Tickets for linux.conf.au (in Sydney, January 17-20 2001) are selling fast. We can only accomodate around 200 people for the dinner so if you're intending to come to the conference (it's worth it!) please register as soon as you can. John 'maddog' Hall of Linux International is talking at the dinner and he is a very entertaining speaker. Registration details at: http://linux.conf.au/register/ Also, all ticket prices are going up $50 on the first of January so please register now to get the current pricing ($99 for students, $250 for hobbyists [which includes all SLUGgers, if your boss isn't sending you:) ], and $540 for the corporate rate). All these prices include four full days of conference sessions, including all workshops, tutorials, paper presentations and keynote talks. [*] Check out http://linux.conf.au/schedule/ for a peek at the schedule that is lined up, 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, graphics and desktop hackers around, including: Alan Cox (England): kernel guru Dave Miller (USA): kernel networking guru Tridge (Oz): local legend, creator of samba Rik van Riel (NL, in Brazil): kernel memory management guru Richard Gooch (Oz, in Canada): the man who brought you devfs Rusty (Oz): netfilter, ipchains, iptables, random hacking Horms (Oz, in USA): distributed content & high availability Rasterman (Oz, in USA): Enlightenment, h/w accelerated X11 Raph Levien (USA): Graphics, GDK; creator of Advogato John Ryland (Oz): Qt/Embedded Manish Singh (USA): Gimp legend, aka "yosh" Wichert Akkerman (Netherlands): Debian project leader Stephane Eranian (USA): IA64 Linux hacker Anton Blanchard (Oz): got Linux running on the Sun E10k ! Andrew Morton (Oz): Low Latency Linux (for fast audio, yay!) Jeff Dike (USA): User mode Linux (run Linux on Linux!) 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. Well, I'm obviously getting excited about this because I wrote more than I intended just now :) I wanted to mail this out before everyone goes away on holidays for the next couple of weeks. Remember to send in your registration now, take the 17th-20th of January off work and bring your beachproof laptop and sunscreen :) [*] online registration not yet available, we'll let you know when it is. Bulk discounts are available: 10% off the total price for groups of 10 or more people. Conrad. linux.conf.au Organising Committee: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
