Schedule

The LinuxChix miniconf will be held on Tuesday 29th January 2008 as part of linux.conf.au at the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Any attendee of linux.conf.au is welcome to attend any sessions of the LinuxChix miniconf.

This schedule is, as far as possible, final.

Session number Time Talk
1 09:00 Welcome and introduction
Miniconf organisers
  09:20 Heroes
Pia Waugh
Break 10:10 Morning tea
2 10:30 So you want to be a sysadmin
Joh Clarke
Break 11:20 Moving time
3 11:30 Not-common-enough code optimisations
Jacinta Richardson
  11:55 Memcache, keeping data in the handiest place: memory
Brenda Wallace
Break 12:20 Lunch
4 13:30 Who’s Behind Wikipedia?
Brianna Laugher
Break 14:20 Moving time
5 14:30 From behind the monitor: Communication challenges in open source projects
Adaora Oniya
Break 15:20 Afternoon tea
6 15:40 Community work, adult education, computer recycling/refurbishing all using Linux
Robyn Manning and Kylie Willison
Break 16:30 Moving time
7 16:40 What does a community manager do?
Stormy Peters
  17:30 End of miniconference

 

About LinuxChix

    LinuxChix is a community for women who like Linux and Free Software, and for women and men who want to support women in computing.

About the mini-conf

The second annual LinuxChix women’s mini-conf will be held at the University of Melbourne, as part of the annual linux.conf.au Free and Open Source Software conference running from 28th of January to the 2nd of February, 2008.