From president at linux.org.au Mon Jun 5 00:16:47 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 00:16:47 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] =?utf-8?q?Grant_Application=3A_Wednesday_Women?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_Night_at_the_Ballarat_Hackerspace?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8b3acb71-49cb-b32b-fc01-fd2781a84ada@linux.org.au> A courtesy note to indicate that feedback on this Grant Application is due by Thursday 8th June. This grant request is scheduled for assessment on the evening of 8th June. Kind regards, Kathy On 25/05/17 15:22, Robert Layton via linux-aus wrote: > > > Grant Application: Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace > > > Hello everyone! > > Below is our grant application to help support us in opening our > Hackerspace to encourage Women in STEAM (STEM + Arts). > > For any queries or concerns, I'm the main contact, at this email > address, but you can also email elected at ballarathackerspace.org.au > to get all the committee. > > > Project name:Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace > > > Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of > the project: > > Participation in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and > Mathematics) by women is notoriously low. At the Ballarat Hackerspace, > we are looking to increase the participation and skill levels of women > in technology. To do this, we are opening our Hackerspace for women on > Wednesday nights, for free, on an ongoing basis, our Wednesday Women?s > Night (WWN). > > > We have found a champion of the event, Kim Redfern, who will formally > run the nights, naturally with the full support of the Ballarat > Hackerspace committee. > > > We are going to run these nights as semi-workshop nights, based on our > previous workshops introducing the Raspberry Pi, programming, > electronics and 3D printing (these workshops were run at cost price, > but will be run for free for WWN). The workshop is introductory level, > and those with greater skills will be encouraged to use our other > tooling and resources to work on more advanced projects or help out > those learning new skills they have already grasped. After the > Raspberry Pi workshop component is complete, we will run a 3D printer > building workshop. After this, we will run other themed events on an > ongoing basis. Our current plan is for a Drone building workshop, > however we will need some development time for this. To keep the > projects free the Hackerspace will keep the costly components of the > workshop (e.g. Raspberry Pi, 3d printers) so that they can be used to > re-run the workshops again at a later time. Some parts of the project > will be given to participants to encourage their further learning, for > example: breadboards, sensors, actuators from the Raspberry Pi > workshop. We will give participants to ability to purchase the > expensive parts from the project upon completion at which point the > Hackerspace will replace the item before re-running the workshop and > so that the items are still available to members in the space to learn > with. > > > Milestone 1:Opening night, June 14th, 2017 > > > Our first milestone is the opening night, where we have invited press > and local women in tech to come and formally open the workshops. > > > Milestone 2:Completion of RPi course, 19th July, 2017 > > > Our second milestone is the formal completion of the Raspberry Pi > workshop component, which takes place for six weeks. > > > Milestone 3:Completion of 3D Printer building course, 16th August, 2017 > > > Our third milestone is the completion of the building of two 3D > printers (Official Prusa i3) > > > We are requesting money for resources for milestones 2 & 3, which > comprises the Raspberry Pi workshop and 3D Printer workshops. We have > run these workshops in the past (at cost) and have a good idea of the > costs (they do vary based on the Australian dollar, but only a small > amount), at $126 per participant for the Raspberry Pi workshop. The > major costs for the Raspberry Pi workshop are Raspberry Pi 3 ($55), a > RPi Camera ($20), SD Card ($10) and Power supply ($8). The rest of the > cost is comprised of general electronics. See the below table for our > approximate breakdown, although we will continue to try find better > sources to get these cheaper. > > > For the 3D printer workshop, the major cost is the 3D printer kits > themselves, which are $699 USD each, and we are aiming to build two of > these as a group activity. Additionally, we need 3D filament, which is > $30 a roll, for a total of $300. We will be using the official Prusa > i3 printer for this workshop to ensure our purchase fully supports > that open source project. Once these printers are complete they will > be then available for all members of the Ballarat Hackerspace and > visitors as a workshop resource when they wish to learn about or > utilise 3d printing. > > > > > Costs - Single Raspberry Pi workshop participant > > Material > > > > Total per > > participant > > > > Source > > > > Participant > > Cost > > Raspberry Pi 3 > > > > 1 > > > > Element 14 > > > > $55.00 > > SD Card (8GB) > > > > 1 > > > > Officeworks > > > > $10.00 > > Power supply > > > > 1 > > > > Element 14 > > > > > $8.43 > > LED > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > $0.00 > > Push button > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.00 > > Resistor 330ohm > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.45 > > Breadboard > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $5.74 > > Jumper leads MM > > > > 20 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.66 > > Jumper leads FM > > > > 10 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.33 > > SPI TFT LCD > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > $8.66 > > DHT22 sensor > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $3.57 > > SR04 Ultrasonic sensor > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.00 > > 4.7k resistor > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.45 > > Servo motor > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $3.17 > > Raspberry Pi camera > > > > 1 > > > > Element 14 > > > > $20.00 > > PIR Sensor > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $10.00 > > Acrylic Base > > > > 1 > > > > Bunnings > > > > $5.00 > > > > > > Total > > > > $131.46pp > > > We are aiming to have enough resources for 10 participants > (individually or as groups). For this, we request the amount of $1,320 > to cover the expenses of the workshop. The exact materials may differ > slightly as we adjust the course notes, but it would not significantly > deviate from this list. As an example, a particular sensor may become > outdated, and is replaced. Due to that replacement, a new resistor may > need to be added to the list to help run the new sensor. > > > With this funding, we can run the first round, but additionally run > future workshops with a much reduced outlay. Significantly we do not > need to source the RPis again (nor their power supplies or cameras), > worth around $750 of the total, and only really need to source the > cheaper electronics that are more disposable. > > > These RPis would be available in the Hackerspace for use by workshop > members for educational use, and also more broadly by the public > during our open times. > > > The slides and materials, including the designs for our 3D printable > case, are open source. Materials can be found on GitHub: > https://github.com/ballarat-hackerspace/piworkshop. The Ballarat > Hackerspace is committed to open sourcing designs and materials > created by it. > > > As a supplement for the current Raspberry Pi course, with funding we > can provide the resources to teach basic soldering skills. The space > itself has sufficient soldering irons already from prior workshops, > and with the soldering kits being provided we could offer these as a > one night course for free. > > > The kit chosen for the soldering class has been on recommendation from > other hackerspaces, however we are open for input if someone else is > providing it locally. > > > 10x WeevilEye Soldering Kits > + > $4 Shipping = $157.20 > > > For the 3D printer building, we need to purchase two Prusa i3. The > Prusas are open source designs part of the RepRap project. The cost > for these is $699/USD. By buying the official kit (rather than cheaper > knock-offs) we are supporting this great open source project. At > current conversion rates, this is $940, with shipping the total cost > is estimated at $2200. Additionally, to use the 3D printers we need > filament, which is $30 for a 1kg roll in Australia. Purchasing ten of > these is $300 including shipping. > > > After the course is run, the 3D printers will be available at the > Ballarat Hackerspace for general use. > > > In total, our grant request is $3977.20 > > > How the success of the project will be measured > > Success will be measured in two ways. The first is workshop > participation, where we hope to have ten women undertake the workshop > over six weeks. The second is membership of the Hackerspace, where we > hope to have 20% female members of the hackerspace as a result of our > engagement in these nights and on an ongoing basis. This figure will > be setup as a KPI, and if our female membership percentage falls below > that figure, then extra effort on this front will be taken. > > > Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, > projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. > The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or > professional services > > > Costs are provided above. Labour, including the sourcing of parts, > delivery of the workshop and all other work required, will be > volunteered by the Ballarat Hackerspace memberships. > > > The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or > open culture contributions > > > Kim Redfern has recently joined Ballarat Hackerspace. Kim returned to > study as a mature age student and graduated from the Bachelor of > Computing with honours in 2007. Since then, Kim has held various IT > roles from web developer to analyst programmer and is currently the > Team Leader of the Digital & eLearning Solutions team at Federation > University Australia. Kim is a novice in the hackerspace arena but is > keen to bring her passion for connecting people with technology and > training experience to introduce women, young and old, to the exciting > world of technology. > > > Dr Robert Layton is an official member of the Ballarat Hackerspace, > and has a PhD in computer science from Federation University > Australia. Robert has spent significant time on open source projects, > most notably being a core contributor to the scikit-learn package, a > Python package for machine learning. Robert is a Python zealot and has > presented at four PyCon AU conferences. His company, dataPipeline, is > a sponsor of the Ballarat Hackerspace. > > > Scott Weston is the current president of the Ballarat Hackerspace. > Scott has been using Linux since the early days and remembers the > pains of multi-hour kernel compiles on 286 and installing via floppy > discs. Primarily Scott works as a DevOp/SRE with startups and worked > at Google for 5 years. He was instrumental in bringing the GovHack > event to Ballarat in 2014 and helped run the event in Ballarat for the > first 2 years. > > > Ian Firns is the current secretary of the Ballarat Hackerspace. Ian > has been a long term contributor to a number of open source projects > including Snort, Barnyard2 and XBMC (now Kodi). Ian is also the lead > developer and current project lead of the Korora distribution. > > > Brett James is the current Treasurer at the Ballarat Hackerspace. > Brett has been on the core team for Linux Conference Australia 2012, > 2016, and has been a volunteer during 2014, 2015. Roles included > delegate registration, agenda writing, Photography, A/V Team and > volunteer training. Loves the field of drones. Brett has been key in > developing and fostering safe and creative uses of drones, running an > open-sourced Drone building workshop which has been signed up by > community members of all ages. > > > > Person responsible for project > > Robert Layton and Kim Redfern. > > > The Ballarat Hackerspace Committee as a whole will also be responsible > for the delivery of this project, in case Robert or Kim are unable to > fulfil their responsibilities. > > > Statement including a willingness to provide regular project > updates on the project > > We will provide a report at the completion of both milestones, > outlining the achievements against our success criteria, any other > important news, deviations from the above plan and anything else > notable during th at time. Additionally, we will be regularly engaging > on social media with our followers about the events, and can happily > add a link back to Linux Australia, thanking you for your support. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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 Mon Jun 5 11:20:41 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 11:20:41 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Fair copyright campaign by Electronic Frontiers Australia Message-ID: Hi everyone, Today I'd like to give you a quick brief on the Fair Copyright Campaign, which is being run by Electronic Frontiers Australia, and which Linux Australia is supporting. The Australian government is currently considering its response to the Productivity Commission's IP inquiry [0]. One of the central recommendations of that inquiry was the introduction of fair use. As the Commission observed: ?Australia?s current exceptions for fair dealing are too narrow and prescriptive, do not reflect the way people today consume and use content in the digital world, and do not accommodate new legitimate uses of copyright material?Introducing the principles?based fair use exception as Australia?s system of user rights, would go some way to redress the imbalance between copyright holders, consumers and intermediate users? Wikipedia is supporting this campaign - as you may have seen from the banner the last time you visited Wikipedia. Fair use makes Wikipedia possible. Fair use will provide a number of benefits to educators, creators, artists, designers, writers and digital producers, allowing them to use existing materials in contemporary ways, adding new value. Please consider becoming more aware of this issue, and if you feel inclined, supporting the campaign [1], and by following the hashtag on Twitter [2]. [0] http://pc.gov.au/inquiries/completed/intellectual-property#report [1] https://www.faircopyright.org.au/ [2] https://twitter.com/search?q=%23faircopyrightoz&src=typd 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 jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com Mon Jun 5 11:40:45 2017 From: jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com (jason thomas) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2017 11:40:45 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 Message-ID: *Project name* Geelong Raspberry Pi Meetup - resources and publicity *Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project* To encourage locals in and around Geelong to get involved with programming and using micro controllers. We would aim to get a cross section of the community interested in and using Raspberry Pi, Raspbian or other Linux distributions. The ideal situation would be to introduce people to a future with free and open source software. We have: -A meetup place (Geelong Library) -A basic website - http://www.grlc.vic.gov.au/whats-on/raspberry-pi-meet -Five older Raspberry Pis, screens, keyboards, power supplies -Some attendees who bring their own devices Needed: -A Meetup page - https://www.meetup.com/ -Facebook presence (free, after Meetup page established) -Basic electrical components, breadboards, prototyping wires -New Raspberry Pis and power supplies *How the success of the project will be measured* We aim to grow the group beyond its base of a handful of people into something larger. Goals: -Establish a visitor list and maintain that as a Google Spreadsheet. -Over six months, increase number of regular attendees to 10 or more -Over six months, introduce at least 15 new people to the group (assuming some people attend once or twice and not again). -Keep a list of resources spent and receipts, and donate remaining funds back to Linux Australia (after six months or so). -Make these details available to Linux Australia when requested. *Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects or online services that are required to **deliver the project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional services* Costs: -Raspberry Pi and power sources x 3 = $200 -Meetup page, one year 16 x 12 = $192 -Basic components (resistors, LEDs, servo motors, breadboards) = $58 Total = $450 *The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open culture contributions* -Jason Thomas (works as a backend developer), attendee, social media and promotions. Member of Linux Australia, LinuxConfAU 2017 volunteer. Making a robot with Raspberry Pi. -Steve Levakis, (works as a Health and Wellbeing Officer), meetup organiser and attendee. Learning to program. *Person responsible for project* -Jason Thomas - jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com -Steve Levakis - slevakis at geelongcity.vic.gov.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paul.j.fenwick at gmail.com Mon Jun 5 09:31:00 2017 From: paul.j.fenwick at gmail.com (Paul Fenwick) Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2017 23:31:00 +0000 Subject: [Linux-aus] =?utf-8?q?Grant_Application=3A_Wednesday_Women?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_Night_at_the_Ballarat_Hackerspace?= In-Reply-To: <8b3acb71-49cb-b32b-fc01-fd2781a84ada@linux.org.au> References: <8b3acb71-49cb-b32b-fc01-fd2781a84ada@linux.org.au> Message-ID: Totally giving feedback here because I have opinions and love to share them. This grant looks *ducking awesome*. It's well written, has achievable goals, clearly explains how the money will be spent, and has means to measure its success. I'm particularly in favour of it because it's not just outreach, it's outreach outside of a capital city. The only additional thing I'd love to see is a statement of trans-inclusivity, which could be as simple as adjusting "women" to "women (both cis and trans)" in the opening sentence. A+ grant application. Would read again, and good luck with the application process! ~ Paul On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 12:20 AM Linux Australia President via linux-aus < linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > A courtesy note to indicate that feedback on this Grant Application is due > by Thursday 8th June. > > This grant request is scheduled for assessment on the evening of 8th June. > > Kind regards, > > Kathy > > On 25/05/17 15:22, Robert Layton via linux-aus wrote: > > Grant Application: Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace > > Hello everyone! > > Below is our grant application to help support us in opening our > Hackerspace to encourage Women in STEAM (STEM + Arts). > > For any queries or concerns, I'm the main contact, at this email address, > but you can also email elected at ballarathackerspace.org.au to get all the > committee. > > > Project name: Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace > > Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project: > > Participation in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and > Mathematics) by women is notoriously low. At the Ballarat Hackerspace, we > are looking to increase the participation and skill levels of women in > technology. To do this, we are opening our Hackerspace for women on > Wednesday nights, for free, on an ongoing basis, our Wednesday Women?s > Night (WWN). > > We have found a champion of the event, Kim Redfern, who will formally run > the nights, naturally with the full support of the Ballarat Hackerspace > committee. > > We are going to run these nights as semi-workshop nights, based on our > previous workshops introducing the Raspberry Pi, programming, electronics > and 3D printing (these workshops were run at cost price, but will be run > for free for WWN). The workshop is introductory level, and those with > greater skills will be encouraged to use our other tooling and resources to > work on more advanced projects or help out those learning new skills they > have already grasped. After the Raspberry Pi workshop component is > complete, we will run a 3D printer building workshop. After this, we will > run other themed events on an ongoing basis. Our current plan is for a > Drone building workshop, however we will need some development time for > this. To keep the projects free the Hackerspace will keep the costly > components of the workshop (e.g. Raspberry Pi, 3d printers) so that they > can be used to re-run the workshops again at a later time. Some parts of > the project will be given to participants to encourage their further > learning, for example: breadboards, sensors, actuators from the Raspberry > Pi workshop. We will give participants to ability to purchase the expensive > parts from the project upon completion at which point the Hackerspace will > replace the item before re-running the workshop and so that the items are > still available to members in the space to learn with. > > Milestone 1: Opening night, June 14th, 2017 > > Our first milestone is the opening night, where we have invited press and > local women in tech to come and formally open the workshops. > > Milestone 2: Completion of RPi course, 19th July, 2017 > > Our second milestone is the formal completion of the Raspberry Pi workshop > component, which takes place for six weeks. > > Milestone 3: Completion of 3D Printer building course, 16th August, 2017 > > Our third milestone is the completion of the building of two 3D printers > (Official Prusa i3) > > We are requesting money for resources for milestones 2 & 3, which > comprises the Raspberry Pi workshop and 3D Printer workshops. We have run > these workshops in the past (at cost) and have a good idea of the costs > (they do vary based on the Australian dollar, but only a small amount), at > $126 per participant for the Raspberry Pi workshop. The major costs for the > Raspberry Pi workshop are Raspberry Pi 3 ($55), a RPi Camera ($20), SD Card > ($10) and Power supply ($8). The rest of the cost is comprised of general > electronics. See the below table for our approximate breakdown, although we > will continue to try find better sources to get these cheaper. > > For the 3D printer workshop, the major cost is the 3D printer kits > themselves, which are $699 USD each, and we are aiming to build two of > these as a group activity. Additionally, we need 3D filament, which is $30 > a roll, for a total of $300. We will be using the official Prusa i3 printer > for this workshop to ensure our purchase fully supports that open source > project. Once these printers are complete they will be then available for > all members of the Ballarat Hackerspace and visitors as a workshop resource > when they wish to learn about or utilise 3d printing. > > > > Costs - Single Raspberry Pi workshop participant > > Material > > Total per > > participant > > Source > > Participant > > Cost > > Raspberry Pi 3 > > 1 > > Element 14 > > $55.00 > > SD Card (8GB) > > 1 > > Officeworks > > $10.00 > > Power supply > > 1 > > Element 14 > > > $8.43 > > LED > > 1 > > Ali Express > > $0.00 > > Push button > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $0.00 > > Resistor 330ohm > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $0.45 > > Breadboard > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $5.74 > > Jumper leads MM > > 20 > > Ali Express > > > $0.66 > > Jumper leads FM > > 10 > > Ali Express > > > $0.33 > > SPI TFT LCD > > 1 > > Ali Express > > $8.66 > > DHT22 sensor > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $3.57 > > SR04 Ultrasonic sensor > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $0.00 > > 4.7k resistor > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $0.45 > > Servo motor > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $3.17 > > Raspberry Pi camera > > 1 > > Element 14 > > $20.00 > > PIR Sensor > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $10.00 > > Acrylic Base > > 1 > > Bunnings > > $5.00 > > > Total > > $131.46pp > > We are aiming to have enough resources for 10 participants (individually > or as groups). For this, we request the amount of $1,320 to cover the > expenses of the workshop. The exact materials may differ slightly as we > adjust the course notes, but it would not significantly deviate from this > list. As an example, a particular sensor may become outdated, and is > replaced. Due to that replacement, a new resistor may need to be added to > the list to help run the new sensor. > > With this funding, we can run the first round, but additionally run future > workshops with a much reduced outlay. Significantly we do not need to > source the RPis again (nor their power supplies or cameras), worth around > $750 of the total, and only really need to source the cheaper electronics > that are more disposable. > > These RPis would be available in the Hackerspace for use by workshop > members for educational use, and also more broadly by the public during our > open times. > > The slides and materials, including the designs for our 3D printable case, > are open source. Materials can be found on GitHub: > https://github.com/ballarat-hackerspace/piworkshop. The Ballarat > Hackerspace is committed to open sourcing designs and materials created by > it. > > As a supplement for the current Raspberry Pi course, with funding we can > provide the resources to teach basic soldering skills. The space itself has > sufficient soldering irons already from prior workshops, and with the > soldering kits being provided we could offer these as a one night course > for free. > > The kit chosen for the soldering class has been on recommendation from > other hackerspaces, however we are open for input if someone else is > providing it locally. > > 10x WeevilEye Soldering Kits > > + $4 Shipping = $157.20 > > For the 3D printer building, we need to purchase two Prusa i3. The Prusas > are open source designs part of the RepRap project. The cost for these is > $699/USD. By buying the official kit (rather than cheaper knock-offs) we > are supporting this great open source project. At current conversion rates, > this is $940, with shipping the total cost is estimated at $2200. > Additionally, to use the 3D printers we need filament, which is $30 for a > 1kg roll in Australia. Purchasing ten of these is $300 including shipping. > > After the course is run, the 3D printers will be available at the Ballarat > Hackerspace for general use. > > In total, our grant request is $3977.20 > > How the success of the project will be measured > > Success will be measured in two ways. The first is workshop participation, > where we hope to have ten women undertake the workshop over six weeks. The > second is membership of the Hackerspace, where we hope to have 20% female > members of the hackerspace as a result of our engagement in these nights > and on an ongoing basis. This figure will be setup as a KPI, and if our > female membership percentage falls below that figure, then extra effort on > this front will be taken. > > Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects > or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost > breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional > services > > Costs are provided above. Labour, including the sourcing of parts, > delivery of the workshop and all other work required, will be volunteered > by the Ballarat Hackerspace memberships. > > The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open > culture contributions > > Kim Redfern has recently joined Ballarat Hackerspace. Kim returned to > study as a mature age student and graduated from the Bachelor of Computing > with honours in 2007. Since then, Kim has held various IT roles from web > developer to analyst programmer and is currently the Team Leader of the > Digital & eLearning Solutions team at Federation University Australia. Kim > is a novice in the hackerspace arena but is keen to bring her passion for > connecting people with technology and training experience to introduce > women, young and old, to the exciting world of technology. > > Dr Robert Layton is an official member of the Ballarat Hackerspace, and > has a PhD in computer science from Federation University Australia. Robert > has spent significant time on open source projects, most notably being a > core contributor to the scikit-learn package, a Python package for machine > learning. Robert is a Python zealot and has presented at four PyCon AU > conferences. His company, dataPipeline, is a sponsor of the Ballarat > Hackerspace. > > Scott Weston is the current president of the Ballarat Hackerspace. Scott > has been using Linux since the early days and remembers the pains of > multi-hour kernel compiles on 286 and installing via floppy discs. > Primarily Scott works as a DevOp/SRE with startups and worked at Google for > 5 years. He was instrumental in bringing the GovHack event to Ballarat in > 2014 and helped run the event in Ballarat for the first 2 years. > > Ian Firns is the current secretary of the Ballarat Hackerspace. Ian has > been a long term contributor to a number of open source projects including > Snort, Barnyard2 and XBMC (now Kodi). Ian is also the lead developer and > current project lead of the Korora distribution. > > Brett James is the current Treasurer at the Ballarat Hackerspace. Brett > has been on the core team for Linux Conference Australia 2012, 2016, and > has been a volunteer during 2014, 2015. Roles included delegate > registration, agenda writing, Photography, A/V Team and volunteer training. > Loves the field of drones. Brett has been key in developing and fostering > safe and creative uses of drones, running an open-sourced Drone building > workshop which has been signed up by community members of all ages. > > > Person responsible for project > > Robert Layton and Kim Redfern. > > The Ballarat Hackerspace Committee as a whole will also be responsible for > the delivery of this project, in case Robert or Kim are unable to fulfil > their responsibilities. > > Statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on > the project > > We will provide a report at the completion of both milestones, outlining > the achievements against our success criteria, any other important news, > deviations from the above plan and anything else notable during th at time. > Additionally, we will be regularly engaging on social media with our > followers about the events, and can happily add a link back to Linux > Australia, thanking you for your support. