June 2018 - luv-announce

LUV July 2018 Main Meeting: Google Home Mini and Makerbot
by Andrew Pam 29 Jun '18

29 Jun '18

PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Tuesday, July 3, 2018 Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Dave Turk, Google Home Mini and Makerbot Dave co-founded the Apple User Society of Melbourne (AUSOM), ran a computer and Internet consultancy for many years and since 2015 has turned to light and kinetic art, often using Arduinos. More at https://davemarkturk.wordpress.com/about-2/ Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Trotters Bistro in Lygon St. Please let us know if you'd like to join us! Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.

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LUV July 2018 Main Meeting - WE NEED YOU
by Andrew Pam 24 Jun '18

24 Jun '18

Start: Jul 3 2018 18:30 End: Jul 3 2018 20:30 Location: Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Link: <http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/hubs-bookable-spaces/kathleen-sym…> PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Tuesday, June 5, 2018 Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: WE NEED YOU. Linux Users of Victoria is an organisation by and for the members. We want the members to get value out of our meetings, and we need your help to select interesting topics and speakers every month. Please come along and help us keep things entertaining and educational. Email luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au and offer to speak, nominate someone you know, or just suggest a topic. Anything relating to free and open source software and related areas like open hardware, open knowledge, open science and open government would be of interest. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Trotters Bistro in Lygon St. Please let us know if you'd like to join us! Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.

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LUV June 2018 Workshop: Being an Acrobat: Linux and PDFs
by Andrew Pam 08 Jun '18

08 Jun '18

Start: Jun 16 2018 12:30 End: Jun 16 2018 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format first specified by Adobe Systems in 1993. It was a proprietary format until it was released as an open standard on July 1, 2008, and published by the International Organization for Standardization. This workshop presentation will provide various ways that PDF files can can be efficiently manipulated in Linux and other free software that may not be easy in proprietary operating systems or applications. *Lev Lafayette* is the Senior HPC Support and Training Officer at the University of Melbourne, where he has been for three years. For eight years prior to that he worked at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing in a similar role. He has been a member of the Linux Users of Victoria as a committee or public officer since 2006. There will also be the usual casual hands-on workshop, Linux installation, configuration and assistance and advice. Bring your laptop if you need help with a particular issue. This will now occur BEFORE the talks from 12:30 to 14:00. The talks will commence at 14:00 (2pm) so there is time for people to have lunch nearby. The meeting will be held at Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond 3121. Late arrivals please call (0421) 775 358 for access to the venue. LUV would like to acknowledge Infoxchange for the venue. Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.

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REMINDER: LUV June 2018 Main Meeting: VoxxedDays conference report
by Andrew Pam 04 Jun '18

04 Jun '18

Start: Jun 5 2018 18:30 End: Jun 5 2018 20:30 Location: Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Link: <http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/hubs-bookable-spaces/kathleen-sym…> PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION Speakers: * Andrew Pam, Voxxed Days conference report Andrew will report on a conference he recently attended, covering Language-Level Virtualization with GraalVM, Aggressive Web Apps and more. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Trotters Bistro in Lygon St. Please let us know if you'd like to join us! Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia. _______________________________________________ luv-announce mailing list luv-announce(a)luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-announce

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