LCA2010 was held in Wellington, New Zealand in January this year, and
once again lived up to its reputation as the best Free and Open Source
Software Conference in our region. ;I’ll be sharing my experience of
the conference, including the latest developments in the FOSS world,
in the true spirit of Creative Commons licensing: by presenting my
favourite slides from the presentations made at the conference.
TUCS will be running a lightning talks session on Friday October 16 at 2PM. This is an opportunity for members of the society (and the general public) to give a 3-minute talk on any topic they like, with or without the aid of slides, and it’s entirely possible that there will be prizes awarded for good talks!
What are Lightning Talks?
Lightning talks are a common feature of computing/IT-related conferences: attendees volunteer to give a short talk, at short notice. These talks are given in lightning talk sessions, which can be topic restricted (e.g. a “Python” lightning talks session), or can be general. At linux.conf.au, the general lightning talks session concludes the conference, held in the keynote venue, presented in front of all (~800) delegates.
TUCS is ran its first Lightning Talks session in 2008, as a way of concluding our first series of Tech Talks, you can watch our talks from Semester 1 at http://www.tucs.org.au/lightning-talks-semester-1-2009/
Registration
Registrations for talks open today, so if you’re interested in finding out more information, or would like to sign up for a talk, find Chris Neugebauer in the Mac Lab (room 376, Centenary Building), or send an e-mail to tucs-exec@tucs.org.au.
Current lineup
Here’s a list of people who’ve signed up for talks so far (note please that this isn’t the final order for presentations on the day — see rule 7 for details.):
- Christopher Neugebauer
- Tim Nugent
- Michael Cordover
- Alex Berry
- Nic Wittison
- John Dalton
- Baris Puttfield-Addison
- Josh Deprez
- Peter Billam
- Thomas Karpiniec
Rules of the event
In these rules, “The Talks Organiser” is Chris Neugebauer.
- Talks will last three minutes at maximum. This will be strictly enforced (possibly via manual intervention!)
- Talks must be registered (with a topic) with the Talks organiser, before the talks session begins — preferably before 1:30PM, October 16, if you want to use slides.
- There will be time for at least 15 talks; if we run out of time to present all registered talks, the ones that registered earlier will be the ones presented.
- Slides may be used: They must be in PDF format (no exceptions!) with no scripts or embedded active components (e.g. motion video or audio), and e-mailed to (and viewable by) the organiser by 1:30PM, Friday October 16.
- There is no rule 5.
- Talk topics and content should be suitable for a general audience: in particular, content of violent or pornographic nature will not be tolerated. If you’re not sure, ask.
- The order of talks will not be those listed above: a random order of talks will be selected on the day.
- Only one talk on any given topic will be accepted.
- Only one talk by any given person will be accepted.
- Slides are the only form of presentation aid permissible; in particular, live demonstrations of software cannot be allowed (due to videoconference requirements)
Hi all,
TUCS will be running a Tech Talk on Friday — we’ll also be trying to
precede that with a barbecue on the Grassy Knoll, starting at 1PM,
depensive on the weather being good.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Tech Talk: (MORE) PS3-related Ramblings
- Presenter: Jonathan Adamczewski
- Venue: Centenary 473
- Date: Fri. September 11 @ 14:00
Last time he rambled about drawing fractals with a PS3. This time, he’s rambling about the same thing.
Mandelbrot fractals are embarrassingly easy to parallelise, and while they look pretty, drawing them quickly is not – in the scheme of things – especially difficult. So, because he likes a challenge, Jonathan will be talking about his experiences in rendering the Buddhabrot (http://tr.im/bbrot) using the Cell BE processor, on the Playstation3.
With pretty pictures, complex mathematics and platform-targeted program decomposition, this talk will have something for everyone, perhaps.
