LCA2010 - Schedule Released and Recent Happenings

Wow, has it really been two months since the last blog post? No wonder, we've been flat out!

• Announced our second keynoter - Nat Torkington
• Call for papers closed
• Announced the successful miniconfs
• The Paper Review Committee started the paper review process of our over 300 paper submissions.
• Published our accommodation options
• The Paper Review Committee had a face-to-face meeting in Sydney
• Announced our third and fourth keynotes - Gabriella Coleman and Glyn Moody.
• The accepted talks were scheduled
• We released a new logo, with a competition and 20 hours later gave away a hobbyist ticket to Mark Piper
• Call for Miniconf Papers opened
• Three Funding programmes were finalised and then announced
• And then on Monday, we released the talk schedule

Busy times, and it is only going to get busier, when I first wrote this article on Monday, Susanne was 39 weeks pregnant, not long to go now on that front... It turns out I was right, she gave birth to Adam Robert Ruthven this morning. More news to follow soon.