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---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Polley <v...@slug.org.au> Date: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM Subject: UPDATED: July SLUG meeting - Friday July 31, 2009 To: annou...@slug.org.au Updated to include details of the Technical Talk. If you think you might come, please visit http://anyvite.com/ewaqa64bwu and sign up. == July SLUG Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement at http://slug.org.au/node/116. When: 18.00 - 21.30, Friday, 31 July, 2009 We start at 18.30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive before 18.00, as it may hinder business activities for our host! Appropriate signage and directions will be posted on the building. Where: Our venue for this meeting is Google, Level 5, 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont. It's across the road from Star City Casino. A map of the area can be found here[1], and public transit directions are at [2]. Appropriate signage and directions will be posted around the building. You will need to sign-in to enter the venue. This can be performed when you arrive, but to save time we recommend that you do so online beforehand at Anyvite[3]. If you are unsure, please sign up as a 'maybe'. This allows us to organise adequate meeting space and facilities. You do not need to create an account to indicate your attendance. General Talk Tom Worthington: Learning to lower costs and carbon emissions with ICT Tom designed the first globally accredited course on Green ICT and has been teaching it via the web since January 2009. The talk will discuss how ICT can be used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 15% by 2020. Also outlined is how to use the web for running formal, university accredited courses using free open source software with open access content delivered to smartphones. The Istanbul public transport system also gets a mention. ;-) See Tom's Web site[4] for more information. Tom runs green IT courses at ANU and ACS. You can read the free open access version here. In-Depth Talk: Rob Collins: Massively parallel testing via Subunit Subunit [https://launchpad.net/subunit] is a streaming protocol for test results. I used it in bzr to parallelise the test suite and make effective use of multi-core machines (something python isn'tintrinsically good at), and to run tests in a massively parallel way via amazon ec2. Subunit is likely to be useful for anyone doing nontrivial automated testing, particularly when distributing or otherwise running the testsin a noninteractive fashion. SLUGlets General discussion and Q&A about Linux, free software and open source. Meeting Schedule See here[6] for an explanation of the segments. * 18.15: Open Doors * 18.30: Announcements, News, Introductions * 18.45: General Talk * 19.30: Intermission * 19.45: Split into two groups for: o In-Depth Talk o SLUGlets * 20.30: Dinner Dinner this month will be held locally, Details will be announced on the night. We will be taking numbers at the beginning of the meeting. If you have any particular dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian), let us know beforehand. Dinner is a great way to socialise and learn in a relaxed atmosphere :) We hope to see you there! [1] http://tinyurl.com/ParkingPyrmont [2] http://wiki.slug.org.au/howtogetthere [3] http://anyvite.com/ewaqa64bwu [4] http://www.tomw.net.au/technology/it/green_it_social_networking/ [5] http://tomw.net.au/moodle/course/view.php?id=11 [6] http://www.slug.org.au/meetings/meetingformat -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
