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Sunday, January 22

03:00pm to 08:00pm

Early Registrations
Location: Uni Link

03:00pm to 08:00pm

Monday, January 23

07:00am to 09:00am	Registrations Location: Uni Link								07:00am to 09:00am
09:00am to 12:00pm	Debian Miniconf Location: Castle 2	Sysadmin Miniconf Location: Castle 1	Embedded Miniconf Location: Burns 1	OSDW Miniconf Location: Burns 2	Presentation Skills Damian Conway Location: Burns 7	Digital Arts Miniconf Location: Burns 5	OpenOffice.org Miniconf Location: Castle C	Linux in Education Miniconf Location: Burns 4	09:00am to 12:00pm
12:00pm to 01:00pm	Lunch break								12:00pm to 01:00pm
01:00pm to 05:00pm	Debian Miniconf Location: Castle 2	Sysadmin Miniconf Location: Castle 1	Embedded Miniconf Location: Burns 1	OSDW Miniconf Location: Burns 2	Introduction to Perl 6 Damian Conway Location: Burns 7	Digital Arts Miniconf Location: Burns 5	OpenOffice.org Miniconf Location: Castle C	Linux in Education Miniconf Location: Burns 4	01:00pm to 05:00pm

Tuesday, January 24

08:00am to 09:30am	Registrations Location: Uni Link								08:00am to 09:30am
09:00am to 12:00pm	Debian Miniconf Location: Castle 2	Sysadmin Miniconf Location: Castle 1	Embedded Miniconf Location: Burns 1	OSDW Miniconf Location: Burns 2	Gnome.conf.au Miniconf Location: Burns 7	Digital Arts Miniconf Location: Burns 5	OpenOffice.org Miniconf Location: Castle C	Linux in Education Miniconf Location: Burns 4	09:00am to 12:00pm
12:00pm to 01:00pm	Lunch break								12:00pm to 01:00pm
01:00pm to 05:00pm	Debian Miniconf Location: Castle 2	Sysadmin Miniconf Location: Castle 1	Embedded Miniconf Location: Burns 1	OSDW Miniconf Location: Burns 2	Gnome.conf.au Miniconf Location: Burns 7	Digital Arts Miniconf Location: Burns 5	OpenOffice.org Miniconf Location: Castle C	Linux in Education Miniconf Location: Burns 4	01:00pm to 05:00pm

Wednesday, January 25

08:00am to 09:15am	Registrations Location: Uni Link						08:00am to 09:15am
09:15am to 09:45am	Conference Opening Location: St David 1						09:15am to 09:45am
09:45am to 11:00am	A whirlwind tour of changes in the Linux 2.6.x system call API Michael Kerrisk Location: Castle 2	Introduction to GUI Programming with Qt4 Ian Walters Location: Castle 1	Introduction to VoIP and Asterisk Julien Goodwin Location: Burns 1	open source graphic design Andrew Fitzsimon Location: Burns 2	Deploying KDE Using The Kiosk Management System Aaron Seigo Location: Burns 7	Contructing a GCC front end Rafael Espíndola and Gustavo Barbieri Location: Burns 5	09:45am to 11:00am
11:00am to 11:30am	Morning Tea break Location: Uni Link						11:00am to 11:30am
11:30am to 12:45pm	A whirlwind tour of changes in the Linux 2.6.x system call API Michael Kerrisk Location: Castle 2	Introduction to GUI Programming with Qt4 Ian Walters Location: Castle 1	Introduction to VoIP and Asterisk Julien Goodwin Location: Burns 1	open source graphic design Andrew Fitzsimon Location: Burns 2	Deploying KDE Using The Kiosk Management System Aaron Seigo Location: Burns 7	Contructing a GCC front end Rafael Espíndola and Gustavo Barbieri Location: Burns 5	11:30am to 12:45pm
12:45pm to 01:45pm	Lunch break						12:45pm to 01:45pm
01:45pm to 02:35pm	Samba4 status report Andrew Tridgell Location: Castle 2	Future directions for Linux graphics Dave Airlie Location: Castle 1	What does AJAX and GroupDAV mean for web based FOSS Groupware? Dave Hall Location: Burns 1	How Linux and OSS helps power the world’s largest pre-WiMAX wireless broadband network Phillip Allan Ridley Location: Burns 2	GIT/Cogito Tutorial - Usage, migrating from CVS and Arch Martin Langhoff Location: Burns 7	Working with GLPK Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro Location: Burns 5	01:45pm to 02:35pm
02:35pm to 02:45pm	Move between Rooms Location: All theatres						02:35pm to 02:45pm
02:45pm to 03:35pm	Mouse Position Redirection in X Keith Packard Location: Castle 2	From New Zealand to Bolivia, the Koha Library system flies Chris Cormack Location: Castle 1	Using the Cell Processor to Accelerate Kernel Memory Operations Jimi Xenidis Location: Burns 1	l2tpns--High Volume L2TP Tunnel Termination Brendan O'Dea Location: Burns 2	GIT/Cogito Tutorial - Usage, migrating from CVS and Arch Martin Langhoff Location: Burns 7	Working with GLPK Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro Location: Burns 5	02:45pm to 03:35pm
03:35pm to 04:00pm	Afternoon Tea break Location: Uni Link						03:35pm to 04:00pm
04:00pm to 06:00pm	LA AGM Location: Castle 2						04:00pm to 06:00pm
06:00pm to 10:00pm	Hackfest Location: Castle 2			Keysigning Location: Castle 1			06:00pm to 10:00pm

