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LUV Beginners February Meeting: MythTV party
by Andrew Pam 12 Feb '15

12 Feb '15

Start: Feb 21 2015 12:30 End: Feb 21 2015 16:30 Location: South Yarra (RSVP for address) Link: http://luv.asn.au/2015/02/21 PLEASE NOTE CHANGED VENUE. The March meeting will return to the usual venue. LUV committee member Deb Henry will be hosting a follow-up to her August 2014 talk on MythTV at her home in South Yarra, where she will demonstrate her system and talk about remote frontends, remote control setup and some plugins for MythTV. Please RSVP on 0409 338 182 for the address, limited to no more than 20 attendees. Bring finger food and drink if convenient. Deb Henry is a long time Linux user and open source developer who views Linux as a great tool for learning and development of computer skills and understanding. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main January 2015 Meeting: R / linux.conf.au reports
by Andrew Pam 02 Feb '15

02 Feb '15

Start: Feb 3 2015 19:00 End: Feb 3 2015 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Andrew Robinson, R: A Statistical Package on Linux • Reports and video from linux.conf.au 2015 Andrew Robinson, R: A Statistical Package on Linux Andrew Robinson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, and on the Management Executive Committee of the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis. He is the co-author of the books Introduction to Scientific Programming and Simulation Using R and Forest Analytics with R: An Introduction. Reports and video from linux.conf.au 2015 Members who attended the conference in Auckland will report on their experiences and we will show a video of one of the best talks chosen by members on the night. Venue: 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. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Annual Penguin Picnic, January 17 2015
by Andrew Pam 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

Start: Jan 17 2015 12:00 End: Jan 17 2015 18:00 Location: Yarra Bank Reserve, Hawthorn. The Linux Users of Victoria Annual Penguin Picnic will be held on Saturday, January 17, starting at 12 noon at the Yarra Bank Reserve, Hawthorn. This is just near the intersection of Bridge Road, Burwood Rd, and Creswick Street, tram route 48, stop 22, trams every 12 minutes. Roughly a 23 minute trip from Southern Cross. Google Maps: -37.819794, 145.015785 Melways : 2H H-J 6-7 LUV will be providing various items for the BBQ, e.g., plates, sausages to cater for carnivores, pouletvores, piscevores, and herbivores, bread, onions, and sauces, and fruit. Please bring salads and drinks. The Annual Penguin Picnic is a big social occasion for members of LUV, a great opportunity to see in the New Year and LUV's first meeting of the year. Also please note that linux.conf.au will be held in Auckland this year 12-16 January, 2015. There'll be no LUV main meeting nor beginners' workshop in January. These will resume in February. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. Happy Holidays everyone! Regards, Andrew

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LUV Beginners December Meeting: SUSE Linux
by Andrew Pam 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

Start: Dec 20 2014 12:30 End: Dec 20 2014 16:30 Location: RMIT Building 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Terry Kemp will demonstrate installation and provide an overview of Open SUSE 13.2 and if time allows an overview of SUSE Studio. Terry is a member of LUV and long-time Linux user from the early days of Slackware -- until one day he saw at a LUV install fest at MLC an install of SUSE, which he has been using since. He was on the committee of the Melbourne PC Users Group and convenor of their Linux and Open Souce SIG. 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. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main December 2014 Meeting: A vain attempt to rescue Australian democracy with a little JavaScript / holiday gifts
by Andrew Pam 09 Dec '14

