Instruction for presenters

All presentations (except lightning talks) must be accompanied by presentation materials. A detailed paper complementing your talk matter would be preferred - your slides merely illustrate your verbal presentation (and will require full presenter notes).

Failure to submit a paper may result in speaker benefits being withdrawn.

Presentation Format

We will accept the following types of presentation:

• Standard (45 minutes) - This is the preferred format. 40 minutes for talking and 5 minutes for questions (with 5 minutes spare for set-up and take-down). This is enough time to cover a few issues well and allows us to provide a good selection of talks throughout the day.
• Lightning Talks (5 minutes) - You don't need to submit a proposal for a lightning talk. These will be organised from sign-up sheets at the conference. Instructions will be given on the first day.
  Lightning talks are brief talks that focus on a single example, idea, project or technique. Lightning talks are not expected to cover all aspects of the subject. They're an excellent forum for first-time speakers.

Submission Stages

1. Proposals
Your proposal will need to include:

• your name and a bit of bio info (include a bit about your qualifications regarding your presentation topic)
• name of talk
• a really brief summary of the presentation (around 30 words)
• a description of what you expect to cover (around 200 words)
• who your talk is likely to interest (some keywords)
• which OpenSource kernel your talk covers – it can be more than one
• likely topic of talk (stream)
• name and bio information of any co-authors

Don't panic. We don't require you to have written the technology that you want to talk about. If you use something in your day to day working life and you think that other people might benefit from using it, then feel free to propose a talk on it.

Please send your proposal to the committee via email: kca_2009_submissions-ext@sun.com

2. Proposals acceptance
Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their proposal by the proposal acceptance date. Obviously we'd love to accept as many proposals as we can, but we only have a certain number of sessions to fill.

If you require faster confirmation of acceptance (for example, because you are traveling from overseas and require extra time to make arrangements) please communicate this to the committee when submitting your proposal.

3. Paper Submission
All presenters are required to submit presentation materials by the specified date.  Failure to do so may result in loss of your speaking slot and speaker benefits.

This submission is to be your full paper, not a draft. It should contain all of the usual aspects of a paper such as an abstract, introduction, body and conclusion. Please ensure that this submission has had its grammar and spelling corrected and that code snippets work.

Your paper allows attendees who attended your talk a chance to refresh their memories about your presentation, and gives attendees who missed your talk a chance to learn from you anyway. Make sure your paper includes - at the very least - a brief introduction to your subject material and a list of further resources.

We would prefer that papers for standard length talks to be no more than 10 A4 2-column pages of 11-point type with reasonable margins. The accepted file format is PDF.

4. Review results
All papers will be reviewed. The purpose of review is to ensure that papers are of a high quality and to aid our talk scheduling. The purpose is not to identify spelling or grammatical errors or to test code snippets, although errors may be corrected during the review if found. Obviously, we'd strongly recommend you ask a friend or colleague to give your paper a read through before you submit it.

Once your paper has been reviewed, the review results will be provided to you so that you can make the requested improvements for the published version.

5. Proceedings version
This is the final copy of your paper as it will be collated in the conference proceedings.

Speaker Benefits

All speakers (except for lightning talks) at Kernel Conference Australia will have their conference registration fee waived.

Note that it is important that you get your papers in by the due date - we reserve the right to withdraw the free registration if you don't get it in on time. If you're having problems meeting the deadlines, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can work with you to figure it out.