===Summary===
Date: Friday April 30
Start time: Arrive at 6pm for a 6:30pm start
Format: Main presentations with BOFs running in parallel
More information on the meeting format is at http://slug.org.au/meetingformat
===First Half===
==Main presentation==
Robert Smit: Upstart - the event-driven init replacement
Upstart is a replacement to the init process that Unixes have been
using to start all their key processes for more than 30 years.
Ubuntu’s Canonical decided that, they needed a more event driven init
system and both Ubuntu and Fedora have been using Upstart in a
backwards compatible arrangement for more than 3 years but with 10.04
are now starting to move away from the old init scripts.
==BOFs==
OLPC Friends: Sridhar Dhanapalan will be giving a brief talk an Q&A
session about OLPC Australia’s recent deployment in Yirrkala in East
Arnhem Land.
===Second Half===
==Main Presentation==
Erik de Castro Lopo: Programming: How can we do it better? Part II
(Part I available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZDy7ExHjMM)
As developers, we hear a constant stream of complaints about how
software (not necessarily our own) is buggy and crashes. In this
presentation I plan to look at what we can do now and in the future to
make software development more reliable, repeatable and scalable.
==BOFs==
=Multimedia=
Peter Chubb - Basics of shell scripting
Peter will cover #!, variables, including arguments and shift,
pipelines and jobs, and the 'while' statemnent. Presentation will be
in a tutorial format - you'll get more out of it if you can bring a
laptop and follow along.
Next month, David McQuire will be diving into image/video editing
tricks from the commandline - having a basic knowledge of shell
scripting will help you expand these tricks into fully automated
workflows.
Patrick Elliot-Brennan - Creating a slideshow, including Ken Burns
effects, using PhotoFilmStrip
Patrick will give a presentation on how to create a slide-show from
still images. This presentation will include how to apply the renowned
'Ken Burns' effect to give the video the following effect:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC2uJlu_SQc
The application used is called PhotoFilmStip: http://www.photofilmstrip.org/
=Wordpress=
topics TBA
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