Australian Open Source Symposium 4
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Welcome

The fourth Australian Open Source Symposium (AOSS 4) will be held in Sydney on Saturday, 20 July 2002. AOSS is an annual gathering of the Australian Open Source community.

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 local residents, demonstrating that Open Source is a global phenomenon.

Previous AOSS events were resounding successes. We expect this one to be even better.

Details

The fourth 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, 20 July 2002, 8:30 am to 5:30 pm.

Level 1, Building K17, CSE (School of Computer Science and Engineering)
University of New South Wales
Sydney

A map and location details are available. Building K17 is at K17 on the grid on this map, which calls it ``Geography and Surveying''.

IT professionals, software developers.

The Australian UNIX User Group (AUUG).

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, BUGS, SLUG, 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.

Registration

Preliminary programme

Registration

Welcome and Introduction

Serel
Leni Mayo

Serel adds synchronisation and integrity-checking to the operating system "service startup" phase, allowing a computer's services to start in parallel. Without parallelism, "service startup" is typically the most time-consuming part of the boot process.

rdesktop
Matt Chapman

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services, capable of speaking Microsoft's proprietary Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).

Bitkeeper
Peter Chubb

Come and find out what Peter Chubb means by his current sig, "You are lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same.", as he talks his experience with BitKeeper as he works on the Linux source code.

Morning Tea

The Trivial Database Replication System
Liam Widdowson

The Trivial Database Replication System is an open source database engine that allows UNIX systems to utilise a distributed, replicated, peer-to-peer DBM style database.

In this paper, Liam describes the initial design goals and the internal architecture of the software. The database access API will also be discussed. Additionally, a case study will be used to demonstrate possible applications.

The libsndfile test suite.
Erik de Castro Lopo

Erik will talk about the ideas behind, the implications of and the implementation of libsndfile's test suite as well as giving a very brief introduction to autogen.

Lunch

distcc
Martin Pool, HP

distcc is a program which speeds up software builds by distributing the build across multiple machines.

Big Blue Penguins
Martin Schwenke

IBM and open source sound like non-overlapping spaces. Martin works with IBM's Linux Technology Center in Canberra and tells us what it's like inside.

Afternoon Tea

Large page support in the Linux kernel
Lucy Chubb, Gelato project

The IA64 hardware currently provides support for page sizes of up to 256MB, but there is limited support to use any of this capability within Linux. Tests with other hardware/operating system combinations have shown that there is potential for significant speedups by using large pages, which reduce the cost of TLB miss processing. Lucy will talk about the work in progress within the UNSW Gelato project to implement superpages in IA64 Linux.

Testing? What testing?
Peter Miller

This talk presents a simplistic yet powerful model of what a test is. When you intend to test your software, you have to design your software to be testABLE. The talk will examine attributes of software implied by this model. Some examples of automated testing will be given.

SwapBox
Duraid Madina

SwapBox is a network-attached storage device optimized to act as high performance swap space.

INFORMATION DISCLAIMER

The speakers, topics and times are correct at the time of publishing. In the event of unforeseen circumstances, AUUG Inc. reserves the right to alter or delete items from the Programme.

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