From simon at darkmere.gen.nz Sun Jul 2 20:54:27 2017 From: simon at darkmere.gen.nz (Simon Lyall) Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2017 22:54:27 +1200 (NZST) Subject: [Linux-aus] The (Unofficial) Linux.conf.au Guide Message-ID: Apologies for interrupting the flow of grant requests but I'm after feedback for the "The (Unofficial) Linux.conf.au Guide" [1] http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/linux.conf.au_guide/ As the conference evolvies the I'd like to keep the document uptodate so very keen on feedback and fixes, especially from the LCA 2018 people. What has changed: * New name * New URL (maybe that should be a dash rather than an underscore though) * Maintained in git (eg pull request accepted) * Format partially converted to markdown * Updated text about the badge * A couple of minor updates and re-wordings. [1] previously known as the "Linux.conf.au: First timers Guide"). -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.simonlyall.com/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar From michael at the-davies.net Mon Jul 3 22:35:29 2017 From: michael at the-davies.net (Michael Davies) Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 22:05:29 +0930 Subject: [Linux-aus] Fwd: [lca-announce] Call for Proposals for linux.conf.au 2018 in Sydney are open! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: linux.conf.au Announcements Date: Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 10:34 AM Subject: [lca-announce] Call for Proposals for linux.conf.au 2018 in Sydney are open! To: lca-announce at lists.linux.org.au, announce at lists.linux.org.au On behalf of the LCA2018 team we are pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for linux.conf.au 2018 is now open! This Call for Proposals will close on August 6 with no extensions expected. linux.conf.au is one of the best-known community driven Free and Open Source Software conferences in the world. In 2018 we welcome you to join us in Sydney, New South Wales on Monday 22 January through to Friday 26 January. For full details including those not covered by this announcement visit https://linux.conf.au/proposals == IMPORTANT DATES == * Call for Proposals Opens: 3 July 2017 * Call for Proposals Closes: 6 August 2017 (no extensions) * Notifications from the programme committee: mid-September 2017 * Conference Opens: 22nd January 2018 == HOW TO SUBMIT == Create an account at https://login.linux.conf.au/manage/public/newuser Visit https://linux.conf.au/proposals and click the link to submit your proposal == ABOUT LINUX.CONF.AU == linux.conf.au is a conference where people gather to learn about the entire world of Free and Open Source Software, directly from the people who shape the projects and topics that they?re presenting on. Our aim is to create a deeply technical conference made up of industry leaders and experts on a wide range of subjects. linux.conf.au welcomes submissions first-time and seasoned speakers from all free and open technology communities and all walks of life. We respect and encourage diversity at our conference. == CONFERENCE THEME == The theme for linux.conf.au 2018 is ?A Little Bit Of History Repeating?. Building on last year?s theme of ?The Future of Open Source?, we intend to examine the future through the lens of the past. For some suggestions to get you started with your proposal ideas please visit the linux.conf.au website. == PROPOSAL TYPES == We?re accepting submissions for three different types of proposal: * Presentation (45 minutes): These are generally presented in lecture format and form the bulk of the available conference slots. * Tutorial (100 minutes): These are generally presented in a classroom format. They should be interactive or hands-on in nature. Tutorials are expected to have a specific learning outcome for attendees. * Miniconf (full-day): Single-track mini-conferences that run for the duration of a day on either Monday or Tuesday. We provide the room, and you provide the speakers. Together, you can explore a field in Free and Open Source software in depth. == PROPOSER RECOGNITION == In recognition of the value that presenters and organisers bring to our conference, once a proposal is accepted, one presenter or organiser per proposal is entitled to: * Free registration, which holds all of the benefits of a Professional Delegate Ticket * A complimentary ticket to the Speakers' Dinner for the speaker, with additional tickets for significant others and children of the speaker available for purchase. * Optionally, recognition as a Fairy Penguin Sponsor, available at 50% off the advertised price If your proposal includes more than one presenter or organiser, these additional people will be entitled to: * Professional or hobbyist registration at the Early Bird rate, regardless of whether the Early Bird rate is generally available * Speakers? dinner tickets available for purchase at cost Important Note for miniconf organisers: These discounts apply to the organisers only. All participants in your miniconf must arrange or purchase tickets for themselves via the regular ticket sales process or they may not be able to attend! As a volunteer-run non-profit conference, linux.conf.au does not pay speakers to present at the conference; but you may be eligible for financial assistance. == FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE == linux.conf.au is able to provide limited financial assistance for some speakers. Financial assistance may be provided to cover expenses that might otherwise prohibit a speaker from attending such as: Cost of flight Accommodation Other accessibility related costs To be considered for assistance you can indicate this when making your proposal. We will try to accommodate as many requests for assistance as possible within our limited budget. == ACCESSIBILITY == linux.conf.au aims to be accommodating to everyone who wants to attend or present at the conference. We recognise that some people face accessibility challenges. If you have special accessibility requirements, you can provide that information when submitting your proposal so that we can plan to properly accommodate you. == CODE OF CONDUCT == By agreeing to present at or attend the conference you are agreeing to abide by the terms and conditions (https://linux.conf.au/attend/ terms-and-conditions/index.html). We require all speakers and delegates to have read, understood, and act according to the standards set forth in our Code of Conduct (https://linux.conf.au/attend/code-of-conduct/index.html). == RECORDING == To increase the number of people that can view your presentation, linux.conf.au will record your talk and make it publicly available after the event. We plan to release recordings of every talk at the conference under a Creative Commons Share-Alike Licence. When submitting your proposal you may note that you do not wish to have your