From contact at everythingopen.au Sun Nov 19 19:07:47 2023 From: contact at everythingopen.au (Everything Open) Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:07:47 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Everything Open 2024: Call for Sessions Now Open In-Reply-To: <5a65ea4f28801f0b95d4e01999261fa2@everythingopen.au> References: <5a65ea4f28801f0b95d4e01999261fa2@everythingopen.au> Message-ID: Hi Everyone, This is your friendly neighbourhood Session Selection Committee Co-Chairs, Donna Benjamin and Sae Ra Germaine. Firstly we would like to thank all those who have submitted a talk for Everything Open 2024. We are looking forward to reviewing them all. We have had a quick chat and would like do a few things to support those who may be interested in submitting a proposal. * Run a "Write Here, Write Now" session on Sunday 26 November 2023. Please register your interest here: https://forms.gle/3CBFJiwPudWPRfsU6 ** This session will be a focused activity session where we will provide advise, guidance, and focus to complete your submission, with checkpoints if needed. ** Once you have registered we will send through a link to join us on Sunday with a calendar invite. * Given that the "Write Here, Write Now" session is on Sunday 26th this means that we are extending the Call for Sessions a few more days to make sure everyone has an opportunity to submit. ** Call for Sessions is extended to 11:59pm on Thursday 30 November 2023 anywhere on earth (AoE). If you have any questions regarding your submission please don't hesitate to contact Sae Ra or Donna via contact at everythingopen.au Looking forward to seeing those proposals flood in! Donna and Sae Ra -- Co-Chairs Session Selection Committee Everything Open 2024 Gladstone, Queensland On 2023-10-15 10:16, Everything Open wrote: > Submit your session proposals today - the Everything Open 2024 Call > for Sessions is now open. > > > ## Call for Sessions > > We invite you to submit a session proposal on a topic you are familiar > with via our proposals portal at > https://2024.everythingopen.au/programme/proposals/. > The Call for Sessions will remain open until 11:59pm on Sunday 19 > November 2023 anywhere on earth (AoE). > > There will be multiple streams catering for a wide range of interest > areas across the many facets of open technology, including Linux, open > source software, open hardware, standards, formats and documentation, > and our communities. > In keeping with the conference?s aim to be inclusive to all community > members, presentations can be aimed at any level, ranging from > technical deep-dives through to beginner and intermediate level > presentations for those who are newer to the subject. > > There will be two types of sessions at Everything Open: talks and > tutorials. > Talks will nominally be 45 minutes long on a single topic presented in > lecture format. We will also have a few short talk slots of 25 minutes > available, which are perfect for people new to presenting at a > conference. Tutorials are interactive and hands-on in nature, > presented in classroom format. > Each accepted session will receive one Professional level ticket to > attend the conference. > > The Session Selection Committee is looking forward to reading your > submissions. We would also like to thank them for coming together and > volunteering their time to help put this conference together. > > > ## Sponsor Early > > As usual, we have a range of sponsorship opportunities available, for > the conference overall as well as the ability to contribute towards > specific parts of the event. > We encourage you to sponsor the conference early, to get the maximum > promotion during the lead up to the event. > If you or your organisation is interested in sponsoring Everything > Open, please get in touch via > https://2024.everythingopen.au/sponsors/prospectus/. > > ---- > Read this online at > https://2024.everythingopen.au/news/call-for-sessions-open/ From ben at stumbles.id.au Wed Nov 22 12:14:38 2023 From: ben at stumbles.id.au (Ben Sturmfels) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2023 01:14:38 +0000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Conservancy's annual fundraiser just launched - please donate! Message-ID: <802941aa-4ef8-8f9b-f678-696abc1858fc@stumbles.id.au> Hi Folks, Software Freedom Conservancy have just launched their annual fundraiser, so if you're in a position to, please support their hard work and leadership in the free and open source! Please become a sustainer here: https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/ As you might know, Conservancy provide an organisational home and services to some critical projects like Inkscape, OpenWRT, Busybox, Git, QEMU and Samba. They run the Outreachy program to get under-represented groups involved in free and open source. They also work to ensure you have the rights to study/modify the software on the devices you own, by working with manufacturers to ensure GPL license compliance. There's a great 3min video with more detail at the above link. The Linux Australia community have a long history of generously supporting Conservancy's work, so please show them you still value what they do. (Disclaimer: I am biased because I do a little bit of contract work on Conservancy's systems, but I have just renewed my own personal annual contribution.) Regards, Ben From kathy at kathyreid.id.au Thu Nov 23 15:43:39 2023 From: kathy at kathyreid.id.au (Kathy Reid) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2023 15:43:39 +1100 Subject: [Linux-aus] =?utf-8?q?Do_you_have_young=2C_tech-minded_people_fro?= =?utf-8?q?m_Aotearoa_in_your_circles_/_wh=C4=81nau_who_are_studying_IT=3F?= Message-ID: Then they may be interested in the Catalyst open source scholarships for tertiary students studying IT? - $NZ 6k over 3 years https://www.catalyst.net.nz/catalyst-open-source-scholarships Kind regards, Kathy Reid From simon at darkmere.gen.nz Sat Nov 25 08:36:40 2023 From: simon at darkmere.gen.nz (Simon Lyall) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 10:36:40 +1300 (NZDT) Subject: [Linux-aus] Conservancy's annual fundraiser just launched - please donate! In-Reply-To: <802941aa-4ef8-8f9b-f678-696abc1858fc@stumbles.id.au> References: <802941aa-4ef8-8f9b-f678-696abc1858fc@stumbles.id.au> Message-ID: <8438609a-2372-82ef-5c61-8e482228452c@darkmere.gen.nz> Unfortuneately I get the error "Donations to this recipient aren't supported in this country" from Paypal. Looks like this is a known problem from "Asia" https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/donate-to-inkscape/ also got the same error with SPI. On Wed, 22 Nov 2023, Ben Sturmfels via linux-aus wrote: > Software Freedom Conservancy have just launched their annual fundraiser, so > if you're in a position to, please support their hard work and leadership in > the free and open source! > > Please become a sustainer here: > https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/ > > As you might know, Conservancy provide an organisational home and services to > some critical projects like Inkscape, OpenWRT, Busybox, Git, QEMU and Samba. > They run the Outreachy program to get under-represented groups involved in > free and open source. They also work to ensure you have the rights to > study/modify the software on the devices you own, by working with > manufacturers to ensure GPL license compliance. There's a great 3min video > with more detail at the above link. > > The Linux Australia community have a long history of generously supporting > Conservancy's work, so please show them you still value what they do. > > (Disclaimer: I am biased because I do a little bit of contract work on > Conservancy's systems, but I have just renewed my own personal annual > contribution.) > > Regards, > Ben > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to > linux-aus-unsubscribe at lists.linux.org.au > -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.simonlyall.com/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar