Here is a list of previous PLUG events, organized by year.
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August 2020
Feel free to come along and show your own project or get help with Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS, LibreELEC and more.
July 2020
- GitHub Actions by James Henstridge
Github Actions is a continuous integration system that can be used for everything from building and testing code as it is checked in to automatically responding to bug reports.
March 2020
Eight years of the Raspberry Pi, since 2012-02-29. Feel free to come along and show your own project or get help with Raspbian, LibreELEC and more.
February 2020
November 2019
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.
September 2019
- MooseFS and the Elastic NAS by Benjamin Arntzen
A do-it-yourself approach to network-attached storage built with commodity open source software, and cheap, low-power hardware, using the distributed file system MooseFS (similar to Ceph, Gluster, etc).
July 2019
An introduction and demo of PLUG’s internal Audio/Video systems.
May 2019
Feel free to come along and work on your own project or get help installing Linux.
April 2019
- Deploying an OpenStack control plane with MAAS, Ansible, and Ceph by Gregory Orange
The Pawsey Super computing Centre in Technology Park offers an OpenStack cloud service(think AWS) to Australian researchers for a wide array of projects (radio astronomy, genomics, bioinformatics. OpenStack’s control plane requires regular upgrades, which presents an ongoing operational challenge.
March 2019
- Deploying IoT/embedded applications with Ubuntu Core by James Henstridge
Small single board computers like the Raspberry Pi provide a great base for deploying projects. However, designing a system so it can be updated after deployment can be a challenge. When devices are hooked up to the Internet, this becomes even more critical due to the regular stream of security vulnerabilities that may impact the install.
February 2019
October 2018
- Creating Deb Packages by Alastair Irvine
Once upon a time, Debian was a GNU/Linux distribution that was mainly for hobbyists. It always existed in the shadow of commercial distributions such as Red Hat, and their derivatives. Then Canonical used it to create Ubuntu, and the world changed. (In the interim though, there were a lot of businesses relying on Debian as a stable, low-TCO server OS with good security support.)
September 2018
- Get More Sleep by Benjamin Arntzen
“Get more sleep” by Benjamin is a short talk on “how to get better sleep, faster”. It’s about a journey toward making late nights less painful, and the tools that journey revealed. You’ll learn about f.lux and various other programs that will help you conquer the enemy - blue light.
August 2018
- What is the Matrix? by Michael Collins
What is the ‘Matrix’? What features does it have? What is ‘PerthChat’ and why was it created? Could it be the perfect hangout for PLUG members? All these questions and more will be answered!
July 2018
- GNU/Linux in some tiny places by Chris McCormick
Modern user-space GNU tools and scripting languages on Android with Termux, and also the TinyCore Linux variant piCore running on a Raspberry Pi.
June 2018
- Chromebooks Unleashed by Benjamin Arntzen
Chromebooks Unleashed is a talk on the surprising potential of a cheap Chromebook as a developer machine, as a toy and as a sandbox for experimentation. Learn about Crouton, the Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment, and GalliumOS, a Linux distribution built specifically for Chromebooks. The talk is complete with two live demos, one of which might work. Join the excitement and enjoy the suspense!
May 2018
Come and join us as PLUG celebrates the release of Ubuntu 18.04, the latest long-term support release of the very popular Ubuntu Linux. We will have a limited number of USB drives and DVDs with this latest release of Ubuntu to give out at the event, which you can use to try or even install Ubuntu. We’ll also be showing off 18.04 on some laptops if you just want to have a play.
April 2018
- Confined applications on the desktop by James Henstridge
Traditionally, Linux distributions have relied on package archives maintained by groups of trusted maintainers. While this works well, users often end up looking to third party sources for newer versions or software missing from the main archive. This can reduce the security of a system, since traditional packaging systems place a lot of trust in the package maintainers (e.g. running scripts as root during package installation).
This talk will look at the snapd packaging system, which is inspired by the confinement strategies used for smart phone applications. In particular, it will look at how it is used on the Ubuntu Desktop.
March 2018
September 2017
Drupal is an open-source CMS used to build great websites. In this talk, we will explore using various AWS technologies and Drupal to work towards high availability. We will show you how to build a fault-tolerant website with no single point of failure.