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

[Kai]

Sounds good !
Finally got internet happening in your room at the college eh ? :P

There were other sessions I wanted to go to but OSS in Government and 
PHP were the main one's I wanted to see (although I can't write any real 
PHP yet), I've already submitted a proposal to the budget at work to see 
if the council will let me go next year and hey the council here is 
tighter than a fish's arse so we'll see, but the worst thing I can do is 
try ! :P

Have fun ! :)

Ben Jensz wrote:

> 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.