Tuesday

Video and Audio for the mini-confs is now available online.

Distro Summit

Old Arts - Theatre E

For more information about the Distro Summit, please contact Jon Oxer.

Start Time	Title	Speaker
9:00 AM	Introduction
9:20 AM	Distro Roundup	A cast of thousands
10:10 AM	Morning Tea
10:30 AM	Why would a large corporate create their own distro?	Shane Owenby
10:55 AM	Release Monkey: Autobuilding packages for multiple distros	Jonathan Oxer
11:20 AM	Moving Time
11:30 AM	Disintermediating Distributions	Jeff Waugh
12:20 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Distro analysis using HP's data mining tools	Bob Gobeille
2:20 PM	Moving Time
2:30 PM	Release Management in Free Software Projects	Martin Michlmayr
3:20 PM	Afternoon Tea
3:40 PM	TBA
4:30 PM	Moving Time
4:40 PM	TBA

Wood Theatre
For more information about the Gaming Mini-conf, please contact Tim Ansell.

Start Time	Title	Speaker
9:00 AM	Why the Gaming Miniconf?	Tim Ansell
9:30 AM	Crystal Space in 3d!	Christopher Fraser
9:30 AM	Playing with Crayons	Douglas Bagnall
10:10 AM	Morning Tea
10:30 AM	FOSS in Game Development Education Panel	Meghashyam Boyapati, Toan Huynh and Geoff Leach
11:20 AM	Moving Time
11:30 AM	Licensing for Game Content Creators	Jessica Coates
11:55 AM	Licensing for Game Content Creators Panel	Jessica Coates, Kimberlee Weatherall
12:20 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	FOSS in Commercial Games Panel	Paul Hampson, Andrew Bailey and Michael Abbott
2:20 PM	Moving Time
2:30 PM	pyglet piñata (Interactive Tutorial)	Alex Holkner, Richard Jones
3:20 PM	Afternoon Tea
3:40 PM	pyglet piñata (Interactive Tutorial)	Alex Holkner, Richard Jones
4:05 PM	Enlightenment for 2d Games	Brett Nash
4:30 PM	Moving Time
4:40 PM	PyWeek Games on a deadline	Richard Jones
4:55 PM	Lightning Talks

Prest Theatrette, Economics & Commerce
For more information about the Gentoo Down Under Mini-conf, please contact Mark Kowarsky.

Start Time	Title	Speaker
9:00 AM	An introduction to Gentoo	Sura Mendis
9:30 AM	Hardened Gentoo	Andrew Ross
10:10 AM	Morning tea
10:30 AM	Tutorials: Gentoo's Package Managers
	Portage	Ivan Miljenovic
	Paludis	Patrick Ohearn
	Pkgcore	Mark Kowarsky
11:20 AM	Moving time
11:30 AM	Paddling Upiver - A presentation that discusses the relations between up stream developers and downstream packagers.	Andrew Cowie
12:20 PM	Lunch

Old Arts - Theatre D
For more information about GNOME.conf.au, please contact Jeff Waugh.

Start Time	Title	Speaker
09:00 AM	Welcome to GNOME.conf.au	Jeff Waugh
09:20 AM	Conduit - It shines!	John Stowers
09:45 AM	GNOME Mobile Foo - Building an app for OpenMoko/Maemo	Rob Bradford
10:10 AM	Morning Tea
10:30 AM	OLPC... What can we learn and steal from Sugar? (plus discussion)	Martin Sevior
11:20 AM	Moving Time
11:30 AM	TBD
11:55 AM	TBD
12:20 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Of GNOMEs and Wizards - lessons learned from Kennards Hire's GNOME deployment	Lindsay Holmwood
1:55 PM	PolicyKit - Locking down the free desktop in a user/admin friendly way	David Zeuthen
2:20 PM	Moving Time
2:30 PM	Clutter Bling - Shiny Stuff!	Rob Bradford
2:55 PM	Status of PulseAudio and GNOME	Lennart Poettering
3:20 PM	Afternoon Tea
3:40 PM	Lightning Talks - add your name and topic now!	Everyone!
4:30 PM	Moving Time
4:40 PM	International Beer Exchange (may not include beer)	Everyone!

Copland Theatre
For more information about the Kernel Mini-conf, please contact Matthew Wilcox.

