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Tuesday 6 December 6:30pm for 7pm start at The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan
Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville.
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Talks — Freedom double feature:
* Going Fully Free — Ben Sturmfels
* Anti-competitive Aspects of UEFI Secure Boot — Lev Lafayette
* Library of LUV
* After the meeting, come have dinner with us at Maria's Trattoria!
122-124 Peel St
Also in this announcement:
* Beginner's Workshop — 17 December 2011
* #luv IRC channel
* mailing list policy
* Map of the meeting location
http://luv.asn.au/content/venue-mapshttp://luv.asn.au/2011/12/06
** Going Fully Free — Ben Sturmfels **
Members of LUV should be immensely proud of their efforts to get free software
into the hands of the general public. Unfortunately though, without an
understanding of why their freedom matters, we watch many people drift slowly
back to proprietary software.
Fully-free distributions have an important role to play in spreading not only
free software, but the values of our community. We'll discuss popular fully-
free distributions, common arguments and sticking points, and how this can
super-charge our advocacy.
Ben is a free software developer from Brunswick. He's also a LUV committee
member. If you're lucky he might not talk about software patents again.
** Anti-competitive Aspects of UEFI Secure Boot — Lev Lafayette **
The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) a defines a secure
replacement for BIOS firmware by allowing verification of digital signatures
before booting. Whilst this does protect against malware such as rootkits,
legitimate concerns have been raised that certain non-free operating systems
will use this hardware feature to prevent users from booting other operating
systems (e.g., Linux). This presentation addresses the technical background to
UEFI, the concerns raised on monopolistic practise, and the potential
solutions.
Lev is a systems administrator and quality management coordinator at the
Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, a graduate from Murdoch
University and has recently completed an MBA in Technology Management from
Chifley. He is the current President of Linux Users of Victoria.
** Library of LUV **
Library of LUV is a collection of books available for loan to members. The
collection is managed through the wiki and the books are circulated at the
monthly LUV meetings (and the Penguin Picnic, in January). For more details,
please see the wiki: http://wiki.luv.asn.au/LoL
** Dinner **
Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join
other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat
near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the
most popular place to eat after meetings.
** Beginner's Workshop — 17th December **
The December Beginner's Workshop will be held on the third Saturday at The
Hub, with the usual unstructured workshop area and a talk by Alec Clews giving
some tips, tricks and tools for programming novices. Bring your laptop! For
more info, updates and discussion about the Beginner's Workshop, subscribe to
the luv-beginners mailing list:
http://lists.luv.asn.au/luv-beginners
The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginner's Workshops.
If you are interested in the OLPC project, please come and join in!
Drupal Melbourne meetings are also co-located with the Beginner's Workshops,
taking place in the Long Room at The Hub.
** #luv IRC channel **
A reminder that LUV has an IRC channel - join #luv on FreeNode to chat with
fellow LUVvers in real time!
** Mailing list policy **
The committee does not generally monitor or moderate the LUV mailing lists and
expects members to conduct themselves appropriately. On complaint, however,
we may investigate, and if behaviour is unbecoming a member of LUV, we may
remove that member from the mailing list for a period of time as deemed
appropriate by the committee.
** Map of the meeting venue **
Our website now has an all-new map of the meeting venue, more clearly showing
how to find the Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Just follow either of the red lines!
http://luv.asn.au/content/venue-maps
** RedHat training discount **
A discount on RedHat training is available to LUV members. To obtain this
discount, you need to enter: "Linux User Group member - 10% discount" in the
special offer section of the enrolment form.
http://www.redhat.com.au/training/
** Acknowledgements **
LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard
Lecture Theatre venue, BENK Open Systems for sponsoring the Beginner's
Workshops and VPAC for hosting!
http://redhat.com.auhttp://benk.net.auhttp://vpac.org
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Saturday 19 November, 12 noon at The Hub @ Docklands
near cnr Bourke St and Harbour Esplanade, Docklands
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The next LUV Beginner's Workshop and Tutorial and the OLPC Corner will be on
the 19th of November. This month, Alex Garber will be giving an introduction
to editing video with OpenShot. The tutorial will start one hour into the
workshop, at 1pm.
At the LUV Beginner's workshop you can come along and work with Linux
enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the way you want. This
could include friendly advice on partitions, distributions, configurations,
networking and specific applications. Bring your laptop!
The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginner's Workshops.
If you are interested in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, please come
and join in!
The Drupal Melbourne meetings are also co-located with the Beginner's
Workshops, taking place in the Long Room.
Link: http://luv.asn.au/2011/11/19
When: 19 November 2011
workshop 12:00noon until 4:00pm
tutorial: 1:00pm
Where: The Hub @ Docklands, 17 Waterview Walk, near cnr Bourke St
and Harbour Esplanade, Docklands - look for the giant rabbit sculpture;
Melway reference 2E H7; http://luv.asn.au/content/venue-maps#hub
Parking can be found nearby.
For those coming via Public Transport, the City Circle, number 48 (North
Balwyn - Docklands), number 86 (Bundoora - Docklands) and number 70 (Wattle
Park - Docklands) all stop on the corner of Bourke Street and Harbour
Esplanade. Southern Cross Station is just across the overpass over
Wurundjeri Road.
LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard
Lecture Theatre venue, BENK Open Systems for sponsoring the Beginner's
Workshops and VPAC for hosting!
http://redhat.com.auhttp://benk.net.auhttp://vpac.org
Jiri Baum - Secretary
Linux Users of Victoria - luv.asn.au
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