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing listlinux-aus at lists.linux.org.auhttp://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > -- > Kathy Reid > President > Linux Australia > 0418 130 636 > president at linux.org.auhttp://linux.org.au > > Linux Australia Inc > GPO Box 4788 > Sydney NSW 2001 > Australia > > ABN 56 987 117 479 > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dr.paul.watters at gmail.com Wed Jun 7 10:13:14 2017 From: dr.paul.watters at gmail.com (Paul Watters) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 10:13:14 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant Application - Building the Open Source Talent Pipeline in Australia: A Cyber Forensics Student Extension Program Message-ID: 1. Project name Building the Open Source Talent Pipeline in Australia: A Cyber Forensics Student Extension Program 2. Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project Research indicates that young people are genuinely interested in technology at an early age, but that negative experiences within a highly constrained curriculum, coupled with being taught (in many cases) by unqualified teachers, can led to disengagement. This is coupled with negative stereotypes portrayed in the media and popular culture around ?nerds? and ?geeks?; peer pressure to conform to social expectations and constructs discourages young people from technology careers, despite industry-identified ?skills gaps? and high salaries. Finally, accessing technologies can be very expensive, and groups that face barriers to access (such as young people with a disability, or homeless students). Students may not be aware that there are alternatives to commercial, closed source technologies that are easily accessible, and which provide the freedom to create and contribute. The aim of this project is to create an open source forensics educational engagement programme in Victoria, that is aligned with the digital literacy VCE syllabus. The project seeks to re-engage students in senior years using the ?CSI Effect?; particularly with the publicity given to cyber attacks linked to closed source / proprietary technologies, this is an excellent opportunity to embed open source values early in learning. Especially in the security field, rigorous peer review and critique leads to the best solutions, rather than relying on secrecy and obscurity. The engagement programme will not seek to replace anything taught on the curriculum, but instead focus on fun, topical and engaging experiences, that may stimulate and motivate students to consider cyber security as a career. The programme will only use open source forensics tools, but will reveal how closed source technologies can be subjected to physical examination. While the project team will contribute their time as an in-kind contribution to the project, funding is sought to purchase a range of typical hardware devices to physically examine, and create forensic use cases for. This will give students who take the programme some hands-on experience with real-world technologies, using open source tools. Students will also be shown how an open source forensics toolkit can be extended as needed. The programme will comprise a set of four learning activities, designed to be undertaken over 4 x 1 hour sessions, ideally suited to an ?incursion? or workshop run at a school. The hardware devices will be made available free of charge to all schools in Victoria: schools will only be asked to pay for shipping costs to borrow the equipment. All educational materials developed through the programme will be released under a Creative Commons license. The project team hopes that this will encourage law enforcement and private sector security teams to contribute further use cases and data to improve the programme. To develop the programme, a four-stage project plan is envisaged: Stage 1: Learning activity design (100 Hours) In this stage, the four learning activities will be designed to match typical cyber forensic tasks, including evidence acquisition, timeline analysis, media analysis, and data recovery. Students will also be encouraged to compile a report based on their results. Stage 2: Forensic use case identification (50 Hours) In this stage, the four learning activities will be mapped to typical use cases, including fraud, scams, malware infection and counter terrorism investigations. The project team shall liaise with law enforcement, as appropriate, to create these use cases, and make them as interesting and realistic as possible. Stage 3: Software selection (50 Hours) In this stage, a range of open source forensic toolkits will be obtained and tested to see whether they can meet the requirements of the use cases. Well-known packages, including Autopsy and the Sleuth Kit, will be obtained, as well as specialized packages for iOS forensics, including Logical iOS Forensic Examiner (LIFE). Stage 4: Hardware purchase and use cases realized (100 Hours) The equipment requested in this application will be purchased, and data relating to the use cases will be created and imaged. These images will be uploaded to the hardware devices. Assuming a starting date of 1st July 2017, and spending 10 hours per week, the project should be developed by September 9th 2017. We will then communicate the availability of the programme through appropriate channels, such as the La Trobe University career advisor mailing list, and Quantum Victoria. 3. How the success of the project will be measured We will create a self-report survey for students to take before and after the activity, and measure whether their awareness of open source has increased, and whether or not they would consider cyber security as a career choice. We will seek ethics approval before administering any questionnaires to students. 4. Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional services The hardware devices requested represent a range of typical forensic use cases, including Android phones and Linux servers (RedHat and Debian), as well as Raspberry pi kits for network forensics. Some basic forensic kits, required for data capture and transfer, will also be requested. Two sets of equipment are requested, so that the teacher can use one for demonstration, and one is available for students to use at the same time. In-kind contribution (200 Hours x $118ph = $23,755 + GST = $26,130) Equipment requested: ? Forensicstore.com ? Cellphone companion kit, including faraday pouch, cables, media etc x 2= $612 ? Dell PowerEdge T130 with Linux x 2 = $3,092 ? Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime x 2 = $798 ? Ultimate Raspberry Pi Kit x 2 = $478 Total Requested: $4,980 Linux Australia contribution to total project cost: 19.05% 5. The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open culture contributions Dr Paul A. Watters is Associate Professor in Cyber Security at La Trobe University. Dr Watters has been using Linux for 24 years, having first installed in on 360K floppies on an XT. Dr Watters has written several books on Linux and open source topics, as well as releasing open source packages for neural network modeling and fractal analysis. He has published numerous papers on cyber forensics, and is working with Quantum Victoria to deliver Australia?s first ?cyber games?, targeting high school students who may be interested in pursuing cyber security as a career. Maya F. Watters is a Leading Teacher at Bacchus Marsh College. Ms Watters studied education at the University of Melbourne, and forensics at the University of Auckland. She has worked on a number of forensic projects for Cyber Inc, a not-for-profit incorporated association in Victoria. 6. Person responsible for project Dr. Watters will be the project manager and will have overall responsibility. 7. A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on the project The project team shall provide updates to Linux Australia at each phase of the project. ? Dr Paul A. Watters FBCS SMIEEE CITP Associate Professor in Cybersecurity | Adjunct Professor in Computing La Trobe University | Unitec Institute of Technology CRICOS Provider Code 00115M E: > P: +61-3-9479-3415 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the > project > > Research indicates that young people are genuinely interested in > technology at an early age, but that negative experiences within a highly > constrained curriculum, coupled with being taught (in many cases) by > unqualified teachers, can led to disengagement. This is coupled with > negative stereotypes portrayed in the media and popular culture around > ?nerds? and ?geeks?; peer pressure to conform to social expectations and > constructs discourages young people from technology careers, despite > industry-identified ?skills gaps? and high salaries. Finally, accessing > technologies can be very expensive, and groups that face barriers to access > (such as young people with a disability, or homeless students). Students > may not be aware that there are alternatives to commercial, closed source > technologies that are easily accessible, and which provide the freedom to > create and contribute. > > The aim of this project is to create an open source forensics educational > engagement programme in Victoria, that is aligned with the digital literacy > VCE syllabus. The project seeks to re-engage students in senior years using > the ?CSI Effect?; particularly with the publicity given to cyber attacks > linked to closed source / proprietary technologies, this is an excellent > opportunity to embed open source values early in learning. Especially in > the security field, rigorous peer review and critique leads to the best > solutions, rather than relying on secrecy and obscurity. > > The engagement programme will not seek to replace anything taught on the > curriculum, but instead focus on fun, topical and engaging experiences, > that may stimulate and motivate students to consider cyber security as a > career. The programme will only use open source forensics tools, but will > reveal how closed source technologies can be subjected to physical > examination. > > While the project team will contribute their time as an in-kind > contribution to the project, funding is sought to purchase a range of > typical hardware devices to physically examine, and create forensic use > cases for. This will give students who take the programme some hands-on > experience with real-world technologies, using open source tools. Students > will also be shown how an open source forensics toolkit can be extended as > needed. > > The programme will comprise a set of four learning activities, designed to > be undertaken over 4 x 1 hour sessions, ideally suited to an ?incursion? or > workshop run at a school. The hardware devices will be made available free > of charge to all schools in Victoria: schools will only be asked to pay for > shipping costs to borrow the equipment. All educational materials developed > through the programme will be released under a Creative Commons license. > The project team hopes that this will encourage law enforcement and private > sector security teams to contribute further use cases and data to improve > the programme. > > To develop the programme, a four-stage project plan is envisaged: > > > Stage 1: Learning activity design (100 Hours) > > In this stage, the four learning activities will be designed to match > typical cyber forensic tasks, including evidence acquisition, timeline > analysis, media analysis, and data recovery. Students will also be > encouraged to compile a report based on their results. > > > Stage 2: Forensic use case identification (50 Hours) > > In this stage, the four learning activities will be mapped to typical use > cases, including fraud, scams, malware infection and counter terrorism > investigations. The project team shall liaise with law enforcement, as > appropriate, to create these use cases, and make them as interesting and > realistic as possible. > > > Stage 3: Software selection (50 Hours) > > In this stage, a range of open source forensic toolkits will be obtained > and tested to see whether they can meet the requirements of the use cases. > Well-known packages, including Autopsy and the Sleuth Kit, will be > obtained, as well as specialized packages for iOS forensics, including > Logical iOS Forensic Examiner (LIFE). > > > Stage 4: Hardware purchase and use cases realized (100 Hours) > > The equipment requested in this application will be purchased, and data > relating to the use cases will be created and imaged. These images will be > uploaded to the hardware devices. > > > Assuming a starting date of 1st July 2017, and spending 10 hours per > week, the project should be developed by September 9th 2017. We will then > communicate the availability of the programme through appropriate channels, > such as the La Trobe University career advisor mailing list, and Quantum > Victoria. > > > 3. How the success of the project will be measured > > We will create a self-report survey for students to take before and after > the activity, and measure whether their awareness of open source has > increased, and whether or not they would consider cyber security as a > career choice. We will seek ethics approval before administering any > questionnaires to students. > > > 4. Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, > projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The > cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional > services > > The hardware devices requested represent a range of typical forensic use > cases, including Android phones and Linux servers (RedHat and Debian), as > well as Raspberry pi kits for network forensics. Some basic forensic kits, > required for data capture and transfer, will also be requested. Two sets of > equipment are requested, so that the teacher can use one for demonstration, > and one is available for students to use at the same time. > > > In-kind contribution (200 Hours x $118ph = $23,755 + GST = $26,130) > > > Equipment requested: > > ? Forensicstore.com ? Cellphone companion > kit, including faraday pouch, cables, media etc x 2= $612 > > ? Dell PowerEdge T130 with Linux x 2 = $3,092 > > ? Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime x 2 = $798 > > ? Ultimate Raspberry Pi Kit x 2 = $478 > > > Total Requested: $4,980 > > > Linux Australia contribution to total project cost: 19.05% > > > 5. The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open > culture contributions > > Dr Paul A. Watters is Associate Professor in Cyber Security at La Trobe > University. Dr Watters has been using Linux for 24 years, having first > installed in on 360K floppies on an XT. Dr Watters has written several > books on Linux and open source topics, as well as releasing open source > packages for neural network modeling and fractal analysis. He has published > numerous papers on cyber forensics, and is working with Quantum Victoria to > deliver Australia?s first ?cyber games?, targeting high school students who > may be interested in pursuing cyber security as a career. > > > Maya F. Watters is a Leading Teacher at Bacchus Marsh College. Ms Watters > studied education at the University of Melbourne, and forensics at the > University of Auckland. She has worked on a number of forensic projects for > Cyber Inc, a not-for-profit incorporated association in Victoria. > > > 6. Person responsible for project > > Dr. Watters will be the project manager and will have overall > responsibility. > > > 7. A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates > on the project > > The project team shall provide updates to Linux Australia at each phase of > the project. > > ? > Dr Paul A. Watters FBCS SMIEEE CITP > Associate Professor in Cybersecurity | Adjunct Professor > in Computing > La Trobe University | Unitec Institute of > Technology > CRICOS Provider Code 00115M > E: P: +61-3-9479-3415 > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > -- Troy Lea IT Consultant and Nagios Developer troy at box293.com sites.box293.com/nagios -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at linux.org.au Thu Jun 8 08:40:54 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:40:54 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <57a1716a-a432-b4e8-cd9f-d3cf20306eb7@linux.org.au> Hi everyone, Firstly, a courtesy note to indicate that feedback on this application is open until 19th June, and is scheduled for discussion at Council meeting 22nd June. Secondly, I have a conflict of interest as a regular attendee to this group and will therefore recuse myself from any discussions or decision making on this Grant Application. Kind regards, Kathy On 05/06/17 11:40, jason thomas via linux-aus wrote: > > *Project name* > > Geelong Raspberry Pi Meetup - resources and publicity > > > *Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the > project* > > To encourage locals in and around Geelong to get involved with > programming and using micro controllers. We would aim to get a cross > section of the community interested in and using Raspberry Pi, > Raspbian or other Linux distributions. The ideal situation would be to > introduce people to a future with free and open source software. > > > We have: > > -A meetup place (Geelong Library) > > -A basic website - http://www.grlc.vic.gov.au/whats-on/raspberry-pi-meet > > -Five older Raspberry Pis, screens, keyboards, power supplies > > -Some attendees who bring their own devices > > > Needed: > > -A Meetup page - https://www.meetup.com/ > > -Facebook presence (free, after Meetup page established) > > -Basic electrical components, breadboards, prototyping wires > > -New Raspberry Pis and power supplies > > > > *How the success of the project will be measured* > > We aim to grow the group beyond its base of a handful of people into > something larger. > > > Goals: > > -Establish a visitor list and maintain that as a Google Spreadsheet. > > -Over six months, increase number of regular attendees to 10 or more > > -Over six months, introduce at least 15 new people to the group > (assuming some people attend once or twice and not again). > > -Keep a list of resources spent and receipts, and donate remaining > funds back to Linux Australia (after six months or so). > > -Make these details available to Linux Australia when requested. > > > *Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, > projects or online services that are required to **deliver the > project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs > and/or professional services* > > > Costs: > > -Raspberry Pi and power sources x 3 = $200 > > -Meetup page, one year 16 x 12 = $192 > > -Basic components (resistors, LEDs, servo motors, breadboards) = $58 > > Total = $450 > > > *The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or > open culture contributions* > > > -Jason Thomas (works as a backend developer), attendee, social media > and promotions. Member of Linux Australia, LinuxConfAU 2017 volunteer. > Making a robot with Raspberry Pi. > > -Steve Levakis, (works as a Health and Wellbeing Officer), meetup > organiser and attendee. Learning to program. > > > *Person responsible for project* > > -Jason Thomas - jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com > > > -Steve Levakis - slevakis at geelongcity.vic.gov.au > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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 Jun 8 08:42:07 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 08:42:07 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant Application - Building the Open Source Talent Pipeline in Australia: A Cyber Forensics Student Extension Program In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1ffab83b-f7c5-1f41-5635-773caa687aed@linux.org.au> A courtesy note that community feedback on this Grant Application is available until 21 June 2017, and this application is scheduled for discussion at Council meeting 22 June 2017, Kind regards, Kathy On 07/06/17 10:13, Paul Watters via linux-aus wrote: > > 1. Project name > > Building the Open Source Talent Pipeline in Australia: A Cyber > Forensics Student Extension Program > > > 2. Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the > project > > Research indicates that young people are genuinely interested in > technology at an early age, but that negative experiences within a > highly constrained curriculum, coupled with being taught (in many > cases) by unqualified teachers, can led to disengagement. This is > coupled with negative stereotypes portrayed in the media and popular > culture around ?nerds? and ?geeks?; peer pressure to conform to social > expectations and constructs discourages young people from technology > careers, despite industry-identified ?skills gaps? and high salaries. > Finally, accessing technologies can be very expensive, and groups that > face barriers to access (such as young people with a disability, or > homeless students). Students may not be aware that there are > alternatives to commercial, closed source technologies that are easily > accessible, and which provide the freedom to create and contribute. > > The aim of this project is to create an open source forensics > educational engagement programme in Victoria, that is aligned with the > digital literacy VCE syllabus. The project seeks to re-engage students > in senior years using the ?CSI Effect?; particularly with the > publicity given to cyber attacks linked to closed source / proprietary > technologies, this is an excellent opportunity to embed open source > values early in learning. Especially in the security field, rigorous > peer review and critique leads to the best solutions, rather than > relying on secrecy and obscurity. > > The engagement programme will not seek to replace anything taught on > the curriculum, but instead focus on fun, topical and engaging > experiences, that may stimulate and motivate students to consider > cyber security as a career. The programme will only use open source > forensics tools, but will reveal how closed source technologies can be > subjected to physical examination. > > While the project team will contribute their time as an in-kind > contribution to the project, funding is sought to purchase a range of > typical hardware devices to physically examine, and create forensic > use cases for. This will give students who take the programme some > hands-on experience with real-world technologies, using open source > tools. Students will also be shown how an open source forensics > toolkit can be extended as needed. > > The programme will comprise a set of four learning activities, > designed to be undertaken over 4 x 1 hour sessions, ideally suited to > an ?incursion? or workshop run at a school. The hardware devices will > be made available free of charge to all schools in Victoria: schools > will only be asked to pay for shipping costs to borrow the equipment. > All educational materials developed through the programme will be > released under a Creative Commons license. The project team hopes that > this will encourage law enforcement and private sector security teams > to contribute further use cases and data to improve the programme. > > To develop the programme, a four-stage project plan is envisaged: > > > > Stage 1: Learning activity design (100 Hours) > > In this stage, the four learning activities will be designed to match > typical cyber forensic tasks, including evidence acquisition, timeline > analysis, media analysis, and data recovery. Students will also be > encouraged to compile a report based on their results. > > > > Stage 2: Forensic use case identification (50 Hours) > > In this stage, the four learning activities will be mapped to typical > use cases, including fraud, scams, malware infection and counter > terrorism investigations. The project team shall liaise with law > enforcement, as appropriate, to create these use cases, and make them > as interesting and realistic as possible. > > > > Stage 3: Software selection (50 Hours) > > In this stage, a range of open source forensic toolkits will be > obtained and tested to see whether they can meet the requirements of > the use cases. Well-known packages, including Autopsy and the Sleuth > Kit, will be obtained, as well as specialized packages for iOS > forensics, including Logical iOS Forensic Examiner (LIFE). > > > > Stage 4: Hardware purchase and use cases realized (100 Hours) > > The equipment requested in this application will be purchased, and > data relating to the use cases will be created and imaged. These > images will be uploaded to the hardware devices. > > > > Assuming a starting date of 1^st July 2017, and spending 10 hours per > week, the project should be developed by September 9^th 2017. We will > then communicate the availability of the programme through appropriate > channels, such as the La Trobe University career advisor mailing list, > and Quantum Victoria. > > > > 3. How the success of the project will be measured > > We will create a self-report survey for students to take before and > after the activity, and measure whether their awareness of open source > has increased, and whether or not they would consider cyber security > as a career choice. We will seek ethics approval before administering > any questionnaires to students. > > > > 4. Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, > projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. > The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or > professional services > > The hardware devices requested represent a range of typical forensic > use cases, including Android phones and Linux servers (RedHat and > Debian), as well as Raspberry pi kits for network forensics. Some > basic forensic kits, required for data capture and transfer, will also > be requested. Two sets of equipment are requested, so that the teacher > can use one for demonstration, and one is available for students to > use at the same time. > > > > In-kind contribution (200 Hours x $118ph = $23,755 + GST = $26,130) > > > > Equipment requested: > > ? Forensicstore.com ? Cellphone > companion kit, including faraday pouch, cables, media etc x 2= $612 > > ? Dell PowerEdge T130 with Linux x 2 = $3,092 > > ? Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime x 2 = $798 > > ? Ultimate Raspberry Pi Kit x 2 = $478 > > > > Total Requested: $4,980 > > > > Linux Australia contribution to total project cost: 19.05% > > > > 5. The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or > open culture contributions > > Dr Paul A. Watters is Associate Professor in Cyber Security at La > Trobe University. Dr Watters has been using Linux for 24 years, having > first installed in on 360K floppies on an XT. Dr Watters has written > several books on Linux and open source topics, as well as releasing > open source packages for neural network modeling and fractal analysis. > He has published numerous papers on cyber forensics, and is working > with Quantum Victoria to deliver Australia?s first ?cyber games?, > targeting high school students who may be interested in pursuing cyber > security as a career. > > > > Maya F. Watters is a Leading Teacher at Bacchus Marsh College. Ms > Watters studied education at the University of Melbourne, and > forensics at the University of Auckland. She has worked on a number of > forensic projects for Cyber Inc, a not-for-profit incorporated > association in Victoria. > > > > 6. Person responsible for project > > Dr. Watters will be the project manager and will have overall > responsibility. > > > > 7. A statement including a willingness to provide regular project > updates on the project > > The project team shall provide updates to Linux Australia at each > phase of the project. > > > ? > Dr Paul A. Watters FBCS SMIEEE CITP > Associate Professor in Cybersecurity | Adjunct > Professor in Computing > La Trobe University | Unitec > Institute of Technology > CRICOS Provider Code 00115M > E: > P: > +61-3-9479-3415 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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 lloy0076 at adam.com.au Thu Jun 8 12:58:59 2017 From: lloy0076 at adam.com.au (David Lloyd) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 22:58:59 -0400 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 In-Reply-To: <57a1716a-a432-b4e8-cd9f-d3cf20306eb7@linux.org.au> References: <57a1716a-a432-b4e8-cd9f-d3cf20306eb7@linux.org.au> Message-ID: <0c7501d2e003$2f1429e0$8d3c7da0$@adam.com.au> Just out of morbid interest why would ?not having a meetup page? prevent ?having a facebook page/presence?? That?s my only comment of substance ? I?m sure if this is approved the ?or so? component will be handled fairly by the council :) From: linux-aus [mailto:linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of Linux Australia President via linux-aus Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2017 6:41 PM To: jason thomas ; council at linux.org.au; linux-aus at linux.org.au Cc: Steve Levakis Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 Hi everyone, Firstly, a courtesy note to indicate that feedback on this application is open until 19th June, and is scheduled for discussion at Council meeting 22nd June. Secondly, I have a conflict of interest as a regular attendee to this group and will therefore recuse myself from any discussions or decision making on this Grant Application. Kind regards, Kathy On 05/06/17 11:40, jason thomas via linux-aus wrote: Project name Geelong Raspberry Pi Meetup - resources and publicity Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project To encourage locals in and around Geelong to get involved with programming and using micro controllers. We would aim to get a cross section of the community interested in and using Raspberry Pi, Raspbian or other Linux distributions. The ideal situation would be to introduce people to a future with free and open source software. We have: -A meetup place (Geelong Library) -A basic website - http://www.grlc.vic.gov.au/whats-on/raspberry-pi-meet -Five older Raspberry Pis, screens, keyboards, power supplies -Some attendees who bring their own devices Needed: -A Meetup page - https://www.meetup.com/ -Facebook presence (free, after Meetup page established) -Basic electrical components, breadboards, prototyping wires -New Raspberry Pis and power supplies How the success of the project will be measured We aim to grow the group beyond its base of a handful of people into something larger. Goals: -Establish a visitor list and maintain that as a Google Spreadsheet. -Over six months, increase number of regular attendees to 10 or more -Over six months, introduce at least 15 new people to the group (assuming some people attend once or twice and not again). -Keep a list of resources spent and receipts, and donate remaining funds back to Linux Australia (after six months or so). -Make these details available to Linux Australia when requested. Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional services Costs: -Raspberry Pi and power sources x 3 = $200 -Meetup page, one year 16 x 12 = $192 -Basic components (resistors, LEDs, servo motors, breadboards) = $58 Total = $450 The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open culture contributions -Jason Thomas (works as a backend developer), attendee, social media and promotions. Member of Linux Australia, LinuxConfAU 2017 volunteer. Making a robot with Raspberry Pi. -Steve Levakis, (works as a Health and Wellbeing Officer), meetup organiser and attendee. Learning to program. Person responsible for project -Jason Thomas - jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com -Steve Levakis - slevakis at geelongcity.vic.gov.au _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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 jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com Thu Jun 8 13:22:16 2017 From: jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com (jason thomas) Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 13:22:16 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 In-Reply-To: <0c7501d2e003$2f1429e0$8d3c7da0$@adam.com.au> References: <57a1716a-a432-b4e8-cd9f-d3cf20306eb7@linux.org.au> <0c7501d2e003$2f1429e0$8d3c7da0$@adam.com.au> Message-ID: Thanks for the question David. I imagined the Facebook page would be best if it pointed to a website with more info, so that's the reason. I said "or so" because I thought the committee would decide their requirements. Would it be better if I take this application down and make some alterations? There's another reason it could be better, unrelated. This is the first time I've applied for a grant so I appreciate your feedback. Best, Jason On 8 June 2017 at 12:58, David Lloyd via linux-aus < linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > > > Just out of morbid interest why would ?not having a meetup page? prevent > ?having a facebook page/presence?? That?s my only comment of substance ? > I?m sure if this is approved the ?or so? component will be handled fairly > by the council J > > > > > > *From:* linux-aus [mailto:linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au] *On > Behalf Of *Linux Australia President via linux-aus > *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 June 2017 6:41 PM > *To:* jason thomas ; > council at linux.org.au; linux-aus at linux.org.au > *Cc:* Steve Levakis > *Subject:* Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 > > > > Hi everyone, > > Firstly, a courtesy note to indicate that feedback on this application is > open until 19th June, and is scheduled for discussion at Council meeting > 22nd June. > > Secondly, I have a conflict of interest as a regular attendee to this > group and will therefore recuse myself from any discussions or decision > making on this Grant Application. > > Kind regards, > > Kathy > > > > On 05/06/17 11:40, jason thomas via linux-aus wrote: > > *Project name* > > Geelong Raspberry Pi Meetup - resources and publicity > > > > *Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project* > > To encourage locals in and around Geelong to get involved with programming > and using micro controllers. We would aim to get a cross section of the > community interested in and using Raspberry Pi, Raspbian or other Linux > distributions. The ideal situation would be to introduce people to a future > with free and open source software. > > > > We have: > > -A meetup place (Geelong Library) > > -A basic website - http://www.grlc.vic.gov.au/whats-on/raspberry-pi-meet > > -Five older Raspberry Pis, screens, keyboards, power supplies > > -Some attendees who bring their own devices > > > > Needed: > > -A Meetup page - https://www.meetup.com/ > > -Facebook presence (free, after Meetup page established) > > -Basic electrical components, breadboards, prototyping wires > > -New Raspberry Pis and power supplies > > > > *How the success of the project will be measured* > > We aim to grow the group beyond its base of a handful of people into > something larger. > > > > Goals: > > -Establish a visitor list and maintain that as a Google Spreadsheet. > > -Over six months, increase number of regular attendees to 10 or more > > -Over six months, introduce at least 15 new people to the group (assuming > some people attend once or twice and not again). > > -Keep a list of resources spent and receipts, and donate remaining funds > back to Linux Australia (after six months or so). > > -Make these details available to Linux Australia when requested. > > > > *Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, > projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The > cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional > services* > > > > Costs: > > -Raspberry Pi and power sources x 3 = $200 > > -Meetup page, one year 16 x 12 = $192 > > -Basic components (resistors, LEDs, servo motors, breadboards) = $58 > > Total = $450 > > > > *The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open > culture contributions* > > > > -Jason Thomas (works as a backend developer), attendee, social media and > promotions. Member of Linux Australia, LinuxConfAU 2017 volunteer. Making a > robot with Raspberry Pi. > > -Steve Levakis, (works as a Health and Wellbeing Officer), meetup > organiser and attendee. Learning to program. > > > > *Person responsible for project* > > -Jason Thomas - jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com > > -Steve Levakis - slevakis at geelongcity.vic.gov.au > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > linux-aus mailing list > > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > -- > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lloy0076 at adam.com.au Thu Jun 8 13:40:58 2017 From: lloy0076 at adam.com.au (David Lloyd) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2017 23:40:58 -0400 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 In-Reply-To: References: <57a1716a-a432-b4e8-cd9f-d3cf20306eb7@linux.org.au> <0c7501d2e003$2f1429e0$8d3c7da0$@adam.com.au> Message-ID: <0cf701d2e009$0ca31eb0$25e95c10$@adam.com.au> Hi Jason, I wouldn?t take the application down ? in my opinion it?s a reasonable application with a worthy goal. The goals are well stated and I believe they?re achievable; it?s clear you?ve not written hundreds of grant applications before but in my opinion the application is honest, to the point and honestly somewhat easier to understand than some applications written by those who have written many more than you :) I think Facebook and Meetup are both relevant platforms but I wouldn?t consider them mutually exclusive ? although having a platform not hosted by either could be of benefit to you as you identify. For what it?s worth, I hope your proposal is granted. DSL From: linux-aus [mailto:linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of jason thomas via linux-aus Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2017 11:22 PM To: David Lloyd Cc: Steve Levakis ; linux-aus at linux.org.au Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 Thanks for the question David. I imagined the Facebook page would be best if it pointed to a website with more info, so that's the reason. I said "or so" because I thought the committee would decide their requirements. Would it be better if I take this application down and make some alterations? There's another reason it could be better, unrelated. This is the first time I've applied for a grant so I appreciate your feedback. Best, Jason On 8 June 2017 at 12:58, David Lloyd via linux-aus > wrote: Just out of morbid interest why would ?not having a meetup page? prevent ?having a facebook page/presence?? That?s my only comment of substance ? I?m sure if this is approved the ?or so? component will be handled fairly by the council :) From: linux-aus [mailto:linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au ] On Behalf Of Linux Australia President via linux-aus Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2017 6:41 PM To: jason thomas >; council at linux.org.au ; linux-aus at linux.org.au Cc: Steve Levakis > Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 Hi everyone, Firstly, a courtesy note to indicate that feedback on this application is open until 19th June, and is scheduled for discussion at Council meeting 22nd June. Secondly, I have a conflict of interest as a regular attendee to this group and will therefore recuse myself from any discussions or decision making on this Grant Application. Kind regards, Kathy On 05/06/17 11:40, jason thomas via linux-aus wrote: Project name Geelong Raspberry Pi Meetup - resources and publicity Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project To encourage locals in and around Geelong to get involved with programming and using micro controllers. We would aim to get a cross section of the community interested in and using Raspberry Pi, Raspbian or other Linux distributions. The ideal situation would be to introduce people to a future with free and open source software. We have: -A meetup place (Geelong Library) -A basic website - http://www.grlc.vic.gov.au/whats-on/raspberry-pi-meet -Five older Raspberry Pis, screens, keyboards, power supplies -Some attendees who bring their own devices Needed: -A Meetup page - https://www.meetup.com/ -Facebook presence (free, after Meetup page established) -Basic electrical components, breadboards, prototyping wires -New Raspberry Pis and power supplies How the success of the project will be measured We aim to grow the group beyond its base of a handful of people into something larger. Goals: -Establish a visitor list and maintain that as a Google Spreadsheet. -Over six months, increase number of regular attendees to 10 or more -Over six months, introduce at least 15 new people to the group (assuming some people attend once or twice and not again). -Keep a list of resources spent and receipts, and donate remaining funds back to Linux Australia (after six months or so). -Make these details available to Linux Australia when requested. Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional services Costs: -Raspberry Pi and power sources x 3 = $200 -Meetup page, one year 16 x 12 = $192 -Basic components (resistors, LEDs, servo motors, breadboards) = $58 Total = $450 The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open culture contributions -Jason Thomas (works as a backend developer), attendee, social media and promotions. Member of Linux Australia, LinuxConfAU 2017 volunteer. Making a robot with Raspberry Pi. -Steve Levakis, (works as a Health and Wellbeing Officer), meetup organiser and attendee. Learning to program. Person responsible for project -Jason Thomas - jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com -Steve Levakis - slevakis at geelongcity.vic.gov.au _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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 _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I would also like to note that the Linux Australia President, Kathy Reid, did not participate in the discussion of this grant and abstained from the voting process. -- Cameron Tudball Vice-President Linux Australia ________________________________ From: linux-aus on behalf of Cristina Garduno Freeman Sent: Friday, 12 May 2017 4:57 PM To: council at linux.org.au; linux-aus at linux.org.au Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux Grant Application - Hubcaps to Creative Hubs: Open Source Dear Members of the Linux Australia Community, I am the lead researcher on a community funded project titled Hubcaps to Creative Hubs, set in the Geelong region. We appreciate the opportunity to apply for funds, from the Linux Australia Grants Scheme, to extend the project through an open source dataset that will benefit schools, community organisations, government, businesses and future researchers. Should there be any queries in the assessment process I would be more than happy to address them promptly. We look forward to your response in due course and please note that the particular terms and conditions for this project will need to be finalised in the form of a research contract agreed to by both parties prior to the commencement of any project work. Thankyou kindly for your attention, Cristina Dr. Cristina Garduno Freeman | Postdoctoral Research Fellow ACAHUCH Melbourne School of Design | Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning Room 425, Melbourne School of Design The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia T: +61 3 8344 2482 M: 0408 788 242 E: cristina.garduno at unimelb.edu.au facebook.com/acahuch | twitter.com/msdsocial | https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/acahuch [cid:image001.png at 01D2CA46.15262AB0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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It also doesn't sufficiently advance open data or open source in the Australasian community. I would also like to note that the Linux Australia President, Kathy Reid, did not participate in the discussion of this grant and abstained from the voting process. -- Cameron Tudball Vice-President Linux Australia ________________________________ From: linux-aus > on behalf of Cristina Garduno Freeman > Sent: Friday, 12 May 2017 4:57 PM To: council at linux.org.au; linux-aus at linux.org.au Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux Grant Application - Hubcaps to Creative Hubs: Open Source Dear Members of the Linux Australia Community, I am the lead researcher on a community funded project titled Hubcaps to Creative Hubs, set in the Geelong region. We appreciate the opportunity to apply for funds, from the Linux Australia Grants Scheme, to extend the project through an open source dataset that will benefit schools, community organisations, government, businesses and future researchers. Should there be any queries in the assessment process I would be more than happy to address them promptly. We look forward to your response in due course and please note that the particular terms and conditions for this project will need to be finalised in the form of a research contract agreed to by both parties prior to the commencement of any project work. Thankyou kindly for your attention, Cristina Dr. Cristina Garduno Freeman | Postdoctoral Research Fellow ACAHUCH Melbourne School of Design | Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning Room 425, Melbourne School of Design The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia T: +61 3 8344 2482 M: 0408 788 242 E: cristina.garduno at unimelb.edu.au facebook.com/acahuch | twitter.com/msdsocial | https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/acahuch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Council noted Paul Fenwick's excellent suggestion to make clear that both cis- and trans-gendered women are welcomed, and we encourage Ballarat HackerSpace to adopt this approach. Given the amount of the grant, we request a quarterly report. Mr Josh Stewart, Council Member, is a member of the Ballarat Hackerspace community and abstained from discussion and voting on this request to prevent any perceived or actual conflict of interest. We wish Kim Redfern and the team every success in this endeavour. NEXT ACTION: Robert to work with Kathy Reid to arrange financials, and we note the proposed opening night of June 14th, and can arrange for financial transfer ASAP to help facilitate this. Kind regards, Kathy On 25/05/17 15:22, Robert Layton via linux-aus wrote: > > > Grant Application: Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace > > > Hello everyone! > > Below is our grant application to help support us in opening our > Hackerspace to encourage Women in STEAM (STEM + Arts). > > For any queries or concerns, I'm the main contact, at this email > address, but you can also email elected at ballarathackerspace.org.au > to get all the committee. > > > Project name:Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace > > > Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of > the project: > > Participation in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and > Mathematics) by women is notoriously low. At the Ballarat Hackerspace, > we are looking to increase the participation and skill levels of women > in technology. To do this, we are opening our Hackerspace for women on > Wednesday nights, for free, on an ongoing basis, our Wednesday Women?s > Night (WWN). > > > We have found a champion of the event, Kim Redfern, who will formally > run the nights, naturally with the full support of the Ballarat > Hackerspace committee. > > > We are going to run these nights as semi-workshop nights, based on our > previous workshops introducing the Raspberry Pi, programming, > electronics and 3D printing (these workshops were run at cost price, > but will be run for free for WWN). The workshop is introductory level, > and those with greater skills will be encouraged to use our other > tooling and resources to work on more advanced projects or help out > those learning new skills they have already grasped. After the > Raspberry Pi workshop component is complete, we will run a 3D printer > building workshop. After this, we will run other themed events on an > ongoing basis. Our current plan is for a Drone building workshop, > however we will need some development time for this. To keep the > projects free the Hackerspace will keep the costly components of the > workshop (e.g. Raspberry Pi, 3d printers) so that they can be used to > re-run the workshops again at a later time. Some parts of the project > will be given to participants to encourage their further learning, for > example: breadboards, sensors, actuators from the Raspberry Pi > workshop. We will give participants to ability to purchase the > expensive parts from the project upon completion at which point the > Hackerspace will replace the item before re-running the workshop and > so that the items are still available to members in the space to learn > with. > > > Milestone 1:Opening night, June 14th, 2017 > > > Our first milestone is the opening night, where we have invited press > and local women in tech to come and formally open the workshops. > > > Milestone 2:Completion of RPi course, 19th July, 2017 > > > Our second milestone is the formal completion of the Raspberry Pi > workshop component, which takes place for six weeks. > > > Milestone 3:Completion of 3D Printer building course, 16th August, 2017 > > > Our third milestone is the completion of the building of two 3D > printers (Official Prusa i3) > > > We are requesting money for resources for milestones 2 & 3, which > comprises the Raspberry Pi workshop and 3D Printer workshops. We have > run these workshops in the past (at cost) and have a good idea of the > costs (they do vary based on the Australian dollar, but only a small > amount), at $126 per participant for the Raspberry Pi workshop. The > major costs for the Raspberry Pi workshop are Raspberry Pi 3 ($55), a > RPi Camera ($20), SD Card ($10) and Power supply ($8). The rest of the > cost is comprised of general electronics. See the below table for our > approximate breakdown, although we will continue to try find better > sources to get these cheaper. > > > For the 3D printer workshop, the major cost is the 3D printer kits > themselves, which are $699 USD each, and we are aiming to build two of > these as a group activity. Additionally, we need 3D filament, which is > $30 a roll, for a total of $300. We will be using the official Prusa > i3 printer for this workshop to ensure our purchase fully supports > that open source project. Once these printers are complete they will > be then available for all members of the Ballarat Hackerspace and > visitors as a workshop resource when they wish to learn about or > utilise 3d printing. > > > > > Costs - Single Raspberry Pi workshop participant > > Material > > > > Total per > > participant > > > > Source > > > > Participant > > Cost > > Raspberry Pi 3 > > > > 1 > > > > Element 14 > > > > $55.00 > > SD Card (8GB) > > > > 1 > > > > Officeworks > > > > $10.00 > > Power supply > > > > 1 > > > > Element 14 > > > > > $8.43 > > LED > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > $0.00 > > Push button > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.00 > > Resistor 330ohm > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.45 > > Breadboard > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $5.74 > > Jumper leads MM > > > > 20 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.66 > > Jumper leads FM > > > > 10 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.33 > > SPI TFT LCD > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > $8.66 > > DHT22 sensor > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $3.57 > > SR04 Ultrasonic sensor > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.00 > > 4.7k resistor > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $0.45 > > Servo motor > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $3.17 > > Raspberry Pi camera > > > > 1 > > > > Element 14 > > > > $20.00 > > PIR Sensor > > > > 1 > > > > Ali Express > > > > > $10.00 > > Acrylic Base > > > > 1 > > > > Bunnings > > > > $5.00 > > > > > > Total > > > > $131.46pp > > > We are aiming to have enough resources for 10 participants > (individually or as groups). For this, we request the amount of $1,320 > to cover the expenses of the workshop. The exact materials may differ > slightly as we adjust the course notes, but it would not significantly > deviate from this list. As an example, a particular sensor may become > outdated, and is replaced. Due to that replacement, a new resistor may > need to be added to the list to help run the new sensor. > > > With this funding, we can run the first round, but additionally run > future workshops with a much reduced outlay. Significantly we do not > need to source the RPis again (nor their power supplies or cameras), > worth around $750 of the total, and only really need to source the > cheaper electronics that are more disposable. > > > These RPis would be available in the Hackerspace for use by workshop > members for educational use, and also more broadly by the public > during our open times. > > > The slides and materials, including the designs for our 3D printable > case, are open source. Materials can be found on GitHub: > https://github.com/ballarat-hackerspace/piworkshop. The Ballarat > Hackerspace is committed to open sourcing designs and materials > created by it. > > > As a supplement for the current Raspberry Pi course, with funding we > can provide the resources to teach basic soldering skills. The space > itself has sufficient soldering irons already from prior workshops, > and with the soldering kits being provided we could offer these as a > one night course for free. > > > The kit chosen for the soldering class has been on recommendation from > other hackerspaces, however we are open for input if someone else is > providing it locally. > > > 10x WeevilEye Soldering Kits > + > $4 Shipping = $157.20 > > > For the 3D printer building, we need to purchase two Prusa i3. The > Prusas are open source designs part of the RepRap project. The cost > for these is $699/USD. By buying the official kit (rather than cheaper > knock-offs) we are supporting this great open source project. At > current conversion rates, this is $940, with shipping the total cost > is estimated at $2200. Additionally, to use the 3D printers we need > filament, which is $30 for a 1kg roll in Australia. Purchasing ten of > these is $300 including shipping. > > > After the course is run, the 3D printers will be available at the > Ballarat Hackerspace for general use. > > > In total, our grant request is $3977.20 > > > How the success of the project will be measured > > Success will be measured in two ways. The first is workshop > participation, where we hope to have ten women undertake the workshop > over six weeks. The second is membership of the Hackerspace, where we > hope to have 20% female members of the hackerspace as a result of our > engagement in these nights and on an ongoing basis. This figure will > be setup as a KPI, and if our female membership percentage falls below > that figure, then extra effort on this front will be taken. > > > Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, > projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. > The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or > professional services > > > Costs are provided above. Labour, including the sourcing of parts, > delivery of the workshop and all other work required, will be > volunteered by the Ballarat Hackerspace memberships. > > > The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or > open culture contributions > > > Kim Redfern has recently joined Ballarat Hackerspace. Kim returned to > study as a mature age student and graduated from the Bachelor of > Computing with honours in 2007. Since then, Kim has held various IT > roles from web developer to analyst programmer and is currently the > Team Leader of the Digital & eLearning Solutions team at Federation > University Australia. Kim is a novice in the hackerspace arena but is > keen to bring her passion for connecting people with technology and > training experience to introduce women, young and old, to the exciting > world of technology. > > > Dr Robert Layton is an official member of the Ballarat Hackerspace, > and has a PhD in computer science from Federation University > Australia. Robert has spent significant time on open source projects, > most notably being a core contributor to the scikit-learn package, a > Python package for machine learning. Robert is a Python zealot and has > presented at four PyCon AU conferences. His company, dataPipeline, is > a sponsor of the Ballarat Hackerspace. > > > Scott Weston is the current president of the Ballarat Hackerspace. > Scott has been using Linux since the early days and remembers the > pains of multi-hour kernel compiles on 286 and installing via floppy > discs. Primarily Scott works as a DevOp/SRE with startups and worked > at Google for 5 years. He was instrumental in bringing the GovHack > event to Ballarat in 2014 and helped run the event in Ballarat for the > first 2 years. > > > Ian Firns is the current secretary of the Ballarat Hackerspace. Ian > has been a long term contributor to a number of open source projects > including Snort, Barnyard2 and XBMC (now Kodi). Ian is also the lead > developer and current project lead of the Korora distribution. > > > Brett James is the current Treasurer at the Ballarat Hackerspace. > Brett has been on the core team for Linux Conference Australia 2012, > 2016, and has been a volunteer during 2014, 2015. Roles included > delegate registration, agenda writing, Photography, A/V Team and > volunteer training. Loves the field of drones. Brett has been key in > developing and fostering safe and creative uses of drones, running an > open-sourced Drone building workshop which has been signed up by > community members of all ages. > > > > Person responsible for project > > Robert Layton and Kim Redfern. > > > The Ballarat Hackerspace Committee as a whole will also be responsible > for the delivery of this project, in case Robert or Kim are unable to > fulfil their responsibilities. > > > Statement including a willingness to provide regular project > updates on the project > > We will provide a report at the completion of both milestones, > outlining the achievements against our success criteria, any other > important news, deviations from the above plan and anything else > notable during th at time. Additionally, we will be regularly engaging > on social media with our followers about the events, and can happily > add a link back to Linux Australia, thanking you for your support. