Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG)

SLUG's monthly meeting, featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and are free of charge.

We have moved to a new venue! We are now in Darling Harbour, near public transport and other amenities.

Our new location: Atlassian, 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street). Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down along the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A map of the area and directions on how to get there can be found here.

We start at 18:30 but we ask that people arrive 20 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time.

A committee member will also be standing outside the building to meet, greet, and provide directions to the venue.

Details shall be forthcoming about the content of the talks, but here is the general schedule.

Meeting Schedule

• 6:15pm: Open Doors
• 6.40pm: The Usual Suspects
• 6:45pm: General Talk: Shayne Flint - "OpenMoko: Open Source Alternative to the iPhone"
  

  Dr Flint will demonstrate the software development kit for the OpenMoko "Open Source" mobile phone. While the Apple iPhone has been getting media attention, another touch phone has been quietly under development by the Linux community and will be first to market in Australia. OpenMoko is set to revolutionise mobile communications by providing the power of Linux in a hand held touch screen device. Shayne will discuss some of the software engineering projects being formulated for use with the phones location sensitive and wireless communications features.

  Shayne will use the OpenMoko device to demonstrate the ANU's new "ANU Mobile" web service, which has just been released.

• 7:30pm: Break
• 7:45pm: Technical Talk: Ben Leslie - "Virtualisation - not just for big iron"
  

  This presentation will put forward the idea that virtualisation is a technique that is not just useful in enterprise computing, where data centres and server consolidation are king, but it is also an extremely useful technique for structuring embedded systems software stacks.

  This talk will go into some of the reasons why virtualisation is being deployed more widely in embedded systems, as well as some of the advantages that virtualisation provides in the embedded space.

  Finally, this talk provides an overview for the Open Kernel Labs' microkernel based virtualisation platform, and OK Linux, a port of the Linux kernel to run on this platform.

• 7:45pm: SLUGlets: Linux Q&A and other miscellany
• 8:30pm: Dinner

Hope to see you there!