Thursday, January 26

08:00am to 09:00am	Registrations Location: Uni Link						08:00am to 09:00am
09:00am to 10:30am	Linux TCP Developments and Kernel Developer Social Interactions David S. Miller Location: St David 1						09:00am to 10:30am
10:30am to 10:55am	Morning Tea Break Location: Uni Link						10:30am to 10:55am
10:55am to 11:45am	KDE4 and the Plasma Desktop Aaron Seigo Location: Castle 2	"Steamroller" Testing Paul E. McKenney Location: Castle 1	FAI -- the Fully Automatic Installation Thomas Lange Location: Burns 1	Recent congestion control advancements in Linux Ian McDonald Location: Burns 2	Using the Yum modules to ease systems and distro maintenance Seth Vidal Location: Burns 7	Hands-on Tutorial for NSA Security Enhanced Linux Russell Coker Location: Burns 5	10:55am to 11:45am
11:45am to 11:55am	Move between Rooms Location: All theatres						11:45am to 11:55am
11:55am to 12:45pm	talloc: The Power of C Rusty Russell Location: Castle 2	Linux for Broadband Rural Wireless, The CRCnet Experience Matt Brown Location: Castle 1	Device Driven I/O for Implicit Paging Operations Jeremy Kerr Location: Burns 1	Massive Virtualization on IBM Power5 System Dave Boutcher Location: Burns 2	Using the Yum modules to ease systems and distro maintenance Seth Vidal Location: Burns 7	Hands-on Tutorial for NSA Security Enhanced Linux Russell Coker Location: Burns 5	11:55am to 12:45pm
12:45pm to 01:45pm	Lunch break						12:45pm to 01:45pm
01:45pm to 02:35pm	BiGbounce, An Open Source Platform for EME Communications Bdale Garbee Location: Castle 2	Porting the Linux Kernel to a New ARM Platform Deepak Saxena Location: Castle 1	64-bit userspace: Friend or Foe? A closer look at 32/64 bit performance on two platforms. Olof Johansson Location: Burns 1	Where Is My Mind? Memory Management in X Adam Jackson Location: Burns 2	How to recognize ugly graphics, and what you can do about them. A tutorial on cairo. Carl Worth Location: Burns 7	Hands-on Tutorial for NSA Security Enhanced Linux Russell Coker Location: Burns 5	01:45pm to 02:35pm
02:35pm to 02:45pm	Move between Rooms Location: All theatres						02:35pm to 02:45pm
02:45pm to 03:35pm	Recent developments in Linux on PowerPC Paul Mackerras Location: Castle 2	Web-Based Enterprise Management - Emerging Management Standard or Buzzword Bingo? Tim Potter Location: Castle 1	bazaar-ng: friendly distributed version control Martin Pool Location: Burns 1	OpenLayers : Open geographic visualisation in your browser Philip Lindsay Location: Burns 2	How to recognize ugly graphics, and what you can do about them. A tutorial on cairo. Carl Worth Location: Burns 7	Hands-on Tutorial for NSA Security Enhanced Linux Russell Coker Location: Burns 5	02:45pm to 03:35pm
03:35pm to 04:00pm	Afternoon Tea break Location: Uni Link						03:35pm to 04:00pm
04:00pm to 04:50pm	Building Rich Web applications with PHP 5 Rasmus Lerdorf Location: Castle 2	Spark Gaps to Spread Spectrum, Crystal Sets to Software Defined Radio Hugh Blemings and Bdale Garbee Location: Castle 1	Programming Asterisk Julien Goodwin Location: Burns 1	PyFLAG - A Forensic and Log Analysis GUI Michael Cohen Location: Burns 2	Deploying KDE Using The Kiosk Management System Aaron Seigo Location: Burns 7	Concurrency Control in RDBMS Arjen Lentz Location: Burns 5	04:00pm to 04:50pm
04:50pm to 05:00pm	10 minutes Break Location: All theatres						04:50pm to 05:00pm
05:00pm to 05:50pm	Building Rich Web applications with PHP 5 Rasmus Lerdorf Location: Castle 2	Spark Gaps to Spread Spectrum, Crystal Sets to Software Defined Radio Hugh Blemings and Bdale Garbee Location: Castle 1	Programming Asterisk Julien Goodwin Location: Burns 1	PyFLAG - A Forensic and Log Analysis GUI Michael Cohen Location: Burns 2	Deploying KDE Using The Kiosk Management System Aaron Seigo Location: Burns 7	Concurrency Control in RDBMS Arjen Lentz Location: Burns 5	05:00pm to 05:50pm
05:50pm to 06:00pm	Move between Rooms Location: All theatres						05:50pm to 06:00pm
06:00pm to 06:45pm	BOFS Location: All theatres						06:00pm to 06:45pm
06:45pm to 09:45pm	Professional Delegates Networking Session						06:45pm to 09:45pm

