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LUV May 2019 Main Meeting: Kali Linux
by Andrew Pam 30 Apr '19

30 Apr '19

PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Tuesday, May 7, 2019 Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * errbufferoverfl: Kali Linux Kali Linux ---------- Come together in ritual to learn about KALI LINUX! A Debian based Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking distribution, with over 600 pre-installed packages. In this talk errbufferoverfl will cover as many things as she can fit into an hour, from port scanning, to web application hacking to exploit pewpewpewing. We'll be looking at some of the more popular tools available within the distribution including nmap, Burp Suite Community Edition, John the Ripper and many others. She will also discuss the phases we go through when conducting a security assessment from recon to exploitation and where these tools can be leveraged. Tonight, for one night only no server, or web application is sacred*. * But seriously please get explicit permission from the server owner before pewpewpewing things that are not owned or operated by you. errbufferoverfl was born of a moon-less night in an undisclosed location along the cyber ley lines. For the past three years errbufferoverfl has been using the mystical powers handed down for generations to write Python code and consult on security dark arts. She specialises in divination via web applications and calling upon the clouds to tell their dark secrets. She has strong opinions about client-side validation and how CSRF tokens should be handled. When she isn't testing web applications, writing code and zines you can find her in her garden tending to her poisonous plants and terrariums. Like all good cyber witches if unattended too long she will start divination by your laptop. The talk will be followed by a discussion forum. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Brunetti's or 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 April 2019 Workshop: Computerbank tour
by Andrew Pam 24 Apr '19

24 Apr '19

Start: Apr 27 2019 15:00 End: Apr 27 2019 19:00 Location: Computerbank Victoria, 1 Stawell St. North Melbourne Link: https://www.computerbank.org.au/ *PLEASE NOTE DIFFERENT TIME AND LOCATION* Brian Salter-Duke will be giving a tour of the new premises of Computerbank Victoria at 1 Stawell St. North Melbourne starting at 15:00, followed by a meeting at Errol's Cafe at 69-71 Errol St. North Melbourne from 17:00 onward. Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia. <https://www.linux.org.au/>

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PyCon AU 2019
by Andrew Pam 18 Apr '19

18 Apr '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:08:58 +1000 From: achalmers(a)westnet.com.au Hey folks, The following is for those of you interested in PyCon AU 2019. Read->re-paginate->distribute. ALC The PyCon AU 2019 Call For Proposals is now open, and we want to hear from you. Do you use Python? Do you work with people who use Python? Do you have thoughts about programming, software, and teamwork in general? Then we want to see you to be at PyCon AU in Sydney this August 2nd to 6th - and perhaps even be on our stage, speaking! Visit 2019.pycon-au.org/speak/ for more details about how to get your ideas at our conference. Want mentoring? We've got you covered. Need financial aid? We have that available, too. We're especially keen to hear from and help first time speakers and speakers who are underrepresented on conference stages. Got a question? You can email the team at speakers(a)2019.pycon-au.org.

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LUV April 2019 Main Meeting: EasyBuild
by Andrew Pam 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Tuesday, April 2, 2019 Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Lev Lafayette: EasyBuild EasyBuild --------- Building software from source is necessary for performance and development reasons. However, this can come with complex dependency and compiler requirements, which have to be explicitly stated in research computing to ensure replication of results. EasyBuild, originally developed by the Julich Supercomputing Centre, the University of Gent, and the Texas Advanced Computing Center is a tool that allows the building of software with ease, managing the complex dependencies and toolchains, and integrating by default with the Lmod environment modules system. This presentation will outline the need for tools like Easybuild, describe the framework of Easyblocks, Toolchains, and Easyconfig recipes, and extensions. It will also describe how to install and configure EasyBuild, write and contribute configuration files, and use the configurations to install software with a variety of optional parameters, such as rebuilds and partial builds. Finally it will conclude with a discussion of some of the more advanced options and opportunities for involvement in the Easybuild community. Lev Lafayette is the Senior HPC Support and Training Officer at the University of Melbourne where he has been since the end of 2015, and helps maintain the Spartan general purpose HPC system and conducts various training programmes. Prior to that he worked at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing for several years in a similar role. He's had a bit to do with Linux Users of Victoria since 2005, having been a committee member, president, vice-president, treasurer, and public officer at different points in time since then. The talk will be followed by a discussion forum. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Brunetti's or 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 March 2019 Workshop: 30th Anniversary of the Web / Federated Social Media
by Andrew Pam 15 Mar '19

