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PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  Speakers Announced for the Open Computing in Government Conference

 AUUG announces key speakers for the second annual Australian conference
  on Open Computing in Government to be held in April 2005 in Canberra

SYDNEY, Australia -- 17 March, 2005 -- 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://classic.auug.org.au/events/2005/ocg/

Those wishing to attend need to register online at
http://classic.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://classic.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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