Open Source - AUUG'99
September 8-10, 1999
Carlton Crest Hotel
65 Queens Rd
Melbourne, Victoria, 3004
Australia
Conference Programme
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| 0900 - 0915 | Welcome Conference Chair and AUUG President |
Keynote OpenBSD: Learning To Rely On System Software Theo de Raadt |
Keynote UNIX: The State of the Union Mark White |
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| 0915 - 0945 | Conference Opening Nathan Cochrane, The Age and Sydney Morning Herald |
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| 0945 - 1030 | Keynote Anthropology of Open Source Eric Raymond |
Plenary Dancing the Samba Andrew Tridgell |
Plenary Computing Fallacies Michi Henning |
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| 1030 - 1100 | Morning Tea Break | |||||
| 1100 - 1230 | 101: Embedded Systems Building Low Cost Embedded Network Appliances with Linux Greg Ungerer Embedding UNIX - Booting PicoBSD on a PC104 Board Enno Davids Linux as an Embedded OS for a Storage Appliance Alex Miroshnichenko |
102: Commercial Interests Business Attitudes to Open Source Don Griffiths Considering Sort in the Open Systems Environment Jocelyn D. Carptenter Supercomputing on a Shoestring - Practical Experience with the Monash PPME Linux Cluster Carlo Kopp |
201: Managing Open Source Projects Aegis and Distributed Development Peter Miller Panel: Experiences Managing Open Source Projects Andrew Tridgell, Theo de Raadt, Peter Miller, Eric Raymond |
301: Meta Issues Saving UNIX from /dev/null Warren Toomey Software Engineering in the New Millenium Robi Karp The Rise and Rise of Scripting: Tcl, Tk and Scriptics Steve Ball |
302: SAGE-AU session Building a Large, Scalable Hosting Environment Under UNIX Duane Schultz Preparing for an External Security Audit Catherine Allen Systems Management - The Bigger Picture Geoff Halprin |
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| 1230 - 1400 | Lunch | |||||
| 1400 - 1530 | 103: Open Source Projects rsync in http Andrew Tridgell Diary of an Open Source Project Con Zymaris Use of open source code for Enterprise Management at Compaq's Operations Management Centre (OMC) Tony Parsons & Jarra Voleynik |
104: New Technologies Introduction to Jini and the Sun Community Source Licence Michael Geisler Combining Jini and Mindstorms - The Robot From The Lamp? Jan Newmarch strlcpy and strlcat - Consistent, Safe, String Copy and Concatenation Theo de Raadt |
202: Security Issues An Implementation of Secure FTP David Ross Authentication and Privacy in Wireless Phones: Today and Tomorrow Greg Rose BINMAIL - a fast, reliable and flexible email delivery agent Peter Gray |
203: ISOC-AU Session High Speed Packet Classification Andrew McRae Indecent Obsession - Internet Censorship in Australia Jan Whitaker VOICE/IP != IP/VOICE - A Second Look at Multi-service IP Networks Geoff Huston |
303: Performance Workload Analysis for System Consolidation Adrian Cockcroft Affordable Supercomputing - Parallel Processing With Linux Rajkumar Buyya Experiences Auditing IT Systems Paul Ashley |
304: Language Issues Erlang - An Open Source Language for Robust Distributed Applications Dr Lawrie Brown Eddie - A Framework for High Availability, Load Balancing Servers Geoff Wong Offensive material and the Internet - SO what is offensive anyway? Terja Lange |
| 1530 - 1615 | Afternoon Tea Break | |||||
| 1615 - 1700 | Footnote Open Source, Cooperation, and Communities Greg Rose |
Footnote High End Unix Directions Adrian Cockcroft |
Footnote Linux International John "maddog" Hall |
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| 1700 - 1800 | AUUG Incorporated Annual General Meeting | |||||
| 1800 - 2000 | NETWORKING RECEPTION | |||||
| 1900 - 2330 | CONFERENCE DINNER | |||||
WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE CONFERENCE CHAIR
Dear Delegate,
It is my pleasure to invite you to Open Source AUUG99.
Over the years the annual AUUG Conference has proved to be a valuable learning experience for those who have attended, and has provided an excellent forum in which to share information with peers.
Greg Rose, a previous AUUG President and longstanding member summed it up, "In addition to the interpersonal networking, I always learn something which I can use to do my job better."
This year's conference, once again promises to do just that, through thought provoking presentations by local and international speakers, with a lively exchange of ideas based on the most critical IT issues facing us today. The social events will give you the opportunity to interact directly with your fellow delegates and presenters, where ideas, issues and problems can be freely exchanged.
I would like to thank you all for taking the time to join us, and also to thank the presenters and our sponsors. I look forward to meeting with you in Melbourne.
Liz Carroll
Conference Chair, Open Source - AUUG'99
WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE PROGRAMME CHAIR
Dear Delegate,
Open Source software is causing a revolution in the computing landscape. Endless arguments rage about whether the open software process leads to better quality software or not. Companies are re-evaluating business models to see how a profit can be made from a product that is given away. Other corporations are questioning if it is safe to rely of a couple of hundred programmers on the Internet for software support, even if they have an impressive track record. Can commercial software exist in an open source world? Can open source software exist without commercial software?
Unix professionals will recognise that Open Source software is nothing new. In 1971 Unix was an open source product, given away in source form for the price of media. In addition, almost every Internet connected organisation delivers email using Sendmail - guess what: open source!
For this year's AUUG conference we have tried to put together a programme that looks at open source from a variety of angles, from individual open source projects, to experiences with managing an open source project, to open source philosophy.
Of course, the conference is not all open source, and we are glad of the broad reach of expertise in the open systems world represented by our speakers. Topics such as performance management, history of Unix and Internet censorship are covered. We wish to thank the Internet Society of Australia (ISOC-AU) and the Systems Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU) for their input to this programme.
Please take a moment to peruse our programme, to see for yourself the important and varied topics we are covering and the superb range of Australian and overseas speakers who will be presenting. I'm sure you will agree that this is a conference you can't afford to miss.
David Purdue
Programme Chair, Open Source - AUUG'99
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