March 2005

  • Davyd Madeley, GNOME Hacker, Perthite and Gentleman Spy Extraordinare introduces people to the steamy underground world of rapid application development with Python and the PyGTK toolkit. This talk aims to be very accessible to everyone, including those who don't even know or like Python. A must-see for everyone vaguely interested in programming with the best GUI toolkit available today!

  • This talk will briefly describe the problem of revision control, and explain some of the trade-offs in designing a trivial revision control system and how just a few simple ideas can be combined to produce something remarkably close to GNU Arch.

April 2005

May 2005

  • If you couldn't make this year’s linux.conf.au yourself, you can hear all about what you missed out on - the best bits squeezed into 90 minutes of pure LCA recitals. If there were any topics on the LCA program that you wished you could attend, come along and hear the essentials.

June 2005

  • How To Win An LCA Hackfest by Russell Steicke

    Russell will talk about his entry in the LCA 2005 hackfest, how he was inspired by a previous speaker to program in python and pygtk, and the shiny Power Mac G5 that he won. You’ll also see some pics from his ride across the continent and back to attend LCA in Canberra.

July 2005

  • The Crimson Panacea by Leon Brooks

    crimson, a.:

    having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies

    panacea, n.:

    hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

August 2005

  • Open Source WA by Phil Twiss

    Phil will be speaking about the Open Source Centre WA

  • Are you a Computer Angel? by Harry McNally

    Harry McNally will be speaking about Computer Angels, another organisation devoted to spreading computer literacy, making good use of Linux:

September 2005

  • This presentation will be giving an overview of using Open source tools running on Linux systems to effectively manage networks and automate network admission control mechanisms. Some tools will be Cisco specific, while others are applicable to all modern managed switches and routers.

October 2005

  • A look and short tour of the exciting worlds of GNOME 2.12 and the Ubuntu release codenamed Breezy Badger. GNOME Developer Davyd Madeley will demonstrate some of the new (and existing) features that make Ubuntu and GNOME so exciting for users, developers, business and software vendors around the world.

    Slides are available in PDF format [1.0MB].

  • KDE 3.5 Sneak Preview by John Knight

    We look at the first beta of KDE 3.5 and explore the cool features that in this release and some that have evolved along the way. PC plugged in, projector running, we show the desktop. Simple and nice, enjoy.

November 2005

  • Voice over IP has been around for several years but has only recently reached a level suitable to replace traditional analogue phone systems. Several standards have been produced for delivering VoIP. The current standard for most VoIP systems is SIP. Like most other technologies on the internet, Linux has its fair share of quality systems that provide services for VoIP. Most notable of these is the Asterisk Software PABX.

December 2005

  • Many large scale enterprise deployments include an automounter implementation. The automounter provides a mechanism for automatically mounting file systems upon access, and umounting them when they are no longer referenced. It turns out that the Linux automounter is not feature-complete. And there are cases where Linux is just plain incompatible with the implementations from other proprietary vendors.