From bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Sun Aug 4 18:47:56 2013 From: bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Andrew Adamson) Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2013 18:47:56 +0800 (WST) Subject: [ucc-announce] UCC Electronics Hackathon 24 August Message-ID: Hi all, Just a quick invitation to an event I'm running at the UCC clubroom on Saturday, August 24 starting at 11am. This sort of day/night is usually a combination of crazy projects that people want to work on, tutorials from people in the know, and work on electronics/software projects related to UCC. Bob (that's me!) is planning to bring in a heap of stuff from his work like PLC's, steppers, cnc boards, safety relays, contactors, etc. and do some demos. He is also willing to give people a crash course in PCB design using eagle cad (if people want). We might be able to whip up a board for the door reed switches or something. Again, if people want, we can run a quick "how to solder and hot air solder" tutorial - this can largely be driven by what the attendees want to do. Meanwhile other things like arduino tinkering, machine room lighting additions, coke machine buttons, coke machine lights, WHATEVER else people want to do will be occuring. Bring in your project from home! Now is the time to start ordering any parts and components you think you'll need, or suggest parts and tools for the club to get. The organisers (that's me too!) will make sure that all the tools are set up and available, with project space too. I belive the facebook event can only be seen by those in the UCC group, so either join the UCC group on facebook, or drop me an email to let me know you're coming. I'm also looking for some other people to help out - particularly if you have electronics foo. Andrew Adamson bob at ucc.asn.au |"If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them." | | ---Peter's Laws | From matches at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Aug 5 19:11:48 2013 From: matches at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Sam Moore) Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 19:11:48 +0800 (WST) Subject: [ucc-announce] Tech Talk 0x08 - Configuration Management and the Death of System Administration Message-ID: Luke Williams will present the next tech talk on Configuration Management using Puppet. You should go! When: Tuesday 13th August 5:30pm Where: UCC Clubroom How Much: Free! -- Configuration management and the death of system administration Being a sysadmin is hard work. You maintain complex, changing systems using an arcane library of command-line incantations to inspect and modify elaborate configurations. Quick fixes congeal into messes of dirty undocumented hacks. Repetitive tasks are traditionally automated with scripts: sequences of commands where every line is a potential point of failure that can leave the system in an unknown state to be painstakingly resolved by hand. Configuration management (CM) takes the mystery out of system administration. Instead of explicitly listing steps that (hopefully) result in the desired system state, a high-level description of the desired state is processed by the CM platform to determine the steps to reach it, using package adapters to reason about the current system state and generate commands to alter it. In this talk, I'll introduce Puppet, a mature configuration management platform with adapters for thousands of server applications, and Vagrant, an automatic VM provisioning tool that we can use with puppet to effortlessly spin up new environments. We'll see how a single command can rebuild an entire system, how version control makes rolling back to a previous state as simple as checking out a revision and how to use layering to avoid duplicating configuration information common to your servers. If you'd like to follow along with your laptop, I'll be around the clubroom half an hour before the talk helping people get set up. Hope to see you there! From samuel at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au Mon Aug 12 15:16:40 2013 From: samuel at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au (Samuel Shenton) Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 15:16:40 +0800 (WST) Subject: [ucc-announce] UCC & IEEE Tech Fair Message-ID: Hello, The UCC and IEEE are hosting an Industry Tech Fair on Wednesday Night and all are invited. IEEE Tech Fair: Meet the Industry 6:30pm, Wednesday August 14 UWA Business School www.IEEE.org/tech-fair https://www.facebook.com/events/558183437581044/ Get tickets online (must fill the form out today for business cards): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1cqh9owOlQiUj_xiDrDWAyDiyTAUZ6YzRHdJ3Sc1rmFE/viewform IEEE Members and UCC Members $2 (Dispense or at the Door) Non-Members $5 Representatives from: - Google - IBM - Deloitte - FLSmidth - ABB - PTA - Griffith Hack - McConnell Dowell - Ear Science Institute - EWB - Engineers Australia - IET...and more! Included: - Yummy finger food - Soft drink - Door prize - A set of personal business cards (for those signing up by Monday) - Tech Fair program booklet - Presentations to watch Thanks, Samuel Shenton UCC President 2013 From markanderson1993 at gmail.com Tue Aug 13 10:43:26 2013 From: markanderson1993 at gmail.com (Mark Anderson Social) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 10:43:26 +0800 Subject: [ucc-announce] The Lan of Short Notice Message-ID: <2719A8CC-5A99-46AB-A93F-69366CE0D6E0@gmail.com> Hello UCC Just letting everyone know that there will be a Lan on Friday the 16th. The LAN should finish the next morning, and will be held in the Cameron hall loft. Free for all members $5 for Non-Members Invite your friends!! Help setting up the lan would be appreciated From markanderson1993 at gmail.com Tue Aug 13 21:59:10 2013 From: markanderson1993 at gmail.com (Mark Anderson) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 21:59:10 +0800 Subject: [ucc-announce] The Lan of Short Notice In-Reply-To: <2719A8CC-5A99-46AB-A93F-69366CE0D6E0@gmail.com> References: <2719A8CC-5A99-46AB-A93F-69366CE0D6E0@gmail.com> Message-ID: Just occurred to me that I should actually tell people what time the LAN will start It is going to start at 5:00pm on friday Finish when people get bored Sent from my iPad On 13/08/2013, at 10:43 AM, Mark Anderson Social wrote: > Hello UCC > > Just letting everyone know that there will be a Lan on Friday the 16th. > The LAN should finish the next morning, and will be held in the Cameron hall loft. > > Free for all members > $5 for Non-Members > > Invite your friends!! > > Help setting up the lan would be appreciated > > >