The programme for linux.conf.au 2009 has been announced. I was chair of the committee that selected the talks, and you can see how seriously I took my duties (evidently I did nothing but look slightly grouchy and earnest all day).
Some talks I am especially looking forward to are:
- Brian Aker’s Use the Fork Luke! about the Drizzle project;
- Akkana Peck’s What Makes the Lizard Roar? A Tour through Mozilla Architecture;
- Jonathan Corbet’s Joining the mob: the kernel development process (we broke with tradition and he’s not giving the Kernel Report this year) although it clashes with Nancy Mauro-Flude’s The Genderchangers Academy, which I’ve wanted to hear more about for years;
- Sarah Stokely’s and Jeff Waugh’s Crikey! Open sourcing the future of news
- Walter Bender’s The Sugar learning platform;
- Rusty Russell’s lguest: hacking the ltitle Linux hypervisor, although I notice the preparation hour hasn’t made it on to the programme yet, but even if it never does this year I will be there even if Rusty holds the preparation hour in a haunted house at 3am (however it breaks my heart to miss Donna Benjamin’s The Joy of Inkscape);
- Hugh Blemings’ Tricks of the Trade: Learning Free Software hacking from clever people and;
- Matthew Garrett’s Power management that works (alas, against Pia Waugh’s OLPC in Australia and the Pacific