===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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
