[H-GEN] linux.conf.au

Martin Pool mbp at linuxcare.com.au
Sun Jan 21 23:06:50 EST 2001


l.c.a. was huge!  Excellent technical content, organization, and
people.

The location for next year is not yet set.  Perhaps HUMBUG would like
to host it in Brisbane?

> 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.
> 
> -- 
> linux.conf.au: 17-20 January 2001, UNSW Kensington, Sydney
> Organising Committee: lca-organisers at lists.linux.org.au
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Martin Pool, Linuxcare, Inc.
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