from the Mozilla.AI blueprint for fine-tuning ASR models using Mozilla Common V oice datasets\, Kathy will help people set up the environment for the tuto rial on their laptops\, using Google Colab. \n* [https://blueprints.mozil la.ai/all-blueprints/finetune-an-asr-model-using-common-voice-data](https: //blueprints.mozilla.ai/all-blueprints/finetune-an-asr-model-using-common- voice-data)\n* Additional time is allowed here because it can be difficult to set up and people may not have used it before. If participants have su ccessfully set up their environment\, they can move ahead with the tutoria l. \n\n### 35 mins - 55 mins: Data preparation steps (20 mins) \n\n* The m ost time consuming part of the tutorial will be the data loading and prepa ration steps. This requires e.g. conversion of audio files to a particular bitrate\, and conversation of the dataset to a particular structure.\n\n# ## 55 mins -75 mins: Fine-tuning using a GPU (20 mins) \n\nIn this step of the tutorial\, the model is fine-tuned using the Common Voice data \n\n## # 75 mins - 85 mins: Evaluating the fine-tuned model (10 mins) \n\n* In th is step of the tutorial\, the model that has been fine-tuned is evaluated to see how well it works with participants’ voices. \n\n### 85 mins - 90 mins: Discussion on what worked well and what didn’t\, and the need for additional training data for fine-tuning (5 mins)\n\n* In this step of th e tutorial\, Kathy will lead a discussion on what worked well and what did n’t for fine-tuning. She will explore with participants what additional data would be useful for fine-tuning Whisper for use with Home Assistant\, and some avenues for collecting this data\, such as through Mozilla Commo n Voice and the Mozilla Data Collective. \n\n### 90 mins - 95 mins: Conver ting fine-tuned model to faster-whisper format and replacing in Home Assis tant \n\n* Using the `faster-whisper` repo\, Kathy will demonstrate how to convert the trained model into the faster-whisper format for use in Home Assistant. \n\n### 95 mins - 100 mins: Wrap up and close \n\nKathy will wr ap up by leading a discussion on how well the fine-tuned model worked\, an d what additional data could make a Home Assistant model better for Austra lian English speakers. LOCATION:Tutorial Room A (2B04) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/6/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Room Changeover DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T113000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T114000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:66@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Room changeover LOCATION:Room B (2B11)\, Room A (2B07)\, Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Room Changeover DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T113000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T114000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:73@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Room changeover LOCATION:Room B (2B11)\, Room A (2B07)\, Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Room Changeover DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T113000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T114000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:76@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Room changeover LOCATION:Room B (2B11)\, Room A (2B07)\, Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neighbourhood-First Software: How we roll-out the open web without expecting everyone to self-host DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T114000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:4@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jade Ambrose\nA vibrant ecosystem of open-source alte rnatives to big tech walled gardens is a critical part of building the fre e and open internet that we want. One interesting trend that has emerged i n the last seven years is Local-first software\, which [as this manifesto promises](https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/local-first/)\, gives us the ability to own your data\, in spite of the cloud.\n\nLocal-first\, however \, means local to your device\, and thus tends to favour more technical us ers\, and can create some confusing experiences when collaborating in grou ps. Instead of a rebuttal to local-first\, this talk contends that Neighbo urhood-First software is an ideal complement. \n\nNeighbourhood-First soft ware is hosted in cycling distance of your house\, by volunteers in your l ocal community\, for the benefit of those less technical. In this talk\, J ade will present a manifesto of Neighbourhood-First software\, and discuss how it can help support local-first software\, the Fediverse\, and other key open source initiatives while also providing local resilience in an ag e of climate uncertainty.\n\nIt's not all talk\, however\, Jade will also present a working demo of the LoRes Mesh system of redundant local nodes s erving open source web applications. This open source project aims to prov ide tooling for somewhat technical volunteers to administer a range of web apps for users in their neighbourhood\, while also providing the capabili ty for eventual consistency between nodes for apps that need that. \n\nThi s is being used in the wild by the community group Merri-bek Tech\, in nor thern Naarm (Melbourne) and has applicability to all local communities see king climate resilience and a free and open digital commons. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/11/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Own Your Online World: Protecting Privacy and Rights with Confiden ce DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T114000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:5@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gyle dela Cruz\nDigital rights are increasingly under threat\, from platforms that quietly change their terms of service to the constant data collection hidden behind “accept” buttons. For individu als\, these pressures can feel abstract and overwhelming. Yet the same too ls used in cyber security can be adapted to help us defend our own rights online.\n\nThis talk introduces threat modelling as a practical framework for understanding how everyday online behaviours\, from oversharing on soc ial media to simply relying on the protection provided by different platfo rms can expose our private lives\, affect our autonomy\, and even our buyi ng behaviours. We’ll look at how practices from personal cyber defence c an be applied to protect our digital rights\, including identifying your m ost valuable assets\, recognising the likely threats\, and putting in plac e strategies to reduce risks without giving up participation in digital li fe.\n\nDrawing on real-world cases and relatable examples\, the presentati on will provide actionable steps that anyone can take to better protect th eir digital rights. Whether it’s tweaking privacy settings\, diversifyin g platforms\, or building habits of critical awareness\, you’ll leave wi th concrete skills to safeguard your online presence.\n\nIn a time when de ceptive practices and digital lock-ins are on the rise\, actively using al l the tools and techniques to help protect and defend our online activitie s is a must! LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/43/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Using open source strategies to enable medical data exchange at sc ale DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T114000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:6@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Skene\nHealthcare data interoperability i s one of the most complex and contested challenges in technology today. Im aging sits at the heart of this challenge: large\, sensitive\, and siloed\ , it is notoriously difficult to share and integrate across institutions. Yet it is essential for delivering better patient outcomes\, enabling rese arch\, and supporting new models of care.\n\nThis session will explore how an open\, public model and specification can be used to drive change in s uch a difficult industry. We will share our work on the (Harmony Proxy)[ht tps://harmonyproxy.com)\, an open source interoperability toolkit designed for medical data\, and its alignment with the Imaging Exchange Framework and Medical Data Gateway specification (MDG).\n\nHarmony Proxy is a lightw eight\, extensible system that bridges healthcare standards like DICOM\, D ICOMweb\, FHIR\, and emerging APIs. By releasing it under an open licence\ , we aim to provide a transparent\, public-domain tool that anyone can ado pt\, adapt\, and build upon. This approach not only lowers barriers for cl inicians and developers\, but also establishes a foundation for new forms of collaboration across hospitals\, vendors\, and governments.\n\nWe will also set this work against the backdrop of HealthConnect\, Australia’s n ew national digital health program\, which is driving significant industry change. By situating Harmony Proxy within this broader context\, we show how open source infrastructure and public specifications can support large -scale policy initiatives while remaining accessible to smaller clinics an d innovators.\n\n**Key themes covered in the session:**\n\n- Why medical i maging is one of the hardest interoperability problems.\n- The Imaging Exc hange Framework and the role of the MDG as a unifying model.\n- How Harmon y Proxy provides a practical\, open source implementation of these ideas.\ n- Lessons from releasing interoperability tools into the public domain.