Events Archive

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

The Square Kilometer Array by Kevin Vinsen
The Square Kilometre Array in Western Australia and how it will work.

Prototyping your supercomputer in the cloud.

Castledare Trains
Behind the scene’s look on how steam trains are built, repaired and modified ;)

Data Centre tour at DownUnder GeoSolutions
Come along to the DownUnder GeoSolutions data center and see the largest supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere. They have 500 nodes in Perth with 200 of them in dielectric fluid fish tanks.

Dropbear by Matt Johnston
Dropbear is an open source SSH server running on millions of embedded Linux systems. See where it’s used, how it’s been developed, and maybe learn a thing or two about SSH generally.

The future is awesome by Paul Fenwick
The 21st century is a time with an unprecedented expansion of ideas, culture, technology, information, and global justice. Compared to any other point in history, humans are flourishing. Yet the way in which we think about the world—and our shared future in it—has not accelerated at the same pace. Join us to find out why the future is awesome in ways you may not expect, and what you can do about it.

Paul J Fenwick is a well known speaker especially at things like at linux.conf.au and it’s well worth coming to see him. http://pjf.id.au/

Deploying apps on Snappy Ubuntu Core by James Henstridge
Deploying apps on Snappy Ubuntu Core by James Henstridge

It will include a description of what Snappy is (and how it differs to traditional Ubuntu systems), and some basics of how to package up software to run on the system

High Performance Computing by Matthew Wallis
This month we are delighted to have Matthew Wallis from Direct Data Networks talking to us about High Performance Computing.

The New Open Data Policy by Damian Shepherd
The policy was announced at GovHack and it’s a Western Australian Whole of Government Policy. Open Data within government is a hot topic and it’s great to see a clear direction from within State Government around releasing data in free and accessible formats.

Raspberry Pi Jam
We will have a couple of short presentations form PLUG members that have done amazing things with their Pi’s followed by an informal breakout session where you can work on your latest project or discuss ideas.

Crypto Party with Port80 by Luke John
Crypto Party in conjunction with Port80 run by Luke John.

EventStreamr by Leon Wright
EventStreamr – What is it, why does it exist and how can I help? This talk will touch briefly on the History of Plug AV, conference experiences and what problems the EventStreamr software attempts to solve.

Signals and Control @ Castledare Miniature Railways by Mike Crean
Mike Crean has kindly invited us to visit Castledare Miniature Railways!

Free Software in Political Campaigning by Grahame Bowland
Grahame talks about Free Software in political campaigning. He would covered some of the technical work he has done on the Greens Campaigin, including the WA Senate recount.