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Tuesday, 16th January, 2001

Beach. Water. Hardware. Get over your jetlag by competing in the entirely unofficial Beach-Proof Hardware Contest!

Wednesday, 17th January, 2001

Wednesday is tutorial day! Yes, the entire day will be devoted to developer mind-melding. Times for the following tutorials will be posted closer to the event:

Tutorials
Bonobo, the GNOME Component Model George Lebl, Maciej Stachowiak
How to maintain DNS, DHCP and YP tables from a unique host file Marc Merlin
An Introduction to Threaded Programming with Linux Liam Widdowson
Introduction to using DocBook for application documentation Malcolm Tredinnick
Using CVS Malcolm Tredinnick
ColdStore and Unix Persistent Programming Colin McCormack

Thursday, 18th January, 2001

Time	Theatre A	Theatre B	Theatre C
8:00 - 9:00am	Registrations
9:00 - 10:30am	World Domination: Classified Progress Report and Briefing Alan Cox - Keynote Speaker Theatre A
10:30 - 11:00am	Morning Tea
11:00 - 12:00pm	devfs Richard Gooch	OpenH323 Craig Southeren	Linux Standard Base Christopher Yeoh
12:00 - 1:00pm	User Mode Linux Jeff Dike	Large OSS Project Design and GTKada Andrew van der Stock	Cluster System Administration and GFS John Goebel, Ken Preslan
1:00 - 2:00pm	Lunch
2:00 - 3:00pm	Tux2 Failsafe Filesystem Daniel Phillips	Qt/Embedded John Ryland
3:00 - 4:00pm	The Hardware Accelerated Desktop Rasterman	Memtest: Finding holes in the VM system Juan J. Quintela	Why KDE Works Sirtaj Singh Kang
4:00 - 4:15pm	Afternoon Tea
4:15 - 5:15pm	The New Linux VM Rik van Riel	The e-smith Server and Gateway Kirrily 'Skud' Robert	rproxy Martin Pool
5:15 - 5:30pm	Break for night-time festivities planning
5:30 - 7:00pm	Non-TCP/IP Networking Fancy schmancy schmooze session for speakers and professional ticket holders. Not suits. If you wear a suit, or even if you look like you'd be more comfortable in a suit, we'll say words like 'marketing' behind your back, and not offer you any Australian beer. ;-)
Whenever	Unplanned Zaniness and Hacktime See Sydney the way it was meant to be seen: From behind the confused haze of post-pub-crawl tipsiness.

Friday, 19th January, 2001

Time	Theatre A	Theatre B	Theatre C
8:00 - 9:00am	Registrations
9:00 - 10:30am	A Zero-copy and Delayed Fragment Reassembly Framework for Linux David Miller - Keynote Speaker Theatre A
10:30 - 11:00am	Morning Tea
11:00 - 12:00pm	IA64 Linux Stephane Eranian	GNOME: Past, Present and Future George Lebl, Maciej Stachowiak	Globally Distributed Content Simon Horman
12:00 - 1:00pm	Leases & Directory Notification Matthew Wilcox	Scratching An Itch, With and Without Help Hugh Blemings	The Debian Packaging System Wichert Akkerman
1:00 - 2:00pm	Lunch
2:00 - 3:00pm	Is 2D graphics the next killer app for Linux? Raph Levien
3:00 - 4:00pm	The Direct Rendering Infrastructure Gareth Hughes	The New Joy of Init Scripts Richard Gooch	How Open Source Software Keeps Me From Driving to the CoLo at 3am Gregory J. Pryzby
4:00 - 4:15pm	Afternoon Tea
4:15 - 5:15pm	How Free Software Hackers Get the Girls Paul 'Rusty' Russell	The Traditional Netfilter Talk Paul 'Rusty' Russell	Hacking, /dev/urandom Style Paul 'Rusty' Russell
5:15 - 7:00pm	BoFs, Unplanned Zaniness and Hacktime
7:00pm - Early	Conference Dinner Mom&Pop(TM): At Home with Linux Official linux.conf.au conference dinner, featuring the remarkably unique Jon "maddog" Hall. Please let us know if you are a vegetarian, or have special dietary requirements in advance.

Saturday, 20th January, 2001

Please note that Saturday begins at 9:30am, rather than 9:00am. We hope that half an hour will be enough to get over "the night before".

Time	Theatre A	Theatre B	Theatre C
8:30 - 9:30am	Registrations
9:30 - 11:00am	Inside the mind of... TiVo Andrew Tridgell - Keynote Speaker Theatre A
11:00 - 11:30am	Morning Tea
11:30 - 12:00pm	State of SparcLinux on high-end servers (WiP) Anton Blanchard	GEGL: An Advanced, Flexible 2D-Imaging Library (WiP) Manish Singh	Perl 6 (WiP) Kirrily 'Skud' Robert
12:00 - 12:30pm	TLB Sharing In IA-64 Linux (WiP) Alan Au, Gernot Heiser	Low Latency Linux (WiP) Andrew Morton	irc++ (WiP) Liam Quin
12:30 - 1:00pm	Linux RAID (WiP) Neil Brown	Outdoor Augmented Reality With Wearable Computers Running Linux (WiP) Wayne Piekarski	bewdy, Maaate! (WiP) Silvia Pfeiffer
1:00 - 2:30pm	Lunch
2:30 - 3:30pm	Repeated Talks
3:30 - 4:00pm	Afternoon Tea
4:00 - 6:00pm	Conference Review Theatre A Games, Panel, Discussion
6:00pm - Early	Pub Crawl Reckon you can drink us Aussies under the table? Good luck. We're classically trained, and unless you're from one of the other colonies, you've been drinking light beer since the dawn of time. The gauntlet is thrown...


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