Programme

Please note this programme is still tentative. Changes might take place at any time. This programme is also available as a searchable list with tags and topics.

Talks in bold have been confirmed by the presenter.

Tuesday

PHP pre-day. Free for attendees, but numbers are limited. Register soon.

Wednesday

Time Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3
9:00 - 10:00

Welcome

Keynote: C'Dent, the Acmeism and Everyone by Ingy dot Net
10:00 - 10:30 Morning tea
10:30 - 11:30 Tree Tricks by David Fetter   Inkscape: free your vectors by Donna Benjamin
11:30 - 12:00 Database Full-text Search....making it not suck by Aaron Walker Dr HTML::FormHandler or how I learned to stop worrying and love the web-forms by Toby Corkindale Peer coding and mentoring over the Internet by Sam Watkins
12:00 - 12:30 OQGRAPH: Dealing with graphs and hierarchies in plain SQL by Arjen Lentz Rapid Web Application Development in Perl by Danny Liang

Build Audit and Processes: A line of sight from DEV to PROD by Alec Clews
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Rainbow House Version 4 by Scott Penrose Re-imagining CakePHP: The path to 2.0 by Graham Weldon Development on Open Source platforms with a billion dollars at risk by Adam Kennedy
2:30 - 3:00 Automation: Organise your life inexpensively with FOSS - showcase / primer by Laurei Sellars Making Apps for Fun by Tammy Butow Trade Practices Issues of Infringing Open Source Software by Brendan Scott
3:00 - 3:30 Afternoon tea
3:30 - 4:00 Blobik - blobs made easy by Andrew Boag Science and Engineering by Dr Edward Schofield A brief history of time (syncronisation) by Julien Goodwin
4:00 - 5:00 Lightning talks
5:00 - 6:00 Break
6:00 - midnight

Conference dinner

Keynote: Stewart Smith

Thursday

Time Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3
9:30 - 10:00 Keynote: Baby Steps into Open Source - Incubation and Mentoring at Apache by Noirin Shirley
10:00 - 10:30 Morning tea
10:30 - 11:30 Software Development Process Improvement using FLOSS tools by Alec Clews The Go Programming Language by Andrew Gerrand OtherSkills Lightning session by Arjen Lentz
11:30 - 12:00 Introducing Drupal to the SME market by David Calculli The State of Scala by Ben Hutchinson The first law of language design: a colonoscopy by Brad Bowman
12:00 - 12:30 Horizontally Scaling Drupal by Dave Hall You've got Cucumber in my Java....and it tastes great!!! by Aaron Walker PL/Parrot by David Fetter
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 Developing mobile applications with Sencha Touch by Scott Penrose perl5i: Perl 5 Improved by Michael Schwern Open Business - Being an Upstarta by Arjen Lentz
2:30 - 3:00 The Raster Storage Archive by Alex Fraser Developing a web application using its own API by Andrew Edwards Golly: how an open source project took over the study of cellular automata. by Tony Smith
3:00 - 3:30 Afternoon tea
3:30 - 4:00 Software-as-a-Service Without Crimes Against Freedom by Robin Sheat Exploring the Underworld with Free Software by Olly Betts Git for ages 4 and up by Michael Schwern
4:00 - 5:00 Lightning talks

Friday

Time Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3
9:00 - 10:00 Keynote: How to Report a Bug by Michael Schwern
10:00 - 10:30 Morning tea
10:30 - 11:30 Developing for the mobile Smartphone market by David Calculi Perl 6 Update by Damian Conway Confessions of a Technical Writer by Lana Brindley
11:30 - 12:00 Titanium Compounded by Scott Penrose Super-freaking-awesome Testing (AKA: Unit Testing). A practical demonstration by Graham Weldon Please, no more gauges: How not to visualise data. by Peter Serwylo
12:00 - 12:30 MariaDB, or how MySQL didn't die with the Sun/Oracle take-overs by Arjen Lentz PHP2D - Managing Spatial Data with PHP by Andrew Goodwin Free and Open Source Games by Andrew Pam
12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 2:00 Libferris everything is a filesystem, and vice versa by Ben Martin Hugging Abstract Syntax Trees: A Pythonic Love Story by Thomas Lee Newstead, Australia's most open sourced town by Dave Hall
2:00 - 2:30 Modelling Your Data in Xapian by Olly Betts Introduction to Genyris - A New Way of Thinking About Programs by Bill Birch Open Sourcing Metropolitan Planning by Patrick Sunter
2:30 - 3:00 diG : Deploying large applications with Git by Alec Clews A newly Released Technology by Andrew Pam Open Source in Big Business: A Consulting Perspective by Thomas Lee
3:00 - 3:30 Afternoon tea
3:30 - 4:00 Lightning talks
4:00 - 5:00

Keynote: Damian Conway - Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy!

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