The Rusty Wrench is an award presented annually at linux.conf.au

Linux.conf.au

linux.conf.au is Australasia's regional Linux and Open Source conference. It is a roaming conference, held in a different city every year, coordinated by Linux Australia and organised by local volunteers....

 since 2005 for service to the free software community in Australia. It is named for its first recipient, Rusty Russell

Rusty Russell

Paul "Rusty" Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate.- Software development :Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel...

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Past recipients

• 2007 Kimberlee Weatherall
  Kimberlee Weatherall
  Kimberlee Weatherall is an Australian intellectual property lawyer, blogger and academic.Weatherall studied at Oxford and Yale, then worked for Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney before becoming a lecturer at the Melbourne Law School...
  
  
• 2006 Pia Waugh
  Pia Waugh
  Pia Waugh is a policy adviser working for Australian Senator Kate Lundy. Waugh is known for her former work as an Australian free software advocate...
  
  
• 2005 Rusty Russell
  Rusty Russell
  Paul "Rusty" Russell is an Australian free software programmer and advocate.- Software development :Russell wrote the packet filtering systems ipchains and netfilter/iptables in the Linux operating system kernel...
  
  

The Rusty Wrench award was not awarded in 2008, 2009, 2010 or 2011. It will be awarded again at linux.conf.au

Linux.conf.au

linux.conf.au is Australasia's regional Linux and Open Source conference. It is a roaming conference, held in a different city every year, coordinated by Linux Australia and organised by local volunteers....

2012 based on nominations from the free software and open source communities.