From tim.bowden at mapforge.com.au Wed Aug 2 14:39:15 2017 From: tim.bowden at mapforge.com.au (Tim Bowden) Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 12:39:15 +0800 Subject: [Linux-aus] QGIS Australia user event later this year Message-ID: <1501648755.5468.18.camel@mapforge.com.au> Hi all, For those interested in FOSS "spatial stuff", the QGIS Australia User Group [1] is planning a one or two day QGIS focused event later this year (likely a Friday to ease travel issues)- Probably late November (to coincide with the QGIS 3.0 release [2]), possibly in Melbourne (otherwise Sydney), but everything is still up for grabs. We have two core QGIS developers here in Australia who will be running workshops-?Nathan Woodrow [3] &?Nyall Dawson [4]. For those interested in getting involved in organising or participating, please join in. ?There is a mailing list but there is probably more discussion & activity via twitter on #AuGIStribe [5] (promoted by QGIS Australia for the wider Australian GIS tribe, but seems so far to be very FOSS/QGIS centric). Regards, Tim Bowden [1]?http://qgis-au.org/?,?https://twitter.com/qgisau [2]?https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/roadmap.html [3]?https://twitter.com/madmanwoo [4]?https://twitter.com/nyalldawson [5]?https://twitter.com/hashtag/augistribe From craige at mcwhirter.com.au Fri Aug 4 10:19:45 2017 From: craige at mcwhirter.com.au (Craige McWhirter) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 10:19:45 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux Australia has voted in favour of removing Mr Stuart Benjamin as the Chair of auDA In-Reply-To: References: <60ce9115-0a92-7a40-9649-0d54856a3021@linux.org.au> <66e505a4-9357-5a93-3e8d-45089fd56e14@linux.org.au> <20170730220801.vfeedzzl5tscr32o@archer.mcwhirter.io> <1501453683.6346.1.camel@stuart.id.au> <20170731012324.2y2o7gdk6mvwbr4l@archer.mcwhirter.io> Message-ID: <20170804001945.pzu7ubcv3jdeyguo@archer.mcwhirter.io> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 14:37:26 +1000, Linux Australia President via linux-aus wrote: > The removal of the Chair was largely symbolic - it was a vote of no > confidence in the current approach of the auDA board to issues such as > member communications, transparency of decision making and openness of > strategy. Our working assumption (which has transpired) was that an Acting > Chair would be appointed, and it was our hope that a robust approach would > be used to replace the Chair. That has also transpired, with the Board > today resolving to convene an appointment committee to independently > recruit a new, independent Chair.? Excellent explanation and result, thanks Kathy and council. -- Craige -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: From gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au Fri Aug 4 10:28:28 2017 From: gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au (Gabor Szathmari) Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2017 10:28:28 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Workshop: Detect when you get pwned with Honeytokens Message-ID: Hi Everyone, I thought you may find the following event interesting: *Next CryptoAUSTRALIA Workshop:* Detect when you get Pwned! Intrusion Detection with Honeytokens *Venue:* Fishburners, 608 Harris Street, Ultimo *Date: *16 Aug (Wednesday), 6 pm *RSVP:* https://cryptoa.us/honeyme (Limited spaces!) In this workshop, we will explore honeytokens and their different use-cases. We will discuss the simple use-cases of honeytokens for intrusion detection. Then we set up honeytokens using honey?, honeybits, and Canarytokens and embed them in your documents. *At the end of this workshop, you will have your own backdoored documents with honeytokens embedded to catch the intruders on your laptop!* *About the Speaker* Adel Karimi is a security engineer and researcher focused on honeypots, deception based security and active defence. He has been a member and chapter lead at the Honeynet Project since 2010, and recently started Trapbits, an open community of honeypot enthusiasts in Australia. Adel has been invited to speak at several conferences and community events such as BSides and Ruxmon. Recently, Adel released honey? and honeybits to automate the setup and monitoring of honeytokens/breadcrumbs. honey? is a serverless application designed to create and monitor URL honeytokens automatically. Honeybits allows you to enhance the effectiveness of your honeypots by spreading breadcrumbs and honeytokens across your systems to lure the attacker toward your traps. *RSVP and more information:* https://cryptoa.us/honeyme Kind regards, Gabor Szathmari President, CryptoAUSTRALIA *e:* gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au *t*: @CryptoAustralia *w: *https://cryptoaustralia.org.au *pgp*: 0326 DE9F DA20 A691 438B A58D 2B82 69F2 1A8C CB7A *keybase:* https://keybase.io/gszathmari -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at linux.org.au Tue Aug 8 09:14:03 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 09:14:03 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Rebranding, Membership platform, Grants budget, Pycon and other interesting updates from Linux Australia Face to Face Message-ID: <9cb2fb52-dcd5-a60e-4096-0f1b9d8e6942@linux.org.au> Hi everyone, Hope this note finds everyone safe and well, and a big shout out to everyone heading home or catching up on Pycon AU. Pycon AU - August 4-7th, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre, Melbourne Speaking of which, a huge well done to Richard Jones and his outstanding team for delivering another brilliant Pycon AU in Melbourne - where he was ably supported by an exceedingly competent and committed core team and group of volunteers. Thank you all. The videos from Pycon AU, with thanks to the crack team of ninjas under the guidance of Ryan Verner at Next Day Video, are already up. Outstanding work. https://www.youtube.com/user/PyConAU In 2018 and 2019, Pycon AU will move to Sydney under the direction of long-time community advocate and previous Linux Australia Council Member, Katie McLaughlin. Well done Katie and team on your successful bid. http://2018.pycon-au.org/ Given the size that Pycon AU has now grown to (600-700 this year), Linux Australia will be working with the Python community to look at how we can make the bid process more transparent, and further updates will be provided in due course. You may have been following the #pyconau hashtag over the weekend, but if not, we're experimenting a little bit with Storify (yeah, we know it's not open source, but we couldn't find a similar alternative), and you can see some highlights of #pyconau at: https://storify.com/linuxaustralia/pycon-au-2017 DrupalSouth Auckland 2017 - November 16-17, Q Hotel, Auckland https://drupalsouth2017.drupal.org.nz/ Early bird tickets are on sale now, and the first Keynote announcement has been made - Michael Schmid. You can follow all the updates on the website above, or @DrupalSouth on Twitter. A huge thanks to Pam Clifford, Nicole Kirsch, Dave Sparks and the team for all their efforts. linux.conf.au - January 22-26 2018, UTS, Sydney With a huge thanks to Michael Davies, Michael Still and the Papers Committee, the CfP for linux.conf.au closed yesterday, with a last-minute spike in submissions (a pattern that has now been well established!). A huge thumbs up to everyone who has now made the job of Papers Committee very tough (sorry! .... not sorry ;-) ) Bruce Crawley, James Polley and the team are doing a fantastic job, and we're all looking forward to a deeply technical flagship event in Sydney next year. Keep up to date with all the goings on at https://linux.conf.au, on Twitter @linuxconfau and #lca2018 and and Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/linuxconferenceaustralia Joining the Dots data visualisation symposium, Melbourne, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, August 18th Linux Australia is sponsoring this event at the intersection of data science, data visualisation and digital humanities. If you #dataviz, come to #joiningthedots https://joiningthedots.github.io/ Linux Australia Council Face to Face meeting, Melbourne, August 5-6th While Pycon AU was happening down the road, the Linux Australia Council met for our second face to face meeting of the year, where we tackled the 2017/2018 budget, discussed areas where we need to improve our governance and continued planning on key projects. The headlines are: * Overall we've been very pleased with the successes of the 2016/2017 Grants Program, and have allocated a similar amount in the 2017/2018 budget for a program to run in next financial year (1 October 2017 to 30 September 2018). We are likely to review the Grant Program requirements before the next Program runs, and will seek community input on this. The funds allocated to this year's Grants Program are now exhausted, but we haven't closed Grant Requests - if one came in we could choose to overspend budget if the request was worthy, or defer payment to the new financial year. * We've allocated around $30k to the Membership DB and website replacement, noting that although the quotes we received were lower than this, we will likely need some supporting services such as training, and may need additional help with ETL tasks. * We have resolved to seek legal advice on a number of matters, including whether our legal structure (an incorporated association in NSW, regulated by Fair Trading NSW) remains the most optimal structure for us, seeking advice on provision of childcare and how to streamline this while remaining compliant, and on a number of other items, such as whether our Constitution needs amending (last amended in 2011). * We have resolved to seek financial advice on a number of matters, including whether our current financial accounting system is optimal, and whether our current approach to term deposit to gain interest earnings is the appropriate investment for Linux Australia (keeping in mind risk and return). We've allocated $20k to financial advice and legal advice. * We're also very aware now that we don't just have one large event (linux.conf.au), but now have two large events - linux.conf.au and Pycon AU - and that our strategy of keeping a "war chest" to run linux.conf.au in the event of unforeseen issues - now needs to extend to Pycon AU as well. * We also gave consideration to some of the "bigger picture" pieces we would like to see over the next 2-5 