So I happened to be visiting a local Target store with some friends today, and discovered they were selling glorified green pieces of rubber for $22.45:
Ohgod, only 6 more sleeps until LCA2009 starts here in Hobart, and planet lca2009 has just been announced, so I suppose I'd better make a first post.
I'm really really excited (as Tom has already pointed out), and I hope all the excitement turns out to be justified (not that I have any doubt at all). There are some absolutely fantastic talks and tutorials lined up for every day of the week, which I'm really looking forward to.
Outside of the conference proper, I hope that you take as many opportunities as possible to take in Hobart's scenery, including Mt Wellington (which is 30 mins drive to the summit from the city, and from which you can view the entire city) and Salamanca, amongst others.
I'm looking forward to meeting those of you that make the march south over the next week, and I hope you enjoy Hobart as much as I do.
Now that the complete schedule for LCA (Including miniconfs) is available, I've chosen what talks I can go to. I'm quite impressed, almost every session for the entire conference has something that's caught my eye, and so I only have one or two slots left to fill per day. Currently, my selections stand as such:
Monday
9:30-10:20
Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, Why?
by Paul McKenney
10:40-11:30
Undecided
11:40-12:30
- PROBABLY - Collaborating Successfully with Large Corporations
by Bdale Garbee
13:50-14:40
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love ACPI
by Matthew Garrett
14:50-15:40
Undecided
16:00-16:50
Kernel Lightning Talks
17:00-17:50
Ask a Kernel Hacker Panel
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Tuesday
9:30-10:20
Beyond Open Source
by Arthur Sale
10:40 - 11:10
Future directions for Copyright Law
by Laura Simes
11:10 - 11:30
OpenAustralia - Everyday democracy for everybody in Australia
by Katherine Szuminska and Matthew Landauer
13:50 - 14:40
Undecided
14:50 - 15:20
Freedom in Focus: CC Photography and Cultural Change
by Rachel Cobcroft
15:20 - 15:40
We are the translators!
by Jeff Waugh
16:00-16:50
Undecided
17:00-17:50
Undecided
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Wednesday
10:40-11:30
Introducing the Re-Built Linux Desktop
by Keith Packard
11:40-12:30
From click to pixel: A tour of the Linux graphics pipeline
by Carl Worth
13:40-15:40
Introduction to Django
by Jacob Kaplan-Moss
16:00-16:50
Joining the mob: the kernel development process
by Jonathan Corbet
17:00-17:50
Cross-distro collaboration: packaging
with modern version control systems
by Martin Krafft
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Thursday
10:40-11:30
- PROBABLY - AIO: Why is this so hard?
by Zach Brown
11:40-12:30
7 Things Lawyers Don't Understand About Software
by Anton Hughes
13:50-15:40
The Joy of Inkscape
by Donna Benjamin
16:00-16:50
- PROBABLY - the Inkscape LPE revolution!
by Andy Fitzsimon
17:00-17:50
Tricks of the Trade: Learning Free Software
hacking from clever people
by Hugh Blemings
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Friday
10:40-11:30
autocluster - a system for automated
testing of clustered systems
by Andrew Tridgell and Martin Schwenke
11:40-12:30
Ogg Chopping: techniques for programming
correctness and efficiency
by Conrad Parker
13:50-14:40
Power management that works
by Matthew Garrett
14:50-15:40
Geek My Ride
by Jonathan Oxer and Jared Herbohn
16:00-16:50
Open Source for Model Rocket Design
by Bdale Garbee
17:00-17:50
Lightning Talks! Yay!
If anyone's got suggestions for the talks I've not figured out yet, please let me know!
After a rather... interesting thread on #linux.conf.au today, I inherited a new e-mail address. I can now be reached at hair-removal at the secondary domain of linux.conf.au 2009 (marchsouth.org). No idea how that one happened.
After noticing the disparity of prices of Coca-Cola on campus at
UTas, I decided that
it would be a good idea to map out the location of vending machines and their prices.
If you have a vending machine location on campus to point out to me, or if there has been a price shift at any location, let me know by e-mailing cpw at [the domain that this post is hosted at]
I generally have a policy of not allowing Flash onto my website (and sorry if any of you PLOAers object), but this opportunity was hard to pass up. Toni Westbrook has written Shredz64, a Guitar Hero-like-game for the Commodore 64. Following is part 2 of his video (the first part take a long time for him to get going, so I've not posted it here).
One year ago today, I signed up for last.fm/Audioscrobbler, which for those of you who don't know, is a Social music tracking site. What this means for me is that I've had my listening habits tracked for the past year, and had recommendations as to stuff I may like made.
Interesting things to note are that I listened to the Whitlams for the 2000th time (since I started Scrobbling) this week, a figure which I found mildly disturbing, especially when that number outnumbers the next artist by more than 2:1.
Speaking of The Whitlams, I'll be going to their Hobart concert on Friday, the third of which I've been to, and I suspect that they'll continue being excellent live.
