Closing Stuff
- Special Badge given out
- Projects from Junior Group from Club Penguin
- Rusty Wrench award to Joshua Hesketh
Lightning Talks
- 3 minutes each
- Martin Kraft
- Digital trust and trust in the real world
- In real world it is wired into our brains
- Aunt’s Laptop. Has Trusted CAs, Debian.
- Doesn’t know what lock on browser means
- Imaging that trust is a competition that happens in real time, that takes interactions, mood, random stuff.
- Maybe when you visit a good vs bad website the browser looks visably different
- Machine Learning
- Brimly Collings-Stone
- Maori language not available on AAC outputs
- Need a device that speaks Maori and represents Maori grammar accurately
- Mathew Sherborn
- RSI
- Got it in the past, tried various keyboards
- Type-Matrix but it broke
- ErgoDox – open source keyboard
- Mascot.com – Keyboard in batch orders
- Like the ErgoDox-E – $500 but good – web app to program
- Change the Dvorak keyboard with special keyboard
- Emma Springkmeier
- What do I do when it all goes wrong
- Potentially stressful situations – phone calls, meetings.
- eg last year’s lightning talk
- What I do to cope
- Talk to friends, explain how I feel to others, listening to calming music, breathing techniques ( 4s in, 4s hold, 4 out, 4 holding, repeat )
- Karl Kitcher
- Secretary of the NZ Open Source Society
- Charity since 2008
- Reducing in interest in the recent years
- Open source is not so prevalent, people not really caring, trying to maintain the momentium
- Open vs Fauxpem
- nzoss.nz – signup to the mailing list
- Various services to projects
- Leon Wright
- About Leon’s badge
- Twitter bot hooked to hug detector in his badge
- 2017 badge detects hugs
- 2018 version 2 . So good twitter shadow banned his account
- 2019 – Docker containers and other crazy stuff
- Talia White
- At LCA since 2018 – Was only 8. Now 12
- Ordered a robot kit for ardiano
- Made various projects
- Don’t give up, struggled to start with coding, got better
- Brenda Wallace
- Works for the NZ Govt
- Sometimes abigious
- Going to publish for some legislation as python rules
- rules.nz
- eg Social welfare rules,
- Unit tests
- Paul Gunn Stephen
- GDP per km of coastline
- %coastline length for area
- Means hard to get Tsunami warning systems
- Cheaper
- ETC Lali system approach
- Every Village has a local warning system
- Redundant system
- E Dunham
- You should speak at conferences
- 54th talk in 5 years
- Promotes your company
- Intersection: What you know, what conference needs and what the attendees needs
- Find conference want to attend
- Write abstract
- Submit a lot, get rejected a lot
- Each reject is how you dodged a bullet
- Charell
- CVE-2019-3462
- Bug in apt that allows injection of bad content
- Why https
- Attestation
- apt-transport-https – enable
- Jen Zajac
- Project scaffolding eg Cookiecutter, yoeman
- Lots of generating options
- Creates templates for a project
- Hugh Blemmings
- Ardionu and Beagleboard
- Cool but not high performance
- A True open and HP computer
- Open Hardware, Open software stack, no bin blobs, No unexpected software, No cost/perf penality
- openpowerfoundation.org
- Benno Rice
- Cobol
- Over 50 years old
- Not used much
- What Language is the new Cobol?
- PHP is the new COBOL
- Perl is the new COBOL
- Python2 ?
- Javascript ?
- C ?
- Y2K – Maybe the real Cobol is the maintenance we incurred along the way
- Maybe you should support software before it bites you back
Closing Stuff
- 652 people attended
- 2.4TB transferred over the SSID
- 3113 Coffee vouchers
Lots of sponsors and suppliers and staff thanked
Linux.conf.au 2020 is in …. Gold Coast
- Linux.conf.au 21st birthday!
- Gold Coast convention and Exhibition centre
- 13 – 17th January 2020
