[Wylug-announce] UKUUG Linux 2008 Conference: Manchester, November 8-9

[Alasdair G Kergon]

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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.

So that as many local LUG members as possible can afford to attend the
conference, if you book by next Wednesday (29th October), we're offering
a discounted conference rate of just 40 pounds for any individual
WYLUG members living within 50 miles of Manchester unable to afford
the standard fee of 80 pounds.  The student rate is 20 pounds.
(Separate fees apply for Friday's Python Web Workshop.)

Please use the following URL to book online at this discounted rate or
contact UKUUG during office hours on 01763 273 475 or office at ukuug.org.
        http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2008/locallug/

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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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