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Miniconf Schedule for Tuesday

  Auditorium Ilott Theatre Renouf 1 Renouf 2 Civic Suites 1&2 Frank Taplin Civic Suite 3
  System Administration Miniconf Bridging the gap Open and the Public Sector Education Miniconf Data Storage and Retrieval Miniconf Multicore and Parallel Computing Miniconf Multimedia Miniconf
9:00-10:00
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Keynote: Gabriella Coleman
Auditorium
10:00-10:30 Morning Tea
10:30-12:15

10:30-11:15
Weta Digital - Challenges in Data Centre Growth
by Paul Gunn

11:30-11:50
System deployment and bare metal recovery by Clonezilla
by Steven Shiau

11:55-12:15
Going mad with MDADM
by Steven Ellis

10:30-11:15
Why Launchpad?
by Jonathan Lange

11:15-11:45
Linking with external bugtrackers
by Björn Tillenius

11:45-12:15
Working with translations
by Jeroen Vermeulen

10:30–10:40
The Intro
by Don Christie

10:40–11:05
Keynote
by Andrew Stott

11:10–11:45
Keynote
by Lisa Harvey

11:45–12:15
Why hasn’t the year of the Linux desktop arrived in Canberra?
by Stephen Boyd

10:30-10:35
Welcome and housekeeping

10:35-10:55
The Open Source Secondary School
by Mark Osborne

10:55-11:10
Art education and open source
by Maksim Lin

11:10-11:30
Sugarlabs: A word from the founder
by Walter Bender

11:30-12:15
OLPC and Sugarlabs - Improving education on a global scale
by NZ Volunteers group

10:30-10:35
Welcome and Housekeeping
by Peter Lieverdink

10:35-11:15
Sun Zetabyte File System: a speedy intro for sysadmins
by Julius Roberts

11:15-11:35
Sheepdog: Distributed Storage System for KVM
by Kazutaka Morita

11:35-11:55
Memcached
by Mark Atwood

11:55-12:15
Relational vs. Non-Relational
by Josh Berkus

10:30–11:10
Erlang, MPI, and open standards
by Lenz Gschwendtner

11:15–12:15
TBB: Open Sourcing a Model for Parallel Computing
by James Reinders

10:30-10:45
Introduction

10:45-11:15
Foundations of Open Media Software workshop summary
by Silvia Pfeiffer and FOMS participants

11:15-11:45
Cool news on Video and Audio Accessibility for Ogg in HTML5
by Silvia Pfeiffer

11:45-12:15
Lightning Talks

12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:15

13:30-14:15
Samba4: We now do AD replication with windows
by Andrew Bartlett

14:30-14:50
Linux Containers: virtualization without overhead or strange patches
by Sam Vilain

14:55-15:15
Being Lazy in a Large Organisation - Documentation by Wiki
by Mark Suter

13:30-14:15
Ubuntu Distributed Development
by James Westby

13:15-14:45
Building packages with Launchpad
by Muharem Hrnjadovic and Michael Hudson

14:45-15:15
VCS Imports, code reviews and patch forwarding
by Aaron Bentley and Jelmer Vernooij

13:30–14:00
How can Govt procurement better support Open?
by Laurence Millar

14:00–14:30
Open Government: Getting the core policy and technical principles right!
by Pia Waugh

14:30–15:15
Panel Discussion: The Politics of Open

13:30-13:45
Koha - Nau te rourou, naku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwi
by Chris Cormack

13:45-14:00
Kidsmart Rollout: Early childhood project
by Carl Klitscher

14:00-14:15
The use of FOSS in teaching Software Engineering
by Ashley Maher

14:15-15:15
Moodle features workshop
by Jonathan Newman, Stacey Walker and Jonathan Harker

13:30-13:50
How to create a fulltext search solution with mysql
by Alexander Rubin

13:50-14:10
How search.gmane.org works
by Olly Betts

14:10-14:50
GRAPH Engine for MySQL, MariaDB and Drizzle
by Arjen Lentz

14:50-15:10
Refactoring large, HA PostgreSQL databases
by Devdas Bhagat

13:30–13:55
View-Oriented Parallel Programming
by Zhiyi Huang

13:55–14:10
Scientific high-performance computing
by Matthias Meyer

14:10–14:30
Extending the Scope of Mobile Devices Running GNU/Linux
by Timo Hoenig

14:30–14:50
Haskell and Multi-core
by Stephen Blackheath

14:50–15:15
Automatic Parallelism in Mercury
by Paul Bone

13:30-14:15
FOSS Manuals
by Douglas Bagnall

14:20-14:50
Status of Blu-Ray playback on Linux
by Jan Schmidt

14:55-15:15
Articulate: Adding expression to LilyPond MIDI output
by Peter Chubb

15:15-15:45 Afternoon Tea
15:45-17:30

15:45-16:05
Behaviour driven monitoring with cucumber-nagios
by Lindsay Holmwood

16:10-16:30
Lies, damn lies, statistics and benchmarks
by Devdas Bhagat

16:45-17:05
Edubuntu - supervised and controlled learning in a fun and free environment
by Craig Pearce

17:10-17:30
Developing and Managing Linux SOE Environments
by Matthew Lye

15:45-16:30
Drizzle - an upstream's view
by Monty Taylor

16:45-17:30
Ask the devs

15:45–16:30
Implementing an authoritative repository of public sector Open Technologies for Government agencies
by Steven Schmid

16:30–17:15
Panel Discussion: Creative Commons, Open access/ licensing, and NZGOAL

17:15–17:30
The Outro
by Jason Ryan

15:45-16:45
Mahara development workshop
by Penny Leach, Richard Mansfield and Evan Goldenberg

16:45-17:00
TBC

17:00-17:15
Structuring a multi-day technical training course
by Jacinta Richardson

17:15-17:20
Voice and vision interaction
by John Graves

17:20-17:30
Closing

15:45-16:05
Distributed administration and testing of MySQL servers with Gearman
by Giuseppe Maxia

16:05-16:45
Multi-Master Replication with MMM
by Arjen Lentz

16:45-17:05
Build your own DropBox
by Ben Balbo

17:05-17:30
Lightning talks

15:45-16:10
Titanic, Mars and Open New Zealand
by Remo Williams

16:10-16:25
Hunting for the World’s Largest Known Prime Numbers
by Rob Giltrap

16:25-16:50
Teaching Parallel Programming
by James Reinders

16:50-17:10
Panel: Who needs Parallelism?

17:10-17:30
Birds of a Feather: Open Source, Multi-core and Parallelism: "the" software?

15:45-17:30
That AV syncing feeling
by Jonathan Woithe

Speakers Dinner

Speakers and their families are invited to attend the Speakers Dinner at Te Marae, at the Museum of New Zealand: Te Papa Tongarewa on Tuesday 19 January 2009. This exclusive event will be a great opportunity for Speakers to enjoy socialising with other Speakers before the main conference begins.

WhereTe Marae at Te Papa on Wellington Waterfront, Cable Street
DateTuesday 19 January 2010
TimeDoors open at 6.30 pm, dinner served shortly after that

For more information, please see:Social Events.

Schedule is subject to change without notice.