Events Archive

Here is a list of previous PLUG events, organized by year.

Quiz Night
Join us for our annual quiz night, which this year is being held at the Captain Stirling Hotel in Nedlands.

Privacy Roundtable
This month we are going to try an experiment with the meeting format, and hold a discussion directed by the meeting’s participants. If there’s a topic you’d like to discus on the theme of privacy, or you have questions you think the community might be able to help you answer, this is good opportunity.

So we can keep the meeting on track, please add any topics you’d like to discuss to this document: https://demo.hedgedoc.org/ej7SEkdMT6iop8QgRePtcA?both (no account required to edit). We will also use the document to make notes about the discussion.

Building Websites on the Cheap With Hugo by James Henstridge
James Henstridge will talk about the Hugo static website generator. Websites served as static files have a smaller attack surface for security bugs, easier to migrate between hosting providers, and generally cheaper to host.

Hugo together with Git can provide some of the content management features that would otherwise be missing in a static site.

Tarsnap by Niall Navin
In this day and age backups are ubiquitous with basic system administration. Tarsnap augments the traditional tape archive program, tar, to provide encryption and cloud storage. Designed such that not even the creator can access your data, its tagline is ‘Online backups for the truly paranoid’

This talk is an introductory overview of the program and why I use it. https://www.tarsnap.com/

Dorothy, a dotfile ecosystem by Benjamin Lupton
Dorothy is a dotfile ecosystem with cross-platform automations.It supports fish, zsh and bash, it runs on Mac and Linux. This presentation will show how to set it up and configure it, and will demonstrate its capabilities and extensibility with ideas for both beginners and experienced shell scripters

PLUG Quiz Night
Doors open 18:00 so you can get a drink and order food. The quiz will start at 19:00

Behind the Scenes workshop
What is involved in putting on a PLUG talk? Come along and find out more about our AV system and investigate the features of BigBlueButton. This will be an informal session, with the opportunity to get hands on experience.

Free Software vs commercial - why not both by Chris McCormick
A survey of some ways people are building sustainable businesses on top of FLOSS.

Lightning Talks by Yuchen Pei, Harry McNally, Margaret Wood
An assortment of short talks on a variety of subjects If you would like to talk for 5-10 minutes on a relevant subject please contact the PLUG Committee.

Riff.CC by Benjamin Arntzen
Riff.CC is a free community-run website for streaming, downloading and sharing legally free culture such as movies, TV shows, audiobooks and music. It has a unique non-profit business model where you are paid a special currency, BON, in exchange for your seeding efforts. We have 3,000 items on the site and are working hard on reaching 200,000 soon.

Editing Video with code by James Henstridge
When PLUG started holding hybrid in-person/online meetings using Big Blue Button, we wanted a way to publish professional looking videos from the slides, camera footage and audio. Rather than editing everything together manually, I built some scripts to automate the process using GStreamer Editing Services: a library for non-destructive video editing.

PLUG Car Rally/Scavenger Hunt
Carpark 1 @ UWA. Please RSVP and be there before 9:30am. We are doing a car rally/scavenger hunt followed by a PLUG in the pub. Location for the pub to be announced.

Raspberry Pi Jam and Workshop
Do you think Raspberry Pis are a great idea, but need help getting started? Do you have a Raspberry Pi project that you would like to show to others?

Puppet by Simon Anderson
Managing fleets of systems can sometimes lead to boring and repetitive work, which in turn can lead to mistakes being made and productivity dropping. I will be talking about how we can use some simple tools to streamline and standardise the tasks so that system admins and the like and use their time more productively and more enjoyable whilst not having to worry about human-error mistakes being made (as much)

Linux in Large Scale HPC Deployments by Stuart Midgley
Stuart joined DUG as Head of IT in 2007. Now the Company’s Chief Information Officer, Stuart developed DUG’s HPC systems; and also designed and developed the DUG Cool system of immersive cooling technology. Stuart was instrumental in the construction of DUG’s supercomputer facility at Skybox in Houston.

Quiz Night 2020
The quiz questions aren’t technical - general knowledge is the game. It’s a social event, there’s prizes to be won, bring a few friends who may enjoy this kind of thing. We’ll make up tables of players on the night, we’re expecting 4 or 5 people to a table.

Matrix in 2020 by Michael Collins
Join us as we discuss recent changes to Matrix and future plans for the network. Matrix is a distributed and open source communication standard anyone can make client or server software for Matrix.