Come to Summer 2009 - the UK's Open Systems Conference - where both developers and users of Free Libre and Open Source get together to swap knowledge and learn about the latest happenings in the Free Software world.

The venue is the The Conservatoire, Birmingham City University, B3 HG, England. The Conservatoire is in the centre of Britain's Second City within walking distance of major train and coach stations and hotels at all price ranges.

As well as useful talks and tutorials there is a healthy social scene outside the talk sessions where you will make new friends and renew old acquaintances.

With a central location in the centre of the country it is really easy to get to and accommodation at all price levels is available within a short walk of the conference venue.

With special rates for students everyone can afford to go, so mark Summer 2009 in your diaries now! Full details are at: http://summer2009.ukuug.org.uk

Tutorials, on Friday 7-Aug:

• T1. Getting into Drupal - full day Tutors: Peter Brownell and Robert Castelo, Code Positive Ltd.
• T2. Arduino Introductory Workshop - full day Tutor: Andrew Eliasz, First Technology Transfer
• T3. Introduction to LaTeX - half-day workshop Tutors: Jonathan Fine, Joseph Wright, Alun Moon
• T4. Getting to Know the GIMP - full day Tutor: Neil Woolford (professional photographer)
• T5. Getting started with Voice over IP (VoIP) - full day workshop Tutor: Quentin Wright

Talks, on Saturday and Sunday, 8/9-Aug:

• Moblin - The Netbook GUI. Michael Meeks, Novell
• Mobile Phones, Security and Open Source: Make a Difference. Craig Heath, Symbian Foundation
• OpenMoko - a nearly completely open GSM phone. Tom Yates, Gatekeeper Technology Ltd.
• Making Exim talk to an LDAP directory server. Jan-Piet Mens
• Converting 16,000 user mailboxes from MBOX to Maildir++. Ian Norton & Paul Tipper:
• Bayesian statistics and e-mail filtering. Yann Golanski
• Winning the war on spam. Ian Eiloart
• Free as in profit: Free software fonts. Dave Crossland
• The GNUspool printer management system. John Pinner and John Collins
• The Dichotomy of Open Source and Computer Games. Steven Goodwin
• Eiffel and C. Howard Thomson
• Advanced LVM. Chris Procter
• Open Street Map. Ciaran Mooney
• LinuxIT a case study in implementing Nagios network management. Bill Quinn
• TeX and LaTeX rejoining the mainstream. Jonathan Fine
• Mer - Touching Linux. David Greaves
• PostgreSQL 8.4: Setting the Standard. Simon Riggs
• The future of open source operational support systems in the telecommunications industry. Dr. Craig Gallen
• Shared-memory Multithreading Is The Wrong Way To Do Parallelism. Dr Russel Winder, Concertant LLP
• Experiences optimising the Xapian Search Engine. Richard Boulton
• Mashing Up the Guardian: How to get access to Guardian news content. Michael Brunton-Spall
• MPs' Expenses - an Op's Eye View: Paul Nasrat