Conference Programme
Please note: The conference programme may change at any point leading up to and/or during the conference. Please check this page for the latest information about the programme.
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Programmer Tools and Methodology |
Systems Administration |
User Experience |
Deep Kernel Hacking |
General Interest Kernel |
Cool Stuff |
Free Culture |
Tutorial |
Pre-conference Activities
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These events aren't part of the conference proper, but might be of interest to people arriving early, or those who live in Sydney.
FOMS
The first "Foundations of Open Media Software" Developer Meeting will be held on the Thursday and Friday before linux.conf.au 2007, and aims to get the right people together to take the next steps in open media software. Meet and discuss your plans for the next 12 months with other developers and forge relationships to unwind the kinks, making open media kick ever more arse!
Twisted
Twisted will be having a sprint and a meetup on the weekend before linux.conf.au 2007. TwistedMicroConf will have the details.
Sunday, January 14th
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Settling in
Sunday is all about getting there and getting settled. For those who don't know their way around UNSW, download the PDF map.
The colleges are located in the bottom left, and the Conference venues are the upper right near the Chancellery Building.
The Sir John Clancy Auditorium will be used for the larger talks while Mathews A, Mathews B, Mathews C and Mathews D inside the Mathews Theatres building will be used for most of the other talks. Also CLB 1 and CLB 2 will be utilised.
Around campus
In the afternoon, keep your eye out for groups of hackers huddled around access points, hurling Frisbees around the village green, or in the region of the conf venue.
Dinner at the Lowenbrau
For those that will be in town and looking for food, Steve Walsh (clug_man on irc.freenode.net) has organised a group booking at the Lowenbrau Keller, a German beer hall located in the Rocks area of Sydney. If you didn't get back to him before the 23rd of December, don't worry, the venue is keeping 30-50 seats aside for people to come along and join in, but you will need to order off the ala-carte menu.
If you did RSVP and sent through the deposit, and you're a vegetarian, shoot Steve an Email by the 10th of January, so he can let the venue know.
On the night, you want to catch either the route 392 or 394 bus that departs from the NIDA side of Anzac parade. Both routes reach the stop at about the same time, between 6.40pm and 6.45pm. When you get to Circular Quay, walk up the hill to Harrington Street, then walk towards the Harbour Bridge until you get to Argyle Street. The Lowenbrau Keller is half way up the hill on the right hand side.
Monday, January 15th
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Mathews A |
Mathews B |
Under Pav 1 |
Mathews D |
Mathews C |
Under Pav 2 |
Under Pav 3 |
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08:00 |
Registration |
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09:30 |
Welcome to linux.conf.au 2007 in the Clancy Theatre |
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10:30 |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 |
The DPL's "State of the Project" Address by Anthony Towns |
Welcome to GNOME.conf.au 2007 by Davyd Madeley & Superswitcher and other wnckery by Nigel Tao |
Open Source in Australian Education - Trends and Examples by Pia Waugh |
Qtopia Greenphone by Ian Walters and Rhys Weatherley |
Welcome to mysql.conf.au by Arjen Lentz, Stewart Smith, Colin Charles & Know your Storage Engines by Arjen Lentz |
Building an Enterprise-Scale Database for RDF Data by Andrae Muys |
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11:50 |
An Update on HP's Relationship With Debian by Bdale Garbee |
Using Avahi the "Right Way" by Trent Lloyd & Lennart Poettering |
Lorien Novalis School: A Case Study by Stuart Rushton |
A solar powered blue-tooth enabled, embedded video capture device by Jamie Honan |
10 Do's and Dont's for MySQL Cluster by Jonathon Coombes |
Panel Session by Chris Samuel & Gernot Heiser |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Copyright and copyleft, looking at ways to understand the DMCA by Janet Hawtin |
Adventures in Linux on Programmable Logic Devices by Dr John Williams |
UML, kvm, and Hardare Virtualization by Jeff Dike |
Self-healing databases: managing schema updates in the field by Jonathan Oxer |
Factors affecting adoption of Open source software by individuals by Alison Young & Computational Modelling of Hydrological Impacts by Ole Neilsen |
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14:50 |
Security improvements needed in Debian by Russell Coker |
Synchronization and GNOME - How can all apps just get along? by John Stowers |
Teaching to Learning ... empowering the learner to think, analyse, and engage by Richard Weideman |
Trials and tribulations of building embedded devices by Mike Cornelius and Mark Phillips |
OS Circulation Environment "Trusted HTTP-FUSE Xenoppix" by Kuniyasu Suzaki and colleagues |
Optimizing Stored Procedures by Guy Harrison |
