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LCA 2004 started at Wed Jan 14 08:00:00 2004.

Linux.Conf.Au 2004 Conference Programme

Please Note: This programme is subject to change. All speakers have confirmed their availability, but late substitutions may occur due to circumstances beyond our control.

Skip to: Monday, January 12th | Tuesday, January 13th | Wednesday, January 14th | Thursday, January 15th | Friday, January 16th | Saturday, January 17th

Session Type Key

  Break
  LPI ExamExams for LPI certifications 101, 102, 201, 202.
  Advocacy and CommunityNon-technical session, focussing on open-source advocacy and/or our community.
  Conference OrganisationCome to these to maximise your enjoyment.
  Keynote / Special EventSpecial events you shouldn't miss!
  Kernel / Low-levelHighly technical session, focussed on kernel internals, device drivers etc.
  ApplicationsA session that focuses on the use or development of open-source applications.
  ProgrammingA session focussing on programming.

Monday, January 12th

8:00am to
9:00am		 Early-Bird Conference Registration Opens...
Where: Napier Undercroft		 8:00am to
9:00am
9:00am to
12:00pm		 Debian Miniconf
Organiser: Jonathan Oxer
Where: Napier G03		 Audio Miniconf
Organiser: Conrad Parker
Where: Napier LG28		 educationaLinux Miniconf
Organiser: David Lloyd
Where: Napier LG29		 IPv6 Miniconf
Organiser: Trent Lloyd
Where: Napier G04		 Linux and Open Source in Government Miniconf
Organiser: OCGConf Committee
Where: Union Hall		 LPI Exams
Matt Geddes
LPI Exams - choose from 101, 102, 201, 202.
Where: Napier LG24		 9:00am to
12:00pm
12:00pm to
1:00pm		 Lunch Break 12:00pm to
1:00pm
1:00pm to
5:00pm		 Debian Miniconf
Organiser: Jonathan Oxer
Where: Napier G03		 Audio Miniconf
Organiser: Conrad Parker
Where: Napier LG28		 educationaLinux Miniconf
Organiser: David Lloyd
Where: Napier LG29		 IPv6 Miniconf
Organiser: Trent Lloyd
Where: Napier G04		 Linux and Open Source in Government Miniconf
Organiser: OCGConf Committee
Where: Union Hall		 LPI Exams
Matt Geddes
LPI Exams - choose from 101, 102, 201, 202.
Where: Napier LG24		 1:00pm to
5:00pm

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Tuesday, January 13th

8:00am to
9:00am		 Early-Bird Conference Registration Opens...
Where: Napier Undercroft		 8:00am to
9:00am
9:00am to
12:00pm		 Debian Miniconf
Organiser: Jonathan Oxer
Where: Napier G03		 Python Miniconf
Organiser: Andrew Bennetts
Where: Napier LG28		 educationaLinux Miniconf
Organiser: David Lloyd
Where: Napier LG29		 IPv6 Miniconf
Organiser: Trent Lloyd
Where: Napier G04		 Linux and Open Source in Government Miniconf
Organiser: OCGConf Committee
Where: Union Hall		 GNOME.conf.au Miniconf
Organiser: Jeff Waugh (jdub)
Where: Napier LG23		 LPI Exams
Matt Geddes
LPI Exams - choose from 101, 102, 201, 202.
Where: Napier LG24		 9:00am to
12:00pm
12:00pm to
1:00pm		 Lunch Break 12:00pm to
1:00pm
1:00pm to
5:00pm		 Debian Miniconf
Organiser: Jonathan Oxer
Where: Napier G03		 Python Miniconf
Organiser: Andrew Bennetts
Where: Napier LG28		 educationaLinux Miniconf
Organiser: David Lloyd
Where: Napier LG29		 IPv6 Miniconf
Organiser: Trent Lloyd
Where: Napier G04		 Linux and Open Source in Government Miniconf
Organiser: OCGConf Committee
Where: Union Hall		 GNOME.conf.au Miniconf
Organiser: Jeff Waugh (jdub)
Where: Napier LG23		 LPI Exams
Matt Geddes
LPI Exams - choose from 101, 102, 201, 202.
Where: Napier LG24		 1:00pm to
5:00pm
5:00pm to
6:00pm		 Speakers Coaching Session
Speaking for Speakers! Join Garry Arnold from IIT as he works through the tricks of the pros. Garry is a Unix person from long ago but also runs a company that trains trainers. Don't miss, and read here to sign up for a personal coaching session.
Where: Napier LG28		 5:00pm to
6:00pm
6:30pm to
Late		 Speakers Dinner
Speakers only!
Where: A secret location :-)		 6:30pm to
Late

