From: Conrad Parker <conrad@slug.org.au>
To: lwn@lwn.net
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:38:26 +1100
Subject: linux.conf.au, Sydney 17-20 Jan 2001

Hi,

Here's the latest info on linux.conf.au, which is now only three weeks
away. Readers in Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere had better make
sure to arrange their travel and be sure to bring adequate sunscreen
and beachwear. The weather at nearby Coogee Beach has been brilliant
recently!

linux.conf.au (Sydney, 17-20 Jan 2001) is a conference focussing purely
on the technical issues of developing and using Linux and Free Software.
It is being organised by volunteers from the Sydney Linux Users Group
and the University of New South Wales, under the umbrella of Linux
Australia. Dozens of the world's leading Linux experts are coming
to Australia to present their work, demonstrate their skills, and meet
the locals.

Online registration for linux.conf.au is now available at:

        http://linux.conf.au/register/online/

Use this URL for immediate, secure payment of your conference
registration via credit card.

For pricing details, and for payment via cheque or money order, see

        http://linux.conf.au/register/

Please ensure that you register promptly as there is a limit of 500
attendees and places are filling quickly. If you leave it to the last
minute you may well miss out on your chance to attend.

Speakers include:

    John 'maddog' Hall of Linux International (dinner speaker)

    Alan Cox (England): kernel guru, outlining secret plans for 2.4
    Dave Miller (USA): kernel networking guru
    Andrew Tridgell (Australia): creator of samba, rsync,, hacking TiVo
    Wayne Piekarski (Australia): Augmented reality on Linux wearables
    Rik van Riel (NL, in Brazil): kernel memory management
    Craig Southeren (Australia): OpenH323 videoconferencing
    David Huggins-Daines (USA): Linux on the PA/RISC architecture
    Stephane Eranian (USA): IA64 Linux hacking
    Anton Blanchard (Australia): got Linux running on the Sun E10k !
    Richard Gooch (Australia, in Canada): devfs, and a new init system
    Andrew Morton (Australia): Low Latency Linux
    Martin Pool (Australia): rproxy -- rsync caching over http
    Rusty (Australia): netfilter, apt-proxy, gzip --rsyncable
    Horms (Australia, in USA): distributed content & high availability
    Rasterman (Australia, in USA): Enlightenment, hardware accelerated X11
    John Ryland (Australia): Qt/Embedded  
    George Lebl (USA): Bonobo (the GNOME component model)
    Dave Sifry (USA): Calendaring (GCTP, OpenFlock)
    Matthew Wilcox (USA): Leases & Directory notification
    John Goebel (USA): Cluster administration, Global filesystem
    Daniel Phillips (Germany): The Tux2 failsafe filesystem
    Neil Brown (Australia): Linux RAID
    Manish 'yosh' Singh (USA): Gimp 2.0 internals (GEGL)
    Wichert Akkerman (Netherlands): Debian project leader


and that's just to whet your appetite -- there's about 50 different
topics and tutorials on offer, so make sure you check it out as there's
bound to be _something_ (or, lots of things!) that interest you. Check
out

        http://linux.conf.au/schedule/

for a peek at the schedule and

        http://linux.conf.au/papers/

for some more detail about the topics being presented. As you can see
there are a large number of excellent Linux developers attending from
all corners of the world including some of the best kernel, networking,
multimedia and desktop hackers around.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Conrad.

-- 
linux.conf.au: 17-20 January 2001, UNSW Kensington, Sydney
Organising Committee: lca-organisers@lists.linux.org.au