A Birds of a Feather (BoF) session is an informal gathering of like-minded people at a conference. Most, but not all, will be on a technical subject. BoFs can be organised by any conference attendee. They are usually structured in one of three ways:
If you are not sure of interest, raise the subject on the conference chat list. Once you have a group of attendees, you should:
Leave your name on a BoF wiki page below or contact the organiser directly. Please leave a way for them to get in touch with you!
Firmly scheduled BoFs are listed in this session (organisers, please list name of BoF, day, time, location and ideally a contact point)
BoF room bookings:
211? | 212? ??? - don't know actual rooms This is just a proposal for a way to do it similar to uni accom.
| Topic | Proposed day and time? | Contact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Esperanto BOF | - | - | Should get a lot more people this time seeing as TAS seems to be Esperanto capital of Oz! |
| Amateur Radio | - | - | For hams who would like to catch up either during or before/after LCA |
| Diving | - | - | For those keen to explore under the water. This is not for beginners though. |
| UbuntuLoCo | - | - | Proposed informal get together of Aus Ubuntu LoCo Team |
| Open Street Map | - | PaulSchulz | A get-together for people interested in OpenStreetMap and mapping in general. |
| Accounting Software BOF | - | AnthonyTowns | The perpetual bit of proprietary/non-Linux software to get rid of |
| BlueHackers? | - | ArjenLentz | For those who are, who have family or friends, dealing with depression and related stuffs (bluehackers.org) |
| Topic | Proposed day and time? | Contact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wikimedia BOF | Monday 7pm-late | - | For Wikimedia editors and fans. Dinner + chat |
| Topic | Proposed day and time? | Contact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go BOF | Tuesday lunchtime | Horatio Davis | This time Horatio Davis will actually attend the conference, and he will bring some boards and stones for playing the ancient oriental game of go. Not really that Linux-related, ever since GNU Go went mainstream, but it seemed to work alright last year... |
| OpenAustralia BoF | Tuesday 5:10pm | MatthewLandauer | For those interested in civic/political transparency hacking and getting involved with OpenAustralia |
| Gaming BOF | Tuesday 6:00pm | JonManning | For gamers, game developers, and people who may have heard of 'games.' |
| OCAU BoF | Tuesday 6:30pm | Peter Lyle | For members of Overclockers Australia |
| Topic | Proposed day and time? | Contact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Performance Linux BoF | Wednesday lunchtime | Anthony David | Following on the success of LCA 08 BoF, let's do it again. Please bring your burning issues and wise insights. For example, would you like to see a High Performance Linux miniconf in 2010? |
| Topic | Proposed day and time? | Contact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Startup BOF | Thursday lunchtime, 12:30 - 1:50, Social Science 206 | AnthonyTowns | For people interested in starting Linux/FOSS businesses |
| Libre Graphics | Thursday afternoon | Donna Benjamin | Libre Graphics get together...? |
| Puppet | Devdas Bhagat | 1600, Social Sciences 208 | |
| XMonad BOF | Thursday 18:00 | Jeremy Apthorp | Learn to use, hack and chat about XMonad |
| Perl BOF | Thursday 6pm, meet at fountain | Jacinta Richardson | Come hang out with other Perl programmers and perhaps talk about how we can kick-start Hobart PerlMongers. |
| Topic | Proposed day and time? | Contact | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian BOF | Friday 12:30pm | Harshula | Meet and Greet - all Debian Developers and users are welcome to attend |
| Christian BOF | Friday 12:30pm | Grant Petch | Open group for Christian people associated with the ICT & Open Source Industry, please bring your lunch and meet near the fountain feature out the front of Lazenby's Cafe.. |
| Drupal BOF | Friday 1:50pm | Cafuego | What do you do with Drupal? What do you want to do with it? Themes, modules, worksflows. |
| OLPC BOF | Friday at 5pm (original BOF time) in Multiroom | Pia Waugh | For hacking, demos, and discussions around community development around OLPC in Australia. Check out http://olpcfriends.org/ to get started. |
| Linux on the Moon BOF | Friday 5:00 pm after a lightning talk | MarcoOstini | This is a call to all interested in Space Science. A Google Lunar X-Prize team wants to put a Linux powered robotic Australian Marsupial on the Moon. Here's your chance to be part of it! http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/about-the-prize |