[AUUG-Talk]: AUUG2007 speakers

Steve Landers steve at digitalsmarties.com
Wed Feb 7 12:19:09 EST 2007


On 07/02/2007, at 10:01 AM, Arjen Lentz wrote:

>
> On 06/02/2007, at 12:05 PM, Steve Landers wrote:
>> On 06/02/2007, at 10:02 AM, Adrian Close wrote:
>>
>>> P.S.  We haven't had a conference theme in recent years and I  
>>> think we need one.  Ideas wanted.  Winning suggestion gets at  
>>> least a choccy frog.
>>
>> Without wishing to be (too) provocative - how about something  
>> along the lines of "Open Source Software - it's more than just  
>> Linux" ;-)
>
> LCA also had BSD, microkernel, OpenSolaris and other talks.
> So the above is by no means a differentiator.

Actually, it is - who advocates/supports developers and users of OSS  
applications on platforms other than Linux?

> There are a number of currently well attended conferences in  
> Australia:
>  - LCA: kernel and other lowlevel stuff, assorted geeky gadgets.
>  - SAGE-AU: sysadmin related stuff.
>  - OSDC: more higher level developer stuff (app languages/tools).
>
> These three appear to neatly complement eachother.
> Can you indicate where AUUG fits?

See front page of http://new.auug.org.au - in particular, the last  
three points.

Steve



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