 previously. Let's get started. Okay our first one here is Stephen Boyd. Thank you. I'm going to talk about a government policy that was released. We haven't got a slide up there yet. Yesterday, it would have been nice if it was released earlier, but it was yesterday. It's not the one about open office XML stuff that was out last week. We haven't got that. I'll just keep talking. Previously we had a policy of informed neutrality that came out in 2005 in a conference that was next door to LCA then. The new policy basically says agencies must consider all forms of software including open source equally. It's actually stronger than that and it says they have to document how they do it. The documentation will go out in a tender if we're going out for a tender saying please tell us how you're doing it. Suppliers will be required in their bids to explain how they've looked at open source as well as proprietary and other solutions. I'll keep going. Okay that'll do. So the suppliers are there. We're going to put requirements in the RFT. We want justifications in the responses and we have to look at those when we do the evaluation. Next slide. Okay, agencies are also going to actively participate in the community. Particularly we'll be asked to give back stuff where we modify things. This is great. Next slide is now and last slide for some contact details. Thank you. Thank you. That's reassuring to hear. Our next presentator is Nick Clifford. Sorry, apologies. You have heard the rumors and we can confirm they are true. The next Linux Conf AU will be in Antarctica. That would be the last slide guys. Let me get like right back really really really quickly. Like I'm running low on time here. Am I insane? Probably. But wait have you considered this? Antarctica is the ideal location drier than Wellington and we can promise no floods whatsoever. Our team has done extensive planning and all events have been organized. Happy to report there will be budget accommodation but unfortunately you will still need to bring your own toilet paper. We have already lined up our first keynote speakers. Who is a hundred percent on board? We have our core team because as Rusty says each year the delegates will run the conference but we've decided well no okay we're going on. That's going to be cooler than here. Tim Ensel. You got my slides? I'm going to talk about other things LA does. So who here thought this conference was absolutely awesome? This conference is like absolutely... You got my slides? There's no slides. How do I get to the next thing? Who wants more? Runs other conferences too. There was the Drupal Down Under which ran last week. Hopefully it will run again. I do not know. I'm not on that organizing committee. There's Word Camp which is in Melbourne in February. If you're a WordPress of Fictionado go along and have a look at that. There's even more awesome. There's PyCon. PyCon is a conference dedicated to the best programming language in the world. If you have a topic that you're really interested in why not try running your own conference? LA it would really like to support conferences in open source community. There are even other things. Do you have a blog? You should put it on Planet LA. You should also join a log. Thank you very much. Next one is Kimberly Weatherall. Kimberly? And there are no slides. This is extra time. Anyway, no apparently not. Anyway this is the idiot's guide to copyright because you know too little law at LA is if you know never enough. So idiot's guide to copyright over the next 12 months. Copyright policy, IP policy. Anti- counterfeiting trade agreement. You may have heard of it. It's all over but the crying. The text is done. The only question is whether Australia will sign it. They will. They've just spent the last two years negotiating it. It's too embarrassing otherwise. Trans-Pacific partnership, much more scary. Yet we're talking here about Australia US free trade agreement on steroids. More countries and they've had six years to think up even more nasty ways to make strong IP law. So if you have a New Zealander friend sitting beside you in the audience, make puppy-dog eyes at them right now because they're the ones for whom it will cost. They're the only ones who have a hope of fighting it. The Australian government is likely to bend over as we know. So that's the main sort of agreement. IINET. You may have heard. There was this ISP. Completely of course unaware. Shocked. Shocked to hear there was bit torrenting on their system. Held not liable for said bit torrenting. Full federal court decision due any minute now. IINET may well lose. And if they lose, there'll be lots, well, whether or not they lose, there'll be lots of legislative discussion about, yeah, yeah, yeah. Lots of legislative discussion about three strikes. Debate is coming. And the last thing is DRM. We're going to have a review. Thank you. Can we, Mitch Davies? Yes, who here has sold it? Yeah, lots of people. Done through-hole work. Yep, through-hole work. How about surface mount? Done surface mount? Yeah, fair number. The kind of devices you get on the street to buy now are all done using surface mount. So the cool kind of chips that are coming out now, the only way to get them is surface mount. You get a lot of hobbyists are only doing stuff in through-hole. People say, oh, well, surface mount's a bit hard. Well, there's a secret. One component comes in different sizes. If you get the large-sized component, you can solder it with an ordinary iron. And if