FSM May 19 - Contribute to Trove
Hello Freedom Friends, The Trove search engine provides access to content from Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) and is a rich and deep source of Australian history and culture covering content such as newspapers, journals, maps, diaries, correspondence, photos, music, objects and artworks. It enables searching and sorting the items using various criteria such as the publication, date, geography, author, content and other metadata...but did you know we can make it even better? This month we'll go through setting up an account on Trove and see how we can contribute to this valuable collection of Australian heritage. We'll review some old documents that have been run through optical character recognition and confirm or correct the text to improve future accessibility and search. We'll also see how easy it is to add tags to any item to help discoverability and we'll also talk about useful commenting and the new user lists After the Trove session Michael will take us through all the Free and Open Source Gnews for the month. Then we'll head down to Errol street for dinner and more Open Source chatter. This will be a hands on session working with Trove so try and bring a laptop or tablet to work from. See you all on Thursday the 19th at Electron Workshop for Free Software Melbourne July. Event details Thursday 19th July, 6:30-8:00pm 31 Arden St, North Melbourne, Victoria, 3051 Map: http://osm.org/go/uG4HWyqEz?m=&node=2556615434 Running late or can't find us? Call Ben on 0419 390 496
Dear fellow freedom lovers, Compose::Melbourne is running this year for the third time, coming up in a week's time: http://www.composeconference.org/2018-melbourne/ It's a two-day event, aimed at building and supporting the functional-programming community in Melbourne. So if you're at all interested in functional programming, newbie or expert, come along and learn and meet people sharing that interest. I know this is not specifically a free-software event, but most of the main functional-programming systems and libraries are FOSS (and Linux-friendly), and I think it's good to have a free-software presence at such events, since many working software developers are ill-informed about free software. Functional programming is being increasingly adopted in industry. Day One, Monday 27 August, is the conference, with a dozen presentations on functional programming (FP) through the day, including keynote "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Metaphor" by Julie Moronuki, author of the book, Haskell Programming from First Principles. Day Two, Tuesday 28 August, is the "unconference": an informal day of getting together to share FP ideas and experience, although we will be running a few workshops and sessions, including CRASHKELL, an introductory Haskell workshop for beginners. You can read the webpage for more information about the programme and registration. In particular, if you're planning to attend any of the workshops, check the requirements. You'll probably need to bring a laptop, and for some workshops you'll need to install software ahead of time — though we can help you with that on the day if need be. We really want to help build the diversity of the functional-programming community, so we've tried to keep the registration cost as low as possible. But if you'd like to attend, and still face difficulty paying the registration fee, mail me at ljk+compose@ljk.id.au. We have a limited number of free tickets available for this purpose. Also feel free to mail me if you have any other questions not answered on the website. Hope to see some of you at Compose::Melbourne! — Smiles, Les (also Compose::Melbourne committee member). Compose::Melbourne is an activity of the Melbourne Functional Programming Association Incorporated, Victorian registered number A0100082W.
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