May 2017 - Talk - lists.gtalug.org

Some jobs at Kobo, here and in the EU
by David Collier-Brown 12 May '17

12 May '17

Courtesy of Jim Mercer: - one Dev/Ops person in Toronto, in my team - six Dev.Ops in Darmstadt and Dublin There are also quite a number of developer and related position, posted at https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/p/openpositions --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb(a)spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting on 13 June at 7:30pm - Intelligent Availability; The evolution of High Availability with Madison Kelly
by hi＠gtalug.org 10 May '17

10 May '17

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2017-06/> # Intelligent Availability; The evolution of High Availability with Madison Kelly Madison will discuss the tenants of and concepts behind “Intelligent Availability” and how it provides “next gen” availability. The “Anvil!” platform is the first full IA platform, combining a fully redundant architecture along with the 100% open source Striker UI and ScanCore “decision engine”. A live demonstration of this platform will be used to show IA in action. Various faults will be induced, showing how the Anvil! autonomously reacts to mitigate these changing risks. Attendees will be learn how to apply these IA techniques and concepts, allowing them to make their own IT environments more resilient. ## Location George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Room 203 Ryerson University <http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525> ## Schedule * 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. <talk(a)gtalug.org>) where you want to go for dinner. * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. * 9:00 pm - After each meeting, a group of GTALUGers move to The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socialising. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <http://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ <board(a)gtalug.org>. --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Contributor Covenant: A Code of Conduct for Open Source Projects
by Evan Leibovitch 10 May '17

10 May '17

As mentioned in tonight's talk... http://contributor-covenant.org/ ⁣- Evan (via mobile)

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[GTALUG-Announce] Meeting Tomorrow at 7:30pm
by hi＠gtalug.org 09 May '17

09 May '17

<http://gtalug.org/meeting/2017-05/> # Lessons learnt as a maintainer with Dhaval Giani I have been an upstream maintainer of libcgroup. As a maintainer, I have had varied experiences which have taught me important lessons. This talk goes over some anecdotes, and hopefully they provide some humour and some lessons. ## Location George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre 245 Church Street, Room 203 Ryerson University <http://goo.gl/maps/16oJ2> <http://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23447525> ## Schedule * 6:00 pm - Please discuss on the general mailing list (i.e. <talk(a)gtalug.org>) where you want to go for dinner. * 7:30 pm - Meeting and presentation. * 9:00 pm - After each meeting, a group of GTALUGers move to The Imperial Pub (54 Dundas St East) for refreshments and more socialising. # Code of Conduct We want a productive happy community that can welcome new ideas, improve every process every year, and foster collaboration between individuals with differing needs, interests and skills. We gain strength from diversity, and actively seek participation from those who enhance it. This code of conduct exists to ensure that diverse groups collaborate to mutual advantage and enjoyment. We will challenge prejudice that could jeopardise the participation of any person in the community. The Code of Conduct governs how we behave in public or in private whenever the Linux community will be judged by our actions. We expect it to be honoured by everyone who represents the community officially or informally, claims affiliation or participates directly. It applies to activities online or offline. We invite anybody to participate. Our community is open. Please read more about the GTALUG Code of Conduct here: <http://gtalug.org/about/code-of-conduct/>. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the GTALUG Code of Conduct please contact the GTALUG Board @ <board(a)gtalug.org>. --- GTALUG Announce mailing list announce(a)gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/announce

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Instantly better presentation with Damian Conway
by Alex Volkov 09 May '17

09 May '17

Hello everyone, I just came across a talk by Damian Conway on how to give better technical presentations, and I thought it would be of interest not just for me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_i_DrWic88 Thanks, Alex.

