[H-GEN] online registrations for linux.conf.au now available (fwd)

[Raymond Smith]

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:14:08 +1100
From: Conrad Parker <conrad at slug.org.au>
Reply-To: lca-organisers at lists.linux.org.au
To: linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au
Subject: online registrations for linux.conf.au now available
Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:14:20 +1100
Resent-From: linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au

[** please forward appropriately **]

linux.conf.au (Sydney, 17-20 Jan 2001) is a volunteer-run conference
focussing purely on the technical issues of developing and using Linux
and Free Software. Dozens of the world's leading Linux experts are coming
to Australia to present their work, demonstrate their skills, and meet
the locals.

And it's only three weeks away!

Online registration for linux.conf.au is now available at:

        http://linux.conf.au/register/online/

Use this URL for immediate, secure payment of your conference
registration via credit card.

For pricing details, and for payment via cheque or money order, see

        http://linux.conf.au/register/

Many of you have been waiting for online registration to be available,
and we apologise that we were unable to make it so earlier. Please
ensure that you register promptly as there is a limit of 500 attendees
and places are filling quickly. If you leave it to the last minute you
may well miss out on your chance to attend.

Speakers include:

        John 'maddog' Hall of Linux International (dinner speaker)

        Alan Cox (England): kernel guru, outlining secret plans for 2.4
        Dave Miller (USA): kernel networking guru
        Andrew Tridgell (Oz): creator of samba, hacking TiVo
        Wayne Piekarski (Oz): Augmented reality on Linux wearables
        Craig Southeren (Oz): OpenH323 videoconferencing
        Silvia Pfeiffer (Oz): MPEG & MP3 audio
        David Huggins-Daines (USA): Linux on the PA/RISC architecture
        Richard Gooch (Oz, in Canada): devfs, and a new init system
        Rik van Riel (NL, in Brazil): kernel memory management guru
        Juan J. Quintela (Spain): deconstructing virtual memory
        Kirrily 'Skud' Robert (Oz, in Canada): e-smith, Perl6
        Martin Pool (Oz): rproxy -- rsync caching over http
        Rusty (Oz): netfilter, apt-proxy, gzip --rsyncable
        Daniel Phillips (Germany): The Tux2 failsafe filesystem
        Rasterman (Oz, in USA): hardware accelerated X11
        Dave Sifry (USA): Calendaring (GCTP, OpenFlock)
        Matthew Wilcox (USA): Leases & Directory notification
        John Goebel (USA): Cluster administration, Global filesystem
        Christopher Yeoh (Oz): Linux Standard Base
        Liam Quin (Canada): irc++, a new chat protocol and system
        Neil Brown (Oz): Linux RAID
        Sirtaj Singh Kang (Oz): KDE
        George Lebl (USA): Bonobo (the GNOME component model)

and that's just to whet your appetite -- there's about 50 different
topics and tutorials on offer, so make sure you check it out as there's
bound to be _something_ (or, lots of things!) that interest you. Check
out

        http://linux.conf.au/schedule/

for a peek at the schedule and

        http://linux.conf.au/papers/

for some more detail about the topics being presented. As you can see
there are a large number of excellent Linux developers attending from
all corners of the world including some of the best kernel, networking,
multimedia and desktop hackers around.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Conrad.

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