AUUG 2001 - Always On and Everywhere

Keynote and Invited Speakers

Robert Hart

Robert was educated in the UK, gaining his aeronautics degree from the University of London.  He then worked in thermodynamics/fluid mechanics research in Australia before moving into academia and then to IT management.

Robert has been involved in Linux since 1993, when he first started deploying Linux servers.  He has been a user of Red Hat Linux since version 1.0 and worked as a consultant for Red Hat (on commercial support and training issues) during 1997.  He moved to North Carolina in Feb 1998 as Manager, support services for Red Hat, moving to California as Director, Technical Alliances in Nov 1998, with responsibility for the technical relationships with Red Hat's strategic partners.

Robert returned home to Australia in mid-August and is responsible for Red Hat's relationships with its partners throughout the Asia Pacific region.

Kimberley Heitman

Kimberley is:

• Chairperson, Electronic Frontiers Australia (Inc)
• Spokesperson, WA Internet Association (Inc)
• Group Legal Counsel, iiNet Limited
• Board member, ISPs, Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman Limited
• Board member, Rep Assoc, Australian Domain Administration Limited (auDA)
• Non-Executive Director, AdultShop.Com Limited
• Associate, Australian Computer Society
• Member, WA Society for Computers and the Law
• Member, Law Society of WA

Dr Rob Kolstad

Rob has worked in the system administration world for almost 25 years.  Co-editor of USENIX's ;login: magazine, he also coaches the USA Computing Olympiad programming team.  He makes his livelihood consulting on web-site and large-list e-mail automation issues.

Rob Kolstad's visit is sponsored by the USENIX Association. 

System Administration as a Profession: Tough Challenges

System administration is not achieving the goals that make it a "profession".  This talk discusses:

• Who sysadmins are (from several points of view)
• What they know (and how we know that)
• The state of certain parts of the profession
• Who is working "for" sysadmins
• Barriers to success for sysadmins

and finally

• The challenges to be met to move system administrators to the professional status they deserve

Evi Nemeth

Evi is a member of the computer science faculty at the University of Colorado and a part-time researcher at CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis at the University of California in San Diego.

She is a co-author of the UNIX System Administration Handbook, now in the 3rd edition.

At CAIDA, Evi heads the IEC project (Internet Engineering Curriculum) to develop a repository of teaching materials for networking and Internet related courses.

Peter Salus

Peter H. Salus is the author of A Quarter Century of UNIX (1994) and other works.  Though he was a friend of John Lions, and knows Greg Rose and others, he has never been to Australia

The Importance of the Users in UNIX/Linux history

From the earliest `escape' of Unix from Bell Labs in 1973, users all over the world have been vital to its growth and development.  Since 1984, this has continued in the GNU project, and over the past decade in Linux and the `open source' movement.

Andrew Tridgell

Andrew Tridgell is probably best known as the author of Samba, Andrew also works on a number of other pieces of free software including rsync, JitterBug, KnightCap and the ports of Linux to the Fujitsu AP series of parallel computers.

Holding an unusual place in the open source world, Samba lives on the boundary between the traditional Microsoft dominated computing world and the emerging open source community.  It is not uncommon for Samba to be the first open source application to be used by a company, thus opening the way to the open source revolution.

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