AUUG is proud to announce the 2005 Unix Developers Symposium, to be held in Adelaide on 2 and 3 June 2005.  Attendees will be accomplished programmers who wish to develop software for UNIX-like systems using open source tools.  We are planning two concurrent streams.  One stream will be aimed at programmers who have little or no experience with UNIX, and wish to learn the UNIX philosophy, environment and tools; the other will be aimed at developers who already have significant experience programming for UNIX, and wish to learn new or advanced tools and techniques.

The tutorial programme for the “Newcomers” stream will comprise four 90 minute presentations, which will give attendees a solid understanding of the mechanics of developing for UNIX.  The Programme Committee invites proposals for this stream covering the following topics:

• Introduction to the UNIX environment
• Shells and scripting
• make and gcc
• Debugging with gdb

The Programme Committee also invites proposals for tutorials and papers for the advanced stream.  The following list of topics is intended to illustrate the direction of the conference, but papers on other related topics will be considered:

• Shells and scripting languages
• Editors
• Programming languages
• Build tools (e.g.; make)
• Version control
• Debugging programs
• Writing graphical programs
• Integrated development environments
• Kernel programming and debugging
• Network programming

This is an opportunity for you to help foster and strengthen the open source developers community in Australia.

Tutorials can be 90 or 180 minutes long, and papers should be 45 minutes, including time for questions.  For all presentations we prefer a written paper or tutorial notes, for inclusion in the conference proceedings.

Submission Guidelines

Those proposing to submit papers should submit an abstract and a brief biography, and indicate whether their paper is intended for the Newcomers or the Advanced stream.  Those submitting tutorial proposals should submit an outline of the tutorial and a brief biography, should indicate whether their paper is intended for the Newcomers or the Advanced stream, and should clearly indicate the duration of their presentation.

Please send proposals or questions to the Programme Committee at developers2005@auug.org.au.

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