Paul Sutton

April 29, 2021

Libre Graphics Meeting

The Libre Graphics Meeting 2021 27-30 May, online and physical

REFERENCES

Libre Graphics Meeting

RELATED

Librearts

TAGS

#FreeSoftware,#Graphics

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April 29, 2021

Covid update 29/4/2021

Between 8th December and 18th April; 671,070 people have been vaccinated in Devon. The local programme has also delivered over 210,000 second doses. 1 in 5 adults in Devon are fully vaccinated now.

We are now entering phase 2 – covering people aged 18-49. People will be contacted by the National Booking Service when their age group appointment opens up – by text and letter and offered a local appointment. Some GP practices will also contact patients to offer appointments.

Misinformation is still around about vaccines and so we have included links to some films to support your understanding and to share. It’s worth reminding ourselves that vaccines aren’t the whole answer, they are just a really big and important part of it. Our behavior, such as washing hands, using face coverings and keeping some space are still essential.

Not everyone can take a vaccine, which is why even if you think you are not at ‘high risk’, having a vaccine protects other people in our community who might be relying on you to keep them safe. We don’t always know when someone has a medical condition which means they can’t take vaccines, you can’t tell by looking. Let’s keep everyone safe and well.

How was the vaccine developed so quickly?
Has the vaccine been tested on people like me?
Is the vaccine safe?
WHO Science in 5 – #27 Vaccines, variants and herd immunity – we love this series of films, they are short, sharp, really informative and take a global view.
Vaccines are the most effective public health intervention after clean water.
What is on your mind about vaccines? Can we answer your questions or concerns? Come to a forum or drop us a line on the email.

REFERENCES

Torbay Council – Coronavirus information

TAGS

#Covid19,#Torbay,#Update,#CovidChampions

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April 28, 2021

FSFE Resources

I recently asked for some resources from the Free Software Foundation Europe, to help with future events, such as the South Devon Tech Jam, when this can start up again post pandemic.

A few photos below illustrate what was sent. Which will be really useful going forward. I hope to be able to use the PMPC brochure to promote this important campaign.

fsfe resources

I also made a sort of unboxing video to go through some of what I was sent.

REFERENCES

#FreeSoftwareFoundationEurope,#Promotional,#Resources,#PMPC

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April 28, 2021

Debconf 2021 planning Meeting 3

Date: Monday 10th May 2021 Time: 18:00 UTC – 19:00 United Kingdom time Place : IRC (oftc) Channe: #debconf-team

REFERENCES

[Debian(https://www.debian.org)
Debconf 2021

TAGS

#Debian,#Debconf21,#Developer,#Conference,#Virtual,

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April 25, 2021

Exams & Assessments: 10 Things Parents & Carers Need to Know

During this practical short course, Pooky will walk you through a range of simple ideas to help you to support your child if they’ve got exams looming.  None of these ideas require any existing knowledge or experience and they are all designed to feel easily doable.  You don’t have to do them all; pick one or two and see how you get on.   This course is written with parents and carers primarily in mind, but the ideas here could easily be adapted for use by people working with young people or you could use them to deliver workshops or discussion sessions to parents or carers.   One of a series of webinars commissioned by Resilient Rutland who are funded by the National Lottery

Exams Certificate

REFERENCES

TAGS

#CreativeEducation,#Support,#Children,#Exams,#Assessment

April 25, 2021

Kick it out : Social Media Boycott

Kick it out is a charity set up to rid football (soccer) of racism. At the end of April there will be a social media boycott to protest against the abuse players and others are facing on a regular basis. Join in and lets rid sport of ALL racism and abuse.

ENGLISH FOOTBALL ANNOUNCES SOCIAL MEDIA BOYCOTT

Kick It Out, The FA, Premier League, EFL, FA Women’s Super League, FA Women’s Championship, PFA, LMA, PGMOL and the FSA will unite for a social media boycott from 15.00 on Friday 30 April to 23.59 on Monday 3 May 2021.

You can read more here

REFERENCES

Kick It Out

TAGS

#KickItOut,#Football,#Soccer,#Anti,#Racism

April 24, 2021

Alison Food Safety Course

Food Safety Knowledge – Basic Level Requirements -Revised

This  course  is  compiled  from  the  Food  Safety  Knowledge  Network's  Basic  Level Requirements for Food Manufacturers. The practices outlined in the course adhere to internationally  recognized  standards,  codes  of  practice,  and  guidelines  relating  to food,  food  production,  and  food  safety  recognized  by  the  WHO  (World  Health Organization) and United Nations. The topics covered include personal hygiene, water quality, product contamination control, and pest control.

LINKS

Alison.com *
Note : This is a referral link

#CPD, #Training #Food, #Safety

April 24, 2021

Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release

Latest update from the Debian Mailing list – Quoted in FULL below:

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first
release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye".


