Australian Open Source Symposium 2
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Welcome

The second Australian Open Source Symposium (AOSS 2) will be held in Adelaide on Saturday November 25, 2000. The purpose of this event is to bring together the Australian Open Source community on an annual basis.

AOSS is run by developers, for developers, but other members of the IT community are welcome and will benefit from the ``hands-on'' atmosphere. Our goals are to promote the sharing of information and experience, to give the community a place to interact, and to nurture and harness synergies between Open Source projects.

Just as Open Source is a little different, so is AOSS. The majority of the presenters are actively involved in Open Source development. With few exceptions, they talk about work that they have done, or work which is currently in progress. The majority of the developers are resident in South Australia, demonstrating that Open Source is a global phenomenon.

The first AOSS event was a resounding success. We expect this one to be even better.

Details

The second AUUG conference discussing the state of the art in Open Source systems development, presented primarily by people actively engaged in Open Source software development.

Saturday, 25 November 2000, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm.

Room BH 2-16, Barbara Hanrahan Building,
University of South Australia (City West Campus)
North Terrace
Adelaide 5000.

A map and location details are available.

IT professionals, software developers.

The Australian UNIX User Group (AUUG).

Red Hat Inc and VA Linux Systems.

Symposium costs include registration, morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea:

Members:	$60
Non-members:	$100
Student members	$30
Student non-members	$50

Membership rates apply to members of AUUG, ISOC-AU and SAGE-AU.

Save money by becoming a member of AUUG! Annual membership costs $110 for full members and $27.50 for students.

All prices include GST.

Programme

Registration

Welcome and Introduction

Open Source, Opening Doors
Dan Shearer, Open Source Manager, Tellurian

Tellurian sells software and software consulting. Dan will discuss what open source is, how it is relevant to the software industry, and what other sectors of business the concept might upset next.

Cutting code in Qantas Club lounges--A new development model?
Richard Sharpe, consultant

Richard's job requires frequent travel. In this talk he discusses how to use travel time to develop software.

Revamping the FreeBSD SMP implementation
Greg Lehey, Linuxcare.

In the wake of the "Mindcraft Benchmarks", the open source community was shocked to find that there were some areas where Microsoft could outperform them. This paper presents the FreeBSD project's reaction to the challenge, with which Greg was intimately involved.

Morning Tea

Presentations: AUUG, ISOC-AU and SAGE-AU

A brief overview of the leading open source organizations in Australia.

AUUG is the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group, and aims to promote knowledge and understanding of Open Systems.

ISOC is the Internet Society. It aims to assure the open development, evolution and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world.

SAGE is the System Administrator's guild. It was formed to advance the profession of System Administration.

Implementing Network Device Drivers in the Linux kernel
Jay Schulist, TurboLinux

This start to finish presentation on the internals of Linux network device drivers provides an overview of how a network driver fits into the Linux network stack, how to include a driver in the default kernel configuration and build process and how to develop device drivers.

Lunch

The Katie revision control system
Geoffrey D. Bennett, NetCraft Australia

Katie is an Open Source implementation of ClearCase, a file system for revision control.

Perl 6
Kirrily Robert

Kirrily has been involved in the development of the upcoming release 6 of perl. She discusses the first few months of Perl 6 development, including the changes to the Perl community and development process, the current state of Perl 6's design, and the future of the project and of Perl itself.

Panda
Michael Still

Panda is a library for generating PDF (portable document format) documents. It has been released for beta test. Michael, the author, describes the current status of the package,

Afternoon Tea

Sweep
Conrad Parker, University of New South Wales

Sweep is a sound editor. This "work in progress" description includes a quick tour of what it can do, how to load, view, and edit sounds, an overview of its architecture, including the file formats supported and the use of plugins, and using LADSPA plugins with sweep.

OSDA
Andrew van der Stock, President, SAGE-AU.

OSDA is a very new, unannounced product. Andrew will reveal all during this presentation.

Linux packet filtering
Michael Neuling, RADLogic

Michael is a co-author of IPChains. His presentation will detail the influences on packet filtering for the Linux Kernel from 2.0 to 2.4. It will highlight the effect of the Open Source methodology in the development of this code.

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