Minister for Science writes back

December 11, 2006

OPEN SOURCE WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Thank you for your email, dated 24 October 2006, regarding the above issue.

Presently, the Department of Industry and Resources (DoIR) is finalising negotiations with a provider to initiate the second phase of promotion of open source. It is planned that the provider will make available a meeting place for users, house the Open Source Server and establish facilities for developers.

It is also planned to hold discussions with interested parties early in 2007 to map out a strategy to cover 2007/08 through to 2009/10.

The letter also included contact details so I could be included in these discussions if I liked.

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lucychili said…

Gday Leon
Congrats on your staple free ness!
Would be great for SA folks especially paul@mawsonlakes.org to hear about what is possible in WA as we are trying to make something similar happen in SA
Cheers
Janet

11 December, 2006 18:48

Leon RJ Brooks said…

JanetChilli:

I'll blog about what I find out, specifically because SA will get to hear of it.

Adelaide has great Botanical Gardens, & the big fountainey things in the river are kind of speccy. That & housing Dad's twin brother earn you extra brownie points. (-:

12 December, 2006 19:17

Anonymous said…

14 December, 2006 18:23

new life for an old (FTX) PSU, improved life for one human

May 16, 2023

the LEDs on this 5m strip happen to emit light centred on a red that does unexpectedly helpful things to (and surprisingly deeply within) a human routinely exposed to it. it has been soldered to a Molex connector, plugged into a TFX power supply from a (retired: the MoBo is cactus) Small Form Factor PC, the assorted PSU connectors (and loose end from the strip) have been taped over. the LED strip cost $10.24 including postage, the rest cost $0, the PSU is running at 12½% of capacity, consumes less power than a laptop plug-pack despite running a fan. trial runs begin today.

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every-application-is-part-of-a-toolkit at work

May 02, 2021

I have a LibreOffice Impress slideshow that I wish to turn into a narrated video. 1. export the slideshow as PNG images (if that is partially broken — as at now — at higher resolutions, Export Directly as PDF then use ‘pdftoppm’ (from the poppler-utils package) to do the same). 2. write a small C program (63 lines including comments) to display those images one at a time, writing a config file entry for Imagination (default transition: ‘cross fade’) based on when the image-viewer application (‘display,’ from the GraphicsMagick suite) is closed on each one; run that, read each image aloud, then close each image in turn. 3. run ‘Imagination’ over the config file to produce a silent MP4 video with the correct timings. 4. run ‘Audacity’ to record speech while using ‘SMPlayer’ to display the silent video, then export that recording as a WAV file. 4a. optionally, use ‘TiMIDIty’ to convert a non-copyright-encumbered MIDI tune to WAV, then import that and blend it with the speech (as a quiet b...

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boundaries

January 31, 2023

pushing the actual boundaries of the physical (not extremes, the boundaries themselves) can often remove barriers not otherwise perceived. one can then often resolve an issue itself, rather than merely stonewalling at the physical consequences of the issue.

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