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LUV Main October: Amazon Web Services + Privacy/Surveillance
by Les Kitchen 24 Sep '13

24 Sep '13

Web version is at http://luv.asn.au/2013/10/01 Start: Oct 1 2013 19:00 End: Oct 1 2013 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map 1. Simon Elisha: AWS -- Overview & Useful things for Linux Users 2. Jan Whitaker: Privacy in the age of pervasive surveillance Simon Elisha: AWS -- Overview & Useful things for Linux Users AWS enables businesses and developers to do new and exciting things that were previously impractical or expensive. This session will provide a brief overview of AWS and useful things for Linux users. Simon Elisha is Principal Solution Architect for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Simon works with senior IT leaders and their teams across all business sizes to help them use cloud computing as a business edge so that they can reduce costs and increase business agility. Simon has 23 years of extensive experience in large-scale systems architecture and deep knowledge of cloud computing where he brings a pragmatic approach to solving complex problems. He has held senior roles at Cisco, Hitachi Data Systems, VERITAS Software, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EDS and business consulting organizations. Simon holds an Honors Degree in Information Technology from Monash University. Jan Whitaker: Privacy in the age of pervasive surveillance For anyone paying attention nowadays, the words Wikileaks, NSA, and Snowden bring to mind a range of reactions, from repulsion to "nothing to hide, nothing to fear", and most likely a lot of points in between. What do these social change developments mean for people working in the ICT industry and the users of computer based services? What do they mean for making ethical decisions for oneself, one's family, and one's employer? Is privacy truly dead or just on its last breath? Is it worth fighting for? If so, how? Where do alternatives to the 'big 2' operating systems fit in? Can open source play a part? These are a smattering of the questions up for grabs in Jan's talk. Jan Whitaker, MACS (Snr) CP, is an independent consultant in ICT, a recent former board member of the Australian Privacy Foundation (APF), and a life member of Electronic Frontiers Australia (EFA). She has been teaching ethics, professionalism, risk management, and compliance for ICT professionals through the Australian Computer Society for the last four years. She has also been a longtime member of the Melbourne PC User Group and is convenor of the Casey Group of Melbpc. 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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No Beginner's Workshop in September, SFD instead
by Les Kitchen 12 Sep '13

12 Sep '13

Just to let you know: There'll be *no* LUV Beginners' Workshop this month. Instead we'll be celebrating Software Freedom Day, on Saturday, 21 September, 09:30-17:00, at the Melbourne Unitarian Church hall in East Melbourne. See http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2013/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/SFD for details. I hope to see many of you there. -- Smiles, Les (as LUV Sec.)

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Software Freedom Day 2013 : Free Software for a Free Society
by Lev Lafayette 08 Sep '13

08 Sep '13

Linux Users of Victoria and Free Software Melbourne Present... Software Freedom Day 2013 : Free Software for a Free Society Software Freedom Day is an international event celebrating of Free Software. Starting in 2004 in now hosts over a thousand events in over forty countries. The Melbourne event will be held on Saturday, September 21st, 9.30 to 17.00 at 110 Grey Street East Melbourne (Melbourne Unitarian Church hall) It's about 5 minutes from Jolimont Station , or a brisk 10 minute walk from Parliament station or West Richmond. There's plenty of parking at the site as well! Speakers 9.30 Introduction: Video Welcome from Dr. Richard Stallman 10.00 Andrew Pam, Content Creation with Free Software Tools 11.00 Pat Sunter, Free and Open Source In Public Decision-Making 12.00 Adam Bolte, Protecting Yourself Online 13.00 Lunch 14.00 Ben McGuiness, Pirate Party's Policy on Copyright and Patents 15.00 Kathy Reid, The Orgnisation of Free Software Communities 16.00 Lev Lafayette, Beyond Software - Steps Towards A Free Society Plus plenty of t-shirts, software and other paraphrenalia giveaways, videos and a free lunch (with open sauce). -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GCertPM, MBA mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Reminder: LUV AGM (3 Sept) and proxies and deadline
by Les Kitchen 30 Aug '13