\n - The opportunities and risks of aligning with large-scale initiatives lik e HealthConnect.\n\n**Takeaways:**\nAttendees will gain insight into the t echnical and social strategies required to build interoperability in healt hcare. They will learn how public models and open toolkits can accelerate change in conservative industries\, and how these approaches might be appl ied in their own domains.\n\nThis talk is aimed at developers\, architects \, policymakers\, and anyone interested in the intersection of open source \, healthcare\, and data standards. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/34/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A University Library's journey in making technology training resou rces FAIR DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T114000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:23@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Stéphane Guillou\nThe University of Queensland's Lib rary offers a wide range of Technology Training sessions\, many of them pr omoting Open Research Software. This talk describes how publishing the edu cational resources that accompany these training sessions evolved over the years\, and what the team has done to make these open manuals FAIR (Finda ble\, Accessible\, Interoperable and Reusable). LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/52/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:README: The Developer's forgotten love letter DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T114000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:24@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Swapnil Ogale\nREADMEs are deceptively simple files. Often written as text files\, they are often lightweight and regularly ove rlooked\, but\, make no mistake\, they are their worth in gold. Developer- driven open sourced projects\, in fact\, millions on them are built on a p remise that some other developer will most likely stumble upon it\, clone it\, and use it to solve their own tech challenges. The first stumbling bl ock usually arrives in the form of supporting documentation (or lack\, the reof).\n\nHow can developers ensure that they use good documentation pract ices to create a simple and straight-forward file (the README) that will b e the make-or-break moment for their project's usefulness? What would your user tell you about their usability experience when they stumble upon you r open source project? \n\nIn this talk\, a technical writer who has worke d with a number of software teams\, and helped draft and review good READM E files\, will dust off the cobwebs off the lost art of good README docume ntation\, and provide some tips on how to create a README that answers the basics of using your project. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/17/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Catch the Flash - Measuring household power usage DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T114000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:25@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Paul Schulz\nThe past year has seen the development o f a sensor for measuring energy usage in the home - Pulse for ESPHome - ba sed on an existing open source project from the Home Assistant project. Th is device was designed to meet a personal need\, and has been released und er a fully Free and Open Source licence. \n\nThe device is based on the M 5StampS3 ESP32S3 Development board. With a kit of parts and a 3D printed e nclosure this device can be easily built with the help of your local Maker space. It will allow you to get the total energy use of your household in real-time directly from your electricity meter.\n\nThis presentaton with d iscuss the developmnent of the Pulse for ESPHome\, how it fits into a home management system for energy management in the home\, how this enables th e renewable energy transition. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/13/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Introducing Conky Bubbles - A Simpler way to create config files f or conky. DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T114000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:44@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Simon Lees\nConky is a graphical system monitoring pr ogram for Linux\, for many years I have maintained it in several Linux Dis tributions including openSUSE. In that time I have come across a number of its limitations especially if your goal is to write a config file that wi ll work out of the box across a wide range of machines rather than creatin g tailor made configs for each machine. Beyond that writing a conky config that looks really good takes significant effort and often a lot of manual ly adjusting the location of elements.\n\nconky-bubbles aims to address th e above issues using conky's lua integration and cairo to implement a layo ut engine\, widgets\, theming and hardware auto detection where possible. \n\nIn this talk I will cover the long on and off process that it has take n to get to this point and the many unexpected challenges that I have had to overcome\, from licensing issues to learning how to implement font rend ering and chasing down memory leaks in the interface between C++ and Lua. I also spent significant time working with existing open source projects a nd will talk about integrating with and using resources from them to speed up development.\n\nI will then give a overview of how to setup and use an d configure conky bubbles to meet your own needs. As well as running throu gh a few examples. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/31/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Small Game Engines\, Big Lessons: PolyEngine & Pill Engine DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T114000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:45@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jakub Duchniewicz\n**Here be Game Engines.**\n\nThey sound grand and complex\, so we assume mere mortals can’t write one—or even contribute. This talk pushes back on that idea. It’s a grounded st ory of how working on an in-house engine taught me modern C++ and the valu e of the Entity-Component-System (ECS) pattern.\n\nWe’ll go from “What is a game engine?” and a quick look at the popular ones\, to hands-on b its from two lightweight codebases: the C++ **PolyEngine** and the Rust ** Pill Engine**. I’ll show how a small engine actually works—systems sch eduling\, components\, assets—and share demos\, war stories\, and lesson s learned from game jams where we often spent more time on the engine than the game (and how to avoid that).\n\n**Takeaways:** knowledge of game eng ine structure\, practical ECS patterns\, some in-house tricks and a jam-te sted plan for keeping scopes sane. \n**Audience:** developers curious abo ut engine internals\; prior C++/Rust helpful but not required. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/16/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:So You've Decided to Build It Yourself DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T114000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T122500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:46@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Leesa Ward\nSooner or later\, at some point in a deve loper's life\, there comes a time when we think we can do it better\, the thing we want doesn't quite exist\, or we just want to build it for the th rill of the chase. From hard lessons in Goldilocks engineering and time ma nagement to the achievement of finally making something that actually work s and someone uses\, hear from a seasoned developer and victim of her own lofty aspirations about the ups and downs of reinventing the wheel. Part t ongue-in-cheek tales from the trenches\, part serious advice - this talk i s for anyone interested in what can happen when you decide to build it you rself - and why we all (sometimes) should! LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/15/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: lunch DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T122500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T133000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:56@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lunch (catered)
\nUCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: lunch DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T122500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T133000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:59@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lunch (catered)
\nUCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: lunch DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T122500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T133000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:62@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Lunch (catered)
\nUCX Lounge - Level A Building 1
URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Chaos theory and the limits of predictability DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T141500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:7@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jacinta Richardson\nGiven enough data - is it possibl e to model reality?\n\nDevelopers too often turn a blind eye to the unpred ictable nature of nature. When we aren't able to see reason in a process\, an argument or the universe at large\, it is because we aren't looking ha rd enough. The overarching belief in science and technology is often that everything that happens is due to predictable patterns which are simple if viewed correctly.\n\nUnfortunately thats rarely true. Not only do we stru ggle to isolate all of the relevant initial conditions\, even when we can even the slightest mistreat of those initial conditions can result in wild ly varying results. This is the domain of chaos\, summarised by Lorentz as "when the present determines the future but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future."\n\nThis talk will give a brief in troduction to chaos theory and a hand wave at the many domains it turns up in\, before diving into some software-specific domains. If all goes well\ , it will change how you think about predictability and give you some sugg estions on how to work with the inherently unpredictable. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/45/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The unreasonable cost of open source contribution DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T141500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:8@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rob Norris\nHow to make sure contributors to open sou rce are properly supported and funded is a question as old as open source itself. While we place huge demands on open source contributors\, there ar e still very few ways for those contributors to work on open source while still drawing a full income. This leads to critical open source infrastruc ture software being undermaintained\, contributors burning out and leaving or\, in desperation\, accepting any help they can. Serious bugs like Hear tbleed or near-misses like the XZ backdoor are the obvious outcome.\n\nA “third way” often discussed is for individual contributors to directly take on users of the software as customers or supporters. This is a path I took in 2023\, when I left my job at an email service provider to become a private contractor working full-time on OpenZFS\, an open-source filesy stem and storage platform. It’s a 100% community-developed project with no corporate owner\, which means I have to persuade enough people and comp anies to give me enough money\, every week\, to provide a stable income.\n \nThrough experience\, contacts\, personal profile and dumb luck\, I have been able to make this work\, but the overhead is immense: dealing with ta x\, putting aside money for leave and retirement\, buying test hardware\, accepting a loss of income for conference travel and attendance\, writing reports\, sending invoices\, and so on - all things that aren’t writing code\, the only thing I actually want to do.\n\nNo one ever told me it wou ld be this hard. When we talk about how to properly fund open source\, we talk about foundations and donations but we almost never talk about the ex periences of the individuals on the ground who we’re asking to do the wo rk\, day after day\, with open source as their job.\n\nWe never mention th at if they fail\, their family is going to suffer.\n\nIf you’ll join me\ , I’ll take you through my experience of going out on my own. I’ll int roduce you to my family\, and tell you (in real dollar amounts) about how much money is actually required to support them\, and so what I need to be able to replace through client work. I’ll show you how my contract inco me compares to what I get from Github and Patreon support. I’ll show you all the difficulties that come from not looking like a “normal” emplo yee or tradesperson. And I’ll explain to you the ways that I’m playing on easy mode\, and why this would be so much harder for anyone with less industry experience than I have.\n\nMy hope is simply that to give you som e idea of the size of the problem we face. If we are serious about making open source software available and accessible to everyone\, we will need t o build a system that doesn’t require individuals to make outsized sacri fices. Because at the end of the day\, if forced to choose between my supp orting my family and working in open source\, I choose my family 100% of t he time. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/35/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A future of more equitable connected data systems with self-sovere ignty and consent DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T141500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:9@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jess Moore\nEvery day it is estimated that over 402 m illion terabytes of data is shared between data systems\, driven largely b y the growth of business-to-consumer digital platform based applications s toring personal data\, such as social media and AI-enhanced vehicles. The Social Linked Data (Solid) specification is emerging as the required parad igm shift to restore data ownership\, access and control to individuals an d communities. Apps built on person centred data stored on Solid servers\, effectively separate the storage and ownership of data from that of the s oftware applications. This aids in the development of alternative business models to the existing prevaling business model where customers give thei r data to large digital platform based businesses whose market advantage i s derived from network effects of dominating a market by controlling custo mer's data access and data portability.\n\nSolid is a specification for th e authentication and authorization to access person or entity centred data stored in data vaults (also called personal online datastores). Using Sol id-based apps\, people can make fine grained dynamic consents to share dat a between people and applications. This provides people with transparency over who has data access\, enabling audit logs of prior permitted data acc ess\, and further development to share data with restrictions to improve I P and privacy protection. I will discuss research towards a future of expr essive consents in data sharing between data vaults and applications\, and the potential appliications to protect privacy and data rights in legisla tion\, align with First Nations data sovereignty principles\, and support collaboration in nature repair. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/14/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Running Agentic AI Offline on your Linux Machine DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:18@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sophie Allen\nMost people assume they need cloud APIs or powerful servers to run large language models. The good news: you can run a capable agent entirely offline\, on your own Linux laptop\, using op en-source tools.\n\nIn this hands-on tutorial\, we’ll begin by installin g a small but powerful open-source model (such as Mistral or Llama) using Ollama. Once your local LLM is up and running\, we’ll wrap it with JanAI to give it agentic capabilities. Finally\, we’ll extend the agent with MCP tools so it can interact with your Linux environment.\nBy the end of t he session\, you will:\n- Understand what “agentic AI” means and how i t differs from simple prompting.\n- Have a working local agent that runs c ompletely offline.\n- Know how to install\, configure\, and swap between o pen-source models.\n- See how to extend your agent with new MCP tools.\n\n This session is beginner-friendly\, no prior AI experience is required\, o nly comfort with using the Linux terminal. Attendees will follow along on their own laptops.\nCome learn how to take control of AI on your own hardw are\, with open tools\, and no cloud dependency. LOCATION:Tutorial Room A (2B04) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seeing Stars - Advanced Siril DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:19@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Peter Lieverdink\nLast time you got to know the siri l basics\, to easily process your astronomical images. This time\, dive in to the more advanced functionality to get the absolute most out of your da ta with the latest version of siril.\n\nYou will process provided (or your own\, if you have it) astrophotography data shot with narrow-band filters and learn to use advanced processing techniques. You will use the quality analysis tools to find and discard not-quite-right subs\, stack\, stretch \, remove noise\, sharpen\, tweak and fiddle to create a stunning image t hat will be yours to keep.\n\nEven if you have a robotic telescope that do es all the stacking and processing for you\, you will learn how to use the raw data your robot produces and create much better looking results.\n\nT his tutorial will see you process video of the surface of the Moon\, a mos aic of SeeStar images\, and some narrowband deep sky data or potentially s omething else if you have specific things you would like to learn and we h ave time.\n\n===PREREQUISITES===\n\nTo participate in this tutorial you wi ll need a relatively beefy computer with siril 1.4 installed. For extra jo y and pretty pictures\, you will also download and install starnet++\, cos mic clarity suite and graxpert for use with siril.\n\nIf you plan on atten ding\, please download the sample data before Everything Open\, so there i s not a room full of people all fetching a 3+ GB zipball at the same time via the conference wifi.