A limited review of the available Free / Libre and Open Source Academic Literature, as of late 2006 by Darren Skidmore |
15:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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16:00 |
Systems Administration with User Packages by Andrew McMillan |
INGOTs - A Three Country Perspective by Clair Adams, Graham Lauder, Bryant Patten |
Monitoring Linux Guests in a Virtualized Environment by Randy Levensalor |
Refactoring a production database by Morgan Tocker |
XMDS by Clinton Roy |
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16:50 |
Autobuilding Live CDs by Holger Levsen |
Stories from Korea - open source software in schools by Kathryn Moyle and Ian Ralph |
Case Study: Demo Hosting with Virtual Machines by Jason Nicholls |
MySQL troubleshooting by Laura Thomson |
ASK-OSS by Pia Waugh |
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17:30 |
Close |
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Tuesday, January 16th
Please click through to all daily schedule information including blurbs and bios for each miniconf. This is just a simply guide to help you get the most from your miniconf experience.
Mathews A |
Mathews B |
Under Pav 1 |
Under Pav 3 |
Mathews C |
Under Pav 2 |
Mathews D |
Under Pav 4 |
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08:00 |
Registration |
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09:00 |
Good Morning in the Clancy Theatre |
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Chris Blizzard in the Clancy Theatre |
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10:30 |
Morning Tea |
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11:00 |
Jokosher: The GNOME approach to audio production by Jono Bacon |
Navigating the OSS CMS World by Julie Kosakowski |
Introduction by Tim Ansell |
Getting started with PostgreSQL & A Case Study of PostgreSQL |
National Archives of Australia use of OOo as a plugin to their Xena software for conversion of Office formats to ODF for preservation purposes by Michael Carden |
Welcome and introduction by Mary Gardiner & Is Free Software a Macho thing? Women and FOSS by Sulamita Garcia |
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11:50 |
fast user-switching, multi-seat and other hard problems by David Zeuthen |
Show and Tell: The Pedagogical Arguments for FOSS by Donna Benjamin |
FOSS License for Content Developers by Brendan Scott |
Deep Kernel Hacking by Lee Schermerhorn |
The PostgreSQL Professional |
Bug Fixing for Non Programmers by Akkana Peck |
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12:30 |
Lunch |
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14:00 |
Its a fact, GNOME gets re-branded everywhere (what can we do for a smart sexy gnome) by Andy Fitzsimon |
Mahara: putting thought into ePortfolios by Penny Leach |
Love and Algorithmically Generated Content by Chris McCormick |
Experiences of an author preparing a manuscript for publication using OOo by Michael Still & Update on Google Summer of Code - OOo Projects by Leslie Hawthorn |
De-mystifying PCI by Kristen Carlson Accardi |
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14:50 |
The New WeatherApplet by James Andrewartha |
LAMS 2.0: Modular activity tools for e-learning workflows by Mitchell Seaton |
Wesnoth for Kernel Hackers (and everyone else) by Rusty Russell |
Lightning updates |
An Introduction to PostgreSQL internals |
Using the Software Development Kit by Jim Watson |
Lightning talks and demonstrations chaired by Stephanie Miller |
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15:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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16:00 |
Managing Debian's Mailing Lists by Pascal Hakim |
A love-hate relationship: lessons learned while re-engineering the Java bindings for GTK and GNOME by Andrew Cowie |
Lightning Talks |
Why it didn't fly - Game Dev BoF Post Mortem by Lee Begg |
PostgreSQL Internals cont'd |
Base - using databases in OpenOffice.org by Jonathon Coombes |
Social networking for fun and profit by Jacinta Richardson & Closing the Gender Pay Gap One Salary at a Time by Val Henson |
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16:50 |
Release Early, Release Often, ... Release Always? by Robert Collins |
EGG, a very simple GNOME API for Python by Pete Ryland |
Moodle - an overview of an open source platform for collaborative learning by Martin Dougiamas |
Suspend & Resume to RAM repair workshop |
PostgreSQL Internals continued |
Q&A, demonstrations |
Discussion session: Women and negotiation |
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17:30 |
Linux Australia Annual General Meeting in Mathews A |
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19:00 |
Conference Party at the Roundhouse |
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Wednesday, January 17th
Thursday, January 18th
Friday, January 19th
Saturday, January 20th
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An unstructured day for hanging out with friends, checking out the beach and hacking on all the things you dreamed up during the conference. Please note, the conference venue will be closed on Saturday.
