[clug] August meeting talk

[Andrew Pollock]

On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 08:05:33PM +1000, Michael Carden wrote:
> Has anyone filled up the August meeting talk spots?

They were nominally filled with myself and Tridge (I really need to get
around to publishing that information somewhere ahead of schedule).

I'm happy to relegate myself to September on the grounds that I haven't yet
finished my slides, and at the rate I'm going I possibly won't have them
finished by CLUG time.

So if you can interleave your talk in with Tridge's, in terms of length, it
should be a goer.
 
> I can offer a few insights into the National Archives' approach to Digital 
> Preservation if there's any interest. Our three principal pieces of software 
> are open sourced and hosted on sourceforge. We have recently completed the 
> design, construction and fitout of a prototype digital repository facility. I 
> built all the systems in this, so I know the guts of it pretty well.
> 
> With the systems hardware pretty stable now, I have been plonked into the 
> application development sphere where I'm apparently in charge of our 
> preservation software development.
> 
> We use java for cross platformness among other things and OpenOffice is a key 
> part of the picture. 
> 
> It's not all Linux, but there's an important Linux facet and it's all open 
> source.
> 
> Is anyone interested?
> 

Sounds like there is interest.

regards

Andrew