[H-GEN] [AUUG-ANNOUNCE]: 2nd Australian Open Source Symposium - Register Now (fwd)
Raymond Smith
raymonds at uq.net.au
Wed Nov 22 01:50:15 EST 2000
[ Humbug *General* list - semi-serious discussions about Humbug and ]
[ Unix-related topics. Please observe the list's charter. ]
[ Worthwhile understanding: http://www.humbug.org.au/netiquette.html ]
FWIW.
---
raymond at humbug.org.au All that we see, or seem,
Is but a dream, within a dream.
-- Edgar Allen Poe
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:49:58 +1100 (EST)
From: owner-auug-announce at auug.org.au
Reply-To: auug at auug.org.au
Subject: [AUUG-ANNOUNCE]: 2nd Australian Open Source Symposium - Register
Now
=====
Sent by "Liz Carroll" <busmgr at auug.org.au> to <auug-announce at auug.org.au>.
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to <majordomo at auug.org.au>
with the line "unsubscribe auug-announce" in the message body.
Hi All
Don't forget to get your registrations in for the Second Australian
Open Source Symposium, to be held this Saturday, 25 November
in Adelaide. Details on the event follow, and up-to-date information
is available at:
http://www.auug.org.au/aoss/
Second Australian Open Source Symposium
-----------------------------------------------------------------
What:
The second AUUG conference discussing the state of the art in Open
Source systems development, presented primarily by people actively
engaged in Open Source software development.
When:
Saturday, 25 November 2000, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm.
Where:
Room: BH 2-16, Barbara Hanrahan Building, University of South
Australia (City West Campus), North Terrace, Adelaide 5000. A map
and location details are available at
http://www.unisa.edu.au/maps/citywest.htm
Target audience:
IT professionals, software developers.
Organizer:
The Australian UNIX User Group (AUUG).
Sponsors:
Red Hat Inc and VA Linux Systems.
Cost:
Symposium costs include registration, morning and afternoon teas,
and lunch.
AUUG members: $60
Non-members: $100
Student members $30
Student non-members $50
Save money by becoming a member! Annual membership costs $110 for
full members and $27.50 for students.
All prices include GST.
Registration:
Registration forms are available at
http://www.auug.org.au/aoss/aoss2reg.html (HTML) or
http://www.auug.org.au/aoss/aoss2reg.pdf (PDF). Alternatively
email busmgr at auug.org.au or call AUUG at 1800 625 655.
Registration will also be possible from 8:30 am on the day, but to
ensure your place at this event, we recommend that you register as
soon as possible.
PROGRAMME:
==========
8.30 - 9.00 Registration
9.00 - 9.15 Welcome and Introduction by [Name of Introducer]
9.15 - 9.45 Open Source, Opening Doors
Dan Shearer, Open Source Manager, Tellurian
Tellurian sells software and software consulting. Dan
will discuss what open source is, how it is relevant
to the software industry, and what other sectors of
business the concept might upset next.
9.45 - 10.15 Cutting code in Qantas Club lounges--A new development model?
Richard Sharpe, consultant
Richard's job requires frequent travel. In this talk
he discusses how to use travel time to develop
software.
10.15 - 10.45 Revamping the FreeBSD SMP implementation
Greg Lehey, Linuxcare.
In the wake of the "Mindcraft Benchmarks", the open
source community was shocked to find that there were
some areas where Microsoft could outperform them.
This paper presents the FreeBSD project's reaction to
the challenge, with which Greg was intimately
involved.
10.45 - 11.15 Morning Tea
11.15 - 11.45 Panda
Michael Still
Panda is a library for generating PDF (portable
document format) documents. It has been released for
beta test. Michael, the author, describes the current
status of the package,
11.45 - 12.45 Implementing Network Device Drivers in the Linux kernel
Jay Schulist, TurboLinux
This start to finish presentation on the internals of
Linux network device drivers provides an overview of
how a network driver fits into the Linux network
stack, how to include a driver in the default kernel
configuration and build process and how to develop
device drivers.
12.45 - 1.30 Lunch
1.30 - 2.00 The Katie revision control system
Geoffrey D. Bennett, NetCraft Australia
Katie is an Open Source implementation of ClearCase, a
file system for revision control.
2.00 - 2.30 Perl 6
Kirrily Robert
Kirrily has been involved in the development of the
upcoming release 6 of perl. She discusses the first
few months of Perl 6 development, including the
changes to the Perl community and development process,
the current state of Perl 6's design, and the future
of the project and of Perl itself.
2.30 - 3.00 Presentations: AUUG, ISOC-AU and SAGE-AU
A brief overview of the leading open source
organizations in Australia.
AUUG is the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User
Group, and aims to promote knowledge and understanding
of Open Systems.
ISOC is the Internet Society. It aims to assure the
open development, evolution and use of the Internet
for the benefit of all people throughout the world.
SAGE is the System Administrator's guild. It was
formed to advance the profession of System
Administration.
3.00 - 3.30 Afternoon Tea
4.00 - 4.30 Sweep
Conrad Parker, University of New South Wales
Sweep is a sound editor. This "work in progress"
description includes a quick tour of what it can do,
how to load, view, and edit sounds, an overview of its
architecture, including the file formats supported and
the use of plugins, and using LADSPA plugins with
sweep.
4.30 - 5.00 OSDA
Andrew van der Stock, President, SAGE-AU.
OSDA is a very new, unannounced product. Andrew will
reveal all during this presentation.
5.00 - 5.30 Linux packet filtering
Michael Neuling, RADLogic
Michael will talk about how and why the Linux packet
filtering infrastructure has changed from 2.0 thru to
2.4.
--
* This is list (humbug) general handled by majordomo at lists.humbug.org.au .
* Postings to this list are only accepted from subscribed addresses of
* lists 'general' or 'general-post'.
More information about the General
mailing list