[plug] LCA2004 RDP

Mon Dec 15 15:41:14 WST 2003

There is a press release floating around about the 
Open Source in Government Miniconf.. on shortly
before the main conf..  see attached :)

Might be useful in using to ask again ? :)

See http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/ocgconf/ for the conf details..

Kim

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:04:58PM +0800, Kai Jones wrote:
> LCA has sessions about OSS in government, and although I requested leave 
> for the conference, specifying OSS in government as one of they key 
> reasons, council rejected it...have fun Ben ! :)
> 
> > Well, usually I am more of a background person but I am
> > pleased as punch
> > that the person I nominated this year is the successful
> > winner for WA of
> > the LCA2004 RDP.
> >
> > I leaped around our house with excitement for several hours
> > when I read
> > the press release.
> >
> > Regards
> > Jacqueline
> >
> > PS I'll send you my nomination off list. Just in case I made any
> > promises you can't keep ;-P
> >
> > Ben Jensz wrote:
> >
> >  > A big thank you to whoever it was out there who nominated me (I'm
> > told the person wished to remain anonymous).
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > / Ben
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > Jacqueline McNally wrote:
> >  >
> >  >> Yay Ben in Broome
> >  >>
> >  >> http://lca2004.linux.org.au/mediacentre/rdp-pr-final.pdf
> >  >>
> >  >> Regards
> >  >> Jacqueline
> 
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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                  Speakers Announced for the Linux and
                  Open Source in Government Conference

   AUUG announces the speakers and program for the joint AUUG and Linux
    Australia conference on Linux and Open Source in Government to be
                   held in January 2004 in Adelaide.

SYDNEY, Australia -- 15 December, 2003 -- AUUG, the organisation for UNIX 
and Open Source professionals, today announced  the speakers and program 
for the first annual Australian conference on Linux and Open Source in 
Government. The conference is being jointly organised by AUUG and Linux 
Australia as a "miniconference" of Linux.conf.au and will be held in 
Adelaide, South Australia, on 12 and 13 January 2004.  Titled "The 
Challenges", the conference will focus on best practices, raise awareness 
and share experiences amongst Policy Makers and IT officials. 
Participants will come from Government and public departments, the 
academic sector, and local, national and international organizations.

Keynote presenters include:

   * Honourable Ian Gilfillan MLC, Australian Democrats Member of the
     South Australian Legislative Council
   * Tony Judge, General Manager Business Strategies, National Office
     for the Information Economy (NOIE)
   * Senator Kate Lundy, Labor Senator for the ACT
   * Roland Slee, Director, Business and Technology Solutions, Oracle
     Corporation Australia

With the growing importance of Open Source and Open Systems to 
Government, as demonstrated by recent ACT legislation, the conference 
will be a key resource and meeting place for users, developers and 
vendors wanting to learn more.

Conference papers and speakers include:

   * "Commonwealth Administrative Health Data Mining using Debian
     GNU/Linux", Graham Williams, Principal Computer Scientist, CSIRO
     Data Mining
   * "The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's new Internet
     and Intranet Web portals", Peter Bailey, Synop
   * "NOIE's Open Source Solution to Web Content Management", Avi
     Miller, NOIE
   * "Open source software in health", Dr. Peter Schloeffel
   * "A demonstration of technology to facilitate disabled access",
     Malcolm Tredinnick
   * "Using open standards to share spatial data using Mapserver,
     PostGIS and other open source GIS software", Antti Roppola,
     Scientific Information Analyst, Bureau of Rural Sciences
   * "Software access regimes in government", Brendan Scott
   * "Legal Issues For the Use of Free and Open Source Software in
     Government", Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Head of the School of Law, 
     QUT
   * "Open Source and the Public Sector", Ian Oi, Blake Dawson Waldron
   * "Overcoming the Challenges Facing Open Source in Government", Con
     Zymaris

The full programme and abstracts for most papers can be view online at
http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/ocgconf/programme.html

Those wishing to attend need to register online at
http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/ocgconf/register.html

Key Partners in the event: Oracle (Platinum Sponsor). IBM is Penguin 
sponsor of linux.conf.au 2004.

"Linux and Open Source in Government 2004 - The Challenges" will be held 
at The University Of Adelaide, 12 to 13 January 2004. More details will 
be available at http://www.auug.org.au/events/2004/ocgconf

The conference will take place within the framework of Linux.conf.au, a
major technical conference for open source developers, held in the same
precinct on subsequent days, January 14-16.  Linux.conf.au is for Linux, 
BSD and other related tools of the open source trade.  Registrants for
linux.conf.au receive complimentary entry to "Linux and Open Source in
Government" and all other miniconfs being held in the same week.

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organisation for UNIX and Open Source professionals. Dating from 1975, 
AUUG is a national body with chapters that organise local activities in 
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