ITWire

The conference, being held at the Australian National University in Canberra from January 28 to February 2, will have two days of mini-conferences and three days devoted to the main event.

The three mini-conferences announced are titled Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Storage and High Availability; OpenStack; and MobileFOSS.

The first will focus on the building of cloud systems, right from basic infrastructure to the building applications atop IaaS (Infrastructure as a service).

OpenStack is a project begun by NASA and Rackspace and is now supported by a number of companies which are either predominantly using open source software or else using only open source software for their businesses. This mini-conf will look at developments in the project and also different strategies for deployment.

The third mini-conference, MobileFOSS, will cover the mobile space and how open source can grow along with it as it develops.