\n\n* https://astropix.s3.amazonaws.com/Everything _Open_2026_Siril_Tutorial.zip.torrent (35 KB)\n* https://astropix.s3.amaz onaws.com/Everything_Open_2026_Siril_Tutorial.zip (3.6 GB)\n\nYou can cho ose to use your own data if you wish. Ensure you have a set of lights\, da rks\, biases and flats and/or lunar or planetary video and/or a set of raw seestar or dwarf or other roboscope images. LOCATION:Tutorial Room B (2B03) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:How one ISO standard led the way for national library infrastructu re DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T141500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:26@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sae Ra Germaine\nISO18626 was first released in 2014 and is the standard that allows for libraries to loan and request items fr om each other. Fast forward to 2025\, we are now on version 2021\, designi ng for the future and if you are a researcher you can submit an inter-libr ary loan or document delivery request to your university library and throu gh the magic of a national database you will be provided with your request in under 2 days using this very standard. \n\nSpearheaded by the National Library of Australia and implemented by CAVAL and Index Data\, this year long project saw the replacement of the nation's legacy proprietary system to a fully open source platform called Project ReShare. The launch in mid -2025\, we released the platform to more than 300+ libraries\, this presen tation will talk through and celebrate the intricacies of implementing\, c ommunicating\, developing\, project managing to all those libraries. It wa s not an easy project but it's a groundbreaking technology that is leading by example around the world. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/49/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Reclaiming the open web: a story about big tech\, platforms and mi llennial dreams of a connected web DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T141500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:27@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Milly Schmidt\nIn the 2000s\, a generation of nerds g ot online and found a wonderful place where you could learn to code\, make things\, share your art\, be part of communities and feel welcomed. We bl ogged\, we vlogged\, we shared\, we posted\, we followed and we were follo wed. We found a beautiful world where we could connect with our friends an d make new ones\, all across the globe\, and find the people who liked the same things we liked and feel less alone.\nWe signed up for platform afte r platform\, excited about the promise of a hyper-personalised web\, where we would see recommendations and content based on our specific interests. We knew there might be some risks\, but we thought it was worth it. \nIn the 20 years or so since then\, things have changed. The platforms that on ce connected us have mutated\, transformed under a grim late capitalist et hos to be not just extractive\, but no longer even for us. We're not even posting anymore\, just watching ads and influencer content\, or wading thr ough AI slop and political misinformation. Worse still\, even our houses a re infected with spyware and big tech devices\, forcing us ever more into a bubble where community is nowhere to be seen. And on top of everything\, our data is being sold\, not just to advertisers\, but to the people who seek to undermine democracy and care little for consensus reality and the concept of "truth".\nMillennials face a reckoning: how do we get out of th is mess? How do we find our way back to the promises of the early web\, wh ere we could connect with communities\, friends and family\, find joy and creativity and learning? And more importantly\, what principles should we hold to ensure we don't make these mistakes again?\nWe have lost a lot of what made the early internet good\, but it's not gone forever. Open source \, right to repair and other movements have laid the important foundations for principles we can use to ensure we don't give up too much of the inte rnet to billionaires and oligarchs who want to extract data for profit but care little about our lives and connections. Let's explore what happened\ , where we are and some ways out of it. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/47/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Spreadsheets and Dungeons and Dragons DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T141500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:28@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicholas Miehlbradt\nDungeons and Dragons characters are just spreadsheets but the open ended nature of D&D means you hit the l imitations of mainstream spreadsheet engines pretty quickly. Come find out why I think these tools are not up to the task and how the game of D&D gu ided the design and implementation of a custom spreadsheet engine in rust with structured bi-directional data dependencies and rich data types. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/46/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Building interactive\, reproducible data analysis with datakits DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:39@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Wilmot\nIn this combination hands-on workshop\, presentation and discussion Varvara and James will walk you through putti ng together a model fitting datakit which can be published to the DataStud io platform or run using the datakit command line tool. \n\nPlease bring a laptop with python and Docker installed\n\n**What are datakits?**\n\nIn o pendata.studio\, a datakit is a structured way to organise and bundle a da ta analysis in a reusable and reproducible format.\n\nA datakit contains:\ n\n - the analysis algorithm and its execution environment\n - saved run s tates from algorithm executions\n - input and output data\, along with con figurable options\n - visualisations of data\, including graph and table s pecifications\n - user interface definitions.\n\nThese elements are define d by individual components inside each datakit:\n\n - **resources**: store tabular data\n - **algorithms** and **containers**: define the algorithm code and execution environment\n - **views**: visualise data (e.g.: graphs )\n - **interfaces**: describe user interfaces for the analysis\, rendered through web components.\n\nLearn more about datakits: [https://docs.datas tudioapp.com/intro/intro/) LOCATION:Tutorial Room A (2B04) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/8/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Abstracting FPGAs in Python for fun and radio astronomy DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T141500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:47@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Bolin\nA shiny\, generic\, "Pythonic" abstract ion rather than a bunch of register addresses - a good idea\, right?\n\nTh e SKA-Low radio telescope\, part of the international Square Kilometre Arr ay scientific megaproject\, is currently under construction in Western Aus tralia. CSIRO is developing the SKA-Low Correlator and Beamformer\, which will process 6 Tbps of input signals (from up to 512 antenna "stations") i n real time. The Correlator produces data streams that can be used by astr onomers to create images\, and the Beamformers digitally steer the antenna array to point in specific directions. Together they can produce up to 9 Tbps of scientific data streams.\n\nThis real-time signal processing is pe rformed on FPGAs\, with Python software for monitoring and control. The SK A-Low telescope is still in the early stages of construction\, but the Cor relator and Beamformer is already in use\, allowing the production of imag es and the observation of pulsars for commissioning purposes.\n\nThis talk will focus on the FPGA-Python interface. Ideas\, aspirations\, how they c ompare to reality\, and what should have been done differently. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/18/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Terminus: The open source server for TRMNL e-ink devices DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T141500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:48@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Brooke Kuhlmann\nLearn about TRMNL and how you can us e Terminus to serve your own private content to as many e-ink devices as y ou like. Terminus leverages the best of what Ruby provides by blending obj ect composition with function composition for a clean and robust architect ure. This includes a nice UI for managing your devices\, building custom s creens\, or not bothering with the UI and at all and using the API instead . If you love the idea of rendering your own content on your own e-ink dev ices\, then you'll enjoy using Terminus! LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/26/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: talk DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T141500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:49@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:No description LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Fixing a misconfigured Kubernetes Cluster DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T133000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:54@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rob Kenefeck\nDeploying a Kubernetes Cluster from scr atch using Kubeadm is so easy\, anyone can do it. If it was too hard\, any one could instead create a managed cluster on one of the hyperscalers if t hey didnt want full responsibility for it. But just because the out the bo x experience is easy\, doesn't mean you end up with a well configured clus ter. In this tutorial session\, we'll explore some of the common misconfig urations in a basic Kubernetes cluster\, and attempt to resolve each of th em. LOCATION:Tutorial Room A (2B04) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/7/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Room