[clug] Fwd: Sixth Australian Open Source Symposium

[Kim Holburn]

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> Call for Participation
> Sixth Australian Open Source Symposium
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> The sixth Australian Open Source Symposium (AOSS 6) will be held in  
> Perth on
> Thursday October 28th, 2004.
>
> AOSS is an annual one day symposium, run by OSS (Open Source Software)
> developers, for OSS developers. Of course, non-developers are welcome  
> and
> encouraged to attend.
>
> Previous AOSS events were held in Melbourne (1999), Adelaide (2000),
> Canberra (2001), Sydney (2002) and Brisbane (2003).
>
> This year's event will be held at the OpenSource WA demonstration  
> centre at
> Technology Park, Bentley.
>
> The goals of AOSS6 are
> -	to promote the sharing of information and experience
> 	relating to OSS
> -	to give the OSS community a place to interact
> -	to nurture and harness synergies between OSS projects
> -	to raise the awareness and credibility of OSS within the
> 	broader ICT community
>
> AOSS generally involves short (30 minute) presentation by developers of
> -	existing OSS projects
> -	work in progress
> -	cool technical stuff
>
> AOSS will involve sessions with specific themes, including
> -	open source platforms
> -	operating systems (Linux, BSD, etc)
> -	web infrastructure (Apache, Squid, etc)
> -	desktops (Gnome, KDE, etc)
> -	open source applications
> -	web applications (browsers, content management, etc)
> -	office systems (e.g. OpenOffice.org)
> -	collaborative applications
> -	open source languages
> -	Lua, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl
>
> This year, we are encouraging a non-technical session as well -
> covering issues such as:
> -	legal considerations
> -	strategies for effective OSS uptake
>
> The 2004 Australian Open Source awards will be presented during the
> conference. The awards encourage and recognise excellence, dedication  
> and
> contribution of Australians working in the open source arena.
>
> TIMETABLE
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> Please send abstracts (around 100 words) or expressions of interest by  
> close
> of business on Tuesday 28th September, 2004. A formal paper is  
> desirable,
> but consideration will be given to presentations without a paper if of
> sufficient quality or interest.
>
> PRESENTERS WILL RECEIVE FREE REGISTRATION
>
> Please e-mail submissions to aoss at auug.org.au
>
> AOSS 6 is presented by AUUG Inc, with the support of SLPWA Society of  
> Linux
> Professionals (Western Australia) Inc and OpenSource WA.
>
> AUUG website:	http://www.auug.org.au
> AUUG Phone:	    	1 800 625 655
> SLPWA website:	http://www.slpwa.asn.au
> OpenSource WA:	http://www.opensource.wa.gov.au
>
> PDF Copy of the AOSS6 Call for Participation can be found at:
> http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/aoss/AOSS6-cfp.pdf
>
> About AUUG Inc
>
> AUUG:  The Organisation for Unix, Linux and Open Source Professionals
>
> AUUG's role is building a community by connecting, supporting and
> promoting people with an interest in interoperable computing - which
> we see as a key to achieving fitness for purpose and value for money
> in Information and Communication Technology.
>
> Our members are professionals who care about
> -	Unix operating systems from proprietary vendors
> -	Linux, BSD and other Open Source operating systems
> -	Open standards, specifically those which enable the free
> 	and unrestricted interchange of information
> -	Open Source applications, regardless of the platform they run on.
> -	other cool technical stuff
>
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Kim Holburn
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