At the Septeber 2022 PLUG meeting, we held lightning talks. I gave a short talk about recreating old video assets in HD using Inkscape and Pitivi.

At the June 2022 Perth Linux Users Group meeting, I gave a talk about building websites with the Hugo static website generator.

At the May 2021 Perth Linux Users Group meeting, I gave a talk about using GStreamer Editing Services to programatically construct and render videos. In particular, it outlined how the library was used to prepare BigBlueButton recordings for publication on YouTube.

At the July 2020 Perth Linux Users Group meeting, I gave a talk about Github Actions: the built-in continuous integration system provided by Github.

Last week I gave a talk at Perth Linux Users Group about building IoT projects using Ubuntu Core and Snapcraft. The video is now available online. Unfortunately there were some problems with the audio setup leading to some background noise in the video, but it is still intelligible:

The slides used in the talk can be found here.

At the March 2019 Perth Linux Users Group meeting, I gave a talk about how Ubuntu Core can be used to build IoT projects that are secure and self-updating.

At the April 2018 Perth Linux Users Group meeting, I gave a talk about the snapd package manager, and how it is used to deploy confined applications on Ubuntu desktops.

At the September 2016 Perth Linux Users Group meeting, I gave a talk about writing Chromecast sender applications from scratch. It gave a rundown of how the Chromecast protocol worked, and what sorts of things could be done on the receiver side.

At the October 2015 Perth Linux Users Group meeting, I gave a talk about the Ubuntu Snappy. This talk focused on the Ubuntu Core system as it existed back then, and looked at how applications could be deployed on the platform.

At the July 2014 Perth Linux Users Group meeting, I gave a talk about the Ubuntu Touch/Ubuntu Phone project. This included an overview of getting Ubuntu running on hardware that primarily targeted Android, and how some of the design elements of the Unity Desktop were adapted to a small screen.