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Monday

Business of Open Source Miniconf (Auditorium)

• Ten Ways to Destroy Your Community by Josh Berkus video
• Sharing Package Copyright and Licensing Data Effectively by Kate Stewart video
• Get your personal financial house in order with gnucash by Jacinta Richardson video
• Partnering with Hardware Companies for Open Software by Joel Stanley video
• Accessibility requirements of software and implications for FOSS by Nic Steenhout video
• The 100 Mile Client Roster by Emma Jane Hogbin video
• Building a service business using open source software by Cameron Beattie video
• Being an Upstart - building FLOSS compatible businesses by Arjen Lentz video

Open Programming Languages Miniconf (Ilott Theatre)

• Haskell, and all the wonderful things it doesn’t let you do by Stephen Blackheath video
• Introducing Gearman — Distributed server for all languages by Giuseppe Maxia video
• Preparing for PHP6 by Ben Balbo video
• Attribute-Oriented Programming in PHP by Peter Serwylo video
• The State of Python by Richard Jones video
• An Introduction to PyPy by Michael Hudson video
• Talloc: Pick Up Your Own Garbage! by Rusty Russell video
• Object Oriented Programming Sucks by Grant McLean video
• Writing Facebook Applications in Perl by Paul Fenwick video
• Lightning Talks video

Wave Developers Miniconf (Renouf 1)

• Wave Federation by Dan Peterson video
• Building the Independent Wave by James Purser video
• A tutorial on building a collaborative text editing web application by Brett Morgan video
• Wave APIs - by Pamela Fox video
• Harnessing The Wave by James Purser video
• Wave-y Extensions by Pamela Fox video
• Google Wave and Web 2.1 by Sam Vilain video
• Lightning Talks (and demo videos) [1]

Haecksen and Linuxchix Miniconf (Renouf 2)

• Version Control For Mere Mortals by Emma Jane Hogbin video
• Happy Hackers == Happy Code by Sara Falamaki video
• Through The Looking Glass by Elizabeth Garbee video
• Creating Beautiful Documentation by Lana Brindley video
• Getting Your Feet Wet by Angela Byron video
• Code Of Our Own by Liz Henry video
• Hackers, Crackers and Security Basics by Joh Clarke video
• E-mail Authentication by Karen Liesenfeld video
• The Genderchanger's Academy by Nancy Mauro-Flude video

Libre Graphics Day (Civic Suites 1&2)

(Unfortunately the videos in this room on this day did not include any audio)

• New Ghostscript Colour Architecture by Ralph Giles
• Graphic Design Apps - Beyond The Pixel by Vik Olliver
• Scribus by Jon Cruz
• Die Flash Die - SVG has arrived by Andy Fitz
• How to Use FOSS Graphics Tools to Pay for College by Elizabeth Garbee
• Cairo Graphics - Intro and Future thoughts by Carl Worth
• Blender 3D Modeling and Animation by Lance Flavell
• All the Libre Graphics tasks I said I would do are DONE! by Jon Phillips
• Cheap Visual Gimmicks to Make Your Designs 'NEW' by Andy Fitzsimon
• Dynamic PDF reports via XSL and Inkscape by Peter Lieverdink
• Inkscape: My Cheerleading Adventures by Donna Benjamin

Arduino Miniconf (Frank Taplin)

• Introduction to Arduino and the Pebble by Andy Gelme video video
• Flex and Arduino: put your device on the web by Justin McLean video
• But you can't do that with USB! by Philip Lindsay video
• Using Arduino to teach Embedded Systems to high school students by Peter Chubb video
• Open Source Hardware by Nathan Seidle video
• Memory architecture of ATmega CPUs by Jonathan Oxer video
• RepRap: The Arduino in 4D by Vik Olliver video

Distro Summit (Civic Suite 3)