talk released. == LICENSING == If the subject of your presentation is a software project, you must ensure the software has an Open Source Initiative-approved licence at the time of the close of our CFP. Bruce Crawley Conference Director & James Polley Conference Co-Director -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From president at linux.org.au Sat Jul 8 15:57:01 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 15:57:01 +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: <8c4f71a4-3b8a-b8a2-d4be-b6e0561d7dc4@linux.org.au> Dear Paul, Many thanks for applying to the Linux Australia Grants Program. Council considered this Grant Application at meeting 6th July 2017 and have respectfully declined the Grant Application. The Application was very well written, with clearly articulated objectives, milestones and costings, and serves as an exemplar to other Grant Applicants in this regard. However, the application showed only tangential overlap with open source and the open source objectives of the Grants Program. Council recommend that this application may be more suitable for funding under programs aimed at STEM education, STEM and coding uptake and digital literacy. Again, we thank you for the time and effort in this application, and wish you all the best for this research project. With kind regards, Kathy Reid 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 president at linux.org.au Sat Jul 8 16:14:51 2017 From: president at linux.org.au (Linux Australia President) Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2017 16:14:51 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] [LACTTE] Grant application to Linux Australia for Aletheia In-Reply-To: References: <676PF5MyZ4pZQvgeiAlyfreOP9swYOSkWfo_JlzKVU15XXIalEwDw1_5aujnUgRZwhzIgXv_bXaovDv3RzLcB2Uy5yyA2YG0wPKNQ6F7CGs=@protonmail.com> Message-ID: <68403964-065f-f932-53c4-e48930dea625@linux.org.au> Dear Kade, Many thanks for your Grant Application for Aletheia. Council considered this Application at Council Meeting 6th July, and has respectfully declined the Grant Application. The Council felt that, although the application was very well written, and the objectives of Aletheia are very clear, that the problem of paywalled research is incredibly complex, and cannot be solved with one platform alone, requiring a broader ecosystem approach. We're also aware of work being undertaken in the academic and research communities within Australia, with movements such as open access and open access journals, that is helping to move the entire ecosystem forward. Best wishes for Aletheia, With kind regards, Kathy Reid On 20/06/17 17:27, Kade Morton 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 >>> >>> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > committee mailing list > committee at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/committee -- 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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However as always if we've misjudged the position of our membership, your feedback and comments are always warmly welcomed. Kind regards, Kathy -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president at linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479 From tleeuwenburg at gmail.com Sat Jul 15 10:48:54 2017 From: tleeuwenburg at gmail.com (Tennessee Leeuwenburg) Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 10:48:54 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] PyCon AU 2017 - Tickets Selling Fast! Message-ID: PyCon Australia 2017 - https://pycon-au.org/ - the national conference for users and developers of the Python programming language, will start in just under three weeks! Tickets to the conference are still available, but selling fast. This year the conference will take place in Melbourne, from 3 - 8 August, with a jam-packed schedule. Thursday 3rd August: Long-Form Tutorials Friday 4th August: Specialist Tracks ? Internet of Things, Science and Data, Python in Education and DjangoCon AU Saturday 5th August: Main Conference Day One - four streams of talks. Also, DjangoGirls Workshop and PyLadies Breakfast Sunday 6th August: Main Conference Day Two - four streams of talks Monday 7th August: Sprints Day One (sold out) Tuesday 8th August: Sprints Day Two (limited tickets still available) This year includes two exciting new features: long-form tutorials and child care. Each paid tutorial will run for 3.5 hours, including a 30 minute break. Tickets are still available to three of the tutorials: Python 101, Build Tooling Workshop and Practical Testing with Pytest. For more information, please visit: https://pycon-au.org/program/tutorials/ On-site child care, run by qualified child care workers, will be offered on the specialist track and the main conference days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday). Child care registration closes on Thursday 20th July. For more information, please visit: https://pycon-au.org/about/child-care/ For more information about conference ticket prices and inclusions, please see: https://pycon-au.org/attend/ === About PyCon Australia === PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python programming community. The eighth PyCon Australia will be held on August 3-8 2017 in Melbourne, bringing together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for programming in Python. PyCon Australia informs the country?s developers with presentations by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia 2017, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org, follow us at @pyconau or e-mail us at contact at pycon-au.org. PyCon Australia is presented by Linux Australia (www.linux.org.au) and acknowledges the support of our Platinum Sponsors, WSP Digital and IRESS, and other sponsors. 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Inaugural #VALATechCamp - 12th-14th July - https://www.vala.org.au/events/1116-vala-tech-camp Sae Ra Germaine (Secretary) and I represented Linux Australia at the inaugural #VALATechCamp last week, which saw nearly 120 library technologists come together to get hands-on learning about emerging technologies in the library space. Linux Australia sponsored the Diversity Scholarship for this event, which after a rigourous selection process was awarded to Nathan Sentance , a proud Wiradjuri man who works for the Australian Museum. Nathan will be able to share learnings from the event with his community. A big shout out to Gala Camacho and Noon van der Silk who delivered the double-length Introduction to Python workshop, providing an introduction to variables, functions and data types to budding new programmers. You can follow the Twitter discussion at #VALATechCamp or read my blog post about it. WordCamp Brisbane - 22nd-23rd July - https://2017.brisbane.wordcamp.org/ WordCamp BNE has SOLD OUT! Excellent job, Dion Hulse, Cameron Jones, Ricky