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!
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.