• Quality assurance in Debian by Lucas Nussbaum video
• The state of the LSB by Bdale Garbee video
• vcs-pkg.org by Martin F. Krafft video
• Integrating domain-specific package managers with distribution package management systems by Michael Homer notes
• Cutting down boot times by Scott James Remnant
• Source Juicer by Laszlo Peter video
• At First I was Afraid, I was Petrified… of Launchpad by Dustin Kirkland video
• The relationship between Debian and Ubuntu by Lucas Nussbaum video

Tuesday

Keynote: Gabriella Coleman video

System Administration Miniconf (Auditorium)

• Weta Digital - Challenges in Data Centre Growth by Paul Gunn
• System deployment and bare metal recovery by Clonezilla by Steven Shiau video
• Going mad with MDADM by Steven Ellis video
• Samba4: We now do AD replication with windows by Andrew Bartlett video
• Linux Containers: virtualization without overhead or strange patches by Sam Vilain video
• Being Lazy in a Large Organisation - Documentation by Wiki by Mark Suter video
• Behaviour driven monitoring with cucumber-nagios by Lindsay Holmwood video
• Lies, damn lies, statistics and benchmarks by Devdas Bhagat video
• Edubuntu - supervised and controlled learning in a fun and free environment by Craig Pearce video
• Developing and Managing Linux SOE Environments by Matthew Lye video

Bridging the gap (Ilott Theatre)

• Why Launchpad? by Jonathan Lange video
• Linking with external bugtrackers by Björn Tillenius video
• Working with translations by Jeroen Vermeulen video
• Ubuntu Distributed Development by James Westby video
• Building packages with Launchpad by Muharem Hrnjadovic and Michael Hudson video
• VCS Imports, code reviews and patch forwarding by Aaron Bentley and Jelmer Vernooij video
• Drizzle - an upstream's view by Monty Taylor video
• Q&A video

Open and the Public Sector (Renouf 1)

MiniConf site

• Keynote by Andrew Stott video
• Keynote by Lisa Harvey video
• Why hasn’t the year of the Linux desktop arrived in Canberra? by Stephen Boyd video
• How can Govt procurement better support Open? by Laurence Millar video
• Open Government: Getting the core policy and technical principles right! by Pia Waugh video
• Panel Discussion: The Politics of Open video
• Implementing an authoritative repository of public sector Open Technologies for Government agencies by Steven Schmid video
• Panel Discussion: Creative Commons, Open access/ licensing, and NZGOAL video video

Education Miniconf (Renouf 2)

• The Open Source Secondary School by Mark Osborne video
• Art education and open source by Maksim Lin video
• Sugarlabs: A word from the founder by Walter Bender video
• OLPC and Sugarlabs - Improving education on a global scale by NZ Volunteers group video
• Koha - Nau te rourou, naku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi by Chris Cormack video
• Kidsmart Rollout: Early childhood project by Carl Klitscher video
• The use of FOSS in teaching Software Engineering by Ashley Maher video
• Moodle Workshop by Jonathan Newman video
• Mahara Workshop by Penny Leach, Richard Mansfield, Evan Goldenberg video
• Structuring a multi-day technical training course by Jacinta Richardson video
• Voice and vision interaction by John Graves video

Data Storage and Retrieval Miniconf (Civic Suites 1&2)

• Sun Zetabyte File System: a speedy intro for sysadmins by Julius Roberts
• Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM by Kazutaka Morita
• Memcached by Mark Atwood
• Relational vs. Non-Relational by Josh Berkus
• How to create a fulltext search solution with mysql by Alexander Rubin
• How search.gmane.org works by Olly Betts
• GRAPH Engine for MySQL, MariaDB and Drizzle by Arjen Lentz
• Refactoring large, HA PostgreSQL databases by Devdas Bhagat
• Distributed administration and testing of MySQL servers with Gearman by Giuseppe Maxia
• Multi-Master Replication with MMM by Arjen Lentz
• Build your own DropBox by Ben Balbo

Multicore and Parallel Computing Miniconf (Frank Taplin)

