September 2015 - luv-announce

LUV Main October 2015 Meeting: Networking Fundamentals / High Performance Open Source Storage
by Andrew Pam 23 Sep '15

23 Sep '15

http://luv.asn.au/2015/10/06 Start: Oct 6 2015 18:30 End: Oct 6 2015 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Fraser McGlinn, Networking Fundamentals, Troubleshooting and Packet Analysis • Sam McLeod, High Performance, Open Source Storage Fraser McGlinn, Networking Fundamentals, Troubleshooting and Packet Analysis Let's be honest, the concept of networking seems like it is pretty simple and most of the time it "just works". But what is actually happening under the hood? How can we troubleshoot and identify the problem when things go wrong without feeling like we are working on some alien lifeform? This talk will focus on the basics of networking, the absolute fundamentals to any sort of connectivity. It will get deep into packet analysis using tools such as tcpdump and wireshark, help understand the underlying protocols and use this as a tool to troubleshoot some real life networking issues. Fraser McGlinn is a Network Engineer who has been working in the ISP industry for just shy of five years. Day to day, his role has varied from running a core MPLS network and provisioning new services to building and maintaining services such as Radius, DNS and NMS Monitoring. Fraser has been a Linux fan since a young age, and built his first Linux PC in 2007 running on old parts that he scraped together from the junk pile at the local computer recycler. It ran for a few years hosting web servers etc from under his bed. Sam McLeod, High Performance, Open Source Storage Sam McLeod has designed and implemented a purely solid-state, high performance modular storage system - that is completely configured and provisioned in code. Ops lead at InfoXchange and active DevOps community member, originally from Christchurch, New Zealand and now a Melbournite for four years Sam is driven by the idea of improving both the technology sector and the product delivery journey or as Larry Wall said "Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible". You can find him ranting on twitter under the user @s_mcleod or on his neglected blog: https://smcleod.net. He has also recently started an online DevOps community: https://zendevops.com. 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 (formerly the EPA building) 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 venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Get ready for GPG key signing on Saturday
by Andrew Pam 17 Sep '15

17 Sep '15

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 15:22:33 +1000 From: Ben Sturmfels <ben(a)stumbles.id.au> Hi Folks, Heard about GPG, but never quite gotten around to getting set up? Well Software Freedom Day on Saturday is your chance. Stoo's talk at 11:30am has all the details and we're hodling a Cryptoparty / GPG keysigning session at 12:30pm. http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ Don't have a GPG key? Take a look at the FSF's guide to email encryption, and complete steps 1 and 2. If it all seems too hard, we're happy to help you on Saturday. https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org/en/ Have a GPG key now? Run the following command in a terminal, copy the output into a text document and print it out on slips of paper to give out at the key signing: gpg --fingerprint [your email address] Look forward to seeing you on Saturday! Regards, Ben

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Adjourned 2015 LUV Annual General Meeting
by Andrew Pam 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Start: Sep 19 2015 15:30 End: Sep 19 2015 16:15 Location: Boardroom, Electron Workshop, 31 Arden Street, North Melbourne Link: http://www.electronworkshop.com.au/ Confirmation of adjourned LUV 2015 AGM This notice is to confirm that Linux Users of Victoria Inc. will be holding the adjournment of its Annual General Meeting, on Saturday 19th September 2015. The meeting will be held in the Boardroom of Electron Workshop at 3.30pm. The only business to be conducted at this adjourned meeting is that on the notice of the original AGM (to which you should refer), namely committee and financial reports, and election of the committee. Explanation: Under the new Model Rules, the original AGM, on 1 September, had to be adjourned because it did not reach quorum. If the adjourned meeting does not reach quorum within 30 minutes, then the members present (so long as there are at least three) can conduct the business as if a quorum were present. Note that the meeting is scheduled at this time and place for convenience, since we expect a number of LUV members to be attending the Software Freedom Day event anyway. However, keep in mind that this adjourned AGM is a separate LUV meeting, and is not part of the Software Freedom Day program. Electron Workshop is on the south side of Arden Street, about half way between Errol Street and Leveson Street. Public transport: 57 tram, nearest stop at corner of Errol and Queensberry Streets; 55 and 59 trams run a few blocks away along Flemington Road; 402 bus runs along Arden Street, but nearest stop is on Errol Street. On a Saturday afternoon, some car parking should be available on nearby streets. LUV would like to thank Electron Workshop for making their boardroom available for this meeting, also Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Trinity College venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Software Freedom Day Meeting 2015
by Andrew Pam 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Start: Sep 19 2015 11:00 End: Sep 19 2015 16:00 Location: Electron Workshop 31 Arden Street, North Melbourne. Link: http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ There will not be a regular LUV Beginners workshop for the month of September. Instead, you're going to be in for a much bigger treat! This month, Free Software Melbourne[1], Linux Users of Victoria[2] and Electron Workshop[3] are joining forces to bring you the local Software Freedom Day event for Melbourne. The event will take place on Saturday 19th September between 11am and 4pm at: Electron Workshop 31 Arden Street, North Melbourne. Map: http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ We will be demonstrating GNU/Linux distributions, the Raspberry Pi, Arduino and more. You will also get to see free software games on the big screen - bring your laptops (and perhaps a mouse) if you want to help put some of them to a mutiplayer test! Newcomers will also be able to get help trying out and installing GNU/Linux on their machines, and can learn more about free software. We will have several guest speakers throughout the day with talks on contributing to free software, email encryption for beginners and more! There will be a lunch break and light refreshments will also be provided. More information about the event is available on the Software Freedom Day Melbourne website: http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ The day should be both educational and a lot of fun. Please spread the word, and we'll see you there! Links: [1]: http://www.freesoftware.org.au/melb/ [2]: http://luv.asn.au/ [3]: http://www.electronworkshop.com.au/ Electron Workshop is on the south side of Arden Street, about half way between Errol Street and Leveson Street. Public transport: 57 tram, nearest stop at corner of Errol and Queensberry Streets; 55 and 59 trams run a few blocks away along Flemington Road; 402 bus runs along Arden Street, but nearest stop is on Errol Street. On a Saturday afternoon, some car parking should be available on nearby streets. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Trinity College venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Adjourned AGM and Software Freedom Day 2015
by Andrew Pam 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

Software Freedom Day 2015 will be held at Electron Workshop, 31 Arden St. North Melbourne, on Saturday 19 September. As the LUV AGM was adjourned due to lack of a quorum, the adjourned AGM will be held at this event. If you cannot attend, please consider sending your proxy. Notice of LUV Annual General Meeting, 19 September 2015 Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Saturday, 19th September 2015, at Electron Workshop, 31 Arden St. North Melbourne. AGM BUSINESS The only matters of business to be considered at this meeting are: 1. Confirm minutes of annual general meeting on 20th September 2014. 2. Receive and consider annual report of the committee. 3. Receive and consider financial statements. 4. Elect committee: office-bearers (President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer) and ordinary committee members. Nominations: Nominations for committee positions will be accepted at the meeting. You can nominate yourself, or another member if that other member agrees to the nomination. If you wish to nominate yourself or another member, and can't be at the AGM, you should nominate a proxy to do the nominating on your behalf. Proxies: 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 horizontal rules, 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 Annual General Meeting of the association to be held on 1st September 2015, 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, Andrew Pam, 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. Questions about this meeting are best posted to luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au. -- Andrew Pam, as LUV President. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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[Fwd: [Linux-aus] OSDC 2015 (Hobart, TAS) Registrations now Open!]
by Lev Lafayette 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Linux-aus] OSDC 2015 (Hobart, TAS) Registrations now Open! From: "Tim Serong" <tim(a)wirejunkie.com> Date: Tue, September 1, 2015 5:55 pm To: linux-aus(a)lists.linux.org.au -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings, I am pleased to announce that registrations for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2015 are now open! This year OSDC is coming to Hobart for the first time, and will be held from October 27-29, at the Wrest Point Convention Centre. To whet your appetite, the draft schedule is now online: https://2015.osdc.com.au/schedule/ Tickets can be purchased at: https://ti.to/osdc/2015 Please note that all tickets cover morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea during the main conference days, as well as the conference dinner (Tuesday evening). For accommodation, we have reserved a block of rooms at Wrest Point. You are of course welcome to stay anywhere you like :) but if you want to be right there at the venue, please see: https://2015.osdc.com.au/accommodation/ More information about OSDC 2015 can be found on our web site at https://2015.osdc.com.au/ Cheers, Tim (on behalf of the OSDC 2015 team) -- Tim Serong Lead Organiser OSDC 2015 https://2015.osdc.com.au/ _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus(a)lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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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