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Talk Suggestions - Talk Offers

October 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 2nd — Trinity

• "Mike King" <mikkel@market-research.com> - Developing Software for Android Tablets
• "Nathan Bailey" <nathan.bailey@monash.edu> - "High Performance Email: How to how to get less email, process it more quickly and achieve

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"Nathan Bailey has been a programmer, sys admin, tech lead and manager. He has led teams on large-scale Internet projects in collaboration, administration and education. He now runs an educational consultancy working with schools and universities in reinventing education for the 21st Century. He is passionate about delivering services that save people time, are easy to use and make work more fun."

"Mike King is CIO of Horizon Consumer Science, an International market research companies with offices in Melbourne, Los Angeles and London. Mike has B.Sc. in Engineering Science from Warwick University in the UK, and has 30 years of experience in software development, including real time monitoring systems, communications protocols and web and database technologies."

Beginners — Sat 20th — VPAC

November 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Wed 7th (due to Melbourne Cup) — Trinity

Beginners — Sat 17th — VPAC

• Daniel Jitnah "eLiveLearn" - Beginners workshop

Abtract:

eLiveLearn is a (very) long term pet project of mine! eLiveLearn is FOSS (php/linux/apache) based system designed to be a complete on learning environment. Unlike many other online learning systems (Learning Management Systems) such as Moodle, Whiteboard etc which are content management systems (CMS) with added learning support features, eLiveLearn was design designed from start to fully support the complete Learning-Assessment-Reporting process in a fully integrated system. Educators can create online lessons and assessment tasks, Students can step through online lessons and carry out assessement tasks. Educators can then mark and provide feedback on students work and generate live reports.

In this talk, I will look at some design features of eLiveLearn and run through a very simple usage scenario (hands-on). I will also talk about work that still needs to be done to make it a fully functional ready to use system and some problems with the system. Audience comment and feedback will be most appreciated.

This talk may likely be of interest to Educators at secondary and tertiary level.

December 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 4th — Trinity

• Chris Samuel, VLSCI. Avoca. The most powerful supercomputer south of the Tropic of Cancer.
• Martin Paulo, <martin.paulo@gmail.com>, OpenStack

Martin Paulo: An introduction to OpenStack

Martin Paulo

Martin Paulo is a software developer with VeRSI (the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative). Way back when Martin started out writing assembly for embedded systems. From there, via grid programming, he made the move to more conventional software development, as a Java developer in the financial services arena. At VeRSI Martin has worked on and with the NeCTAR (National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources) research cloud: possibly the largest and most complex OpenStack deployment in Australia.

OpenStack

OpenStack is open source software that provides a cloud computing platform. From its early origins as a small Nasa project, OpenStack is rapidly gaining broad industry acceptance. Its ongoing development is guided by the OpenStack Foundation, a foundation backed by many key technology companies. In this talk Martin will provide an introduction to the concepts underlying OpenStack, and show how you can get going with your own personal OpenStack deployment.

Beginners — Sat 22nd — VPAC

• "Terry Kemp" <terrykemp@gmail.com>. The variety of Linux Desktops

January 2013

No meeting this month, but LUV BBQ on Jan 19th, location TBA

February 2013

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 5th — Trinity

• "Mike King" <mikkel@market-research.com>. "Gamification - the process of applying gaming techniques to business applications."

"Mike King is CIO of Horizon Consumer Science, an International market research companies with offices in Melbourne, Los Angeles and London. Mike has B.Sc. in Engineering Science from Warwick University in the UK, and has 30 years of experience in software development, including real time monitoring systems, communications protocols and web and database technologies."

Beginner's Workshop - Sat 16th - VPAC

• Kathy Reid, A Wrap up of Open Source Systems conference 2012 and LinuxCon Europe 2012

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