• Erlang, MPI, and open standards by Lenz Gschwendtner video
• TBB: Open Sourcing a Model for Parallel Computing by James Reinders video
• View-Oriented Parallel Programming by Zhiyi Huang video
• Scientific high-performance computing by Matthias Meyer video
• Extending the Scope of Mobile Devices Running GNU/Linux by Timo Hoenig
• Haskell and Multi-core by Stephen Blackheath video
• Automatic Parallelism in Mercury by Paul Bone video
• Titanic, Mars and Open New Zealand by Remo Williams video
• Hunting for the World’s Largest Known Prime Numbers by Rob Giltrap video
• Teaching Parallel Programming by James Reinders video
• Panel video

Multimedia Miniconf (Civic Suite 3)

• Schedule on MM miniconf site including links to slides from selected talks
• Foundations of Open Media Software workshop summary by Silvia Pfeiffer and FOMS participants
• Cool news on Video and Audio Accessibility for Ogg in HTML5 by Silvia Pfeiffer video
• Live streaming Ogg (lightning talk) by Ralph Giles: Live Streaming Ogg video
• mwEmbed (lightning talk) by Michael Dale video
• P2P vs HTML5 mashup (lightning talk) by Jan Gerber video
• Games (lightning talk) by Jeremy Apthorp
• Multimedia in Wave (lightning talk) by Shane Stephens
• FOSS Manuals by Douglas Bagnall video
• Status of Blu-Ray playback on Linux by Jan Schmidt video
• Articulate: Adding expression to LilyPond MIDI output by Peter Chubb video
• Thusnelda Update (lightning talk) by Timothy Terriberry video
• FFADO project update (lightning talk) by Jonathan Woithe
• That AV syncing feeling by Jonathan Woithe video

Wednesday

Keynote: Benjamin Mako Hill video

Presentations (Auditorium)

• The Kernel Report by Jonathan Corbet video
• Survey of open source databases by Selena Deckelmann video
• Changing NZ Desktop Stack to FLOSS by Don Christie video
• Making yourself popular: a guide to social success in (and for) the Linux community by Matthew Garrett video
• Teaching FOSS at universities by Andrew Tridgell and Robert (Bob) Edwards video
• The World's Worst Inventions by Paul Fenwick video

Presentations (Ilott Theatre)

• pandora-build: autotools made better, faster, stronger by Monty Taylor video
• Flying Rockets with Free Hardware and Free Software by Bdale Garbee and Keith Packard video
• Open Sourcing the Accountants by Jethro Carr video
• subunit: Testing across boundaries for fun and profit by Robert Collins video
• Git Wrangling - Advanced Tips and Tricks by Scott Chacon video
• Web application security, OPEN style by Mark Piper video

Presentations (Renouf 1)

• Electric Freedom by Philip Court video
• What's your StatusNet? by Jon Phillips video
• oFono: Open Source Telephony by Denis Kenzior video
• Unlocking the ivory tower: Free and open source software in collaborative humanities research by Claudine Chionh video
• Ceph: a scalable distributed storage system for Linux by Sage Weil video
• PGP/GPG Keysigning by Jonathan Oxer

Presentations (Renouf 2)

• Build Your Own Contributors, One Part At A Time by Denise Paolucci and Mark Smith video
• Implementing HTML 5 Video in Firefox by Chris Double video
• Making production-ready filesystems: A case study using ext4 by Theodore Tso video
• Using performance counters to optimize task placement on multi-core systems by Bharata B Rao video
• No medium found: when it's time to stop trying to read strerror's mind by Peter Miller video
• A New Paradigm for Restricting Applications and Protecting Yourself from Your Processes by Z. Cliffe Schreuders video

Tutorials (Civic Suites 1&2)

• Introduction to game programming by Richard Jones
• Hacking the Drizzle Database Server by Stewart Smith
• HackOff competition hosted by Wellington Perl Mongers

