Speaker - Dave Chinner

One afternoon, whilst sitting on the verandah watching a flock of Welcome Swallows perform their daring and acrobat dance around the house, Dave pondered how he had gotten here. Once a bright young engineer ready to take on anything, years of long toil on the Linux Kernel rewarded him with burnout and an awareness of how jaded and cynical his view of modern technology and it's development processes has become. "You can change the world", they said. So Dave did change his world, but he still works on filesystems and modern technology. Only now he does it from an idyllic remote location where he can get away from the modern world and only worry about the important things in life. Like: "Where the heck did that snake come from?!", "Oi! Misty! Stop chasing kangaroos and come back here!" and "I wonder where this bolt was supposed to go?".