The sixth Australian Open Source Symposium (AOSS 6) will be held in Perth on Thursday October 28th, 2004. You can register online right now, or you can register now by printing the registration form, filling it in and faxing it to AUUG on 02 8824 9522.
AOSS is an annual one day symposium, run by OSS (Open Source Software) developers, for OSS developers. Of course, non-developers are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Previous AOSS events were held in Melbourne (1999), Adelaide (2000), Canberra (2001), Sydney (2002) and Brisbane (2003).
This years event will be held at the OpenSource WA demonstration centre at Technology Park, Bentley.
The goals of AOSS6 are
Speakers are from a range of commercial and academic organisations and will address topics as diverse as
The 2004 Australian Open Source awards will be presented during the conference. The awards encourage and recognise excellence, dedication and contribution of Australians working in the open source arena.
| Time | Duration (minutes) |
Topic | Who |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0830-0900 | 30 | Registration + coffee/tea | |
| 0900-0910 | 10 | Welcome | Steve Landers, AUUG Vice President |
| 0910-1000 | 50 | Open Source Thinking applied to Timetabling at UWA | Dr Chris McDonald, UWA CSSE |
| 1000-1030 | 30 | Using Open Source in running community non-profit hosting | Shayne O.Neill |
| 1030-1100 | 30 | Morning tea | |
| 1100-1145 | 45 | A Convert to the Fold: Replacing Windows infrastructure with Linux | David Newall |
| 1145-1230 | 45 | Building a business on open source software | Matthew Lambie, The Frontier Group |
| 1230-1330 | 60 | Lunch | |
| 1330-1415 | 45 | Legal issues | Jeremy Malcolm |
| 1415-1500 | 45 | Choosing an Open Source Content Management system | Julian Coyne, Unified Business Systems |
| 1500-1530 | 30 | Using a low cost embedded Linux box as an application server | Mikolaj Habrn |
| 1530-1615 | 45 | Afternoon tea / demo | |
| 1615-1700 | 45 | Panel session - Is OSS a pragmatic or ideological choice? | Various |
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Register by printing the registration form, filling it in and faxing it to AUUG on 02 8824 9522.
AOSS 6 is presented by AUUG Inc, with the support of SLPWA - Society of Linux Professionals (Western Australia) Inc, OpenSource WA and the University of Western Australia School of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
| AUUG website: | http://www.auug.org.au/ |
| AUUG Phone: | 1 800 625 655 |
| SLPWA website: | http://www.slpwa.asn.au/ |
| OpenSource WA: | http://www.opensource.wa.gov.au/ |
| UWA CSSE: | http://www.csse.uwa.edu.au/ |
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