July: Lightning talks
Details
https://www.plug.org.nz/2025/07/july-lightning-talks/
## Date
7pm, Wednesday, 9 July 2025
## Talks
This month, we’re running our take on lightning talks, shorter technical talks of up to 10 minutes each in length, instead of the usual two longer talks. We have the following speakers and topics scheduled, probably in this order:
* Richard O’Donoghue: Terraforming your home lab—An introduction to Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
* Tom Ryder: Bash toolbox sampler
* Robbie McKennie: Lightbulb moment
* Joseph Calkin: Mermaid diagram software
* Nick Skarott: Penguin with a side of rice
* Brendon Green: First looks at KolibriOS—an entire modern GUI operating system on a floppy disk
## Venue
## Cost
$2 gold coin donation
Coffee and biscuits will be provided, but please feel free to bring along your own snacks and drinks.
## Agenda (rough)
- 7:00pm: Welcome (Tom Ryder)
- 7:10pm: Lightning talks begin
- 7:50pm: Tea and coffee break
- 8:10pm: General business (Nick Skarott)
- 8:20pm: Resume lightning talks
- 9:00pm: Doors close
July: Lightning talks