[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: Linux 2005 Conference & Tutorials, Swansea, 4-7 August]

Jane Silber jane.silber at canonical.com
Thu Jul 7 08:52:17 CDT 2005


FYI - a conference in Wales if anyone would like to attend, chat to
people about Ubuntu, etc.

Cheers,
Jane

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Linux 2005 Conference & Tutorials, Swansea, 4-7 August
Date: 	Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:17:45 +0100
From: 	Alasdair G Kergon <agk at ukuug.org>
To: 	jane at ubuntu.com
CC: 	office at ukuug.org



Would Ubuntu be interested in taking part in this event or sponsoring
it in any way?

Alasdair


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
Linux 2005 Conference & Tutorials, Swansea, Wales, Thur 4th - Sun 7th August
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

Full details at http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/ 

* Early-bird discount is available only until Thursday 30th June *

The event begins with a choice of tutorials on Thursday.
Then the 2-track 3-day conference runs from Friday to Sunday.

Tutorials on Thursday 4th August
--------------------------------

Full Day: Advanced Networking Configuration 
  - Steve Whitehouse, Dave Miller, Jamal Hadi Salim and Patrick Caulfield

Half-Day: Advanced Shell Skills, using Zsh - Sven Guckes and Julius Plenz

Half-day: Advanced Editing, using Vim - Sven Guckes and Julius Plenz


Provisional Conference Programme: Friday 5th August - Sunday 7th August 
----------------------------------------------------------------------- 

Networking and Security
    * Keynote - Dave Miller - Red Hat
    * Network Scheduling - Jamal Hadi Salim
    * Exploit Mitigation Techniques - Tom Cosgrove

Virtualisation
    * Xen 3.0 & the Art of Virtualization - Ian Pratt - XenSource / Cambridge
    * Xen: Experiences & performance measurements - Ruediger Berlich - Karlsruhe
    * openMosix - Kris Buytaert
    * Linux on the POWER5 processor - Nigel Griffiths - IBM
 
Applications
    * Music Recording, Production and Dist'n with Free Software - Ole Aamot
    * Remixing the Open Source radio show with LUGRadio - Jono Bacon
    * Software Defined Radio and GNU Radio - Bdale Garbee - HP / Debian
    * Video and Linux - Torsten Spindler - ETH Zurich
    * The coming geodata revolution - Steve Coast - xrefer.com
    * A Python Framework for Rapid Application Development 
        - Katherine Goodwin and David Chan - Clockwork Software Systems
    * Managing Biomedical Images and Knowledge by Flickr Web Services 
        - Siu-wai Leung - University of Edinburgh
    * A New Deal in Payroll Software using GNU/Linux and Python 
        - John Pinner - Clockwork Software Systems
    * Mono and ASP.NET - Gonzalo Paniagua Javier - Novell
    * Exchange for Unix - myth or reality? - Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Embedded Systems
    * Skyguard's Skyminder - the Free Software Community's GSM / GPS phone! 
        - Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Desktop
    * FreeNX - Virtualization of the Desktop - Fabian Franz - Univ of Karlsruhe
    * Hacking OpenOffice.org 2.0 - Michael Meeks - Novell
    * Cutting-edge Desktop-related Development Projects - Michael Meeks, Novell
    * Introduction to the GNUstep Project - Nicolas Roard

Case Studies
    * A large linux deployment in education - Mike Banahan - Cutter Project
    * e-Government Internet - Chris Smith - netFluid Technology
    * Bringing F/L/OSS to the UK Gov't - Mark Taylor - Open Source Consortium

Kernel
    * Linux and ACPI - power management - Matthew Garrett - Univ of Cambridge
    * The Linux Development Philosophy and Corporate Contributions 
        - Christoph Hellwig - LST e.V.
    * Diagnosing System Hangs with lkcd & dprobes - Richard J Moore - IBM
    * Adopting a driver - from fixing typos to breaking thousands of 
      machines worldwide - Matthew Wilcox - Hewlett Packard
    * UnionFS: Knoppix (Re)writable - Fabian Franz - University of Karlsruhe

Productivity
    * Vim Feature Show - Sven Guckes
    * Zsh rules! - Sven Guckes

Systems Administration
    * Preseeding Debian GNU/Linux for automated installations - Philip Hands
    * FAI - the Fully Automatic Installation - Thomas Lange - Univ of Cologne
    * Jigdo - Spreading the load of CD/DVD downloads - Steve McIntyre - Debian


Event sponsored by Red Hat, Astaro Internet Security and i.t.wales.
Media Sponsors: Linux Magazine, i.t.wales, Linux User and Developer,
                NTK, The Register and Ping Wales.




Information for potential sponsors
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
All sponsors will be mentioned in conference publicity where appropriate
and may supply literature for inclusion in the conference delegate packs.
 
Sponsorship of 1,000 pounds and above includes the option of space for
a small stand at the event and will be acknowledged with the company
logo and link on the conference website (indicating category).

  * Platinum sponsorship threshold: 10,000 pounds
  * Gold sponsorship threshold: 5,000 pounds
  * Silver sponsorship threshold: 2,500 pounds
 
  * An evening event: 3000 pounds upwards, depending on event
  * Conference lunches: 1,500 pounds+ per lunch, depending on choice of food
  * Coffee breaks: 400 pounds each
 
And of course we're always open to other suggestions.
To discuss the possibilities further or for more details of the event,
please contact:
     Alasdair Kergon - agk at ukuug.org, Tel. +44 7010 733066 or +44 7816 602120
  or the UKUUG Secretariat - office at ukuug.org, Tel. +44 1763 273 475
 
  http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2005/
 
UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group - is a non-profit
organisation and technical forum for the advocacy of open systems,
particularly Unix and Unix-like operating systems, the promotion of free and
open-source software, and the advancement of open programming standards and
networking protocols.
 
It uniquely caters for the needs of people in this area. It is totally funded
by membership subscriptions and is completely independent of specific
hardware and software vendors. All profits are used to further the activities
of the organisation.





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