Conference Programme
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Programmer Tools and Methodology |
Systems Administration |
User Experience |
Deep Kernel Hacking |
General Interest Kernel |
Cool Stuff |
Free Culture |
Tutorial |
Pre-conference Activities
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These events aren't part of the conference proper, but might be of interest to people arriving early, or those who live in Sydney.
FOMS
The first "Foundations of Open Media Software" Developer Meeting will be held on the Thursday and Friday before linux.conf.au 2007, and aims to get the right people together to take the next steps in open media software. Meet and discuss your plans for the next 12 months with other developers and forge relationships to unwind the kinks, making open media kick ever more arse!
Twisted
Twisted will be having a sprint and a meetup on the weekend before linux.conf.au 2007. TwistedMicroConf will have the details.
Sunday, January 14th
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Settling in
Sunday is all about getting there and getting settled. For those who don't know their way around UNSW, download the PDF map.
The colleges are located in the bottom left, and the Conference venues are the upper right near the Chancellery Building.
The Sir John Clancy Auditorium will be used for the larger talks while Mathews A, Mathews B, Mathews C and Mathews D inside the Mathews Theatres building will be used for most of the other talks. Also CLB 1 and CLB 2 will be utilised.
Around campus
In the afternoon, keep your eye out for groups of hackers huddled around access points, hurling Frisbees around the village green, or in the region of the conf venue.
Dinner at the Lowenbrau
For those that will be in town and looking for food, Steve Walsh (clug_man on irc.freenode.net) has organised a group booking at the Lowenbrau Keller, a German beer hall located in the Rocks area of Sydney. If you didn't get back to him before the 23rd of December, don't worry, the venue is keeping 30-50 seats aside for people to come along and join in, but you will need to order off the ala-carte menu.
If you did RSVP and sent through the deposit, and you're a vegetarian, shoot Steve an Email by the 10th of January, so he can let the venue know.
On the night, you want to catch either the route 392 or 394 bus that departs from the NIDA side of Anzac parade. Both routes reach the stop at about the same time, between 6.40pm and 6.45pm. When you get to Circular Quay, walk up the hill to Harrington Street, then walk towards the Harbour Bridge until you get to Argyle Street. The Lowenbrau Keller is half way up the hill on the right hand side.
Monday, January 15th
Please click through to all daily schedule information including blurbs and bios for each miniconf. This is just a simply guide to help you get the most from your miniconf experience.
Mathews A |
Mathews B |
Under Pav 1 |
Mathews D |
Mathews C |
Under Pav 2 |
Under Pav 3 |
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08:00 |
Registration |
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09:30 |
Welcome to linux.conf.au 2007 in the Clancy Theatre |
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10:30 |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 |
The DPL's "State of the Project" Address by Anthony Towns |
Welcome to GNOME.conf.au 2007 by Davyd Madeley & Superswitcher and other wnckery by Nigel Tao |
Open Source in Australian Education - Trends and Examples by Pia Waugh |
Qtopia Greenphone by Ian Walters and Rhys Weatherley |
Welcome to mysql.conf.au by Arjen Lentz, Stewart Smith, Colin Charles & Know your Storage Engines by Arjen Lentz |
Building an Enterprise-Scale Database for RDF Data by Andrae Muys |
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11:50 |
An Update on HP's Relationship With Debian by Bdale Garbee |
Using Avahi the "Right Way" by Trent Lloyd & Lennart Poettering |
Lorien Novalis School: A Case Study by Stuart Rushton |
A solar powered blue-tooth enabled, embedded video capture device by Jamie Honan |
10 Do's and Dont's for MySQL Cluster by Jonathon Coombes |
Panel Session by Chris Samuel & Gernot Heiser |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Copyright and copyleft, looking at ways to understand the DMCA by Janet Hawtin |
Adventures in Linux on Programmable Logic Devices by Dr John Williams |
UML, kvm, and Hardare Virtualization by Jeff Dike |
Self-healing databases: managing schema updates in the field by Jonathan Oxer |
Factors affecting adoption of Open source software by individuals by Alison Young & Computational Modelling of Hydrological Impacts by Ole Neilsen |
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14:50 |
Security improvements needed in Debian by Russell Coker |
Synchronization and GNOME - How can all apps just get along? by John Stowers |
Teaching to Learning ... empowering the learner to think, analyse, and engage by Richard Weideman |
Trials and tribulations of building embedded devices by Mike Cornelius and Mark Phillips |
OS Circulation Environment "Trusted HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix" by Kuniyasu Suzaki and colleagues |
Optimizing Stored Procedures by Guy Harrison |
A limited review of the available Free / Libre and Open Source Academic Literature, as of late 2006 by Darren Skidmore |
15:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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16:00 |
Systems Administration with User Packages by Andrew McMillan |
INGOTs - A Three Country Perspective by Clair Adams, Graham Lauder, Bryant Patten |
Monitoring Linux Guests in a Virtualized Environment by Randy Levensalor |
Refactoring a production database by Morgan Tocker |
XMDS by Clinton Roy |
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16:50 |
Autobuilding Live CDs by Holger Levsen |
Stories from Korea - open source software in schools by Kathryn Moyle and Ian Ralph |
Case Study: Demo Hosting with Virtual Machines by Jason Nicholls |
MySQL troubleshooting by Laura Thomson |
ASK-OSS by Pia Waugh |
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17:30 |
Close |
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Tuesday, January 16th
Please click through to all daily schedule information including blurbs and bios for each miniconf. This is just a simply guide to help you get the most from your miniconf experience.