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Wednesday, January 14th

8:00am to
9:00am		 Main Conference Registration...
Where: Napier Undercroft		 8:00am to
9:00am
9:00am to
9:45am		 Conference Welcome and Orientation:
Mostly Harmless
Michael Davies
Find out about where things are, when they'll be happening, how to recognise a surprise, and what to do when the sky falls in on you.
We'll launch the HackFest, and the Sun Regional Delegates Programme National Winner will be announced.
Where: Elder Hall		 9:00am to
9:45am
10:00am to
11:30am		 Hacking Your Own Virtual and Augmented Reality Apps For Fun And Profit!
Wayne Piekarski
Where: Elder Hall		 An overview of Cairo Graphics
Keith Packard
Where: Napier G04		 Administration of NSA Security Enhanced Linux
Russell Coker
Where: Napier LG29		 Advanced PostgreSQL
Gavin Sherry
Where: Napier G03		 10:00am to
11:30am
11:30am to
12:00pm		 Morning Tea Break 11:30am to
12:00pm
12:00pm to
1:30pm		 Hacking Your Own Virtual and Augmented Reality Apps For Fun And Profit! (cont.)
Wayne Piekarski
Where: Elder Hall		 An overview of Cairo Graphics (cont.)
Keith Packard
Where: Napier G04		 Administration of NSA Security Enhanced Linux (cont.)
Russell Coker
Where: Napier LG29		 Advanced PostgreSQL (cont.)
Gavin Sherry
Where: Napier G03		 12:00pm to
1:30pm
1:30pm to
2:30pm		 Lunch Break 1:30pm to
2:30pm
2:30pm to
4:00pm		 PHP Tips and Tricks
Rasmus Lerdorf
Where: Elder Hall		 Developing and Deploying Annodex.net media
Annodex.net Core Team
Where: Napier G04		 The GNOME Platform Libraries
Malcolm Tredinnick
Where: Napier LG29		 Exim Tutorial
Phil Hazel
Where: Napier G03		 2:30pm to
4:00pm
4:00pm to
4:30pm		 Afternoon Tea Break 4:00pm to
4:30pm
4:30pm to
6:00pm		 PHP Tips and Tricks (cont.)
Rasmus Lerdorf
Where: Elder Hall		 Developing and Deploying Annodex.net media (cont.)
Annodex.net Core Team
Where: Napier G04		 The GNOME Platform Libraries (cont.)
Malcolm Tredinnick
Where: Napier LG29		 Exim Tutorial (cont.)
Phil Hazel
Where: Napier G03		 4:30pm to
6:00pm
6:30pm to
8:30pm		 The Oracle Professional Delegates Networking Session
For those who have a ticket.
Where: Adelaide Zoo		 6:30pm to
8:30pm

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Thursday, January 15th

8:00am to
9:00am		 Late Conference Registration...
Where: Napier Undercroft		 8:00am to
9:00am
9:00am to
10:30am		 Keynote: Programmers Are From Mars, Users/Managers/Companies are from Venus
Jon "maddog" Hall
Where: Elder Hall		 9:00am to
10:30am
10:30am to
11:00am		 Morning Tea Break 10:30am to
11:00am
11:00am to
11:45am		 uClinux --- Micro-controller Linux
Greg Ungerer
Where: Elder Hall		 The D-BUS Messaging System
Havoc Pennington
Where: Napier G04		 Could SCO v IBM Happen to You?
Jeremy Malcolm
Where: Napier LG29		 Fixing what's wrong with BIND
Michael Still (Mikal)
Where: Napier G03		 11:00am to
11:45am
12:00pm to
12:45pm		 Exim 4 Process Structure: Why anarchy is better than central control
Phil Hazel
Where: Elder Hall		 "Free Software. Why we did it. The AOL|7 Story"
Graeme Merrall
Where: Napier G04		 Building LSB Compliant Applications
Christopher Yeoh
Where: Napier LG29		 Verified Executables for NetBSD
Brett Lymn
Where: Napier G03		 12:00pm to
12:45pm
12:45pm to
1:45pm		 Lunch Break 12:45pm to
1:45pm
1:45pm to
2:30pm		 Corporate Linux Evangelism: Getting Free Software in through the Front Door
Con Zymaris
Where: Elder Hall		 The Lost Art of Techno-masochism, or Hacking in TeX
Patryk Zadarnowski
Where: Napier G04		 The GStreamer Multimedia Architecture
Steve Baker
Where: Napier LG29		 Infrastructure for User-Level Device Drivers in Linux 2.5
Peter Chubb
Where: Napier G03		 1:45pm to
2:30pm
2:45pm to
3:30pm		 umlsim --- A UML-based simulator
Werner Almesberger
Where: Elder Hall		 distcc: Learning to Fly
Martin Pool
Where: Napier G04		 Reverse Engineering Linux x86 Binaries
Sean Burford
Where: Napier LG29		 LVS: Active-Active Servers and Connection Synchronisation
Simon Horman (Horms)
Where: Napier G03		 2:45pm to
3:30pm
3:30pm to
4:00pm		 Afternoon Tea Break 3:30pm to
4:00pm
4:15pm to
4:45pm		 "Works in Progress" presentations
Where: Elder Hall		 4:15pm to
4:45pm
4:45pm to
5:45pm		 Conference Keysigning
Jonathan Oxer
Join the open-source communities web of trust - just don't forget to bring your passport and drivers licence!
Where: Elder Hall		 4:45pm to
5:45pm
5:45pm to
7:30pm		 Linux Australia AGM
Where: Elder Hall		 5:45pm to
7:30pm