Blacker, Hannah Malcolm, Robert Wilde and Peter Bui. You can follow all the Twitter action at @WordCampBNE , #WCBNE or on Facebook . In other WordPress / WordCamp news, we have finalised wording on a Memorandum of Understanding with WordCamp Central, and when this is signed a further update will be made. Huge thanks to Josepha Haden from Wordcamp Central and Dee Teal from the Australian WordPress community for their efforts here. GovHack 28th-30th July - https://govhack.org Spots are filling up for the CBD locations, if you want to go and haven't registered, do it quick. Oh, and we're a Gold Sponsor :D linux.conf.au CfP is open until 6th August - https://linux.conf.au/proposals/ CfP will NOT be extended this year. *In the voice of Mikal* Proposey proposey!! Big thanks to Michael Davies and Michael Still for chairing Papers Ctte again this year, and to Bruce Crawley and James Polley and the LCA2018 for their stellar efforts to date. Bids for linux.conf.au 2020 will open shortly. Pycon AU - 3rd-8th August - https://pycon-au.org/ Tickets are now on sale! Get yours! It will be awesome! Richard Jones and the team are doing a brilliant job - thank you. Follow Pycon-AU on Twitter , or Facebook . Joining the Dots data visualisation symposium 18th August - https://joiningthedots.github.io/ Linux Australia has sponsored the Joining the Dots data visualisation symposium at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, enabling costs to participants to be reduced, thus minimising barriers to entry. Run by Dr Fiona Tweedie (prev. GovHack Melbourne, Open Knowledge Foundation, and convener of RezBaz) and Dr Alan Rubin (prev Bioinformatics Miniconf Organiser at LCA2016), the one-day symposium will cover many aspects of data visualisation, including a range of open source tools, such as Python, d3.js and so on. CfP closes July 31. Council doing another Face to Face meeting in Melbourne 5th-6th August Council have resolved to do a second Face to Face meeting in Melbourne over 5th-6th August. F2F meetings are a key way that Council can work on key tasks, and do forward planning for the organisation. Given that most of Council this year is Victoria-based, the costs of running a F2F are lower than usual, and this has contributed to our decision to do a second F2F. Our key tasks will be preparing the 2017-2018 Linux Australia budget (financial year 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2018), and planning the rebrand and platform refresh (MemberDB and website). Beyond 2020 Alliance - http://www.beyond2020.net.au The Beyond 2020 Alliance has met again, and resolved to work on a white paper outlining options and decision points for the future of Australia's digital infrastructure. You can follow the Alliance at @Beyond2020All on Twitter or on Facebook . Signatory to the Secure the Internet petition - https://www.securetheinternet.org/ Linux Australia has signed the Secure the Internet petition, calling on governments worldwide to uphold security, privacy and strong encryption. The laws of mathematics are universal. Rebranding activity - http://tobyansell.com.au/ After a competitive quote process, we have selected Toby Ansell, Graphic Designer, to work with Linux Australia on our rebrand. The rebrand work will be a foundation piece for platform refresh later in the year. Data Governance Code of Practice - http://datagovernanceaus.com.au/dga-code-of-practice/ Lastly, you may want to have a read of the recently released Data Governance Australia draft Code of Practice. We're still not sure what to make of Data Governance Australia, its independence and proposed code of practice, and your input and thoughts will help us in forming a position, and if required, responding to the draft code of practice. With kind regards, Kathy Reid, Cameron Tudball, Sae Ra Germaine, Russell Stuart, Josh Stewart, David Bell and Hugh Blemings - Council 2017 -- 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 donna at cc.com.au Mon Jul 17 22:33:28 2017 From: donna at cc.com.au (Donna Benjamin) Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 22:33:28 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] [Announce] Update on Linux Australia Council activities July 2017 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2D49DF1E-64B2-4BE4-AB72-D90A9758C4E9@cc.com.au> Great update Kathy. Thanks to you and the entire team for the time and energy expended in making good stuff happen. It's "non-trivial". As they say. Curious about the choice of designer and where to look for more info. The quick squiz I took at his website on my phone only showcased print work. I would expect we'd have a digital/mobile first requirement? I'd be keen to see his work in that space. So excited to see that moving forward though. Yay! Via mobile. > On 17 Jul 2017, at 11:28, Linux Australia President wrote: > > Hi everyone, > Hoping that this note finds you and your loved ones well, and that the laws of mathematics still apply wherever you are ;-) > We've got a jam-packed update for you today, covering a wide range of activities that the Linux Australia Council and Subcommittees are involved in. As always, your comments and feedback are warmly welcomed, and if you'd like to become more involved in any of these activities, please do make contact. > Inaugural #VALATechCamp - 12th-14th July - https://www.vala.org.au/events/1116-vala-tech-camp > Sae Ra Germaine (Secretary) and I represented Linux Australia at the inaugural #VALATechCamp last week, which saw nearly 120 library technologists come together to get hands-on learning about emerging technologies in the library space. > Linux Australia sponsored the Diversity Scholarship for this event, which after a rigourous selection process was awarded to Nathan Sentance, a proud Wiradjuri man who works for the Australian Museum. Nathan will be able to share learnings from the event with his community. > A big shout out to Gala Camacho and Noon van der Silk who delivered the double-length Introduction to Python workshop, providing an introduction to variables, functions and data types to budding new programmers. > You can follow the Twitter discussion at #VALATechCamp or read my blog post about it. > WordCamp Brisbane - 22nd-23rd July - https://2017.brisbane.wordcamp.org/ > WordCamp BNE has SOLD OUT! > Excellent job, Dion Hulse, Cameron Jones, Ricky Blacker, Hannah Malcolm, Robert Wilde and Peter Bui. > > You can follow all the Twitter action at @WordCampBNE, #WCBNE or on Facebook. > > In other WordPress / WordCamp news, we have finalised wording on a Memorandum of Understanding with WordCamp Central, and when this is signed a further update will be made. Huge thanks to Josepha Haden from Wordcamp Central and Dee Teal from the Australian WordPress community for their efforts here. > GovHack 28th-30th July - https://govhack.org > > Spots are filling up for the CBD locations, if you