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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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Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message -------- From: Linux Australia President via linux-aus Date: 11/6/17 5:17 pm (GMT+10:00) To: Robert Layton , council at linux.org.au, linux-aus at linux.org.au Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application: Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace Hi everyone, Linux Australia is delighted to announce that this Grant Application has been approved, and will be funded to the amount requested. The decision of Council was unanimous and strongly in support of this Application, which was well written, showed strong alignment with the Linux Australia values, benefit to the Linux Australia community and promoted inclusion of minority groups within HackerSpaces. Council noted Paul Fenwick's excellent suggestion to make clear that both cis- and trans-gendered women are welcomed, and we encourage Ballarat HackerSpace to adopt this approach. Given the amount of the grant, we request a quarterly report. Mr Josh Stewart, Council Member, is a member of the Ballarat Hackerspace community and abstained from discussion and voting on this request to prevent any perceived or actual conflict of interest. We wish Kim Redfern and the team every success in this endeavour. NEXT ACTION: Robert to work with Kathy Reid to arrange financials, and we note the proposed opening night of June 14th, and can arrange for financial transfer ASAP to help facilitate this. Kind regards, Kathy On 25/05/17 15:22, Robert Layton via linux-aus wrote: Grant Application: Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace Hello everyone! Below is our grant application to help support us in opening our Hackerspace to encourage Women in STEAM (STEM + Arts). For any queries or concerns, I'm the main contact, at this email address, but you can also email elected at ballarathackerspace.org.au to get all the committee. Project name: Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project: Participation in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) by women is notoriously low. At the Ballarat Hackerspace, we are looking to increase the participation and skill levels of women in technology. To do this, we are opening our Hackerspace for women on Wednesday nights, for free, on an ongoing basis, our Wednesday Women?s Night (WWN). We have found a champion of the event, Kim Redfern, who will formally run the nights, naturally with the full support of the Ballarat Hackerspace committee. We are going to run these nights as semi-workshop nights, based on our previous workshops introducing the Raspberry Pi, programming, electronics and 3D printing (these workshops were run at cost price, but will be run for free for WWN). The workshop is introductory level, and those with greater skills will be encouraged to use our other tooling and resources to work on more advanced projects or help out those learning new skills they have already grasped. After the Raspberry Pi workshop component is complete, we will run a 3D printer building workshop. After this, we will run other themed events on an ongoing basis. Our current plan is for a Drone building workshop, however we will need some development time for this. To keep the projects free the Hackerspace will keep the costly components of the workshop (e.g. Raspberry Pi, 3d printers) so that they can be used to re-run the workshops again at a later time. Some parts of the project will be given to participants to encourage their further learning, for example: breadboards, sensors, actuators from the Raspberry Pi workshop. We will give participants to ability to purchase the expensive parts from the project upon completion at which point the Hackerspace will replace the item before re-running the workshop and so that the items are still available to members in the space to learn with. Milestone 1: Opening night, June 14th, 2017 Our first milestone is the opening night, where we have invited press and local women in tech to come and formally open the workshops. Milestone 2: Completion of RPi course, 19th July, 2017 Our second milestone is the formal completion of the Raspberry Pi workshop component, which takes place for six weeks. Milestone 3: Completion of 3D Printer building course, 16th August, 2017 Our third milestone is the completion of the building of two 3D printers (Official Prusa i3) We are requesting money for resources for milestones 2 & 3, which comprises the Raspberry Pi workshop and 3D Printer workshops. We have run these workshops in the past (at cost) and have a good idea of the costs (they do vary based on the Australian dollar, but only a small amount), at $126 per participant for the Raspberry Pi workshop. The major costs for the Raspberry Pi workshop are Raspberry Pi 3 ($55), a RPi Camera ($20), SD Card ($10) and Power supply ($8). The rest of the cost is comprised of general electronics. See the below table for our approximate breakdown, although we will continue to try find better sources to get these cheaper. For the 3D printer workshop, the major cost is the 3D printer kits themselves, which are $699 USD each, and we are aiming to build two of these as a group activity. Additionally, we need 3D filament, which is $30 a roll, for a total of $300. We will be using the official Prusa i3 printer for this workshop to ensure our purchase fully supports that open source project. Once these printers are complete they will be then available for all members of the Ballarat Hackerspace and visitors as a workshop resource when they wish to learn about or utilise 3d printing. Costs - Single Raspberry Pi workshop participant Material Total per participant Source Participant Cost Raspberry Pi 3 1 Element 14 $55.00 SD Card (8GB) 1 Officeworks $10.00 Power supply 1 Element 14 $8.43 LED 1 Ali Express $0.00 Push button 1 Ali Express $0.00 Resistor 330ohm 1 Ali Express $0.45 Breadboard 1 Ali Express $5.74 Jumper leads MM 20 Ali Express $0.66 Jumper leads FM 10 Ali Express $0.33 SPI TFT LCD 1 Ali Express $8.66 DHT22 sensor 1 Ali Express $3.57 SR04 Ultrasonic sensor 1 Ali Express $0.00 4.7k resistor 1 Ali Express $0.45 Servo motor 1 Ali Express $3.17 Raspberry Pi camera 1 Element 14 $20.00 PIR Sensor 1 Ali Express $10.00 Acrylic Base 1 Bunnings $5.00 Total $131.46pp We are aiming to have enough resources for 10 participants (individually or as groups). For this, we request the amount of $1,320 to cover the expenses of the workshop. The exact materials may differ slightly as we adjust the course notes, but it would not significantly deviate from this list. As an example, a particular sensor may become outdated, and is replaced. Due to that replacement, a new resistor may need to be added to the list to help run the new sensor. With this funding, we can run the first round, but additionally run future workshops with a much reduced outlay. Significantly we do not need to source the RPis again (nor their power supplies or cameras), worth around $750 of the total, and only really need to source the cheaper electronics that are more disposable. These RPis would be available in the Hackerspace for use by workshop members for educational use, and also more broadly by the public during our open times. The slides and materials, including the designs for our 3D printable case, are open source. Materials can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/ballarat-hackerspace/piworkshop. The Ballarat Hackerspace is committed to open sourcing designs and materials created by it. As a supplement for the current Raspberry Pi course, with funding we can provide the resources to teach basic soldering skills. The space itself has sufficient soldering irons already from prior workshops, and with the soldering kits being provided we could offer these as a one night course for free. The kit chosen for the soldering class has been on recommendation from other hackerspaces, however we are open for input if someone else is providing it locally. 10x WeevilEye Soldering Kits + $4 Shipping = $157.20 For the 3D printer building, we need to purchase two Prusa i3. The Prusas are open source designs part of the RepRap project. The cost for these is $699/USD. By buying the official kit (rather than cheaper knock-offs) we are supporting this great open source project. At current conversion rates, this is $940, with shipping the total cost is estimated at $2200. Additionally, to use the 3D printers we need filament, which is $30 for a 1kg roll in Australia. Purchasing ten of these is $300 including shipping. After the course is run, the 3D printers will be available at the Ballarat Hackerspace for general use. In total, our grant request is $3977.20 How the success of the project will be measured Success will be measured in two ways. The first is workshop participation, where we hope to have ten women undertake the workshop over six weeks. The second is membership of the Hackerspace, where we hope to have 20% female members of the hackerspace as a result of our engagement in these nights and on an ongoing basis. This figure will be setup as a KPI, and if our female membership percentage falls below that figure, then extra effort on this front will be taken. Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional services Costs are provided above. Labour, including the sourcing of parts, delivery of the workshop and all other work required, will be volunteered by the Ballarat Hackerspace memberships. The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open culture contributions Kim Redfern has recently joined Ballarat Hackerspace. Kim returned to study as a mature age student and graduated from the Bachelor of Computing with honours in 2007. Since then, Kim has held various IT roles from web developer to analyst programmer and is currently the Team Leader of the Digital & eLearning Solutions team at Federation University Australia. Kim is a novice in the hackerspace arena but is keen to bring her passion for connecting people with technology and training experience to introduce women, young and old, to the exciting world of technology. Dr Robert Layton is an official member of the Ballarat Hackerspace, and has a PhD in computer science from Federation University Australia. Robert has spent significant time on open source projects, most notably being a core contributor to the scikit-learn package, a Python package for machine learning. Robert is a Python zealot and has presented at four PyCon AU conferences. His company, dataPipeline, is a sponsor of the Ballarat Hackerspace. Scott Weston is the current president of the Ballarat Hackerspace. Scott has been using Linux since the early days and remembers the pains of multi-hour kernel compiles on 286 and installing via floppy discs. Primarily Scott works as a DevOp/SRE with startups and worked at Google for 5 years. He was instrumental in bringing the GovHack event to Ballarat in 2014 and helped run the event in Ballarat for the first 2 years. Ian Firns is the current secretary of the Ballarat Hackerspace. Ian has been a long term contributor to a number of open source projects including Snort, Barnyard2 and XBMC (now Kodi). Ian is also the lead developer and current project lead of the Korora distribution. Brett James is the current Treasurer at the Ballarat Hackerspace. Brett has been on the core team for Linux Conference Australia 2012, 2016, and has been a volunteer during 2014, 2015. Roles included delegate registration, agenda writing, Photography, A/V Team and volunteer training. Loves the field of drones. Brett has been key in developing and fostering safe and creative uses of drones, running an open-sourced Drone building workshop which has been signed up by community members of all ages. Person responsible for project Robert Layton and Kim Redfern. The Ballarat Hackerspace Committee as a whole will also be responsible for the delivery of this project, in case Robert or Kim are unable to fulfil their responsibilities. Statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on the project We will provide a report at the completion of both milestones, outlining the achievements against our success criteria, any other important news, deviations from the above plan and anything else notable during th at time. Additionally, we will be regularly engaging on social media with our followers about the events, and can happily add a link back to Linux Australia, thanking you for your support. _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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 robertlayton at gmail.com Sun Jun 11 20:54:17 2017 From: robertlayton at gmail.com (Robert Layton) Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 20:54:17 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] =?utf-8?q?Grant_Application=3A_Wednesday_Women?= =?utf-8?q?=E2=80=99s_Night_at_the_Ballarat_Hackerspace?= In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks guys! Looking forward to it! On 11 June 2017 at 18:31, Kim Redfern via linux-aus < linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > Thank you everyone. Very exciting. > > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Linux Australia President via linux-aus < > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> > Date: 11/6/17 5:17 pm (GMT+10:00) > To: Robert Layton , > council at linux.org.au, linux-aus at linux.org.au > Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application: Wednesday Women?s Night at the > Ballarat Hackerspace > > Hi everyone, > > Linux Australia is delighted to announce that this Grant Application has > been approved, and will be funded to the amount requested. > > The decision of Council was unanimous and strongly in support of this > Application, which was well written, showed strong alignment with the Linux > Australia values, benefit to the Linux Australia community and promoted > inclusion of minority groups within HackerSpaces. Council noted Paul > Fenwick's excellent suggestion to make clear that both cis- and > trans-gendered women are welcomed, and we encourage Ballarat HackerSpace to > adopt this approach. > > Given the amount of the grant, we request a quarterly report. > > Mr Josh Stewart, Council Member, is a member of the Ballarat Hackerspace > community and abstained from discussion and voting on this request to > prevent any perceived or actual conflict of interest. > > We wish Kim Redfern and the team every success in this endeavour. > > NEXT ACTION: Robert to work with Kathy Reid to arrange financials, and we > note the proposed opening night of June 14th, and can arrange for financial > transfer ASAP to help facilitate this. > > Kind regards, > > Kathy > > On 25/05/17 15:22, Robert Layton via linux-aus wrote: > > Grant Application: Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace > > Hello everyone! > > Below is our grant application to help support us in opening our > Hackerspace to encourage Women in STEAM (STEM + Arts). > > For any queries or concerns, I'm the main contact, at this email address, > but you can also email elected at ballarathackerspace.org.au to get all the > committee. > > > Project name: Wednesday Women?s Night at the Ballarat Hackerspace > > Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project: > > Participation in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and > Mathematics) by women is notoriously low. At the Ballarat Hackerspace, we > are looking to increase the participation and skill levels of women in > technology. To do this, we are opening our Hackerspace for women on > Wednesday nights, for free, on an ongoing basis, our Wednesday Women?s > Night (WWN). > > We have found a champion of the event, Kim Redfern, who will formally run > the nights, naturally with the full support of the Ballarat Hackerspace > committee. > > We are going to run these nights as semi-workshop nights, based on our > previous workshops introducing the Raspberry Pi, programming, electronics > and 3D printing (these workshops were run at cost price, but will be run > for free for WWN). The workshop is introductory level, and those with > greater skills will be encouraged to use our other tooling and resources to > work on more advanced projects or help out those learning new skills they > have already grasped. After the Raspberry Pi workshop component is > complete, we will run a 3D printer building workshop. After this, we will > run other themed events on an ongoing basis. Our current plan is for a > Drone building workshop, however we will need some development time for > this. To keep the projects free the Hackerspace will keep the costly > components of the workshop (e.g. Raspberry Pi, 3d printers) so that they > can be used to re-run the workshops again at a later time. Some parts of > the project will be given to participants to encourage their further > learning, for example: breadboards, sensors, actuators from the Raspberry > Pi workshop. We will give participants to ability to purchase the expensive > parts from the project upon completion at which point the Hackerspace will > replace the item before re-running the workshop and so that the items are > still available to members in the space to learn with. > > Milestone 1: Opening night, June 14th, 2017 > > Our first milestone is the opening night, where we have invited press and > local women in tech to come and formally open the workshops. > > Milestone 2: Completion of RPi course, 19th July, 2017 > > Our second milestone is the formal completion of the Raspberry Pi workshop > component, which takes place for six weeks. > > Milestone 3: Completion of 3D Printer building course, 16th August, 2017 > > Our third milestone is the completion of the building of two 3D printers > (Official Prusa i3) > > We are requesting money for resources for milestones 2 & 3, which > comprises the Raspberry Pi workshop and 3D Printer workshops. We have run > these workshops in the past (at cost) and have a good idea of the costs > (they do vary based on the Australian dollar, but only a small amount), at > $126 per participant for the Raspberry Pi workshop. The major costs for the > Raspberry Pi workshop are Raspberry Pi 3 ($55), a RPi Camera ($20), SD Card > ($10) and Power supply ($8). The rest of the cost is comprised of general > electronics. See the below table for our approximate breakdown, although we > will continue to try find better sources to get these cheaper. > > For the 3D printer workshop, the major cost is the 3D printer kits > themselves, which are $699 USD each, and we are aiming to build two of > these as a group activity. Additionally, we need 3D filament, which is $30 > a roll, for a total of $300. We will be using the official Prusa i3 printer > for this workshop to ensure our purchase fully supports that open source > project. Once these printers are complete they will be then available for > all members of the Ballarat Hackerspace and visitors as a workshop resource > when they wish to learn about or utilise 3d printing. > > > > Costs - Single Raspberry Pi workshop participant > > Material > > Total per > > participant > > Source > > Participant > > Cost > > Raspberry Pi 3 > > 1 > > Element 14 > > $55.00 > > SD Card (8GB) > > 1 > > Officeworks > > $10.00 > > Power supply > > 1 > > Element 14 > > > $8.43 > > LED > > 1 > > Ali Express > > $0.00 > > Push button > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $0.00 > > Resistor 330ohm > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $0.45 > > Breadboard > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $5.74 > > Jumper leads MM > > 20 > > Ali Express > > > $0.66 > > Jumper leads FM > > 10 > > Ali Express > > > $0.33 > > SPI TFT LCD > > 1 > > Ali Express > > $8.66 > > DHT22 sensor > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $3.57 > > SR04 Ultrasonic sensor > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $0.00 > > 4.7k resistor > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $0.45 > > Servo motor > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $3.17 > > Raspberry Pi camera > > 1 > > Element 14 > > $20.00 > > PIR Sensor > > 1 > > Ali Express > > > $10.00 > > Acrylic Base > > 1 > > Bunnings > > $5.00 > > > Total > > $131.46pp > > We are aiming to have enough resources for 10 participants (individually > or as groups). For this, we request the amount of $1,320 to cover the > expenses of the workshop. The exact materials may differ slightly as we > adjust the course notes, but it would not significantly deviate from this > list. As an example, a particular sensor may become outdated, and is > replaced. Due to that replacement, a new resistor may need to be added to > the list to help run the new sensor. > > With this funding, we can run the first round, but additionally run future > workshops with a much reduced outlay. Significantly we do not need to > source the RPis again (nor their power supplies or cameras), worth around > $750 of the total, and only really need to source the cheaper electronics > that are more disposable. > > These RPis would be available in the Hackerspace for use by workshop > members for educational use, and also more broadly by the public during our > open times. > > The slides and materials, including the designs for our 3D printable case, > are open source. Materials can be found on GitHub: > https://github.com/ballarat-hackerspace/piworkshop. The Ballarat > Hackerspace is committed to open sourcing designs and materials created by > it. > > As a supplement for the current Raspberry Pi course, with funding we can > provide the resources to teach basic soldering skills. The space itself has > sufficient soldering irons already from prior workshops, and with the > soldering kits being provided we could offer these as a one night course > for free. > > The kit chosen for the soldering class has been on recommendation from > other hackerspaces, however we are open for input if someone else is > providing it locally. > > 10x WeevilEye Soldering Kits > > + $4 Shipping = $157.20 > > For the 3D printer building, we need to purchase two Prusa i3. The Prusas > are open source designs part of the RepRap project. The cost for these is > $699/USD. By buying the official kit (rather than cheaper knock-offs) we > are supporting this great open source project. At current conversion rates, > this is $940, with shipping the total cost is estimated at $2200. > Additionally, to use the 3D printers we need filament, which is $30 for a > 1kg roll in Australia. Purchasing ten of these is $300 including shipping. > > After the course is run, the 3D printers will be available at the Ballarat > Hackerspace for general use. > > In total, our grant request is $3977.20 > > How the success of the project will be measured > > Success will be measured in two ways. The first is workshop participation, > where we hope to have ten women undertake the workshop over six weeks. The > second is membership of the Hackerspace, where we hope to have 20% female > members of the hackerspace as a result of our engagement in these nights > and on an ongoing basis. This figure will be setup as a KPI, and if our > female membership percentage falls below that figure, then extra effort on > this front will be taken. > > Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects > or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost > breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional > services > > Costs are provided above. Labour, including the sourcing of parts, > delivery of the workshop and all other work required, will be volunteered > by the Ballarat Hackerspace memberships. > > The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open > culture contributions > > Kim Redfern has recently joined Ballarat Hackerspace. Kim returned to > study as a mature age student and graduated from the Bachelor of Computing > with honours in 2007. Since then, Kim has held various IT roles from web > developer to analyst programmer and is currently the Team Leader of the > Digital & eLearning Solutions team at Federation University Australia. Kim > is a novice in the hackerspace arena but is keen to bring her passion for > connecting people with technology and training experience to introduce > women, young and old, to the exciting world of technology. > > Dr Robert Layton is an official member of the Ballarat Hackerspace, and > has a PhD in computer science from Federation University Australia. Robert > has spent significant time on open source projects, most notably being a > core contributor to the scikit-learn package, a Python package for machine > learning. Robert is a Python zealot and has presented at four PyCon AU > conferences. His company, dataPipeline, is a sponsor of the Ballarat > Hackerspace. > > Scott Weston is the current president of the Ballarat Hackerspace. Scott > has been using Linux since the early days and remembers the pains of > multi-hour kernel compiles on 286 and installing via floppy discs. > Primarily Scott works as a DevOp/SRE with startups and worked at Google for > 5 years. He was instrumental in bringing the GovHack event to Ballarat in > 2014 and helped run the event in Ballarat for the first 2 years. > > Ian Firns is the current secretary of the Ballarat Hackerspace. Ian has > been a long term contributor to a number of open source projects including > Snort, Barnyard2 and XBMC (now Kodi). Ian is also the lead developer and > current project lead of the Korora distribution. > > Brett James is the current Treasurer at the Ballarat Hackerspace. Brett > has been on the core team for Linux Conference Australia 2012, 2016, and > has been a volunteer during 2014, 2015. Roles included delegate > registration, agenda writing, Photography, A/V Team and volunteer training. > Loves the field of drones. Brett has been key in developing and fostering > safe and creative uses of drones, running an open-sourced Drone building > workshop which has been signed up by community members of all ages. > > > Person responsible for project > > Robert Layton and Kim Redfern. > > The Ballarat Hackerspace Committee as a whole will also be responsible for > the delivery of this project, in case Robert or Kim are unable to fulfil > their responsibilities. > > Statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on > the project > > We will provide a report at the completion of both milestones, outlining > the achievements against our success criteria, any other important news, > deviations from the above plan and anything else notable during th at time. > Additionally, we will be regularly engaging on social media with our > followers about the events, and can happily add a link back to Linux > Australia, thanking you for your support. