[wellylug] If you are stuck for ideas for a lightning talk session

Hugh Davenport hugh at davenport.net.nz
Thu Feb 13 16:51:26 NZDT 2014


Hi Don,

Guess your location would prevent a lightning talk about it this coming
monday, but it looks like a cool thing. I'm sure there may be people on
this list that could either help, or help point you in a better 
direction.

Cheers,

Hugh

On 2014-02-13 12:19, Don Gould wrote:
> Hugh,
> 
> The package is DTC.  (see http://dtcsupport.gplhost.com/)  I use this
> to control our shared hosting.
> 
> I needs lots of love and I'd love to also see maori included as a
> language at some point.
> 
> I'm mad keen personally to see us host more data in NZ (for all those
> obvious reasons).
> 
> I'm based in Christchurch, but I do come to Wellington from time to 
> time.
> 
> I'd love to do a lightening talk about the packages in the suite and
> how they benefit the community, linux world and Internet in my view.
> 
> I've been working on pushing IPv6 into it and I'm keen to also see
> DNSSEC in it too, but I simply don't have enough resource to do either
> of these myself.
> 
> I know there are other platforms.  But this one is all FLOSS,
> something I know and from a team who have given me an amount of
> support over the years, so I'm kinda keen to make this one fly.
> 
> My personal vision was to grow my own business enough to be able to
> sponsor development on it and then push it back into the FLOSS space,
> but even doing that is quite overwhelming.
> 
> Ok, there you have it :)
> 
> D
> 
> On 13/02/2014 12:03 p.m., Hugh Davenport wrote:
>> Hi Don,
>> 
>> That was the package in question? Maybe you could come along and give
>> a lightning session on what it is/does/what you want it to do? If you
>> want that is ;) otherwise we can just keep with mailing list.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Hugh
>> 
>> On 2014-02-13 11:04, Don Gould wrote:
>>> I have a little debian package that I'd really like some help with
>>> getting a bit more friendly...
>>> 
>>>  ...I had been wondering where to find some resource to sort it 
>>> out...
>>> 
>>>  ...it seems there's a wealth of resource here that's idle!
>>> 
>>>  Have been lurking with great amusement... the posts on this topic 
>>> are
>>> so funny in a geek way!
>>> 
>>>  Nice work guys!!!
>>> 
>>>  D
>>> 
>>>  On 13/02/2014 10:49 a.m., Pedro Worcel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I think we have a winner :P
>>>> 
>>>> 2014-02-13 9:47 GMT+12:00 Haydn Newport <haydn at catalyst.net.nz>:
>>>> 
>>>>>> Maybe you'd prefer to talk about something you actually use:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> apt-cache pkgnames | sort -R | head -1
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> As long as we're playing golf, I submit the following:
>>>>> 
>>>>> apt-cache pkgnames | shuf -n 1
>>>>> 
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>>>> seen, that sense of haven't we been here before.
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>> 
>> 
>> -- Don Gould
>> 31 Acheson Ave
>> Mairehau
>> Christchurch, New Zealand
>> Ph: + 64 3 348 7235
>> Mobile: + 64 21 114 0699
>> Ph: +61 3 9111 1821 (Melb)
>> 
>> I'M COLLECTING COFFEE CUPS FOR PROJECT COFFEE CUP.
>> 
>> Deja vue (missing the French accent mark) - literally means already 
>> seen, that sense of haven't we been here before.



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