== September SLUG Monthly Meeting ==
Reminder: SLUG has moved to a new venue! We are now in Darling Harbour, near
public
transport and many other amenities.
When:
18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 28 September, 2007
We start at 18:30 but we ask that people arrive 20 minutes early so we can all
get into the building and start on time.
A committee member will also be standing outside the building to meet,
greet, and provide directions to the venue.
Where:
Atlassian [1], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market
Street)
Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down
along the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A
map of the area and directions on how to get there can be found here [2].
= Talks =
General Talk: Shayne Flint - "OpenMoko: Open Source Alternative to the iPhone"
Dr Flint will demonstrate the software development kit for the
OpenMoko "Open Source" mobile phone. While the Apple iPhone has been
getting media attention, another touch phone has been quietly under
development by the Linux community and will be first to market in
Australia. OpenMoko is set to revolutionise mobile communications by
providing the power of Linux in a hand held touch screen device. Shayne
will discuss some of the software engineering projects being formulated
for use with the phones location sensitive and wireless communications
features.
Shayne will use the OpenMoko device to demonstrate the ANU's new
"ANU Mobile" web service, which has just been released.
Technical Talk: Ben Leslie - "Virtualisation - not just for big iron"
This presentation will put forward the idea that virtualisation is a
technique that is not just useful in enterprise computing, where data
centres and server consolidation are king, but it is also an extremely
useful technique for structuring embedded systems software stacks.
This talk will go into some of the reasons why virtualisation is
being deployed more widely in embedded systems, as well as some of
the advantages that virtualisation provides in the embedded space.
Finally this talk for provide an overview the Open Kernel Labs'
microkernel based virtualisation platform, and OK Linux, a port
of the Linux kernel to run on this platform.
= Meeting Schedule =
* 6:15pm: Open Doors
* 6.40pm: The Usual Suspects
* 6:45pm: General Talk (see above)
* 7:30pm: Intermission
* 7:45pm: Split into two groups for
* Technical Talk (see above)
* SLUGlets: Linux Q&A and other miscellany
* 8:30pm: Dinner
Hope to see you there!
1. http://www.atlassian.com
2. http://tinyurl.com/35fxes
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