Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG)

SLUG's monthly meeting, featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and are free of charge.

Our meetings take place next to Darling Harbour, near public transport and other amenities.

Our location: Atlassian, 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street). Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down along the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A map of the area and directions can be found here.

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.

This month's sessions are:

General Talk
Nick Nicholas: open approaches to persistence, a report on the PILIN project

The PILIN project was a nationally funded activity aimed at strengthening Australia's ability to use global identifier infrastructure. It developed shared, standards-based, persistent identifier management infrastructure using open Handle software (http://www.handle.net/). The outputs of the project are available on open content and open source software licences.

The persistence of digital resources is vital for all communities and the project was cross sectoral based. It is anticipated that a National Persistent Identifier Service will be available before the end of 2008.

The presentation will detail the methodology used within the project as well as illustrating/demonstrating the outputs. For more information on the actual project, see https://www.pilin.net.au/

In-Depth Talk
Erik de Castro Lopo: ICFP Programming Contest 2008 Redux

Each year, there is a programming contest as part of the International
Conference on Functional Programming. The 2008 contest was held two
weeks ago and the winner of the contest will be announced at the
conference itself in Canada in September.

This talk will introduce the ICFP, the competition and look at the
programming task that was set this year. Although I didn't actually
enter the competition I have written some code to solve the problem
and will demonstrate that during the talk.

Much of the inspiration for this talk (and the slides) comes from a
talk given by Ben Lippmeier from Canberra's ANU at FP-Syd.

SLUGlets
Ken Wilson: Installation of Linux on a Desktop (beginner level)

A guided walk through of an install on an old laptop and some of the options for a beginner.

Meeting Schedule

See here 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:
• In-Depth Talk
• SLUGlets
• 20:30: Dinner

Dinner is at Golden Harbour Restaurant, in Chinatown. We will be having the $24 Banquet, but we will be collecting $25 per head for ease of accounting and to cover a tip. We will be taking numbers during the break to confirm the reservation size. If you have any particular dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian), or if you would prefer to order separately, let us know beforehand. Dinner is a great way to socialise and learn in a relaxed atmosphere :)

We hope to see you there!