Start: Mar 4 2014 19:00
End: Mar 4 2014 21:00
Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building,
Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville.
Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
Suelette Dreyfus: Whistleblowers
Colby Swandale: Vagrant
Suelette Dreyfus is a Research Fellow in the Department of
Computing and Information Systems at the University of
Melbourne. Her research interests include: Digital
whistleblowing; Health informatics; Computer security and
hacking; Organisational change; Social media for school
education. See
http://www.cis.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff.php?person_ID=7291.
She was a keynote speaker at this year's Linux Conference
Australia, http://linux.conf.au/media/news.
>From http://www.vagrantup.com/about.html: "Vagrant is a tool for
building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use
workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development
environment setup time, increases development/production parity,
and makes the 'works on my machine' excuse a relic of the past."
>From Colby Swandale's Linkedin bio: "I currently focus on all
aspects of web development from front to backend, server
administration and infrastructure design. I love working with
technologies such as Linux, BSD, PHP, Ruby, Go-Lang, Perl,
Python, Javascript, HTML and CSS for application development and
often use frameworks/CMS such as Wordpress, Joomla, Express,
Laravel, Codeigniter, Symphony and Ruby on Rails.
I regularly attend PHPMelb and given talks about Vagrant,
Codeception and PHP 5.5's password hash api. Often you will also
find me browsing Reddit reading whats the latest r/programming
or what new exploit has been posted on r/netsec whilst listening
to podcasts such as BSD Now, Techsnap and The Vergecast. "
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, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of
the Beginners Workshops
Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association,
registration number A0040056C.
-- Les Kitchen (LUV) ljk+luv at domain ljk.id.au via fastmail.fm
Dear LUV-members,
A key feature of Linux Users of Victoria is our interesting and
entertaining talks.
Alas, our timetable for the rest of 2014 is looking a little slim at this
point.
http://wiki.luv.asn.au
Thus our venerable association call upon its greatest resource - its
members - to step up and take the mantle to provide a talk to LUV on an
appropriate subject.
Please note that we even have a slot available for the next LUV-main meeting!
I know there's plenty of talent out there and plenty of people who are
doing some really interesting things. Wouldn't it be fun to tell everyone
about it?
(People who think that this is not fun may be used as reactor shielding;
LUV is your friend and wants you to have fun.)
Please send an email to luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au if you have an idea for a talk..
All the best,
--
Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech
Mngmnt) (Chifley)
mobile: 0432 255 208
RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt
Hi LUV members,
My name is Dan Peade and I'm a Melbourne based web application developer.
In addition to my day job, I am currently trying to assemble a volunteer
tech team to help with execution of the online strategy for the Public
Transport Not Traffic Campaign (http://www.publictransportnottraffic.org/)
We're looking for technical professionals with skills in software
development (any languages), sysadmin, javascript, CSS/HTML and graphic
design, who would be willing to contribute even the smallest amount of time
to helping make the campaign a success. We'll definitely be focused on
using open source as much as we can.
One example of the kind of projects we'll be doing was this GIS based
community engagement tool which was featured in The Age last week:
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/myki-main-cause-of-complaints-to-public-t…
The volunteer tech team initiative is sponsored by Common Code, my
employer, so all volunteers will have access to our office (organic fruit
and beer often available!) as well as the chance to meet and network with
other technical professionals in the industry.
If you think you might be interested in getting involved and helping out,
or know anyone who would be, please get in touch! I'm on email here:
dan.peade(a)gmail.com
Thanks for reading,
Dan
Email: dan.peade(a)gmail.com
Start: Feb 15 2014 12:30
End: Feb 15 2014 17:00
Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South
Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map#vpac
Event Link: https://luv.asn.au/2014/02/15
Slackware, by Lev Lafayette
Slackware is the oldest extant GNU/Linux distro. It aims for
stability and simplicity of design.
General Workshop Area:
At the LUV Beginners' 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
Beginners' 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, on the north side of Victoria Street, about 50m
east of Swanston Street, almost opposite Melbourne City Baths.
Public transport: frequent trams run along Swanston Street; VPAC
is a few minutes' walk from Melbourne Central train station.
LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in
obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for
hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of
the Beginners Workshops
Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association,
registration number A0040056C.
