Linux Conference Melbourne 2008

[Jan Smith]

Hi All

An update on next years Australasian Linux Conference.  The conference
will be held at Melbourne University from 28Jan - 02Feb.

(OzZope Zope 3 sprinters sprinted in the adjacent Trinity College)

One of the keynote speakers will be Bruce Schneier, author and
security technologist.

>From Bruce Schneier's website
"His first bestseller, Applied Cryptography, explained how the arcane
science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as
"the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published."
His book on computer and network security, Secrets and Lies, was
called by Fortune "[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually
use." His current book, Beyond Fear, tackles the problems of security
from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate
security, national security."

Linux.conf.au 2008 Call For Presentations - submission deadline Friday
July 20, 2007.

>From the linux.conf.au website:
This isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical conference about
Free Software, held annually in Australasia. We invite submissions on
any Free Software related subject; from Linux and the BSDs to
OpenOffice.org, from networking to audio-visual magic, from deep hacks
to Creative Commons.
Important dates
    * Submission deadline: Friday, July 20, 2007
    * Email notifications from review committee: early September
    * Conference begins: Monday, January 28 2008

Presentations being accepted

We are accepting proposals for two different types of presentation:
you can submit a proposal for a talk or a tutorial. If in doubt, you
want to submit a talk proposal rather than a tutorial proposal.

call 4 papers - now open Talks are the main part of the conference: a
series of presentations on Free Software related subjects. This year
there will be 70-90 presentations. Presenters will be given a 50
minute slot, which includes up to 10 minutes for questions.

The main programme also has around 10 tutorial slots. Tutorials are
longer and more interactive presentations, with slots lasting for 110
minutes, giving the speaker time to interact with the audience.
Proposals for tutorials should be clear about the level of expertise
required of the audience.

Most presentations and tutorials will be technical in nature, but
proposals for presentations on other aspects of Free Software and Free
Culture, such as educational and cultural aspects are welcome.
Mini-confs

Mini-confs are full one or two day events. Mini conf organisers will
be expected to organise additional presentations, tutorials and
similar material filling six 50 minute slots per day. Mini-confs are
generally organised around a particular technical topic, such as the
kernel, or the MySQL database or Free Software gaming, or around a
community, such as LinuxChix.

Mini-conf proposals are now being accepted. Proposals for individual
mini-conf talks will be accepted by mini-conf organisers at a later
date. Keep an eye on http://linux.conf.au/mini-confs
Potential topics

Submissions on the following topics are welcome:

    * Kernel and system topics such as filesystems and embedded devices
    * Networking topics such as peer to peer
    * Desktop topics such as office and productivity applications,
mobile devices, peripherals, crypto & security and viruses and other
malware
    * Server topics such as clusters and other supercomputers,
databases and grid computing
    * Systems administration topics such as maintaining large numbers
of machines and disaster recovery
    * Programming topics such as toolkits and software engineering practices
    * Free Software and Free Culture topics, including licencing and
Free and Open approaches outside software
    * Free Software usage topics, including home, IT, education,
manufacturing, research and government usage.

Submission guidelines

The key conference requirement is that your talk related to Free
Software, either in general or to a specific project. If your talk is
about a particular project or uses a particular tool, it must be
available under an Open Source licence. Beyond that your submission
will primarily be judged on the interest your proposal will hold for
our audience; your general ability to present to our audience; and
your specific expertise on the subject of your proposal.

linux.conf.au is a highly competitive conference; in 2007 only 25% of
talk proposals were accepted. In order to increase your chances of
acceptance, make sure your proposal demonstrates your particular
expertise in the subject of your talk, together with an understanding
of our audience. Attendees of linux.conf.au are largely technical
people, most of whom are already involved in, or are running, one or
more Free Software projects. The majority of accepted talks are
pitched at an audience of near-peers. Promotional talks such as
commercial advertisements and sales pitches are not appropriate for
linux.conf.au.

For more information on making a good proposal to linux.conf.au,
please see How to get a conference abstract accepted and Getting a
talk into linux.conf.au, both by former review committee members.
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