09 Dec '14

LUV Main December 2014 Meeting: A vain attempt to rescue Australian democracy with a little JavaScript / holiday gifts Start: Dec 2 2014 19:00 End: Dec 2 2014 21:00 Event Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/12/02 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: * Paul Foxworthy: A vain attempt to rescue Australian democracy with a little JavaScript * Andrew Pam: Holiday gift suggestions for Linux lovers Paul Foxworthy: A vain attempt to rescue Australian democracy with a little JavaScript “Graphs are like tiny dollops of science you can hold in your hand” - First Dog on the Moon "Above the line" voting in the Australian Senate and most State upper houses means your favourite political party can choose where preferences will be distributed, and you may not know, or like, their decisions. In 2012, Paul Foxworthy noticed that even the “how to vote” tickets for his local Council election had a long list of single-issue candidates sending second preferences to the “real” candidate. With some analysis, you could detect clusters of candidates that seem to be co-operating. But who has the time and patience? Paul looked for, and eventually found, a way to visualise preference data. auprefs.info is a web site and open source web application to visualise preference distribution in Australian elections. It aims to better inform voters where their vote might go. Knowledge is power - if we can see what our vote is doing, we might be more careful how we exercise it. auprefs.info has the group voting tickets for the upper house in the November 2014 Victorian election, and we will do some analysis of those. Paul will talk about why he did it, and how you can create force-directed graphs and other interactive visualisations using the amazing d3 graphing library. Paul Foxworthy (@ConcreteGannet) is an open source developer and trainer living in Melbourne. He is a director of Coherent Software, a committer to the Apache OFBiz project, and also currently serves as a director of Open Source Industry Australia. Outside work, Paul tries to get away to his bush block in Gippsland, and to teach agile techniques to Ilke the German Shepherd. Andrew Pam: Holiday gift suggestions for Linux lovers This seems like a good time of year to take a look at all the latest cool devices that run Linux. Andrew will also mention some of best games that run on Linux. Andrew first discovered an interest in boolean logic when his mother carried him in her arms at just the right height to reach light switches as they passed through doorways. He was lucky enough to go to a school with an obsolete PDP/8e: switches, lights, core memory, paper tape, punched cards and all. He first started programming on a TRS-80 model 1 level I and the first computer he owned was a Commodore VIC-20. He has run the gaming Miniconference at linux.conf.au in the past and enjoys playing computer games on Linux systems. He is the current president of Linux Users of Victoria. 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.

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Forthcoming LUV talks
by Andrew Pam 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

The LUV committee is currently planning talks for 2015 and would welcome input from the members. Would you like to give a talk, or can you recommend someone? What subjects would you like to hear about? These are some ideas the committee came up with, but we'd love to hear your suggestions: * USB security in light of BadUSB * Package update systems * Finding and avoiding bugs in code * Containterisation The final talks for 2014 will be at our December meeting next Tuesday, and I welcome suggestions for anything that you have seen and coveted that would be worth mentioning in my talk on holiday gifts for Linux lovers! I hope to see you there. Regards, Andrew Pam LUV President

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LUV Beginners November Meeting: Developing GUI applications
by Andrew Pam 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

Start: Nov 15 2014 12:30 End: Nov 15 2014 16:30 Location: RMIT Building 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map There are a few useful tools/IDEs available on Linux to develop GUI applications. They are all similar in features. In this talk Daniel Jitnah will briefly talk about how GUI applications work, and what are the toolkits available: GTK, QT and Tk as examples. He will also demonstrate how a very simple GUI application can be built. The IDEs used will be QTDesigner, Lazarus, Anjuta+Glade and Netbeans. Daniel Jitnah is currently vice-president of LUV. He has a particular interest in free software in education, and has been using Linux for over 15 years as his main operating system. He claims to have never used a Microsoft OS on any of his machines as main OS. 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. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. -- mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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LUV Main November 2014 Meeting: Raspberry Pi update + systemd
by Andrew Pam 30 Oct '14

30 Oct '14

LUV Main November 2014 Meeting: Raspberry Pi update + systemd Start: Nov 5 2014 19:00 End: Nov 5 2014 21:00 Event Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/11/05 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Please note that the November meeting is on Wednesday night rather than Tuesday night due to the Melbourne Cup. Speakers: * Alec Clews, Raspberry Pi update * Russell Coker, systemd Alec Clews, Update on Raspberry Pi Alec will be talking about the latest news from the Raspberry Pi world: The new Model B+ and A+* New Pi hardware add-ons from local Melbourne developers Native working cloud storage for the Pi. Ya! News from the Foundation Cool projects you may not have seen Pi set-up scripts (*The A+ is not released yet and anything I say will be based on reasonable conjecture only) Alec helped to break the Raspberry Pi order site when the product was released and founded Melbourne Raspberry Jam. He can be found online as alecthegeek in to many places. He drinks too much espresso, uses Linux as much as possible and wishes he was a better Go programmer. He also very proud of his Pi set-up scripts for IoT developers. Russell Coker, systemd What is involved with running systemd? What changes for a user? What changes for a system programmer? What are the benefits and problems? This talk will provide a high level overview of the changes. Russell Coker has been working on SE Linux since 2001. He writes most of the policy for Debian. He has done lots of other Linux development over the years, mostly involved with Debian development. 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.

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LUV Beginners October Meeting: Command Line
by Andrew Pam 13 Oct '14

13 Oct '14

Start: Oct 18 2014 12:30 End: Oct 18 2014 16:30 Location: RMIT Building 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Mike Hewitt will be introducing newcomers to Linux to the use of the "command line". Mike has been interested in programming and electronics since his early teens. He has worked on software and electronic projects using mainframes and microprocessors and enjoys hacking (crazy word) existing and new projects. He has been a keen Linux user since the Redhat floppy disk installs of nearly thirty years ago. He spent 9 years as a teacher and is now recovering from that experience and enjoying re-immersing himself in Linux. He enjoys communicating with amateur radio satellites. He enjoyed using CCNP and Dutch language skills to troubleshoot remote networks. He enjoys working with Raspberry Pi, Arduino and so on along with hardware recovered from discarded electronic equipment. He runs an electronics club in Altona. 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. -- mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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LUV Main October 2014 Meeting: History of MySQL, Content-Centric Networking
by Andrew Pam 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

LUV Main October 2014 Meeting: History of MySQL, Content-Centric Networking Start: Oct 7 2014 19:00 End: Oct 7 2014 21:00 Event Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/10/07 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Stewart Smith "A History of MySQL" • Hank "Content-Centric Networking" A History of MySQL When MySQL was owned my MySQL AB it was doomed because it was a "toy" database. Soon after Sun bought MySQL AB for $1billion there was concern that MySQL was doomed at Sun.... and when Oracle bought Sun things looked even worse. That being said, the truth is a lot more nuanced than what has been widely reported. We'll look at why MySQL development has been so centralized and where it may be opening up. Who is doing actual development? What are they working on and is it going to help you with new or existing applications? How are they interacting with distributions and has there been any change in adoption? Why have so many hardware and software "next big things" in the MySQL world just vanished and does this have an implication for the MySQL variants of today? This is an insiders look at where the MySQL world has come from and where it's going. We'll look at Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, Percona Server and other MySQL distributions. Why do options other than Oracle MySQL exist? Are they seeing any significant adoption and is Oracle's MySQL 5.6 seeing any adoption or when may it see any? Should you switch to MariaDB? Is MariaDB becoming an entirely different database server? What other options do you have? Stewart currently works for IBM in the Linux Technology Center on KVM on POWER and OPAL firmware, giving him a job that is even harder to explain to non-Linux geek people than ever before. Previously he worked for Percona as Director of Server Development where he oversaw development of many of Percona’s software products. He comes from many years experience in databases and free and open source software development. He’s often found hacking on free software, taking photos, running, brewing beer and cycling (yes, all at the same time). He once helped build a monorail in the middle of the desert. Content-Centric Networking This talk will discuss shortcomings of the TCP/IP-based architecture of the internet and present the general idea of content-centric networking as a viable alternative, as well as Xerox PARC's CCNx implementation of the concept and related academic efforts under the name of Named Data Networking. This will look at: • Scalability problems of TCP/IP and the concept of "intelligence at the edge of the network" • Content-centric networking as a new "thin waist" of the hourglass architecture Comparison with CDNs and other ad-hoc solutions • CCNx/NDN implementations: Questions answered and left open • Opportunities for machine learning • Scalability-stability tradeoff • Speculation on impact on business and society The talk is an invitation to join research in this area in a hands-on manner. Hank is a physicist by education and application programmer by vocation. Having joined the internet pre-WWW he thinks it all went wrong at some point and only disruptive changes will bring it back on track. 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. -- mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics

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