Events

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)