Dear LUV members and list subscribers:
We the LUV committee have recently decided to change slightly
the operation of the LUV mailing lists.
The policy remains essentially the same: posts are generally
accepted only from subscribed addresses. Up until now, posts to
the lists from non-members (of the list) went to Lev and Les for
moderation. Almost all such posts are spam. However, we had
the moderation policy because, once in a while, legitimate
members would accidentally post from a different address. The
volume of spam we have to discard manually has made that
untenable, wasting too much of our time.
Under the new setup, now in effect, almost all our lists will
automatically discard any posts from non-members.
The only exceptions (for now) are luv-ctte (so people not on the
committee can contact the committee), and luv-jobs (so outsiders
can post job announcements). Both these lists will still allow
manual moderation of posts from non-members. Currently, the
amount of spam going to these two lists is relatively small.
What does this mean for you?
For the most part, you shouldn't notice any real difference
(except that Lev and Les will seem less stressed by the drudgery
of list moderation). If you subscribe to a list, you can post
to it.
The big change will be when you post to a list from an
address different from the one you're subscribed under.
Previously, such a post would have been noticed and approved by
the list moderators (possibly after some delay). Now such posts
will just disappear.
So, when posting to LUV lists (except of course for luv-ctte and
luv-jobs), take care that you're posting from the email address
you're subscribed under. If you post to a list, and don't
shortly afterwards see your post appear, then check the address
you sent from. You can, as always, find out about our mailing
lists from http://luv.asn.au/mailinglists.html.
I guess luv-meta would be the best list for questions and
discussion about this change.
-- Smiles, Les (as LUV Secretary).
-- Les Kitchen (LUV) ljk+luv at domain ljk.id.au via fastmail.fm
Dear LUV members,
This is to announce that Linux Users of Victoria,
Inc. (registration number A0040056C) will be holding an
additional Annual General Meeting at 7pm on Tuesday, 3rd June,
2014. The AGM will be held in conjunction with our regular June
Main meeting, at the Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
(our usual venue -- see http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map)
The only business to be considered at this additional AGM is the
formal presentation and voting on of an adjusted financial
statement. This should take only a few minutes. The rest of
the evening will be our usual June meeting.
Explanation:
The financial statement approved at the last regular AGM, in
September 2013, covered the period from the previous (2012) AGM
up until that 2013 AGM. We have recently found out that we are
required to submit a properly approved financial statement
covering instead the financial year July 2012 till June 2013.
Even though the financial statements presented and approved at
the 2012 and 2013 AGMs together cover that financial year (all
our activities have thus been reported to members), Consumer
Affairs Victoria (CAV) requires a single financial statement,
properly approved at an AGM, covering the financial year.
We've been advised by CAV that the correct way of achieving this
is to call an additional AGM whose only purpose is to formally
approve the required financial statement, aligned to the
relevant financial year.
It might seem odd to have more than one Annual General Meeting
in a year, but that's how it works. We are required to have at
least one AGM per year, but it is permissible (and in this case
desirable) to call additional AGMs if necessary to consider
matters that formally require an AGM.
Note, this extra AGM in June is quite separate from our normal
AGM, which will be held in September as is customary. However,
at the September AGM we'll know to present a financial statement
aligned to the financial year, so this current problem should
never arise again.
Any questions or discussion about this additional AGM would be
best posted to luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au.
-- Linuxy greetings from your LUV Secretary, Les Kitchen.
LUV Main May 2014 Meeting: Heartbleed + WLCG
Start: May 6 2014 19:00
End: May 6 2014 21:00
Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge
Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main
Campus, Parkville.
Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
Meeting Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/05/06
Russell Coker, Why I Hate OpenSSL and Heartbleed
Sean Crosby, Worldwide LHC Computing Grid
Abstract: The talk will give a brief but fascinating
insight into the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG),
the computational backbone for the Large Hadron Collider
situated at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. It will also
include details on an opensource web-based read-only
filesystem engineered by CERN for deployment of
experimental software needed by the experiments.
Bio: Sean Crosby is the Research Computing System
Administrator and Developer for the Centre of Excellence
for Particle Physics at the Terascale, based at the
University of Melbourne. He has 10 years experience in
high performance computing for physics research.