Friday, January 27

08:00am to 09:00am	Registrations Location: Uni Link						08:00am to 09:00am
09:00am to 10:30am	Keynote: Sex and Violence: Technical and Social Lessons from the Perl 6 Development Process. Damian Conway Location: St David 1						09:00am to 10:30am
10:30am to 10:55am	Morning Tea Break Location: Uni Link						10:30am to 10:55am
10:55am to 11:45am	Use the Source Luke, Hacking MySQL Brian Aker Location: Castle 2	RepRap, The GPL'd Replicating Rapid-Prototyper. Vik Olliver Location: Castle 1	Building Linux in a Jail Amos Waterland Location: Burns 1	Managing memory in variable sized chunks Christopher Yeoh Location: Burns 2	SBLIM: creating a set of providers from scratch Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro Location: Burns 7	Location: Burns 5	10:55am to 11:45am
11:45am to 11:55am	Move between Rooms Location: All theatres						11:45am to 11:55am
11:55am to 12:45pm	Fork Depot: A Userspace Implementation of Streams Theodore Tso Location: Castle 2	Linux In The Rough And Tumble World Of Outdoor Augmented Reality Wayne Piekarski Location: Castle 1	Speex: A Free Codec For Free Speech Jean-Marc Valin Location: Burns 1	Xen on PowerPC Hollis Blanchard Location: Burns 2	SBLIM: creating a set of providers from scratch Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro Location: Burns 7	MySQL Cluster Stewart Smith Location: Burns 5	11:55am to 12:45pm
12:45pm to 01:45pm	Lunch break						12:45pm to 01:45pm
01:45pm to 02:35pm	A History of Open Sores Jon "maddog" Hall Location: Castle 2	Multicast DNS Network Service Discovery with Avahi Trent Lloyd Location: Castle 1	Hacking the Squeezebox: Customising an open source networked music player Stephane Miller Location: Burns 1	Device Trees for Embedded Systems David Gibson Location: Burns 2	SBLIM: creating a set of providers from scratch Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro Location: Burns 7	MySQL Cluster Stewart Smith Location: Burns 5	01:45pm to 02:35pm
02:35pm to 02:45pm	Move between Rooms Location: All theatres						02:35pm to 02:45pm
02:45pm to 03:35pm	A modest proposal to help speed up and scale up the linux networking stack Van Jacobson Location: Castle 2	Ethernet switching and passive IP conflict detection in the linux kernel through ARP watching Marc MERLIN Location: Castle 1	A Case Study Using Perl and Gtk2, or I Can't Believe It's Not A Softphone Geoffrey Bennett Location: Burns 1	Implementing Kdump for PPC64 - the nuts and bolts Michael Ellerman Location: Burns 2	SBLIM: creating a set of providers from scratch Rodrigo Ceron Ferreira de Castro Location: Burns 7	Location: Burns 5	02:45pm to 03:35pm