Changeover DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T141500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T142500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:67@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Room changeover LOCATION:Room B (2B11)\, Room A (2B07)\, Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Room Changeover DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T141500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T142500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:74@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Room changeover LOCATION:Room B (2B11)\, Room A (2B07)\, Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Room Changeover DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T141500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T142500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:77@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Room changeover LOCATION:Room B (2B11)\, Room A (2B07)\, Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Roll for initiative: The battle against the beast of AI Slop DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T142500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:12@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: J Rosenbaum\nOur adventurers are still recovering fro m the battle against the automaton of AI bias\, but little did they know t hat lurking beneath the waves was a new monster\, waiting to swallow every one and everything they hold dear. It's time for a new TTRPG themed talk! This time around AI slop\, the beast that devours everything and summons f orth endless simulacra. A beast that is everywhere\, taking our data\, chu rning out non-stop slop. We will look at what AI slop is and how to combat it\, in both the game and real life.\n\nAI slop is a scourge of our time. It has been likened to an oil spill\, and even to the atomic bomb in term s of its pollution of the internet. Part of my work is as an AI fact check er and I see a huge amount of AI slop. I will guide you to recognize the k ey signs\, as well as some tricks to protect your data. This talk is a D&D themed talk about AI slop. Much like my previous D&D talk I will alternat e between a story as DM\, and information we can use to fight the increasi ng swell of AI slop in our lives. I will provide meaningful tips and insig hts for how people are fighting\, from combatting google AI overviews\, to protecting your data\, all with a D&D flavor that will hopefully grant us inspiration and bonuses to our perception checks against AI slop. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/24/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:I hope this email talk finds you well. DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T142500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:13@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jemma Bradshaw\nA look behind the curtain of email au thentication\, what it is\, what it isn't\, what it does and why we need i t.\n\nEmail is one of the oldest electronic mass communication standards s till in regular use\, and continues to be relevant despite many rumours of its demise.\n\nPart history lesson\, part how-to\, and part rant about wh y we can't have nice things\; in this talk I will explore the ways in whic h email has evolved from a product in the early internet where everything was clearly trustworthy up to being the established baseline form of commu nication for today’s internet where we need to be just a little more dis cerning in who we trust\, and how we tackle the problems of abuse and spam without becoming a closed ecosystem.\n\nI will look at authentication sta ndards\, how they work together\, why they succeed and why they fail. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/30/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Open source AI Definition: intro\, uptake and the future DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T142500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:14@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: James Oczko\nThe Open Source Initiative published its definition of open source artificial intelligence (OSAID) in late 2024. I t is fair to say this caused some commotion in the community. \n\nThis ta lk will briefly introduce and outline the OSAID and explain some of its ke y features. It will also discuss some of the challenges and complexities i n working with emergent tech\, diverse philosophies and how these are (imp erfectly) reconciled in a functional and widely endorsed definition. \n\nT he talk will also look the OSAID from the perspective of Australian law\, and offer a few observations about what the definition means for contribut ors and users. It will also consider whether any best practice is emerging among those who use the definition\, as well as some more practical consi derations for those looking to openly license AI systems. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/40/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:By Design: CAUL’s Vision for an Open Future in Australasian High er Education DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T142500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:30@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ash Barber\nThe Council of Australasian University Li brarians (CAUL) is the peak collegiate body for university libraries in Au stralasia and a recognised strategic leader in open access (OA) advocacy\, negotiating high impact Read & Publish agreements\, influencing national discourse\, and championing equitable access to scholarly knowledge throug h open educational resources. The next phase of CAUL’s strategy expands beyond publishing deals\, towards a more sustainable open ecosystem\, fore grounding a multi-pronged approach to open and the essential role of the G LAM sector. \n\nThis presentation will explore how CAUL is shaping a futur e where libraries are not just advocates\, but active co-creators of the i nfrastructure and environment supporting openness. CAUL’s vision aligns with the values of the GLAM and open technology communities: transparency\ , interoperability\, and long-term sustainability. \n\nJoin us to learn ab out: \n* CAUL’s evolving strategy and leadership in open access and scho larly communication \n* The role of open repositories and shared infrastru cture in advancing knowledge equity \n* Opportunities for cross-sector and cross-institutional collaboration\, especially with open source developer s and GLAM institutions \n\nThis session will appeal to open practitioners \, technologists\, repository managers\, and cultural sector leaders who s ee libraries as foundational to an open\, equitable future. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/54/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Wabi Sabi Software: Caring for Imperfect Projects in Public DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T142500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:31@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sam Bishop\nOpen source projects live a long time and many hands shape them. That history is not a flaw. It is the story of the work. This talk uses three simple lenses from Japanese art to guide how w e care for technical debt in public. Kintsugi treats repair as part of the vessel’s beauty. Dorodango shows how quiet patience turns mud into some thing that shines. Wabi-sabi reminds us that nothing is perfect and nothin g is finished.\n\nWe will translate these ideas into daily maintainer prac tice. Repair that teaches by leaving visible seams in the code and the com mit log. Refactor in place with clear migration notes so downstream users keep moving. Use branch by abstraction\, the strangler fig pattern\, featu re flags\, and staged schema changes. Build light guardrails with smoke te sts\, contract tests\, and canary releases so contributors can help withou t fear.\n\nPolish with a steady rhythm instead of rare big pushes. Add a w eekly polish pass to triage. Keep pull requests small with a clear scope. Let formatters\, linters\, and type checks lower review time. Track a few humane metrics that reflect real experience\, like time to first review\, time to merge\, and change failure rate.\n\nAccept limits with intent. Wri te short pull request decision notes and mini RFCs that record why a choic e was made. Use versioning practices and deprecation notes. Keep track of technical debt budget so the project knows when to slow down and fix. Mark some work as not now\, and choose changes that are easy to reverse.\n\nYo u will leave with a new perspective you can use in your projects. The goal is calm\, sustainable progress. Care is the method. Stewardship is the re sult. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/44/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:An open grammar and style checker DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T142500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:32@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Chris Chinchilla\nVale was created as an open-source language “linter” to help people check their text for grammar and styl e rules\, violations\, and style. Especially in technical audiences\, Vale has proven popular with several high-profile companies and teams using it and a healthy ecosystem of rulesets and tooling.\n\nHowever\, for the mos t part\, Vale uses regular expressions to check text\, and while this is e ffective\, it means Vale has no context of what you’re actually writing. As an open source\, locally run tool\, this was always the point\, but in the times of an AI writing assistant almost everywhere\, people have come to expect more.