Linux Australia

The organisation was formally incorporated to provide legal support for the inaugural Conference of Australian Linux Users (now linux.conf.au).

Over progressive years the organisation has steadily matured in its operation and today its major activities include the annual linux.conf.au open source conference, a grants program that seeds and supports relevant open source projects, and regular participation in public events such as conferences and exhibitions.

Public relations activities include lobbying to government and corporate entities on open source issues and comment and opinion to the media.

Previous committee members and details can be found on the Linux Australia website http://linux.org.au/About/Council Notable former committee members include Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell (Samba), and Paul "Rusty" Russell (Linux Kernel, notably Netfilter and the 2.6 modules rewrite), and Mary Gardiner founder of the Ada Initiative.

The Rusty Wrench is an award presented annually at linux.conf.au since 2005 for service to the free software community in Australia.