want to go and haven't registered, do it quick. Oh, and we're a Gold Sponsor :D > linux.conf.au CfP is open until 6th August - https://linux.conf.au/proposals/ > > CfP will NOT be extended this year. *In the voice of Mikal* Proposey proposey!! > > Big thanks to Michael Davies and Michael Still for chairing Papers Ctte again this year, and to Bruce Crawley and James Polley and the LCA2018 for their stellar efforts to date. > Bids for linux.conf.au 2020 will open shortly. > Pycon AU - 3rd-8th August - https://pycon-au.org/ > > Tickets are now on sale! Get yours! It will be awesome! > > Richard Jones and the team are doing a brilliant job - thank you. > Follow Pycon-AU on Twitter, or Facebook. > Joining the Dots data visualisation symposium 18th August - https://joiningthedots.github.io/ > Linux Australia has sponsored the Joining the Dots data visualisation symposium at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, enabling costs to participants to be reduced, thus minimising barriers to entry. > > Run by Dr Fiona Tweedie (prev. GovHack Melbourne, Open Knowledge Foundation, and convener of RezBaz) and Dr Alan Rubin (prev Bioinformatics Miniconf Organiser at LCA2016), the one-day symposium will cover many aspects of data visualisation, including a range of open source tools, such as Python, d3.js and so on. > CfP closes July 31. > Council doing another Face to Face meeting in Melbourne 5th-6th August > > Council have resolved to do a second Face to Face meeting in Melbourne over 5th-6th August. F2F meetings are a key way that Council can work on key tasks, and do forward planning for the organisation. Given that most of Council this year is Victoria-based, the costs of running a F2F are lower than usual, and this has contributed to our decision to do a second F2F. Our key tasks will be preparing the 2017-2018 Linux Australia budget (financial year 1 October 2017 to 30 September 2018), and planning the rebrand and platform refresh (MemberDB and website). > Beyond 2020 Alliance - http://www.beyond2020.net.au > The Beyond 2020 Alliance has met again, and resolved to work on a white paper outlining options and decision points for the future of Australia's digital infrastructure. > You can follow the Alliance at @Beyond2020All on Twitter or on Facebook. > > Signatory to the Secure the Internet petition - https://www.securetheinternet.org/ > > Linux Australia has signed the Secure the Internet petition, calling on governments worldwide to uphold security, privacy and strong encryption. The laws of mathematics are universal. > Rebranding activity - http://tobyansell.com.au/ > > After a competitive quote process, we have selected Toby Ansell, Graphic Designer, to work with Linux Australia on our rebrand. The rebrand work will be a foundation piece for platform refresh later in the year. > Data Governance Code of Practice - http://datagovernanceaus.com.au/dga-code-of-practice/ > > Lastly, you may want to have a read of the recently released Data Governance Australia draft Code of Practice. We're still not sure what to make of Data Governance Australia, its independence and proposed code of practice, and your input and thoughts will help us in forming a position, and if required, responding to the draft code of practice. > > With kind regards, > Kathy Reid, Cameron Tudball, Sae Ra Germaine, Russell Stuart, Josh Stewart, David Bell and Hugh Blemings - Council 2017 > > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ > announce mailing list > announce at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/announce -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I have received some feedback from other providers that this might be useful. I first suggested this for the 2016 Health Hack (attached) but I didn't communicate my ideas very well. Since then I have provided a mockup to help communicate this idea The concern I have now is that the solution/idea that I described previously isn't scalable for the new world of single cell RNASeq (over 10,000 rows in a web based application is a lot). I think I would need to get a UX expert to work with our team and the other interested providers to define the outline of a solution. I'm unsure of the costs of this and even if this would be considered worthwhile. Would it be worthwhile to discuss this further with someone? I have cc'ed the linux-aus mailing list because I am worried that something might also exist that I don't know about. When I did look last year, there didn't seem to be many out there. Most of them were specific solutions: 1. Sufia (based on Hydra and PDCM) is for uploading files 2. 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He refers to a netperf4 (also by him) which is GPLv2 hosted on github, and indeed it's there. Nevertheless it's netperf 2.6 that's in Debian. Que? Where is NetPerf4? iperf declares itself more modern and much easier to use, however it appears to be capable of fewer tests (not necessarily an issue for this use case). iperf 2 is still around in package repos and is rather old. iperf3 is a rewrite and appears active. Good. Because they all require a server side to talk to, choices need to be made. And iperf3 is not backwards compatible so it can not talk with iperf2 servers. Netperf still appears to be widely used anyhow, but naturally since use cases differ that's not necessarily a generic endorsement. So, your opinions, given the stated use case? thanks! Regards, Arjen. -- Arjen Lentz, Exec.Director @ Open Query Pty Ltd Your databases and online infrastructure. Managed. Web https://openquery.com.au | Twitter @openquery From steve at nerdvana.org.au Tue Jul 25 14:22:49 2017 From: steve at nerdvana.org.au (Steve Walsh) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 14:22:49 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Request for Qualified Opinion: netperf, iperf, others In-Reply-To: <361672118.476577.1500936931533.JavaMail.zimbra@lentz.com.au> References: <361672118.476577.1500936931533.JavaMail.zimbra@lentz.com.au> Message-ID: Hello Arjen On 25/07/17 08:55, Arjen Lentz via linux-aus wrote: > iperf declares itself more modern and much easier to use, however it appears to be capable of fewer tests (not necessarily an issue for this use case). > iperf 2 is still around in package repos and is rather old. > iperf3 is a rewrite and appears active. Good. > > Because they all require a server side to talk to, choices need to be made. > And iperf3 is not backwards compatible so it can not talk with iperf2 servers. I can't comment on netperf, as it didn't tick the boxes I needed ticked at the time. Iperf3 is a project of ESNet (Energy Science Network, think AARNet but for a specific subnet of the R&E Sector). They have a very different use case to most people, as they need to confirm their 100Gbps (and above) links and interconnects are actually capable of doing 100Gbps (and above). Lots