[Watford] UKUUG - Linux event - Manchester 7th - 9th November

[Alain Williams]

Due to a total failure of getting their finger out and marketing, there are plenty of places left
at 60 quid for the 2 days. I shall be there and can offer a lift back to Watford (but not there).


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               UKUUG Linux Conference 2008 - Manchester

                 Saturday 8th - Sunday 9th November

               http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/
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This year's event consists of a twin-track conference over the weekend,
preceded by a full-day Python Web Workshop on Friday 7th November.

You can book on-line or call the UKUUG Secretariat - 01763 273475

see:  http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/


see below - list of conference presentations:


Accessibility and Advocacy
    * Continuity in development using external developers - John I Davies - 
iT4C
    * Marketing Open Source Software - Sandro Groganz - InitMarketing
    * Desktop Adapted for Dad - Adam Trickett

Applications
    * Home Automation - Steven Goodwin
    * Ingres CAFE - John Smedley - Ingres

Grids and Clusters
    * Distributed evolutionary algorithms with the Geneva library
    * Grid and Clouds in the LHC era
        - Dr. Ruediger Berlich - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    * GridSolve: A nice tool for distributed computing 
        - Marcus Hardt - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
    * Cross-Platform Virtual Machines - Paul Knowles - Transitive

Kernel
    * Infrastructure for PCIe endpoint devices 
    * Porting Linux to a new architecture - the right way
        - Arnd Bergmann - IBM Deutschland Research & Development
    * Run time power management - it's not just suspend and resume 
        - Matthew Garrett - Red Hat
    * Supersweet 15 - tales of a filesystems in puberty 
        - Christoph Hellwig - LST e.V.
    * A Whole Family of Penguins - Kyle McMartin - Red Hat

Sysadmin
    * Organising sysadmin documentation - Jon Dowland - Newcastle University
    * Python and System Administration - John Pinner - Linux Emporium

Web
    * An introduction to web application security flaws - Jake Edge - LWN.net
    * Lead into Gold: Catalyst refactoring, optimisation and testing 
        - Matt S Trout - Shadowcat Systems Limited
    * Coding in Pyjamas: Apps for Desktop and the Web
    * FULL-DAY FRIDAY Pure Python Web Workshop: Pyjamas + JSONRPC + Django 
        - Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton

Subject to change - check http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/ 

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| Event sponsored by:  Novell Sun IBM Google Transitive InitMarketing  |
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Alain Williams
Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
+44 (0) 787 668 0256  http://www.phcomp.co.uk/
Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php
Past chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/
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