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Re: [GTALUG] Stand-alone scanner for Ubuntu?
by Russell Reiter 09 May '17

09 May '17

I just searched for your scanner on the SANE list, as well as a cannon photo printer I'm trying to resurrect from mechanical failure. Your scanner is not on it, so it looks like Simple Scan hooks into the kernel on its own. I also saw a recent post of yours from earlier this year, I forget what forum, where you had already been exploring the udev possibilities. I usually only mess with stock debian and fedora. SElinux gave me a heck of a fight a couple of kernels ago but I was always able to use udev or SElinux itself to overcome the policy issues which were trumping previously working cannon MFP scanner hardware. Pulseaudio is another problematic implementation and I find that some spins manage to hook in correctly and some don't, depending on the kernel. So, on further reflection, it looks like the most current Ubuntu spins are hardwired to always use XHCI. This seems to me to be a transitional problem in upgrading from usb 2.0 to 3.0. If you are able to change this setting with your MB, you might try disabling XHCI in bios. This should force the system to EHCI and might resolve what I'm seeing presented as endpoint block errors in bulk transfers. Might also resolve your USB serial issues. Hope this helps. Russell

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Any experience with these FOSS platforms?
by Evan Leibovitch 08 May '17

08 May '17

Hey all, A group I'm working with is looking to see if the following self-hosted FOSS tools are a worthwhile migration from their closed alternatives: - Mattermost - for group collaboration, instead of Slack - Wekan - for task/project management, instead of Trello or Asana - BigBlueButton - for webinars, instead of Adobe Connect or GoToWebinar Any reviews, war stories or other advice is welcome. PS: Not software related, but we're also looking for an auditor familiar with Canadian nonprofit experience. Thanks! -- Evan Leibovitch Toronto, Canada Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56

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Psychology Today profile of Richard Stallman
by Evan Leibovitch 08 May '17

08 May '17

It's from November, but it's still new if you've never seen it. https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201611/the-sorcerers-code I fully agree with the below review of the article, which may recall for some the UofT meeting many years ago that he walked out from when attendees wouldn't conform to his many naming protocols (to him there's not such thing as a "Linux system", only a "Linux-based GNU system"). He wouldn't even exchange emails with LPI unless it changed its name. I've known RMS for, well, a very, very long time. There are points on > > which we agree, and many points on which we do not -- we've had and > > have a number of serious long-term and shorter-term disagreements. His > > embrace of Julian Assange is difficult to forgive, but our continuing > > communications are cordial. Fundamentally though, my foundational > > disagreement with Richard relates to his "religious" fervor. For he > > does tend to elevate his views to the status of "my way or the highway" > > technological spiritualism. My view is that the sort of absolutism > > that is the hallmark of Richard's philosophy is not particularly > > helpful in the modern world in any contexts -- and in fact has often > > been damaging to civilization throughout history. Compromise and an > > acceptance of practical considerations are crucial to cooperation and > > advancement in human societies, and we've seen all too often that > > absolutist views can have very dark outcomes even with the best of > > underlying intentions. All that said, Richard is a nice guy, and I'm > > glad that Psychology Today has never done a profile on me. I've had more than my share of encounters with him, which have been personally pleasant but rhetorically and logically insufferable. Evan Leibovitch Toronto, Canada Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56

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Canon Lide 30 Scanner for Linux
by phiscock＠ee.ryerson.ca 07 May '17

07 May '17

Further to my previous request: I had asked for suggestions for a modern scanner to replace this Canon Lide30 that doesn't work on my main linux box. The scanner does work under Windows. I also tried it under the other installations of Linux I have access to: meercat Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela Scanner works: no lemur Linux Mint 17 Quiana: Scanner works: no Henry Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca: Scanner works: yes netbook Ubuntu 9.04 Scanner works: yes So sometimes it works, sometimes not. (The first three were tested with SimpleScan. The last one was tested with XSane.) The scanner does show up in the lsusb listing. For a workaround, I can one of the two machines where the scanner does work. It would be nicer to get it working on all these machines, if anyone has some additional suggestions. Thanks to all who have sent me suggestions so far. Peter -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325

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Stand-alone scanner for Ubuntu?
by phiscock＠ee.ryerson.ca 06 May '17

06 May '17

My Canon Lide30 scanner used to work under Ubuntu Linux but at some point it ceased to work and I haven't been able to resurrect it. (It works OK with Windows, so it's definitely a software issue.) So now I'm looking for a stand-alone scanner that is Linux compatible. Not required to be high resolution or colour, usb powered and small footprint are preferable. Any suggestions from the Collective Mind? Peter -- Peter Hiscocks Syscomp Electronic Design Limited, Toronto http://www.syscompdesign.com USB Oscilloscope and Waveform Generator 647-839-0325

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