Debconf 2021 – Planning meeting 5
The next planning meeting for this years Debian Conference will take place on Monday 7th June @ 18:00 UTC (19:00 United Kingdom time UTC+1) on IRC.
LINKS
1 Debconf 2021 Website
1a Contact info
2 Mailing list sign up
3 OFTC IRC
4 Poster (work in progress)
5 Salsa Gitlab
Not part of the above but my presentation on bullseye is here
TAGS
#Debian,#Conference,#Developer,#Planning,#Meeting
CONTACT
The Mailing list sign up page has a sign up form, however you can just send a message to the e-mail address given to request more information, you need to ask for replies to be cc'd to you.
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Creative Education : How to Engage & motivate your class 23/5/2021
Just completed another excellent short course with Creative Education. Got a few ideas from this to take in to Coder Dojos or Code Clubs at least. Should also be very useful in classrooms when working with small groups.
Course presented by Austen Hardwick.
Some good vocabulary for my CV too.
This course is based upon 4 ‘P’ principles which enable children (and teachers) to find fulfilment in their working day. Born out of personal experience, it builds a framework for classroom learning in which children and teachers are able to explore their potential in a mutually supportive and positive environment. Developed within primary schools (although with the potential for secondary application), these principles can change the atmosphere of learning for everyone.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#CreativeEducation,#Support,#Children,#Help,#Motivate,#Class
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Moon Hack 2021
Code Club Australia is ready to welcome you to Moonhack 2021! [1] This global event will be running 24–30 May with the theme 'planet-saving solutions'.
I have put information below and included DIRECT links to the information as the e-mail bulletin seems to contain tracking links, which are suspicious but also I don't consent to.
Where : Global Online
When : 24–30 May
MORE INFO
REFERENCES
- Moonhack 2021
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Freenode IRC exodus
Recent events, relating to the ownership of Freenode IRC network, has resulted in a mass exodus, to a new network, LiberaChat. [1]
REFERENCES AND BACKGROUND INFORMATION
1 LiberaChat
TAGS
#IRC,#Chat,#Exodus,#LiberaChat,#Freenode
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Informational Interviews
So I recently attended the Scismic webinar on Informational Interviews. This follows on from the 'A summary of you' webinar from 7th May.
The webinar included an explanation on what an informational interview is, the purpose. preparation and how to go about setting on up. The difference between this and a formal interview process and the fact these interviews are about finding out about roles and not about asking for a job.
Some excellent tips were on the sort of questions to ask, the type of questions can be put in to four categories.
A really good webinar. I am adapting my notes as I am not looking at working in Biotech, nevertheless the idea of the informational interview could be really useful going forward.
If you are looking for a job in Biotech I would recommend reaching out to Erin at Scismic and seeing how they can help.
REFERENCES
1 Scismic
TAGS
#Jobs,#Interview,#Information,#Networking,#Applications,
#Scismic,#Webinar,#BioTechnology,
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CoderDojo Training
As we come out of lock down in the United Kingdom, thoughts are turning to the restart of events. This includes Code Club. We are thinking it may be better to restart this as a CoderDojo as that allows more flexibility and creativity in activities and for attendees to focus on their own projects and self directed learning.
I have therefore, undertaken the training linked to running a CoderDojo.
Update: FutureLearn course completed.
Update : 17/5/2021 I am also undertaking the FutureLearn course on starting a CoderDojo.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#CoderDojo,#Training,#Safeguarding,#Ethos,#Mentoring,#Clubs,#Tech,#Children,#YoungPeople
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Galculator
Galculator is a calculator app available in Debian. Debian 10 comes with version 2.1.4.
I seem to have found an odd bug in the software, so am documenting here to see if others can reproduce.
The display should be able to handle numbers bigger than 999. However it seems that is not the case if you use a separator (,) in between big numbers (which is designed to make it easier to read)
Consider
1,000,000 vs 1000000
This shows the software working as expected.
After setting a comma ( , ) as a Separator and entering a long number, we get a problem with the display.
According to the Debian tracker bullseye will have 2.1.4-1.1.
I am not sure if this happens in Debian 11, but I am just reporting this here, I can take a video later on, but that will just illustrate the same as above.
I would guess this can be reported to the Bug Tracking System if it can be reproduced.
My system here is:-
Client: HexChat 2.14.2 • OS: Debian 10.9 • CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz (1.60GHz) • Memory: Physical: 2.8 GiB Total (1.5 GiB Free) Swap: 2.9 GiB Total (2.9 GiB Free) • Storage: 546.4 GB / 647.2 GB (100.9 GB Free) • VGA: Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express Integrated Graphics Controller @ Intel Corporation 82Q35 Express DRAM Controller • Uptime: 5h 56m 1s
Running LXDE Desktop
#Debian,#Buster,#Galculator,#Bug,#Display
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Creative Commons Certification
This may be of interest to anyone who would like to gain a certificate to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of creative commons. Available as a 10 week course or a shorter, more intensive boot camp.
Feel free to discuss on the Discourse forum or on the Fediverse.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#Course,#Certificate,#CreativeCommons,#BooCamp,#Training
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Creative Commons Certification
This may be of interest to anyone who would like to gain a certificate to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding of creative commons. Available as a 10 week course or a shorter, more intensive boot camp.
Feel free to discuss on the Discourse forum or on the Fediverse.
REFERENCES
TAGS
#Course,#Certificate,#CreativeCommons,#BooCamp,#Training.
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Ubuntu 21.04
The new features found in Ubuntu 21.04 [1]
A quick overview of the features of the latest release of the Ubuntu operating system (OS).
This video is provided via Invidious, which is a front end to Youtube, twitter etc that filters out tracking etc. This can be done automatically via Privacy Redirect plug-in [2] for Firefox.
REFERENCES
1 Ubuntu
2 Privacy Redirect
TAGS
#Linux,#Ubuntu,#2104.#Release,#April2021
,#Video,#Invidious,#Privacy,#Redirect,#Browser,#Plugin.NoTracking
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