Main Conference Monday, 13 Mar 2023

Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.

Room Melbourne HackerSpace (CCHS)

09:00AM

Open Hardware Workshop

An all day workshop for people with the OHMC 2022 hardware. The morning session will be based on prepared material about the hardware, the software, how to develop on and use your SwagBadge / Rockling FPGA. The afternoon session will be open ended, supporting development using your new kit.

Register your interest

04:00PM

Social Event (Unofficial)

Register your interest

06:00PM

Day End

09:00AM–04:00PM

Open Hardware Workshop

An all day workshop for people with the OHMC 2022 hardware. The morning session will be based on prepared material about the hardware, the software, how to develop on and use your SwagBadge / Rockling FPGA. The afternoon session will be open ended, supporting development using your new kit.

Register your interest

Melbourne HackerSpace (CCHS)
ends 4 p.m.

04:00PM–06:00PM

Social Event (Unofficial)

Register your interest

Melbourne HackerSpace (CCHS)
ends 6 p.m.

06:00PM

Day End

Main Conference Tuesday, 14 Mar 2023

Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.

Room Clarendon Auditorium Clarendon Room A Clarendon Room D Clarendon Room E

09:00AM

Conference Opening
Sae Ra Germaine, Joel Addison

09:10AM

Keynote: Hugh Blemings
Hugh Blemings

10:10AM

Morning Tea

10:45AM

Cautionary Tales on Implementing the Software That People Want
Paul McKenney

An abridged history of Linux kernel security
Russell Currey

ClickHouse: what is behind the fastest open source columnar database
Troy Sellers, Olena Kutsenko

11:30AM

Room Changeover

11:40AM

Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata
Peter Neish, Alex Lum

Webauthn, Passkeys, and You - The Future of Authentication
William Brown

Interrupt Balancing: Moving beyond x86
PJ Waskiewicz

Let’s Use An Automated Theorem Prover To Verify Video Games; I Promise This Is Applicable To You
Jon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison

12:25PM

Lunch (uncatered)

01:30PM

Creating open source legislation as code
Pia Andrews

Swiss Army GLAM
Tara Barnett

LibreBMC: literally everything is open
Jeremy Kerr

Incident Response with Velociraptor
Mike Cohen

02:15PM

Room Changeover

02:25PM

TeX, OpenType fonts and Rust
Jae Han-Iveson

Houdini of the Terminal: The need for escaping
David Leadbeater

How I Broke an ABI
Rohan McLure

03:10PM

Afternoon Tea

03:45PM

DCC-EX Open Source Model Railroading
Paul Antoine

From Me to Us: Building a docs team from the ground up
Lana Brindley

The Velograph - Open Source powered bike safety
Tishampati Dhar

Flutter Linux apps from scratch
Maksim Lin

04:30PM

Room Changeover

04:40PM

Enforcing Privacy Rights Against Big Tech and Big Surveillance
Dan Shearer

passt & pasta: Modern unprivileged networking for containers and VMs
David Gibson

Is Free and Open Cybersecurity Essential, Desirable - Or Not?
Paul Watters

05:25PM

Day End

09:00AM–09:10AM

Conference Opening
Sae Ra Germaine, Joel Addison

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 9:10 a.m.

09:10AM–10:10AM

Keynote: Hugh Blemings
Hugh Blemings

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 10:10 a.m.

10:10AM–10:45AM

Morning Tea


ends 10:45 a.m.

10:45AM–11:30AM

Cautionary Tales on Implementing the Software That People Want
Paul McKenney

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 11:30 a.m.

An abridged history of Linux kernel security
Russell Currey

Clarendon Room A
ends 11:30 a.m.

ClickHouse: what is behind the fastest open source columnar database
Troy Sellers, Olena Kutsenko

Clarendon Room D
ends 11:30 a.m.

Clarendon Room E
ends 11:30 a.m.

11:30AM–11:40AM

Room Changeover


ends 11:40 a.m.

11:40AM–12:25PM

Sustainable Open Data using Wikidata
Peter Neish, Alex Lum

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 12:25 p.m.

Webauthn, Passkeys, and You - The Future of Authentication
William Brown

Clarendon Room A
ends 12:25 p.m.

Interrupt Balancing: Moving beyond x86
PJ Waskiewicz

Clarendon Room D
ends 12:25 p.m.

