Monday, January 15th
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 |
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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