LUV December Meeting
Start: Dec 4 2012 19:00
End: Dec 4 2012 21:00
Location:
The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College,
Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville.
Link:
http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
Chris Samuel, VLSCI. Avoca. (Almost) the most powerful supercomputer south
of the Tropic of Cancer.
Chris Samuel, senior systems administrator at the Victorian Life Sciences
Initiative, will be introducing Avoca - currently the 33rd most powerful
computer in the world; and housed right here in Melbourne.
Martin Paulo: An introduction to OpenStack
Martin Paulo is a software developer with VeRSI (the Victorian eResearch
Strategic Initiative). Way back when Martin started out writing assembly
for embedded systems. From there, via grid programming, he made the move
to more conventional software development, as a Java developer in the
financial services arena. At VeRSI Martin has worked on and with the
NeCTAR (National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources) research
cloud: possibly the largest and most complex OpenStack deployment in
Australia.
OpenStack
OpenStack is open source software that provides a cloud computing
platform. From its early origins as a small Nasa project, OpenStack is
rapidly gaining broad industry acceptance. Its ongoing development is
guided by the OpenStack Foundation, a foundation backed by many key
technology companies. In this talk Martin will provide an introduction to
the concepts underlying OpenStack, and show how you can get going with
your own personal OpenStack deployment.
The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main
Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5
Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan
Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity
College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including
its relation to the city) can be found at
http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map
Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston
Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is
unfortunately only available to staff.
For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg -
City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah
St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus
(Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be
found on-line at:
http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725
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.
LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the
Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting!
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Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
Start: Nov 17 2012 12:30
End: Nov 17 2012 17:00
Location:
VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South
Link:
http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
Daniel Jitnah's Abstract: eLiveLearn is a (very) long term pet project of
mine! eLiveLearn is FOSS (php/linux/apache) based system designed to be a
complete on learning environment. Unlike many other online learning
systems (Learning Management Systems) such as Moodle, Whiteboard etc which
are content management systems (CMS) with added learning support features,
eLiveLearn was design designed from start to fully support the complete
Learning-Assessment-Reporting process in a fully integrated system.
Educators can create online lessons and assessment tasks, Students can
step through online lessons and carry out assessement tasks. Educators can
then mark and provide feedback on students work and generate live reports.
In this talk, I will look at some design features of eLiveLearn and run
through a very simple usage scenario (hands-on). I will also talk about
work that still needs to be done to make it a fully functional ready to
use system and some problems with the system. Audience comment and
feedback will be most appreciated.
This talk may likely be of interest to Educators at secondary and tertiary
level.
Daniel is an educator and runs his own IT company, Greenware IT. He has
been a committee member of LUV for many years.
General Workshop Area:
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!
VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria Street,
Carlton, close to the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets.
It is accessible by all Swanston Street trams and is is near to Melbourne
Central train station.
LUV would like to acknowledge BENK Open Systems for their financial
support of the Beginners Workshops
LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the
Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting!
--
Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
Start: Nov 7 2012 19:00
End: Nov 7 2012 21:00
Location:
The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College,
Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville.
Link:
http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
Note that this meeting is on Wednesday due to the Melbourne Cup
Location:
The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College,
Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville.
Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
The Future Market Share of Linux, Carl Turney
Linux's share of the OS market, factors affecting its future viability,
issues that come to play when organisations
consider migrating or adopting a different OS platform, and steps that
Linux Geeks could take to maximise growth?
Carl has an Honours in Commerce, got a Masters in Public Sector
Efficiency, been the GM of two manufacturing businesses, and now run a
management consultancy.
A Linux Roundup - Russell Coker
My presentation will be a series of lightning talks about various things
I'm investigating, covering new Linux PC and server stuff (including ZFS)
and Android.
Russell Coker does general Linux programming and systems administration.
He is most well known for his work on NSA Security Enhanced Linux. Other
projects he has been involved in include Bonnie++ (lead developer), Postal
(lead developer), Debian (developer), Linux Security Modules (LSM)
(contributor), KDE (contributor), OpenSSH (contributor)
The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main
Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5
Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan
Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity
College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including
its relation to the city) can be found at
http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map
Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston
Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is
unfortunately only available to staff.
For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg -
City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah
St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus
(Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be
found on-line at:
http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725
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.
LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the
Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting!
--
Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt