2003 Linux.conf notes

Timing

• Across skyshow weekend
• `Play' activities before and after for PD money
  • Rottnest sessions, seminar on boat en route, someone needs to invent a system called Quokka

Venue

• 600 people - Social Sciences?

Content

• Separate stream for newbie - advertise separately too
• Maybe play-room with locked-down boxes for people to hammer on
• Generally 3 streams (locals) eyecandy/techo/therest?
• games etc as alt to keynotes
• Specific content
  • Bulk installation (say 30 machines unattended)
  • Portability demo
  • Clustering and/or S390
  • Security streams
• Static displays
  • Your machine VS Your machine with $$$ saved by NOT buying Win XP
  • Rogue's gallery of things that can't be done freely

Context

• UCC 24x7? Specific sponsorship for data - UWA itself?
• WaveLAN - AlphaWest - Lucent