years within the Aussie open source community, including a mentoring programme and other efforts to encourage younger members to engage with the community, and an Open Source awards (akin to the NZ Open Source awards). * We looked at ways we can be more efficient and make our meetings quicker * We met with Toby Ansell, graphic designer, on our rebranding project, and aim to have some rebranding options within a few weeks. * We met with George Fong to discuss the current actions for the Beyond 2020 Alliance, and Josh Stewart, Cameron Tudball and Sae Ra Germaine will be more involved in this going forward. * We began planning for the "end of year rush" that we have in in terms of producing end of year reports and financials. LCA2020 Bids Will open soon(TM), we promise! Social media goodness A reminder you can find Linux Australia on the following social media: * Twitter: https://twitter.com/linuxaustralia * Facebook: https://facebook.com/linuxaustralia * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company-beta/2966738/ As always, your feedback, comments and concerns are always warmly welcomed, Kind regards, Kathy Reid, Cameron Tudball, Sae Ra Germaine, Russell Stuart, Josh Stewart, Hugh Blemings and David Bell. -- 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... 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The Panel will examine and make recommendations on the implementation of Direct Registration and policy reform. The first stage for the Panel will be to develop, in conjunction with public consultation, the implementation policy for Direct Registration. The second stage will review existing policies (Published Policies and Guidance ) auDA is seeking panellists representative of a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. In selecting the panellists, the Panel Chair will seek to achieve a fair balance of stakeholder interests, taking into account applicant skills, experience and knowledge of the domain name industry. The Panel will consist of up to six members, other than the Chair, including: * at least one supply and one demand class member; * a peak business body representative; * a consumer protection representative; * an academic with experience in internet or domain names; and * a representative of a government regulator. Expressions of Interest, highlighting applicant suitability for the Panel, can be sent to policy.review at auda.org.au . The closing date for EoI responses is *5.00pm Wednesday 23 August 2017*. Prior applicants for the position of Chair of the Policy Review Panel need not submit an application for Panel positions as they will be automatically considered. Visit the Policy Review Panel page on the auDA website for more information and complete Terms of Reference. TOP <#top> <#top> You are currently subscribed to the auDA Members mailing list. .au Domain Administration Ltd ABN 57 462 140 688 Click here to contact us | Design by Creative Order tw @auda AUDA au DOMAIN ADMINISTRATION LTD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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 From president at linux.org.au Wed Aug 16 12:02:07 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 12:02:07 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Fwd: Call for Nominations for Demand Class Director In-Reply-To: <4e162be4c3c044c3b490bc7279930ed8@www.lists.auda.org.au> References: <4e162be4c3c044c3b490bc7279930ed8@www.lists.auda.org.au> Message-ID: <62353e59-4e82-b31f-6e3f-d41415e554a7@linux.org.au> FYI, in case any of our community is interested in nominating Best, Kathy -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Call for Nominations for Demand Class Director Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 11:38:49 +1000 From: media at auda.org.au Reply-To: media at auda.org.au To: president at linux.org.au auDA au Domain Administration auDA au Domain Administration .au Australian Internet Governance Forum VISIT OUR WEBSITE VIEW ONLINE Call for Nominations for Demand Class Director 16 August 2017 The auDA Board is seeking nominations, including from its demand class membership, for the Demand Class Director casual vacancy resulting from the resignation of Dr Michaella Richards. As the policy authority and industry self-regulatory body for the .au domain space, auDA plays a key role in ensuring the stability and security of the .au name space. The auDA Board is committed to delivering positive outcomes for the millions of people who rely on the .au domain space, its membership, and its staff. Membership of auDA is not strictly necessary for nominees seeking to become Directors. In accordance with clause 19.7 of auDA?s Constitution, the auDA Board may appoint a Director in the event of a casual vacancy. The successful candidate will be appointed for the balance of Dr Richard?s term, which expires at the 2017 AGM. Applicants with demonstrated company director experience are particularly encouraged to nominate. Applicants will need to submit to a probity process, including police checks and a bankruptcy search. Nominations highlighting applicant suitability can be sent to Di Parker, Company Secretary of auDA, at di.parker at auda.org.au . 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