LugRadio Live
2009

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Talks

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9.30 Doors open Doors open Doors open
10.00 Brock Craft: tinker.it Tom Edwards: Supercomputers and Linux
10.30
11.00 Gervase Markham: Mozilla Drumbeat and My First Program Martin Meredith: Hack the Planet
11.30
12.00 Matthew Somerville: MySociety Glyn Wintle: Open Rights Group campaigns
12.30 Fabian Scherschel: Get 'em Young - Linux in Schools
13.00 Lunch Lunch
13.30 Tony Whitmore: Podcasting for fun and, erm, fun
14.00 Des Burley: A Real Lawyer Speaks Matthew Paul Thomas: How to complain about usability
14.30 Stuart Colville: Web application security
15.00 Andy "blackadder" Robinson: OpenStreetMap Craig Rothwell: OpenPandora Re-LoaD: The origins of a Hacker Con
15.30
16.00 Bruno Bord: This is not a talk Steve Lamb: The Changing Face of Work Alex Howells: The pitfalls to implementing content caching when some of your customers are clueless 'tards
16.30 Jon Allen: The Camel and the Snake
17.00 LugRadio Live and Unleashed

Main stage

10.00 Brock Craft: tinker.it

Brock Craft talks about tinker.it, the design studio that build interactive products, spaces and events that bridge the physical and the digital. Tinker.it are heavily involved with the Arduino scene in the UK.

11.00 Gervase Markham: Mozilla Drumbeat and My First Program

Gervase Markham from Mozilla will talk about Mozilla Drumbeat, the Mozilla project's effort to convince the world to care about the openness of the web. As an encore, in honour of the theme of the conference, he'll be taking you through the first serious program he ever wrote - written in BBC BASIC.

12.00 Matthew Somerville: MySociety

Matthew Somerville talks about MySociety, who built and run most of the UK’s best known democracy websites such as WriteToThem, Downing Street Petitions, TheyWorkForYou, and PledgeBank.

13.00 Lunch

Showing of "The Story of LugRadio" on the main stage

14.00 Des Burley: A Real Lawyer Speaks

Des Burley, an actual proper technology lawyer, speaks on real issues of UK technology law and takes your questions.

15.00 Andy "blackadder" Robinson: OpenStreetMap

Andy Robinson, aka blackadder, one of the principal movers behind OpenStreetMap, talks about the open mapping project and its progress.

16.00 Bruno Bord: This is not a talk

The one, the only, the legendary Bruno Bord, LugRadio (deputy) Community Hero and famously French, delivers another of his LRL talks.

17.00 LugRadio Live and Unleashed

The last LugRadio Live and Unleashed. Ever.

Second stage

10.00 Tom Edwards: Supercomputers and Linux

Tom Edwards on supercomputers, how they're made and how Linux and free software makes a significant contribution to their operation. The talk covers the kind of problems that they are used to solve (briefly) and what tools are already out there to do parallel programming at home (OpenMP and GOMP in GCC and message passing libraries like OpenMPI and MPICH).

Tom is a PhD student at Edinburgh studying how to make Nuclear Fusion simulations work better on our 22000 processor system, HECToR (www.hector.ac.uk) and he's worked at the Met Office on their weather model.

11.00 Martin Meredith: Hack the Planet

Martin Meredith gives you a whirlwind tour of the hackers mind, and teaches you how to hack things around you in every-day life

12.00 Glyn Wintle: Open Rights Group campaigns

13.00 Lunch

possibly a Wii championship in the upstairs room :-)

14.00 Matthew Paul Thomas: How to complain about usability

Matthew Paul Thomas, aka mpt, draws on his ten years of experience in complaining, both successfully and unsuccessfully, about the usability of Free Software projects.

15.00 Craig Rothwell: OpenPandora

Craig Rothwell, official UK GP2X distributor, talks about OpenPandora, the open source handheld gaming console.

16.00 Steve Lamb: The Changing Face of Work

Steve Lamb talks about how technology can help companies innovate out of the recession.

Third stage

12.30 Fabian Scherschel: Get 'em Young - Linux in Schools

Fab from Linux Outlaws talks about Linux adoption in schools.

13.30 Tony Whitmore: Podcasting for fun and, erm, fun

Tony Whitmore of the Ubuntu UK Podcast talks about producing a podcast, both the techie stuff and the things the team have learnt since starting their show in 2008. Come to this talk if you have ever wondered how to put together a podcast using Free Software, or if you've ever wondered why anybody would want to.

14.30 Stuart Colville: Web application security

A look at the security issues that can affect a web application with
some practical tips on how to avoid them.

15.00 Re-LoaD: The origins of a Hacker Con

Re-LoaD, organiser of BrumCon, the Birmingham hacker convention, talks about how it all happened.

16.00 Alex Howells: The pitfalls to implementing content caching when some of your customers are clueless 'tards

The general pitfalls of implementing content-caching "company wide" versus advantages of making your single app support it, and common tags and ways to [ab]use them, etc...

16.30 Jon Allen: The Camel and the Snake

"What would you get if you crossed a camel and a snake? Cake, of course!"

In this talk JJ will compare and contrast Perl and Python solutions to the same problem, looking at coding style and readability to see what Perl can learn from "the dark side".

We couldn't do this without

Matthew Bloch and Bytemark Hosting. Bytemark have sponsored every LugRadio Live in the UK. They host our servers, answer our questions, and drink Jagerbombs. Hosting company of win.

Mike Evans at MSE Design. Mike has been the LugRadio designer since the very first time we had a design, and he's wonderful. Call him for all your design work. Really. He's just got married, too, so buy him a pint.

Hans-Jörg Ehren at Linux Magazine. Our official media partners once again!

System76. Purveyors of really, really sweet hardware to the Ubuntu world.

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