Archive of Past Meetings
This page lists speakers and talk topics from past meetings. Where possible, we've included links to things like slide decks, related web sites and, in some cases, video.
If you gave a talk and want to get your slides or links added here, just email Grant.
17 August 2021 |
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| David Thomsen | Tovelund Puzzles | video |
| Patty Duong | My motivation working in web accessibility | video |
| Kristina Hoeppner | 1 of 97 things every UX practitioner should know |
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15 July 2021 |
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| Eric Jacolin | MailCatcher | video |
| Michael Howard | Keyboards suck, but they don't have to | video |
| Douglas Bagnall | Notes on Javascript and WASM chess | video |
15 June 2021 |
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| Pia Andrews | Trustworthy public services | video |
| Kristina Hoeppner | Espanso & Texpander | video |
20 May 2021 |
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| Steve Barnett | Oh my GAAD! (the wide world of accessibility) | video |
| Grant, Rob, David | “Open mic” segment: grep, tldr pages, Wikimedia Commons … | video |
20 April 2021 |
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| Sam Crawley | Data manipulation with R | video |
| Tim McNamara | What is Rust and why is it interesting? | video |
18 March 2021 — Lightning Talks Meeting |
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| Grant McLean | SVG on the web | video |
| Tim McNamara | Beautiful animations in n easy steps | video |
| Max Drake | AutoHotKey Windows Automation Tool | video |
| Kristina Hoeppner | Evolution of a brand | video |
| Tony Booth | Nomograms | video |
| Tim McNamara | Whitespace is a lie! | video |
| Carl Klitscher | NZOSS GOVT FOSS proposal | video |
| Grant McLean | Sudoku Exchange | video |
19 March 2020 |
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| Aaron Chantrill | The Naomi Project | video |
18 February 2020 — Lightning Talks Meeting |
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| Grant McLean | Bookmarklets | video |
| Darren Bottin | Raspberry Pi Vision | video |
| Alex Sharp | Qubes | video |
| Steve Barnett | The WebAIM Million | video |
| Eric Jacolin | A home digital music player with Volumio | video |
| Shrividya Ravi | Geospatial Analysis for Volunteer Conservation Groups | video |
| Tim Beale | Code reviews | video |
| Tom Eastman | Code formatting, Black and Git | video |
| Stuart McDonald | Some audio looping effects |
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| Martyn Smith | Going Faster | video |
| Olly Betts | Another brick in the wall | video |
| Reed Wade | Fake files | video |
| Donovan Jones | Documentation | video |
21 November 2019 |
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| Mix Irving | Welcome to the Scuttleverse | video |
| Zach Mandeville | Song Islands | video |
15 October 2019 |
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| Sean Buchanan | Projecting Avalanche Risk onto Terrain | video |
| Simon Merrick | Shut your pi-hole | video |
19 September 2019 |
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| Max Drake | 3D PDFs and Democratization of Data for Asset & Facility Management | video |
| Grant McLean | Inspired by xkcd | video |
20 August 2019 |
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| Fei Long Wang | Building a production-ready managed Kubernetes service |
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| Brent Wood | A new paradigm for web data visualisation | video |
| Opal Symes | You might not need gender! |
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18 July 2019 |
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| Simon Merrick | Programming in Logic | video |
| Lucy Sinogeikina | Learning to code by misusing bash | video |
| Dave Aldridge | Password Store: Where to stick your passwords and stuff | video |
| Tim Beale | Linux Kernel Development for Newbies | video |
18 June 2019 |
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| Scott Rasmussen | NZTA’s Security Development Lifecycle Tool | |
| Douglas Bagnall | What should we do with the SAMBA UI? | video |
16 May 2019 |
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| Douglas Bagnall | Generating video with recurrent neural networks | video |
| Jacob Lister | Write your own browser DOM bindings in Golang | video |
| Shrividya Ravi | Modelling walkability in Wellington |
video
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16 April 2019 (Sorry, this meeting was not recorded) |
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| Thomas Munro | A rambling tour through PostgreSQL | |
| Tom Eastman | Secateur | |
21 March 2019 |
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| Sadie Mills | Mapping Marine Biodiversity | video |
| Paul Kennett | Upcycling old Laptop Batteries | video |
| James Forman | Hot Potato | video |
| Grant McLean | Thoughts following the Christchurch attacks | video |
19 February 2019 — Lightning Talks Meeting |
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| Simon Nitz | Storm Tracking using PostGIS & QG | video |
| Richard Hector | Wrapper for SSH forced commands | video |
| Eric Jacolin | PayPal REST API standards | video |
| Russell Briggs | Kotlin is awesome | video |
| Shrividya Ravi | Open Wellington | video |
| Grant McLean | A CSS Game | video |
| Martyn Smith | Don't write Javascript | video |
| Sam Crawley | A small victory for OSS | video |
| Donovan Jones | DNS & Security & Stuff | |
| Stuart McDonald | A bit of audio scripting | video |
| Olly Betts | Quick Fix Tricks | video |
| Brent Wood | TimescaleDB for Postgres | video |
| Aidan Houlihan | MicroPython | video |
| Simon Nitz | Open Source Geospatial Data Portals | video |
15 November 2018 |
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| Rachel Lynch | Design for non-designers | video |
| David Nind | Koha and the amazing world-wide community behind it! | video |
| Grant McLean | A random selection of command-line hints | video |
16 October 2018 |
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| Thomas Munro | Parallelism in PostgreSQL 11 | video |
| Fehmi Noyan Isi | FreeBSD jails | video |
20 September 2018 |
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| Ellie Coyle | A junior's tale of building and productionising machine learning models |
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| Matthew Holloway | An Introduction to Pattern Libraries |
video
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| Hamish Rae-Hodgson | Collision detection in a 48hr game jam |
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21 August 2018 |
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| Brent Wood | NIWA's Marine Data Portal | video |
| Martin Krafft | Stepping up the game against Web trackers | video |
| Steven Ellis | NZOSS; Linux.conf.au | video |
19 July 2018 |
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| Dmitry Shiltsov | Teaching kids programming with Scratch & robots(!) | video |
| Tom Eastman | Hashicorp Vault | video |
19 June 2018 |
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| Kristina Hoeppner | Matomo: Open Source Web Analytics | video |
| Carl Klitscher | Home automation & FLOSS | video |
| aurynn shaw | Technology can't save us - at least, not by itself | video |
17 May 2018 |
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| Martin Krafft | matrix.org | video |
| Michael Fincham | A Ramble Through BeyondCorp with some Ideas You Could Steal | video |
17 April 2018 |
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| Hamish MacEwan | Open Access and the UFB | video |
| Donovan Jones | Keybase - Usable crypto | |
20 March 2018 |
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| Hiria Te Rangi | Whare Hauora | video |
| Grant McLean | TechHub in Schools | video |
| Karl Klitscher | TechHub in Schools | video |
| Grant McLean | Unicode as Performance Art |
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20 February 2018 — Lightning Talks Meeting |
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| Fehmi Noyan Isi | Apple’s new Open Source programming language "Swift" | |
| Michael Coleman | Alerting when long running processes have finished in tmux | |
| Donovan Jones | Cool tools | |
| Grant McLean | Ban polling | |
| Kristina Hoeppner | Who creates Open Source software? | video |
| Joel Wirāmu Pauling | 10G+ in the home | |
| Sam Muirhead | Teaching open source collaboration (without computers) | |
| Grant McLean | Where to now? | |