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Miniconf CFPs
Miniconf page on linux.conf.au
Mini conferences will run on the Monday and Tuesday of LCA 2016. The call for papers for these are handled individually by the organisers of each conference.
Here's a list of the open CFPs, with close dates and links. If you are attending LCA and have a ticket, why not throw in a proposal? You can also buy a single miniconf ticket.
Open Call for Proposals
Documentation - Open - Closes ?? Documentation Call for Papers
Kernel - Open - Closes January 20 Kernel Call for Papers
Other Miniconfs
Open Cloud - Closed
Functional Programming - Closed
SysAdmin - Closed
Open Radio - Closed
Open Source and Bio - Closed
Open Knowledge - Closed
Open Hardware (details) - Registration Closed - CFP Closed - Lightning talks slots still available
Multimedia - Closed (Lightning talk slots still available)
Miniconf Schedules
Monday 1st Feburary
| ' | Costa Hall | D2.211 | D2.193 Percy Baxter | D2.194 | D4.303 Costa Theatre | Wool Museum |
| Open Cloud Symposium | Open Hardware Miniconf | Multimedia and Music Miniconf | Documentation Miniconference | Open Source and Bioinformatics | Linux Kernel | |
| 9:00 | Conference Opening | Conference Opening | Conference Opening | Conference Opening | Conference Opening | Conference Opening |
| 10:00 | morning tea | |||||
| 10:40 | Continuous Delivery using blue-green deployments and immutable infrastructure by Ruben Rubio Rey |
10:40 Assembly Workshop |
10:40 - An Open Approach to Whole-House Audio (Bdale Garbee) | 10:40 - introductory remarks and rerouting of people who went to the wrong room
11:00 - Zac Dover, a brief history of technical writing with examples 11:45 - Alex Settle, on working from home |
10:40 - Miniconf Welcome
10:50 - TBA (Bernie Pope) 11:20 - TBA (Harriet Dashnow) 11:50 - TBA (Adrian Hecker) |
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| 11:35 | The Twelve-Factor Container by Casey West |
11:35 Assembly Workshop (continued) |
11:35 - GStreamer in the living room and in outer space (Sebastian Dröge)
11:55 - Why no FOSS on stage right? (Hugh Blemings) |
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| 12:20 | lunch | |||||
| 13:20 | Assorted Security Topics in Open Cloud by Jason Cohen |
13:20 Assembly Workshop (continued) |
13:20 - History of the vanguard Linux receiver "Dreambox" and an introduction of its new multi-standard streaming server (Andreas Frisch) | 13:20 - unconference (postprandial general discussion and networking)
14:20 - Lucy Bopf, two years of tech writing |
13:20 - Message from the ABACBS President (Tony Papenfuss)
13:30 - TBA (David Powell) 14:00 - Production Pathology: from spinning wheels to knitting mills (Ken Doig) 14:30 - R and Bioconductor: open source software for analysing genomic data (Belinda Phipson) |
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| 14:15 | Managing Infrastructure as Code by Allan Shone |
14:20 Talk 1: Jon Oxer: Pick and Place machine (live demonstration) 14:40 Talk 2: ESP8266 ESPlant (Wi-Fi garden sensors) design and operation |
14:15 - Real Time Tuning Analysis (Jan Schmidt)
14:40 - Free Software in the Audiokinetic Laboratory (Tobias Brodel) |
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| 15:00 | afternoon tea | |||||
| 15:40 |
15:40 Cloud Anti-Patterns by Casey West 16:05 Cloud Crafting - Public / Private / Hybrid by Steven Ellis |
15:40 Talk 3: Josh Stewart: Open source car engine management 16:00 Talk 4: Alistair D'Silva: LinuxCNC for fun and profit (now with deadly lasers) |
15:40 - Conference Recording 2.0: Building a Better System (Joel Addison) | 15:50 - Andrew Burden, My Beautiful Jacket
16:30 - Jodi Biddle - Write the F'ing Manual (how to get your docs into shape using FOSS tools) |
15:40 - Applied bioinformatics using open source software (Lavinia Gordon)
16:10 - TBA (Simon Gladman, Yousef Kowsar, and Andrew Isaac) 16:50 - TBA (Torsten Seemann) |
