The complete schedule has now been released, and the conference is only 3 weeks away, so I am staring at the impossible task of deciding what not to go to. Here’s my initial thoughts:

Sunday 18th

Newcomers welcome

Monday 19th

09:30-10:20 MythNetTV
10:40-11:30 Transcoding in MythTV
11:40-12:30 MythTV Internals
13:50-14:40 How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love ACPI
15:10-15:40 Mobile Experience with Linux – Android Internals & Prototype
16:00-16:50 Rails Deployment In The Enterprise – Transmitting A Litle Experience
17:00-17:50 Ask a Kernel Hacker Panel

Tuesday 20th

09:30-10:20 Nested KVM
10:40-11:10 Future directions for Copyright Law
11:10-11:30 OpenAustralia – Everyday democracy for everybody in Australia
11:40-12:30 UNDECIDED DRBD – Database agnostic synchronous replication for everyone! || Google and IPv6
13:50-14:15 Database backed DNS systems
14:15-14:50 Keeping On Trac
14:50-15:40 SE Linux in Lenny
16:00-16:50 Rootless Reality
17:00-17:50 The Great Debate – Panel on security futures

Wednesday 21st

09:30-10:20 Keynote 1 – Tom Limoncelli
10:40-11:30 Introducing the Re-Built Linux Desktop
11:40-12:30 UNDECIDED From click to pixel: A tour of the Linux graphics pipeline || Use the Fork Luke! || Subversion Scaling at Google
13:50-15:40 UNDECIDED What Makes the Lizard Roar? A Tour through Mozilla Architecture || Introduction to Django
16:00-16:50 Joining the mob: the kernel development process
17:00-17:50 Cross-distro collaboration: packaging with modern version control systems

Thursday 22nd

09:30-10:20 Keynote 2 – Angela Beesley
10:40-11:30 User love and how to get it through good documentation
11:40-12:30 Contributing to WebKit
13:50-15:40 Designing for usability, usefulness, and unit-testing
16:00-16:50 UNDECIDED Where the future lies: OpenOffice.org and the ODF in the world || Spring – A robotics and automation toolkit for research and industry
17:00-17:50 The Linux-powered Robot Clarinet

Friday 23rd

09:30-10:20 Keynote 3 – Simon Phipps
10:40-11:30 Solid State Drives
11:40-12:30 UNDECIDED Untangling device drivers || Awesome things you’ve missed in Perl
13:50-14:40 Power management that works
14:50-15:40 UNDECIDED Geek My Ride || Champagne usability on a beer budget || Shatter: Fixing X on large displays and/or small hardware
16:00-16:50 System Administration in a Large-Scale Linux Web-Hosting Environment
17:00-17:50 Conference Close/Lightning Talks/BOFs

Saturday 24th

Open day!


  1. looks like we’ll see each other on tuesday, and not much elsewhere

  2. SimSim

    So much for blogging about the seminars you went to and what they were about!!




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