[AusNOG] Everything Open 2024, Gladstone AU

[Rob Thomas]

(You may have seen this on linux-aus, but as I'm a network nerd AND
APNIC ARE COMING HERE, I really thought it was important to mention
it here, too. Apologies to those that have seen it twice!)

Hi! I'm Troy McClure... Uh, I mean xrobau (or Rob), and you may
remember me from such things as 'Honest' Rob's Used Car
(and VoIP) Emporium at EO2023, or 'Why am I being
given a phone number just because I'm at LCA?'

Well, for those that don't know, my bluff was called, and I'm running
Everything Open up here in Gladstone in about ... 10 days from now.

https://2024.everythingopen.au/

For those that are thinking of physically attending, NOW IS THE TIME
TO GET YOUR TICKETS! For those that are paying for their own
flights, we have a subsidised shuttle to get you up here to Gladstone,
all you need to do is get to Brisbane, and we'll get you up here and
back (make sure you select that when purchasing a ticket!)

APNIC have also spotted the fantastic opportunity to help out regional
QLD, and are running RPKI and IPv6 courses on the Monday and
Friday before and after EO2024. These courses are *free* for EO
Delegates (but you don't need to be an EO delegate to attend, you
can just do the courses on Monday and Friday if you're nearby!)

However, if you can't make it in person, we understand, which is why
we're offering an Online-only ticket, which will be ALMOST as good
as being here, without having to actually travel. These are pretty much
at-cost, and are quite limited, so if you're interested, PLEASE register
now. We only have a limited number of remote slots, and it's going to
be first in, best dressed. (I'm not sure if APNIC are planning on
offering remote/online tickets to their courses - I suspect they are,
but please ask them, that's nothing to do with us!)

We have an amazing list of talks and keynotes from some amazing people such as
Geoff Houston (AM), Jana Dekanovska, and Professor Aaron Quigley. Please see
their, and everyone else's, talks on https://2024.everythingopen.au

Moving on, now all the serious stuff is over, I'm sure no one AT ALL
is surprised that I have a bunch of NON serious stuff planned, that
I hope everyone will have fun with.

Most of it is only going to be relevant to people who managed to make
it here, but one thing that we had a great time with previously was 'LCA
Plays Pokemon'.

Last time, that was done through our internal LCA phone system, but
THIS time I'm hoping we can do it through the web, but *only* EO
Delegates will be able to send commands.

Everyone else will only be able to watch via Twitch/YouTube/something.
I should warn you that I haven't even STARTED to set this up, because it's a bit
more important that I do actual critical stuff to run the conference,
but I feel pretty
confident that I'll have some time to get that up and running (I suspect it may
be done through a bot account on Mastodon.au, so make sure you have
a fediverse account somewhere!)

Finally, we also have a Matrix Room - feel free to join it at
  https://app.element.io/#/room/#everythingopen:matrix.org

For REAL and SERIOUS announcements, we're putting them up on a couple of places:
  https://fosstodon.org/@everythingopen
  https://www.facebook.com/EverythingOpenConference
as well as LinkedIn at
  https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/everythingopen/

I strongly suggest you follow all of them!

For extremely unreliable, non-serious announcements and quite probably
a large amount of whinging and complaining, you will find me at
https://facebook.com/xrobau and https://mastodon.au/@xrobau (I am
also the sucker that RUNS mastodon.au, so if you're not on the Fediverse
already, feel free to sign up there) where everyone will  be able to watch
me have a quiet (or possibly not so quiet?) meltdown over the next week
as the conference gets closer and closer!

I hope to see you all here, either physically or not!

--Rob Thomas
Conference Lead, Everything Open 2024, Gladstone, Australia