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Friday, January 16th

9:00am to
10:30am		 Keynote: Where Would You Like One Hundred Thousand Users to Go Today?
Bdale Garbee
Where: Elder Hall		 9:00am to
10:30am
10:30am to
11:00am		 Morning Tea Break 10:30am to
11:00am
11:00am to
11:45am		 A Complete College Curriculum using Open Source
Jon "maddog" Hall
Where: Elder Hall		 MySQL RoadMap - what we have now and where we are heading
Arjen Lentz
Where: Napier G04		 Remote Control and Scripting of Gnome Applications with Python
James Henstridge
Where: Napier LG29		 Vinum
Greg "groggy" Lehey
Where: Napier G03		 11:00am to
11:45am
12:00pm to
12:45pm		 PCI: past, present and future
Matthew Wilcox (willy)
Where: Elder Hall		 Design of a High Performance Clustered Storage Architecture for Linux
Richard Sharpe
Where: Napier G04		 RCU vs. Locking Performance on Different CPUs
Paul E. McKenney
Where: Napier LG29		 Using Linux to control your home lighting with C-Bus
Geoffrey D. Bennett
Where: Napier G03		 12:00pm to
12:45pm
12:45pm to
1:45pm		 Lunch Break 12:45pm to
1:45pm
1:45pm to
2:30pm		 Perl 6 in a nutshell
Damian Conway
Where: Elder Hall		 To The Teeth: Arming GNOME for Desktop Success
Jeff Waugh (jdub)
Where: Napier G04		 Libsysfs --- an API to gather device information in Linux
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
Where: Napier LG29		 Linux and Simulated Systems
Dan Shearer
Where: Napier G03		 1:45pm to
2:30pm
2:45pm to
3:30pm		 An inside view of changes in the 2.6 kernel
Jonathan Corbet
Where: Elder Hall		 A tour of my junkcode directory
Andrew "tridge" Tridgell
Where: Napier G04		 php-apd
Jonathan Oxer
Where: Napier LG29		 Grouse and Grep
behoffski
Where: Napier G03		 2:45pm to
3:30pm
3:30pm to
4:00pm		 Afternoon Tea Break 3:30pm to
4:00pm
4:00pm to
6:00pm		 FIXITs/BOFs
Ryan Verner
Where: Napier LG18, LG19, LG23, LG24, LG28, LG29		 4:00pm to
6:00pm
6:30pm to
Late		 The IBM Penguin Dinner
For those who have a ticket.
Where: Adelaide Festival Centre		 6:30pm to
Late

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Saturday, January 17th

10:00am to
11:30am		 Keynote: The state of the Open-Source Desktop
Havoc Pennington
Where: Elder Hall		 10:00am to
11:30am
11:30am to
12:00pm		 Morning Tea Break 11:30am to
12:00pm
12:00pm to
12:45pm		 Maintaining lots of apt-get capable linux machines with apt and getupdates.
Marc Merlin
Where: Elder Hall		 To be advised
Jeremy Allison
Where: Napier G04		 Hunting regressions in GCC
Janis Johnson
Where: Napier LG29		 PIC microcontrollers and Open Source tools
James Cameron
Where: Napier G03		 12:00pm to
12:45pm
12:45pm to
2:25pm		 Lunch Break "The Dunking"
Michael Davies
More details to follow :-)		 12:45pm to
2:25pm
2:25pm to
3:10pm		 A tour of my junkcode directory
Andrew "tridge" Tridgell
Where: Elder Hall		 Could SCO v IBM Happen to You?
Jeremy Malcolm
Where: Napier G04		 Linux and Simulated Systems
Dan Shearer
Where: Napier LG29		 The GStreamer Multimedia Architecture
Steve Baker
Where: Napier G03		 2:25pm to
3:10pm
3:15pm to
4:00pm		 Conference Close:
So long, and thanks for all the fish...
Michael Davies
Debrief, recover, and find out who the Hackfest and FIXIT winners are. Start to plan for next year.
Where: Elder Hall		 3:15pm to
4:00pm

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