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

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April 2014

  • Build Your Own Exobrain by Paul Fenwick

    Online services like “If This Then That” (IFTTT) are great for automating your life. However they provide few ways for the end-user to add their own services, and not everyone is comfortable with sharing their credentials.

    I’ll be discussing the ’exobrain’ project, which allows for service integration and extension on a machine you control. We’ll discuss philosophy, installation, and writing your own extensions and classifiers.

February 2014

November 2013

  • Kevin Vinsen will be giving a talk on SkyNet Pan-STARRS1 Optical Galaxy Survey (POGS) project. His talk will discuss the use of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) middleware and Internet-connected computers to measure the galactic structural properties of ~100,000 galaxies.

October 2013

August 2013

  • iVEC has a team entering the Student Cluster Competition at SC13 in the US later this year. This is the pre-eminent event in the High Performance Computing (HPC) world and it’s great for Australia, and in particular Western Australia to be involved thanks to iVEC and their sponsors.

    The team gave a presentation at PLUG going through the ins and outs of super computing, the state of super compuing in WA, and information about the competition itself.

July 2013

  • Intro into Subversion by Alastair Irvine

    Alastair Irvine believes in the right tool for the job. At this PLUG talk, he will be giving an introduction to Subversion including a few demos, some of which will be interactive. Feel free to bring your laptop.

May 2013

  • For 8 months in 2007, I was part of a multi-national team working towards winning a multi-million dollar contract to modernize the core application of a very large logistics management company. According to our client, at time of evaluation, our Linux on IBM Mainframe solution was most innovative and bold.

March 2013

  • IPV6 by Adrian Woodley

    Following the success of 2012’s World IPv6 Launch, several popular websites and services are now available via IPv6. Participating sites include Google, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo and Wikipedia. In addition to this newly accessible content, local ISPs are starting to investigate supporting IPv6 for domestic consumers.

    Adrian will present several ways for you to access the IPv6 Internet today, using whichever Internet connection you currently have, as well as common problems and gotchas. Following this presentation, there should be no excuse for any of you not to be rolling out ‘v6 at home.

January 2013

December 2012

  • Amazon Web Services by James Bromberger

    Amazon Web Services Cloud recently launched in Sydney, Australia. Come and find out what it is, how you can use it, and whats new with the service.

November 2012

  • Linux on Large Clusters by Stuart Midgley

    Stuart Midgley will be talking about his experiences and issues with managing a 25000 core cluster with 4 petabytes of storage.

October 2012

September 2012

  • This year an excitable group of PLUGgers interested in proselytising software freedom to the wider community are throwing an awesome event for Software Freedom Day.

  • Bitcoin by Leo Treasure

    Leo Treasure talks about Bitcoin

January 2012

January 2011

March 2010

February 2009

December 2008

  • The Eeepc: tips and tricks by John McCabe-Dansted

    The Eeepc 701 is under a kilogram, and often under $300 new. This makes it easy to have a full Linux pc with you where-ever you go. Despite the low weight and low cost the Xandros based OS is snappy for casual use.

November 2008