Date
7pm, Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Topic 1/2: OpenSoundMeter
Speaker: Nick Skarott
Sound is always a subjective matter; what one person thinks sounds amazing another thinks is bad. This is unavoidable. But some level of objectivity can bring consistency. Nick has been looking into the free OpenSoundMeter, a project designed to give a free alternative to packages like SMAART and other audio tools used in live sound to bring not only consistency but visual representation to what is going on audibly in a room.
Topic 2/2: Document conversion with Pandoc
Speaker: Tom Ryder
One website wants DOCX, another DOC (and you don’t have Microsoft Office anymore), another PDF, another is just a plain-text field… all this converting between different document formats is a pain. What if we could write a document in a plain text format like Markdown, and just convert it to whatever format our correspondent requires? Pandoc enables just that, and all in free software!
Download slides (application/pdf, 620 KiB)
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
- 7:00pm: Welcome (Tom Ryder)
- 7:10pm: Topic 1/2: OpenSoundMeter (Nick Skarott)
- 7:55pm: Tea and coffee break
- 8:05pm: General business (Nick Skarott)
- 8:10pm: Topic 2/2: Document conversion with Pandoc (Tom Ryder)
- 9:00pm: Doors close
Great meet tonight, thanks folks. My slides are here: <https://www.plug.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/document-conversion-with-pandoc.pdf> (application/pdf, 620 KiB)