03:35pm to 04:00pm	Afternoon Tea Break Location: Uni Link						03:35pm to 04:00pm
04:00pm to 04:50pm	Building Fast and Secure Web Applications Rasmus Lerdorf Location: Castle 2	Free as in Free Beer Greg "Groggy" Lehey Location: Castle 1	How to recognize ugly graphics, and what you can do about them. A tutorial on cairo. Carl Worth Location: Burns 1	From CVS to Subversion to SVK, and SVL Sam Vilain and Martin Langhoff Location: Burns 2	An introduction to building and using shared libraries Michael Kerrisk Location: Burns 7	Location: Burns 5	04:00pm to 04:50pm
04:50pm to 05:00pm	Move between Rooms Location: All theatres						04:50pm to 05:00pm
05:00pm to 05:50pm	Building Fast and Secure Web Applications Rasmus Lerdorf Location: Castle 2	ENUM, Security and Privacy - The New Zealand Trial Donald Christie Location: Castle 1	Building an LSB-conforming desktop application Mats Wichmann Location: Burns 1	From CVS to Subversion to SVK, and SVL Sam Vilain and Martin Langhoff Location: Burns 2	An introduction to building and using shared libraries Michael Kerrisk Location: Burns 7	Location: Burns 5	05:00pm to 05:50pm
05:50pm to 06:00pm	Move between Rooms Location: All theatres						05:50pm to 06:00pm
06:00pm to 06:45pm	BOFS Location: All theatres						06:00pm to 06:45pm
07:30pm to 11:00pm	Penguin Dinner Location: Dunedin Town Hall						07:30pm to 11:00pm

Saturday, January 28

10:00am to 11:30am	Keynote: Improving Collaboration Between Open Source Projects Mark Shuttleworth Location: St David 1				10:00am to 11:30am
11:30am to 11:55am	Morning Tea Break Location: Uni Link				11:30am to 11:55am
11:55am to 12:45pm	Linux and ACPI - a brave new world of power management Matthew Garrett Location: Castle 2	One of Our Maintainers Is Missing Matthew Wilcox Location: Castle 1	ARM Embedded Linux, Gadget and Widgets Simon Glass Location: Burns 1	Eavesdropping on the X Protocol Peter Hutterer Location: Burns 2	11:55am to 12:45pm
12:45pm to 01:45pm	Lunch break Location: Uni Link				12:45pm to 01:45pm
01:45pm to 02:35pm	Best of #1 Location: Castle 2	Best of #2 Location: Castle 1	Best of #3 Location: Burns 1	Best of #4 Location: Burns 2	01:45pm to 02:35pm
02:35pm to 02:45pm	Move between Rooms Location: All theatres				02:35pm to 02:45pm
02:45pm to 03:15pm	Lightning talks: Location: Castle 1				02:45pm to 03:15pm
03:15pm to 03:45pm	Afternoon Tea Break Location: Uni Link				03:15pm to 03:45pm
03:45pm to 04:15pm	Linux Australia Update Location: St David 1				03:45pm to 04:15pm
04:15pm to 05:00pm	Panel Location: St David 1				04:15pm to 05:00pm
05:00pm to 05:30pm	Conference Close Location: St David 1				05:00pm to 05:30pm