From jarich at perltraining.com.au Sun Jul 6 20:27:40 2008 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (jarich at perltraining.com.au) Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:27:40 +1000 (EST) Subject: [Wellington-pm] SAGE-AU 2008's Tutorial Program Message-ID: <20080707032740.1793EA8C26@teddybear.perltraining.com.au> Dear Wellington PM members, [Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested] Registration for the sixteenth annual Australian System Administrators' conference (SAGE-AU 2008) is now open. Book before Friday July 11th to receive a 15% discount. http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Registration Key information: 11th July: Early Bird Date 11th - 13th August: Training Program 14th - 15th August: Technical Program Holiday Inn Adelaide 65 Hindley Street Adelaide South Australia SAGE-AU is the System Administration industry body in Australia. It exists to support all Australian system administrators, raise awareness of the profession and provide education in technical and professional issues. Our yearly conference provides a forum for System Administrators of all platforms and levels of experience to gather together and share their experiences. Further it provides an excellent opportunity to meet and network with acknowledged experts in the field. Training programme attendance will include a tea break, lunch and printed reference material. The more training courses you attend, the cheaper each one is. For unit prices please see: http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Pricing Our tutorial program is included below: Room 1 Room 2 Monday 11th August: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning: Management 101: Effective Building and Using WLAN Security Communication Assessment Tools Afternoon: Management 201: Effective Hiring Great Technical People Team Management of System Administrators -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday 12th August: -------------------------------------------------------------------- Morning: Time Management for System MySQL Replication & Backup Administrators Strategies Afternoon: Help! Everyone hates our Introduction to Dtrace -------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday 13th August: -------------------------------------------------------------------- All-day: Effective Change Manage- Efficient Administration of ment - Making System Debian-based Systems Integrity Easy -------------------------------------------------------------------- A tea break will occur roughly half way through each tutorial. For more information on what each training unit covers, please follow the links from the schedule: http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Training+Program To see the technical program please visit: http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Technical+Program You can help make this conference be the best system administrators' conference ever, just by turning up and participating. We look forward to sharing this great conference with you. Many thanks go to our Platinum Sponsors: Internode and Tas, our Gold Sponsor: Ironport our Silver Sponsor: RedHat. Jacinta Richardson SAGE-AU Program Coordinator From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Jul 14 01:44:51 2008 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:44:51 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] HackOff 2008 - The countdown has begun Message-ID: <1216025091.23528.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Hi Coders (This message was Bcc'd to all registered team 'captains'). The HackOff event is Tuesday evening (probably *this* evening by the time you receive this). If you were leaving it to the last minute to register a team - now is the time to do it. If you want to take part but don't have a team then let me know (if you haven't already) and we'll try and hook up the stragglers into teams on the night. Catalyst IT are kindly shouting pizza in addition to the usual liquid refreshments so it's shaping up to be the perfect evening. The agenda is: * people should aim to arrive at or before 6:00pm, that's when pizza is arriving so don't be late or you might miss out * the initial 30 minutes is for people to set up their laptops, iron out power and networking issues, etc and of course to eat pizza * the HackOff event will kick off promptly at 6:30pm * official finish time is 8:00pm The first team to complete all the problems will be the winner. If no team completes all the problems then the team which has completed the most by 8:00pm will be the winner. In the event of a tie, the winner will be decided using the time the last correct solution was provided. You may be concerned that you don't know what sort of problems you'll be expected to solve - don't worry, neither does anyone else. All will be revealed on the night. There will not be any crazy Unicode stuff. There will be an easy problem or two. There will be pretty clear instructions for the harder ones. Mostly. I look forward to seeing you there. Cheers Grant From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Jul 15 16:18:52 2008 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:18:52 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] HackOff 2008 - It's all over Message-ID: <1216163933.23463.18.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Coders (message also Bcc'd to all registered team 'captains'). Congratulations to Team Cabbage, who just managed to emerge victorious over Team Amorphous. Big thanks to all the participants for making last night's event so successful. I will get a more detailed analysis up on the Perl Mongers web site soon, but until then here's the 'worm' ... http://wellington.pm.org/hackoff/ Cheers Grant From jarich at perltraining.com.au Mon Jul 21 20:08:56 2008 From: jarich at perltraining.com.au (jarich at perltraining.com.au) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:08:56 +1000 (EST) Subject: [Wellington-pm] SAGE-AU 2008's Fabulous Keynotes Message-ID: <20080722030856.BDE0CA8F8E@teddybear.perltraining.com.au> Dear Wellington PM members, [Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested] This is the second last announcement about this conference. SAGE-AU is the System Administration industry body in Australia. The annual Australian System Administrators' conference (SAGE-AU) is in 3 weeks time! Book now to secure your spot! http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Registration Key information: 11th - 13th August: Training Program 14th - 15th August: Technical Program Holiday Inn Adelaide 65 Hindley Street Adelaide South Australia This year we have some fantastic keynote speakers: *Tom Limoncelli* - author of "The Practice of System and Network Administration", "Time Management for System Administrators" and "The Complete April Fools RFCs". Tom is the joint recipient of USENIX/SAGE's 