Start: Oct 20 2018 12:30 End: Oct 20 2018 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map CoCalc and Nectar ================= *Paul Leopardi* will give a talk and live demo of the cloud services that he is currently using, CoCalc <https://cocalc.com/> to host Jupyter notebooks, Python code, and similar and the Nectar research cloud service <https://nectar.org.au/research-cloud/> to host a PostgreSQL database and a Plotly Dash dashboard to disseminate his research results: * https://cocalc.com/projects/80f4c9e7-8a37-4f59-82e7-aa179ec0b652/files/Boole... * http://vm-130-56-248-117.nci.org.au/bfcg/ Paul is a computational scientist. That is, a computer scientist, an information technology professional, a computational mathematician, a combinatorialist, and a bioinformatician. He is interested in all these fields, as well as mathematics education, tertiary teaching, Clifford algebras, space science, science in general, innovation and entrepreneurship. He especially likes it when people use his work to do something of value. He is currently working as a scientific programmer at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. There will also be the usual casual hands-on workshop, Linux installation, configuration and assistance and advice. Bring your laptop if you need help with a particular issue. This will now occur BEFORE the talks from 12:30 to 14:00. The talks will commence at 14:00 (2pm) so there is time for people to have lunch nearby. The meeting will be held at Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond 3121. Late arrivals please call (0421) 775 358 for access to the venue. LUV would like to acknowledge Infoxchange for the venue. Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.