of assumptions occur in that space, like all your links have jumbo frame support enabled, you're looking at performance stats for long-running (2-3 day) high bandwidth (90Gbps) transfers. If you run tests with iperf3 with a card that doesn't have any TCP offload capabilities, you're going to get poor results. Iperf3 drops 128KB blocks into the send buffer and then walks away and lets the stack offload stuff do it's thing. Without any form of a stack offload, you'll likely get I/O bound at 4-5Gbps. With a good offload engine, you can push 9.5Gbps+ out of a 10Gbps card without breaking a sweat. If you're looking to see if servers with TOE-support are doing their thing, iperf3 will probably tick that box. If you're looking to see if the 1Gbps link you've bough actually does 1Gbps, then iperf2 will tick the box happily. It sounds like what you're wanting to end up with is a Ethernet OAM [0] style testing framework, would that be a safe assumption? regards [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations,_administration_and_management -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Lots of assumptions occur in that space, like all your links > have jumbo frame support enabled, you're looking at performance stats > for long-running (2-3 day) high bandwidth (90Gbps) transfers. > > If you run tests with iperf3 with a card that doesn't have any TCP > offload capabilities, you're going to get poor results. Iperf3 drops > 128KB blocks into the send buffer and then walks away and lets the stack > offload stuff do it's thing. Without any form of a stack offload, you'll > likely get I/O bound at 4-5Gbps. With a good offload engine, you can > push 9.5Gbps+ out of a 10Gbps card without breaking a sweat. Very interesting, thanks. > If you're looking to see if servers with TOE-support are doing their > thing, iperf3 will probably tick that box. If you're looking to see if > the 1Gbps link you've bough actually does 1Gbps, then iperf2 will tick > the box happily. Yea so many of us in the real world have to deal with such low bandwidth all the time. I know you're spoilt at work ;-) And this is indeed the issue. Both tools and considerations will differ for different speeds of network. Also tuning of course, what's good tuning advice a machine on a highspeed network can easily cause low performance on a lower speed network. > It sounds like what you're wanting to end up with is a Ethernet OAM [0] > style testing framework, would that be a safe assumption? > [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations,_administration_and_management I think so, yes - mostly. And I care about links that aren't managed by me, because I need to rely on them. You neatly described the specific ESnet needs. Similarly, perfSONAR is a wonderful project that enables research organisations globally to keep an eye on their networks. But neither deal with the reality that most of us poor sods operate in (even professionally), which is hosted machines and users who operate from mobile, ADSL or various types of NBN connections at widely different bandwidth rates. In addition, serious testing can require moving lots of data around, which again can be a problem with many connection plans which have data limits and/or costs. It's an interesting problem space. thanks Regards, Arjen. From steve at nerdvana.org.au Tue Jul 25 15:07:13 2017 From: steve at nerdvana.org.au (Steve Walsh) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 15:07:13 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Request for Qualified Opinion: netperf, iperf, others In-Reply-To: <1867664043.477527.1500958329962.JavaMail.zimbra@lentz.com.au> References: <361672118.476577.1500936931533.JavaMail.zimbra@lentz.com.au> <1867664043.477527.1500958329962.JavaMail.zimbra@lentz.com.au> Message-ID: <536b1a57-75a8-0794-3ca7-fbc2cd366b04@nerdvana.org.au> On 25/07/17 14:52, Arjen Lentz via linux-aus wrote: > Yea so many of us in the real world have to deal with such low bandwidth all the time. > I know you're spoilt at work ;-) > > And this is indeed the issue. > Both tools and considerations will differ for different speeds of network. > Also tuning of course, what's good tuning advice a machine on a highspeed network can easily cause low performance on a lower speed network. Believe it or not, the link speeds I work with are anywhere from a 20Mbps metroE link from a third party service aggregator right up to 100Gbps (or higher) or so backbone link. And yes, you're right, there is no tried and true tuning to rule them all, it requires knowledge of the hardware and technology behind the link between the sites as much as the hardware on the link between the switch and the device to determine the best tuning for each host. One change on the link and you get to go back and start again. > I think so, yes - mostly. > And I care about links that aren't managed by me, because I need to rely on them. > > You neatly described the specific ESnet needs. Similarly, perfSONAR is a wonderful project that enables research organisations globally to keep an eye on their networks. > But neither deal with the reality that most of us poor sods operate in (even professionally), which is hosted machines and users who operate from mobile, ADSL or various types of NBN connections at widely different bandwidth rates. In addition, serious testing can require moving lots of data around, which again can be a problem with many connection plans which have data limits and/or costs. > It's an interesting problem space. What might be a good place to start is with something like Smokeping [0], which allow you to test and graph latency to various hosts. We used this recently to discover and confirm a power saving feature on mac laptops that was driving people on a wifi network mental with poor performance, and we've used it to monitor the quality of both intra and inter city and national links. regards [0] http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/index.en.