SYDNEY, Australia -- 14 October, 2003 -- AUUG, the organisation for UNIX and Open Source professionals, today announced  the first annual Australian conference on Linux and Open Source in Government. The conference is being jointly organised by AUUG and Linux Australia as a "miniconference" of Linux.conf.au and will be held in Adelaide, South Australia, on 12 and 13 January 2004.  Titled "The Challenges", the conference will focus on best practices, raise awareness and share experiences amongst Policy Makers and IT officials. Participants will come from Government and public departments, the academic sector, and local, national and international organizations.

Proposed topics for the conference include:

• Demonstrations of Open Source Projects
• The Role of Open Source in Government
• Use of Open Source in State and Local Government
• Citizen-Centric eGovernment
• IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture
• Open Source Licenses and other Legal Issues
• Business Cases: Total Cost of Ownership
• Contemporary Security Issues
• Open Source and the Critical Information Infrastructure
• Open Source in the Military
• Open Source in Health Care and Bioinformatics
• Open Source Empowering People with Disabilities

"Linux and Open Source in Government 2004 - The Challenges" will be held at The University Of Adelaide, 12 to 13 January 2004. More details will be available at http://classic.auug.org.au/events/2004/ocgconf

The conference will take place within the framework of Linux.conf.au, a major technical conference for open source developers, held in the same precinct on subsequent days, January 14-16.  Linux.conf.au is for Linux, BSD and other related tools of the open source trade.  Registrants for linux.conf.au receive complimentary entry to "Linux and Open Source in Government" and all other miniconfs being held in the same week.

Proposals for papers can be made to the programme committee (mailto:ocgconf@auug.org.au) before 31 October 2003.

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AUUG Inc. is the Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group, the organisation for UNIX and Open Source professionals. Dating from 1975, AUUG is a national body with chapters that organise local activities in most capital cities.

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