15 Mar '19

Start: Mar 16 2019 12:30 End: Mar 16 2019 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map This month we will celebreate the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web with a discussion of its past, present and future. Andrew Pam will also demonstrate and discuss the installation, operation and use of federated social media platforms including Diaspora and Hubzilla. 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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LUV March 2019 Main Meeting: ZeroTier / Ethics in the computer realm
by Andrew Pam 28 Feb '19

28 Feb '19

PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Adrian Close: ZeroTier * Enno Davids: Ethics - Weasel words, weasel words, weasel words, bad thing ZeroTier -------- Please note that as Adrian was not able to present this talk in February he will be giving it this month instead. Adrian is going to talk about using ZeroTier as the basis for a resilient WAN. Also for access to and between boxes that have no direct inbound connectivity. And for VPN purposes. And for doing interesting stuff with traffic redirection and inspection. He has worked in the local Internet industry for the last 25 years or so, doing *nix sysadmin, security and networking, and generally just trying to make stuff work. Ethics - Weasel words, weasel words, weasel words, bad thing ------------------------------------------------------------ A discussion of ethical considerations inherent in using and writing software, highlighting that there are few if any hard and fast lines and that while your ethics and mine may coincide, our ethics and that other guy's may not. WARNING: copious real world examples and audience participation may be involved. Enno is a 35+ year veteran of the UNIX and Open Source fields. Having both contributed to and made use of the technologies the community has created he has a good relationship with the creators of commercial and free (in its various interpretations) software. Of late Enno has been involved in data collection both the typical OS and app based as well as remotely probed embedded (Arduino and wemos/lolin), and other monitoring and big data. Splunk has been a speciality for some time now as have some of the newer tools that appear at regular intervals. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Brunetti's or 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 February 2019 Workshop
by Andrew Pam 21 Feb '19

21 Feb '19

Start: Feb 23 2019 12:30 End: Feb 23 2019 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE Topic to be announced 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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Fwd: Update on tonight's speakers.
by Andrew Pam 05 Feb '19

05 Feb '19

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: achalmers(a)westnet.com.au Date: 5 Feb. 2019 14:08 Subject: Update on tonight's speakers. Hi everyone, I am saddened to report that Adrian Close has fallen ill and will not be speaking tonight as planned. We do have Lilly Ryan speaking on social media platforms and what happens to user accounts and data post mortem. In addition we will have Andrew Pam giving us all a run down of LCA 2019 ... especially valuable for those of us that were unable to attend this year. Hope to see you all tonight! Kind regards, ALC

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Fwd: Old 3.5" floppy drives
by Andrew Pam 02 Feb '19

02 Feb '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Paul Gardner-Stephen <paul(a)servalproject.org> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 08:53:03 +1030 Subject: Old 3.5" floppy drives To: Linux SA <linuxsa(a)linuxsa.org.au> Hello all, We are looking to collect 3.5" floppy drives for use in prototypes and pre-production units of the MEGA65 retro computer (the one I used for my presentation at LCA2019 last week). However, it seems that in the last couple of years the supply of new floppy drives has finally dried up. Thus we are looking under our proverbial couch cushions to find as many as we can. If any of you have a stash of old drives, or even single units, we'd love to hear from you! Paul.

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Fwd: PCP.CONF 2019 - Melbourne
by Andrew Pam 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

-------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Nathan Scott <nathans(a)redhat.com> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 21:24:20 +1100 I'm one of the organisers of the open source Performance Co-Pilot (pcp.io) annual conference, which will be held in Melbourne this year. The conference includes various talks on PCP as well as other open source software used in conjunction with PCP for analysis - e.g. Grafana (grafana.com) Vector (getvector.io) and Redis (redis.io). The planned schedule is: https://pcp.io/conference/2019/schedule.html It's a free (as in beer and speech), single day event on March 1st. We'd like people to register so we can ensure sufficient seats, tea and coffee - https://pcp.io/conference/2019/home.html I imagine there may be a few LUV members who might be interested in attending - if you could share this message with them it would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks! cheers. -- Nathan

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LUV February 2018 Main Meeting: All users will eventually die / ZeroTier
by Andrew Pam 01 Feb '19

