Open Source - AUUG'99
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September 8-10, 1999
Carlton Crest Hotel
65 Queens Rd
Melbourne, Victoria, 3004
Australia

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Dear Delegate,

It is my pleasure to invite you to Open Source AUUG99.

Over the years the annual AUUG Conference has proved to be a valuable learning experience for those who have attended, and has provided an excellent forum in which to share information with peers.

Greg Rose, a previous AUUG President and longstanding member summed it up, "In addition to the interpersonal networking, I always learn something which I can use to do my job better."

This year's conference, once again promises to do just that, through thought provoking presentations by local and international speakers, with a lively exchange of ideas based on the most critical IT issues facing us today. The social events will give you the opportunity to interact directly with your fellow delegates and presenters, where ideas, issues and problems can be freely exchanged.

I would like to thank you all for taking the time to join us, and also to thank the presenters and our sponsors. I look forward to meeting with you in Melbourne.

Dear Delegate,

Open Source software is causing a revolution in the computing landscape. Endless arguments rage about whether the open software process leads to better quality software or not. Companies are re-evaluating business models to see how a profit can be made from a product that is given away. Other corporations are questioning if it is safe to rely of a couple of hundred programmers on the Internet for software support, even if they have an impressive track record. Can commercial software exist in an open source world? Can open source software exist without commercial software?

Unix professionals will recognise that Open Source software is nothing new. In 1971 Unix was an open source product, given away in source form for the price of media. In addition, almost every Internet connected organisation delivers email using Sendmail - guess what: open source!

For this year's AUUG conference we have tried to put together a programme that looks at open source from a variety of angles, from individual open source projects, to experiences with managing an open source project, to open source philosophy.

Of course, the conference is not all open source, and we are glad of the broad reach of expertise in the open systems world represented by our speakers. Topics such as performance management, history of Unix and Internet censorship are covered. We wish to thank the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Systems Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU) for their input to this programme.

Please take a moment to peruse our programme, to see for yourself the important and varied topics we are covering and the superb range of Australian and overseas speakers who will be presenting. I'm sure you will agree that this is a conference you can't afford to miss.

The speakers, topics and times are correct at the time of publishing and in the event of unforeseen circumstances, the Conference Committee of AUUG'99 reserves the right to alter or delete items from the Conference Programme.

Each Delegate named herein, or their later substitute, accepts that the the Conference Committee of AUUG 99, their agents, speakers, chairmen, secretariat or any other persons ("the parties") involved in the preparation of this pamphlet or in the planning or presentation of the conference, do not accept any contractual, tortious or other form of liability for loss or damage suffered by the delegate or their later substitute relying on any statement representation advice or opinion (whether true or otherwise, written or oral) and whether due to the negligence of any of the said parties by this disclaimer of liability to exclude liability, if any, for such statement representation advice or opinion, and that the said party may rely on this disclaimer of liability in the event of any demand claim suit or action brought against any or all of them arising out of any statement representation advice or opinion. The authors have prepared this material for Professional Development purposes. Although they trust that it will be useful for this purpose, neither the authors nor the the Conference Committee of AUUG'99 can warrant that the use of this material, would be adequate to discharge the legal or professional liability of members in the conduct of their practices. AUUG reserves the right to cancel the event.

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