Speakers Announced for the Open Computing in Government Conference

1 January 1970

AUUG, the organisation for UNIX, Linux and Open Source professionals, today announced key speakers for the second annual Australian Open Computing in Government conference. Titled "Future-proofing Government Computing: Open Data, Formats and Standards", the conference will focus on best practices, raise awareness and share experiences amongst Policy Makers and IT officials. Participants will come from Government and the public sector, the academic sector, and local, national and international organizations. The conference will be held at the Manning Clark Centre at The Australian National University, Canberra on Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 April 2005.

Keynote presenters include:

Senator Stephen Conroy, Deputy Leader of the Federal Labor Party in the Senate, Shadow Minister for Communications & Information Technology
Tony Judge, General Manager Business Strategies, Australian Government Information Management Office ( AGIMO )
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Thawte and Ubuntu, and the first African in Space
With the growing importance of Open Source and Open Systems to Government the conference will be a key resource and meeting place for users, developers and vendors wanting to learn more.
Some additional speakers include:

Kevin Russell, WA Department of Industry and Resources ( DoIR ) ( OpenSource.wa.gov.au )

Stephen McInerney, HealthInsite and the Federal Dept of Health

Pia Smith, Linux Australia

Paul Kangro, Novell

Avi Miller, Squiz.net

Brendan Scott, Open Source Law

Ian Oi, Blake Dawson Waldron
Tom Knapp, CSC
Greg Stone, National Technology Officer for Microsoft Australia

A full speaker list, programme and abstracts for most papers will be available soon online at http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/ocg/

Those wishing to attend need to register online at http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/ocg/registration.html

"Open Computing in Government ( OCG ) 2005 - Future-proofing Government Computing: Open Data, Formats and Standards" will be held at Manning Clark Centre at The Australian National University, Canberra April 18th and 19th 2005. More details are available at http://www.auug.org.au/events/2005/ocg/

The conference will take place at the same venue and with the cooperation of Linux.conf.au, a major technical conference for open source developers, held in the same precinct on subsequent days, April 18-23. Linux.conf.au is for Linux, BSD and other related tools of the open source trade. Registrants for linux.conf.au receive discounted entry to "Open Computing in Government ( OCG ) 2005".

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