\n\nThis presentation shows how efforts using the Vale MCP server and open models (as possible) are attempting to create a smarter\, text assistant that merges Vale’s highly configurable rules with the po wer of LLMs to create an open and self-sovereign alternative to other clos ed-source grammar checking tools. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/22/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Open Australia: Who we are\, what we do\, and what's in it for you . DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T142500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:51@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Donna Benjamin\nThe seed was sown in 2004 when Kat Sz uminska and Matthew Landauer decided to set up a website to help Australia ns learn more about what their elected representatives were up to. Since t hen\, this scrappy little charity has gone on to create and run a number o f services that facilitate civic engagement. Come along to learn more abo ut us\, and how you too can help Australia be a bit more open. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/20/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Upstream Kernel Hardening: Progress on enabling -Wflex-array-membe r-not-at-end DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T142500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:52@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Gustavo A. R. Silva\nThe -Wflex-array-member-not-at-e nd compiler option was introduced in GCC 14. At the time\, it revealed aro und 60\,000 warnings in the upstream Linux kernel. While many of these wer e duplicates\, about 650 are unique and require individual auditing and at tention. These issues span different categories and vary in complexity\, w hich adds to the challenge of globally enabling this compiler option in th e upstream Linux kernel.\n\nIn this presentation\, we’ll share the progr ess we’ve made on this work as part of the Kernel Self-Protection Projec t (KSPP) over the past few months. We’ll go over the challenges we’ve encountered\, show concrete code examples\, and demonstrate how to fix the se kinds of problems. We’ll also discuss why enabling this option is imp ortant for the kernel\, and how we plan to complete this work in the near future.\n\nWhether you’re a seasoned kernel developer or someone looking to start contributing upstream\, this presentation will introduce useful helpers and strategies you can use to fix existing code or implement new f unctionality\, and in doing so\, help us harden the upstream Linux kernel for the benefit of everyone LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/12/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: talk DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T142500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T151000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:53@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:No description LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: afternoon tea DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T151000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T154500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:57@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Afternoon Tea (catered)
\nUCX Lounge - Level A Bu ilding 1
URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: afternoon tea DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T151000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T154500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:60@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Afternoon Tea (catered)
\nUCX Lounge - Level A Bu ilding 1
URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: afternoon tea DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T151000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T154500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:63@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Afternoon Tea (catered)
\nUCX Lounge - Level A Bu ilding 1
URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Is it even worthwhile to self-host these days? DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T154500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T163000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:15@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Steven Ellis\nWe're at the point where the vast major ity of services we need day 2 day are available online\, either via Google or Microsoft\, or a variety of 3rd party providers. They've made it easy to consume these services across a range of devices providing a seamless e xperience. As concerns rise around Data Sovereignty\, and who really owns your data when you're using these cloud services \, do we need to look aga in at what we can self host.\nI'll look at the different personas from the individual\, families\, small businesses and large scale organisations. W hat are your options today from the "traditional" approach of virtualised environments versus utilising container based services for better efficien cy of resources. When should(n't) you consider SaaS options\, and always r emember the importance of an off-site backup.\nI've been through this jour ney personally and evolved my own environment over many years. In addition I’ve worked with large organisations who've migrated from on-premesis to cloud based solutions and are now re-considering their strategy. Along the way there will be some war stories\, with names changed to protect the "innocent"\, and some pointers and tips to help your own journey. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/37/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The nineteenth century smartwatch DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T154500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T163000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:16@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Kit Biggs\nI love the aesthetic of mechanical pocket- and wrist-watches\, but they do find it hard to compete for arm-space wit h the modern smartwatch. So let's build a watch that has a mechanical mo vement and an e-paper dial\, combining classic appearance with 21st centur y utility. I'll show you how to source all the parts to build your own watch\, putting either a classic mechanical movement or my faux-mechanical electronic drivetrain inside. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/48/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Excited Developer Syndrome DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T154500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T163000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:17@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Evan Kohilas\nYou encountered a problem 🐉. Then\, an idea to fix it 💡. Brilliant! ✨\nWAIT! 🛑 Come back!\nBefore you rush off and start implementing...\nLet's take a second to look around! 👀\nIs **that** the path with the best way to achieve it?\n\n---\n\nIn a n industry where implementation can be so fast or fun\, it can be easy to get excited about fixing every problem that comes our way.\n\nAnd so\, we can often forget to pause\, look around\, and consider:\n- Does the soluti on already exist? Maybe we can contribute to a community solution?\n- What are we really trying to achieve? Could our solution be making the problem worse?\n- What is the minimum viable product? Maybe we don't need AI...\n \nSo in this session\, let's sit down and talk about how to minimise your work\, and maximise the benefits for everyone!\n\nBy the end of the sessi on\, you'll walk out with a mindset that allows you to:\n- Consider the sy stem as a whole\n- Focus on minimising changes to maximise impact\n- Suppo rts you to use existing solutions\n\nAnd this will not just get the proble m solved\, but also all future ones too\, by saving you and other's time\, now\, and in the future. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/27/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Break DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T154500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T163000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:70@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Quiet room LOCATION:Tutorial Room B (2B03) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Break DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T154500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T163000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:87@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Supporting Colleagues: Notice - Name - Connect\n- Presented by Dr Carla Ward LOCATION:Tutorial Room A (2B04) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:A Kitchen-grown Tiny Calculator DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T154500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T163000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:33@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Felipe Tavares\nWhat happens when a self-proclaimed " software guy" embarks on a journey to produce the best calculator they can conjure?\n\nI would have never imagined it would lead to me building a co mputer controlled drill in my kitchen and losing my fear of complex electr onics. But how did I get there? This talk is about my path from posting "W hat if I made an HP-42s inspired calculator" on the internet to having a l ittle yellow device in my hands that computes things according to my typed out wishes.