This MHPR episode 2000-275 entitled, Penguin 2000-17, and in part of the series, Penguin.
It is posted by a hooker, and in about 19 minutes long, and Karina Cleanflag.
The summary is, a look at the lineup for the 2017 event.
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Hello, this is a hooker, welcoming you to Hacker Public Radio, and another exciting
episode in our ongoing discussions.
What I want to do is talk a little bit about Penguin Con 2017, which is coming up, in fact,
it is going to be the end of this month, April 28th through 30th, in Southfield, Michigan
at the Western Hotel, which is where we've been the last few years, and I have the honor
of being for the fourth, but final time, the head of the technology track, which is a very
important part, because the name Penguin Con really, the Penguin part comes from Linux and open
source, and we're looking at all sorts of open source technologies, even started looking
at some open hardware stuff, and we've got guests of honor, and all sorts of good stuff,
and the other thing about Penguin Con is that it's also a science fiction convention, and
you know, there can be some overlap there, every year we bring in guests of honor, and we've
got a number of them this year. The first one I want to mention is Ada Palmer. Now, Ada Palmer
is a professor of history at the University of Chicago, among other things, and she is also
written her first book, a novel, that just came out a couple of days ago, that it was nominated
for a Hugo award. So, you know, that's pretty darn good, okay? So, I think that's definitely
interesting guest of honor. The next one I want to mention is Cory Doctorro, and I would hope I don't
really have to tell the hacker public radio audience that much about it, but I'm going to talk
about him a little bit anyway. He's co-editor of the Boeing Boeing weblog consultant to the
electronic frontier foundation. He's a visiting professor at the Open University in the UK,
MIT Media Lab activist in residence, you know, he's a novelist and has written a number of
very successful novels, and in fact is on a book tour for the latest right now. One of the
nice things about Cory is that he walks the walk. He's a great believer in getting rid of some
of the copyright nonsense, so he has always made his books available to people. Really free of charge,
you can go to his website and download an electronic copy of his book if you want. And at Prince
perfectly legal, he says yes, if that's what you want to do, go ahead and do it. In fact on his website,
he says if you really want to give me some money, the way to do it is if you like the book by a
physical copy and donate it to your library, you know, something like that. So and yet he does very
well commercially, because now I think many of us understand that if an artist is giving you something
of value, you want to be able to give something back to them. He's also very much an activist in privacy,
defending yourself against an overreaching state, and I'm really glad to have him as a guest of honor.
Then another guest of honor I want to mention is Sumana Harihara Swara. She's an open source
contributor and has involved with Gnome, MediaWiki, Gnomelman, and a number of other
open source projects. So I think she's a very interesting person. She's also a stand-up comedian
and she has co-edited the thought crime experiments anthology in 2009,
written for a number of online sources. So I think she's going to be a fun person to have.
Then another guest of honor is Coraline Ada Emki, and Coraline is a speaker, writer,
open source advocate and technologist, and has 20 years experience in developing apps for the web.
She is involved in promoting diversity and inclusivity and open source in the tech industry,
and was recognized for her work with a Ruby Hero award in 2016. She's the creator of the
contributor, Covenant, the most popular open source code of conduct in the world, with over 15,000
adoptions. So that's pretty good. Then we've got a guy named Kevin McCloud who is a composer
and copyright activist. He offers royalty-free music through creative commons license on his site
incompetect.com. He believes that copyright is fundamentally broken and no longer serves the needs of
artists, creators, or audiences. So he is interesting fellow there, and you can see that we're
really looking at people who are challenging some of these notions of what copyright should be.
Then we've got Tommy Edison and Ben Churchill. Now Tommy Edison is interesting. He has been
blind since birth and has a website called Blind Film Critic, where he reviews movies.
Think about that for a second. He has obviously a very different perspective on what movies are
and has a great sense of humor as you might guess from having a site called Blind Film Critic.
It's worked in radio for 25 years as a disjockey and he's also being joined by Ben Churchill,
who produces his shows and is a documentary filmmaker. So we actually get two for the price of one there.
Then our hack of honor and I assume hacker public radio will be interested in this, the
tri-quarter project. So this is a project that is aiming to develop a handheld device. Of course,
we all know the tri-quarter is famous from start, track, and it was a medical device.
So this is an attempt to build something that is portable, accessible, and
you know is going to let us get this kind of information. So I think it's a very interesting
kind of project. Then we have what are called featured guests. So we have some in gaming. That's
another one of the things we talked about. Angie Rush and Less Orchard are going to be talking about
some gaming things. We've got a food track. That's an interesting one and we have a professor from Wayne
State who is interested in the evolution of the human diet and is going to be, I think,
serving insects to people. So if you've ever had a urge to find out what insects taste like,
come to PenguinCon. Then we've got a science track featured guest, which is a fellow named Greg
Less. He's a lab manager at UM-EI Battery Fabrication and he has a doctorate in chemistry from
the University of Michigan and his work was featured on a recent episode of Nova. Of course,
we're in Michigan, so it's not surprising that we draw on the University faculties from this area.
So those were some of the special guests. Now I also mentioned that I'm in charge of the
technology track and you might wonder, well, what are some of the things going on there? What did you
accept as proposals here? And it's a very interesting bunch of things.