30 Aug '13

Dear LUV members, This is just a reminder about the LUV AGM next Tuesday (followed by lightning talks). See http://luv.asn.au/2013/09/03 If you can't make it to the AGM and still want to vote either way on the disincorporation resolution, then it is possible to lodge a proxy form, to empower another LUV member who will be present to make your vote on your behalf. Proxies must be delivered to the LUV Secretary no later than 24 hours before the meeting, that is by 19:00 on Monday, 2 September 2013. You can read the current rules yourself at https://luv.asn.au/node/8 For your convenience, I've copied into this message the text of the proxy form, prepopulated with meeting details and the text of the disincorporation resolution. (Note that the form in Appendix 3 is the one applicable to AGMs.) You will need to fill this in properly with the names and details of yourself and the proxy. Make sure you indicate your vote by deleting either "in favor of" or "against" in the appropriate line, so that it reads My proxy to vote in favor of the following resolution or My proxy to vote against the following resolution You can assign your proxy to any LUV member. However, as we understand the rules, it can be counted only if that member is actually present at the AGM. If you don't know any other member who you are sure will be at the AGM, then we the committee suggest that you assign your proxy to the President, Lev Lafayette, who will surely be there. As our current rules work, a member can hold proxies both for and against a resolution, and vote them accordingly. If you're sending your proxy by email (as is most likely), then send the filled-in proxy form to the LUV Secretary <luv-secretary(a)luv.asn.au> by the deadline, 19:00, Monday, 2 September 2013. Please, as best you can: (1) Send the email from the address under which you're registered as a LUV member on luv-announce; (2) CC a copy to the LUV member to whom you're assigning your proxy, to the address under which that member is registered; (3) Indicate clearly in the Subject header: Proxy FOR disincorporation resolution or Proxy AGAINST disincorporation resolution Doing the above will expedite processing and collation by your Secretary. If you have any questions about proxies and the AGM, please post to luv-main (and check there in case your questions have already been answered). Proxy form follows below. You can copy'n'paste it into your email. -- All the best, Les Kitchen (as LUV Secretary). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- APPENDIX 3 FORM OF APPOINTMENT OF PROXY I, _________________________________________________________________________, of _________________________________________________________________________ being a member of Linux Users of Victoria, Inc. appoint ____________________________________________________________________ of _________________________________________________________________________ being a member of that Incorporated Association, as my proxy to vote for me on my behalf at the annual general meeting of the Association to be held on - Tuesday, 3 September 2013 (date of meeting) and at any adjournment of that meeting. My proxy to vote in favor of/against* the following resolution "THAT Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., dis-incorporate in accordance to the Act, subject to being accepted as a subcommittee of Linux Australia, Inc." ______________________________________________ Signed ______________________________________________ Date * Delete if not applicable -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Reminder: LUV committee nominations close at midnight, 27 August
by Les Kitchen 27 Aug '13

27 Aug '13

This is just a reminder to all members that nominations for LUV office bearers and ordinary committee members must be received by the LUV Secretary by *midnight* tonight. At this point, the best way of doing that is by email to luv-secretary(a)luv.asn.au A candidate needs nominations from two LUV members, and must also give consent. That can be done by three separate email messages. Alternatively, one of the members concerned can send a combination email containing the two nomination statements and consent. In that case I would recommend cc'ing the other members concerned, as a convenient way of indicating their agreement. I should also point out that self-nomination is not forbidden. So, at a minimum, a nomination requires just two members, the self-nominating candidate, and one other member. The association's rules can be found at https://luv.asn.au/node/8 In particular, note Section 23, Election of officers and ordinary committee members, in which email is taken to be "in writing" and should be sent to luv-secretary(a)luv.asn.au -- Smiles, Les (as LUV Secretary).

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Notice of LUV AGM, 3 September 2013 + lightning talks
by Les Kitchen 20 Aug '13

20 Aug '13

[Notice also online at http://luv.asn.au/2013/09/03 ] Start: Sep 3 2013 19:00 End: Sep 3 2013 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map * Annual General Meeting of Linux Users of Victoria, Inc. (Note, deadline for committee nominations is 27 August.) * Lightning talks Agenda for Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., Annual General Meeting As per rule 9 of Linux Users of Victoria, notification is given for our Annual General Meeting, to be held at 19:00 hours on Tuesday 3rd of September at the Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan-Burge Building, University of Melbourne. The agenda is: 1. Reports of President, Secretary, and Treasurer The current President, Secretary, and Treasurer will give brief reports on the activities, membership, and finances of the organisation and satisfy the requirements under the Act. 2. Election Nominations are sought for the position of (a) President, (b) Vice-President, (c) Secretary, (d) Treasurer and (e) four ordinary committee members. As per rule 23, nominations must be sent to the Secretary. There must be at least two nominators (a candidate can be one of these two, i.e., you can nominate yourself) and nomination is contingent on being accepted by the nominee. Nominations must be received by midnight of the 27th of August. 3.1 Motion of Disincorporation A motion will be put concerning disincorporation of LUV, Inc., and to convert Linux Users of Victoria as a subcommittee of Linux Australia, Inc. In the event of winding up, the assets of the association must be disposed of in accordance to the provisions of the Act. 3.2 Motion of Change to Constitution re: Secretary and Public Officer As per changes in the Act last year, a motion will be put to combine the roles of Public Officer and Secretary. Note that this motion will be put only if the motion of disincorporation fails. 4. General Business Any General Business that must be dealt with at this meeting can be brought up here. 5. Lightning Talks The LUV AGM seeks lightning talks from members: brief presentations (c. 5 minutes) of a Linux related technology that they are using or wish to explore. 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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August 2013 Beginners' Meeting: Emacs
by Les Kitchen 10 Aug '13

