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Linuxconf.Au Needs Papers & Join In 55

We usually don't post stories about specific shows and such, but since I'm hoping to attend this one, and it will be a continent I've never been, I thought folks would like to know that Linux.conf.au is going to be happening February 6-9, in Brisbane, Australia. They've got the call for papers up and everything -- hope to see you there.
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  • See ya there hemos! ;D

    Will there be free beer?
  • It seems pretty strange that they called themselves linux.conf.au when they didn't even get 'linux.conf.au' (it's possible to get .conf.au [aunic.net] for free.)

    Aye, I'm a picky bastard, alright.

    • Actually we did have .conf.au for this year's conference. Unfortunately with .au being handed over from Robert Elz to auDA neither party was interested in looking at this domain while they sorted out their differences.
  • by ksp ( 203038 ) on Sunday October 28, 2001 @06:55AM (#2489320) Homepage
    "and it will be a continent I've never been."

    When you start to feel like you are a continent you may have to go on a diet...


  • Where CSEE department becomse ITEE department for the sake of Marketing and misguided e-mail, with no input from the student body. How do you think the engineers feel? Oh, and make sure those papers submitted are original, you wouldn't want to be caught for excessive collusion.

    --

    0x00

    Disclaimer: I am not bitter.
  • by Anonymous Coward
    Too bad they don't accept microsofts .doc
    format for the papers.
    Now I don't know how to submit.
  • We're also hoping to run a small Debian Conference for the Asia-Pacific Debian developers and users. It'll be pretty informal; we're asking people who would like to talk about a subject to also email lca-cfp_AT_linux.org.au. See this [linux.org.au] for more information. It'll be on the Monday and Tuesday, with LCA 2002 starting on the Wednesday.
  • by Anonymous Coward
    I expect that will be an interesting conference, and well worth attending. Seeing as any self-respecting Doctor of Comp Sci, or even any reasonably accomplished graduate student would be not only willing, but eager to contribute to a conference about a single operation system based on the oldest OS paradigm still extant upon the earth, I can't imagine any reason for this conference to be a disappointment.

    Considering the valuable area of research that linux constitutes not only to OS researchers, but to compter science as a whole, I can see this conference being much, much more than just a self-congratulatory exercise in advocacy. Truly, lunix.conf.au is further proof that the world isn't losing faith in free software.

    It is vitally important that anyone with a shred of useful linux knowledge show their support either by attending, or providing their knowledge in a paper or seminar. I'll certainly be heading to Vienna for this! Hopefully I will see you there.
  • by zmooc ( 33175 )
    My girlfriend is in .au for six months and I'm going there just exactly then. Stupid priorities;)
  • by Stonehead ( 87327 ) on Sunday October 28, 2001 @08:29AM (#2489401)
    Another conference that will be held soon (on November 8) is the Dutch NLUUG autumn conference 2001 [nluug.nl] (in Dutch). This year, the theme is "Unix and the desktop", with speakers on general GNOME, KDE, KOffice and security topics, and Jordan Hubbard! (probably about Mac OS X :))
    Wietse Venema (known from the famous tcp wrappers) stale the show last year. I will certainly be there again this time :)
  • by Anonymous Coward
    ... try Lonely Planet [lonelyplanet.com]

    Brisbane Tourism [brisbanetourism.com.au]

    travel info [uq.edu.au]

    Drool sheets [uq.edu.au]

    local W3C node [w3.org]

    A rather interesting fact ... they recently put on HPCAsia 2001 [qpsf.edu.au] where they revealed that Brisbane has not one, but THREE Virtual Reality facilities (UQ, QMI, Boeing). According to their blurb [uq.edu.au], they're involved in the Japanese Whole Earth Simulator (4 Teraflops), something called a Virtual Reef, as well as using it for designing their scramjets [uq.edu.au]. Actually after rummaging around the AUUG website [auug.org.au] a more interesting workshop to attend would be their security symposium [auug.org.au] in Nov.

  • I was in Australia last christmas and discovered from Alan's diary that he was going to be a keynote speaker. I was due to fly out of Sydney on the day before the conference, but managed to delay my flight for a couple of days. They had managed to get some very good speakers, including Alan, Maddog, Tridge, Rasterman and many other top developers. This year it will be in Brisbane (a great city) but a hell of a long way from the UK, so I don't expect to be going again :-(

    HH
  • I live in Brisbane, and I must say this is bloody fantastic. I'm a student and travel is out of my scope for the time being; I've been hanging out for a decent sized Linux event for a long time. I will definitely be there.

    Does anyone know who is going to be speaking or any other details? I checked the site [linux.org.au] and I couldn't find any specifics as yet.

  • I'm a developer on the FlightGear project, and living in Brisbane. I'd like to be able to do a Work-in-progress session, but I'm not sure exactly what this sort of thing means. Has anyone done these before, and could give me some advice? We have all sorts of unique features and we need more developers, so this could be quite useful. Thanks

    David

    • I'm not sure if there's an official WIP slot: you could certainly do a BoF, or go the whole hog and submit a talk...

      Rusty.

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