Ideas for Saturday activities
- Hacking!
- Visit Coogee beach
Aikido demonstration (map to dojo)
Symphony in the Domain: from Barber to Bernstein (map of the Domain): The event is free but crowded, people usually take along picnic blankets to claim their spot and picnic supplies for sustenance. It's worth taking a raincoat and good bags to shove everything into; getting out of the Domain events in a downpour is always slow and entertaining.
Post-conference Activities
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These events aren't part of the conference proper, but might be of interest to people staying in Sydney a few extra days, or those who live in Sydney.
Events in Sydney Jan 14-20 (during conference)
See Meetups and OutAndAbout.
Free software-related groups and activities in Sydney Jan 21–28
Sydney LinuxChix meeting, Monday 22nd January, 2007, 5:30pm–6:30pm, St Leonards. Women interested in Linux or Free Software welcome.
Sydney Linux Users Group meeting, Monday 22nd January, 2007, 6:30pm–9:30pm, St Leonards. A lot of the Sydney linux.conf.au attendees and movers and shakers are SLUG members, and if you're staying in Sydney for a few more days it would be a good way to supplement your Free Software exposure for the trip. Info on this meeting is available at http://www.slug.org.au/node/55
Social events for attendees Jan 21–28
Linuxchix miniconf social activity: Blue Mountains trip, Sunday 21st January, 2007.
Mountain Bike ride - probably held on Sunday January 21st after the conference. Most likely venue: Royal National Park (at the southern end of Sydney). Contact Brendan if you're interested, and he'll add you to the list.
Even though Robert Collins won't be in the country, his tradition of the Sunday Yum Cha continues on the 21st. Anyone interested contact Lynne by no later than 10am Sunday please. We meet at around midday at Paddy McGuires Irish Pub at the Capitol Theatre in Central. (Follow the tram lines from Central station). Then it's on to Golden Harbour Restaurant in China Town for a 1pm Yum Cha (Dim Sum). After that? There are many things to do on a relaxed Sunday afternoon in the city!
Other events in Sydney Jan 21–28
Big Day Out music festival, Thursday 25th January, 2007. The Big Day Out is a big touring rock festival, this year featuring Tool, Muse, Jet and others. The Sydney show sold out in late 2006.
Australia Day, Friday 26th January, 2007. Australia Day is an annual public holiday, set on the anniversary of Arthur Phillip's and the First Fleet's landing at Sydney Cove in 1788. There will be various parades and events in the city centre, and on Sydney Harbour, check the website for details.
Kasabian show, Friday 26th January, 2007. Kasabian are touring and playing at the Enmore Theatre. $57.
Opera in the Domain (map of the Domain), Saturday January 27th, 2007: The event is free but crowded, people usually take along picnic blankets to claim their spot and picnic supplies for sustenance. It's worth taking a raincoat and good bags to shove everything into; getting out of the Domain events in a downpour is always slow and entertaining.
Sydney Festival events. The Sydney Festival is a month-long cultural festival in January. Events on after lca include: The Lost and Found Orchestra, Uncle Vanya and A Midsummer Night's Dream. See the free events too.
Sydney has a tradition of outdoor movie screenings in summer. The Moonlight Cinema is not far from UNSW.