Michael Still is the chief organiser for the Australian national Linux conference 2013 and has many irons in the fire. Once the conference process gets under way, things keep happening, and take on some kind of life of their own. He has just left a job at Canonical, the company behind the well-known Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, and moved on to Rackspace. And he has never let up his reading. Nevertheless, he took some time out from flitting between cities and family concerns to answer some questions.