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Andrew Pam on content creation with free and open source software tools Although Jon Lawrence of Electronic Frontiers Australia was billed to start the day, Andrew Pam kicked off after Lev Lafayette opened the session. Mirroring a presentation given at linux.conf.au in in Canberra in…
With huge thanks to Pomke and the team at Small World for lending us their fabulous Causeway House Boardroom venue, BarCampMelbourne 2013 got off to a great start. Pomke on Angular JS The talks I got to see where many and varied. First up, Pomke…
After being on the core team for linux.conf.au 2012 in Ballarat, it was somewhat of a relief to just be a delegate for the 2013 conference in Canberra. Luckily, I'd pre-arranged leave from work a few months earlier before starting a new role, but the…
So, my talk proposal around LilyPad Arduino wasn't accepted into the main track for linux.conf.au this year, but I was invited by Bianca and Robyn to submit it to the Haecksen Miniconf, where it was accepted. Again, the talk slides were done in Inkscape with…
My attempts to get a Win8 ASUS R701V dual booting into Ubuntu Linux 12.10 64-bit
Catarina Mota - Open Hardware Mota, a distinguished resesearcher and founder of the Open Hardware Association opened Day 3 with her keynote on open hardware. She explained how open hardware was lowering the barrier to entry to a number of fields such as DIY 3D…
Mårten Mickos - Open Source Cloud Platforms Mårten Mickos of Eucalyptus opened day two with a presentation on open source cloud platforms. He opened by naming the big four open source cloud platforms - OpenNebula, OpenStack, CloudStack and Eucalyptus - the 'four beautiful open source…
The first day of LinuxCon Europe 2012 went brilliantly. After landing in Barcelona after a short hop from Edinburgh via London City, I had a great night's rest, if a little jetlagged, and woke up early and rearing to go. The only bugbear with the…
Once again it is time to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day, which recognises the achievements and talent of women in science, engineering, technology and mathematics fields. This year I'd like to dedicate my post to a colleague, friend and someone I admire greatly - Sae Ra…
During my trip to the United Kingdom, I was fortunate enough to spend some time in the Lake District of Cumbria, with the generous loan of a caravan situated between Penrith and Keswick. This is a beautiful, unspoilt and verdant part of the country, and…