In two weeks time, linux.conf.au will be hosted at the University of Melbourne. I'm pretty excited, and have started mapping out which talks I want to go see. Complete conference schedule is here.

Here is my preliminary list (and is totally subject to change): Monday 28/1/2008 Embedded Mini-conf Tuesday 29/1/2008 Mysql Mini-conf Wednesday 30/1/2008 Bruce Schneier Keynote - Reconceptualizing Security Writing really rad GTK and GNOME applications... in C, Python, or Java! presented by Davyd Madeley, Andrew Cowie How to Build an Embedded Asterisk IP-PBX presented by David Rowe Tux's Angels: Incident Response Unravelled presented by Vanessa Tomah, Amelia Charlton, Kate McInnes Anatomy of a Video Codec presented by Timothy Terriberry Thursday 31/1/2008 Keynote - Stormy Peters - Would you do it again for free?

Incident Response using PyFlag - the Forensic and Log Analysis GUI presented by Michael Cohen Parrot: a VM for Dynamic Languages presented by Allison Randal Linux and Home Automation - Lessons Learned presented by Glenn Wightwick The Replicators Are Coming! presented by Viktor Olliver Friday 1/2/2008 Keynote - Anthony Baxter - Two Snake Enter, One Snake Leave?

Seeking is hard: Ogg design internals presented by Ralph Giles After 25 Years, C/C++ Understands Concurrency presented by Paul McKenney Practical Real-Time Programming in Userspace presented by Lennart Poettering Designing Libray APIs: How to Make Users Love Your Library. presented by Erik de Castro Lopo