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| 16:35 | Live Migration of Linux Containers by Tycho Andersen |
16:30 Talk 5: Sebastian Holzapfel: Hardware projects using eChronos & lwIP: toward high-assurance IoT 16:50 Talk 6: Peter Hardy: Kerbal Space Program simulator hardware controller and display 17:10 Lightning talks, project showcase, general discussion |
16:35 - Informal jam/demo session
17:10 - Lightning talks |
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| 17:20 | ||||||
| 18:00 | Linux Australia AGM |
Tuesday 2nd Feburary
| Costa Hall | D2.211 | D4.303 Costa Theatre | D2.193 Percy Baxter | Wool Museum | |
| Systems Administration Miniconf | OpenRadio Miniconf | Open Knowledge | Community Leadership Summit X at LCA | Functional Programming Miniconf | |
| 9:00 | KeyNote | KeyNote | KeyNote | KeyNote | KeyNote |
| 10:00 | morning tea | ||||
| 10:40 | 10:40 Is that a data-center in your pocket? by Steven Ellis
11:15 Revisiting Unix principles for modern system automation by Martin Krafft 11:30 5 Minute break 11:35 A Gentle Introduction to Ceph by Tim Serong 11:55 Keeping Pinterest Running by Joe Gordon |
10:40 Miniconf Open 10:50 A live demo of the CubicSDR open source SDR software, Paul Warren 11:15 Cutdown!: HAB Telemetry Systems, Mark Jessop 11:40 All Your Modem are Belong To Us, David Rowe 12:00 Lightning talks |
10:40 Miniconf open 11:05 OpenTechSchool - open learning in practice by Lillian Ryan 11:30 Open Data + Video Games = Win by Paris Buttfield-Addison |
clsXlca 10:40 Miniconf opens 10:45 Introductions 11:00 Set the agenda 11:30 Lightning talks |
10:40 Miniconf open
11:00 The Essential Tools of Open-Source: Functional Programming, Parametricity, Types by Tony Morris 11:40 Functional programming in Python with Toolz and fn.py by Juan Nunez-Iglesias |
| 12:20 | lunch | ||||
| 13:30 |
13:20 Site Reliability Engineering at Dropbox by Tammy Butow 13:45 'Can you hear me now?' Networking for containers by Jay Coles 14:05 5 Minute break 14:10 Network Performance Tuning by Jamie Bainbridge 14:30 Real hardware: you get to keep the pieces, but they're pretty awesome pieces by Rob N 14:45 Pingbeat: y'know, for pings! by Joshua Rich |
13:30 Tutorial - Embedded sensor data with Lora radio modules, Andrew McDonnell 14:10 Using the OpenRadio as RF test equipment, Kim VK5FJ 14:40 Panel/Discussion |
13:20 Open information: Documenting data and methods by Rhydwyn Beta
13:45 Prying Open Government - An Introduction to Freedom of Information by Dan Hawke 14:10 Internet Archive: Universal Access. Open APIs by VM Brasseur |
clsXlca 13:20 Group Discussions 1 14:15 Group Discussions 2 note: this may merge into 1 slot if consensus calls for a longer discussion. |
13:20 Data made out of functions by Ken Scambler
13:55 The Emperor’s New Closure: FP in Javascript by Nick Moore 14:30 Practical Functional Architecture by Jed Wesley-Smith |
| 15:00 | afternoon tea | ||||
| 15:40 | 15:40 The life of a sysadmin in a research environment by Eric Burgueno
16:00 Creating bespoke logging systems and dashboards with Grafana, in fifteen minutes by Andrew McDonnell 16:15 Order in the chaos: or lessons learnt on planning in operations by Peter Hall 16:30 5 Minute break 16:35 From Commit to Cloud - Daniel Hall 17:00 Sysadmins: present, past and future by Javier Turegano |
Mini field day; hands on demo, radio orienteering and more |
15:40 Prospects and pitfalls in open demography by Fred Michna
16:30 TBA |
clsXlca 15:40 Group Discussions 3 16:40 Group report backs 17:10 Take-aways and close. |
15:40 Swift Functional Programming by Paris Buttfield-Addison
16:15 Haskell is Not For Production and Other Tales by Katie Miller 17:05 Paul Fenwick - xmonad window manager (lightning talk) 17:10 TBD (lightning talk) 17:15 Miniconf close |
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| 18:00 | Professional Delegates Networking Session |
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