10 Aug '13

Start: Aug 17 2013 12:30 End: Aug 17 2013 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map "Change your life with Emacs" by Les Kitchen Les writes: Emacs is one of the great text editors. I use it every day. Why? It helps me do what I want to do, both in programming and everyday life. Emacs is programmable (in Emacs Lisp), and so is immensely flexible, and has a huge number of extensions. It works on all the computers I use. It can do things that few other programs can do, like connect to multiple displays at the same time. In this talk I want to share some of this with you, especially treating Org-mode (the personal organizer), and Calc (the advanced calculator), and how Emacs works with other useful free programs, like X and ssh and git. A bit about me: Depending on my mood, I'll call myself a hacker or a computer scientist, or a sometime academic. I've been using GNU/Linux since 1991 or 1992 (so long ago), and have been using Emacs for even longer. I've been on the LUV Committee for a few years now, and currently am Secretary. 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, close to the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets. It is accessible by all Swanston Street trams and is is near to 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.

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LUV July 2013 Beginners Workshop: Virtualisation
by Lev Lafayette 14 Jul '13

14 Jul '13

July 2013 Beginners Meeting: An Introduction to Virtualisation Start: Jul 20 2013 12:30 End: Jul 20 2013 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map "Introduction to Virtualisation for Beginners" by Daniel Jitnah Virtualization is simulating a hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or network resources. Hardware virtualization or platform virtualization refers to the creation of a virtual machine that acts like a real computer with an operating system. Software executed on these virtual machines is separated from the underlying hardware resources. Daniel is an Independent Developer and Consultant in Linux and Open Source System. He has been using Linux for over 10yrs, starting with an old version of Slackware, and then moving to RedHat 5.1 - From then on he never looked back. He also claims to having never used Windows or Microsoft software as his primary Operating System. Prior to using Linux, he was using OS/2 and before that he used plain DOS, IBM branded and DR-DOS. His first computer was a Commodore 128 system!! - Unfortunately - he also had a dab of bad SCO Xenix at some stage in his life :( !! 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. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GCertPM, MBA mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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LUV July 2013: Raspberry Pi and Server Transfers with Xen
by Lev Lafayette 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

Start: Jul 7 2013 19:00 End: Jul 7 2013 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Alec Clews, Recent developments with Raspberry Pi Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. Alec Clews is called alecthegeek on various social web site. He drinks lots of espresso and works as freelance consultant on software process and application lifecycle management. He first used Linux probably at patch 0.99p, founded the Greater London Linux User Group and organised the UK's 1st Linux conference. Russell Coker, Server Transfers Using Xen Xen is a hypervisor providing services that allow multiple computer operating systems to execute on the same computer hardware concurrently. Russell does general Linux programming and systems administration. He is most well known for his work on NSA Security Enhanced Linux. Other projects he has been involved in include Bonnie++ (lead developer), Postal (lead developer), Debian (developer), Linux Security Modules (LSM) (contributor), KDE (contributor), OpenSSH (contributor). 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. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), MBA, GCertPM mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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June LUV Beginners' Workshop, 15 June 2013
by Daniel Jitnah 11 Jun '13

11 Jun '13

Start:June 15 2013 12:30 End: June 15 2013 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link:http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Presentation: Topic: Various backup solutions and options for Linux users. Presenter: Wen Lin This talk will focus on backing up of data for your personal computer, using a variety of free and open source backup software. The backup software I will be introducing a bit more will be: - Back In Time - command line rsync - Clonezilla General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginner's 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, close to the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets. It is accessible by all Swanston Street trams and is is near to 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 i

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