\n\nYou will learn about designing languages\, drawing mock up s\, computer aided design\, 3D printing\, PCB design\, CNC operation\, las er engraving\, and above all: why would anyone want to design a calculator in 2025? LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/42/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Technique\, or\, Modern Adventures in NOT Designing a Programming Language DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T154500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T163000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:34@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Andrew Cowie\n_I bet you started a project once and y ou aren't quite finished yet. My\nproject isn't done yet either\, but the difference is I started on mine over 20\nyears ago. Don't be hasty\, young Hobbits\, but I want to tell you all about the\njourney that got us here. _\n\nThis talk is the story of the Technique Procedures Language\, a progr amming\nlanguage for describing procedures in a structured but human-reada ble form.\n\nThe language has evolved over a long period\, starting with o n-paper procedures\nfor systems operations tasks\, and then going through different iterations of\napproach. The paper documents were great\, but I wanted a program to help me\nrun the events they described. It began as a GUI written in GTK and Java\, but\nhow to express the _code_ of these proc edures? That led to an abusive\nrelationship with XML\, strong embeddings in general purpose languages\,\nmisadventures with various scripting tools \, and even attempts to figure out if\nany enterprise software would suit. Nothing really worked. Finally\, I threw my\nhands and said _"why don't w e just create our own language that does what we\nwant?"_.\n\nCool! So I w rote a parser in Haskell and was well on my way to an evaluator to\ninterp ret the programs ... and realized that this language\, now called\nTechniq ue v0\, had entirely missed the point. It was unpleasant to write\,\ncumbe rsome to extend\, and worst of all\, the original theoretical analysis tha t\nunderpinned the work had been left behind.\n\nInstructions written by _ humans_ to be read by by _humans_ just don't look\nlike programming code. All we want is to be able to write down the steps we\nneed to do. So I wen t back to the drawing board and crafted something that\nwould actually be usable\, by people.\n\nThis second attempt at a custom language\, Techniqu e v1\, is a complete rework\,\nthis time in Rust. It is _not_ a programmin g language. It has returned to the\nroots of what a procedure is and is tr uly domain-specific. Perhaps it is a\n_procedures_ language. \n\nTechnique features a compiler\, code formatter\, and rendering to PDFs. Syntax\nhig hlighting is available for Vim\, the Zed Editor\, Sublime Text\, and the T ypst\ntypesetter. There's a language server\, and an extension for Zed\, w ith VS Code\nand NeoVim on the way.\n\nIn a way everything I have done in my engineering career has been building to\nbeing able to do this. Togethe r we will go through some of the lessons learned\nalong the way: things th at seemed like good ideas at the time\; the temptations\nof Not Invented H ere\; learning by doing. But the most interesting part has\nbeen the past few months. What _does_ it take to get the infrastructure for a\nnew langu age in place? A peek under the covers of how this one came to be\nmight en courage you—or scare you—to keep working away at your own projects\,\n too. LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/53/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:My degoogled life DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T154500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T163000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:35@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Joshua Hesketh\nI have been avoiding Google services and products for a long time. It's painful. It's work. It's not convenient . It's not for the lighthearted nor something I'd recommend to anybody wit hout a keen interest.\n\nSo why do I do it? What do I gain?\n\nIs it possi ble to own your digital life completely? Is it realistic or even desirable ?\n\nIn this talk I will go over some of the reasons you might want to avo id giving away your digital data and some of the trade-offs you need to co nsider when weighing up what software to use. Be it self-hosted\, paid Saa S\, or services that monetise your information.\n\nThis isn’t a talk spe cific to one company\, or to pick on Google\; it’s a talk about owning y our own data in an ever increasing software-as-a-service world\, and being aware of the non-monetary costs.\n\nWe’ll look at a bit of what I do (e g\, self host mail server\, file server\, GrapheneOS\, etc etc). What comp romises I have made\, and what compromises I’ll likely take going forwar d.\n\nThere is no silver bullet here. It’s all about being informed and pragmatic in the decisions you make and finding what is right for you. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/50/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Effective Coaching DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T154500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T172500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:40@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicola Nye\n**Who should attend this workshop**\n\n* You enjoy lifting other people up and giving them confidence to shine.\n* You've heard that coaching is an effective leadership\, mentoring and mana gement skill\, and want to know more.\n* You've tried to coach in the past \, but it seemed slow\, frustrating\, or it didn't work.\n* You wish you c ould clone your knowledge into other people.\n* You find yourself in the p osition of Oracle: the repository of all knowledge. You are often interrup ted for advice or answers and this isn't scalable.\n\nYou do not need to b e a manager or leader to be an effective coach: these skills are useful wi thin your professional career no matter your position in the org chart\, o r even if you are yet to be hired for the first time.\n\n**Why you should come to this workshop**\n\nHumans like to be helpful. This is (sometimes) a terrible idea.\n\nWhen someone comes to us for help\, we try to help the m. We try to give them an answer to their situation\, that they may become unstuck and go on with their day. This is the right approach in many circ umstances... but not all. Sometimes an answer *may* solve the immediate pr oblem\, and it *may* be understood by the other person\, and *maybe* they' ll know how to apply that answer now and in the future. However\, it often just teaches learned helplessness: they will now rely on you whenever the y are unsure. \n\nOne alternative is a coaching approach. Coaching helps o thers develop their own answers. It's a hugely effective way to support pe ople to internalise new skills\, build self-confidence\, and teach them a reflective practice that means they'll be able to coach themselves through challenges in the future. \n\nUsing coaching\, you can help people gain m ore than an immediate solution they'll gain context and wisdom\, passed on through you. This is a skill useful in work\, in parenting\, in communiti es and in school.\n\n**Why you should not come to this workshop**\n\nPleas e don't come if you are expecting a cloning machine\, information about sp orts coaching\, life coaching\, or therapy. We will be looking at coaching within the workplace only.\n\n**What you will learn**\n\nIn this fully in teractive\, totally participative workshop\, we'll cover:\n\n* what coachi ng is (and isn't)\,\n* when it's appropriate to be used (and when it's not !)\, \n* some key skills (and some key pitfalls)\,\n* but mainly how to co ach others - through lots of practice on each other.\n\n**Pre-requisites** \n\nThe best way to learn a new skill is to try it out in a safe environme nt: please come prepared to have a go! If you have a work-related challeng e you'd like to be coached through\, please bring that idea along. No othe r prep or knowledge required other than being open to some fun. LOCATION:Tutorial Room A (2B04) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Everything Open Everywhere All At Once DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T154500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T164500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:80@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Steven De Costa\nOpenness is no longer enough.\n\nIn an era of black box algorithms and fractured narratives\, what we are real ly losing is not access\, but causal continuity. Causal continuity is the ability to agree on how the present came to be. This talk explores the ide a that truth is not something we assert\, it is something that emerges whe n systems remain observable\, communicable\, and externally accountable.\n \nDrawing from number theory\, network routing\, and systems biology\, we will examine three constraints that govern all stable systems and introduc e the concept of a Causal Engine. A Causal Engine is a way of understandin g reality as structured flow rather than static fact. Within this frame\, the lie is revealed not as a moral failure\, but as a structural break in the path that history takes through time.\n\nWhen those paths are obscured \, entropy rises. Meaning fragments. Trust becomes expensive.