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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At the time Steve Walsh explained that moving away from VPAC and some other technical issues were taking their time. http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/2017-January/thread.html#22924 In Jan 2017 we had another list discussion about this. Below are the latest DKIM failures from Linux Australia list mail. It's been almost 4 years since we first started having discussions about this. I've cited 3 public discussions about it, there was also another lca-chat discussion that Google didn't turn up as well as a discussion in 2015 that was off-list. Jul 25 15:07:59 smtp opendkim[495]: 76E01F1C9: s=default d=nerdvana.org.au SSL error:04091068:rsa routines:int_rsa_verify:bad signature Jul 25 15:07:59 smtp opendkim[495]: 76E01F1C9: bad signature data Jul 25 15:07:59 smtp postfix/cleanup[20960]: 76E01F1C9: milter-reject: END-OF- MESSAGE from mailhost.linux.org.au[192.55.98.181]: 5.7.0 bad DKIM signature data; from= to= proto=ESMTP helo= On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:41:01 PM Julian De Marchi wrote: > In regards to DKIM, we will try and understand the issue more before > implementing any changes. How much more understanding is needed? -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From a.nielsen at shikadi.net Tue Jul 25 18:22:33 2017 From: a.nielsen at shikadi.net (Adam Nielsen) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:22:33 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] more about DKIM and mailing lists In-Reply-To: <2501667.KC5HrqSVAJ@russell.coker.com.au> References: <2501667.KC5HrqSVAJ@russell.coker.com.au> Message-ID: <20170725182234.4fac4a57@teln.shikadi.net> > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:41:01 PM Julian De Marchi wrote: > > In regards to DKIM, we will try and understand the issue more > > before implementing any changes. > > How much more understanding is needed? I noticed the linux-aus list changed a little while back to use from_is_list=1 as you explained in your blog, but I too see DKIM failures on messages like this one I am replying to. Just so I understand clearly, are you saying that you are happy with the from_is_list change, but you also want linux-aus to strip the DKIM headers with REMOVE_DKIM_HEADERS=Yes in Mailman as well, and this is the only thing that would need to be done to completely fix the issue? Cheers, Adam. From russell at coker.com.au Tue Jul 25 19:19:34 2017 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:19:34 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] more about DKIM and mailing lists In-Reply-To: <20170725182234.4fac4a57@teln.shikadi.net> References: <2501667.KC5HrqSVAJ@russell.coker.com.au> <20170725182234.4fac4a57@teln.shikadi.net> Message-ID: <4680147.rHMdzndEZX@russell.coker.com.au> On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 6:22:33 PM AEST Adam Nielsen wrote: > > On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 03:41:01 PM Julian De Marchi wrote: > > > In regards to DKIM, we will try and understand the issue more > > > before implementing any changes. > > > > How much more understanding is needed? > > I noticed the linux-aus list changed a little while back to use > from_is_list=1 as you explained in your blog, but I too see DKIM > failures on messages like this one I am replying to. > > Just so I understand clearly, are you saying that you are happy with > the from_is_list change, but you also want linux-aus to strip the DKIM > headers with REMOVE_DKIM_HEADERS=Yes in Mailman as well, and this is the > only thing that would need to be done to completely fix the issue? Below are the messages from my mail log about the rejection of the mail you sent me via the list. Yes removing the DKIM signatures is necessary, along with from_is_list NOT dmarc_moderation. Jul 25 18:23:17 smtp postfix/smtpd[31551]: D143C108A2: client=mailhost.linux.org.au[192.55.98.181] Jul 25 18:23:17 smtp postfix/cleanup[32250]: D143C108A2: message- id=<20170725182234.4fac4a57 at teln.shikadi.net> Jul 25 18:23:18 smtp opendkim[495]: D143C108A2: s=default d=shikadi.net SSL error:04091068:rsa routines:int_rsa_verify:bad signature Jul 25 18:23:18 smtp opendkim[495]: D143C108A2: bad signature data Jul 25 18:23:18 smtp postfix/cleanup[32250]: D143C108A2: milter-reject: END- OF-MESSAGE from mailhost.linux.org.au[192.55.98.181]: 5.7.0 bad DKIM signature data; from= to= proto=ESMTP helo= -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From russell at coker.com.au Tue Jul 25 19:21:22 2017 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 19:21:22 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] more about DKIM and mailing lists In-Reply-To: <2501667.KC5HrqSVAJ@russell.coker.com.au> References: <2501667.KC5HrqSVAJ@russell.coker.com.au> Message-ID: <1951004.KJP8tc69xz@russell.coker.com.au> Below is the body of a bounce I got from emailing the admin-team. It seems that the admin-team list also needs to have from_is_list. I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below. For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster. If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message. The mail system (expanded from ): host mail.geek.id.au[2401:1400:1:1201:216:3cff:feb0:dccd] said: 550 5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: Please see http://www.openspf.net/Why?s=mfrom;id=russell-sender %40coker.com.au;ip=2001%3A388%3A1034%3A3900%3A5054%3Aff%3Afeff %3A6b6f;r=geek.id.au (in reply to RCPT TO command) -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au Wed Jul 26 08:06:10 2017 From: gabor at cryptoaustralia.org.au (Gabor Szathmari) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 08:06:10 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] [CryptoParty] Marcy Wheeler - PRISM and effects on 5EYES countries Message-ID: *Join us for an exciting talk on PRISM (702), surveillance and Five Eyes with Marcy Wheeler* *When:* 27 July (Thursday), 6:00 pm *Where:* ThoughtWorks, Level 23, 303 Collins St, Melbourne Marcy Wheeler[1] (@emptywheel), an advisor to the US Congress' Fourth Amendment Caucus and an expert on this and other US surveillance laws, will explain what the authorisation fight means for US spying. FISA Section 702 (US) authorises both PRISM (the collection of content directly from US tech companies like Google and Microsoft) and upstream surveillance (the collection, via packet sniffing, of other communications transiting the US telecommunications backbone). She will explore recent problems with upstream surveillance and what it means for NSA and the Five Eyes' packet sniffing collection more generally. Marcy will lay out what the prospects are for reform of 702 this year -- and what additional protections that might offer Australians. Marcy will also explain the greater risk of surveillance under EO 12333. 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There has been recent controversy over how auDA, which underwent a leadership change in 2016, is currently operating with regard to transparency of decisions, and availability of previously-available decision making instruments such as minutes. A group of members of auDA (of which Linux Australia was not a part) has requested an SGM, and one of the motions at that SGM is to remove the current Chair, Mr Stuart Benjamin, effecting change in leadership in the organisation. After consultation with other Council members, this afternoon I signed a proxy vote form, requesting that Mr Ned O'Meara act as our proxy at this meeting, and vote to remove Mr Benjamin. The specific text of the instruction is below, and I am happy to make the proxy vote form available on request. As always, your feedback, comments, and concerns - are always welcomed to this list, or privately to any of Council. With kind regards, Kathy -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [LACTTE] Proxy Form for auDA SGM 31 July - Katherine Reid per Linux Australia Inc. Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:33:40 +1000 From: Linux Australia President Reply-To: president at linux.org.au Organization: Linux Australia To: ned at domainer.com.au, di.parker at auda.org.au CC: council Dear Ned and Di, (CC: Linux Australia Council) Please find attached a Proxy Form for Linux Australia, signed by myself as the current President of the organisation, which instructs Ned to vote in favour of the resolution at SGM 31 July 2017 to remove the current Chair, Mr Stuart Benjamin. We underscore that this action is not aimed personally at Mr Benjamin in any way, and note the regard with which he is held in the Australian domain name community. However we feel that the current behaviour of auDA is not in line with our own organisational values of openness and transparency [1]. We encourage auDA to reflect on current governance practices, and to identify and implement additional mechanisms to make the internal machinations of the organisation more transparent to its members. With kind regards, Katherine (Kathy) Reid BA/BSc, MBA President, Linux Australia Inc. [1] https://linux.org.au/values -- 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 bpa at iss.net.au Thu Jul 27 23:01:01 2017 From: bpa at iss.net.au (Brenda Aynsley) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:01:01 +0100 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux Australia has voted in favour of removing Mr Stuart Benjamin as the Chair of auDA In-Reply-To: <66e505a4-9357-5a93-3e8d-45089fd56e14@linux.org.au> References: <60ce9115-0a92-7a40-9649-0d54856a3021@linux.org.au> <66e505a4-9357-5a93-3e8d-45089fd56e14@linux.org.au> Message-ID: <1fd475c1-ae02-1888-54a9-53f94d32aaa9@iss.net.au> On 27/07/17 05:49, Linux Australia President via linux-aus wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > In line with our organisational values of openness, respect and > transparency, I'd like to communicate to you a decision that Council > has today taken regarding the Special General Meeting (SGM) of auDA - > the Australian Domain name regulator. Linux Australia is a member of > auDA in the Demand Class (ie we consume domain name services, we do > not provide them). > thank you kathy and council for this transparency. membership based organisations lose sight of the membership in the struggle to remain viable and relevant however its a road straight to hell for all concerned not just the leadership if members do not remain committed to the organisations they chose to join and with that commitment comes vigilance. CF AUDA, CPA Australia to name but two. cheers brenda -- Brenda Aynsley OAM, FACS CP, ACS Honorary Life Member President, Professions Australia 2017-18 ACS Immediate Past President 2016 & 2017 Chair IFIP International Professional Practice Partnership (IP3) 2011-17 -- Mobile:+61(0)412 662 988 || Mobile:+61(0)489 958 8517 Skype/Yahoo/Twitter: baynsley -- *Produced by Ubuntu and Mozilla Thunderbird* From paul2471 at gmail.com Fri Jul 28 06:42:50 2017 From: paul2471 at gmail.com (Paul W Parker) Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2017 06:42:50 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux Australia has voted in favour of removing Mr Stuart Benjamin as the Chair of auDA In-Reply-To: <66e505a4-9357-5a93-3e8d-45089fd56e14@linux.org.au> References: <60ce9115-0a92-7a40-9649-0d54856a3021@linux.org.au> <66e505a4-9357-5a93-3e8d-45089fd56e14@linux.org.au> Message-ID: <1501188170.13633.3.camel@gmail.com> I support position taken on this Subject. The ability to review previous decisions, decision making discussions, is important to understand the source of current arrangements, whether positive or negative.? Paul W Parker.? On Thu, 2017-07-27 at 14:49 +1000, Linux Australia President wrote: > Hi everyone,? > In line with our organisational values of openness, respect and > transparency, I'd like to communicate to you a decision that Council > has today taken regarding the Special General Meeting (SGM) of auDA - > the Australian Domain name regulator. Linux Australia is a member of > auDA in the Demand Class (ie we consume domain name services, we do > not provide them).? > There has been recent controversy over how auDA, which underwent a > leadership change in 2016, is currently operating with regard to > transparency of decisions, and availability of previously-available > decision making instruments such as minutes. A group of members of > auDA (of which Linux Australia was not a part) has requested an SGM, > and one of the motions at that SGM is to remove the current Chair, Mr > Stuart Benjamin, effecting change in leadership in the organisation.? > After consultation with other Council members, this afternoon I > signed a proxy vote form, requesting that Mr Ned O'Meara act as our > proxy at this meeting, and vote to remove Mr Benjamin.? > The specific text of the instruction is below, and I am happy to make > the proxy vote form available on request.? > As always, your feedback, comments, and concerns - are always > welcomed to this list, or privately to any of Council.? > With kind regards,? > Kathy > > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: [LACTTE] Proxy Form for auDA SGM 31 July - Katherine > Reid per Linux Australia Inc. > Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:33:40 +1000 > From: Linux Australia President > Reply-To: president at linux.org.au > Organization: Linux Australia > To: ned at domainer.com.au, di.parker at auda.org.au > CC: council > > Dear Ned and Di, > > (CC: Linux Australia Council) > > Please find attached a Proxy Form for Linux Australia, signed by > myself > as the current President of the organisation, which instructs Ned to > vote in favour of the resolution at SGM 31 July 2017 to remove the > current Chair, Mr Stuart Benjamin. We underscore that this action is > not > aimed personally at Mr Benjamin in any way, and note the regard with > which he is held in the Australian domain name community. However we > feel that the current behaviour of auDA is not in line with our own > organisational values of openness and transparency [1]. > > We encourage auDA to reflect on current governance practices, and to > identify and implement additional mechanisms to make the internal > machinations of the organisation more transparent to its members. > > With kind regards, > > Katherine (Kathy) Reid > > BA/BSc, MBA > > President, Linux Australia Inc. > > > [1] https://linux.org.au/values > From robert at ballarathackerspace.org.au Sat Jul 29 22:35:16 2017 From: robert at ballarathackerspace.org.au (Robert Layton) Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 22:35:16 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Ballarat