Programme/Conference - linux.conf.au 2007

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Wednesday, January 17th

	Clancy	Mathews A	Mathews B	Mathews C	Mathews D
08:30	Registration
09:00	Good Morning in the Clancy Theatre
09:00	Dr. Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the Clancy Theatre video
10:30	Morning Tea
11:00	The Kernel Report by Jonathan Corbet	Compilers and Factories by Peter Miller	The PulseAudio Sound Server by Lennart Poettering	Albatross: Open UAV Project by John Stowers, Hugo Vincent	Making NFS Suck Faster by Greg Banks
11:40	Break
11:50	clustering tdb - a little database meets big iron by Andrew Tridgell	Managing enterprise data-centers with openQRM by Matt Rechenburg	Gluing a desktop and a kernel together by David Zeuthen	Electronics with Linux by James Cameron	Linux on the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture by Arnd Bergmann
12:30	Lunch
14:00	The Linux kernel hacker generations by Andi Kleen	Desktops on a diet - old pants back on! by Carsten Haitzler	Making Things Move: Finding Inappropriate Uses for Scripting Languages by Jonathan Oxer	Fixing suspend for fun and profit by Matthew Garrett	The ARM backend of LLVM by Rafael Espindola
14:40	Break
14:50	Making Sausage: How the OLPC Machine Was Designed by Jim Gettys	nouveau - reverse engineered nvidia drivers by Dave Airlie	GNU/Linux on handheld gaming devices by Chris McCormick	A new kind of real-time: enterprise real-time by Theodore Ts'o	Digital Preservation - The National Archives of Australia, Open Standards and Open Source by Michael Carden
15:30	Afternoon Tea
16:00	upstart - an event-based init daemon for Linux by Scott James Remnant	Printing A Penguin by Vik Olliver	Darbat: Virtualising a UNIX Kernel by Charles Gray	eat my data: how everybody gets file IO wrong by Stewart Smith	Linux Clusters by Sulamita Garcia
16:40	Break
16:50	X Monitor Hotplugging Sweetness by Keith Packard	How to Build an Open-Source Segway(tm) by Geoffrey D. Bennett	Why does my machine take so long to boot? by Matthew Wilcox	Do man-pages matter? by Michael Kerrisk	Garbage Collection in LogFS by Jörn Engel
17:30	Break
19:00	Professional Delegates Networking Session at the Scientia

Thursday, January 18th

	Mathews A	Mathews B	Mathews C	Mathews D	CLB 1	CLB 2
08:30	Registration
09:00	Routing and IPSEC Lookup Scaling in the Linux Kernel by David S. Miller	Docks, Bays, and Ports : Not just for oceans any more by Kristen Carlson Accardi	Tutorial: GIMP Uncovered: Understanding Images and Image Editing by Akkana Peck	Tutorial: Practical MythTV by Michael Still	Tutorial: Creating Faster and Richer Web Apps with PHP 5 Part A - Part B - by Rasmus Lerdorf	Tutorial: Writing really rad GTK / GNOME applications in C, Python, or Java! by Andrew Cowie, Davyd Madeley
09:40	Break
09:50	Kexec: Soft-Reboot and Crash-Dump Analysis for Linux and Xen by Simon Horman	The OzDMCA: what it means for FOSS by Kimberlee Weatherall
10:30	Morning Tea
11:00	A Matter of Hygiene: Automatic Page Migration for Linux by Lee Schermerhorn	What do you mean, marketing? Promoting open source projects by Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier	Tutorial: Sexy Single Source Design. (Your tool-chain of love) by Andy Fitzsimon	Tutorial: Practical Application of Software Defined Radio by Bdale Garbee	Tutorial: The Hao of testing Part A - Part B - by Robert Collins, Erik de Castro Lopo, Peter Miller	Tutorial: Sugar Tutorial by Christopher Blizzard
11:40	Break
11:50	vNUMA: Virtual Multiprocessors on Clusters of Workstations by Matthew Chapman	Starting an Open Source business by Paul Fenwick
12:30	Lunch
14:00	CFQ IO Scheduler by Jens Axboe	How to Herd Cats and Influence People by Jono Bacon	Tutorial: GStreamer Plugin Development by Jan Schmidt	Tutorial: Linux-HA (heartbeat) release 2 tutorial by Alan Robertson	Tutorial: Building Websites With Django Part A - Part B - by Malcolm Tredinnick	HackFest begins at 2pm Open Day begins at 3pm
14:40	Break
14:50	“How to” Build Custom Microcontroller Projects for Fun and Profit (Well mostly fun) by Ross Smith	Open Source Art by Alexander Reeder
15:30	Afternoon tea will not be served during Open Day
16:00	Improving Desktop Application Discipline - (Or, Spare the Rod, Spoil the Application) by Wade Mealing, Eugene Teo	Lightning Talks hosted by Simon Lyall video	Tutorial: Mozilla Extension Writing Tutorial by Manish Singh	Tutorial: Screencasting HOWTO by Ralph Giles	Key Signing hosted by Jon Oxer
16:40	Break
16:50	kboot - A Boot Loader Based on Kexec by Werner Almesberger
17:30	Open Day begins at 3pm					BoFs
19:00	Open Day Closing Presentations
20:00	Open Day finishes

Friday, January 19th

	Clancy	Mathews A	Mathews B	Mathews C	Mathews D
08:30	Registration
09:00	Good Morning in the Clancy Theatre
09:00	Kathy Sierra in the Clancy Theatre video
10:30	Morning Tea
11:00	Something handwavy about kernel/userspace issues as a distro kernel maintainer. by Dave Jones	Computers, Programs and Logic: What Does Linux Prove? by Patryk Zadarnowski	Native NFSv4 Access Control Lists on Linux by Andreas Gruenbacher	Telepathy: IM/VOIP Communications Framework by Robert McQueen	HTTP-FUSE CLOOP with Software RAID and DNS-Balance for Embedded Linux by Jun Kanai
11:40	Break
11:50	Ext4: The next generation of ext2/3 by Theodore Ts'o	Flumotion: streaming with Python and GStreamer by Thomas Vander Stichele	Puppet: A System Administration Abstraction and Automation Framework by Luke Kanies	Concurrency and Erlang by Andre Pang	Ensuring your device is not supported under Linux: Lessons for hardware vendors by Deepak Saxena
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Writing an x86 hypervisor: all the cool kids are doing it! by Zachary Amsden, Jeremy Fitzhardinge, Rusty Russell, Chris Wright	Supporting a large network? Less is more! Provide redundancy with Linux; Anycast DNS, Failover DHCP, Peering NTP by Kim Hawtin	Do it our way by Robert Collins, Erik de Castro Lopo, Peter Miller	Disk encryption for linux by Marc MERLIN	burning cpu and battery on the gnome desktop by Ryan Lortie
14:40	Break
14:50	Choosing and Tuning Linux File Systems by Valerie Henson	Nothing Can Possibly Go Wrong by Adam Kennedy	AppArmor: Application Security for Linux by Crispin Cowan	Mondo Rescue: A GPL disaster recovery solution by Bruno Cornec	(Para)virtualisation without pain by Peter Chubb
15:30	Afternoon Tea
16:00	Closing Ceremony in the Clancy Theatre
17:30	Break
18:30	Walk to Penguin Dinner from Gate 2
19:00	HP/IBM Penguin Dinner

January 15th - 20th, 2007 University of New South Wales, Australia

Wednesday, January 17th

Thursday, January 18th

Friday, January 19th

January 15th - 20th, 2007
University of New South Wales, Australia