Let’s Use An Automated Theorem Prover To Verify Video Games; I Promise This Is Applicable To You
Jon Manning, Paris Buttfield-Addison

Clarendon Room E
ends 12:25 p.m.

12:25PM–01:30PM

Lunch (uncatered)


ends 1:30 p.m.

01:30PM–02:15PM

Creating open source legislation as code
Pia Andrews

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 2:15 p.m.

Swiss Army GLAM
Tara Barnett

Clarendon Room A
ends 2:15 p.m.

LibreBMC: literally everything is open
Jeremy Kerr

Clarendon Room D
ends 2:15 p.m.

Incident Response with Velociraptor
Mike Cohen

Clarendon Room E
ends 3:10 p.m.

02:15PM–02:25PM

Room Changeover

Clarendon Room D, Clarendon Room A, Clarendon Auditorium
ends 2:25 p.m.

02:25PM–03:10PM

TeX, OpenType fonts and Rust
Jae Han-Iveson

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 3:10 p.m.

Houdini of the Terminal: The need for escaping
David Leadbeater

Clarendon Room A
ends 3:10 p.m.

How I Broke an ABI
Rohan McLure

Clarendon Room D
ends 3:10 p.m.

03:10PM–03:45PM

Afternoon Tea


ends 3:45 p.m.

03:45PM–04:30PM

DCC-EX Open Source Model Railroading
Paul Antoine

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 4:30 p.m.

From Me to Us: Building a docs team from the ground up
Lana Brindley

Clarendon Room A
ends 4:30 p.m.

The Velograph - Open Source powered bike safety
Tishampati Dhar

Clarendon Room D
ends 4:30 p.m.

Flutter Linux apps from scratch
Maksim Lin

Clarendon Room E
ends 5:25 p.m.

04:30PM–04:40PM

Room Changeover

Clarendon Room D, Clarendon Room A, Clarendon Auditorium
ends 4:40 p.m.

04:40PM–05:25PM

Enforcing Privacy Rights Against Big Tech and Big Surveillance
Dan Shearer

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 5:25 p.m.

passt & pasta: Modern unprivileged networking for containers and VMs
David Gibson

Clarendon Room A
ends 5:25 p.m.

Is Free and Open Cybersecurity Essential, Desirable - Or Not?
Paul Watters

Clarendon Room D
ends 5:25 p.m.

05:25PM

Day End

Main Conference Wednesday, 15 Mar 2023

Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.

Room Clarendon Auditorium Clarendon Room A Clarendon Room D Clarendon Room E

09:00AM

Wednesday Welcome
Sae Ra Germaine, Joel Addison

09:10AM

Keynote: Seb Chan
Seb Chan

10:10AM

Morning Tea

10:45AM

So What Has RCU Done Lately?
Paul McKenney, Boqun Feng, Frédéric Weisbecker, Joel Fernandes, Neeraj Upadhyay, Uladzislau Rezki

Boost your project's trust signals with great docs!
Felicity Brand

Making music with Linux & Dart
Maksim Lin

Hands-On Introduction to Quantum Computing with Qiskit
Astri Cornish

11:30AM

Room Changeover

11:40AM

Advanced Testing in Rust
Tobin Harding

seL4 Core Platform: security and performance without the complexity
Ivan Velickovic, Lucy Parker

Kerberos PKINIT: what, why, and how (to break it)
Fraser Tweedale

12:25PM

Lunch (uncatered)

01:30PM

Did FOSS Licenses Jump the Shark?: The Next Season of Copyleft License Drafting and Promulgation
Bradley M. Kuhn

Raising Heretics on a Diet of Open Data
Dr Linda McIver

Unlocking the Power of Open Security Standards
Cameron Tudball

Building cross platform GUI apps with BeeWare
Russell Keith-Magee

02:15PM

Room Changeover

02:25PM

COVIDSafe: Australia’s digital contact tracing failure
Geoffrey Huntley

Creating a Poetry Book
Peter Chubb

Improving old compression algorithms
Paul Wayper

03:10PM

Afternoon Tea

03:45PM

bpftrace recipes: 5 real problems solved
Trent Lloyd

Why a culture of open source contribution is good for your business
Owen Lansbury

Don't wait for Godot! Build a game today!
Paris Buttfield-Addison

Securing a Distribution and Your Own Open Source Project
Alex Murray

04:30PM

Talks End

Please take the time to explore Melbourne on your way to the Penguin Dinner.

