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Copyright Act S92a Public Demonstration

andrew@etc.gen.nz (Andrew Ruthven) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:27:07 +0000

So today there is a public demonstration at MIDDAY on Parliament grounds in support of MPs speaking against Section 92A.

Details are here.

"In Wellington on the steps of Parliament on Thursday 19th at MIDDAY with a petition handover at 12:30pm. This is a postive event where we will hand out hundreds of CDs and thank the politicans that support us - so please keep it friendly and polite. While we appreciate people arranging their own demonstrations it might be best if we don't dilute our numbers with multiple events.

We want everyone reading this to email everyone they know in Wellington about this. We can't let this be another internet protest that results in few people turning up. This is important so we need to prove it in numbers.

NOTE: Please don't wear all black as that has negative associations with other demonstrations but instead come along with bright clothes and BLACK PLACARDS!"

As an example of how to be awesome do this

LCA2010 in Wellington, New Zealand!

andrew@etc.gen.nz (Andrew Ruthven) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:05:44 +0000

Awesome! Susanne and I have just announced at LCA2009 that linux.conf.au in 2010 will be held in Wellington, New Zealand! The website for LCA2010 is at www.penguinsvisiting.org.nz.

During our announcement we wanted to show a fantastic little clip from 42 Below about Wellington. But following the tradition of Hobarts annoucement at LCA2008 we had sound FAIL, so it didn't work. Please, go and check out the video clip on YouTube. (But ignore the bit about winning a trip to Wellington, the competition has finished.)

Follow the signs, visit Wellington!

Keysigning - done!

andrew@etc.gen.nz (Andrew Ruthven) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:46:00 +0000

Wow, this is probably the first time I've managed to sign the verified keys from the GPG keysigning within 24 hours of the keysigning finishing.

One task crossed off my imaginary todo list!

MythTV Mini-conference - a success

andrew@etc.gen.nz (Andrew Ruthven) — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:00:00 +0000

The MythTV mini-conference has been and gone and from my point of view from organising it, it was a total success. We had a stack of great talks (including an impromptu talk by Paul Wayper on the customised wooden panel on his Dell laptop).

Nigel Pearson was great, giving us all an insight into the development of MythTV, not only how the development process works, but also the complexitiy of the internals of MythTV. That was really interesting.

An unexpected bonus was that all the talks were recorded. We weren't expecting the A/V stuff to be setup until Wednesday, but it was all ready to go (after one minor cable change) on Monday morning in our room. Fantastic! A big thank you to Josh and his A/V team. The recordings aren't up for downloading yet, I'll post here (and on the mythtv-users mailing list) when they're ready.

At the end of the day we had a large discussion about what features people wanted to see in MythTV, and in particular what features people wanted to see in MythTV for a 1.0 release. The general consensus was that MythTV as it stands has more than enough features for 1.0. Once the recordings are up I'll write a list of the key items that were discussed.

Finally, thank you to all my speakers, and everyone who came along to listen, and who took part in the discussion afterwards.

Cheers!

MythTV Lightning Talks

andrew@etc.gen.nz (Andrew Ruthven) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:00:11 +0000

For the MythTV Mini-conference at LCA 2009 we're going to have some lightning talks, and have a few spare slots.

If you'd like to tell people how great your setup is; your current pet project; or almost anything else, then please let me know.

MythTV Mini-conference Schedule

andrew@etc.gen.nz (Andrew Ruthven) — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:28:52 +0000

The MythTV Mini-conference schedule has now been published here. If you want to attend the mini-conference you have to be registered for linux.conf.au! The talks are:

MythNetTV: by Michael Still
Transcoding in MythTV: by Paul Wayper
MythTV Internals: by Nigel Pearson
Debugging DTV: by Steven Ellis
MythTV Development from '04 to Now: by Nigel Pearson
Lightning Talks
Presence Awareness
: by Jonathan Oxer
Panel

It is an awesome line-up and I'm certainly looking forward to hearing all about them!

MythTV Mini-conference

andrew@etc.gen.nz (Andrew Ruthven) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:10:32 +0000

I just realised that I hadn't blogged about this at all. I'm hosting the MythTV mini-conference at linux.conf.au 2009 in Hobart, Australia in January. How could I have forgotten about blogging this?! The little blurb about the mini-conference is:

MythTV is a personal video recorder (PVR) for Linux which allows
you to decide what you want to watch; when you want to watch
it. MythTV has been increasing in popularity since Isaac Richards
first started working on it in 2002. It is now very usable, and has
several dedicated Linux distributions, as well as several books
written about it.

This mini-conference is intended to bring together both users and
developers of MythTV to discuss topics of interest to both groups.

The programme is looking really good, and it should be a rocking conference. I'll post another blog entry once the programme is officially released.