AOSS4 -- Sydney, July 20 2002

[Conrad Parker]

Registrations are now open for the fourth Australian Open Source Symposium
(AOSS 4), to be held at UNSW, Sydney on Saturday July 20, 2002. AOSS is an
annual gathering of the Australian Open Source community.

        http://www.auug.org.au/aoss/aoss4/index.html

AUUG is proud to announce the programme for this symposium, including the
following presentations:


  Erik de Castro Lopo: The libsndfile test suite.

    Erik will talk about the ideas behind, the implications of and the
    implementation of libsndfile's test suite as well as giving a very
    brief introduction to autogen.

  Matt Chapman: rdesktop

    rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Terminal Services,
    capable of speaking Microsoft's proprietary Remote Desktop Protocol.

  Lucy Chubb, Gelato project: Large page support in the Linux kernel

    The IA64 hardware currently provides support for page sizes of up to
    256MB, but there is limited support to use any of this capability
    within Linux. Lucy will talk about the work in progress within the UNSW
    Gelato project to implement superpages in IA64 Linux.

  Peter Chubb: Bitkeeper

    Come and find out what Peter Chubb means by his current sig, "You are
    lost in a maze of BitKeeper repositories, all almost the same.", as he
    talks his experience with BitKeeper as he works on the Linux source code.

  Duraid Madina: SwapBox

    SwapBox is a network-attached storage device optimized to act as high
    performance swap space.

  Leni Mayo: Serel

    Serel adds synchronisation and integrity-checking to the operating
    system "service startup" phase, allowing a computer's services to
    start in parallel. Without parallelism, "service startup" is typically
    the most time-consuming part of the boot process.

  Peter Miller: Testing? What testing?

    This talk presents a simplistic yet powerful model of what a test is.
    When you intend to test your software, you have to design your software
    to be testABLE.  The talk will examine attributes of software implied
    by this model.  Some examples of automated testing will be given.

  Martin Pool, HP: distcc

    distcc is a program which speeds up software builds by distributing
    the build across multiple machines.

  Martin Schwenke: Big Blue Penguins

    IBM and open source sound like non-overlapping spaces. Martin works
    with IBM's Linux Technology Center in Canberra and tells us what it's
    like inside.

  Liam Widdowson: The tdb Replication System

    The Trivial Database Replication System is an open source database
    engine that allows UNIX systems to utilise a distributed, replicated,
    peer-to-peer DBM style database.


REGISTRATIONS

Registrations are now open. The registration form is available at:

    http://www.auug.org.au/aoss/aoss4/register.pdf

Pricing is as follows:

    Students                $30
    AUUG Members            $60
    Non-members            $100

Note that members of ISOC-AU, SAGE-AU, LUV, BUGS and SLUG, and UNSW staff,
are also eligible for the Members' rate. Prices are in Australian Dollars.

AOSS4 is proudly sponsored by UNSW and the UNSW GELATO project, and
supported by SLUG and BUGS.


ABOUT THE UNSW GELATO PROJECT

    http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/

Gelato is a worldwide consortium focused on enabling open source Linux-based
Itanium computing solutions for academic, government and industrial research.

The UNSW GELATO team is concentrating on provision of technology and
research for the kernel, device drivers, and specialised tools and
enhancements required for kernel and device driver development.