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing listlinux-aus at lists.linux.org.auhttp://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > -- > Kathy Reid > President > Linux Australia > > 0418 130 636 > president at linux.org.auhttp://linux.org.au > > Linux Australia Inc > GPO Box 4788 > Sydney NSW 2001 > Australia > > ABN 56 987 117 479 > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kademorton at protonmail.com Mon Jun 19 14:52:39 2017 From: kademorton at protonmail.com (Kade Morton) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:52:39 -0400 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <676PF5MyZ4pZQvgeiAlyfreOP9swYOSkWfo_JlzKVU15XXIalEwDw1_5aujnUgRZwhzIgXv_bXaovDv3RzLcB2Uy5yyA2YG0wPKNQ6F7CGs=@protonmail.com> I've been asked to resend *** Hi all, I wanted to make a grant for the open source project I co-founded, Aletheia. Project name: Aletheia Aim of the project: To provide an alternative to publishing scientific research behind paywalls and to popularise decentralised autonomous organisations. Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed database which we're applying to academic publishing. Basically a a database that is free to upload to and access from, administered by the community as a decentralised autonomous organisation. Aletheia would be an alternative to publishing research behind paywalls. Have a look at our source code here: https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-app Have a look at our community documentation here: https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-admin Key stages or milestones of the project: Completed - Onboarding documents up to standard that newcomers can come onto the project, documents hosted on GitHub. - Participated in the Mozilla Global Sprint https://mozilla.github.io/global-sprint/ - Get application running on Ubuntu - Get application running on Mac - Cofounder to complete courses through Mozilla to help create avenues for Mozilla's continued support for Aletheia To be Completed - Get application running on Windows - Finish MVP (aiming for 27th of October 2017) - Run presentation about Aletheia and the applications of decentralised and open source technology in science at MozFest (application made, waiting to hear for acceptance, presentation will be in London, 27th of October 2017) - Finish Aletheia 2.0 (aiming for 1st of July 2018) How the success of the project will be measured: Number of downloads, number of active community users and number of documents stored in Aletheia Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional services: - $15,000 for Extra Credits to create a video covering Aletheia. - $10,000 legal fees, up front consultation and ongoing - $2,000 incidentals incurred so far (server costs, custom domain name, travel expenses we have coming up) - $5,000 to have website professionally built. These are a great deal of costs. I'd be happy to just apply to have the video covered. We think a professionally created video that's engaging and made by a talented group of people with a large fan base that's easily sharable on social media and can be given to anyone who asks "what is Aletheia?" would be the greatest boon to our project. We need to get the word out about our project and increase the rate of volunteers coming on to the project, we think the visual medium of a video is the best way to do this. Unfortunately we don't have any video editors working on the project yet, and we've attempted to negotiate an "open source rate" with Extra Credits but they have said $15,000 is the lowest they will go. This single cost can be paid and therefore count as incurred before 30th of September 2017. The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open culture contributions: - Kade Morton, Mozilla regional coordinator for Brisbane, Mozilla techspeaker, completed the Mozilla open leadership course for open source projects, organised Aletheia's contributions to Mozilla's Global Sprint 2017, board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia - Roo (wishes to remain anonymous) cofounded Aletheia with Kade, works for ThoughtWorks on a number of open source projects, is extremely active in running privacy, online security and decentralisation meetups locally. If our application hinges on the identity of Aletheia's cofounder I can approach him and ask if he would mind his name being disclosed to the council but as a blanket rule he has asked for anonymity. Person responsible for project: Kade Morton A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on the project: I would be more than happy to provide Linux Australia with regular status updates on Aletheia and how our client is coming along. Regards, Kade Morton Twitter: @cypath LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kade-morton-34179283 Keybase: https://keybase.io/kademorton -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com Mon Jun 19 15:36:00 2017 From: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com (Rowland Mosbergen) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:36:00 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia In-Reply-To: <676PF5MyZ4pZQvgeiAlyfreOP9swYOSkWfo_JlzKVU15XXIalEwDw1_5aujnUgRZwhzIgXv_bXaovDv3RzLcB2Uy5yyA2YG0wPKNQ6F7CGs=@protonmail.com> References: <676PF5MyZ4pZQvgeiAlyfreOP9swYOSkWfo_JlzKVU15XXIalEwDw1_5aujnUgRZwhzIgXv_bXaovDv3RzLcB2Uy5yyA2YG0wPKNQ6F7CGs=@protonmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Kade, As a person who works with researchers everyday at the University of Melbourne, the idea of paywalls is a very hot topic at the moment. Open access publications such as F1000Research and PLOS ONE have provided researchers with more choices than ever before. Yet the big publications can still provide paywalls due to the way that research funding is granted, based on publication impact factor. Being able to publish in Nature gives one an advantage the next time the NHMRC and ARC grants come around. In my opinion, the issue around paywalls in research is very much one that needs a community fix, not a technical fix. And that fix is going to be a long and complicated journey. I am unsure how much of this backstory you know or which researchers you have talked to from a range of disciplines like Life Sciences, Humanities, Astronomy etc. I would highly recommend engaging with these researchers if you don't have those relationships already. In my opinion, this kind of project would be discussed at a University and Funding level (eg NHMRC) both nationally and internationally. I think the technical considerations would be of a very low priority Regards, Rowland Mosbergen On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Kade Morton via linux-aus < linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > I've been asked to resend > > *** > > Hi all, > > I wanted to make a grant for the open source project I co-founded, > Aletheia. > > Project name: Aletheia > Aim of the project: To provide an alternative to publishing scientific > research behind paywalls and to popularise decentralised autonomous > organisations. > > Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed database which we're applying > to academic publishing. Basically a a database that is free to upload to > and access from, administered by the community as a decentralised > autonomous organisation. Aletheia would be an alternative to publishing > research behind paywalls. > > Have a look at our source code here: https://github.com/aletheia- > foundation/aletheia-app > Have a look at our community documentation here: > https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-admin > > Key stages or milestones of the project: > > Completed > > - Onboarding documents up to standard that newcomers can come onto the > project, documents hosted on GitHub. > - Participated in the Mozilla Global Sprint https://mozilla.github.io/ > global-sprint/ > - Get application running on Ubuntu > - Get application running on Mac > - Cofounder to complete courses through Mozilla to help create avenues > for Mozilla's continued support for Aletheia > > To be Completed > > - Get application running on Windows > - Finish MVP (aiming for 27th of October 2017) > - Run presentation about Aletheia and the applications of > decentralised and open source technology in science at MozFest (application > made, waiting to hear for acceptance, presentation will be in London, 27th > of October 2017) > - Finish Aletheia 2.0 (aiming for 1st of July 2018) > > How the success of the project will be measured: Number of downloads, > number of active community users and number of documents stored in Aletheia > Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects > or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost > breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional > services: > > - $15,000 for Extra Credits to create a video covering Aletheia. > - $10,000 legal fees, up front consultation and ongoing > - $2,000 incidentals incurred so far (server costs, custom domain > name, travel expenses we have coming up) > - $5,000 to have website professionally built. > > These are a great deal of costs. I'd be happy to just apply to have the > video covered. We think a professionally created video that's engaging and > made by a talented group of people with a large fan base that's easily > sharable on social media and can be given to anyone who asks "what is > Aletheia?" would be the greatest boon to our project. We need to get the > word out about our project and increase the rate of volunteers coming on to > the project, we think the visual medium of a video is the best way to do > this. Unfortunately we don't have any video editors working on the project > yet, and we've attempted to negotiate an "open source rate" with Extra > Credits but they have said $15,000 is the lowest they will go. This single > cost can be paid and therefore count as incurred before 30th of September > 2017. > > The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open > culture contributions: > > - Kade Morton, Mozilla regional coordinator for Brisbane, Mozilla > techspeaker, completed the Mozilla open leadership course for open source > projects, organised Aletheia's contributions to Mozilla's Global Sprint > 2017, board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia > - Roo (wishes to remain anonymous) cofounded Aletheia with Kade, works > for ThoughtWorks on a number of open source projects, is extremely active > in running privacy, online security and decentralisation meetups locally. > If our application hinges on the identity of Aletheia's cofounder I can > approach him and ask if he would mind his name being disclosed to the > council but as a blanket rule he has asked for anonymity. > > Person responsible for project: Kade Morton > A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on > the project: I would be more than happy to provide Linux Australia with > regular status updates on Aletheia and how our client is coming along. > > Regards, > > Kade Morton > Twitter: @cypath > LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kade-morton-34179283 > Keybase: https://keybase.io/kademorton > > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kademorton at protonmail.com Mon Jun 19 16:53:21 2017 From: kademorton at protonmail.com (Kade Morton) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 02:53:21 -0400 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia In-Reply-To: References: <676PF5MyZ4pZQvgeiAlyfreOP9swYOSkWfo_JlzKVU15XXIalEwDw1_5aujnUgRZwhzIgXv_bXaovDv3RzLcB2Uy5yyA2YG0wPKNQ6F7CGs=@protonmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Rowland, Thanks for the below. We've consulted pretty widely with researchers here in Aus and overseas (two of the people on our team currently publish academic papers in their fields and we're working with a group Jon Tennant is involved with that are publishing a thesis around a better peer review process, our peer review process is going to be build around their findings). If it strengthens the application I can list out the different researchers and groups we've spoken with. I'd contend we do need a technical fix to paywalls along with a community fix and we're looking to address both. F1000Research, PLOS ONE and others are great, even Sci-Hub if you feel adventurous, but I think we have some positives over existing solutions. - Websites are a single point of failure, they can fall over through neglect or malicious actors. Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed database, no single point of failure. - Open access journals and preprint archives can be bought out by larger paywall journals. Aletheia is under a GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0, Elsevier is not buying us. - Open access journals charge for submissions, it's free to submit to Aletheia. We're looking at how the platform can be monetised but it won't be through submission of or access to content. - You can't see what open access journals spend their money on, we publish our financial records. - Open Access journals often die because they don't make profit, we're community run so as long as we have enough community nodes the contents of Aletheia is stored forever. - Open Access journals don't have publishing impact factor. We won't either, but we're building a reputation system based on submitted articles, peer review articles (our platform handles peer review), community participation and some other factors. This transparent reputation score is your contribution academia so we're looking to turn that into publishing impact factor once we are well established. - The community doesn't have a say in how open access journals are run usually, they are a bit of a block box. The community runs Aletheia as a decentralised autonomous organisation. - Open access aren't not open source, you can audit all our code, look at how we are storing papers and data sets, etc. - There has been little innovation in academic publishing since journals were established in the 16th centry. The only real change is the journals now have websites and databases. I think looking at doing something different in this space is worth the effort just for the exploration alone, and I'd rather open source communities do that exploring over corporations because if a better way is hit on it should be open from the start. - A decentralised and distributed database administered as a DAO has applications past scientific publishing, we want to prove it works in this space and then move into other areas. I'm not sure if this covers all your concerns, we have a white paper covering Aletheia's features if you're interested, https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-whitepaper/blob/master/WHITE-PAPER.md Regards, Kade Morton -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia Local Time: June 19, 2017 3:36 PM UTC Time: June 19, 2017 5:36 AM From: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com To: Kade Morton linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au , council at linux.org.au Hi Kade, As a person who works with researchers everyday at the University of Melbourne, the idea of paywalls is a very hot topic at the moment. Open access publications such as F1000Research and PLOS ONE have provided researchers with more choices than ever before. Yet the big publications can still provide paywalls due to the way that research funding is granted, based on publication impact factor. Being able to publish in Nature gives one an advantage the next time the NHMRC and ARC grants come around. In my opinion, the issue around paywalls in research is very much one that needs a community fix, not a technical fix. And that fix is going to be a long and complicated journey. I am unsure how much of this backstory you know or which researchers you have talked to from a range of disciplines like Life Sciences, Humanities, Astronomy etc. I would highly recommend engaging with these researchers if you don't have those relationships already. In my opinion, this kind of project would be discussed at a University and Funding level (eg NHMRC) both nationally and internationally. I think the technical considerations would be of a very low priority Regards, Rowland Mosbergen On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Kade Morton via linux-aus wrote: I've been asked to resend *** Hi all, I wanted to make a grant for the open source project I co-founded, Aletheia. Project name: Aletheia Aim of the project: To provide an alternative to publishing scientific research behind paywalls and to popularise decentralised autonomous organisations. Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed database which we're applying to academic publishing. Basically a a database that is free to upload to and access from, administered by the community as a decentralised autonomous organisation. Aletheia would be an alternative to publishing research behind paywalls. Have a look at our source code here: https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-app Have a look at our community documentation here: https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-admin Key stages or milestones of the project: Completed - Onboarding documents up to standard that newcomers can come onto the project, documents hosted on GitHub. - Participated in the Mozilla Global Sprint https://mozilla.github.io/global-sprint/ - Get application running on Ubuntu - Get application running on Mac - Cofounder to complete courses through Mozilla to help create avenues for Mozilla's continued support for Aletheia To be Completed - Get application running on Windows - Finish MVP (aiming for 27th of October 2017) - Run presentation about Aletheia and the applications of decentralised and open source technology in science at MozFest (application made, waiting to hear for acceptance, presentation will be in London, 27th of October 2017) - Finish Aletheia 2.0 (aiming for 1st of July 2018) How the success of the project will be measured: Number of downloads, number of active community users and number of documents stored in Aletheia Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional services: - $15,000 for Extra Credits to create a video covering Aletheia. - $10,000 legal fees, up front consultation and ongoing - $2,000 incidentals incurred so far (server costs, custom domain name, travel expenses we have coming up) - $5,000 to have website professionally built. These are a great deal of costs. I'd be happy to just apply to have the video covered. We think a professionally created video that's engaging and made by a talented group of people with a large fan base that's easily sharable on social media and can be given to anyone who asks "what is Aletheia?" would be the greatest boon to our project. We need to get the word out about our project and increase the rate of volunteers coming on to the project, we think the visual medium of a video is the best way to do this. Unfortunately we don't have any video editors working on the project yet, and we've attempted to negotiate an "open source rate" with Extra Credits but they have said $15,000 is the lowest they will go. This single cost can be paid and therefore count as incurred before 30th of September 2017. The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open culture contributions: - Kade Morton, Mozilla regional coordinator for Brisbane, Mozilla techspeaker, completed the Mozilla open leadership course for open source projects, organised Aletheia's contributions to Mozilla's Global Sprint 2017, board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia - Roo (wishes to remain anonymous) cofounded Aletheia with Kade, works for ThoughtWorks on a number of open source projects, is extremely active in running privacy, online security and decentralisation meetups locally. If our application hinges on the identity of Aletheia's cofounder I can approach him and ask if he would mind his name being disclosed to the council but as a blanket rule he has asked for anonymity. Person responsible for project: Kade Morton A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on the project: I would be more than happy to provide Linux Australia with regular status updates on Aletheia and how our client is coming along. Regards, Kade Morton Twitter: @cypath LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kade-morton-34179283 Keybase: https://keybase.io/kademorton _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com Mon Jun 19 17:27:28 2017 From: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com (Rowland Mosbergen) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 17:27:28 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia In-Reply-To: References: <676PF5MyZ4pZQvgeiAlyfreOP9swYOSkWfo_JlzKVU15XXIalEwDw1_5aujnUgRZwhzIgXv_bXaovDv3RzLcB2Uy5yyA2YG0wPKNQ6F7CGs=@protonmail.com> Message-ID: Thanks for the feedback Kade. The biggest concern that I see for researchers on a year to year basis is the ability to increase the probability for the NHMRC, ARC and other funding bodies to fund their work. This is directly tied into the papers they publish, where they publish and their citation record (among other things). I think it would be interesting to know how you are approaching the funding bodies and their reactions to your ideas. I think without this your technical fix would not be sustainable. While some of the technical discussions you mentioned I think are interesting technically, in my opinion they aren't even close to the priority that is needed on the same level as the communty issues. For example: - websites can easily be architected for high availability (we do this ourselves), - PlosOne has all it's content protected by CC-BY and - PlosOne has an impact factor (3.057 in 2015 ) Not that Aletheia isn't a cool idea. I just want to ensure that we can tease out the pros and cons to allow the Linux Australia community to work out if this fits into their funding model. Whatever the outcome I think you are raising this issue at the right time as it's a hot topic in research. Regards, Rowland. On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Kade Morton wrote: > Hi Rowland, > > Thanks for the below. We've consulted pretty widely with researchers here > in Aus and overseas (two of the people on our team currently publish > academic papers in their fields and we're working with a group Jon Tennant > is involved with that are publishing a thesis around a better peer review > process, our peer review process is going to be build around their > findings). If it strengthens the application I can list out the different > researchers and groups we've spoken with. > > I'd contend we do need a technical fix to paywalls along with a community > fix and we're looking to address both. F1000Research, PLOS ONE and others > are great, even Sci-Hub if you feel adventurous, but I think we have some > positives over existing solutions. > > - Websites are a single point of failure, they can fall over through > neglect or malicious actors. Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed > database, no single point of failure. > - Open access journals and preprint archives can be bought out by > larger paywall journals. Aletheia is under a GNU Lesser General Public > License v3.0, Elsevier is not buying us. > - Open access journals charge for submissions, it's free to submit to > Aletheia. We're looking at how the platform can be monetised but it won't > be through submission of or access to content. > - You can't see what open access journals spend their money on, we > publish our financial records. > - Open Access journals often die because they don't make profit, we're > community run so as long as we have enough community nodes the contents of > Aletheia is stored forever. > - Open Access journals don't have publishing impact factor. We won't > either, but we're building a reputation system based on submitted articles, > peer review articles (our platform handles peer review), community > participation and some other factors. This transparent reputation score is > your contribution academia so we're looking to turn that into publishing > impact factor once we are well established. > - The community doesn't have a say in how open access journals are run > usually, they are a bit of a block box. The community runs Aletheia as a > decentralised autonomous organisation. > - Open access aren't not open source, you can audit all our code, look > at how we are storing papers and data sets, etc. > - There has been little innovation in academic publishing since > journals were established in the 16th centry. The only real change is the > journals now have websites and databases. I think looking at doing > something different in this space is worth the effort just for the > exploration alone, and I'd rather open source communities do that exploring > over corporations because if a better way is hit on it should be open from > the start. > - A decentralised and distributed database administered as a DAO has > applications past scientific publishing, we want to prove it works in this > space and then move into other areas. > > I'm not sure if this covers all your concerns, we have a white paper > covering Aletheia's features if you're interested, > https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia- > whitepaper/blob/master/WHITE-PAPER.md > > Regards, > > Kade Morton > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia > Local Time: June 19, 2017 3:36 PM > UTC Time: June 19, 2017 5:36 AM > From: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com > To: Kade Morton > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au , > council at linux.org.au > > Hi Kade, > > As a person who works with researchers everyday at the University of > Melbourne, the idea of paywalls is a very hot topic at the moment. > > Open access publications such as F1000Research and PLOS ONE have provided > researchers with more choices than ever before. > > Yet the big publications can still provide paywalls due to the way that > research funding is granted, based on publication impact factor. Being able > to publish in Nature gives one an advantage the next time the NHMRC and ARC > grants come around. > > In my opinion, the issue around paywalls in research is very much one that > needs a community fix, not a technical fix. And that fix is going to be a > long and complicated journey. > > I am unsure how much of this backstory you know or which researchers you > have talked to from a range of disciplines like Life Sciences, Humanities, > Astronomy etc. I would highly recommend engaging with these researchers if > you don't have those relationships already. > > In my opinion, this kind of project would be discussed at a University and > Funding level (eg NHMRC) both nationally and internationally. I think the > technical considerations would be of a very low priority > > Regards, > > Rowland Mosbergen > > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Kade Morton via linux-aus < > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > >> I've been asked to resend >> >> *** >> >> Hi all, >> >> I wanted to make a grant for the open source project I co-founded, >> Aletheia. >> >> Project name: Aletheia >> Aim of the project: To provide an alternative to publishing scientific >> research behind paywalls and to popularise decentralised autonomous >> organisations. >> >> Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed database which we're applying >> to academic publishing. Basically a a database that is free to upload to >> and access from, administered by the community as a decentralised >> autonomous organisation. Aletheia would be an alternative to publishing >> research behind paywalls. >> >> Have a look at our source code here: https://github.com/aletheia-fo >> undation/aletheia-app >> Have a look at our community documentation here: >> https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-admin >> >> Key stages or milestones of the project: >> >> Completed >> >> - Onboarding documents up to standard that newcomers can come onto >> the project, documents hosted on GitHub. >> - Participated in the Mozilla Global Sprint >> https://mozilla.github.io/global-sprint/ >> >> - Get application running on Ubuntu >> - Get application running on Mac >> - Cofounder to complete courses through Mozilla to help create >> avenues for Mozilla's continued support for Aletheia >> >> To be Completed >> >> - Get application running on Windows >> - Finish MVP (aiming for 27th of October 2017) >> - Run presentation about Aletheia and the applications of >> decentralised and open source technology in science at MozFest (application >> made, waiting to hear for acceptance, presentation will be in London, 27th >> of October 2017) >> - Finish Aletheia 2.0 (aiming for 1st of July 2018) >> >> How the success of the project will be measured: Number of downloads, >> number of active community users and number of documents stored in Aletheia >> Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, >> projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The >> cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional >> services: >> >> - $15,000 for Extra Credits to create a video covering Aletheia. >> - $10,000 legal fees, up front consultation and ongoing >> - $2,000 incidentals incurred so far (server costs, custom domain >> name, travel expenses we have coming up) >> - $5,000 to have website professionally built. >> >> These are a great deal of costs. I'd be happy to just apply to have the >> video covered. We think a professionally created video that's engaging and >> made by a talented group of people with a large fan base that's easily >> sharable on social media and can be given to anyone who asks "what is >> Aletheia?" would be the greatest boon to our project. We need to get the >> word out about our project and increase the rate of volunteers coming on to >> the project, we think the visual medium of a video is the best way to do >> this. Unfortunately we don't have any video editors working on the project >> yet, and we've attempted to negotiate an "open source rate" with Extra >> Credits but they have said $15,000 is the lowest they will go. This single >> cost can be paid and therefore count as incurred before 30th of September >> 2017. >> >> The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, >> especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open >> culture contributions: >> >> - Kade Morton, Mozilla regional coordinator for Brisbane, Mozilla >> techspeaker, completed the Mozilla open leadership course for open source >> projects, organised Aletheia's contributions to Mozilla's Global Sprint >> 2017, board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia >> - Roo (wishes to remain anonymous) cofounded Aletheia with Kade, >> works for ThoughtWorks on a number of open source projects, is extremely >> active in running privacy, online security and decentralisation meetups >> locally. If our application hinges on the identity of Aletheia's cofounder >> I can approach him and ask if he would mind his name being disclosed to the >> council but as a blanket rule he has asked for anonymity. >> >> Person responsible for project: Kade Morton >> A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on >> the project: I would be more than happy to provide Linux Australia with >> regular status updates on Aletheia and how our client is coming along. >> >> Regards, >> >> Kade Morton >> Twitter: @cypath >> LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kade-morton-34179283 >> Keybase: https://keybase.io/kademorton >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-aus mailing list >> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au >> http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus >> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com Mon Jun 19 22:06:39 2017 From: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com (Rowland Mosbergen) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 22:06:39 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia In-Reply-To: References: <676PF5MyZ4pZQvgeiAlyfreOP9swYOSkWfo_JlzKVU15XXIalEwDw1_5aujnUgRZwhzIgXv_bXaovDv3RzLcB2Uy5yyA2YG0wPKNQ6F7CGs=@protonmail.com> Message-ID: I just saw this on Twitter and thought it would be worth sharing: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170404/09344237080/european-commission-may-join-gates-foundation-wellcome-trust-becoming-open-access-publisher.shtml *One of Europe's biggest science spenders could soon branch out into publishing. The European Commission, which spends more than ?10 billion annually on research, may follow two other big league funders, the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and set up a "publishing platform" for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in Europe.