linux.conf.au consists of a day of tutorials and three days of technical sessions concentrating on issues related to the development of Linux and other open systems. The conference takes place February 6-9, 2002 in Brisbane, Australia.

The following types of session are available:

Paper presentations (1 hour)
Work-in-progress presentations (1/2 hour)
Hands-on tutorials (2-4 hours)
Birds of a Feather Sessions
Panel Sessions

Papers related to one or more of the following topics will be considered:

kernel, embedded and real-time systems,
device drivers, filesystems, software development,
networking, clustering, high-availability,
high-end graphics, multimedia, simulation,
configuration management, packaging systems,
significant community-related developments

The University of Queensland is situated in St Lucia, Brisbane. It is close to the Gold Coast and only a short distance from the city centre. February is mid-summer in Australia.

linux.conf.au is a collaborative effort by Linux Australia, the Home Unix Machine Brisbane Users Group and affiliated organisations. It is supported by the School of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, at the University of Queensland. This event is a successor to linux.conf.au 2001, held in Sydney in January 2001.

 
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