March 2019
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.
April 2019
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.
May 2019
Feel free to come along and work on your own project or get help installing Linux.
July 2019
An introduction and demo of PLUG’s internal Audio/Video systems.
September 2019
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).
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.