\n\nThe final part of the talk turns outward toward the commons through the Objective O bserver Initiative and a model of Co-Construction based on transparent int ent and shared cadence. We will explore how open communities can move beyo nd access toward coherence. The invitation is simple and demanding. It is an invitation to build systems and societies that are verifiably honest by design everywhere and all at once. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/59/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Room Changeover DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T163000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T164000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:68@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Room changeover URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Room Changeover DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T163000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T164000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:75@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Room changeover LOCATION:Room B (2B11)\, Room A (2B07)\, Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The next generation Big Data Radio Telescope for Astronomy\, the S quare Kilometre Array Observatory DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T164000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T174000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:69@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Juan Carlos Guzman\nThe Square Kilometre Array Observ atory (SKAO) will be the next generation radio telescope for astronomy. It s two telescopes\, under construction in Australia (SKA-Low) and South Afr ica (SKA-Mid)\, will be the two most advanced radio telescopes on Earth. T ogether with other state-of-the-art research facilities\, the SKAO’s tel escopes will explore the unknown frontiers of science and deepen our under standing of key processes\, including the formation and evolution of galax ies\, fundamental physics in extreme environments and the origins of life. The telescopes will generate an unprecedent volume of data\, nearly 1 Ter abytes per second of raw data. This vast amount of data requires state-of- the-art real-time signal processing systems and a dedicated large Supercom puter to process this data to make it usable for researchers around the wo rld. More than 300 developers around the world have been developing the So ftware necessary to monitor\, control\, acquire and process the data comin g from the two telescopes. This software is built almost entirely on Open- Source software technologies.\n \nIn this talk\, we give an update on the Construction phase of the SKA Telescope\, its major challenges\, and oppor tunities\, and highlight the importance of Open-Source technologies the so ftware and computing systems are based upon. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/56/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Magic of the Open Practice Library DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T164000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T172500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:36@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Elise Elkerton\nImagine a world where every single te am member bounces into work\, understands their team members\, and are arm ed with everything needed to put their all into their product development. \nWhile this sentence may seem like it should’ve started with “Once u pon a time\, in a land far\, far away...” the Open Practice Library can transform this dream into reality.\nEmbark with me on an inspiring journey through the vibrant world of the Open Practice Library (OPL). This brainc hild of Red Hat Open Innovation Labs was born in 2016\, and has grown into a dynamic\, community-driven repository housing over 200 meticulously cur ated DevOps practices\, nurturing continuous discovery and delivery within product development. \nJoin me on an adventure through the fabled agile s print\, planned from start to finish with OPL practices. At the destinatio n\, knowledge of how to run a successful sprint\, and a brand new collecti on of practical tools to help you navigate the world of product developmen t by igniting creativity and teamwork. \nI will share how to become an act ive contributor to this vibrant open source community - from adding and im proving practices to sharing personal experiences or even just giving the practices a try. Explore avenues to get involved and make your mark within this collaborative space\, fostering innovation and elevating collective project success. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/33/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CXL: A Journey Into the Kernel DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T164000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T172500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:37@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: PJ Waskiewicz\nCompute eXpress Link\, or CXL\, is a n ew bus interconnect built on top of the PCIe physical layer. While work o n the specifications and initial releases has been ongoing\, uptake has be en slow. The protocols are robust\, making device creation complicated. The industry focus has mainly been on CXL-based memory expansion devices\, aka CXL.mem\, which are relatively easier to build and support.\n\nWhere CXL can truly showcase its efficiency and latency gains over traditional P CIe devices isn't with CXL.mem expansion devices. Building such a CXL.mem /CXL.cache accelerator device is complex\, and it requires a number of pla tform and OS-level pieces to be present and functioning to work.\n\nThe fo cus of this talk is to cover the recent efforts in the CXL Linux kernel up stream community to enable these types of accelerator devices. These devi ces\, known as CXL Type 2 devices\, can provide memory and cache-coherent devices with the host CPUs. The talk will touch on challenges with disman tling the existing CXL.mem CXL core in the kernel\, and exposing it to all ow custom drivers to drive these new bespoke Type 2 devices.\n\nThe talk w ill also touch on future plans to continue Type 2 and Type 1 CXL device su pport in the Linux kernel. How will CXL.cache devices be treated in the k ernel? What about support for CXL 3.x and CXL 4.0 devices and their more advanced feature sets? What else is just beyond the horizon that the kern el will need to evolve to support? LOCATION:Room A (2B07) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/32/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:When something has gone wrong in your neighbourhood\, and they're calling you... whatcha gonna do? DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T164000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T172500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:38@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rachel Bunder\nAs a volunteer emergency responder I s pend a lot of my spare time preparing to respond to an incident\, and then putting those preparations into practice. But then in my work in tech I s ee what happens when we don’t prepare to respond to emergency incidents. Using the core framework of all Australian emergency situations\, we will explore the key components of an emergency\, and how to best plan\, prepa re and respond. LOCATION:Room B (2B11) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/39/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lightning Talks DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T164500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T171500 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:81@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Neill Cox\nA series of lightning talks to finish off the conference. Each talk will be between 2-3mins in length. Signup will b e available during the conference. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/63/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Conference Close DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T171500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260123T173000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:82@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Miles Goodhew\nThe end of Everything Open 2026. LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au/schedule/presentation/64/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Break DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T172500 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T180000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:85@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Talks end
URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Break DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T174000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T180000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:86@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Talks end
URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: plenary DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260121T183000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:83@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:Linux Australia AGM - Keynote Theatre (2B09) LOCATION:Keynote Theatre (2B09) URL:http://2026.everythingopen.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Main Conference: Penguin Dinner DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20260122T210000 DTSTAMP:20260511T120639Z UID:84@2026.everythingopen.au CATEGORIES: DESCRIPTION:\nFor Penguin Dinner ticket holders only.
\nUnive rsity of Canberra Refectory
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