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.
April 2014 Beginners' Workshop: GNOME 3
Event Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/04/19
Start: Apr 19 2014 12:30
End: Apr 19 2014 17:00
Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South
Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map#vpac
Configuring the Gnome 3 Desktop, by Terry Kemp.
Terry writes:
Since version 3 of the Gnome desktop environment came out a lot
of us have been trying various alternative Desktops. I myself
have multiple desktops, including KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, Razor-Qt,
plus a few others. Early this year I read an article about Gnome
3 and a well known person, and it piqued my interest. In this
presentation I will show what I found out about configuring
Gnome 3 with a hands-on session.
I am a member of LUV and long-time Linux user from the early
days of Slackware -- until one day I saw at a LUV install feast
at MLC an install of SUSE, which I have been using since. I was
on the committee of Melbourne PC, and convenor of the Linux and
Open Souce SIG.
General Workshop Area:
At the LUV Beginners' Workshop you can come along and work with
Linux enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the
way you want. This could include friendly advice on partitions,
distributions, configurations, networking and specific
applications. Bring your laptop!
The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the
Beginners' Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC (One
Laptop Per Child) project, please come and join in!
VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria
Street, Carlton, on the north side of Victoria Street, about 50m
east of Swanston Street, opposite the north side of Melbourne
City Baths.
Public transport: frequent trams run along Swanston Street; VPAC
is a few minutes' walk from Melbourne Central train station.
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.
LUV Main April 2014 Meeting: Burnout + BTRFS
Start: Apr 1 2014 19:00
End: Apr 1 2014 21:00
Event Link: https://luv.asn.au/2014/04/01
Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge
Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main
Campus, Parkville.
Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
Bianca Gibson: Preventing Volunteer Burnout
Russell Coker: Current Status of BTRFS
========================================================
Bianca Gibson: Preventing Volunteer Burnout
In this presentation I'll be sharing practical advice
for preventing burnout in yourself and those around you,
drawing on my experience from years as a volunteer. I
will encourage audience participation.
Bianca Gibson is extremely passionate about Free
Software, a current member of the Linux.conf.au 2016
Geelong team and was a member of the Linux Australia
council for 2 years. As a teenager she spent years on
the council of a children's nature club. She recently
completed her Bachelor of Computer Science at Monash
University and started work as a graduate developer at
REA Group.
========================================================
Russell Coker: Current Status of BTRFS
Quoting from
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page:
Btrfs is a new copy on write (CoW) filesystem for Linux
aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing
on fault tolerance, repair and easy
administration. Jointly developed at Oracle, Red Hat,
Fujitsu, Intel, SUSE, STRATO and many others, Btrfs is
licensed under the GPL and open for contribution from
anyone.
Russell Coker is currently on the LUV committee.
========================================================
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.
-- Les Kitchen (LUV) ljk+luv at domain ljk.id.au via fastmail.fm
Hello! I've been a Linux user and contributor for more than twenty
years now, starting with adding support for 43-line EGA video mode. Our
website Glass Wings is having a party from 6pm to 8pm at the Wheeler
Centre in Melbourne this Friday 14 March 2014 to celebrate its 20th
anniversary and we'd love to invite you. Glass Wings has not only been
hosted on Linux since the beginning (originally on a laptop with a
10Mbps coaxial ISA-bus Ethernet adapter in an expansion bay!) but all
the content has also been created using FOSS software on Linux desktops.
We'll be bringing some of our collection of vintage laptops running
modern versions of Linux (including the Ubuntu 14.04 beta) along to the
party so you can browse the site!
More details here:
http://glasswings.com.au/2014-gw-party.html
Cheers,
Andrew
March 2014 Beginners' Workshop: Drupal
Start: Mar 15 2014 12:30
End: Mar 15 2014 17:00
Event link: https://luv.asn.au/2014/03/15
Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South
Location link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
An introduction to Drupal, by Daniel Jitnah.
Drupal is a free-software web content-management system. From
https://drupal.org/about: "Drupal is a free software package
that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your
content, with an endless variety of customization."
