From president at linux.org.au Fri Apr 21 11:58:52 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:58:52 +1000 Subject: [Announce] Update on a few Linux Australia activities Message-ID: <418302df-575f-eaba-f148-6241ca1c8e8d@linux.org.au> Hi everyone, Hope this note finds you all well, and as we head into another long weekend, please do stay that way. As always, we're committed to keeping our membership up to date on Linux Aus Council activities, both in the interests of transparency and openness, but also to keep touching base with our membership and ensuring our activities are in line with what you, our membership, would like us to be doing. VALA Tech Camp, Melbourne, July 2017 Linux Australia is partnering with VALA to provide a $2500 Diversity Scholarship to VALA Tech Camp, to be held in Melbourne in July. The event has a strong open technologies focus for the Library sector. The Scholarship will be focussed on under-represented cohorts such as Indigenous and rural and regional practitioners. We're working through the specific wording, and more details will be available shortly. Linux Australia will also be helping to deliver some content around open APIs on the day, and we've reached out to the Melbourne Python community - who have responded brilliantly - to deliver some introductory Python content. I'd like to thank Hugh Rundle and Lesley Ryall at VALA for their professionalism and desire to help libraries and technology intersect. https://portal.vala.org.au/page-18116 Discussions with Internet Australia, IT Professionals Association and Telecommunications Society regarding 'what happens after NBN' Led by George Fong from Internet Australia, several organisations have met recently to discuss what happens after the NBN rollout. I will not insult your intelligence by recapping those issues here, other than to say that some critical thinking at a national policy level is required to understand how Australia's digital infrastructure will be shaped beyond 2020. Linux Australia is delighted to be working with our colleagues across the Australian technology landscape to drive some of these conversations, and I'd like to flag that a more formal announcement is being prepared. As always, your comment and feedback will be actively sought. Linux Australia Grants Programme The Council, after considering community feedback, has recently awarded a $1000 grant to Moe Men's shed, who are in early stages of development, to deliver some introductory open source information. We have also considered a grant from Stemformatics at the University of Melbourne (more info requested and provided, now for discussion at Council) and University of Newcastle to deliver open source information in the curriculum (tabled for discussion April 30th). Another Grant Application has recently been received from CryptoAustralia to set up a Mastodon node for the Australian community. As always, we appreciate the community's feedback into these Applications to ensure their alignment with our values. More Grant Applications are expected in the coming weeks. https://linux.org.au/projects/grants Partnering with WordCamp to help facilitate WordPress related activities in Australia These discussions have been incredibly fruitful and have now progressed to WordCamp and Linux Australia working on a draft Memorandum of Understanding to frame the partnership. The draft MoU is being socialised between the two organisations and further updates will be provided. If anyone from our community would like to be involved in this piece, please do let me know. linux.conf.au 2018 Ghosts in Sydney Ghosts was held in Sydney in early April, and I'd like to thank firstly the LCA2018 team, headed by Bruce Crawley and James Polley, and our incredible Ghosts and assurance team - Michael Davies, Steve Walsh, Cherie Ellis, Josh Stewart, Hugh Blemings, David Bell and Katie McLaughlin. An LCA2019 representative from $super_secret_city was also in attendance to assist with transition and continuity. Ghosts is an important activity both to impart useful knowledge and tips, and to provide Linux Australia with a level of assurance about the readiness of the team to execute our flagship event. LCA2018 passed with flying colours, and is on track to deliver an incredible experience. You can follow the conference on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/linuxconferenceaustralia/ and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/linuxconfau JoomlaDay Australia Sydney 17-18th June Tickets are now available for JoomDay Day Australia in Sydney http://joomladay.org.au/ Huge thanks to Tim Plummer for his incredible organisation work. Follow along on Twitter @JoomlaDayAU WordCamp Brisbane July 22-23 Preparations are well under way for WordCamp Brisbane, and tickets are now available at https://2017.brisbane.wordcamp.org/tickets/ Huge thanks to the organising team - Dion Hulse, Ricky Blacker, Cameron Jones, Hannah Malcolm, Peter Bui and Robert Wilde. Follow along on Twitter @wordcampbne Pycon AU Melbourne August 3-8 The CfP for Pycon AU is now open! https://2017.pycon-au.org/ Get submitting! Rebranding Council has been hard at work on a Rebranding Brief, which will help support the transition to a new Membership Platform and web presence. We're currently revising the Brief before seeking quotes. If anyone would like to be involved in this process please do let me know. Facebook page Linux Australia now has our own Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/LinuxAustralia/ As always, your feedback, comments, suggestions and constructive criticism is warmly welcomed. With kind regards, Kathy -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at linux.org.au Thu Apr 27 17:44:18 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:44:18 +1000 Subject: [Announce] Announcing the Beyond 2020 Alliance - driving a new conversation about Australia's digital infrastructure post-2020 Message-ID: <26b03163-706c-9a47-8a72-f821f3a8cac9@linux.org.au> Dear Colleagues, As flagged in our last email, Linux Australia has been in discussions with Internet Australia, Telecommunications Association and the IT Professionals Association to drive a new conversation with the Australian public regarding the shape of Australia's digital infrastructure post-2020. Driven by George Fong's excellent leadership, we have collaborated to form the Beyond 2020 Alliance. The background, aims, purpose, constituency and nature of the Alliance are outlined in the attached. We warmly welcome your feedback, comments and constructive criticism. Barring significant feedback to the contrary, this alliance will be made public tomorrow afternoon via media outlets. With kind regards, Kathy Reid -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Beyond2020Alliance-1.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 917590 bytes Desc: not available URL: From tleeuwenburg at gmail.com Sat Apr 29 19:49:41 2017 From: tleeuwenburg at gmail.com (Tennessee Leeuwenburg) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 19:49:41 +1000 Subject: [Announce] PyCon AU 2017 - CFP Deadline 7th May Message-ID: Greetings, PyCon AU 2017?s Call for Proposal deadline - Sunday 7th May - is fast approaching. We need your submissions now! There are a few key pieces of information to be aware of in preparing your submission. Child Care PyCon AU 2017 is absolutely delighted to be offering child care for the first time: https://2017.pycon-au.org/about/child-care/. Child care will be offered on the specialist track and main conference days (Friday 4 August, Saturday 5 August and Sunday 6 August). More details will be forthcoming. However, if you are considering submitting a talk to the Call for Proposals and need to know more about child care, you can contact us at contact at pycon-au.org. Call for Proposals - page has been updated Our Call for Proposals (CFP) page has been updated with many small clarifications and updates over the last few weeks. To ensure you have all the latest info, please review: https://2017.pycon-au.org/program/cfp/ Proposal Tips, Advice and Examples In previous years, we have had numerous requests for more information containing advice about what makes for a good proposal submission and real examples from good submissions. This year we have published two such articles: https://2017.pycon-au.org/program/proposal-tips/tips-writing-great-proposal/ https://2017.pycon-au.org/program/proposal-tips/proposal-tips-part-two/ If You Would Like Feedback On Your Proposal We have also provided information should you wish to request feedback on your talk proposal prior to the CFP close. This information is available on our CFP page (https://2017.pycon-au.org/program/cfp/). If you scroll down, information about obtaining feedback is located towards the bottom of the CFP page. If you have any questions, queries or comments, we?d love you to get in touch. Please don?t hesitate to contact us via program at pycon-au.org. Kind Regards, Tennessee Leeuwenburg PyCon AU 2017 Program Chair ________________________________________________________________________________________ Our sponsorship team has asked us to remind you that putting up a conference like ours costs money. 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