Papers
Keynotes
Dinner Keynote - Damian Conway
The Da Vinci Codebase
When a dying operating system scrawls his name across its corrupted boot volume, Dr. Damian Conway, an unassuming college professor, is plunged into a deadly race against time to solve a series of impossible riddles. What is the mysterious "Priory of Bios?" And who are their deadly nemeses "Opus Arai?" On the run from the law and stalked by a ghostly pale killer, will he unravel the subtle clues hidden in Leonardo's most famous source code and reveal to the world the incredible secret encrypted in...the Da Vinci Codebase?
Keynote - Randal L. Schwartz
Free software - A look back, a look ahead
A twenty year history of the free/open software movement, from my perspective of how to contribute (in many ways!) and how to make money as well.
Keynote - Richard Farnsworth
Open Source Synchrotron
As well as an overview of "What is a Synchrotron anyway?" I'd like to discuss the continuing development of the Australian Synchrotron, including software in the lead up to us achieving first light in last July, the refining of the code base to suit local conditions, and how that helps the rest of the Synchrotron open source community, the development of experimental Beamlines with large amounts of open and semi-open source code and some of the design decisions made possible when scientists and engineers are ready to share information, experience and software. I'd also like to touch on open source hardware concepts.
Keynote - Anthony Baxter
futurepython
import __future__
What does the future hold for the Python language? In this talk, we'll look at Microsoft's (Open Sourced!) IronPython and show some of the massive fun coming down the track for scripting languages thanks to .Net and Mono. We'll also cover Python 3.0 (now under development) and the PyPy (Python, in Python) project.