Improvements in this release
============================

 * base-installer:
    - Re-add the removed is_ports_architecture() function - it's used by
      other packages and library.sh looks like a fair central place for it
      to be (#979193).
 * brltty:
    - Update udev rules.
    - Make sure the hardening flags are used in the udeb build.
 * choose-mirror:
    - Update Mirrors.masterlist.
 * debian-archive-keyring:
    - Add bullseye keys, remove jessie keys.
 * debian-cd:
    - Shorten "ppc64el" to "p64el" in the volume ID.
    - Include eatmydata deb for the installer to use offline (#986772).
 * debian-installer:
    - Build in libinput instead of evdev driver for the graphical
      installer. This should improve support for touchpads in particular.
    - Bump Linux kernel ABI to 5.10.0-6.
    - Add wireless-regdb-udeb to all Linux arch images (#979104).
    - Correct keyword for bootloader arguments in netboot/xen/debian.cfg
      example file (#904131).
    - Update debian-internals manual to current development state.
    - Update minimum disk and memory sizes.
 * debian-installer-utils:
    - list-devices-linux: Support partitions on USB UAS devices.
 * espeakup:
    - Carry over the alsa mixer levels into the installed system.
 * grub-installer:
    - Make sure that efivarfs is loaded and the efivars pseudofs is
      mounted when needed.
 * grub2:
    - Add support for SBAT.
    - grub-install: Fix inverted test for NLS enabled when copying locales
      (#979754).
 * installation-report:
    - bugscript: do not include template in script output (#980929).
 * libdebian-installer:
    - Remove the arbitrary limitation on maximum line length in Packages
      and Sources files (#971946).
 * libinih:
    - Add libinih1-udeb for Debian Installer (#981864).
 * libinput:
    - Drop libwacom support from the udeb.
 * libmd:
    - Add a udeb package needed by libbsd.
 * libwacom:
    - Drop the udeb, libinput no longer needs it.
 * linux:
    - Add bonding driver to the nic-modules udeb.
    - Remove efivars from the efi-modules udeb.
    - arm64: Fix i2c-mv64xxx module name.
 * localechooser:
    - Disable Kabyle for the text-based installer, as switching keyboard
      fails there (#973455).
    - Correct Kabyle locale definition in languagelist to its real naming.
 * lowmem:
    - Delete graphical terminal related files when memory is low
      (#977490).
    - 5lowmem: Rename to 05lowmem so that rescue actually overrides it
      (#870574).
    - S15lowmem: Update minimum memory sizes.
 * nano:
    - Compile the udeb with --without-included-regex to make binaries
      substantially smaller.
 * netcfg:
    - Update testcases to work with current Check API (#980607).
    - Satisfy GCC pedantry for strncpy() calls.
 * os-prober:
    - Probe Microsoft OS on arm64.
 * partman-btrfs:
    - Add minimal subvolume support for / (#964818).
 * partman-efi:
    - Make sure that efivarfs is loaded and the efivars pseudofs is
      mounted when needed.
 * rootskel:
    - Use /dev/tty0 as a console even if it's not in /proc/consoles.
    - Do not remove the font when bterm is not started (#977466).
 * rootskel-gtk:
    - Switch to Homeworld theme for Debian 11 by Juliette Taka.
 * user-setup:
    - Allow underscore in username of first account (#977214).


Hardware support changes
========================

 * debian-installer:
    - arm64: Add support for puma-rk3399.
    - arm64: Update to use u-boot-install-sunxi.
    - armhf: Make hd-media and netboot sdcard images start at offset
      32768, for compatibility with rockchip platforms.
    - arm64, armhf: Update SD-card-images sizes for netboot, netboot-gtk
      and hd-media.
 * flash-kernel:
    - Add support for Orange Pi One Plus (#981328).
    - Add support for ROCK Pi 4 (A,B,C).
    - Add support for Banana Pi BPI-M2-Ultra (#982089).
    - Add support for Banana Pi BPI-M3 (#981561).
    - Fix missing ESPRESSObin variants (#969518).
    - Fix several DTB-Id entries that incorrectly referenced the
      .dts instead of .dtb file.


Localization status
===================

 * 78 languages are supported in this release.


Known bugs in this release
==========================

 * Broken rescue mode with the graphical installer (#987377).
 * amdgpu firmware required for many AMD graphic cards.

See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues.


Feedback for this release
=========================

We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so
please try it. Installation images, and everything else you will need
are available at our web site[3].


Thanks
======

The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this
release.


 1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team
 2. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
 3. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer

April 20, 2021

CPD courses for work with alison.com

To help with looking for work & employment, I am keeping my training up to date as best as I can. This will hopefully improve my prospects and skills going forward.

In addition to as the Creative Education courses that I have completed. I have now signed up to Alison, who offer a wide range of courses for work and employment.

So far, I have completed *Fundamentals of Health and Safety in the Workplace – Revised”. My public profile is below, which will be updated automatically as I undertake courses.