01 Feb '19

PLEASE NOTE LATER START TIME 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Tuesday, February 5, 2019 Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Lilly Ryan: Why is software still so bad at acknowledging that all users will eventually die? * Adrian: ZeroTier Why is software still so bad at acknowledging that all users will eventually die? Lilly Ryan is a pen tester, Python wrangler, and recovering historian from Melbourne. She writes and speaks internationally about ethical software, social identities after death, teamwork, and the telegraph. More recently she has researched the domestic use of arsenic in Victorian England, attempted urban camouflage, reverse engineered APIs, wielded the Oxford comma, and baked a really good lemon and coconut cake. ZeroTier Adrian is going to talk about using ZeroTier as the basis for a resilient WAN. Also for access to and between boxes that have no direct inbound connectivity. And for VPN purposes. And for doing interesting stuff with traffic redirection and inspection. He has worked in the local Internet industry for the last 25 years or so, doing *nix sysadmin, security and networking, and generally just trying to make stuff work. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Brunetti's or 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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Annual Penguin Picnic, January 19, 2019
by Andrew Pam 12 Jan '19

12 Jan '19

The Linux Users of Victoria Annual Penguin Picnic will be held on Saturday, January 19, starting at 12 noon at the Yarra Bank Reserve, Hawthorn. Please bring food and drinks for yourself and optionally to share. 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. As usual, there will be no LUV main meeting nor beginners' workshop in January. Main meetings will resume on Tuesday 5 February and the next beginners meeting will be on Saturday 16 February. LUV would like to acknowledge Infoxchange for the Richmond venue. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is a subcommitee of Linux Australia.

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LUV December 2018 Main Meeting: Linux holiday gift ideas
by Andrew Pam 03 Dec '18

03 Dec '18

*PLEASE NOTE ONE HOUR DURATION * 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM Tuesday, December 4, 2018 Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Andrew Chalmers * Andrew Pam Folks, We have no formal talk scheduled for this coming Tuesday - so we're meeting as usual at the library on Tuesday to catch up with everyone where we shall do a couple of short talks and a committee Q & A. *Andrew Chalmers* I intend to discuss the coming year and the plans we have for LUV - what to expect and what is expected of you all as members of LUV and by extension LA. *Andrew Pam* A somewhat traditional Linux based holiday gift idea talk. Although short - this meeting represents a great opportunity to encourage everyone especially regular and lapsed attendees to reconnect with LUV and re-energise the core group. We will be finishing early and heading off to dinner for extended discussions and catch up over food and beverages. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at *Brunetti's* or *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 <https://www.linux.org.au/>.

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LUV November 2018 Workshop: Introduction to shell programming
by Andrew Pam 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

Start: Nov 17 2018 12:30 End: Nov 17 2018 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map ** *Introduction to shell programming * A lot of things in Linux are done on the command line. This talk starts with a very basic knowledge of the command line and describes how to leverage this into a powerful programming system. Transform those snips of commands into powerful self documenting scripts to super charge your productivity. *Andrew Worsley* is an embedded software engineer with 30+ years of programming experience. He has worked in a wide variety of areas from kernel drivers and compilers to networking equipment, AI programming languages and image processing systems such as Kodak's Image Magic. This included a variety of low level coding such writing microcode for network processors to porting kernels to new Intel and ARM based hardware. These days he is trying to keep bugs out of very high speed (100Gbit/s) encryption systems that are manufactured in Victoria and sold around the world. 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 <https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-37.810879,144.992834&z=16&t=m&hl=en-US&gl=…>. Late arrivals please call *(0421) 775 358* for access to the venue. LUV would like to acknowledge Infoxchange <https://www.infoxchange.org/au/> for the venue. Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia. <https://www.linux.org.au/>

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LUV November 2018 Workshop: Introduction to shell programming
by Andrew Pam 14 Nov '18

14 Nov '18

*Introduction to shell programming * A lot of things in Linux are done on the command line. This talk starts with a very basic knowledge of the command line and describes how to leverage this into a powerful programming system. Transform those snips of commands into powerful self documenting scripts to super charge your productivity. *Andrew Worsley* is an embedded software engineer with 30+ years of programming experience. He has worked in a wide variety of areas from kernel drivers and compilers to networking equipment, AI programming languages and image processing systems such as Kodak's Image Magic. This included a variety of low level coding such writing microcode for network processors to porting kernels to new Intel and ARM based hardware. These days he is trying to keep bugs out of very high speed (100Gbit/s) encryption systems that are manufactured in Victoria and sold around the world. 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 <https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-37.810879,144.992834&z=16&t=m&hl=en-US&gl=…>. Late arrivals please call *(0421) 775 358* for access to the venue. LUV would like to acknowledge Infoxchange <https://www.infoxchange.org/au/> for the venue. Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia. <https://www.linux.org.au/>

