These are talks I went to at LCA2013. As well as talks I wanted to see. I am not absolutely sure of some details, this is purely from memory.

Key (!) is very good talk, worth watching, and (*) is talk I wanted to see.

Monday

• The Future of the Linux Desktop - Bdale Garbee

Morning Tea

• OpenStack CI - Monty Taylor
• Samba 4.0 - Andrew Bartlett (!)
• The Finer Art of Being a Senior Sysadmin - Sheeri Cabral

Lunch

• Zuul - James Blair
• Two years with Samba’s autobuild - Andrew Bartlett
• Browsers and HTML5 video accessibility - Silvia Pfeiffer (*)
• VMs on VLANs on Bridges on Bonds on many NICs - Kim Hawtin (*)

Afternoon Tea

• Remixing with FOSS - Pia Waugh
• Introduction to FirefoxOS (!)
• Building an Appliance on Android (*)
• Serval Project Technology Stack (*)
• The agony and ecstasy of CI: a war story - Stewart Smith (*)
• testr - Robert Collins (*)

Tuesday

• Reasoning about Networks - Radia Perlman (!)

Morning Tea

• Feminism, anarchism and FOSS - Skye Croeser
• Overcoming imposter syndrome - Denise Paolucci (!)
• The Syzix Project - Kevin Pulo (*)
• Solving Interesting Problems by Writing Parsers - Jacinta Richardson (*)

Lunch

• Less flack, moar hack! - Kathy Reid
• Open Source Cities - Fee Plumley
• Recipe for making geek jewellery - Ruth Ellison
• Educating girls about FOSS with FOSS - Katie Miller

Afternoon Tea

• The Horrible History of Web Development - Daniel Nadasi
• The Future of HTML5 Apps - Jeremy Apthorp

Wednesday

Main conference openining

Morning Tea

• Think, Create & Critique Design by Andy Fitzsimon (*)
• Code up your own video conference in HTML5 by Silvia Pfeiffer
• Making Mobile Communications Secure by Paul Gardner-Stephen (*)
• Userspace networking: fact or fiction? by Stephen Hemminger (*)
• Open Source Digital Radio by David Rowe
• Ain’t No Party Like A Unix Party by Adam Boileau (*)

Lunch

• Droids that talk: Pairing Codec2 and Android by Joel Stanley
• Two years of LibreOffice by Michael Meeks (*)
• The IPocalypse 20 months later by Geoff Huston (!)
• How to Fix a Font by Nathan Willis (*)
• The future of non-volatile memory by Matthew Wilcox (*)

Afternoon Tea

• How to make (almost) anything go faster by Anton Blanchard (*)
• Remedies for frustration with speed, quality, and reviews by Martin Pool
• users: delighted; (better UX using CSS 3 in particular and “HTML5” in general) by Adam Harvey
• Copyright’s Dark Clouds: Optus v NRL by Ben Powell (*)
• UEFI, the Converged Firmware Infrastructure by Dong Wei (*)

Linux Australia AGM

Thursday

• Linux in the Flesh: Adventures Embedding Linux in Hardware - “bunnie” Huang (!)

Morning Tea

• Checkpoint and Restore: are we there yet? by Pavel Emelyanov (*)
• Stereographic film making and Linux by Hugh Fisher (*)
• Wiggle while you work by Neil Brown (!)
• Using Puppet to Model Application clusters by Dan Bode (*)
• Making UEFI Secure boot work for you by James Bottomley (*)
• The anatomy of a high speed data acquisition system by Jonathan Woithe
• Getting older? Tips & tricks for designing inclusive open source user interfaces by Ruth Ellison
• How to use Puppet like an Adult by Ben Kero and Daniel Maher (*)

Lunch

• ArduSat: Open Source in orbit by Jonathan Oxer
• Building a free software telemetry radio system by Andrew Tridgell (*)
• Bufferbloat from a Plumber’s point of view by Stephen Hemminger (!)

Afternoon Tea

• Git: not just for source code anymore by Josh Triplett
• 1.5MW and 3600 penguins in a room: Supercomputing at ANU by robin humble (*)
• Geeks rule over kings the Distributed Democracy by Pia Waugh (*)
• REPENT!!! FOR THE END OF THE UNIX EPOCH IS NIGH!!! by Michael Schwern (!)
• Big and Little Endian inside / out by Benjamin Herrenschmidt (*)
• RAID is more than parity and mirrors by Neil Brown (*)

Break

• Pre dinner thingy (!)

Friday

• Keynote - Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Morning Tea

• git-annex by Joey Hess
• Future directions for the X Window System by Keith Packard (*)
• Teaching the X server new tricks by David Airlie
• NovaProva, a new generation unit test framework for C programs by Gregory Banks

Lunch

• Why kernel space sucks by Michael Kerrisk (*)
• The real story behind Wayland and X by Daniel Stone (!)
• Building Persona: federated and privacy-sensitive identity for the Web by Francois Marier (!)

Afternoon Tea

• Lightning Talks
• Closing