[activities] SLUG monthly meeting: 30 April 2010

===Summary===

  * Date: Friday April 30
  * Start time: Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start
  * Format: Main presentations with BOFs running in parallel

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===First Half===
==Main presentation==
Robert Smit: Upstart - the event-driven init replacement

Upstart is a replacement to the init process that Unixs have
been using to start all there key processes for more than 30 years.
Ubuntu's Canonical decided that, they needed a more event driven init
system and both Ubuntu and Fedora have been using Upstart in a backwards
compatible arrangement for more than 3 years but with 10.04 are now
starting to move away from the old init scripts.

==BOFs==
OLPC Friends: Sridhar Dhanapalan will be giving a brief talk an Q&A
session about OLPC Australia's recent deployment in Yirrkala in East
Arnhem Land.

===Second Half===
==Main Presentation==
Erik de Castro Lopo: Programming: How can we do it better? Part II
(Part I available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZDy7ExHjMM)

As developers, we hear a constant stream of complaints about how
software (not necessarily our own) is buggy and crashes. In this
presentation I plan to look at what we can do now and in the future to
make software development more reliable, repeatable and scalable.

==BOFs==

Multimedia - Topics TBA
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