you can solder through-hole, you can learn how to solder through-hole, surface mount. In order to help people learn how to do surface mount soldering, we've come up with a little project called USB Doodad. It's got a small micro, like the Arduino, drives a string of LEDs, speaks to the PC over USB, and it does a bunch of really cool things. It's a creative commons, so you can go to the website that's down the bottom there, download the plans, download the parts list, or if you want to do it the easy way, we've got it in a kit with the chip pre-solder. And if you need help, you can jump onto the forum, or you've got a fantastic hacker space here. So one hour of your time, you can learn how to surface mount solder. Thank you. Thank you. Probably need a first aid kit for myself for that one. Steven Ellis. Okay. I'm here to talk to what's suddenly becoming a majority in the audience here. All you people, you're nice, shiny MacBooks. How many of you have ever tried to run Linux on your MacBook? Hands up. How many of you have got it working? How many of you have never tried? It's actually not that difficult these days. Most of the major Linux distribution support running on Apple hardware, as long as it's not the uber bleeding edge. Apple put it out last week variety. What I advise you to do is get hold of refit. It's a boot loader. Do your initial partitioning under OSX. One big gotcha up front. If you ever plan upgrading OSX, leave a gap of 128 meg between the OSX partition and your Linux partition. Otherwise, major OS upgrades from Apple won't work. After you've done that, you can then boot a variety of Linux distributions on your hardware. I'm running at the moment Fedora on this. It also runs Red Hat Enterprise 6, Enterprise 5, Ubuntu, and the Passage Run Debian, Ubuntu and Suze. I've gone through wide variety distributions. They all work really well on the hardware. That's it. So give it a well. Jethro Kha. Good afternoon, LDEP lovers. Don't lie. You guys all hate LDEP. As we know, LDEP's a great system, but it's got a few flaws. I mean wonderful enterprise style interfaces from the 80s. Sorry, Red Hat. Beautiful command syntax to manually load users and groups into the system. Yeah, no. That's just really fucking nasty. So I sat down and wrote a little tool just to be purely user and group management via a web-based PHP interface called LDEP Auth Manager. Fully AGPL can download it, runs really minimally. User group management can do radio stuff and even is logging through LDEP servers in one place. And that makes me just admin much happier. So check it out and download it and send me some feedback. We've been using it in production now for about a year at a large ISP. That's the trick and cheers. Check it out. It's going to make life much easier for me too, I hope. Stuart Guthrie. Which one though? Space 12. Hi everybody. I'm here to talk about the open source industry Australia. It's on. Oh hello. Could I get a poll? Hands up if in your real work life you support selling hands-opened source software for money. Thank you. Now put your hands down if you're a member of OSIA. Okay, we'll be talking later. Okay, so thanks. We now know who you are. I've only got time for two reasons to join OSIA. The first obviously is advocacy. In the past we've done a good job of submissions to government press releases informed opinion to various people. OSIA represents commercial open source interests in business and government. The second reason is business networking not to be confused with the one everybody here knows well. OSIA members refer work to people like you if you do open source work. Unfortunately we often don't know what sort of work you like, who you've worked for, how you do business. These sorts of conversations happen at OSIA meetings. Okay, that's where we do case studies and people tell us all about the sorts of customers they like etc. My point is we can't all know everything. If our customers have IT needs outside our domain expertise, here's our choice reliable trusted known open source business or someone else. Sharon enjoy. Next up is Jeff Chompton. Chompton, can't read any glasses. Thank you. Which people? Next weekend Debin will release its next stable release Debin 6.0 codename squeeze. Probably it's been delayed in the past. Why should you care though? That depends on who you are. If you're the Debin release manager it may mean you can take a break. If you're a Debin developer you might be able to flush some packets from experimental to unstable. If you're a user maybe you'll be able to do some upgrades. If you're involved in another distribution you could possibly take a hiatus about making jokes about Debin's release cycle. What do you get with Debin squeeze? You get lots of stuff. It's Debin. There's lots of stuff. But I've only got 90 seconds so you have to read quickly. That's some gooey stuff. That's some kind of you know behind the scenes stuff. That's some other webby stuff. You get thousands of packages. There's two free BSD ports. You don't have to run Linux anymore. You can play with other kernels. Backports.Debin.org is official. There are Debin live CD and DVD images and all the firmware is free. Okay Donna. Hello. Hasn't this been an awesome conference? Okay. Hands up if you've heard of Louisa Lawson. Not many of you. Hands up if you've heard of Henry Lawson. Yeah okay so Louisa Lawson is unfortunately most famous for being his mother. However she actually published the first Australian journal for women by women. Hands