[plug] Cameron's Conf Comments - Monday 12th

[Ben Jensz]

I thought I might add a few thoughts of my own of the conference so far.

I went to the OSS in Government mini-conf.  There were some interesting 
presentations during Monday starting off with Ian Gilfillan (SA 
Democrat).  My favourite session would've probably had been with a guy 
by the name of Avi Miller from NOIE.  I personally found his 
presentation on the new CMS setup that NOIE is implementing for their 
web site rather interesting.

On Tuesday up stepped Kate Lundy, I missed about the first 15 minutes of 
her talk.  She talked for around 45 minutes and seemed to have at least 
a partial grasp of the topic.  She knew enough to speak without reading 
everything off of a piece of paper parrot fashion.  A representative of 
Daryl Williams came and really was... ummm.. yeah.  Basically he spoke 
for around 10 minutes and was reading everything off of an obviously 
prepared speech.  From the way he spoke it, I wouldn't have been 
surprised if hadn't even wrote it anyway.  Unlike at the end of Kate 
Lundy's piece, he didn't take any questions and immediately got another 
fella from NOIE up to about stuff.

They had a panel discussion with Kate Lundy, Ian Gilfillan, Dan Shearer 
and a lady whose name eludes me who is a former president of the ACS.  
Some of the responses were rather interesting, with Dan Shearer really 
giving some great responses.

This morning (Wednesday) I went to the Administration of NSA Security 
Enhanced Linux session with Russell Coker.  Basically I was aiming to 
get a general overview of what it was all about, and I achieved that.  
Russell Coker went into very significant detail in his presentation, a 
lot of which went waaaay over my head, but I understood enough of it to 
get what the basic principles and workings of what SE Linux is all about.

I went to the PHP Tricks and Tips session this afternoon with Rasmus 
Lerdof (sp?).  I'm not into coding PHP (yet anyway), but the way he 
presented it made it very easy to understand what he was talking about.

And yes, I did see Linus wandering around a couple of times during the 
session breaks. :)


/ Ben
 

Cameron Patrick wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>
>Since no one else seems to be doing anything along these lines, I
>thought I might write stuff about what's going on here in Adelaide.  
>