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LUV November 2018 Main Meeting: Computerbank / Designing Open Democracy
by Andrew Pam 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DAY DUE TO MELBOURNE CUP HOLIDAY 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Wednesday, November 7, 2018 Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Brian Salter-Duke, Computerbank * Robert Bloch, Designing Open Democracy *Computerbank* is a charity that aims to assist pensioners, students, unenployed people and others with a concession card to cross the digital and economic divide in Australia. We do this by selling low cost desktop and laptop computers to these people and assisting them to use them. Our computers use open source software (currently transitioning from Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04). We are a self funded not for profit, volunteer run community group. We rely on donations of computer equipment of all kinds, which we use as above, or recycle or sell on Ebay. Our only income is from sales in the shop and sales on Ebay. We rely largely on volunteers to build computers for sale or sell them in the shop. We do however employ a manager to supervise and train volunteers. Volunteeers work on Wednesdays, Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays. The shop is open on Friday (10 am to 5 pm) and Saturday (12.30 to 5.00 pm). Computerbank was founded in 1998 and has been in its present accommodation in West Melbourne since 2002. Unfortunately we are now looking for new accommodation as we have to move before March next year. *Designing Open Democracy* is a group for any tech professionals or political experts (or ordinary citizens) interested in discussing in a detailed way the potential opportunities for reforming existing democratic institutions; from local organisations to national governments around the world through technology or other practices. Our aim is to improve democracy: we think this can best be done by providing a forum for discussing democracy proposals, ideas, and to foster collaboration between people who would like to participate in democracy reform. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Brunetti's or 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 October 2018 Workshop: CoCalc and Nectar
by Andrew Pam 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

Start: Oct 20 2018 12:30 End: Oct 20 2018 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map CoCalc and Nectar ================= *Paul Leopardi* will give a talk and live demo of the cloud services that he is currently using, CoCalc <https://cocalc.com/> to host Jupyter notebooks, Python code, and similar and the Nectar research cloud service <https://nectar.org.au/research-cloud/> to host a PostgreSQL database and a Plotly Dash dashboard to disseminate his research results: * https://cocalc.com/projects/80f4c9e7-8a37-4f59-82e7-aa179ec0b652/files/Bool… * http://vm-130-56-248-117.nci.org.au/bfcg/ Paul is a computational scientist. That is, a computer scientist, an information technology professional, a computational mathematician, a combinatorialist, and a bioinformatician. He is interested in all these fields, as well as mathematics education, tertiary teaching, Clifford algebras, space science, science in general, innovation and entrepreneurship. He especially likes it when people use his work to do something of value. He is currently working as a scientific programmer at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. 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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Fwd: PgDay 2018 - Melbourne
by Andrew Pam 18 Oct '18

18 Oct '18

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: PgDay 2018 - Melbourne Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 04:01:47 +0000 From: andrea cucciniello <andreacucciniello(a)hotmail.com> To: Andrew Pam <andrew(a)sericyb.com.au> My name is Andrea Cucciniello, I'm the co-organiser of the local PostgreSQL User Group and volunteer of the PostgreSQL Down Under Inc association. The association purpose is to support the growth and education of PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database. We are organising PGDay Down Under conference on December 7th, in Melbourne. Given your interest in Postgres and Open Source software, I thought you might be interested attending the event. I guess many LUV members might be interested as well and if you can share the message with them it would be much appreciated. Early bird registrations are open https://2018.pgdu.org/ In addition you are more than welcome to submit a talk proposal by Sunday on October 21st. CFP closes at midnight Melbourne time. Thank you, Andrea on behalf of the PGDU team

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LUV October 2018 Main Meeting: Non-alphabetic languages / Haskell
by Andrew Pam 28 Sep '18