2005 Outstanding Achievement Award and blogs at http://www.EverythingSysadmin.com Tom will be speaking on "System Administration and The Economics of Plenty": Over the years IT resources (disk space, CPU, bandwidth) have gone from being scarce to nearly infinitely plentiful. Why do our IT policies still reflect the days of scarcity? Seeing the world in terms of "the economics of plenty" brings about a paradigm shift that changes the way we treat our users, manage our systems, and take care of ourselves. Believing in the false world of scarcity leads to mistrust, secrecy and closed-source software. Tom will explain the economics of plenty, how much of what we believe to be scarce is actually plentiful, and how the open source movement benefits when we see the world through through the paradigm of a plentiful world. This new thinking is the philosophy behind the newly released second edition of "The Practice of System and Network Administration" (Addison-Wesley) by Limoncelli, Hogan and Chalup. *Elizabeth Zwicky* - co-author of "Building Internet Firewalls" and founding board member of BayLisa, SAGE and SAGE-AU. Elizabeth has been involved in system administration for more than 20 years in education, government, and corporate environments, has worked in three countries and two languages, and has been an author, educator, developer, manager, system designer, and consultant. Her specialities are internet security, large-scale system administration, writing, and management. Elizabeth will be speaking on "Rules of Thumb of System Administration": Every profession accumulates some condensed wisdom, whether it's in the form of Zen koans or laws of engineering. This presentation is a tour through the condensed wisdom of system administration, in the form of pithy sayings supported by educational stories (some of them, of course, stolen from other professions, including Zen koans and laws of engineering). *Simon Hackett* - founder and CEO of Internode and Agile. Simon helped put AARNet v1 together many moons ago. He likes making good and cool technical things happen in the broadband space. Simon will be speaking on the "State of the Broadband Nation": In this session, we'll take a look at the current state of play in Australian broadband, and see what is approaching on the horizon. *Paul Fenwick* - managing director of Perl Training Australia and experienced speaker at technical conferences worldwide. His interests include security, mycology, cycling, coffee, scuba diving, and lexically scoped user pragmata. Paul will be speaking on "All your brains suck - Known bugs and exploits in wetware": Humans. As a species, we suck. The only real evolutionary advantage we have is our brains, and by using them we've become the dominant species on the planet. Our brains are superbly adapted for our survival and success in the environment in which they evolved... the African savanna 200,000 years ago. Our brains are not-at-all suited for modern life, and are plagued by a raft of bugs and unwanted features that we've been unable to remove. Join us in a tour of some of the most amusing bugs and exploits wetware has to offer. To see our training program please visit: http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Training+Program To see the technical program please visit: http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/Technical+Program You can help make this conference be the best system administrators' conference ever, just by turning up and participating. We look forward to sharing this great conference with you. Many thanks go to our Platinum Sponsors: Internode and Tas, our Gold Sponsor: Ironport our Silver Sponsor: RedHat. Jacinta Richardson SAGE-AU Program Coordinator From grant at mclean.net.nz Mon Jul 28 17:51:42 2008 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:51:42 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] HackOff Solution and Next Meeting Message-ID: <1217292702.24899.19.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Hi Mongers I got part way through summarising the submitted solutions to the HackOff questions and then the hard disk on my laptop died. After that little set-back, I've finally got back up to speed with a new laptop and the promised solutions summary is up here: http://wellington.pm.org/articles/hackoff2008/solutions.html Let me know if corrections/clarifications are required. The next meeting of Wellington.pm will be in two weeks on August the 12th. We don't have *any* talks scheduled yet so I'm very keen to hear from volunteers. Email me or the list with offers or topic suggestions. Cheers Grant From sam at vilain.net Tue Jul 29 15:11:29 2008 From: sam at vilain.net (Sam Vilain) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:11:29 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] HackOff Solution and Next Meeting In-Reply-To: <1217292702.24899.19.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> References: <1217292702.24899.19.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> Message-ID: <488F9591.2060104@vilain.net> Grant McLean wrote: > Hi Mongers > > I got part way through summarising the submitted solutions to the > HackOff questions and then the hard disk on my laptop died. After that > little set-back, I've finally got back up to speed with a new laptop and > the promised solutions summary is up here: > > http://wellington.pm.org/articles/hackoff2008/solutions.html > > Let me know if corrections/clarifications are required. > > > The next meeting of Wellington.pm will be in two weeks on August the > 12th. We don't have *any* talks scheduled yet so I'm very keen to hear > from volunteers. Email me or the list with offers or topic suggestions. I don't mind talking about the Perl git history conversion - I've got the talk outline drafted already from the YAPC::Eu proposal and brushing it up wouldn't be that much work. Sam From grant at mclean.net.nz Tue Jul 29 15:14:13 2008 From: grant at mclean.net.nz (Grant McLean) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:14:13 +1200 Subject: [Wellington-pm] HackOff Solution and Next Meeting In-Reply-To: <488F9591.2060104@vilain.net> References: <1217292702.24899.19.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> <488F9591.2060104@vilain.net> Message-ID: <1217369653.25728.22.camel@putnam.wgtn.cat-it.co.nz> On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 10:11 +1200, Sam Vilain wrote: > Grant McLean wrote: > > The next meeting of Wellington.pm will be in two weeks on August the > > 12th. We don't have *any* talks scheduled yet so I'm very keen to hear > > from volunteers. Email me or the list with offers or topic suggestions. > > I don't mind talking about the Perl git history conversion - I've got > the talk outline drafted already from the YAPC::Eu proposal and brushing > it up wouldn't be that much work. > > Sam Consider yourself booked! Cheers Grant