September 2016 - luv-announce

UPDATED: LUV Main October 2016 Meeting: Sending Linux to Antarctica, 2012-2017 / Annual General Meeting
by Andrew Pam 25 Sep '16

25 Sep '16

Start: Oct 4 2016 18:30 End: Oct 4 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Scott Penrose, Sending Linux to Antarctica: 2012-2017 • Annual General Meeting and lightning talks Scott Penrose, Sending Linux to Antarctica: 2012-2017 ===================================================== A discussion on hardware and software and techniques used to send hardware to one of the hardest places on earth and constantly transfer data via satellite. Scott Penrose is a Perl hacker with an interest in home automation. He has been playing with electronics since he was old enough to burn his fingers with a soldering iron. His first job was working with 6800 embedded CPUs in the early 90s. During the development of his solar powered house in 2000 he knew that the only way to be safe and not damage the batteries would be to fully automate the power and lighting throughout his home. Scott has continued hardware hacking on a causal basis, building musical toys, helping with the design and building of a sophisticated glide computer and doing design and embedded coding for buoys to measure waves in ice in the Antarctic. Although his day job involves programming complicated CPUs, mostly under Linux, he has retained a passion of for simplicity and feels that the Arduino meets those requirements. Annual General Meeting and lightning talks ========================================== Notice of LUV Annual General Meeting, 4 October 2016, 19:30. Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding its Annual General Meeting at 7:30pm on Tuesday, 4th October 2016, on the 6th floor of 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053. The AGM will be held in conjunction with our usual October Main Meeting. As is customary, after the AGM business we will have a series of lightning talks by members on a recent Linux experience or project. If you would like to give a talk, please pre-book your spot by mailing luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au. AGM BUSINESS The only matters of business to be considered at this meeting are: * Confirm minutes of annual general meeting on 19th September 2015. * Receive and consider annual report of the committee. * Receive and consider financial statements. * 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 4th October 2016, 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: * 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. * Emailed proxies should be sent to luv-secretary(a)luv.asn.au, and must be received at least 24 hours before the meeting. * 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. * Paper proxies can also be presented at the commencement of the meeting itself. * 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. 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. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main October 2016 Meeting: Linux Bouys / Annual General Meeting
by Andrew Pam 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Start: Oct 4 2016 18:30 End: Oct 4 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Scott Penrose, Linux Bouys • Annual General Meeting and lightning talks Scott Penrose, Linux Bouys ========================== Details to follow in an update soon. Annual General Meeting and lightning talks ========================================== Notice of LUV Annual General Meeting, 4 October 2016, 19:30. Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding its Annual General Meeting at 7:30pm on Tuesday, 4th October 2016, on the 6th floor of 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053. The AGM will be held in conjunction with our usual October Main Meeting. As is customary, after the AGM business we will have a series of lightning talks by members on a recent Linux experience or project. If you would like to give a talk, please pre-book your spot by mailing luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au. AGM BUSINESS The only matters of business to be considered at this meeting are: * Confirm minutes of annual general meeting on 19th September 2015. * Receive and consider annual report of the committee. * Receive and consider financial statements. * 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 4th October 2016, 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: * 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. * Emailed proxies should be sent to luv-secretary(a)luv.asn.au, and must be received at least 24 hours before the meeting. * 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. * Paper proxies can also be presented at the commencement of the meeting itself. * 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. 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. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Software Freedom Day Meeting 2016
by Andrew Pam 10 Sep '16

10 Sep '16

Start: Sep 17 2016 10:00 End: Sep 17 2016 16:30 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 17th September between 10am and 4:30pm at: Electron Workshop 31 Arden Street, North Melbourne. Map: http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ We will be demonstrating GNU/Linux distributions. 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 Free Software in Schools, Open Street Map and more! There will be a lunch break and tea, coffee and light snacks will also be provided throughout the day. This is the a family friendly event, please invite anyone that is interested as the more people that are involved the more the positive effects can be spread. 10:00am - Doors Open 11:00am - ICT & Free software in Schools 12:00pm - Matt Cienga and Open Street Map Applications 1:00pm - Free and Open Source Community Gathering 1:30pm - Lunch in North Melbourne (not catered) 2:30pm - To be advised 3:30pm - Games and workshops 4:15pm - Round up of the day 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. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main September 2016 Meeting: Spartan / The Future is Awesome
by Andrew Pam 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

Start: Sep 6 2016 18:30 End: Sep 6 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: * Lev Lafayette, Spartan: A Linux HPC/Cloud Hybrid * Paul Fenwick, The Future is Awesome (and what you can do about it) Lev Lafayette, Spartan: A Linux HPC/Cloud Hybrid ------------------------------------------------ High performance computing offers preferred architectures for tightly coupled multi-node multi-core task parallel computational problems. Cloud computer architectures offer flexible and cost-efficient options for single-node data parallel tasks. In the past these two solutions have been developed and implemented independently, however a new hybrid system called HPC/cloud architecture developed at the University of Melbourne combines the two approaches with Linux as the core operating system, SLURM as a workload manager, and OpenStack for the cloud component. This approach better suits the existing workloads, while making it easy to expand to meet the demands of the future, including plans to have heterogeneous architectures as part of the overall Spartan system. As a whole Spartan serves as a template for any future general purpose implementation of mass compute resources. *Lev Lafayette* is the HPC and Training Officer at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that he served a similar role at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing for several years. He collects degrees for fun and profit, and is an incorrigible community activist, including as a long-serving LUV committee member. Paul Fenwick, The Future is Awesome (and what you can do about it) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Technology is advancing at a faster rate than society's expectations, and can go from science-fiction to being consumer-available, with very little in the way of discussion in between, but the questions they raise are critically important: What happens when self-driving vehicles cause unemployment, when medical expert systems work on behalf of insurance agencies rather than patients, and weapon platforms make their own lethal decisions? *Paul Fenwick* is an internationally acclaimed public speaker, developer, and science educator. Paul is well known for presenting on a diverse range of topics including privacy, neuroscience and neuroethics, Klingon programming, open source, depression and mental health, advancements in science, diversity, autonomous agents, and minesweeper automation. His dynamic presentation style and quirky humour has delighted audiences worldwide. Paul was awarded the 2013 O'Reilly Open Source award, and the 2010 White Camel award, both for outstanding contributions to the open source community. As a Freedom Loving Scientist, Paul's goal is to learn everything he can, do amazing things with that knowledge, and give them away for free. 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Late arrivals, please call (0490) 049 589 for access to the venue. 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 and Infoxchange for their help in obtaining the meeting venues. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Presentation and demo notes from "File Sharing in Linux" Beginners' Workshop
by Andrew Pam 03 Sep '16

03 Sep '16

The presentation and demo notes from Wen Lin's presentation on File Sharing in Linux at the August 2016 Beginners' Workshop are now available on our past presentations page here: https://luv.asn.au/presentations Enjoy! Regards, Andrew

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