There's only two weeks to go till linux.conf.au hits Sydney. I hope the
weather keeps up like this. It should be interesting to see northern
hemisphere Linux hackers learn the ways of Australia's beaches (well,
mostly Coogee, if any of them actually surf someone may have to take them
elsewhere ;)
Apart from that there's a lot of interesting talks lined up which
really show how far Linux and Free Software development have come
recently. The topics cover kernel development, many different approaches
to low-level graphics work (video, 3D, and 2D), and quite a lot of
cutting-edge userspace stuff. It appears that in many areas of
application we left the question of "will Linux ever do such-and-such"
long ago, and are now healthily arguing out the pros and cons of a
handful of different implementations. It'll be great to have some of
that discussion happening at our conference, and also in the local pubs
and on the beach.
Anyway, on to today's news ...
The organisers of linux.conf.au, being fundamentally nice people (mostly
SLUGgers, so no surprises there ;) have decided to extend the time for
the 'early-bird' discount such that it continues until this Saturday, the
6th of January.
http://linux.conf.au/register/
What this means for those who have not yet registered is that you will
still get last year's 'early-bird' prices if you register this week.
What this means for those of you who have already registered is that you
may continue, guiltlessly, to encourage your friends and associates to
accompany you.
What this means for us (the organisers) is that we have allowed ourselves
to recover peacefully from New Year's celebrations. Surely a winning
situation all around.
As a reminder, the 'early-bird' prices are:
$99 for students
$250 for hobbyists (SLUG and other usergroup members, etc)
$540 for the full Professional rate.
After this weekend these registration prices will each be raised by a
'late fee' of $50. Please be assured that this is not an irrational act
of spitefulness, we need to meet our own costs in a timely manner and
your prompt payment is appreciated. We are nice people, after all :)
Everyone attending will have full access to the four days of conference
sessions, including all the tutorials, all the paper presentations, all
the keynotes, all the Birds of a Feather meetings ... and the pub crawl.
The prices really are as low as we could possibly make them. Remember
that this is not a trade show, and this is not an 'Expo'. This is a
developers conference, where you hear about free software from the
people who wrote it and have ample opportunity to talk to them in detail
about it.
Full details of the topics to be presented are at:
http://linux.conf.au/papers/
including people such as:
John 'maddog' Hall of Linux International (dinner speaker)
Alan Cox (UK): kernel guru, outlining secret plans for 2.4
Dave Miller (USA): kernel networking guru
Andrew Tridgell (Oz): creator of Samba, rsync, hacking TiVo
Rasterman (Oz, in USA): Enlightenment, hardware accelerated X11
Rik van Riel (NL, in Brazil): kernel memory management
Richard Gooch (Oz, in Canada): devfs, and a new init system
Registration information is at:
http://linux.conf.au/register/
Online registration, for Visa, Mastercard and Bankcard is at:
http://linux.conf.au/register/online/
A schedule of events (including social events!) is at:
http://linux.conf.au/schedule/
We look forward to seeing you there! Have a Happy New Year,
Conrad.
linux.conf.au Organisers: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ps. Alan Cox's talk on Linux 2.4 could be very timely ;-)
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