Open Day
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Open Day is the perfect holiday event for families, students and young people to play with great technologies and learn about Open Source. You'll find over 40 exhibitions, talks, competitions and meet some great people and projects along the way. We have a wonderful line-up of technologies including movie making, 3D virtual gaming, robots, solar panel cars, segways and digital music exhibitions just to name a few. This is a day for you to get your hands dirty with some of the best technologies available today!
Although the day is free, you will need to register for free food and your chance to win one of several prizes. Please see the very bottom of the page to register.
experience the wonder and fun of Linux and Open Source
learn about robots, music, movies, gaming and more
participate in the greatest technical community on the planet
Most importantly, meet the people behind the technology
Where, when, how much?
Where: Mathews Pavilions (E24) - University of NSW, Kensington
When: 3pm - 8:00pm Thursday the 18th January, 2007 with prizes being announced at 7pm
Cost: Free
Food: Dinner and drinks will be available at 6pm
Freebies: The first 100 registered visitors will receive a free bag with goodies! There will also be other giveaways at the stands from information, software and other goodies.
Poster: Download the event poster (optimised for printing)
Contact: Pia Waugh on pia@linux.org.au or call for details at 0400 966 453
Register! Register at the bottom of this page to reserve your free food and your chance to win a prize on the night!
What's on show?
The Demos
There will be about 40 exhibits total. Please make sure you check it prior to attending. Final schedule details will be posted on January Wednesday the 17th. Meanwhile below is the venue map and all the confirmed exhibits. Check it out and also the talk schedule to ensure you have a fantastic Open Day at linux.conf.au! Remember, every demo has Open Source involved, so you can go home and use the software yourself, or even get involved in a project if it really takes your fancy.
Table Number |
Demo description |
Community Tables |
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1 |
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2 |
Solar Panel Car - NICTA, CSE and ERTOS |
Sponsors |
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3 |
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4 |
IBM - Linux on POWER / Playstation 3 (jointly presented with Terrasoft Solutions) |
Community Tables |
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5 |
Blender 3D - Make your own animations! |
6 |
A fridge computer - earn the Freddo Frog! - NICTA, CSE and ERTOS |
7 |
Visualisation demo - NICTA, CSE and ERTOS |
8 |
Debian Linux - Peter Lieverdink and Andrew McMillan |
9 |
Fedora Linux Demo |
10 |
Digital Audio display - Denis Crowdy |
11-12, 14 & 15 |
Open Source & Gaming - Play games, see cool hardware and find out about how well you can dance! Includes Open Source games, dance mats and the GP2X open gaming platform - Tim Ansell |
13 |
Digital graphics showcase with Inkscape - Andy Fitzsimon |
16 |
The One Laptop Per Child project and demo - See this special world changing technology up close and person, for the first time in Australia - Jim Gettys & Chris Blizzard |
17 |
Wesnoth gaming - an Open Source conquest style game - Rusty Russell |
Sponsors |
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18 |
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19 |
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20 |
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21 |
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22 |
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23 |
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24 |
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25 |
University of NSW Computer Science & Engineering education table and NICTA |
Community Tables |
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26 |
Constellation - Rachel and Jeremy Fitzhardinge |
27 |
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28 |
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29 |
Podcasting for everyone! |
30 |
MythTV demo |
31 |
Embedded Open Source demo |
32 |
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33 |
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34 |
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35 |
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36 |
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37 |
The local USW Student Computer Science organisation |
38 |
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39 |
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40 |
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* Note number 18 and 19 are swapped on purpose in this list for brevity.
The Talks
Time |
Talk description |
Speaker |
3:00 |
Welcome |
Pia Waugh |
3:15 |
Open Source Gaming |
Tim Ansell |
3:25 |
Making a podcast with FOSS |
Jono Bacon and James Purser |
3:35 |
Changing the world with OLPC |
Chris Blizzard |
3:45 |
Virtual reality showcase |
Wayne Piekarski |
3:55 |
Digital graphics showcase |
Andy Fitzsimon |
4:10 |
Study options at UNSW |
Brad Hall |
4:20 |
Make your own plane at home |
John Stowers and Hugo Vincent |
4:30 |
LoCo Teams - Crazy about Ubuntu |
Melissa Draper |
4:40 |
Digital music and Open Source |
Denis Crowdy |
4:50 |
Open Source Geospatial Foundation |
Tim Bowden & Cameron Shorter |
5:00 |
Break |
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5:10 |
Qtopia Green Phone |
Rhys Weatherley |
5:20 |
Intel embedded |
Tariq Shureih |
5:30 |
Fedora |
Josh Wulf |
5:40 |
Home made rockets (of the flying variety) |
Bdale Garbee & Keith Packard |