On 24 December 2000, I invited some of the Adelaide FreeBSD people to a barbecue. The main reason was because Kris Kennaway and Benno Rice, both exiles, were back in Adelaide for Christmas. We had a great time, so in 2001 I decided to invite more people, including people from other free software projects. Unfortunately we didn't know any OpenBSD people (Theo de Raadt confirms that not many Australian hackers live up to his expectations), but we had one NetBSD person (Bernd Wulf), two Linux people (Rusty Russell and Chris Yeoh) and the same FreeBSD people as last year. In the meantime Daniel O'Connor had got married, so he brought his wife Fiona with him.
In 2000, we multiplexed four IRC sessions over one laptop. This year we had seven people and six laptops, but we were a lot more active and didn't get much IRC done.
Daniel O'Connor, Benno Rice, Kris Kennaway.
Chris Yeoh, Daniel O'Connor, Benno Rice, Kris Kennaway.
Kris Kennaway, Rusty Russell.
Daniel O'Connor, Benno Rice, Rusty Russell, Chris Yeoh.
Chris Yeoh, Daniel O'Connor, Benno Rice, Kris Kennaway.
Benno Rice, Kris Kennaway, Greg Lehey, Rusty Russell, Chris Yeoh.
Greg Lehey, Rusty Russell, Daniel O'Connor.
Fiona O'Connor, Daniel O'Connor.
We set up a wireless network which was only partially successful. The FreeBSD boxes worked fine, but we couldn't get the Linux boxes to connect. Bernd didn't bring a laptop, so we didn't have a chance to confirm whether NetBSD would work, but based on previous experience (Luke Mewburn in July), there should be no problem. There appears to be an issue with Linux and ad-hoc mode which we haven't quite understood.
As a result, we tried routing a 10 Mb/s network through Daniel's laptop. Somehow we didn't get much IRC done this year, though.
Rusty Russell, Norm Lehey, Chris Yeoh, Fiona O'Connor, Daniel O'Connor, Kris Kennaway (head), Greg Lehey (back of head).
Daniel O'Connor, Benno Rice, Yana Lehey.
Osama /bin/ld is alive and well and living in South Australia.
Wes Peters liked this photo so much that he made up his own story about it.
Chris Yeoh, Norm Lehey, Fiona O'Connor, Bernd Wulf.