From joel at lca2021.linux.org.au Fri Sep 4 13:01:37 2020 From: joel at lca2021.linux.org.au (Joel Addison) Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2020 13:01:37 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] linux.conf.au 2021 - Save the Date! Message-ID: <16efa6f163a237b7c3c328d27b50c4f3@lca2021.linux.org.au> Dear All, OMGEEE we have dates! Australasia's grassroots Free and Open Source technologies conference, linux.conf.au, will be held online, worldwide, from Saturday 23 to Monday 25 January 2021. Block out your calendar We've picked the second-last weekend of January, just prior to the original dates for linux.conf.au 2021. By shifting it to a weekend, we hope to make it easily accessible to as many of you as possible. There is no need to skip work or study, or even leave your house: just drop in. Saturday 23 January will be a day of miniconfs, followed by two days of main conference on Sunday 24 and Monday 25 January. Theme: "So what's next?" You don't need us to throw more cliches at you about 'unprecedented change' and 'uncertain times'. We all know the virus has got us all shook up. So what's next? As large numbers of the world's workforce continue to work from home, how can our community help people and organisations navigate this change? How can open source principles support our new world? What new developments in software and coding can we look forward to in 2021 and beyond? We'll be opening up a Call for Sessions and Call for Miniconfs in the coming weeks. If you've got big ideas to share and discuss with hundreds of like minds, get thinking about your proposal now. Ticket sales coming soon Keep an eye out for ticket announcements as there will be something special on offer for the first in, best dressed. Given the reduced cost in holding a conference online rather than in a venue, we expect prices to be lower than previous years. Watch this space as we firm up the details. Sponsorship opportunities We have a wide range of sponsorship opportunities available, including several new and different packages. In addition to sponsoring the conference, you can now sponsor miniconfs or contribute towards the delegate or speaker packs that will be sent out. If you or your organisation is interested in sponsoring linux.conf.au, please check out our prospectus at https://lca2021.linux.org.au/sponsors/prospectus/ or get in touch through sponsorship at lca2021.linux.org.au. Stay in the know Subscribe to our announcement mailing list and follow our social channels to be the first to know about ticket sales, speaker lineups and conference highlights. Mailing list subscribe: https://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/lca-announce Twitter: https://twitter.com/linuxconfau LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/linuxconfau/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/linuxconferenceaustralia/ Conference website: https://lca2021.linux.org.au/ --- Read this online at https://lca2021.linux.org.au/news/save-date/ From president at linux.org.au Fri Sep 11 11:29:00 2020 From: president at linux.org.au (President, Linux Australia) Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 11:29:00 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Software Freedom Day - 19th September 2020 Message-ID: <72e83d6a-71c9-64dc-2872-b2a99fa377b1@linux.org.au> Software Freedom Day - 19th of September 2020 Free Software Melbourne and Linux Users Victoria are celebrating the 17th annual Software Freedom Day celebrations in Melbourne. We will present a range of leaders in the Free-Software community that will talk about the importance of Free-Software to a free society. The SFD celebration will kickoff with what is "Free and Open Source Software" and why is it so important for a modern, digital society. We'll be hearing from leading contributors and organizers of companies building businesses around Free and Open Source projects. We're also going to talk about the ethics of software development and the advantages of building a prosthetic using open hardware. There is also the opportunity for networking opportunities in our general FLOSS chat room during the day. Time Table: 10:00am - Welcome and Introductions 10:15am - What is Free Software? 11:00am - Dr Morgan Leigh - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death 12:00pm - FLOSS Chat Room / Lunch Break 1:30pm - Lightning Talks 2:30pm - Kathy Reid - Good, better, breast: Building a sensing mastectomy prosthetic with open hardware 3:30pm - Frank Karlitschek - How Nextcloud stayed productive during COVID-19 and how others did the same 4:30pm - Mike Saunders & Italo Vignoli -? LibreOffice: great history, great future Participation is both free and liberating. Software Freedom Day is a family friendly event welcoming to anyone, pass on the word to help make it a great day. We have a code of conduct available on our website, but in short: Be respectful, Be inclusive and Be aware. Hope to see you all online for our most exciting Software Freedom Day yet! Details: Date: Saturday the 19th of September 2020 Time: Talks starting at 10:00am and wrapping up about 6:00pm Location: Online with Big