up if you've heard of the Trove Project, the digitising Australian newspapers. More of you than have heard of Louisa Lawson. So the dawn is available in entirety on micro fish in most major Australian libraries. It is not currently scheduled to be digitised by the National Library in the Trove Project. However I have been in communication with them and for the tiny sum of seven and a half thousand dollars they will digitise the dawn. Now I had some slides which have the URL in it and I'll tweet that out but it's if you can do this catacrup k-a-t-t-e-k-r-a-b dot net slash digitise dash dawn. I've started a chip in campaign to raise that seven and a half thousand dollars and get the dawn digitised. Join me please digitise the dawn. Thank you. Steven Boyd. Steven somewhere? That's quick. That's done. Rusty. That's fine. Don't have any slides. Thank you. Apparently there were supposed to be slides anyway. So who was here on the keynote Wednesday? Jeff? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Apocalypse. That annoyed me so I started typing. Seacan now has a module in it which does convenient simultaneous connect over IPv4 and IPv6. So I thought surely this is trivial. Many people have done this before and I figured out quite why they haven't. It's actually not as little code as you might think. But it seemed to work twice for me so I've put it up there. It actually depends on another module. It's MIT. I'm going to re-license the other module so the whole thing will be MIT or public domain so hopefully no one will get this wrong and you can all just cut and paste it and use it. The only thing I would request is if you do use it and you have feedback about the interface and stuff or some corner issues please just send me an email and tell me about your experiences. So that's secan.oslabs.org slash list dot html. We'll show you the whole list of modules. Look for the net module and there you go. Okay thank you. Mary Gardner and Valerie. Okay so who here has heard that women are underrepresented in open source development? Yeah it's everyone right. There have been 10 years of advocacy around women in open source. You might have heard of some of these groups. Linux chicks, Debbie and women, Drupal chicks and similar groups have done amazing work but if you look around the problem still persists. Why is that? They're all volunteer groups so they were doing unpaid work and they're limited in time and energy. What kind of stuff could we do if we had money to spend on women in open source? We could do projects like first patch week mentoring women over a week to produce and submit their first patch to an open source project. We could offer expertise to everyone from companies through to projects through to events on making their community welcome women. We could produce policy frameworks, we could produce training courses that would be open and freely available to everyone from companies through to volunteer events. So long time women in open source advocates Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardner that's me are currently raising money for two years of full-time minimum two years full-time paid work on women in open source. Got ideas, got funding, contact the AIDAR initiative info at AIDARinitiative.org Thanks Mary. Joss, your support please. Open source community manager for Novell. I have 24 slides so please you know I'll try to talk sorry which button okay yeah she's okay so I have noticed that a lot of people here have really no idea what SUSE has been up to lately and I think if you're a system administrator or basically active and free software you should know so I'll try to give a little taste of that in these 24 slides. So this is SUSE Studio and you can use it to create appliances from the web interface click create appliance pick a base template give it a name pick the software you like and there are like thousands of repositories you can easily add to your repositories of course it's all connected to the open source build service which is also pretty awesome. If there are conflicts you know you can fully solve them in the web interface when you're done you can configure it network users and groups you can add your own look and feel you can configure databases you can pick any stuff you need for your virtual images you can add custom scripts you can upload files single files or a whole overlay anything you like then you pick you know how you want the output do you want virtual images for vmware zen whatever you like live CDs installable no problem build it and once you're done you can test drive it for 45 minutes from the web interface or via SSH any changes you made are saved directly so this is just a little taste of what open SUSE has been doing and there's a lot more where this came from so if you want to know look me up and you know i can enlighten you thank you and daniel smith all right i'm uh here and i'm funnily enough uh wanting coffee but um what i'm doing is i'm introducing something that's um been on our mind for a little while it's a new conference in australia um it's happening in october 2011 in sydney and it's something that we feel is missing and from the feedback we've been getting from everyone it seems like it's a missing conference in australia so what is it it is the phpconf australia found at twitter.com phpconf.au um follow that and you'll get some updates and we'll keep you updated on that that's it thank you thank you that's the last of our lightning talks we will now move into some prizes