First of all, one of the interesting signs of where life is going is I had a number
of proposals given me by people from Microsoft. Now you might not think Microsoft is particularly
known for open source. This first came up back in 2015 as we were preparing for the PenguinCon
Net year. I got an email from a lady who lives in the area, a woman named Jennifer Marsman.
So a very nice email said, you know, I know that you're probably not used to dealing with people
from Microsoft, but would you be open to considering a talk because Microsoft is doing some things
and that your audience might be interested in and we corresponded and I said Jennifer, if
you are going to be talking about open source as part of what you're doing, you know,
how Microsoft is working with open source, something like that, then absolutely. I'd be delighted
to have you do that presentation. So she came and did one about Microsoft's Azure Online Cloud
Environment and for an hour went through all of the open source technology that has already set
up to work in that environment, a number of different Linux discos, programming languages,
software, various kinds. So it was really, it was very interesting and we had, in fact, one of the
a fellow named Mark Ram from canonical, the Ubuntu people was there and said that they really appreciated
working with Microsoft on this stuff, that they were a good partner. So we're going to have
Jennifer back and apparently some of her colleagues found out about it. So we're going to have,
we've got to think three people from Microsoft who are doing something on open source game development.
So I think that is going to be, you know, a lot of fun. We're going to do, we have a talk on the
future of net neutrality from a fellow Ed Platt who's been here a number of years and is very much
involved in citizen privacy and things like that. We're going to have a presentation called
late night tales as a couple of people who, if you're familiar with tales, it is a Linux
distro that is oriented towards privacy and security, particularly. And so they're going to do kind
of a late night workshop on that, which I think is going to be absolutely fascinating.
We're going to have an introduction to deep learning with Google TensorFlow.
I'm going to have build your own satellite. That should be absolutely fascinating, okay.
And, you know, we're going to have, and this is from Jennifer Marsman, a dance with
intelligent dragon drones. So I think that should be absolutely fascinating.
We're going to have a few open BSD and BSD related things, Michael Lucas, who literally has written
the book. And if you've ever listened to Sunday morning Linux review and, oh, by the way, they're
going to be here as they are every year doing their program live. But you may recall some discussion
of Lucas's BSD book on there. So he's doing a couple of talks and that's, and we've got someone
else doing a BSD thing. We've got a senior Cicidman panel, several people, Cicidman's talking
about, hey, I guess we'll see what they're going to talk about. That's thing about panels.
We've got, do it yourself, internet of things. And so this is an interesting. It's a two-parter.
Starts with an hour presentation and then followed up with a workshop where you can put some of
these things to use. And that's going to be in the computer lab. And that's one of the things.
We now have a computer lab with a whole bunch of network computers and we're able to use that
to help a lot of these presenters. We've got someone from Microsoft talking about Bash Ubuntu
Bash on Windows. So we're going to see about that. Then we've got a group called Grand Circus,
which is a local training place. And they are coming in to do intro to coding workshops. They're
going to do a couple of them. Each two hours long. Great opportunity to learn about coding if you're
new to it. We're going to have a key signing session. That's going to be, you know, if you want to
get your public private key pair signed by people, that's a good opportunity to do that.
We're going to have a thing on educational robotics. And that is going to be, again,
it's a demonstration. First of all, a demonstration and a little presentation about it,
followed by a workshop, three hour long workshop. You can put some of this stuff into practice.
We've got my building a file server with Raspberry Pi. That should be fun.
Let's see, some of these others. Industrial robotics, the next 10 years,
you know, Detroit is a manufacturing place. There's a lot of robotics activity with the auto
companies. So you shouldn't be surprised that the industrial robotics is a big thing in this area.
I think a lot of people are going to find that an attractive presentation.
Scientific Linux. So we're going to have a couple of people come in and do a presentation on what
scientific Linux is. And I think that's going to be really good.
Moving open source beyond the developer's centric solutions model. I think that should be a
lot of fun. Because that's one of the things I often think about is that some of the people in
the open source movement, I think it's entirely about liberating programmers and I don't always think
about the people who need to use the software. We're going to have a presentation open source
hardware and libri silicon. So I think that's going to be a lot of fun. Test driven programming.
That should be good. Network firewalls for fun and profit. That's going to be by Tony Beamus
from Sunday morning Linux review. I think that should be good. Teaching Python informatics to
everyone by a professor at the University of Michigan. We're going to have a systems infrastructure
as code. Continuous delivery with octopus deploy. In one on own your OS and so this is about
making sure you have a freedom respecting operating system. Freedom box, the libri personal server,
presentation on wearables and let's see. Hacking the MK2 badge and software configuration management
at the National Cancer Institute. That wasn't all of them. I was just pulling out highlights
as I went through the list because I've got 91 hours of technology programming without counting
any of those guests of honor. I know that Corey and the others are going to be involved in
that. That's a lot of stuff. I'm really excited about it. As I always do, I run down of what I
actually experienced after the fact, but I think I can get this into the feed before the event
and just kind of tantalize you into making a little trip to South Eastern Michigan. So I'm going
to sign off for Hacker Public Radio and as always remind you to support free software. Bye-bye.
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