28 Sep '18

PLEASE NOTE RETURN TO ORIGINAL START TIME 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Tuesday, October 2, 2018 Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Wen Lin, Using Linux/FOSS in non-alphabetic languages like Chinese * Shannon Pace, Haskell Using Linux/FOSS in non-alphabetic languages like Chinese --------------------------------------------------------- Wen will discuss different input methods on a keyboard first designed only for alphabetic-base languages. *Wen Lin* is currently the Treasurer of LUV (now part of Linux Australia). He has been in the IT profession for about 30 years, primarily in the system admin area - both Windows and Linux. He started to be active in the Free & Open Source Community since 2004, inspired by the first Software Freedom Day in Melbourne. Nowadays at work Wen is using RHEL. In his own time, his distros of choice are Ubuntu/Lubuntu, followed by Fedora & CentOS. For non-OS software, LibreOffice is one that he has spent a fair bit of time with. Recently he has also been fascinated with the wonder of Raspberry Pi. Wen has a particular interest in introducing friends to using Linux and FOSS, quite often breathing new life into old Windows PCs after converting them to Linux. Haskell ------- This talk will provide a wide-ranging overview of the Haskell programming language, touching on the origins of functional programming, how it differs from the imperative paradigm, and why Haskell is an intruiging member of the functional language family. Basic elements of the language will be used to demonstrate the power of functional concepts such as purity and laziness, which will serve as a springboard for understanding Haskell programs. *Shannon Pace* is a software engineer working for Daisee on Lisa, a call centre analytics system developed using Haskell. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Brunetti's or 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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Software Freedom Day 2018 and LUV AGM
by Andrew Pam 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

It's time once again to get excited about all the benefits that Free and Open Source Software have given us over the past year and get together to talk about how Freedom and Openness can improve our human rights, our privacy, our security and our communities. It's Software Freedom Day! Free Software Melbourne and Linux Users Victoria are celebrating the 15th annual Software Freedom Day with talks about Open Data, Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware and of course Linux. We'll also be having plenty of networking opportunities and introductions to local open source technology groups. Software Freedom Day is a family friendly event and we have a code of conduct we follow. In short: Be respectful. Be mindful. Work together. Please invite anyone that is interested along to help make it a great day. Entry is free any time with light refreshments on site (snacks and sodas) and the delightful culinary options of nearby Errol St. at the conclusion of proceedings. We hope to see everyone on the 15th for a fantastic Software Freedom Day 2018! Date: Saturday the 15th September Time: Talks starting at 1:00pm and wrapping up at 5:00pm 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 on street parking in the area Code of Conduct: http://freesoftware.org.au/code-of-conduct/ Linux Users of Victoria AGM =========================== Immediately after Software Freedom Day, LUV will be holding our annual general meeting at Errol's Restaurant, 69/71 Errol St, North Melbourne VIC 3051 commencing at 5:30pm. Andrew Pam will be standing down as President, and nominations for committee positions (at least President and Treasurer, optionally also Secretary, Vice President and Ordinary Committee Members) are welcome either via email to the committee mailing list at luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au or on the day. It's not a large workload and looks good on your CV, so please consider helping out the group! Linux Users of Victoria is a subcommittee of Linux Australia.

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LUV September 2018 Main Meeting: New Developments in Supercomputing
by Andrew Pam 29 Aug '18

29 Aug '18

*PLEASE NOTE RETURN TO ORIGINAL START TIME* 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Tuesday, September 4, 2018 Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Lev Lafayette on New Developments in Supercomputing =================================================== Over the past 33 years the International Super Computing conference in Germany has become one of the world's major computing events with the bi-annual announcement of the Top500 systems, which continues to be dominated in entirety by Linux systems. In June this year over 3,500 people attended ISC with a programme of tutorials, workshops and miniconferences, poster sessions, student competitions, a vast vendor hall, and numerous other events. This presentation gives an overview of ISC and makes an attempt to cover many of the new developments and directions in supercomputing including new systems. metrics measurement, machine learning, and HPC education. In addition, the presentation will also feature material from the HPC Advisory Council conference in Fremantle held in August. 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. 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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UPDATED: LUV August 2018 Workshop: Dual-Booting Windows 10 & Ubuntu
by Andrew Pam 15 Aug '18

