PLUG generally holds meetings once per month. Check the mailing list for the latest details, or the calendar below. The meetings are generally in the Perth metropolitan area, but regional gatherings also occur to watch and participate in the live streamed meeting.
You can use the ICAL feed for your calendar software, or use the RSS feed.
For previous events and presentations, see below...
Previous Talks and Presentations
2012
- February 2012
- Moodle - the courseware management system by Martin Dougiamas (download video - mp4, 249MB. NOTE: audio issues first 15mins)
- January 2012
- AGM (download video - mp4, 123MB)
2011
- December 2011
- Mon-KeyTest: John McCabe-Danstead (apologies, no video)
- November 2011
- Daniel Harmsworth: Open Source in Hardware Manufacturing (download video - mp4, 144MB)
- October 2011
- A talk by Rusty Russell (videos: main talk - mp4, 93MB, panel discussion - mp4, 115MB)
- September 2011
- CXFS & DMF, by Greg Orange (download video - mp4, 91MB)
- August 2011
- LUAkit - the micro web browser (download video - mp4, 98MB)
- July 2011
- Ubuntu One, by James Henstridge (no video sorry, audio problems)
- June 2011
- High Performance Computing, by IBM, at IBM West Perth (download video - mp4, 276MB)
- May 2011
- IPv6 in the enterprise, by Carl Gharardi, at L-3 Naurtronix (download video - mp4, 234MB)
- April 2011
- Harry McNally: UWA Physics Radio Telescope and Arduino
- March 2011
- Trip to Artifactory, presented by Daniel
- February 2011
- Linux.conf.au Review, presented by Alastair
- January 2011
- AGM
2010
- November 2010
- Hardware - roundtable discussion on Arduino and other microcontrollers
- October 2010
- OpenDMX - the open DMX512 Lighting Control project, presented by Simon Newton
- May 2010
- Wireless hotspots, presented by Tim White
- March 2010
- AGM
2009
- November 2009
- Linux Traffic Control, presented by Patrick Coleman
- October 2009
- Proxmox VE: open-source enterprise virtualisation, presented by Adon Metcalfe
- September 2009
- The Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, presented by Dr Andrew Williams
- July 2009
- GIS on Linux, presented by Adon Metcalfe
- May 2009
- Working with Blender, presented by Innis Cunningham
- April 2009
- MythTV: Open source content streaming, presented by Geoffrey Alagoda
- March 2009
- Demystifying VPNs, presented by Alastair Irvine
- February 2009
- AGM
- January 2009
- Heading towards single sign-on with Kerberos, presented by Nick Sandford
2008
- December 2008
- The Eeepc: tips and tricks, presented by John McCabe-Dansted
- November 2008
- A look at Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, Virt-Manager, KVM, VirtIO, FreeNAS and OpenArena, presented by Adrian Woodley
- October 2008
- LTSP for fun and profit, presented by Adon Metcalfe
- September 2008
- All the wonders of LDAP revealed!!! (Eggs and all major vegetables accepted.), presented by Adrian Woodley
- July 2008
- User security on shared hosting and shell servers, presented by David Adam
- June 2008
- Making Emacs your bit^H^H^H preferred editor and IDE, presented by Alastair Irvine
- May 2008
- LDAP for Popular People and Sysadmins, presented by Ritchie Young
- April 2008
- WPAD for chumps, presented by Adon Metcalfe
- March 2008
- Linux Filesystem Internals, presented by Ian Kent
- February 2008
- iSCSI: It's not a Mac, presented by Patrick Coleman
- January 2008
- Web Content Delivery, 2007 style, presented by Adrian Chadd
2007
- March 2007
- Phil Schwan on Deconstructing Lustre
- May 2007
- Ian Kent on Autofs in the Linux Kernel
- August 2007
- Adrian Chadd on Xen and Virtualisation
- September 2007
- Patrick Coleman on Command Line Fu and Cameron Patrick on Map The Planet
- October 2007
- Adrian Woodley on Network Monitoring, and Daniel Axtens on Simple Ubuntu Tips and Tricks
- November 2007
- Paul Antoine on UNIX in Australia
- December 2007
- Davyd Madeley on Awesome Tools for Document Authoring
2006
- January 2006
- Stuart Midgley with Linux on supercomputers & tour of IVEC facilities.
- February 2006
- Linux.conf.au 2006 reminiscing.
- August 2006
- Adrian Woodley on Virtual E-mail Hosting
- September 2006
- Adrian Chadd on Serving a gigabit of web traffic for fun and profit
2005
- March 2005
- Davyd Madeley with The Clubber's Guide to Rapid Application Development with GNOME and Python and Cameron Patrick with Software Archery: hitting the bull's-eye with GNU Arch revision control.
- April 2005
- Lightning Talks
- May 2005
- Antics of linux.conf.au 2005
- June 2005
- Russell Steicke on his winning LCA 2005 hackfest entry
- July 2005
- Leon Brooks with a talk mysteriously entitled The Crimson Panacea
- August 2005
- Phil Twiss on Open Source WA and Harry McNally on Computer Angels
- September 2005
- Alex Dawson on Network management and automation using open source tools
- October 2005
- Davyd Madeley on The Ministry of Source: Ubuncool and John Knight with a KDE 3.5 Sneak Preview
- November 2005
- Adrian Woodley with Everything you ever wanted to know about VoIP, SIP and Asterisk, but didn't know who to phone
- December 2005
- Ian Kent with Autofs, the Linux automounter
2004
- March 2004
- Bernard Blackham on "Cool Things You Should and Shouldn't Do With PostgreSQL"
- April 2004
- Nick Bannon, Clare Johnstone and Cameron Patrick on linux.conf.au 2004
- May 2004
- Craig Ringer on "Generating quality PDF reports using Python and ReportLab"
- June 2004
- Leon Brooks on "Playing with Ruby-SDL"
- July 2004
- Bernard Blackham on "Linux, Laptops and Life"
- August 2004
- James Levin, Bernard Blackham and Michal Wirski presenting a post-Installfest introduction to Linux
- September 2004
- Cameron Patrick on "Shell scripting: why, how and what not to do"
- October 2004
- Acure Technology presenting a Novell Linux Desktop show-off session
- November 2004
- Jeremy Malcolm presenting "Splinters of a Fragmented Mind: Law, Cross-Platform Development, LDAP and Doctor Who"
2003
- March 2003
- Tony Breeds on "What's New in 2.6"
- April 2003
- Hans Humboldt on "Sun's Position in the Linux Market"
- May 2003
- Trent Lloyd on "User-Mode Linux (UML)"
- June 2003
- Bernard Blackham on "Speex Development and Applications"
- July 2003
- Mike Gilks on "OpenOffice.org Data Connection - databases for the rest of us"
- August 2003
- Sacha Schlegel on ebXML (cancelled)
- September 2003
- Sacha Schlegel on ebXML
- October 2003
- Tony Breeds on networking, part 1 of 3
- November 2003
- Adrian Woodley on networking, part 2 of 3 (Samba)
- December 2003
- Tony Breeds on networking, part 3 of 3 (ISP hookup, routing, firewalling)