===Summary=== * Date: Friday April 30 * Start time: Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start * Format: Main presentations with BOFs running in parallel
More information: http://slug.org.au/meetingformat Please remember to register at http://slug.eventbrite.com ===First Half=== ==Main presentation== Robert Smit: Upstart - the event-driven init replacement Upstart is a replacement to the init process that Unixs have been using to start all there key processes for more than 30 years. Ubuntu's Canonical decided that, they needed a more event driven init system and both Ubuntu and Fedora have been using Upstart in a backwards compatible arrangement for more than 3 years but with 10.04 are now starting to move away from the old init scripts. ==BOFs== OLPC Friends: Sridhar Dhanapalan will be giving a brief talk an Q&A session about OLPC Australia's recent deployment in Yirrkala in East Arnhem Land. ===Second Half=== ==Main Presentation== Erik de Castro Lopo: Programming: How can we do it better? Part II (Part I available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZDy7ExHjMM) As developers, we hear a constant stream of complaints about how software (not necessarily our own) is buggy and crashes. In this presentation I plan to look at what we can do now and in the future to make software development more reliable, repeatable and scalable. ==BOFs== Multimedia - Topics TBA -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
