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Spring 2008 Timetable

Here is a provisional timetable, which may be subject to minor changes in the run up to Spring 2008.

Monday 31st March

.	Recital Hall	New Lecture Theatre	Arena Foyer
Talk PG Talk Plenary Event Meeting etc Social Event Tutorial Break
09:30	Tutorial Registration and Coffee
10:30	Building the network you need with OpenBSD's PF Peter N M Hansteen	An Introduction to Python John Pinner	Perl Teach-In Dave Cross
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Building the network you need with OpenBSD's PF	An Introduction to Python	Perl Teach-In
15:30	Break
16:00	Building the network you need with OpenBSD's PF	An Introduction to Python	Perl Teach-In
17:30	Finish for Day
19:30	Social at the Walkabout Australian Bar, 266a Broad Street

Tuesday 1st April

.	Recital Hall	New Lecture Theatre	Arena Foyer
Talk PG Talk Plenary Event Meeting etc Social Event Tutorial Break
08:00	Spring 2008 Registration and Coffee
09:00	Introduction and Welcome, Recital Hall
09:30	Using cross-platform virtualisation for enterprise workload mobility Geraint North	Feeding the BBC Homepage Mark Gledhill, Robin Doran	.
10:15	Utilisation of virtual infrastructures for efficient realisation of SaaS Sas Mihindu	Testing with Selenium Barbie	.
11:00	Break
11:30	Excel on the Command Line Jon Allen	System Configuration : An end to hacky scripts? Stephen Quinney	.
12:00	Perl Regex processing Brian McCaulay		.
12:15		Flexiscale : Next Generation Data Centre Management Gihan Munasinghe, Paul Anderson	.
12:30	An Introduction to DBIx::Class Tom Hukins		.
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Building a new model for account management Simon Wilkinson	The Great Language Debate Dr Russel Winder	Open Space for BoFs
14:45	OpenLDAP 2.4 Improvements Gavin Henry
15:00		Perl is Mike Whitaker
15:30	Break
16:00	Advances in OpenSolaris Network Administration Phil Kirk	Extract, transform and load tabular data using Python Alex Willmer	Open Space for BoFs
16:30		Option and Configuration Processing with Perl Jon Allen
16:45	Dynamic Tracing and Dynamic Languages John Levon
17:00		Command Line Option Processiing with Python John Pinner
17:30	Software patents and open standards Pieter Hintjens
18:00	Finish for Day
19:30	Dinner at the Novotel, Broad Street
23:30	Carriages, or late bar extension to 1:00am

Wednesday 2nd April

.	Recital Hall	New Lecture Theatre	Arena Foyer, PGUK
Talk PG Talk Plenary Event Meeting etc Social Event Tutorial Break
08:30	Coffee and PGUK Registration
09:30	Today's Software ... Is It Really Bloated? Dr Randy Appleton	Perl-based Mobile Production Ssystems - the WAP Admin Tool Daniel Giribet, Barnabas Aspray	Welcome and PostgreSQL in the UK Simon Riggs
10:00			How the PostgreSQL Project Works Dave Page
10:15	Managing Monitoring in Distributed Environments Simon Wilkinson	Testing with Perl Barbie
10:30			PostgreSQL at clara.net Chris Fewtrell
11:00	Break
11:30	ZFS - The last word in File Systems George Shepherd	Introduction to Functional Programming with Perl Jon Allen	Explaining EXPLAIN Greg Stark
12:15	USENET gems Brian McCaulay	Introduction to Functional Programming in Python David Jones	Availability of PostgreSQL in the Data Centre Detlef Ulherr
13:00	Lunch
13:45	.	.	Experience with Full Text Search Richard Huxton
14:00	WARP Dr Martin Wright		Integrating Map Data with PostGIS Mark Cave-Ayland
14:30			.
14:45	Effective Spam and Malware Countermeasures Peter N M Hansteen	Perl Web application packaging and deployment Matt S Trout	PostgreSQL Performance Features in 8.3 Simon Riggs
15:00			Integrated Monitoring for PostgreSQL Tim Retout
15:30	Break - Tea and Meet the PGUK Sponsors
16:00	Lightning Talks, Draw and Close		PGUK BoFs
17:00			PostgreSQL UK User Group Meeting and wrap-up
17:30	Finish