Thursday

Keynote: Glyn Moody video

Presentations (Auditorium)

• Discarding data for fun and profit by Matthew Wilcox video
• Mentoring for Fun and Profit by Leslie Hawthorn video
• Gearman: Map/Reduce and Queues for everyone! by Eric Day video
• Tux on the Moon: FOSS hardware and software in space by Jonathan Oxer video
• PostgreSQL Development Today by Josh Berkus video
• Building a Database Kernel with Lego Like Parts by Brian Aker video

Presentations (Ilott Theatre)

• Flapjack: rethinking monitoring for the cloud by Lindsay Holmwood
• The Elephant in the Room: Microsoft and Free Software by Jeremy Allison
• Open Source for Newbies: Attracting and Retaining Talented People for Your Project by Cat Allman and Leslie Hawthorn
• Sahana Disaster Management System - Humanitarian FOSS by Tim McNamara
• Digging for Design Patterns: an archaelogical approach to understanding software systems by Neil Brown
• Using Launchpad for Code Reviews by Tim Penhey

Presentations (Renouf 1)

• A Year of Clutter by Emmanuele Bassi
• The Hydras: Improving the C/C++ Development Experience via GCC Static Analysis Plugins by Taras Glek
• Building a Xapian index of Wikipedia in less time than this talk takes by Olly Betts
• Toward GStreamer 1.0 by Jan Schmidt
• Simplicity Through Optimization by Paul McKenney
• Using Functional Programming Techniques In Your Favourite Language by Malcolm Tredinnick

Presentations (Renouf 2)

• When Free Software is against the law, only outlaws will have Free Software by Colin Jackson
• Yubikey authentication in a mid-sized organisation by Robert (Bob) Edwards
• so you moved graphics drivers to the kernel.. what next? I can haz ponies? by Dave Airlie
• Transcendent Memory: A new approach to managing RAM in a virtualized environment by Dan Magenheimer
• The Rebirth of Xinerama by Adam Jackson
• Interrupts considered harmful by Peter Chubb

Tutorials (Civic Suites 1&2)

• Drupal Under the Hood by Angela Byron
• HTML5 video: how to process and publish video in an open format by Silvia Pfeiffer

Friday

Keynote and Lightning Talks: Nathan Torkington video

Presentations (Auditorium)

• Patent defence for free software by Andrew Tridgell video
• Implementing an Adaptive UI by Jon Cruz video
• FOSS Fun With A Wiimote by Rusty Russell video
• Making the GPU do its job by Carl Worth video
• The Bravest Man in New Zealand by Patrick Brennan video

Presentations (Ilott Theatre)

• SuperSpeed me: USB 3.0 for Linux by Sarah Sharp video
• Lessons Learned from a Growing Project by Michael Koziarski video
• Writing Effective Self Help Guides for World Domination by Emma Jane Hogbin video
• Space Hacks by Ariel Waldman video
• Sharing Userspace IO Devices for fast access to multimedia hardware by Conrad Parker video

Presentations (Renouf 1)

• What's New in the GNU Compiler Collection by Janis Johnson video
• The new Linux performance counter subsystem by Paul Mackerras video
• A Big Phoney Mesh by David Rowe video
• Thusnelda: Modernizing Theora by Timothy Terriberry video
• An updated directory structure for Unix by Michael Homer notes video

Presentations (Renouf 2)

• Patchwork: pursuing productive project participation by Jeremy Kerr video
• Virtual network switching across hypervisors by Arnd Bergmann video
• Hack Ability: Open Source Assistive Tech by Liz Henry video
• Xen Multi-Function PCI Pass-Through by Simon Horman video
• Secure and Simple Sandboxing in SELinux by James Morris video

Tutorials (Civic Suites 1&2)

• Writing Secure Privileged Programs by Michael Kerrisk
• Puppet for Configuration Management Tutorial by James Turnbull
• The importance of open video on the Web by Robert O'Callahan