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What I'm Going To Be Doing At LCA2010

This time next week, I'll be 30,000 feet over the tasman sea, winging my way to New Zealand for this years linux.conf.au.

I'm going to be presenting two talks at the Google Wave miniconf:

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Linux Australia Council Nominations

If you hadn't noticed already, the elections for the 2010 Linux Australia Council have been open for a little while. You may also notice that I've been nominated for the role of Vice President (well got one nomination so far, just need another one :)).

I've decided to return to the arena for a couple of reasons:

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ISP Filtering - A Letter To My Member

Okay here's a first draft of the letter I'm planning on sending to my local member:



I am writing to you concerning the proposed introduction of a mandatory ISP filtering scheme by the Australian Federal Government.

ISP Filtering

During last weeks Broadband Future event the focus was on the future, what changes would the NBN bring to this country, how would it change the delivery of medical services, media production and so on and so forth. People were excited and looking forward to the new challenges.

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Revolving Door Gets One More Spin

As if to prove that the Labor party is as capable of self destructive behaviour on a scale rarely seen as the Liberal party, the NSW Labor party last night threw out Nathan Rees and installed Kristine Keneally, just two weeks after Nathan Rees had requested and recieved extraordinary (for a Labor premier anyway) powers to actually select his own cabinet.

So now we have a State being ruled by its fourth Premier in as many years. It's fair to say that of the past three leaders, the people of NSW have actually managed to elect just one of them.

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Double Dissolution - An Opportunity

So now that the Government has the trigger and the ammunition for a Double Dissolution election, what does that mean for the rest of us?

First off let's be clear what a Double Dissolution election actually entails:

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Down Goes The CPRS, What Now?

Well true to their word, the Coalition has voted down the CPRS for the second time in the Senate and has handed the Government a Double Dissolution trigger.

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Welcome to Bizarro World

The latest article about the ongoing train wreck that is the NSW Labor Government only highlights the alternate reality that the so called "Ruling Class" seems to be living in.

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FedOne inching closer to being useful

Okay I've added a new section to the FedOne book. This time we're concentrating on the FedOne Agent framework, which provides the same sort of functionality to FedOne that the Robots API does for Googles own Wave servers.

FedOne Agent Framework

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A Couple of Conf Things

I know I haven't blogged for a little while, and I promise a fuller post later on, however for now there's a couple of conf things I want to promote:

OSDC:

The Open Source Developers Conference is going to be held in Brisbane at the Bardon Conference Centre from the 25th November to the 27th.

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