[GNOME-India] Fw: The GNOME Lover's Guide to linux.conf.au!

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshanmukhopadhyay vsnl net>]

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From: "Jeff Waugh" <jdub perkypants org>
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Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 11:25 sakal
Subject: The GNOME Lover's Guide to linux.conf.au!


> The GNOME Lover's Guide to linux.conf.au
> ========================================
>
> If you haven't registered for linux.conf.au yet, that means you
might miss
> out on one of the world's best Free Software conferences, and the
very first
> GNOME.conf.au mini-conference! So, to tempt you further, and to
make those
> who've already registered salivate even more, here's the GNOME
Lover's Guide
> to linux.conf.au!
>
>
> GNOME.conf.au & Miniconfs
> -------------------------
>
> Wow, so many miniconfs this year... and I just had to complicate it
further
> by kicking off GNOME.conf.au, Australia's first get-together for
GNOME users
> and hackers. It will be a pretty casual mini-conf, with talks and
demos from
> the likes of Havoc Pennington, Keith Packard and Glynn Foster, lots
of time
> for hacking and asking us the TOUGH QUESTIONS, and we'll probably
do a panel
> Q&A thingy at the end. There are some really kickarse miniconfs
going on at
> the same time though... Audio, Python, Debian, Education, FOSS in
Govt. and
> the annual IPv6 cry-in. You can even do LPI exams! CRAZY!
>
>
> Wednesday
> ---------
>
> In the morning, Keith Packard will be presenting an overview of
Cairo
> Graphics <http://www.cairographics.org/>. If you haven't already
seen the
> eye-popping screenshots of Cairo in action, check them out now!
Combined
> with the other amazing projects going on at freedesktop.org, Cairo
will
> provide enough eye-candy to get us through to... well, maybe next
year's
> linux.conf.au! ;-)
>
> In the afternoon, Malcolm Tredinnick will be guiding us through the
GNOME
> Developer Platform libraries, where they sit in the stack, and how
to get
> the most out of them. This will be of particular interest to
hackers just
> getting into GNOME development - in any language!
>
>
> Thursday
> --------
>
> Get on D-BUS! Havoc Pennington will introduce the D-BUS message
system, a
> freedesktop.org project which is already finding support amongst
GNOME, KDE
> and even Linux kernel hackers. (Not to be confused with Geoffrey
Bennett's
> C-BUS talk on Friday...)
>
> Steve Baker will show off GStreamer, the multimedia framework
included with
> the GNOME Desktop. Find out about GStreamer's cunning pipe-based
design, how
> easy it is to write plugins, and what's on the radar in GStreamer
land. I
> was going to make a kitchen sink / right from the source joke here,
but it
> would make more sense after you go to the talk. ;-)
>
>
> Friday
> ------
>
> I will reveal the secrets behind GNOME's success to a crowd of
four, as I've
> been scheduled at the same time as Damian Conway talking about Perl
6. How
> exciting! But thank Tux for small mercies - I'm so glad that this
year, I
> wasn't scheduled the day after...
>
> The Annual linux.conf.au "Night You're Not Planning To Remember",
which for
> some reason is called the "IBM Penguin Dinner" this year. Perhaps
an air of
> respectability is in order or something. Basically, the whole point
of the
> night is to get everyone pissed as newts so they put up ridiculous
amounts
> of money in the linux.conf.au speaker-signed t-shirt auction. At
least, that
> is what happened at lca2001. I don't really remember the others.
But I have
> this *great* t-shirt that someone has scribbled all over.
>
>
> Saturday
> --------
>
> This is even funnier than making Havoc do modern dance and abstract
poetry
> at GNOME.conf.au: At 10am, Havoc will be giving a keynote about
Open Source
> desktop progress, including coverage of freedesktop.org. If you're
awake, or
> still a bit tipsy, you'll probably enjoy this. Unless of course
Havoc is not
> awake or tipsy. Then you'll have an opportunity to rest your head.
>
>
> So that's the highlights for GNOME lovers - but linux.conf.au is
such an
> eclectic conference, with incredible representation from all over
the Free
> Software world... No doubt you'll be straining to choose in some
slots!
>
>   Programme: http://linux.conf.au/programme.cgi
>
>   GNOME.conf.au: http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/2004/gnome.conf.au/
>
>   Register NOW: http://linux.conf.au/register/
>
> See you all there,
>
> - Jeff
>
> --
> linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia
http://lca2004.linux.org.au/
>
>     "GNOME, launched specifically to counter a threat to our
freedom, is
>        the free software project par excellence." - Richard
Stallman
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