Start: Oct 3 2017 18:30
End: Oct 3 2017 20:30
Location: Mail Exchange Hotel, 688 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Link: http://mailexchangehotel.com.au/
PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Mail Exchange Hotel
688 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Speakers:
Russell Coker, Tor
Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against
traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal
freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships,
and state security.
Russell Coker has done lots of Linux development over the years, mostly
involved with Debian.
Mail Exchange Hotel, 688 Bourke St, Melbourne VIC 3000
Food and drinks will be available on premises.
Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.
Software Freedom Day 2017
=========================
It's that time of the year where we celebrate our freedoms in technology
and raise a ruckus about all the freedoms that have been eroded away. The
time of the year we look at how we might keep our increasingly digital
lives under our our own control and prevent prying eyes from seeing things
they shouldn't. You guessed it: It's Software Freedom Day!
Free Software Melbourne, in conjunction with Linux Users Victoria, is
celebrating the 14th annual Software Freedom Day with talks from Linux
Users Victoria, Electronic Frontiers Australia and the F-Droid app store.
We'll also be having plenty of networking opportunities, introductions to
local technology groups and a Linux installfest. So bring down that old PC
you were about to throw away and give it a new coat of Debian and bring it
back to life!
We have a Code of Conduct online which we follow. In short: Be respectful.
Be mindful. Work together. Link provided below. This is a family friendly
event, please invite anyone that is interested along to help make it a
great day.
Entry is free anytime, so help spread the word on everyone’s liberties.
Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be provided gratis.
Hope to see all your happy faces at the event (you don't have to be happy,
but be there!)
Schedule
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12:00pm - Doors open
12:15pm - Introduction to FOSS with FSM
1:00pm - Michael Verrenkamp - Welcome and Gnews for the year
1:15pm - Jon Lawrence - Electronic Frontiers Australia
2:15pm - OS Community get together - Community group introductions
2:45pm - Break and Installfest (Debian focused)
3:15pm - Andrew Pam - Linux
4:15pm - Peter Serwylo - F-Droid
6:00pm - End Day... Dinner at KL Bangra
Details
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Date: Saturday the 16th September
Location: Electron Workshop co-working space
Address: 31 Arden Street, North Melbourne
Map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/2556615434
Travel Tips: http://www.electronworkshop.com.au/map/
Parking: Plenty of 2 hour parking in the area
Code of Conduct: http://freesoftware.org.au/code-of-conduct/
Links:
- Official Site:
<http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2017/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Free
<http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2017/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Free%2…>Software
Melbourne and Linux Users Victoria
<http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2017/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Free%2…>>
- FSM Site:
https://freesoftware.org.au/blog/fsm-sept-16th-software-freedom-day-2017
Annual General Meeting
======================
Notice of LUV Annual General Meeting, 16 September 2017, 17:30.
Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be
holding its Annual General Meeting at 5:30pm on Saturday 16 September
2017 at Electron Workshop, 31 Arden St. North Melbourne.
The AGM will be held in conjunction with Software Freedom Day, an event
being held at the time of our usual Beginners Meeting. 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 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.
AGM BUSINESS
The only matters of business to be considered at this meeting are:
* Confirm minutes of annual general meeting on 4th October 2016.
* 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:
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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 16th September 2017, 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.]
------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------
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.
Start: Sep 5 2017 18:30
End: Sep 5 2017 20:30
Location: The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053
Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
The Dan O'Connell Hotel
225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053
Speakers:
* Duncan Roe, Cygwin
* Steve Roylance, Virtualbox
*Cygwin* is a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which
provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows. It
allows easy porting of many Unix programs without the need for extensive
changes to the source code.
*Duncan Roe* has had a Linux desktop since 1993. A software developer,
he first used Linux professionally in 1994. He has been hacking on
Linux ever since.
*VirtualBox* is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware,
targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. It is freely available as
Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License
(GPL) version 2.
The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053
Food and drinks will be available on premises.
Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to
join other members for dinner.
Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association,
registration number A0040056C.
