Linux.conf.au 2003 | Programme

Overview

There are 6 tutorials, 3 keynotes and 36 presentations. Plus a number of Work In Progress/Poster presentations, and as many Birds of a Feather sessions as delegates want to organise themselves.

Monday 20th - optional independant mini-confs
Tuesday 21st - optional independant mini-confs
Wednesday 22nd - Tutorials
Thursday 23rd - Lectures/Paper presentations
Friday 24rd - Lectures/Paper presentations
Saturday 25rd - Lectures/Paper presentations
Sunday 26th - Recreational day/fireworks

There is 15 minutes between each presentation to allow you to move between venues and refresh yourself. Speakers are asked to observe this period.

Monday 20th January 2003

	Alexander LT	Murdoch LT	Ross LT
All day	Debian mini-conf	educationaLinux mini-conf	IPv6 mini-conf (1ca::6)
Evening	Unplanned: free time

This period is reserved for sub-groups in the community who may wish to gather at the venue. These events are not a part of the main Linux.Conf.Au schedule, but indicative for those interested.

Tuesday 21st January 2003

	Alexander LT	Murdoch LT	Ross LT
All day	Debian mini-conf	educationaLinux mini-conf	Linux Games Mini-Conf
Evening	Unplanned: free time (Speaker's Dinner)

This period is reserved for sub-groups in the community who may wish to gather at the venue. These events are not a part of the main Linux.Conf.Au schedule, but indicative for those interested.

Wednesday 22nd January 2003

	Alexander LT	Murdoch LT	Ross LT
8:00-9:00	Registration
9:00-9:30	Welcome & Orientation, Octagon Theatre
10:00-11:30	PHP Intro Rasmus Lerdorf	Using autoconf, automake and friends Malcolm Tredinnick	Using Sweep: Fun with Scrubby Conrad Parker
11:30-11:45	Morning Tea
11:45-13:00	PHP Intro Rasmus Lerdorf	Using autoconf, automake and friends Malcolm Tredinnick	Using Sweep: Fun with Scrubby Conrad Parker
13:00-14:30	Lunch
14:30-16:00	PHP Advanced Rasmus Lerdorf	The Unreliable Guide to Kernel Hacking Paul "Rusty" Russell	Tutorial: The Ins and Outs of PostgreSQL Gavin Sherry
16:00-16:15	Afternoon Tea
16:15-17:30	PHP Advanced Rasmus Lerdorf	The Unreliable Guide to Kernel Hacking Paul "Rusty" Russell	Tutorial: The Ins and Outs of PostgreSQL Gavin Sherry
Evening	Professional Delegates' Networking Session

Thursday 23rd January 2003

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8:00-9:00	Registration (for those not already registered)
9:00-10:30	Keynote 1: Hacking the kernel and looking cool while driving a fast car - Rusty Russell, Octagon Theatre
10:30-11:00	Morning tea
11:00-11:45	My computer is bigger than yours! Martin Schwenke	ARQuake-Outdoor Augmented Reality Gaming Wayne Piekarski	Imaginary systems doing real work loads Dan Shearer
12:00-12:45	Making the right sort of difference: bugs and what to do with them Telsa Gwynne	$100,000 OUT OF THE WINDOW? YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS! Philip Hart	Dynamic Probes - Debugging by Stealth Suparna Bhattacharya
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:45	Sweep: Real-world audio editing on Linux Conrad Parker	Teaching Software Engineering using Open Source Software David Glance	What is that CONFIG_HAMRADIO thing anyway? - A Linux users guide to Ham Radio Hugh Blemings
15:00-15:45	more, More, MORE! Porting Hints and Horror Stories from the Debian Project Bdale Garbee	Dynamic Feedback in LVS Jeremy Kerr	DHCPv6 for Linux Suresh Kodati
15:45-16:15	Afternoon Tea
16:15-17:00	Q & A Session, Octagon Theatre
17:00-18:00	Linux Australia AGM (optional)
18:15-whenever	LCA Keysigning (optional)
19:00 - 20:30	ISOC-AU: Telecommunications Consumer Consultation Meeting (optional) - Ross LT
Evening	Unplanned: free time

Friday 24th January 2003

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9:00-10:30	Keynote 2: Bdale Garbee: Herding Wild Cats and Related Adventures - An Inside Look at the Debian Project, Octagon Theatre
10:30-11:00	Morning tea
11:00-11:45	The Boston Consulting Group/OSDN Hacker Survey Jeff "Hemos" Bates	Putting a filesystem into a device driver Greg K-H	Zeroconf networking Brad Hards
12:00-12:45	Early UserSpace H.Peter Anvin	PHP printing with PDF Rasmus Lerdorf	Problems in Open Source Licencing Jeremy Malcolm
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:45	Towards full NTFS semantics in Samba Andrew Tridgell	Biometrics and Linux Alexander Reeder	High Availability using Server Pooling Thomas Dreibholz
15:00-15:45	Useful kernel audits Alan Cox	Perdition Simon "Horms" Horman	Who wants another filesystem Neil Brown
15:45-16:15	Afternoon Tea
16:15-17:00	BOFs (optional)
Evening	Conference Dinner (For Professional delegates and those who have chosen to attend), Currie Hall

Saturday 25th January 2003

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10:00-11:45	Keynote 3: Andrew Tridgell - Network analysis techniques, Octagon Theatre
12:00-12:45	distcc, a distributed C compiler Martin Pool	Sequel Syndrome: The GNOME Project Grows Up Jeff Waugh	Katie, open-source revision control system Geoffrey D. Bennett
12:45-14:00	Lunch
14:00-14:45	I'll do it later: Softirqs, Tasklets, Bottom Halves and Task Queues Matthew Wilcox	Linux at the Little End of the World Malcolm Tredinnick	Design of the Portable.NET Interpreter Rhys Weatherley
15:00-15:45	The Linux Kernel Device Model Patrick Mochel	EggMenu James Henstridge	Developing network applications under UNIX Adrian Chadd
15:45-16:15	Afternoon Tea
16:15-16:45	Best of #1	Best of #2	Best of #3
17:00-18:00	Close
Evening	Unplanned: free

Today is a free day to code, talk to people, relax, and then enjoy the fireworks on the foreshore. This is not an official conference day, but if you hang around there are fireworks in the evening down by the river!

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