Please note

The below schedule is still tentative. Changes in the arrangement of training courses and the training courses to be given may be made without notice.

Unfortunately, due to venue restrictions, the original plan of two streams for each day was unable to be realised.

  Thursday 13th August
9:00-10:00Conference Opening
  • Welcome & announcements
10:00-10:30 Version control for system administrators Greg Warner Windows 7 Security Changes Jeff Alexander
10:30-11:00 morning tea
11:00-11:30 Go Green, Save Green: Virtualization at Oracle On Demand Case Study Avi Miller The MySQL Architecture and Scaling Quiz: Sane or ? Arjen Lentz
11:30-12:00 Automating Configuration Management using Puppet Brendan Beveridge
12:00-12:30 Telecommuting Sysadmin John Dalton Controlling and Auditing software deployment with git Alec Clews
12:30-1:30 lunch
1:30-2:30 Care and feeding of developers: experiences from the OpenSolaris Gate James C. McPherson Technical SEO vs Strategic SEO
Simple tricks for better foo Kristy Bennett
2:30-3:00 Case Study: Using pre-processing Input filters Drew Ames Inkscape: vector graphics for sys admins Donna Benjamin
3:00-3:30 afternoon tea
3:30-4:00 Drizzle: A Microkernel DBMS for High Performance Scale-Out Applications Stewart Smith Windows 7 User Access Control Pete Calvert
4:00-5:00 Why can't we all just get along? Lee Damon
5:00-5:30 break
5:30-6:30 SAGE-AU Annual General Meeting
6:30-7:00 break
7:00-late Conference Dinner


  Friday 14th August
9:00-9:30 Why Virtualisation Sucks Rusty Russell
9:30-10:00 Rolling out new technology successfully: How users can get in the way of a good solution Stephen Gillies
10:00-10:30 Live migration to a new datacentre - from the other side of the world! John Dalton
10:30-11:00 morning tea
11:00-11:30 Change (under) Planning Geoff Crompton and Tim Bell
11:30-12:00 Reputational Security; Cisco's view of the future of access security and threat mitigation Stephen Gillies
12:00-12:30 TBA
12:30-1:30 lunch
1:30-2:00 Relax! A Failure is NOT an Emergency Arjen Lentz
2:00-3:00 Internet Censorship in Australia: Where are we at? (panel) Kimberlee Weatherall, Peter Black, Nic Suzor and others
3:00-3:30 afternoon tea
3:30-4:00 Lightning talks
4:00-5:00 State of the Broadband Nation Simon Hackett
5:00-5:30 Conference close
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