15 Aug '18

*UPDATE: Rescheduled due to a conflict on the original date - please note new date!* Start: Aug 25 2018 12:30 End: Aug 25 2018 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Dual-Booting Windows 10 & Ubuntu - the Fun, the Pain, the Joy ============================================================= *Wen Lin* will introduce the various methods of running multiple operating systems on one computer. Focus will of course be on the method called "Dual-boot" - specifically, Windows 10 and Linux on one computer. Since we can always get tons of documentation on the web, or videos on Youtube, on all details about installing Windows & Linux dual-boot on a PC, Wen won't be spending the entire presentation on just the how-to's. Instead, he will cover this topic from his own recent experience installing dual-boot OSs on a laptop. He will share with you the fun, the pain, some frustration, and the joy in finally getting a stable Ubuntu 18.04 running alongside a Windows 10 OS. He will also touch on a few things related to dual-boot installation on modern computers - e.g. UEFI, Secure Boot, Grub2, and disk partitioning. Wen Lin is currently the Treasurer of LUV (now part of Linux Australia). He has been in the IT profession for about 30 years, primarily in the system admin area - both Windows and Linux. He started to be active in the Free & Open Source Community since 2004, inspired by the first Software Freedom Day in Melbourne. Nowadays at work Wen is using RHEL. In his own time, his distros of choice are Ubuntu/Lubuntu, followed by Fedora & CentOS. For non-OS software, LibreOffice is one that he has spent a fair bit of time with. Recently he has also been fascinated with the wonder of Raspberry Pi. Wen has a particular interest in introducing friends to using Linux and FOSS, quite often breathing new life into old Windows PCs after converting them to Linux. 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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LUV August 2018 Workshop: Dual-Booting Windows 10 & Ubuntu
by Andrew Pam 14 Aug '18

14 Aug '18

Start: Aug 18 2018 12:30 End: Aug 18 2018 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Dual-Booting Windows 10 & Ubuntu - the Fun, the Pain, the Joy ============================================================= *Wen Lin* will introduce the various methods of running multiple operating systems on one computer. Focus will of course be on the method called "Dual-boot" - specifically, Windows 10 and Linux on one computer. Since we can always get tons of documentation on the web, or videos on Youtube, on all details about installing Windows & Linux dual-boot on a PC, Wen won't be spending the entire presentation on just the how-to's. Instead, he will cover this topic from his own recent experience installing dual-boot OSs on a laptop. He will share with you the fun, the pain, some frustration, and the joy in finally getting a stable Ubuntu 18.04 running alongside a Windows 10 OS. He will also touch on a few things related to dual-boot installation on modern computers - e.g. UEFI, Secure Boot, Grub2, and disk partitioning. Wen Lin is currently the Treasurer of LUV (now part of Linux Australia). He has been in the IT profession for about 30 years, primarily in the system admin area - both Windows and Linux. He started to be active in the Free & Open Source Community since 2004, inspired by the first Software Freedom Day in Melbourne. Nowadays at work Wen is using RHEL. In his own time, his distros of choice are Ubuntu/Lubuntu, followed by Fedora & CentOS. For non-OS software, LibreOffice is one that he has spent a fair bit of time with. Recently he has also been fascinated with the wonder of Raspberry Pi. Wen has a particular interest in introducing friends to using Linux and FOSS, quite often breathing new life into old Windows PCs after converting them to Linux. 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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CORRECTED: LUV August 2018 Main Meeting: PF on OpenBSD and fail2ban
by Andrew Pam 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

PLEASE NOTE CHANGED START TIME Another group has the room before us, so we're starting half an hour later this month. 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Tuesday, August 7, 2018 Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Roger, PF on OpenBSD * Russell Coker, fail2ban Roger will be discussing PF on OpenBSD including an explanation of what PF is, how he uses it, the syntax and rules, logging, and tagging. Roger is a *nix like OS enthusiast and a Django developer. Korn is his shell, XTerm his terminal, vim his editor and PF his packet filter. Python and C always sound good to him. Russell Coker has just installed fail2ban on several of his servers and will talk about how installing and configuring it was surprisingly easy and why it offers significant benefits over iptables rate limiting or having no protection against repeated connection attempts. Russell has done lots of Linux development over the years, mostly involved with Debian. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Trotters Bistro or Brunetti's 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 August 2018 Main Meeting: PF on OpenBSD and fail2ban
by Andrew Pam 31 Jul '18

31 Jul '18

PLEASE NOTE CHANGED START TIME Another group has the room before us, so we're starting half an hour later this month. 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM Tuesday, July 3, 2018 Training Room, Kathleen Syme Library, 251 Faraday Street Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Roger, PF on OpenBSD * Russell Coker, fail2ban Roger will be discussing PF on OpenBSD including an explanation of what PF is, how he uses it, the syntax and rules, logging, and tagging. Roger is a *nix like OS enthusiast and a Django developer. Korn is his shell, XTerm his terminal, vim his editor and PF his packet filter. Python and C always sound good to him. Russell Coker has just installed fail2ban on several of his servers and will talk about how installing and configuring it was surprisingly easy and why it offers significant benefits over iptables rate limiting or having no protection against repeated connection attempts. Russell has done lots of Linux development over the years, mostly involved with Debian. Many of us like to go for dinner nearby after the meeting, typically at Trotters Bistro or Brunetti's 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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