May 2014 - luv-announce

LUV Main June 2014 Meeting: extra AGM + OpenStack + Docker
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 24 May '14

24 May '14

LUV Main June 2014 Meeting: extra AGM + OpenStack + Docker Start: Jun 3 2014 19:00 End: Jun 3 2014 21:00 Meeting Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/06/03 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Extra AGM, financial statement, mailing-list archives. Martin Paulo, OpenStack Heat Kevin Littlejohn, Docker – Containerize all the things! ________________________________________________________ Extra AGM, as previously announced and explained to members on luv-announce. Financial statement for financial year July 2012 to June 2013. That the LUV mailing-lists archives be made public, with the exception of luv-ctte. Dealing with this business should take only a short time. See the announcement for information about proxies. ________________________________________________________ Martin Paulo, OpenStack Heat Heat is a template driven application management tool for the OpenStack cloud. In this talk Martin will introduce Heat. His goal is to give the audience enough information to enable them to start managing their own applications on the OpenStack cloud with Heat. Martin Paulo is a software developer with V3. 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 V3 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. ________________________________________________________ Kevin Littlejohn, Docker – Containerize all the things! A short overview of Docker – what it is, how it works, how it’s being used, and some examples of what can be done with it (and war stories of what can go wrong). Kevin Littlejohn started life as a sysadmin, has spent much of the last few years as a developer, and is now being swept up into the devops world. He spends his days working at DiUS consulting to customers for programming, ops or both as the need arises, and his evenings wrangling two small children, neither of whom care about dev or ops (yet). ________________________________________________________ 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.

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Revised notice for LUV General Meeting, 3 June 2014
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 20 May '14

20 May '14

Revised notice of additional Annual General Meeting, 3 June 2014, 19:00. [This is a revision of the previous notice, to add an additional item of business, and to give information about proxies.] Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding an additional Annual General Meeting at 7pm, Tuesday, 3 June 2014, in the Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. See http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map This meeting will be held in conjunction with our usual June Main Meeting. The only matters of business to be considered at this meeting are: 1. The financial statement for the financial year July 2012 to June 2013. 2. That the LUV mailing-lists archives be made public, with the exception of luv-ctte. You may appoint another member of LUV as your proxy for this meeting, to speak and vote on your behalf if you are unable to attend. If you are submitting your proxy on paper, you should sign and date it. If you are emailing your proxy, then the date and act of emailing will be taken as the equivalent of signing and dating a paper proxy. You can use the following form, which you can copy from between the lines of underscores, inserting your own name and that of your proxy as appropriate: ________________________________________________________________ I, [insert your name], being a member of Linux Users of Victoria, appoint [insert name of your proxy], being also a member of Linux Users of Victoria, as my proxy to vote on my behalf at the General Meeting of the association to be held on 3rd June 2014, and at any adjournment of that meeting. [You can add here any specific instructions to your proxy, such as directions to vote in a particular way on a particular item. If you have no specific instructions, you can delete this bracketed paragraph.] ________________________________________________________________ Notes about proxies: 1. You can appoint any LUV member as your proxy. However, the committee suggests that it's practical and convenient to appoint the President, Lev Lafayette, as your proxy, who can be trusted to act on your proxy faithfully. 2. Emailed proxies should be sent to luv-secretary(a)luv.asn.au, and must be received at least 24 hours before the meeting. 3. Members who wish to send a paper proxy by post should contact the Secretary for the postal address to use. Such proxies also must be received at least 24 hours before the meeting. 4. Paper proxies can also be presented at the commencement of the meeting itself. 5. We recommend using the above form. However, under the new model rules, you can instead use any form that clearly identifies your proxy and is signed by you. Explanation: We had previously sent out a notice about the additional AGM. There are two reasons for this revised notice: A. At the last committee meeting, the LUV committee decided that, since we were holding a General Meeting anyway, we would take the opportunity to present to members the proposal to make the mailing-list archives public, as an additional item of business. B. The new model rules require explicit mention of the option of proxies to go out with the meeting notice. Questions about this meeting are best posted to luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au. -- Les Kitchen, as LUV Secretary.