Start Time	Title	Speaker
9:00 AM	Writing a PCI device driver using QEmu	Christoph Hellwig
10:30 AM	Cache-efficient Data Structures	Joern Engel
11:30 AM	How not to invent kernel interfaces	Arnd Bergmann
1:30 PM	Enhancing Linux Graphics	Jesse Barnes
2:30 PM	Linux disk I/O scheduling	Joshua Root
3:40 PM	Lightning Talks
4:40 PM	Kernel Developer Panel

Old Arts - Theatre C
For more information about the LinuxChix Mini-conf, please contact Mary Gardiner and Robyn Manning.

Start Time	Title	Speaker
9:00 AM	Welcome and introduction	Miniconf organisers
9:20 AM	Heroes	Pia Waugh
10:10 AM	Morning tea
10:30 AM	So you want to be a sysadmin	Joh Clarke
11:20 AM	Moving time
11:30 AM	Not-common-enough code optimisations	Jacinta Richardson
11:55 AM	Memcache, keeping data in the handiest place: memory	Brenda Wallace
12:20 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Who’s Behind Wikipedia?	Brianna Laugher
2:20 PM	Moving time
2:30 PM	From behind the monitor: Communication challenges in open source projects	Adaora Oniya
3:20 PM	Afternoon tea
3:40 PM	Community work, adult education, computer recycling/refurbishing all using Linux	Robyn Manning and Kylie Willison
4:30 PM	Moving time
4:40 PM	What does a community manager do?	Stormy Peters

Old Arts - Theatre B
More information about the MySQL Mini-conf can be found on the Wiki.

Start Time	Title	Speaker
9:00 AM	Welcome & Introduction Round	Arjen Lentz
9:30 AM	Upcoming MySQL Features	Stewart Smith
10:10 AM	Morning Tea
10:30 AM	MySQL Indexing Methods	Jonathon Coombes
10:55 AM	MySQL Optimisation by Design	Arjen Lentz
11:20 AM	Moving Time
11:30 AM	Getting started with MySQL Proxy	Giuseppe Maxia
12:20 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	MySQL Support Procedures	Trent Lloyd
2:20 PM	Moving Time
2:30 PM	High Availability, Replicating MySQL database	Oliver Hookins
3:20 PM	Afternoon Tea
3:40 PM	Multi-Master Models for MySQL	Jonathon Coombes
4:05 PM	Dealing with Hierarchical Structures	Arjen Lentz
4:30 PM	Moving Time
4:40 PM	Lightning Sessions
5:05 PM	Open Forum & Discusson	moderated by Arjen & Stewart

Old Arts - Theatre A
For more information about the SysAdmin Mini-conf, please contact Simon Lyall.

Start Time	Title	Speaker
9:00 AM	Welcome and Announcements
	Automation Session
9:05 AM	Reliable, Repeatable, Reproducible Infrastructure	Steven Ellis
9:45 AM	Puppetising Kennards Hire	Lindsay Holmwood
10:10 AM	Morning Tea
	Performance Tuning
10:30 AM	Linux Performance Tuning	Anshul Gupta
10:55 AM	Tuning hosts for network performance	Glen Turner
	Availability Session
11:30 AM	High Availability, Replicating MySQL database	Oliver Hookins
11:55 AM	Disaster Management & Recovery Using Open Source	Ryan Fuerst
12:20 PM	Lunch
	Lightning Talks
1:30 PM	Improving Operations and Systems Management using Trac	Steven Ellis
1:40 PM	Network and firewall redundancy (with carp, pfsync and openbgpd)	Joel Shea
1:50 PM	How do we use dotProject to achieve efficient project management goals in a R&D team	Tommy Yan
2:00 PM	Additional Lightning talks
	Misc 1
2:30 PM	OpenLDAP Enterprise Features	Bruce Huang and Tommy Yan
2:55 PM	A Special way to manage your Linux boxes by IM protocol	Tower Wan
3:20 PM	Afternoon Tea
	Monitoring Session
3:40 PM	What's the time, Mr Wolf?	Lindsay Holmwood
4:05 PM	Wireshark - packet sniffing	Martin Visser
	Misc 2
4:40 PM	BOF Session

In the morning we will do a tour of the historical Queen Victoria Markets and taste some of the delicious produce on offer.

In the afternoon we will take a tram to the Immigration Museum. Afterwards, you are free to explore the city.

Tonight is the Speaker's Dinner, at a secret location.