Blue Button - Main Talk Room: https://bbb.freesoftware.org.au/b/fsm-hbo-gf9-43s - Community Chat Room: https://bbb.freesoftware.org.au/b/fsm-dxk-cs1-2ct Meeting Tips: Mute microphone when not speaking. Headsets recommended to reduce feedback if you will be speaking. If you are having difficulty hearing or being heard there is a chat stream available. If you want to ask a question during the presentation either ask it in the chat or use the ?raise hand? button. Code of Conduct: http://freesoftware.org.au/code-of-conduct/ Links and further information: - Blog: https://freesoftware.org.au/blog/software-freedom-day-19th-of-september-2020/ - Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/Free-Software-Melbourne/events/273068374/ - SFD Australia: http://www.sfd.org.au - SFD Global: http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2020/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/FSM-and-LUV Thanks Sae Ra -- Sae Ra Germaine President Linux Australia 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 russell at coker.com.au Tue Sep 15 16:28:34 2020 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 16:28:34 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] online training Message-ID: <3300311.H0GTt2Bk98@liv> I've just setup a beefy new server for LUV which will be good for running lots of VMs. In the past I've run hands on training on SE Linux, BTRFS, ZFS, and Postfix/BIND. I could run any of those again with video-conferencing for discussing it (in the past I have run them with everyone in the same room). Which of these topics would be of interest? Also if anyone else wants to run such training on FOSS I can set it up. You give me an initial VM image (or configure a VM on my server), then I will duplicate it for all the students, give each of them access to one VM, and run the video-conference system. This doesn't have to be Linux only. If someone wants to run a session on another free OS that runs under KVM then that would be interesting too. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From arjen at lentz.com.au Tue Sep 15 18:18:42 2020 From: arjen at lentz.com.au (Arjen Lentz) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 18:18:42 +1000 (AEST) Subject: [Linux-aus] EOI for Online Open Source Developers Conference? Message-ID: <64853251.53114.1600157922328.JavaMail.zimbra@lentz.com.au> Hi all Just gauging whether there might be interest in an Online OSDC ? OSDC has been dormant for a few years, mainly because organising is a big gig with venue, catering and all that. People have been asking for an OSDC, but noone stepped up to organise. Online is a different matter. And yes, I'm happy to organise the first one of those - naturally I'm also happy for others to help. When? We'd have to see - without travel and venue logistics, it may not need a long lead time. The old November-ish timeline may actually work. Anyway, opinions welcome - either reply on-list or privately to me. Thanks Regards, Arjen. From russell at coker.com.au Tue Sep 15 20:11:53 2020 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2020 20:11:53 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] EOI for Online Open Source Developers Conference? In-Reply-To: <64853251.53114.1600157922328.JavaMail.zimbra@lentz.com.au> References: <64853251.53114.1600157922328.JavaMail.zimbra@lentz.com.au> Message-ID: <1813873.0q9ulHDGtr@liv> On Tuesday, 15 September 2020 6:18:42 PM AEST Arjen Lentz via linux-aus wrote: > Just gauging whether there might be interest in an Online OSDC ? Great idea! The LUV server can probably host up to 60VMs for running hands-on training (depending on the resources required for each one). We can distribute images for people to run their own VMs, but that involves support for various virtualisation issues. So I think the best result for training is to have VMs setup for people who want it and make the images available for anyone who wants to run it on their own hardware (who probably won't need help). Giving an effective lecture on a video conference is a specific skill. I gave my first video lecture at a LUV online meeting a few weeks ago and it didn't go that well. I've had a lot of practice at giving Linux lectures, but my usual style doesn't work well when I can't see the audience. I think there are two broad ways of giving a lecture, one is to plan out every aspect of it and give a well rehearsed performance (like a TED talk), the other is to not try to predict every aspect of how the audience understands the concepts and to go into more detail on the things that they seem confused about - which doesn't work well if you can't see them. The tradition of university lectures was established before video cameras were invented. Does it make sense to follow that tradition of having the lecturer speak live without being interrupted for ~30 minutes and then have questions afterwards when they aren't in the same room as the delegates? Would it make more sense to play a pre-recorded video and then have Q/A live? What type of IM should we use? Matrix? Should we set that up now so we can use it for planning things? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/