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May 2014 Beginners Workshop : Recent Developments and Extensions to LibreOffice
by Lev Lafayette 12 May '14

12 May '14

May 2014 Beginners Workshop : Recent Developments and Extensions to LibreOffice Start: May 17 2014 12:30 End: May 17 2014 17:00 Location: 110 Victoria Street, Carlton Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map 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! Wen Lin will be giving a presentation on : Recent Developments and Extensions to LibreOffice LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. It was forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010. The LibreOffice suite comprises programs to do word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, maintain databases, and compose math formulae. It is the default office application suite in many distributions of Linux. LibreOffice supports many third-party extensions. As of June 2013, the LibreOffice Extension Repository lists more than 190 extensions. Wen Lin is the long-serving treasurer for Linux Users of Victoria and has provided several presentations in the past on Libre/OpenOffice. 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, opposite the north side of 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. -- 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

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Change to operation of LUV mailing lists
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 08 May '14

08 May '14

Dear LUV members and list subscribers: We the LUV committee have recently decided to change slightly the operation of the LUV mailing lists. The policy remains essentially the same: posts are generally accepted only from subscribed addresses. Up until now, posts to the lists from non-members (of the list) went to Lev and Les for moderation. Almost all such posts are spam. However, we had the moderation policy because, once in a while, legitimate members would accidentally post from a different address. The volume of spam we have to discard manually has made that untenable, wasting too much of our time. Under the new setup, now in effect, almost all our lists will automatically discard any posts from non-members. The only exceptions (for now) are luv-ctte (so people not on the committee can contact the committee), and luv-jobs (so outsiders can post job announcements). Both these lists will still allow manual moderation of posts from non-members. Currently, the amount of spam going to these two lists is relatively small. What does this mean for you? For the most part, you shouldn't notice any real difference (except that Lev and Les will seem less stressed by the drudgery of list moderation). If you subscribe to a list, you can post to it. The big change will be when you post to a list from an address different from the one you're subscribed under. Previously, such a post would have been noticed and approved by the list moderators (possibly after some delay). Now such posts will just disappear. So, when posting to LUV lists (except of course for luv-ctte and luv-jobs), take care that you're posting from the email address you're subscribed under. If you post to a list, and don't shortly afterwards see your post appear, then check the address you sent from. You can, as always, find out about our mailing lists from http://luv.asn.au/mailinglists.html. I guess luv-meta would be the best list for questions and discussion about this change. -- Smiles, Les (as LUV Secretary). -- Les Kitchen (LUV) ljk+luv at domain ljk.id.au via fastmail.fm

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Notice of additional AGM for LUV, 3-June-2014
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 08 May '14

08 May '14

Dear LUV members, This is to announce that Linux Users of Victoria, Inc. (registration number A0040056C) will be holding an additional Annual General Meeting at 7pm on Tuesday, 3rd June, 2014. The AGM will be held in conjunction with our regular June Main meeting, at the Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Trinity College (our usual venue -- see http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map) The only business to be considered at this additional AGM is the formal presentation and voting on of an adjusted financial statement. This should take only a few minutes. The rest of the evening will be our usual June meeting. Explanation: The financial statement approved at the last regular AGM, in September 2013, covered the period from the previous (2012) AGM up until that 2013 AGM. We have recently found out that we are required to submit a properly approved financial statement covering instead the financial year July 2012 till June 2013. Even though the financial statements presented and approved at the 2012 and 2013 AGMs together cover that financial year (all our activities have thus been reported to members), Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) requires a single financial statement, properly approved at an AGM, covering the financial year. We've been advised by CAV that the correct way of achieving this is to call an additional AGM whose only purpose is to formally approve the required financial statement, aligned to the relevant financial year. It might seem odd to have more than one Annual General Meeting in a year, but that's how it works. We are required to have at least one AGM per year, but it is permissible (and in this case desirable) to call additional AGMs if necessary to consider matters that formally require an AGM. Note, this extra AGM in June is quite separate from our normal AGM, which will be held in September as is customary. However, at the September AGM we'll know to present a financial statement aligned to the financial year, so this current problem should never arise again. Any questions or discussion about this additional AGM would be best posted to luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au. -- Linuxy greetings from your LUV Secretary, Les Kitchen.

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LUV Main May 2014 Meeting: Heartbleed + WLCG
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 01 May '14

01 May '14

LUV Main May 2014 Meeting: Heartbleed + WLCG Start: May 6 2014 19:00 End: May 6 2014 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Meeting Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/05/06 Russell Coker, Why I Hate OpenSSL and Heartbleed Sean Crosby, Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Abstract: The talk will give a brief but fascinating insight into the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), the computational backbone for the Large Hadron Collider situated at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. It will also include details on an opensource web-based read-only filesystem engineered by CERN for deployment of experimental software needed by the experiments. Bio: Sean Crosby is the Research Computing System Administrator and Developer for the Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, based at the University of Melbourne. He has 10 years experience in high performance computing for physics research. 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.

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