Mathews A |
Mathews B |
Under Pav 1 |
Under Pav 3 |
Mathews C |
Under Pav 2 |
Mathews D |
Under Pav 4 |
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08:00 |
Registration |
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09:00 |
Good Morning in the Clancy Theatre |
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Chris Blizzard in the Clancy Theatre |
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10:30 |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 |
Jokosher: The GNOME approach to audio production by Jono Bacon |
Navigating the OSS CMS World by Julie Kosakowski |
Introduction by Tim Ansell |
Getting started with PostgreSQL & A Case Study of PostgreSQL |
National Archives of Australia use of OOo as a plugin to their Xena software for conversion of Office formats to ODF for preservation purposes by Michael Carden |
Welcome and introduction by Mary Gardiner & Is Free Software a Macho thing? Women and FOSS by Sulamita Garcia |
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11:50 |
fast user-switching, multi-seat and other hard problems by David Zeuthen |
Show and Tell: The Pedagogical Arguments for FOSS by Donna Benjamin |
FOSS License for Content Developers by Brendan Scott |
Deep Kernel Hacking by Lee Schermerhorn |
The PostgreSQL Professional |
Bug Fixing for Non Programmers by Akkana Peck |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Its a fact, GNOME gets re-branded everywhere (what can we do for a smart sexy gnome) by Andy Fitzsimon |
Mahara: putting thought into ePortfolios by Penny Leach |
Love and Algorithmically Generated Content by Chris McCormick |
Experiences of an author preparing a manuscript for publication using OOo by Michael Still & Update on Google Summer of Code - OOo Projects by Leslie Hawthorn |
De-mystifying PCI by Kristen Carlson Accardi |
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14:50 |
The New WeatherApplet by James Andrewartha |
LAMS 2.0: Modular activity tools for e-learning workflows by Mitchell Seaton |
Wesnoth for Kernel Hackers (and everyone else) by Rusty Russell |
Lightning updates |
An Introduction to PostgreSQL internals |
Using the Software Development Kit by Jim Watson |
Lightning talks and demonstrations chaired by Stephanie Miller |
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15:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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16:00 |
Managing Debian's Mailing Lists by Pascal Hakim |
A love-hate relationship: lessons learned while re-engineering the Java bindings for GTK and GNOME by Andrew Cowie |
Lightning Talks |
Why it didn't fly - Game Dev BoF Post Mortem by Lee Begg |
PostgreSQL Internals cont'd |
Base - using databases in OpenOffice.org by Jonathon Coombes |
Social networking for fun and profit by Jacinta Richardson & Closing the Gender Pay Gap One Salary at a Time by Val Henson |
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16:50 |
Release Early, Release Often, ... Release Always? by Robert Collins |
EGG, a very simple GNOME API for Python by Pete Ryland |
Moodle - an overview of an open source platform for collaborative learning by Martin Dougiamas |
Suspend & Resume to RAM repair workshop |
PostgreSQL Internals continued |
Q&A, demonstrations |
Discussion session: Women and negotiation |
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17:30 |
Linux Australia Annual General Meeting in Mathews A |
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19:00 |
Conference Party at the Roundhouse |
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Wednesday, January 17th
Thursday, January 18th
Friday, January 19th
Clancy |
Mathews A |
Mathews B |
Mathews C |
Mathews D |
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08:30 |
Registration |
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09:00 |
Good Morning in the Clancy Theatre |
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Kathy Sierra in the Clancy Theatre |
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10:30 |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 |
Something handwavy about kernel/userspace issues as a distro kernel maintainer. |
Computers, Programs and Logic: What Does Linux Prove? |
Native NFSv4 Access Control Lists on Linux |
Telepathy: IM/VOIP Communications Framework |
HTTP-FUSE CLOOP with Software RAID and DNS-Balance for Embedded Linux |
11:40 |
Break |
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11:50 |
Flumotion: streaming with Python and GStreamer |
Puppet: A System Administration Abstraction and Automation Framework |
Ensuring your device is not supported under Linux: Lessons for hardware vendors |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
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