06:00PM

Penguin Dinner

For Penguin Dinner ticket holders only.

Make your way to Fortress Melbourne at 23 Caledonian Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000. Please enter via the Caledonian Lane entrance, NOT via the Emporium.

09:00PM

Day End

09:00AM–09:10AM

Wednesday Welcome
Sae Ra Germaine, Joel Addison

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 9:10 a.m.

09:10AM–10:10AM

Keynote: Seb Chan
Seb Chan

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 10:10 a.m.

10:10AM–10:45AM

Morning Tea


ends 10:45 a.m.

10:45AM–11:30AM

So What Has RCU Done Lately?
Paul McKenney, Boqun Feng, Frédéric Weisbecker, Joel Fernandes, Neeraj Upadhyay, Uladzislau Rezki

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 11:30 a.m.

Boost your project's trust signals with great docs!
Felicity Brand

Clarendon Room A
ends 11:30 a.m.

Making music with Linux & Dart
Maksim Lin

Clarendon Room D
ends 11:30 a.m.

Hands-On Introduction to Quantum Computing with Qiskit
Astri Cornish

Clarendon Room E
ends 12:25 p.m.

11:30AM–11:40AM

Room Changeover

Clarendon Room D, Clarendon Room A, Clarendon Auditorium
ends 11:40 a.m.

11:40AM–12:25PM

Advanced Testing in Rust
Tobin Harding

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 12:25 p.m.

seL4 Core Platform: security and performance without the complexity
Ivan Velickovic, Lucy Parker

Clarendon Room A
ends 12:25 p.m.

Kerberos PKINIT: what, why, and how (to break it)
Fraser Tweedale

Clarendon Room D
ends 12:25 p.m.

12:25PM–01:30PM

Lunch (uncatered)


ends 1:30 p.m.

01:30PM–02:15PM

Did FOSS Licenses Jump the Shark?: The Next Season of Copyleft License Drafting and Promulgation
Bradley M. Kuhn

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 2:15 p.m.

Raising Heretics on a Diet of Open Data
Dr Linda McIver

Clarendon Room A
ends 2:15 p.m.

Unlocking the Power of Open Security Standards
Cameron Tudball

Clarendon Room D
ends 2:15 p.m.

Building cross platform GUI apps with BeeWare
Russell Keith-Magee

Clarendon Room E
ends 3:10 p.m.

02:15PM–02:25PM

Room Changeover

Clarendon Room D, Clarendon Room A, Clarendon Auditorium
ends 2:25 p.m.

02:25PM–03:10PM

COVIDSafe: Australia’s digital contact tracing failure
Geoffrey Huntley

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 3:10 p.m.

Creating a Poetry Book
Peter Chubb

Clarendon Room A
ends 3:10 p.m.

Improving old compression algorithms
Paul Wayper

Clarendon Room D
ends 3:10 p.m.

03:10PM–03:45PM

Afternoon Tea


ends 3:45 p.m.

03:45PM–04:30PM

bpftrace recipes: 5 real problems solved
Trent Lloyd

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 4:30 p.m.

Why a culture of open source contribution is good for your business
Owen Lansbury

Clarendon Room A
ends 4:30 p.m.

Don't wait for Godot! Build a game today!
Paris Buttfield-Addison

Clarendon Room D
ends 4:30 p.m.

Securing a Distribution and Your Own Open Source Project
Alex Murray

Clarendon Room E
ends 4:30 p.m.

04:30PM–06:00PM

Talks End

Please take the time to explore Melbourne on your way to the Penguin Dinner.


ends 6 p.m.

06:00PM–09:00PM

Penguin Dinner

For Penguin Dinner ticket holders only.

Make your way to Fortress Melbourne at 23 Caledonian Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000. Please enter via the Caledonian Lane entrance, NOT via the Emporium.


ends 9 p.m.

09:00PM

Day End

Main Conference Thursday, 16 Mar 2023

Conference times are in AEDT (UTC+1100). Current talks will be highlighted.

Room Clarendon Auditorium Clarendon Room A Clarendon Room D Clarendon Room E

09:00AM

Thursday Welcome
Sae Ra Germaine, Joel Addison

09:10AM

Keynote: Lyndsey Jackson
Lyndsey Jackson

10:10AM

Morning Tea

10:45AM

Building an open framework combining AIoT, media, robotics & Machine Learning
Andy Gelme

3.2 million Photographs and Counting... The Hunt for an Elusive Orchid Pollinator
Paul Hamilton

Hammer Time: Building Carpentries community in Australia
Liz Stokes

Write and illustrate a childrens story book using Open Source AI tools
Alastair D'Silva

11:30AM

Room Changeover

11:40AM

KernelCI: Status update
Alice Ferrazzi

A Smörgåsbord of delicious new MariaDB Features
Daniel Black

Embedding Golang in a Kotlin app: how to do it and why you shouldn't
Charles Korn

12:25PM

Lunch (uncatered)

01:30PM

Security in the Open: Incident Detection and Response for Open Source
Alistair Chapman

Opening up the Final Frontier: Expanding collaboration in Open Source Aerospace software
Sam Bishop

Open by design: co-designing and producing an OER interactive textbook
Kat Cain

Quiet Room

02:15PM

Room Changeover

02:25PM

Ceph and NFS: Comparing Distributed Filesystems
Christopher Irving

Diabetes is hard, let's go shopping for a new glucose monitoring solution
Lana Brindley, Steve Kowalik

Open, agile, hybrid, and distributed.
Donna Benjamin

03:10PM

Afternoon Tea

03:45PM

Keynote: Rebecca Giblin
Rebecca Giblin

04:45PM

Lightning Talks
Sae Ra Germaine, Joel Addison

05:15PM

Conference Close
Sae Ra Germaine, Joel Addison

05:30PM

Day End

09:00AM–09:10AM

Thursday Welcome
Sae Ra Germaine, Joel Addison

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 9:10 a.m.

09:10AM–10:10AM

Keynote: Lyndsey Jackson
Lyndsey Jackson

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 10:10 a.m.

10:10AM–10:45AM

Morning Tea


ends 10:45 a.m.

10:45AM–11:30AM

Building an open framework combining AIoT, media, robotics & Machine Learning
Andy Gelme

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 11:30 a.m.

Hammer Time: Building Carpentries community in Australia
Liz Stokes

Clarendon Room D
ends 11:30 a.m.

Write and illustrate a childrens story book using Open Source AI tools
Alastair D'Silva

Clarendon Room E
ends 12:25 p.m.

11:30AM–11:40AM

Room Changeover

Clarendon Room D, Clarendon Room A, Clarendon Auditorium
ends 11:40 a.m.

11:40AM–12:25PM

KernelCI: Status update
Alice Ferrazzi

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 12:25 p.m.

A Smörgåsbord of delicious new MariaDB Features
Daniel Black

Clarendon Room A
ends 12:25 p.m.

Embedding Golang in a Kotlin app: how to do it and why you shouldn't
Charles Korn

Clarendon Room D
ends 12:25 p.m.

12:25PM–01:30PM

Lunch (uncatered)


ends 1:30 p.m.

01:30PM–02:15PM

Security in the Open: Incident Detection and Response for Open Source
Alistair Chapman

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 2:15 p.m.

Quiet Room

Clarendon Room E
ends 3:10 p.m.

02:15PM–02:25PM

Room Changeover

Clarendon Room D, Clarendon Room A, Clarendon Auditorium
ends 2:25 p.m.

02:25PM–03:10PM

Ceph and NFS: Comparing Distributed Filesystems
Christopher Irving

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 3:10 p.m.

Diabetes is hard, let's go shopping for a new glucose monitoring solution
Lana Brindley, Steve Kowalik

Clarendon Room A
ends 3:10 p.m.

Open, agile, hybrid, and distributed.
Donna Benjamin

Clarendon Room D
ends 3:10 p.m.

03:10PM–03:45PM

Afternoon Tea


ends 3:45 p.m.

03:45PM–04:45PM

Keynote: Rebecca Giblin
Rebecca Giblin

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 4:45 p.m.

04:45PM–05:15PM

Lightning Talks
Sae Ra Germaine, Joel Addison

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 5:15 p.m.

05:15PM–05:30PM

Conference Close
Sae Ra Germaine, Joel Addison

Clarendon Auditorium
ends 5:30 p.m.

05:30PM

Day End