At present we’re doing Lightning Talk evenings, where attendees give 5-15 minute introductory talks on a topic they are familiar with. Below are some topics which have been offered and requested.
See also Past Talks
Talks Offered
- Routed Network Fabrics – How to build really high throughput networks dirt cheap using commodity switches and Linux cleverness (Chris E)
- Bergamot Monitoring – Need I say more (Chris E)
- ESP32 – What is it and getting started (Chris E)
- Containers – Intro to Docker / Containers / Podman, how to run stuff and how to build containers (Chris E)
- Kubernetes – What is it and getting started (Chris E)
- openSUSE – A quick look at MicroOS and Kubic – new variants of openSUSE which are pretty interesting (Chris E)
- Anything PostgreSQL related (Chris E)
- The command line for beginners (Adam)
- Network monitoring with Nagios (Adam)
- Diet and exercise for geeks (Adam)
- Taking care of your back when you sit down all day (Adam)
- How to grow chillies (and other vegetables) (Adam)
- Setting up a website with Linux (Adam)
- Network file sharing with Linux (NFS, Samba and SSH) (Adam)
- Guitar basics (Adam)
- The basics of cooking good food well (Adam)
- Introduction to OpenBSD (Adam)
- The FreeBSD and OpenBSD pf firewall (Adam)
- Keyboard / Music Production (Blake)
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Fedora (John A)
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KVM (John A)
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Docker (John A)
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SDR radio (John A)
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GNU Radio (John A)
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Arduino (John A)
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GQRX (John A)
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A combo with some Satellite stuff GPRedict etc (John A)
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68KLinux: Getting the Retro Grove Going (John A)
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ADSB using dump 1090 (John A)
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SSTV on Linux (John A)
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NTP – Time travel for beginners (John A)
- 3D Printing Stuff (Kris D)
- The Basics of Electronics (Dave J)
Talks Requested
- Containers (LXC, Docker, podman etc)
- Kubernetes, what and why
- ESP32 (firmware, language runtimes and power saving)
- HomeAssistant
- Python programming, maybe C, C++ and Java too
- Introductions to other distros e.g. (Open)SUSE, Elementary OS etc
- Basics of electronics
- Prometheus, Grafana and other modern monitoring/graphing/dashboardy systems
- Elastic search
- Ansible
- IPv6