From: Conrad Parker <conrad@vergenet.net> To: lwn@lwn.net Subject: fourth Australian Open Source Symposium Call for Papers Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 11:20:08 +1000 AOSS 4 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The fourth Australian Open Source Symposium (AOSS 4) will be held in Sydney on Saturday July 20, 2002. Previous AOSS events were held in Melbourne (1999), Adelaide (2000) and Canberra (2001). AOSS is run by developers, for developers. Our goals are to promote the sharing of information and experience, give the community a place to interact, and nurture and harness synergies between Open Source projects. Just as Open Source is a little different, so is AOSS. While we welcome formal papers, we are actively encouraging informal (but well prepared) presentations that are both timely and interesting. We know that Open Source changes fast, and that developers would rather write code than papers. AOSS generally involves short presentations, by developers, of: * existing open source projects * works in progress * cool and bizarre feats of coding In addition to these technical presentations, for AOSS4 we are seeking presentations related to the management of open source projects, such as: * designing for portability * testing and verification methods * caring about application usability * methods for handling users, flamers and groupies Typical AOSS presentations are 30 minutes in duration; please indicate if you require a longer session. TIMETABLE: Abstracts (around 100 words) are due Monday May 20, 2002. PRESENTERS WILL RECEIVE FREE REGISTRATION Please email submissions to aoss@auug.org.au. AOSS 4 is proudly supported by AUUG Inc, UNSW, the UNSW Gelato project, SLUG, and BUGS. AUUG Website: http://www.auug.org.au Ph: 1-800-625 655 UNSW Gelato project web site: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/