Linux.conf.au 2017 – Friday – Lightning Talks

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Michael Still and Michael Davies get the Rusty Wrench award

Karaoke – Jack Skinner

  • Talk with random slides

Martin Krafft

  • Matrix
  • End to end encrypted communication system
  • No entity owns your conversations
  • Bridge between walled gardens (eg IRC and Slack)
  • In Very late Beta, 450K user accounts
  • Run or Write your own servers or services or client

Cooked – Pete the Pirate

  • How to get into Sous Vide cooking
  • Create home kit
  • Beaglebone Black
  • Rice cooker, fish tank air pump.
  • Also use to germinate seeds
  • Also use this system to brew beer

Emoji Archeology 101 – Russell Keith-Magee

  • 1963 Happy face created
  • 🙂 invented
  • later 🙁 invented
  • Only those emotions imposed by the Unicode consortium can now be expressed

The NTPsec Project – Mark Atwood

  • Since 2014
  • For and git in 2015 from parent ntp project
  • 1.0.0 release soon
  • Removed 73% of lines from classic
    • Removed commandline tools
    • Got write of stuff for old OSes
    • Changed to POSIX and modern coding
    • removed experiments
  • Switch to git and bugzilla etc
  • Fun not painful
  • Welcoming community, not angry
  • ntpsec.org

National Computer Science Summer School – Katie Bell

  • Running for 22 years
  • Web stream, Embedded Stream
  • Using BBC Microbit
  • Lots of projects
  • Students in grade 10-11
  • Happens in January
  • Also 5 week long online programming competition NCSS Competition.

Blockchain – Rusty Russell

  • Blockchain
  • Blockchain
  • Blockchain

Go to Antarctica – Jucinter Richardson

  • Went Twice
  • Go by ship
  • No rain
  • Nice and cool
  • Join the government
  • Positions close
  • Go while it is still there

Cool and Awesome projects you should help with – Tim Ansell

  • Tomu Boards
  • MicroPython on FPGAs
  • Python Devicetree – needs a good library
  • QEMU for LiteX / MiSoC
  • NuttX for LiteX / MiSoC
  • QEMU for Tomu
  • Improving LiteX / MiSoc
  • Sypress FX2
  • Linux to LiteX / MiSoC
  • DMMI2USB
  • j.mp/timpro-lca2017

LoRa TAS – Paul Neumeyer

  • long range (2-3km urban 10km rural)
  • low power (batter ~5 years)
  • Unlicensed radio spectrum 915-928 Mhz BAnd (AUS)
  • LoRaWAN is an open standard
  • Ideal for IoT applications (sensing, preventative maintenance, smart)

Roan Kattatow

  • Different languages mix dots and commas and spaces etc to write numbers

ZeroSkip – Ron Gondwana

  • Crash safe embeded database
  • Not fast enough
  • Zeroskip
  • Append only database file
  • Switch files now and then
  • Repack old files togeather

PyCon Au – Richard Jones

  • Python Conference Australia
  • 7th in Melbourne in Aug 2016 – 650 people, 96 presentation
  • In Melb on 308 of August on 2016
  • 2017.pycon-au.org

Buying a Laptop built for Linux – Paul Wayper

  • Bought from System76
  • Designed for Linux

openQA – Aleksa Sarai

  • Life is too short for manual testing
  • Perl based framework that lets you emulate a user
  • Runs from console, emulates keyboard and mouse
  • Has screenshots
  • Used by SUSE and openSUSE and fedora
  • Fuzzy comparison, using regular expressions
  • open.qa

South Coast Track – Bec, Clinton and Richard

  • What I did in the Holidays
  • 6 day walk in southern tasmania
  • Lots of pretty photos
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