* El 19 jun. 2017 17:27, "Rowland Mosbergen" escribi?: > Thanks for the feedback Kade. > > The biggest concern that I see for researchers on a year to year basis is > the ability to increase the probability for the NHMRC, ARC and other > funding bodies to fund their work. This is directly tied into the papers > they publish, where they publish and their citation record (among other > things). I think it would be interesting to know how you are approaching > the funding bodies and their reactions to your ideas. I think without this > your technical fix would not be sustainable. > > While some of the technical discussions you mentioned I think are > interesting technically, in my opinion they aren't even close to the > priority that is needed on the same level as the communty issues. > > For example: > > - websites can easily be architected for high availability (we do this > ourselves), > - PlosOne has all it's content protected by CC-BY > and > - PlosOne has an impact factor (3.057 in 2015 > ) > > > Not that Aletheia isn't a cool idea. I just want to ensure that we can > tease out the pros and cons to allow the Linux Australia community to work > out if this fits into their funding model. > > Whatever the outcome I think you are raising this issue at the right time > as it's a hot topic in research. > > Regards, > > Rowland. > > > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Kade Morton > wrote: > >> Hi Rowland, >> >> Thanks for the below. We've consulted pretty widely with researchers here >> in Aus and overseas (two of the people on our team currently publish >> academic papers in their fields and we're working with a group Jon Tennant >> is involved with that are publishing a thesis around a better peer review >> process, our peer review process is going to be build around their >> findings). If it strengthens the application I can list out the different >> researchers and groups we've spoken with. >> >> I'd contend we do need a technical fix to paywalls along with a community >> fix and we're looking to address both. F1000Research, PLOS ONE and others >> are great, even Sci-Hub if you feel adventurous, but I think we have some >> positives over existing solutions. >> >> - Websites are a single point of failure, they can fall over through >> neglect or malicious actors. Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed >> database, no single point of failure. >> - Open access journals and preprint archives can be bought out by >> larger paywall journals. Aletheia is under a GNU Lesser General Public >> License v3.0, Elsevier is not buying us. >> - Open access journals charge for submissions, it's free to submit to >> Aletheia. We're looking at how the platform can be monetised but it won't >> be through submission of or access to content. >> - You can't see what open access journals spend their money on, we >> publish our financial records. >> - Open Access journals often die because they don't make profit, >> we're community run so as long as we have enough community nodes the >> contents of Aletheia is stored forever. >> - Open Access journals don't have publishing impact factor. We won't >> either, but we're building a reputation system based on submitted articles, >> peer review articles (our platform handles peer review), community >> participation and some other factors. This transparent reputation score is >> your contribution academia so we're looking to turn that into publishing >> impact factor once we are well established. >> - The community doesn't have a say in how open access journals are >> run usually, they are a bit of a block box. The community runs Aletheia as >> a decentralised autonomous organisation. >> - Open access aren't not open source, you can audit all our code, >> look at how we are storing papers and data sets, etc. >> - There has been little innovation in academic publishing since >> journals were established in the 16th centry. The only real change is the >> journals now have websites and databases. I think looking at doing >> something different in this space is worth the effort just for the >> exploration alone, and I'd rather open source communities do that exploring >> over corporations because if a better way is hit on it should be open from >> the start. >> - A decentralised and distributed database administered as a DAO has >> applications past scientific publishing, we want to prove it works in this >> space and then move into other areas. >> >> I'm not sure if this covers all your concerns, we have a white paper >> covering Aletheia's features if you're interested, >> https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-whitepaper/ >> blob/master/WHITE-PAPER.md >> >> Regards, >> >> Kade Morton >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia >> Local Time: June 19, 2017 3:36 PM >> UTC Time: June 19, 2017 5:36 AM >> From: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com >> To: Kade Morton >> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au , >> council at linux.org.au >> >> Hi Kade, >> >> As a person who works with researchers everyday at the University of >> Melbourne, the idea of paywalls is a very hot topic at the moment. >> >> Open access publications such as F1000Research and PLOS ONE have provided >> researchers with more choices than ever before. >> >> Yet the big publications can still provide paywalls due to the way that >> research funding is granted, based on publication impact factor. Being able >> to publish in Nature gives one an advantage the next time the NHMRC and ARC >> grants come around. >> >> In my opinion, the issue around paywalls in research is very much one >> that needs a community fix, not a technical fix. And that fix is going to >> be a long and complicated journey. >> >> I am unsure how much of this backstory you know or which researchers you >> have talked to from a range of disciplines like Life Sciences, Humanities, >> Astronomy etc. I would highly recommend engaging with these researchers if >> you don't have those relationships already. >> >> In my opinion, this kind of project would be discussed at a University >> and Funding level (eg NHMRC) both nationally and internationally. I think >> the technical considerations would be of a very low priority >> >> Regards, >> >> Rowland Mosbergen >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Kade Morton via linux-aus < >> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: >> >>> I've been asked to resend >>> >>> *** >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I wanted to make a grant for the open source project I co-founded, >>> Aletheia. >>> >>> Project name: Aletheia >>> Aim of the project: To provide an alternative to publishing scientific >>> research behind paywalls and to popularise decentralised autonomous >>> organisations. >>> >>> Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed database which we're >>> applying to academic publishing. Basically a a database that is free to >>> upload to and access from, administered by the community as a decentralised >>> autonomous organisation. Aletheia would be an alternative to publishing >>> research behind paywalls. >>> >>> Have a look at our source code here: https://github.com/aletheia-fo >>> undation/aletheia-app >>> Have a look at our community documentation here: >>> https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-admin >>> >>> Key stages or milestones of the project: >>> >>> Completed >>> >>> - Onboarding documents up to standard that newcomers can come onto >>> the project, documents hosted on GitHub. >>> - Participated in the Mozilla Global Sprint >>> https://mozilla.github.io/global-sprint/ >>> >>> - Get application running on Ubuntu >>> - Get application running on Mac >>> - Cofounder to complete courses through Mozilla to help create >>> avenues for Mozilla's continued support for Aletheia >>> >>> To be Completed >>> >>> - Get application running on Windows >>> - Finish MVP (aiming for 27th of October 2017) >>> - Run presentation about Aletheia and the applications of >>> decentralised and open source technology in science at MozFest (application >>> made, waiting to hear for acceptance, presentation will be in London, 27th >>> of October 2017) >>> - Finish Aletheia 2.0 (aiming for 1st of July 2018) >>> >>> How the success of the project will be measured: Number of downloads, >>> number of active community users and number of documents stored in Aletheia >>> Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, >>> projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The >>> cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional >>> services: >>> >>> - $15,000 for Extra Credits to create a video covering Aletheia. >>> - $10,000 legal fees, up front consultation and ongoing >>> - $2,000 incidentals incurred so far (server costs, custom domain >>> name, travel expenses we have coming up) >>> - $5,000 to have website professionally built. >>> >>> These are a great deal of costs. I'd be happy to just apply to have the >>> video covered. We think a professionally created video that's engaging and >>> made by a talented group of people with a large fan base that's easily >>> sharable on social media and can be given to anyone who asks "what is >>> Aletheia?" would be the greatest boon to our project. We need to get the >>> word out about our project and increase the rate of volunteers coming on to >>> the project, we think the visual medium of a video is the best way to do >>> this. Unfortunately we don't have any video editors working on the project >>> yet, and we've attempted to negotiate an "open source rate" with Extra >>> Credits but they have said $15,000 is the lowest they will go. This single >>> cost can be paid and therefore count as incurred before 30th of September >>> 2017. >>> >>> The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, >>> especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open >>> culture contributions: >>> >>> - Kade Morton, Mozilla regional coordinator for Brisbane, Mozilla >>> techspeaker, completed the Mozilla open leadership course for open source >>> projects, organised Aletheia's contributions to Mozilla's Global Sprint >>> 2017, board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia >>> - Roo (wishes to remain anonymous) cofounded Aletheia with Kade, >>> works for ThoughtWorks on a number of open source projects, is extremely >>> active in running privacy, online security and decentralisation meetups >>> locally. If our application hinges on the identity of Aletheia's cofounder >>> I can approach him and ask if he would mind his name being disclosed to the >>> council but as a blanket rule he has asked for anonymity. >>> >>> Person responsible for project: Kade Morton >>> A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates >>> on the project: I would be more than happy to provide Linux Australia with >>> regular status updates on Aletheia and how our client is coming along. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Kade Morton >>> Twitter: @cypath >>> LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kade-morton-34179283 >>> Keybase: https://keybase.io/kademorton >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> linux-aus mailing list >>> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au >>> http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus >>> >>> >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kademorton at protonmail.com Tue Jun 20 17:27:24 2017 From: kademorton at protonmail.com (Kade Morton) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 03:27:24 -0400 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia In-Reply-To: References: <676PF5MyZ4pZQvgeiAlyfreOP9swYOSkWfo_JlzKVU15XXIalEwDw1_5aujnUgRZwhzIgXv_bXaovDv3RzLcB2Uy5yyA2YG0wPKNQ6F7CGs=@protonmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Rowland, More than happy to run through to help the application process. We've not yet approached funding bodies outside of technology for a few reasons (but will down the track). One reason being it's hard to explain a decentralised and distributed database and what it can be used for to most people outside of tech, but the main reason is that a lot of bodies like NHMRC generally only fund research. One researcher we've spoken to was telling us about issues between the two main funding bodies in their field, they were working on pacemakers. The bio mechanical body rejected them because they felt medical devices should be funded by the medical body and the medical body rejected them because they felt physical devices should be funded by the bio mechanic body. The project (open sourcing pacemaker designs to drive down costs) has stalled without funding. NHMRC and the like have very narrow criteria for funding, for something like Aletheia to even be considered for funding you would need to have the application up and running to sway assessors and we aren't at that stage yet. When we are though, we will be approaching university libraries (the department at the university that bares the paywall cost) to run nodes and we're already reaching out to researchers who are vocally anti-paywall to generate a small amount of content on the network. With some content and university libraries running nodes we can then approach funding bodies that otherwise would not have looked at us. I agree one of the perpetuating forces of paywalls is that researchers need to publish in high impact journals for funding and promotions, this is a social problem. Due to their exclusivity though not all researchers do publish in high impact journals, and then you have some that don't publish in them on principle. That's our target demographic to begin with while we socialise our reputation system with the community. We've been working Peita Lin, an economic behaviourist who used to work on human behaviour in financial events like runs on the banks to build our reputation system. Most open access journals have the impact problem and because of this people don't often submit to them, they don't generate profit (off submission fees) and they go out of business. We need plurality in open access and a transparent reputation system that shows your complete history is a more scientific way of going about rankings than simply throwing around high impact names, we think it will appeal to researchers and catch on. One of the current academics on our team has our reputation system as their niche of the project. Over time we think we can make inroads into these problems by popularising this new standard. On the single point of failure I don't want to detract from the work people do to make sure websites have low downtime but I still think this is a big plus we have. We've designed Aletheia under the assumption it will be attacked. You install the client which comes bundled with a none on your machine, once the network is up and running that will mean the network will have nodes in multiple legal jurisdictions and to distrupt the network you would need to compromise or take down a critical number of nodes. This should be a tall order to accomplish. Plus the network is administered by the community rather than a central person or body meaning removal of key people won't hamper the network. Reason we've designed the network this way is it's often not gone well for people working in this space. Aaron Swartz was brought up on felony charges and Alexandra Elbakyan has an active extradition order hanging over her head. Also, it might seem like a stretch that a nation state would attempt to attack a scientific journal but I'd argue it's not. The current U.S. administration has put out statements that they would take down climate science databases and there is currently a movement to mirror as much climate data as possible in the (unlikely but possible) event this does happen. I spoke to Nick Santos who started the climate mirror movement and offered Aletheia as an open source, decentralised and distributed mirror once we're on our feet. I wholeheartedly appreciate websites can easily be architected for high availability, but there isn't a lot that can be done if you're served a legal takedown order. Our network is designed with that eventuality in mind. This is also our jumping off point for what we can offer past academic publishing once we demonstrate the software works. I think the social impact our technical aspects could have are being understated as well. Being a DAO and community run it could be that Aletheia really takes off with citizen scientists and become a premier platform for them. The transparency around funding we have by default might spur other open access journals to adopt similar methods. I want to stress that we are very eyes wide open to the social norms, traditions, rituals and "we've always done it this way" mentality in academic publishing and I think we have a strong case to, as I said, make inroads into those problems. But also I think we have a strong case to at the same time run counter to these social norms and practices by providing a vastly different and free service to what's out there currently, appeal to the element of the academic community that's predisposed to us by being anti-paywall, build our community that way. It places us in a strong position to further the existing conversation around these social problems, why they exist and what can be done about them. I wasn't aware of the European Comission's pending decision, the below is the news I've had my eye on the last few days: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers Unfortunately I'm quite skeptical about it due to the revenue very profitable publishers stand to lose, I imagine there will be heavy lobbying to reverse this which is why I'm passionate about open source contributing to this issue in a positive way. The current system of paywalls was given to us by companies and governments, I don't think companies and governments are going to change that system anytime soon while it remains as lucrative as it is. Regards, Kade Morton -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia Local Time: June 19, 2017 10:06 PM UTC Time: June 19, 2017 12:06 PM From: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com To: Kade Morton linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au , council at linux.org.au I just saw this on Twitter and thought it would be worth sharing: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170404/09344237080/european-commission-may-join-gates-foundation-wellcome-trust-becoming-open-access-publisher.shtml One of Europe's biggest science spenders could soon branch out into publishing. The European Commission, which spends more than ?10 billion annually on research, may follow two other big league funders, the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and set up a "publishing platform" for the scientists it funds, in an attempt to accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in Europe. El 19 jun. 2017 17:27, "Rowland Mosbergen" escribi?: Thanks for the feedback Kade. The biggest concern that I see for researchers on a year to year basis is the ability to increase the probability for the NHMRC, ARC and other funding bodies to fund their work. This is directly tied into the papers they publish, where they publish and their citation record (among other things). I think it would be interesting to know how you are approaching the funding bodies and their reactions to your ideas. I think without this your technical fix would not be sustainable. While some of the technical discussions you mentioned I think are interesting technically, in my opinion they aren't even close to the priority that is needed on the same level as the communty issues. For example: - websites can easily be architected for high availability (we do this ourselves), - PlosOne has all it's content protected by [CC-BY](http://journals.plos.org/plosone/s/licenses-and-copyright) and - PlosOne has an impact factor ([3.057 in 2015](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLOS_ONE)) Not that Aletheia isn't a cool idea. I just want to ensure that we can tease out the pros and cons to allow the Linux Australia community to work out if this fits into their funding model. Whatever the outcome I think you are raising this issue at the right time as it's a hot topic in research. Regards, Rowland. On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Kade Morton wrote: Hi Rowland, Thanks for the below. We've consulted pretty widely with researchers here in Aus and overseas (two of the people on our team currently publish academic papers in their fields and we're working with a group Jon Tennant is involved with that are publishing a thesis around a better peer review process, our peer review process is going to be build around their findings). If it strengthens the application I can list out the different researchers and groups we've spoken with. I'd contend we do need a technical fix to paywalls along with a community fix and we're looking to address both. F1000Research, PLOS ONE and others are great, even Sci-Hub if you feel adventurous, but I think we have some positives over existing solutions. - Websites are a single point of failure, they can fall over through neglect or malicious actors. Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed database, no single point of failure. - Open access journals and preprint archives can be bought out by larger paywall journals. Aletheia is under a GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0, Elsevier is not buying us. - Open access journals charge for submissions, it's free to submit to Aletheia. We're looking at how the platform can be monetised but it won't be through submission of or access to content. - You can't see what open access journals spend their money on, we publish our financial records. - Open Access journals often die because they don't make profit, we're community run so as long as we have enough community nodes the contents of Aletheia is stored forever. - Open Access journals don't have publishing impact factor. We won't either, but we're building a reputation system based on submitted articles, peer review articles (our platform handles peer review), community participation and some other factors. This transparent reputation score is your contribution academia so we're looking to turn that into publishing impact factor once we are well established. - The community doesn't have a say in how open access journals are run usually, they are a bit of a block box. The community runs Aletheia as a decentralised autonomous organisation. - Open access aren't not open source, you can audit all our code, look at how we are storing papers and data sets, etc. - There has been little innovation in academic publishing since journals were established in the 16th centry. The only real change is the journals now have websites and databases. I think looking at doing something different in this space is worth the effort just for the exploration alone, and I'd rather open source communities do that exploring over corporations because if a better way is hit on it should be open from the start. - A decentralised and distributed database administered as a DAO has applications past scientific publishing, we want to prove it works in this space and then move into other areas. I'm not sure if this covers all your concerns, we have a white paper covering Aletheia's features if you're interested, https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-whitepaper/blob/master/WHITE-PAPER.md Regards, Kade Morton -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia Local Time: June 19, 2017 3:36 PM UTC Time: June 19, 2017 5:36 AM From: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com To: Kade Morton linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au , council at linux.org.au Hi Kade, As a person who works with researchers everyday at the University of Melbourne, the idea of paywalls is a very hot topic at the moment. Open access publications such as F1000Research and PLOS ONE have provided researchers with more choices than ever before. Yet the big publications can still provide paywalls due to the way that research funding is granted, based on publication impact factor. Being able to publish in Nature gives one an advantage the next time the NHMRC and ARC grants come around. In my opinion, the issue around paywalls in research is very much one that needs a community fix, not a technical fix. And that fix is going to be a long and complicated journey. I am unsure how much of this backstory you know or which researchers you have talked to from a range of disciplines like Life Sciences, Humanities, Astronomy etc. I would highly recommend engaging with these researchers if you don't have those relationships already. In my opinion, this kind of project would be discussed at a University and Funding level (eg NHMRC) both nationally and internationally. I think the technical considerations would be of a very low priority Regards, Rowland Mosbergen On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Kade Morton via linux-aus wrote: I've been asked to resend *** Hi all, I wanted to make a grant for the open source project I co-founded, Aletheia. Project name: Aletheia Aim of the project: To provide an alternative to publishing scientific research behind paywalls and to popularise decentralised autonomous organisations. Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed database which we're applying to academic publishing. Basically a a database that is free to upload to and access from, administered by the community as a decentralised autonomous organisation. Aletheia would be an alternative to publishing research behind paywalls. Have a look at our source code here: https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-app Have a look at our community documentation here: https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-admin Key stages or milestones of the project: Completed - Onboarding documents up to standard that newcomers can come onto the project, documents hosted on GitHub. - Participated in the Mozilla Global Sprint https://mozilla.github.io/global-sprint/ - Get application running on Ubuntu - Get application running on Mac - Cofounder to complete courses through Mozilla to help create avenues for Mozilla's continued support for Aletheia To be Completed - Get application running on Windows - Finish MVP (aiming for 27th of October 2017) - Run presentation about Aletheia and the applications of decentralised and open source technology in science at MozFest (application made, waiting to hear for acceptance, presentation will be in London, 27th of October 2017) - Finish Aletheia 2.0 (aiming for 1st of July 2018) How the success of the project will be measured: Number of downloads, number of active community users and number of documents stored in Aletheia Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional services: - $15,000 for Extra Credits to create a video covering Aletheia. - $10,000 legal fees, up front consultation and ongoing - $2,000 incidentals incurred so far (server costs, custom domain name, travel expenses we have coming up) - $5,000 to have website professionally built. These are a great deal of costs. I'd be happy to just apply to have the video covered. We think a professionally created video that's engaging and made by a talented group of people with a large fan base that's easily sharable on social media and can be given to anyone who asks "what is Aletheia?" would be the greatest boon to our project. We need to get the word out about our project and increase the rate of volunteers coming on to the project, we think the visual medium of a video is the best way to do this. Unfortunately we don't have any video editors working on the project yet, and we've attempted to negotiate an "open source rate" with Extra Credits but they have said $15,000 is the lowest they will go. This single cost can be paid and therefore count as incurred before 30th of September 2017. The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open culture contributions: - Kade Morton, Mozilla regional coordinator for Brisbane, Mozilla techspeaker, completed the Mozilla open leadership course for open source projects, organised Aletheia's contributions to Mozilla's Global Sprint 2017, board member of Electronic Frontiers Australia - Roo (wishes to remain anonymous) cofounded Aletheia with Kade, works for ThoughtWorks on a number of open source projects, is extremely active in running privacy, online security and decentralisation meetups locally. If our application hinges on the identity of Aletheia's cofounder I can approach him and ask if he would mind his name being disclosed to the council but as a blanket rule he has asked for anonymity. Person responsible for project: Kade Morton A statement including a willingness to provide regular project updates on the project: I would be more than happy to provide Linux Australia with regular status updates on Aletheia and how our client is coming along. Regards, Kade Morton Twitter: @cypath LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kade-morton-34179283 Keybase: https://keybase.io/kademorton _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From president at linux.org.au Fri Jun 23 10:17:08 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:17:08 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant Application - Building the Open Source Talent Pipeline in Australia: A Cyber Forensics Student Extension Program In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A courtesy note to advise that community feedback on this application closed on 21 June - we didn't have time on our agenda last night to assess this application, and it has been deferred to Council meeting 6th July Kind regards, Kathy On 07/06/17 10:13, Paul Watters via linux-aus wrote: > > 1. Project name > > Building the Open Source Talent Pipeline in Australia: A Cyber > Forensics Student Extension Program > > > 2. Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the > project > > Research indicates that young people are genuinely interested in > technology at an early age, but that negative experiences within a > highly constrained curriculum, coupled with being taught (in many > cases) by unqualified teachers, can led to disengagement. This is > coupled with negative stereotypes portrayed in the media and popular > culture around ?nerds? and ?geeks?; peer pressure to conform to social > expectations and constructs discourages young people from technology > careers, despite industry-identified ?skills gaps? and high salaries. > Finally, accessing technologies can be very expensive, and groups that > face barriers to access (such as young people with a disability, or > homeless students). Students may not be aware that there are > alternatives to commercial, closed source technologies that are easily > accessible, and which provide the freedom to create and contribute. > > The aim of this project is to create an open source forensics > educational engagement programme in Victoria, that is aligned with the > digital literacy VCE syllabus. The project seeks to re-engage students > in senior years using the ?CSI Effect?; particularly with the > publicity given to cyber attacks linked to closed source / proprietary > technologies, this is an excellent opportunity to embed open source > values early in learning. Especially in the security field, rigorous > peer review and critique leads to the best solutions, rather than > relying on secrecy and obscurity. > > The engagement programme will not seek to replace anything taught on > the curriculum, but instead focus on fun, topical and engaging > experiences, that may stimulate and motivate students to consider > cyber security as a career. The programme will only use open source > forensics tools, but will reveal how closed source technologies can be > subjected to physical examination. > > While the project team will contribute their time as an in-kind > contribution to the project, funding is sought to purchase a range of > typical hardware devices to physically examine, and create forensic > use cases for. This will give students who take the programme some > hands-on experience with real-world technologies, using open source > tools. Students will also be shown how an open source forensics > toolkit can be extended as needed. > > The programme will comprise a set of four learning activities, > designed to be undertaken over 4 x 1 hour sessions, ideally suited to > an ?incursion? or workshop run at a school. The hardware devices will > be made available free of charge to all schools in Victoria: schools > will only be asked to pay for shipping costs to borrow the equipment. > All educational materials developed through the programme will be > released under a Creative Commons license. The project team hopes that > this will encourage law enforcement and private sector security teams > to contribute further use cases and data to improve the programme. > > To develop the programme, a four-stage project plan is envisaged: > > > > Stage 1: Learning activity design (100 Hours) > > In this stage, the four learning activities will be designed to match > typical cyber forensic tasks, including evidence acquisition, timeline > analysis, media analysis, and data recovery. Students will also be > encouraged to compile a report based on their results. > > > > Stage 2: Forensic use case identification (50 Hours) > > In this stage, the four learning activities will be mapped to typical > use cases, including fraud, scams, malware infection and counter > terrorism investigations. The project team shall liaise with law > enforcement, as appropriate, to create these use cases, and make them > as interesting and realistic as possible. > > > > Stage 3: Software selection (50 Hours) > > In this stage, a range of open source forensic toolkits will be > obtained and tested to see whether they can meet the requirements of > the use cases. Well-known packages, including Autopsy and the Sleuth > Kit, will be obtained, as well as specialized packages for iOS > forensics, including Logical iOS Forensic Examiner (LIFE). > > > > Stage 4: Hardware purchase and use cases realized (100 Hours) > > The equipment requested in this application will be purchased, and > data relating to the use cases will be created and imaged. These > images will be uploaded to the hardware devices. > > > > Assuming a starting date of 1^st July 2017, and spending 10 hours per > week, the project should be developed by September 9^th 2017. We will > then communicate the availability of the programme through appropriate > channels, such as the La Trobe University career advisor mailing list, > and Quantum Victoria. > > > > 3. How the success of the project will be measured > > We will create a self-report survey for students to take before and > after the activity, and measure whether their awareness of open source > has increased, and whether or not they would consider cyber security > as a career choice. We will seek ethics approval before administering > any questionnaires to students. > > > > 4. Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, > projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. > The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or > professional services > > The hardware devices requested represent a range of typical forensic > use cases, including Android phones and Linux servers (RedHat and > Debian), as well as Raspberry pi kits for network forensics. Some > basic forensic kits, required for data capture and transfer, will also > be requested. Two sets of equipment are requested, so that the teacher > can use one for demonstration, and one is available for students to > use at the same time. > > > > In-kind contribution (200 Hours x $118ph = $23,755 + GST = $26,130) > > > > Equipment requested: > > ? Forensicstore.com ? Cellphone > companion kit, including faraday pouch, cables, media etc x 2= $612 > > ? Dell PowerEdge T130 with Linux x 2 = $3,092 > > ? Samsung Galaxy J7 Prime x 2 = $798 > > ? Ultimate Raspberry Pi Kit x 2 = $478 > > > > Total Requested: $4,980 > > > > Linux Australia contribution to total project cost: 19.05% > > > > 5. The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or > open culture contributions > > Dr Paul A. Watters is Associate Professor in Cyber Security at La > Trobe University. Dr Watters has been using Linux for 24 years, having > first installed in on 360K floppies on an XT. Dr Watters has written > several books on Linux and open source topics, as well as releasing > open source packages for neural network modeling and fractal analysis. > He has published numerous papers on cyber forensics, and is working > with Quantum Victoria to deliver Australia?s first ?cyber games?, > targeting high school students who may be interested in pursuing cyber > security as a career. > > > > Maya F. Watters is a Leading Teacher at Bacchus Marsh College. Ms > Watters studied education at the University of Melbourne, and > forensics at the University of Auckland. She has worked on a number of > forensic projects for Cyber Inc, a not-for-profit incorporated > association in Victoria. > > > > 6. Person responsible for project > > Dr. Watters will be the project manager and will have overall > responsibility. > > > > 7. A statement including a willingness to provide regular project > updates on the project > > The project team shall provide updates to Linux Australia at each > phase of the project. > > > ? > Dr Paul A. 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URL: From president at linux.org.au Fri Jun 23 10:19:18 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 10:19:18 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia In-Reply-To: References: <676PF5MyZ4pZQvgeiAlyfreOP9swYOSkWfo_JlzKVU15XXIalEwDw1_5aujnUgRZwhzIgXv_bXaovDv3RzLcB2Uy5yyA2YG0wPKNQ6F7CGs=@protonmail.com> Message-ID: A courtesy note to indicate that community feedback on this application is due 4th July and is scheduled for discussion at Council meeting 7th July, Kind regards, Kathy On 20/06/17 17:27, Kade Morton via linux-aus wrote: > Hi Rowland, > > More than happy to run through to help the application process. > > We've not yet approached funding bodies outside of technology for a > few reasons (but will down the track). One reason being it's hard to > explain a decentralised and distributed database and what it can be > used for to most people outside of tech, but the main reason is that a > lot of bodies like NHMRC generally only fund research. > > One researcher we've spoken to was telling us about issues between the > two main funding bodies in their field, they were working on > pacemakers. The bio mechanical body rejected them because they felt > medical devices should be funded by the medical body and the medical > body rejected them because they felt physical devices should be funded > by the bio mechanic body. The project (open sourcing pacemaker designs > to drive down costs) has stalled without funding. NHMRC and the like > have very narrow criteria for funding, for something like Aletheia to > even be considered for funding you would need to have the application > up and running to sway assessors and we aren't at that stage yet. > > When we are though, we will be approaching university libraries (the > department at the university that bares the paywall cost) to run nodes > and we're already reaching out to researchers who are vocally > anti-paywall to generate a small amount of content on the network. > With some content and university libraries running nodes we can then > approach funding bodies that otherwise would not have looked at us. > > I agree one of the perpetuating forces of paywalls is that researchers > need to publish in high impact journals for funding and promotions, > this is a social problem. Due to their exclusivity though not all > researchers do publish in high impact journals, and then you have some > that don't publish in them on principle. That's our target demographic > to begin with while we socialise our reputation system with the > community. We've been working Peita Lin, an economic behaviourist who > used to work on human behaviour in financial events like runs on the > banks to build our reputation system. Most open access journals have > the impact problem and because of this people don't often submit to > them, they don't generate profit (off submission fees) and they go out > of business. We need plurality in open access and a transparent > reputation system that shows your complete history is a more > scientific way of going about rankings than simply throwing around > high impact names, we think it will appeal to researchers and catch > on. One of the current academics on our team has our reputation system > as their niche of the project. Over time we think we can make inroads > into these problems by popularising this new standard. > > On the single point of failure I don't want to detract from the work > people do to make sure websites have low downtime but I still think > this is a big plus we have. We've designed Aletheia under the > assumption it will be attacked. You install the client which comes > bundled with a none on your machine, once the network is up and > running that will mean the network will have nodes in multiple legal > jurisdictions and to distrupt the network you would need to compromise > or take down a critical number of nodes. This should be a tall order > to accomplish. Plus the network is administered by the community > rather than a central person or body meaning removal of key people > won't hamper the network. > > Reason we've designed the network this way is it's often not gone well > for people working in this space. Aaron Swartz was brought up on > felony charges and Alexandra Elbakyan has an active extradition order > hanging over her head. Also, it might seem like a stretch that a > nation state would attempt to attack a scientific journal but I'd > argue it's not. The current U.S. administration has put out statements > that they would take down climate science databases and there is > currently a movement to mirror as much climate data as possible in the > (unlikely but possible) event this does happen. I spoke to Nick Santos > who started the climate mirror movement and offered Aletheia as an > open source, decentralised and distributed mirror once we're on our > feet. I wholeheartedly appreciate websites can easily be architected > for high availability, but there isn't a lot that can be done if > you're served a legal takedown order. Our network is designed with > that eventuality in mind. This is also our jumping off point for what > we can offer past academic publishing once we demonstrate the software > works. > > I think the social impact our technical aspects could have are being > understated as well. Being a DAO and community run it could be that > Aletheia really takes off with citizen scientists and become a premier > platform for them. The transparency around funding we have by default > might spur other open access journals to adopt similar methods. I want > to stress that we are very eyes wide open to the social norms, > traditions, rituals and "we've always done it this way" mentality in > academic publishing and I think we have a strong case to, as I said, > make inroads into those problems. But also I think we have a strong > case to at the same time run counter to these social norms and > practices by providing a vastly different and free service to what's > out there currently, appeal to the element of the academic community > that's predisposed to us by being anti-paywall, build our community > that way. It places us in a strong position to further the existing > conversation around these social problems, why they exist and what can > be done about them. > > I wasn't aware of the European Comission's pending decision, the below > is the news I've had my eye on the last few days: > https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dramatic-statement-european-leaders-call-immediate-open-access-all-scientific-papers > Unfortunately I'm quite skeptical about it due to the revenue very > profitable publishers stand to lose, I imagine there will be heavy > lobbying to reverse this which is why I'm passionate about open source > contributing to this issue in a positive way. The current system of > paywalls was given to us by companies and governments, I don't think > companies and governments are going to change that system anytime soon > while it remains as lucrative as it is. > > Regards, > > Kade Morton > > >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux Australia for >> Aletheia >> Local Time: June 19, 2017 10:06 PM >> UTC Time: June 19, 2017 12:06 PM >> From: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com >> To: Kade Morton >> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au , >> council at linux.org.au >> >> I just saw this on Twitter and thought it would be worth sharing: >> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170404/09344237080/european-commission-may-join-gates-foundation-wellcome-trust-becoming-open-access-publisher.shtml >> >> One of Europe's biggest science spenders could soon branch out into >> publishing. The European Commission, which spends more than ?10 >> billion annually on research, may follow two other big league >> funders, the Wellcome Trust and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, >> and set up a "publishing platform" for the scientists it funds, in an >> attempt to accelerate the transition to open-access publishing in Europe. >> >> >> El 19 jun. 2017 17:27, "Rowland Mosbergen" >> > >> escribi?: >> >> Thanks for the feedback Kade. >> >> The biggest concern that I see for researchers on a year to year >> basis is the ability to increase the probability for the NHMRC, >> ARC and other funding bodies to fund their work. This is directly >> tied into the papers they publish, where they publish and their >> citation record (among other things). I think it would be >> interesting to know how you are approaching the funding bodies >> and their reactions to your ideas. I think without this your >> technical fix would not be sustainable. >> >> While some of the technical discussions you mentioned I think are >> interesting technically, in my opinion they aren't even close to >> the priority that is needed on the same level as the communty >> issues. >> >> For example: >> >> * websites can easily be architected for high availability (we >> do this ourselves), >> * PlosOne has all it's content protected by CC-BY >> and >> * PlosOne has an impact factor (3.057 in 2015 >> ) >> >> >> Not that Aletheia isn't a cool idea. I just want to ensure that >> we can tease out the pros and cons to allow the Linux Australia >> community to work out if this fits into their funding model. >> >> Whatever the outcome I think you are raising this issue at the >> right time as it's a hot topic in research. >> >> Regards, >> >> Rowland. >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:53 PM, Kade Morton >> > wrote: >> >> Hi Rowland, >> >> Thanks for the below. We've consulted pretty widely with >> researchers here in Aus and overseas (two of the people on >> our team currently publish academic papers in their fields >> and we're working with a group Jon Tennant is involved with >> that are publishing a thesis around a better peer review >> process, our peer review process is going to be build around >> their findings). If it strengthens the application I can list >> out the different researchers and groups we've spoken with. >> >> I'd contend we do need a technical fix to paywalls along with >> a community fix and we're looking to address both. >> F1000Research, PLOS ONE and others are great, even Sci-Hub if >> you feel adventurous, but I think we have some positives over >> existing solutions. >> >> * Websites are a single point of failure, they can fall >> over through neglect or malicious actors. Aletheia is a >> decentralised and distributed database, no single point >> of failure. >> * Open access journals and preprint archives can be bought >> out by larger paywall journals. Aletheia is under a GNU >> Lesser General Public License v3.0, Elsevier is not >> buying us. >> * Open access journals charge for submissions, it's free to >> submit to Aletheia. We're looking at how the platform can >> be monetised but it won't be through submission of or >> access to content. >> * You can't see what open access journals spend their money >> on, we publish our financial records. >> * Open Access journals often die because they don't make >> profit, we're community run so as long as we have enough >> community nodes the contents of Aletheia is stored forever. >> * Open Access journals don't have publishing impact factor. >> We won't either, but we're building a reputation system >> based on submitted articles, peer review articles (our >> platform handles peer review), community participation >> and some other factors. This transparent reputation score >> is your contribution academia so we're looking to turn >> that into publishing impact factor once we are well >> established. >> * The community doesn't have a say in how open access >> journals are run usually, they are a bit of a block box. >> The community runs Aletheia as a decentralised autonomous >> organisation. >> * Open access aren't not open source, you can audit all our >> code, look at how we are storing papers and data sets, etc. >> * There has been little innovation in academic publishing >> since journals were established in the 16th centry. The >> only real change is the journals now have websites and >> databases. I think looking at doing something different >> in this space is worth the effort just for the >> exploration alone, and I'd rather open source communities >> do that exploring over corporations because if a better >> way is hit on it should be open from the start. >> * A decentralised and distributed database administered as >> a DAO has applications past scientific publishing, we >> want to prove it works in this space and then move into >> other areas. >> >> I'm not sure if this covers all your concerns, we have a >> white paper covering Aletheia's features if you're >> interested, >> https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-whitepaper/blob/master/WHITE-PAPER.md >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Kade Morton >> >>> -------- Original Message -------- >>> Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant application to Linux >>> Australia for Aletheia >>> Local Time: June 19, 2017 3:36 PM >>> UTC Time: June 19, 2017 5:36 AM >>> From: rowland.mosbergen at gmail.com >>> >>> To: Kade Morton >> > >>> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au >>> >>> >> >, council at linux.org.au >>> >> > >>> >>> Hi Kade, >>> >>> As a person who works with researchers everyday at the >>> University of Melbourne, the idea of paywalls is a very hot >>> topic at the moment. >>> >>> Open access publications such as F1000Research and PLOS ONE >>> have provided researchers with more choices than ever before. >>> >>> Yet the big publications can still provide paywalls due to >>> the way that research funding is granted, based on >>> publication impact factor. Being able to publish in Nature >>> gives one an advantage the next time the NHMRC and ARC >>> grants come around. >>> >>> In my opinion, the issue around paywalls in research is very >>> much one that needs a community fix, not a technical fix. >>> And that fix is going to be a long and complicated journey. >>> >>> I am unsure how much of this backstory you know or which >>> researchers you have talked to from a range of disciplines >>> like Life Sciences, Humanities, Astronomy etc. I would >>> highly recommend engaging with these researchers if you >>> don't have those relationships already. >>> >>> In my opinion, this kind of project would be discussed at a >>> University and Funding level (eg NHMRC) both nationally and >>> internationally. I think the technical considerations would >>> be of a very low priority >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Rowland Mosbergen >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Kade Morton via linux-aus >>> >> > wrote: >>> >>> I've been asked to resend >>> >>> *** >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I wanted to make a grant for the open source project I >>>> co-founded, Aletheia. >>>> >>>> Project name: Aletheia >>>> Aim of the project: To provide an alternative to >>>> publishing scientific research behind paywalls and to >>>> popularise decentralised autonomous organisations. >>>> >>>> Aletheia is a decentralised and distributed database >>>> which we're applying to academic publishing. Basically >>>> a a database that is free to upload to and access from, >>>> administered by the community as a decentralised >>>> autonomous organisation. Aletheia would be an >>>> alternative to publishing research behind paywalls. >>>> >>>> Have a look at our source code here: >>>> https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-app >>>> >>>> Have a look at our community documentation here: >>>> https://github.com/aletheia-foundation/aletheia-admin >>>> >>>> >>>> Key stages or milestones of the project: >>>> >>>> Completed >>>> >>>> * Onboarding documents up to standard that newcomers >>>> can come onto the project, documents hosted on GitHub. >>>> * Participated in the Mozilla Global Sprint >>>> https://mozilla.github.io/global-sprint/ >>>> >>>> * Get application running on Ubuntu >>>> * Get application running on Mac >>>> * Cofounder to complete courses through Mozilla to >>>> help create avenues for Mozilla's continued support >>>> for Aletheia >>>> >>>> To be Completed >>>> >>>> * Get application running on Windows >>>> * Finish MVP (aiming for 27th of October 2017) >>>> * Run presentation about Aletheia and the >>>> applications of decentralised and open source >>>> technology in science at MozFest (application made, >>>> waiting to hear for acceptance, presentation will >>>> be in London, 27th of October 2017) >>>> * Finish Aletheia 2.0 (aiming for 1st of July 2018) >>>> >>>> How the success of the project will be measured: Number >>>> of downloads, number of active community users and >>>> number of documents stored in Aletheia >>>> Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any >>>> materials, projects or online services that are >>>> required to deliver the project. The cost breakdown >>>> should include estimates of labour costs and/or >>>> professional services: >>>> >>>> * $15,000 for Extra Credits to create a video >>>> covering Aletheia. >>>> * $10,000 legal fees, up front consultation and ongoing >>>> * $2,000 incidentals incurred so far (server costs, >>>> custom domain name, travel expenses we have coming up) >>>> * $5,000 to have website professionally built. >>>> >>>> These are a great deal of costs. I'd be happy to just >>>> apply to have the video covered. We think a >>>> professionally created video that's engaging and made >>>> by a talented group of people with a large fan base >>>> that's easily sharable on social media and can be given >>>> to anyone who asks "what is Aletheia?" would be the >>>> greatest boon to our project. We need to get the word >>>> out about our project and increase the rate of >>>> volunteers coming on to the project, we think the >>>> visual medium of a video is the best way to do this. >>>> Unfortunately we don't have any video editors working >>>> on the project yet, and we've attempted to negotiate an >>>> "open source rate" with Extra Credits but they have >>>> said $15,000 is the lowest they will go. This single >>>> cost can be paid and therefore count as incurred before >>>> 30th of September 2017. >>>> >>>> The project team, their credentials and professional >>>> capabilities, especially their history of open source, >>>> open data, open hardware or open culture contributions: >>>> >>>> * Kade Morton, Mozilla regional coordinator for >>>> Brisbane, Mozilla techspeaker, completed the >>>> Mozilla open leadership course for open source >>>> projects, organised Aletheia's contributions to >>>> Mozilla's Global Sprint 2017, board member of >>>> Electronic Frontiers Australia >>>> * Roo (wishes to remain anonymous) cofounded Aletheia >>>> with Kade, works for ThoughtWorks on a number of >>>> open source projects, is extremely active in >>>> running privacy, online security and >>>> decentralisation meetups locally. If our >>>> application hinges on the identity of Aletheia's >>>> cofounder I can approach him and ask if he would >>>> mind his name being disclosed to the council but as >>>> a blanket rule he has asked for anonymity. >>>> >>>> Person responsible for project: Kade Morton >>>> A statement including a willingness to provide regular >>>> project updates on the project: I would be more than >>>> happy to provide Linux Australia with regular status >>>> updates on Aletheia and how our client is coming along. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Kade Morton >>>> Twitter: @cypath >>>> LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kade-morton-34179283 >>>> >>>> Keybase: https://keybase.io/kademorton >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> linux-aus mailing list >>> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au >>> >>> http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus >>> >>> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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 jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com Wed Jun 28 11:28:48 2017 From: jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com (jason thomas) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:28:48 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 In-Reply-To: <0cf701d2e009$0ca31eb0$25e95c10$@adam.com.au> References: <57a1716a-a432-b4e8-cd9f-d3cf20306eb7@linux.org.au> <0c7501d2e003$2f1429e0$8d3c7da0$@adam.com.au> <0cf701d2e009$0ca31eb0$25e95c10$@adam.com.au> Message-ID: Regarding this grant application for the Geelong Raspberry Pi Meetup, I think it's proper to cancel the application. The library is going to help with funding. Thanks, On 8 June 2017 at 13:40, David Lloyd wrote: > > > Hi Jason, > > > > > > I wouldn?t take the application down ? in my opinion it?s a reasonable > application with a worthy goal. > > > > The goals are well stated and I believe they?re achievable; it?s clear > you?ve not written hundreds of grant applications before but in my opinion > the application is honest, to the point and honestly somewhat easier to > understand than some applications written by those who have written many > more than you J > > > > I think Facebook and Meetup are both relevant platforms but I wouldn?t > consider them mutually exclusive ? although having a platform not hosted by > either could be of benefit to you as you identify. > > > > For what it?s worth, I hope your proposal is granted. > > > > > > DSL > > > > *From:* linux-aus [mailto:linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au] *On > Behalf Of *jason thomas via linux-aus > *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 June 2017 11:22 PM > *To:* David Lloyd > *Cc:* Steve Levakis ; > linux-aus at linux.org.au > > *Subject:* Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 > > > > Thanks for the question David. > > > > I imagined the Facebook page would be best if it pointed to a website with > more info, so that's the reason. > > I said "or so" because I thought the committee would decide their > requirements. > > > > Would it be better if I take this application down and make some > alterations? There's another reason it could be better, unrelated. > > This is the first time I've applied for a grant so I appreciate your > feedback. > > Best, Jason > > > > On 8 June 2017 at 12:58, David Lloyd via linux-aus < > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > > > > Just out of morbid interest why would ?not having a meetup page? prevent > ?having a facebook page/presence?? That?s my only comment of substance ? > I?m sure if this is approved the ?or so? component will be handled fairly > by the council J > > > > > > *From:* linux-aus [mailto:linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au] *On > Behalf Of *Linux Australia President via linux-aus > *Sent:* Wednesday, 7 June 2017 6:41 PM > *To:* jason thomas ; > council at linux.org.au; linux-aus at linux.org.au > *Cc:* Steve Levakis > *Subject:* Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 > > > > Hi everyone, > > Firstly, a courtesy note to indicate that feedback on this application is > open until 19th June, and is scheduled for discussion at Council meeting > 22nd June. > > Secondly, I have a conflict of interest as a regular attendee to this > group and will therefore recuse myself from any discussions or decision > making on this Grant Application. > > Kind regards, > > Kathy > > > > On 05/06/17 11:40, jason thomas via linux-aus wrote: > > *Project name* > > Geelong Raspberry Pi Meetup - resources and publicity > > > > *Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project* > > To encourage locals in and around Geelong to get involved with programming > and using micro controllers. We would aim to get a cross section of the > community interested in and using Raspberry Pi, Raspbian or other Linux > distributions. The ideal situation would be to introduce people to a future > with free and open source software. > > > > We have: > > -A meetup place (Geelong Library) > > -A basic website - http://www.grlc.vic.gov.au/whats-on/raspberry-pi-meet > > -Five older Raspberry Pis, screens, keyboards, power supplies > > -Some attendees who bring their own devices > > > > Needed: > > -A Meetup page - https://www.meetup.com/ > > -Facebook presence (free, after Meetup page established) > > -Basic electrical components, breadboards, prototyping wires > > -New Raspberry Pis and power supplies > > > > *How the success of the project will be measured* > > We aim to grow the group beyond its base of a handful of people into > something larger. > > > > Goals: > > -Establish a visitor list and maintain that as a Google Spreadsheet. > > -Over six months, increase number of regular attendees to 10 or more > > -Over six months, introduce at least 15 new people to the group (assuming > some people attend once or twice and not again). > > -Keep a list of resources spent and receipts, and donate remaining funds > back to Linux Australia (after six months or so). > > -Make these details available to Linux Australia when requested. > > > > *Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, > projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The > cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional > services* > > > > Costs: > > -Raspberry Pi and power sources x 3 = $200 > > -Meetup page, one year 16 x 12 = $192 > > -Basic components (resistors, LEDs, servo motors, breadboards) = $58 > > Total = $450 > > > > *The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, > especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open > culture contributions* > > > > -Jason Thomas (works as a backend developer), attendee, social media and > promotions. Member of Linux Australia, LinuxConfAU 2017 volunteer. Making a > robot with Raspberry Pi. > > -Steve Levakis, (works as a Health and Wellbeing Officer), meetup > organiser and attendee. 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URL: From lloy0076 at adam.com.au Wed Jun 28 12:27:03 2017 From: lloy0076 at adam.com.au (David Lloyd) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 22:27:03 -0400 Subject: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 In-Reply-To: References: <57a1716a-a432-b4e8-cd9f-d3cf20306eb7@linux.org.au> <0c7501d2e003$2f1429e0$8d3c7da0$@adam.com.au> <0cf701d2e009$0ca31eb0$25e95c10$@adam.com.au> Message-ID: <00d101d2efb6$0a5bf250$1f13d6f0$@adam.com.au> Hi Jason, Well, that?s good news! DSL From: linux-aus [mailto:linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au] On Behalf Of jason thomas via linux-aus Sent: Tuesday, 27 June 2017 9:29 PM Cc: linux-aus at linux.org.au Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 Regarding this grant application for the Geelong Raspberry Pi Meetup, I think it's proper to cancel the application. The library is going to help with funding. Thanks, On 8 June 2017 at 13:40, David Lloyd > wrote: Hi Jason, I wouldn?t take the application down ? in my opinion it?s a reasonable application with a worthy goal. The goals are well stated and I believe they?re achievable; it?s clear you?ve not written hundreds of grant applications before but in my opinion the application is honest, to the point and honestly somewhat easier to understand than some applications written by those who have written many more than you :) I think Facebook and Meetup are both relevant platforms but I wouldn?t consider them mutually exclusive ? although having a platform not hosted by either could be of benefit to you as you identify. For what it?s worth, I hope your proposal is granted. DSL From: linux-aus [mailto:linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au ] On Behalf Of jason thomas via linux-aus Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2017 11:22 PM To: David Lloyd > Cc: Steve Levakis >; linux-aus at linux.org.au Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 Thanks for the question David. I imagined the Facebook page would be best if it pointed to a website with more info, so that's the reason. I said "or so" because I thought the committee would decide their requirements. Would it be better if I take this application down and make some alterations? There's another reason it could be better, unrelated. This is the first time I've applied for a grant so I appreciate your feedback. Best, Jason On 8 June 2017 at 12:58, David Lloyd via linux-aus > wrote: Just out of morbid interest why would ?not having a meetup page? prevent ?having a facebook page/presence?? That?s my only comment of substance ? I?m sure if this is approved the ?or so? component will be handled fairly by the council :) From: linux-aus [mailto:linux-aus-bounces at lists.linux.org.au ] On Behalf Of Linux Australia President via linux-aus Sent: Wednesday, 7 June 2017 6:41 PM To: jason thomas >; council at linux.org.au ; linux-aus at linux.org.au Cc: Steve Levakis > Subject: Re: [Linux-aus] Grant Application June-5-2017 Hi everyone, Firstly, a courtesy note to indicate that feedback on this application is open until 19th June, and is scheduled for discussion at Council meeting 22nd June. Secondly, I have a conflict of interest as a regular attendee to this group and will therefore recuse myself from any discussions or decision making on this Grant Application. Kind regards, Kathy On 05/06/17 11:40, jason thomas via linux-aus wrote: Project name Geelong Raspberry Pi Meetup - resources and publicity Aim of the project, including any key stages or milestones of the project To encourage locals in and around Geelong to get involved with programming and using micro controllers. We would aim to get a cross section of the community interested in and using Raspberry Pi, Raspbian or other Linux distributions. The ideal situation would be to introduce people to a future with free and open source software. We have: -A meetup place (Geelong Library) -A basic website - http://www.grlc.vic.gov.au/whats-on/raspberry-pi-meet -Five older Raspberry Pis, screens, keyboards, power supplies -Some attendees who bring their own devices Needed: -A Meetup page - https://www.meetup.com/ -Facebook presence (free, after Meetup page established) -Basic electrical components, breadboards, prototyping wires -New Raspberry Pis and power supplies How the success of the project will be measured We aim to grow the group beyond its base of a handful of people into something larger. Goals: -Establish a visitor list and maintain that as a Google Spreadsheet. -Over six months, increase number of regular attendees to 10 or more -Over six months, introduce at least 15 new people to the group (assuming some people attend once or twice and not again). -Keep a list of resources spent and receipts, and donate remaining funds back to Linux Australia (after six months or so). -Make these details available to Linux Australia when requested. Estimated cost breakdown of the project, including any materials, projects or online services that are required to deliver the project. The cost breakdown should include estimates of labour costs and/or professional services Costs: -Raspberry Pi and power sources x 3 = $200 -Meetup page, one year 16 x 12 = $192 -Basic components (resistors, LEDs, servo motors, breadboards) = $58 Total = $450 The project team, their credentials and professional capabilities, especially their history of open source, open data, open hardware or open culture contributions -Jason Thomas (works as a backend developer), attendee, social media and promotions. Member of Linux Australia, LinuxConfAU 2017 volunteer. Making a robot with Raspberry Pi. -Steve Levakis, (works as a Health and Wellbeing Officer), meetup organiser and attendee. Learning to program. Person responsible for project -Jason Thomas - jason.robert.thomas.123 at gmail.com -Steve Levakis - slevakis at geelongcity.vic.gov.au _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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 _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paul2471 at gmail.com Wed Jun 28 16:50:37 2017 From: paul2471 at gmail.com (Paul W Parker) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 16:50:37 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] response to ransomware attack Message-ID: <1498632637.8325.23.camel@gmail.com> Concerning ransom attacks in Australia : ?? (a) Number of MS-W OS computers effected, results per MS-W-versions; ? (b) Number of Apple OS computers effected, results per Apple-versions;? (c) Number of linux OS computers effected, results per Linux-versions; ? Is this information collected, and available ? ? During earlier ransom attacks across world, did wonder for similar information. ? Is this opportunity such information may encourage governments, businesses, individuals, to change OS ? ? ? ? Paul W Parker From gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au Wed Jun 28 17:00:09 2017 From: gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au (Gabor Szathmari) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:00:09 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Workshop: Join us to build your own encrypted chat server! Message-ID: <7EFC7605-78FD-47CC-ADF6-322E8AC44567@cryptoaustralia.org.au> Dear all, Please allow me to invite you to the next CryptoAUSTRALIA workshop. You may have already heard about the latest proposals to ban, weaken or backdoor encryption in Australia. The aim is to allow law enforcement agencies peek into encrypted messages on the wire. Come along to set up your self-hosted end-to-end encrypted chat server ? while you can! In this workshop, we build our own end-to-end encrypted secure group chat service based on Matrix and Riot. Matrix is an open standard for decentralised communication and Riot allows teams to communicate across a wide range of collaboration apps. The goal of this workshop is to teach you how to configure and run your own Matrix/Riot service. By the end of the workshop, you should be able to log into secure chat rooms with your phone and computer and invite others to the same server. LIMITED SPACES! Due to the limited size of the venue, we limit the number of maximum attendees on this workshop. RSVP now to avoid disappointment! Date: Wednesday, July 5, 6:00 PM Location: Info People, Mezzanine Level, 383 Kent St, Sydney More details and RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/CryptoAus-Sydney/events/241133562 Kind Regards, Gabor & The CryptoAUSTRALIA Team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jamesrpurser at gmail.com Wed Jun 28 18:07:34 2017 From: jamesrpurser at gmail.com (James Purser) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 08:07:34 +0000 Subject: [Linux-aus] response to ransomware attack In-Reply-To: <1498632637.8325.23.camel@gmail.com> References: <1498632637.8325.23.camel@gmail.com> Message-ID: You do realise that just after wannacry hit last time there was a samba vuln released that allowed someone to do exactly the same thing right? Now is NOT the time to play "My OS is better" On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 at 16:51 Paul W Parker via linux-aus < linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > Concerning ransom attacks in Australia : > > (a) Number of MS-W OS computers effected, results per MS-W-versions; > > (b) Number of Apple OS computers effected, results per Apple-versions; > > (c) Number of linux OS computers effected, results per Linux-versions; > > > Is this information collected, and available ? > > > During earlier ransom attacks across world, did wonder for similar > information. > > Is this opportunity such information may encourage governments, > businesses, individuals, to change OS ? > > > Paul W Parker > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On 28/06/17 17:37, James Purser via linux-aus wrote: > You do realise that just after wannacry hit last time there was a samba > vuln released that allowed someone to do exactly the same thing right? > > Now is NOT the time to play "My OS is better" > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 at 16:51 Paul W Parker via linux-aus > > wrote: > > Concerning ransom attacks in Australia : > > (a) Number of MS-W OS computers effected, results per MS-W-versions; > > (b) Number of Apple OS computers effected, results per Apple-versions; > > (c) Number of linux OS computers effected, results per Linux-versions; > > > Is this information collected, and available ? > > > During earlier ransom attacks across world, did wonder for similar > information. > > Is this opportunity such information may encourage governments, > businesses, individuals, to change OS ? > > > Paul W Parker > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > > > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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On 28 June 2017 5:43:33 PM ACST, Simon Lees via linux-aus wrote: >Many Linux sysadmins are just as bad at patching there systems as there >windows equivalents. > >On 28/06/17 17:37, James Purser via linux-aus wrote: >> You do realise that just after wannacry hit last time there was a >samba >> vuln released that allowed someone to do exactly the same thing >right? >> >> Now is NOT the time to play "My OS is better" >> >> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 at 16:51 Paul W Parker via linux-aus >> > >wrote: >> >> Concerning ransom attacks in Australia : >> >> (a) Number of MS-W OS computers effected, results per >MS-W-versions; >> >> (b) Number of Apple OS computers effected, results per >Apple-versions; >> >> (c) Number of linux OS computers effected, results per >Linux-versions; >> >> >> Is this information collected, and available ? >> >> >> During earlier ransom attacks across world, did wonder for >similar >> information. >> >> Is this opportunity such information may encourage governments, >> businesses, individuals, to change OS ? >> >> >> Paul W Parker >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-aus mailing list >> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > >> http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linux-aus mailing list >> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au >> http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus >> > >-- > >Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net > >Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek >SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 >GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Not attacking, > just curious > -Stephen > > -- > Sent from my Android device. > > On 28 June 2017 5:43:33 PM ACST, Simon Lees via linux-aus < > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: >> >> Many Linux sysadmins are just as bad at patching there systems as there >> windows equivalents. >> >> On 28/06/17 17:37, James Purser via linux-aus wrote: >> >>> You do realise that just after wannacry hit last time there was a samba >>> vuln released that allowed someone to do exactly the same thing right? >>> >>> Now is NOT the time to play "My OS is better" >>> >>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 at 16:51 Paul W Parker via linux-aus >>> > wrote: >>> >>> Concerning ransom attacks in Australia : >>> >>> (a) Number of MS-W OS computers effected, results per MS-W-versions; >>> >>> (b) Number of Apple OS computers effected, results per Apple-versions; >>> >>> (c) Number of linux OS computers effected, results per Linux-versions; >>> >>> >>> Is this information collected, and available ? >>> >>> >>> During earlier ransom attacks across world, did wonder for similar >>> information. >>> >>> Is this opportunity such information may encourage governments, >>> businesses, individuals, to change OS ? >>> >>> >>> Paul W Parker >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> linux-aus mailing list >>> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au >>> http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------ >>> >>> linux-aus mailing list >>> linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au >>> http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Not attacking, > just curious > -Stephen > > -- > Sent from my Android device. > > On 28 June 2017 5:43:33 PM ACST, Simon Lees via linux-aus > wrote: > > Many Linux sysadmins are just as bad at patching there systems as there > windows equivalents. > > On 28/06/17 17:37, James Purser via linux-aus wrote: > > You do realise that just after wannacry hit last time there was > a samba > vuln released that allowed someone to do exactly the same thing > right? > > Now is NOT the time to play "My OS is better" > > On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 at 16:51 Paul W Parker via linux-aus > > wrote: > > Concerning ransom attacks in Australia : > > (a) Number of MS-W OS computers effected, results per > MS-W-versions; > > (b) Number of Apple OS computers effected, results per > Apple-versions; > > (c) Number of linux OS computers effected, results per > Linux-versions; > > > Is this information collected, and available ? > > > During earlier ransom attacks across world, did wonder for similar > information. > > Is this opportunity such information may encourage governments, > businesses, individuals, to change OS ? > > > Paul W Parker > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Windows is more likely to get hit by desktop malware that spreads through email (the initial infection vector for Petya was a word exploit CVE-2017-0199, then once on the LAN it spreads through SMB) because of Windows's massive desktop market share. While Linux, similarly, is more likely to get hit by web based PHP exploits because of its massive LAMP web server market share. -- Michael p.s. All of the above is anecdotal, from my experiences in many years of Infosec. From president at linux.org.au Thu Jun 29 10:18:12 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 10:18:12 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] PyconAU financial assistance closes this Friday 30th | GovHack Gold sponsor | WordCamp Brisbane | linux.conf.au news Message-ID: <2bb5c7bd-63c0-143b-c473-0d1dc34fce5c@linux.org.au> Hi everyone, Super quick email from Council today - we'll write a longer / more informative one when we get some breathing space - but some key pieces to keep front of mind; PyconAU Financial Assistance and Outreach Tomorrow is the last day to apply! If you would like to and haven't stop reading this and apply now :-) https://2017.pycon-au.org/about/fin_assist/ GovHack Gold Sponsorship Although we're not auspicing GovHack this year, Linux Australia is being recognised as a Gold Sponsor for our contributions. If you haven't signed up yet for GovHack and want to, there's still time. GovHack is on 28-30 July in one of dozens of cities (and towns!) near you, follow on Twitter @GovHackAU or #govhack http://govhack.org Tix are available for WordCamp Brisvegas^H^H^H^Brisbane <3 WordPress? Me too. Freezing your bits off in the southern states? Me too! Get to Brisbane and get your WordPress on. https://2017.brisbane.wordcamp.org/ linux.conf.au CfP is about to open Get your talk proposals ready, the CfP machine is coming at'cha! Follow on #lcapapers, #lca2018 and @linuxconfau on Twitter https://linux.conf.au Can I run linux.conf.au in my city? Yes you can! Expressions of interest will open in the next few weeks, and we have two cities already with an informal interest indicated. Much competition. So awesome. Many LCA. Wow :-) VALA Tech Camp (we're a sponsor) Applications extended to 5th July. Know someone who's GLAM? Not that type, but that's awesome too. We're talking Galleries, Libraries and Museums. Know someone in this space who wants to level up in tech? Let them know about VALA Tech Camp. https://portal.vala.org.au/page-18093 Best, K. -- 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 Jun 29 15:37:11 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:37:11 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux Australia engagement with Open Source Initiative - community feedback sought Message-ID: Hi everyone, Hope you're all continuing to be awesome, and big #hugops to those of you who've been dealing with Petya over the last few days. One of the actions I had from the 22nd June Council meeting was to bring to you a topic for discussion that's been at Council for a few weeks now - to seek input and feedback, and to provide Council with an informed set of views on which to take some concrete next steps. Background The Open Source Initiative was formed almost twenty years ago, and developed, and safeguards the Open Source Definition. https://opensource.org/about Our vision, mission and values overlap strongly and are centred around advocating for open source technologies The OSI is a 501(3)(c) charity in the USA (equivalent of Australian DGR status). They are a membership based organisation and their main stream of revenue is membership, with some sponsorship. Possible methods of engagement * *Reciprocal membership *- OSI's business model is raising funds through membership. It would be possible for OSI to extend membership to Linux Aus members, for instance if Linux Aus paid a lump sum each year. While there wouldn't be specific, direct benefits for individual Linux Australia members through this approach, other than the benefits of OSI membership, it would help grow the membership base of OSI and more indirectly, international networks /connections. * *Linux Aus becomes organisational member of OSI* - similar to the relationship we have with auDA, Linux Australia could become an organisational member of OSI. OSI refers to this type of membership as 'Affiliates'. https://opensource.org/affiliates/about * *Sponsorship* - one of the ways we could support the OSI is through Sponsorship https://opensource.org/sponsors#sponOps * *Other* - are there other ways we could or should engage? What should we do? We'd now like to seek feedback from the community to help us engage in a way that you're supportive of. Feel free to reply to this list, to Council (council at linux.org.au), or to myself or any other Council Member if you would like to provide confidential feedback - your privacy will be protected. 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: