Dunk Tank Linus at LCA2004 This year's Linux.conf.au was held in Adelaide, Australia. As Australia's premier Linux technical conference, the conference attracted over 500 technically-inclined individuals from Australia and overseas. Linus Torvalds also made a low-profile appearance. At the conference dinner on Friday evening, two special auction was held to raise money for ComputerBank South Australia and the Cystic Fibrosis Association. ComputerBank SA received an approximate amount of AUD$5500 to go towards a van for transporting donated computers and for deliverly to recipients. The Cystic Fibrosis Association supplied a dunk tank, a second auction took place to see how much money people would pay to dunk Linus Torvalds himself. The auction reached initially $1500, Linus agreed to be dunked wearing Speedos if the amount reached $2500. A large number of dinner conference attendees then stood up and each pitched in $50. The final amount reached was just above $2500, here were the results on the following day... Linus (centre left) looking at fate. It's all for charity! LCA2004 organiser Michael Davies inspecting the crowd Some people aren't big fans of Adelaide water.. Linus is no exception. Paul "Rusty" Russell (centre, facing camera) being a good sport Some people can't get enough. Andrew 'tridge' Tridgell and Jeremy Allison on the tank. Inspecting the damage