Linux 2003 Conference Questionnaire

1. Where did you first hear about the Conference?

UKUUG Newsletter
UKUUG Direct Mailing
UKUUG Website
From a Colleague
From a Magazine (please give name below)
Elsewhere (please state below)

2. What was the deciding factor in your decision to attend?

2b. How did you travel to Edinburgh for the Conference?

Live locally
Train
Drove own/borrowed car
Lift in car with someone else
Air
Coach
Drove Commerically hired car
Other

3. Do you have any comments on the decision to split into two streams for part of the programme?

4. Presentations

Please rate each presentation given on a scale of 0-5 on the grounds of content, relevance to you and presentation.
Content and Relevant to you: 0 = non-relevance to me; 5 = extremely relevant
Presentation Style: (0 = poor style, technique, materials; 5= excellent style, technique and materials).
These comments may be passed anonymously to the speaker concerned
Speaker Content and Relevance Presentation Style Comments
Kurt Pfeifle (Migrating Windows Network Printing to Samba and CUPS) 0 5 0 5
Andy Fenselau (New Breakthroughs in Linux Supercomputing) 0 5 0 5
Richard J Moore (Linux@IBM) 0 5 0 5
Jon 'maddog' Hall (Extreme Linux Programming - A Continuum) 0 5 0 5
Jan Kiszka (IrCOMM2k: Porting Linux IrDA to the Windows Kernel) 0 5 0 5
John Pinner (Core Business Applications for GNU/Linux) 0 5 0 5
Richard J Moore (RelayFS: Transmitting data from kernel to userspace) 0 5 0 5
David Chan (The Government Gateway and Linux) 0 5 0 5
Christoph Hellwig (XFS) 0 5 0 5
Dr Anand Ramkissoon (Free and Open Source Software in the Health Service) 0 5 0 5
Takashi Iwai (Sound Systems on Linux: From the Past to the Future) 0 5 0 5
Andrew Nicolson (Not Fired for Buying Linux? Quirks of Open Source Adopters' worldviews) 0 5 0 5
Conrad Parker (Sweep: Real-world audio editing on Linux) 0 5 0 5
Sandro Zic (Software for Open Communities) 0 5 0 5
Ian Naylor (Developing Linux for the Common Woman (and her husband)) 0 5 0 5
Simon Myers (Cross-Platform GUI Development with WxWindows) 0 5 0 5
James Jarvis (Using GNU/Linux to Deliver Windows XP to the Desktop) 0 5 0 5
Bo Thorsen (Kroupware) 0 5 0 5
Aaron Crane (Mass Unattended Linux Installations) 0 5 0 5
David Faure (KDE Development) 0 5 0 5
Armijn Hemel (Using buildfarms to improve code) 0 5 0 5
Gian Filippo Pinzari (Remote desktops with NX) 0 5 0 5
Simon Myers (Power Shell Usage: Bash Tips & Tricks) 0 5 0 5
Dave Jones (Ugly Ducklings: Resurrecting unmaintained code) 0 5 0 5
Tony Smith (Source Control and Configuration Management using Perforce) 0 5 0 5
Daniel Phillips (Simple, Robust Software RAID for Linux 2.6) 0 5 0 5
Klaus Weidner (Debian on Handheld Computers) 0 5 0 5
Nils Magnus (Forensics) 0 5 0 5
Martin Michlmayr (Managing Debian) 0 5 0 5
Nils Magnus (Layer 2 Networking Vulnerabilities) 0 5 0 5
Bdale Garbee (Portability from a Debian perspective) 0 5 0 5
Harald Welte (Linux Packet Filtering: The Future) 0 5 0 5
Mike Banahan (Real Time/Embedded C on Linux: An Introduction) 0 5 0 5
Sandro Zic (CONESYS: The COntent NEtwork SYstem) 0 5 0 5
Daniel Barlow () 0 5 0 5
Siu (Automated Website Synthesis) 0 5 0 5
David Gibson (Linux on the eLAP) 0 5 0 5
Peter Ryland (Efficiency in the XML Era) 0 5 0 5
John Hearns (Mini-ITX) 0 5 0 5
Jonathan Riddell (UML Modelling in Free Software with Umbrello) 0 5 0 5
Stephen Coast (PIC Programming with Open Source Tools) 0 5 0 5
Matthew Garrett (Dasher: An information efficient text entry and control system) 0 5 0 5

5. Overall, did you feel that the Conference lived up to your expectations?

Definitely not Exceeded my expectations

6a. How did you rate the Scottish Buffet Supper (if applicable)?

 Terrible Excellent

6b. How did you rate the event at 'Dynamic Earth' (if applicable)?

 Terrible Excellent

7. Who picks up most of the costs you incur in attending this conference?

 I do personally
Somebody else does (e.g. employer, sponsor)

8. Which is your conference registration category?

 A Student Rate
Very Early Bird Rate (Jan/Feb) £17.50
Early Bird Rate £30
Standard Conference Rate £60
A Commercial Rate
A package rate
Other (e.g. Speaker)
Unsure

9. Was the meeting good value for money?

 Definitely Not Exceedingly Good Value

10. Did you attend any of the following UKUUG Conferences?

 Linux 98 (Manchester)
Linux 99 (Aston)
Linux 2000 (London)
Winter Conference 2001 (Newcastle)
Linux 2001 (Manchester)
Winter Conference 2002 (SOAS)
Linux 2002 (Bristol)
Winter Conference 2003 (Institute of Physics)

11. If you attended any of the previous UKUUG LINUX conferences, how did this year's compare?

12. Did you attend any of the following?

 Ottawa Linux Symposium
Debconf (Oslo)
(F)OSDEM (Brussels)
LinuxTag
SANE (Maastricht)
YAPC::Europe
LSM (Bordeaux)

13. What type of Events would you like to see organised in the future?

14. Any other comments you would like to make about the meeting - either regarding the content or organisational?

Statements may be used (anonymously) in advertising material to promote future events

15. Would you like to get involved with the UKUUG either by standing for Council or joining one of the sub-committees? (Newsletter, email and website, events, CD production) -- if yes, please remember to give your details below).

 Yes
No

16. Contact Details (optional)
Name:
Email Address:
Tel No:

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