Hackerspace reporting in - Women's Wednesdays milestone 2 complete Message-ID: Checking in again for milestone 2 for our Women's Wednesdays - success! Kim has completed delivery of the Raspberry Pi course. We had 10 regulars, with some coming and going, with a few drop-ins. Additionally, this had led to an increase in women and girls dropping in at other times too. Now, for the exciting part: Success Measure #1: Having 10 women undertake the workshop - complete Success Measure #2: Women membership percentage at *20% - SUCCESS* For those interested, we have 19 active members, 4 of whom are women. Obviously, this is hugely exciting for us, and now we will work on increasing overall membership numbers while maintaining this percentage or higher. The Prusas are due to arrive soon. We will probably hold off on this part of the course anyway, as there are still some things from the Raspberry Pi night to work through, but the 3d printing building will commence soon. Next update is in about 6 weeks, after we are printing things out! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From craige at mcwhirter.com.au Mon Jul 31 08:08:01 2017 From: craige at mcwhirter.com.au (Craige McWhirter) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:08:01 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux Australia has voted in favour of removing Mr Stuart Benjamin as the Chair of auDA In-Reply-To: <66e505a4-9357-5a93-3e8d-45089fd56e14@linux.org.au> References: <60ce9115-0a92-7a40-9649-0d54856a3021@linux.org.au> <66e505a4-9357-5a93-3e8d-45089fd56e14@linux.org.au> Message-ID: <20170730220801.vfeedzzl5tscr32o@archer.mcwhirter.io> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 14:49:25 +1000, Linux Australia President via linux-aus wrote: > Hi everyone, G'day Kathy. > In line with our organisational values of openness, respect and > transparency, I'd like to communicate to you a decision that Council has > today taken regarding the Special General Meeting (SGM) of auDA Thank you for your transparency on this. > After consultation with other Council members, this afternoon I signed a > proxy vote form, requesting that Mr Ned O'Meara act as our proxy at this > meeting, and vote to remove Mr Benjamin. 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At the time we nominated our proxy Mr Benjamin was still the chairman of auDA, so it was possible there would be no election. He has now resigned, so our vote is moot: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/29/chair_australias_internet_registry_out From craige at mcwhirter.com.au Mon Jul 31 11:23:24 2017 From: craige at mcwhirter.com.au (Craige McWhirter) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:23:24 +1000 Subject: [Linux-aus] Linux Australia has voted in favour of removing Mr Stuart Benjamin as the Chair of auDA In-Reply-To: <1501453683.6346.1.camel@stuart.id.au> References: <60ce9115-0a92-7a40-9649-0d54856a3021@linux.org.au> <66e505a4-9357-5a93-3e8d-45089fd56e14@linux.org.au> <20170730220801.vfeedzzl5tscr32o@archer.mcwhirter.io> <1501453683.6346.1.camel@stuart.id.au> Message-ID: <20170731012324.2y2o7gdk6mvwbr4l@archer.mcwhirter.io> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 08:28:03 +1000, Russell Stuart via linux-aus wrote: > On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 08:08 +1000, Craige McWhirter via linux-aus > wrote: > > I haven't seen whom we're voting to replace Mr Benjamin with and how > > they plan to address the concerns you've raised. > > You can't do that It impossible to do that until you know who has been > nominated for the office! Not impossible, a reasonable question for which their may or may not be answer. You're focussing on technical process a little to tightly Russell. In my experience people rarely role a sitting leader without there being someone else in mind, regardless of whether a nomination process has commenced or not. I doubt a that council with the calibre of ours merely approved rolling the sitting office holder without any thought having been given to what | who happened next. Hence my question. -- Craige -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Our working assumption (which has transpired) was that an Acting Chair would be appointed, and it was our hope that a robust approach would be used to replace the Chair. That has also transpired, with the Board today resolving to convene an appointment committee to independently recruit a new, independent Chair. The other key outcomes that I observed from the SGM (I will forward minutes if/when they are available) were: (For full transparency I observed via GoTo Meeting) * Cameron Boardman, CEO, outlined the process that had been taken around establishing a new .au Registry * The Board were at pains to be receptive to Member feedback, and committed to using this feedback to inform their future mode of operation * The level of dissatisfaction with Members about the transparency of operations of auDA was palpable, with several calls for minutes/agenda publication on the website to again occur, although there was no resolution made to do so. * There was strong resentment from Members present against the decision to open up top level registration into the .au namespace, given the commercial implications for many Members of the Demand class - who earn their livelihoods through services in the existing 2LD spaces - .com.au, net.au, .org.au and so on. SEO practitioners also appeared to be opposed to the .au TLD registrations opening up. * Relations between auDA and AusRegistry - the incumbent registry provider - appear significantly strained, with Boardman declining to allow AusRegistry to provide operational updates to the auDA board while the Registry Tender / EoI process is underway Kind regards, Kathy On 31/07/17 11:23, Craige McWhirter via linux-aus wrote: > On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 08:28:03 +1000, Russell Stuart via linux-aus wrote: >> On Mon, 2017-07-31 at 08:08 +1000, Craige McWhirter via linux-aus >> wrote: >>> I haven't seen whom we're voting to replace Mr Benjamin with and how >>> they plan to address the concerns you've raised. >> You can't do that It impossible to do that until you know who has been >> nominated for the office! > Not impossible, a reasonable question for which their may or may not be answer. > > You're focussing on technical process a little to tightly Russell. In my > experience people rarely role a sitting leader without there being someone else > in mind, regardless of whether a nomination process has commenced or not. > > I doubt a that council with the calibre of ours merely approved rolling the > sitting office holder without any thought having been given to what | who > happened next. > > Hence my question. > > -- > Craige > > > _______________________________________________ > 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: