[cobalt-users] (Qbalt) Anybody going to Linux.Conf.Au 2004?

["Ryan Verner" <xfesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hiya,

Linux.Conf.Au 2004 (http://lca2004.linux.org.au) is being held here in
Adelaide next year; it's a yearly held Linux conference held in various
capital cities in Australia, and you bet, it's bigger then ever this year.

It's one of only 3 major international open-source conferences world wide 
(other two being Ottawa Linux Symposium (OLS) and Linux Kongress).

There's well known speakers from all around the globe; checkout the Speakers
page on the LCA homepage for those currently confirmed.  There's people such
as Bdale Garbee (previous Debian DPL), Jon "maddog" Hall (Director of Linux
International), Phil Hazel (author of exim), Rasmus Lerdorf (author of PHP),
Marc Merlin (Google), Keith Packard (X Window System), Andrew Tridgell (author
of Samba), and plenty more.

Apart from hopefully raising people's interests in this, I'm posting primarily
because I'm curious (and hoping) there's going to be some past/current Cobalt
users/developers going to this conference.

If anybody is, can you let me know?  I'm lucky enough to be one of the
organisers for this event, and I'm possibly planning on holding some
interactive Qbalt sessions, including development guides and various previews
of segments of live code[1] that possibly won't be released at that point, and
it'll be a brilliant chance to actually gain input and interact with other
developers for this project if any are coming along.  There's very probably
going to be some live servers running Qbalt as well, being used for some of
the conference's features.  Of course, whether it all happens depends on
various things, main one being whether there's actually going to be anybody
interested there ;-)

Let me know - I'm hoping some are.  Even if it doesn't happen, LCA's still
worth considering going to; it's going to be huge, and in true Aussie style,
loads of fun ;-)

R

[1] This doesn't imply that Qbalt won't be released until then (0.5 only
requires a small amount of work before release, most of it lies with some
installation glitches); but there's some core Qbalt features implemented I
haven't told *anybody* about yet <grin>, and I want to get them completely
working before I commit them publically into a CVS tree to be hacked at.

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