Next Meeting - 29th June

[Duncan Roe]

Hi everyone,

The next meeting is 4 weeks from next Monday. I have reset the
attendance list and updated https://mlug-au.org.

Jerrome will be giving a presentation on Amazon Linux on AWS. We have
room for one other talk.

Do put your name on the attendance list if you're planning to come. I
book the venue once there are 4 names on the list: if people could
register early then we might get the dining room again this month.

Cheers ... Duncan.

[Duncan Roe]

Hi Everyone,

There being 4 names on the list, I booked the venue but had to settle
for the Snug as the dining function room was already reserved by another
group.

For those who haven't been in the Snug before: it's a small(ish) room
out the back with an HDMI screen and seating capacity of about 10. It's
a bit noisier than the dining function room owing to having an window
overlooking the beer garden (just so you know).

There's still room for one more talk - any takers?

Cheers ... Duncan.

[Wencey Wang]

Hello, Everyone.

I have three topics, and I can choose one to prepare for a talk. Please
let me know which one you are interested in, so I can prepare for it.

The first one is running an ISP for yourself in your dormitory bedroom.
For which I can talk about maintaining Internet resources, tunneling to
peers, running BGP, and so on, and also my experience doing so while I
was in my university.

The second one is to port Debian 13 to loongarch, which is now at
https://loong13.debian.net/ . I can talk about the status of loongarch,
how we bootstrap the build environment, and how we build every Debian
package automatically, hosting a repo, and so on.

The third one is about how to properly resize an image. I can talk about
the algorithm being used by current software, how they made it wrong,
and how I do it in my understanding of digital signal processing. This
topic will involve a lot of math and signal processing, which might be
hard to understand without an idea about integrals, convolution, linear
transformations, and the frequency domain.

Looking forward to your suggestion!

Regards,

Wencey Wang

[Duncan Roe]

Hi Wencey,

On Tue, Jun 09, 2026 at 12:20:41PM +0800, Wencey Wang wrote:
> Hello, Everyone.
>
> I have three topics, and I can choose one to prepare for a talk. Please let
> me know which one you are interested in, so I can prepare for it.
>
> The first one is running an ISP for yourself in your dormitory bedroom. For
> which I can talk about maintaining Internet resources, tunneling to peers,
> running BGP, and so on, and also my experience doing so while I was in my
> university.
>
> The second one is to port Debian 13 to loongarch, which is now at
> https://loong13.debian.net/ . I can talk about the status of loongarch, how
> we bootstrap the build environment, and how we build every Debian package
> automatically, hosting a repo, and so on.
>
> The third one is about how to properly resize an image. I can talk about the
> algorithm being used by current software, how they made it wrong, and how I
> do it in my understanding of digital signal processing. This topic will
> involve a lot of math and signal processing, which might be hard to
> understand without an idea about integrals, convolution, linear
> transformations, and the frequency domain.
>
> Looking forward to your suggestion!
>
> Regards,
>
> Wencey Wang

My personal choice is #2 (port Debian 13 to loongarch).

Cheers ... Duncan.

[Duncan Roe]

Hi Wencey,

Please go ahead with #2 (port Debian 13 to loongarch).

I'll update the web site when Michael lets me back in.

Cheers ... Duncan.