Daniel Jitnah is currently vice-president of LUV. He has a
particular interest in free software in education.
General Workshop Area:
At the LUV Beginners' Workshop you can come along and work with
Linux enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the
way you want. This could include friendly advice on partitions,
distributions, configurations, networking and specific
applications. Bring your laptop!
The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the
Beginners' Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC (One
Laptop Per Child) project, please come and join in!
VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria
Street, Carlton, on the north side of Victoria Street, about 50m
east of Swanston Street, opposite the north side of Melbourne
City Baths.
Public transport: frequent trams run along Swanston Street; VPAC
is a few minutes' walk from Melbourne Central train station.
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.
Start: Mar 4 2014 19:00
End: Mar 4 2014 21:00
Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building,
Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville.
Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map
Suelette Dreyfus: Whistleblowers
Colby Swandale: Vagrant
Suelette Dreyfus is a Research Fellow in the Department of
Computing and Information Systems at the University of
Melbourne. Her research interests include: Digital
whistleblowing; Health informatics; Computer security and
hacking; Organisational change; Social media for school
education. See
http://www.cis.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff.php?person_ID=7291.
She was a keynote speaker at this year's Linux Conference
Australia, http://linux.conf.au/media/news.
>From http://www.vagrantup.com/about.html: "Vagrant is a tool for
building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use
workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development
environment setup time, increases development/production parity,
and makes the 'works on my machine' excuse a relic of the past."
>From Colby Swandale's Linkedin bio: "I currently focus on all
aspects of web development from front to backend, server
administration and infrastructure design. I love working with
technologies such as Linux, BSD, PHP, Ruby, Go-Lang, Perl,
Python, Javascript, HTML and CSS for application development and
often use frameworks/CMS such as Wordpress, Joomla, Express,
Laravel, Codeigniter, Symphony and Ruby on Rails.
I regularly attend PHPMelb and given talks about Vagrant,
Codeception and PHP 5.5's password hash api. Often you will also
find me browsing Reddit reading whats the latest r/programming
or what new exploit has been posted on r/netsec whilst listening
to podcasts such as BSD Now, Techsnap and The Vergecast. "
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.
-- Les Kitchen (LUV) ljk+luv at domain ljk.id.au via fastmail.fm
Dear LUV-members,
A key feature of Linux Users of Victoria is our interesting and
entertaining talks.
Alas, our timetable for the rest of 2014 is looking a little slim at this
point.
http://wiki.luv.asn.au
Thus our venerable association call upon its greatest resource - its
members - to step up and take the mantle to provide a talk to LUV on an
appropriate subject.
Please note that we even have a slot available for the next LUV-main meeting!
I know there's plenty of talent out there and plenty of people who are
doing some really interesting things. Wouldn't it be fun to tell everyone
about it?
(People who think that this is not fun may be used as reactor shielding;
LUV is your friend and wants you to have fun.)
Please send an email to luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au if you have an idea for a talk..
All the best,
--
Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech
Mngmnt) (Chifley)
mobile: 0432 255 208
RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines
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Hi LUV members,
My name is Dan Peade and I'm a Melbourne based web application developer.
In addition to my day job, I am currently trying to assemble a volunteer
tech team to help with execution of the online strategy for the Public
Transport Not Traffic Campaign (http://www.publictransportnottraffic.org/)
We're looking for technical professionals with skills in software
development (any languages), sysadmin, javascript, CSS/HTML and graphic
design, who would be willing to contribute even the smallest amount of time
to helping make the campaign a success. We'll definitely be focused on
using open source as much as we can.
One example of the kind of projects we'll be doing was this GIS based
community engagement tool which was featured in The Age last week:
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/myki-main-cause-of-complaints-to-public-t…
The volunteer tech team initiative is sponsored by Common Code, my
employer, so all volunteers will have access to our office (organic fruit
and beer often available!) as well as the chance to meet and network with
other technical professionals in the industry.
If you think you might be interested in getting involved and helping out,
or know anyone who would be, please get in touch! I'm on email here:
dan.peade(a)gmail.com
Thanks for reading,
Dan
Email: dan.peade(a)gmail.com
