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UKUUG Linux Conference 2008 - Manchester<br>
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Saturday 8th - Sunday 9th November<br>
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<a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/" target="_blank">http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/</a><br>
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This year's event consists of a twin-track conference over the weekend,<br>
preceded by a full-day Python Web Workshop on Friday 7th November.<br>
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This year, we're offering a discounted conference rate of just 60 pounds<br>
for members of UK Linux User Groups provided you book by next Wednesday<br>
(29th October). The student rate is 20 pounds. (Separate fees apply<br>
for Friday's Python Web Workshop.)<br>
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Please use the following URL to book online at this discounted rate or<br>
contact UKUUG during office hours on 01763 273 475 or <a href="mailto:office@ukuug.org">office@ukuug.org</a>.<br>
<a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/bookinglug/" target="_blank">http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/bookinglug/</a><br>
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Accessibility and Advocacy<br>
* Continuity in development using external developers - John I Davies - iT4C<br>
* Marketing Open Source Software - Sandro Groganz - InitMarketing<br>
* Desktop Adapted for Dad - Adam Trickett<br>
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Applications<br>
* Home Automation - Steven Goodwin<br>
* Ingres CAFE - John Smedley - Ingres<br>
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Grids and Clusters<br>
* Distributed evolutionary algorithms with the Geneva library<br>
* Grid and Clouds in the LHC era<br>
- Dr. Ruediger Berlich - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<br>
* GridSolve: A nice tool for distributed computing<br>
- Marcus Hardt - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology<br>
* Cross-Platform Virtual Machines - Paul Knowles - Transitive<br>
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Kernel<br>
* Infrastructure for PCIe endpoint devices<br>
* Porting Linux to a new architecture - the right way<br>
- Arnd Bergmann - IBM Deutschland Research & Development<br>
* Run time power management - it's not just suspend and resume<br>
- Matthew Garrett - Red Hat<br>
* Supersweet 15 - tales of a filesystems in puberty<br>
- Christoph Hellwig - LST e.V.<br>
* A Whole Family of Penguins - Kyle McMartin - Red Hat<br>
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Sysadmin<br>
* Organising sysadmin documentation - Jon Dowland - Newcastle University<br>
* Python and System Administration - John Pinner - Linux Emporium<br>
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Web<br>
* An introduction to web application security flaws - Jake Edge - LWN.net<br>
* Lead into Gold: Catalyst refactoring, optimisation and testing<br>
- Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Systems Limited<br>
* Coding in Pyjamas: Apps for Desktop and the Web<br>
* FULL-DAY FRIDAY Pure Python Web Workshop: Pyjamas + JSONRPC + Django<br>
- Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton<br>
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Subject to change - check <a href="http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/" target="_blank">http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/</a><br>
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| Event sponsored by: Novell Sun IBM Google Transitive InitMarketing |<br>
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