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Software Freedom Day and Annual General Meeting
by Andrew Pam 06 Sep '17

06 Sep '17

Software Freedom Day 2017 ========================= It's that time of the year where we celebrate our freedoms in technology and raise a ruckus about all the freedoms that have been eroded away. The time of the year we look at how we might keep our increasingly digital lives under our our own control and prevent prying eyes from seeing things they shouldn't. You guessed it: It's Software Freedom Day! Free Software Melbourne, in conjunction with Linux Users Victoria, is celebrating the 14th annual Software Freedom Day with talks from Linux Users Victoria, Electronic Frontiers Australia and the F-Droid app store. We'll also be having plenty of networking opportunities, introductions to local technology groups and a Linux installfest. So bring down that old PC you were about to throw away and give it a new coat of Debian and bring it back to life! We have a Code of Conduct online which we follow. In short: Be respectful. Be mindful. Work together. Link provided below. This is a family friendly event, please invite anyone that is interested along to help make it a great day. Entry is free anytime, so help spread the word on everyone’s liberties. Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be provided gratis. Hope to see all your happy faces at the event (you don't have to be happy, but be there!) Schedule -------- 12:00pm - Doors open 12:15pm - Introduction to FOSS with FSM 1:00pm - Michael Verrenkamp - Welcome and Gnews for the year 1:15pm - Jon Lawrence - Electronic Frontiers Australia 2:15pm - OS Community get together - Community group introductions 2:45pm - Break and Installfest (Debian focused) 3:15pm - Andrew Pam - Linux 4:15pm - Peter Serwylo - F-Droid 6:00pm - End Day... Dinner at KL Bangra Details ------- Date: Saturday the 16th September 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 2 hour parking in the area Code of Conduct: http://freesoftware.org.au/code-of-conduct/ Links: - Official Site: <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2017/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Free <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2017/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Free%2…>Software Melbourne and Linux Users Victoria <http://wiki.softwarefreedomday.org/2017/Australia/Victoria/Melbourne/Free%2…>> - FSM Site: https://freesoftware.org.au/blog/fsm-sept-16th-software-freedom-day-2017 Annual General Meeting ====================== Notice of LUV Annual General Meeting, 16 September 2017, 17:30. Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding its Annual General Meeting at 5:30pm on Saturday 16 September 2017 at Electron Workshop, 31 Arden St. North Melbourne. The AGM will be held in conjunction with Software Freedom Day, an event being held at the time of our usual Beginners Meeting. Note that the meeting is scheduled at this time and place for convenience, since we expect a number of LUV members to be attending the Software Freedom Day event anyway. However, keep in mind that this AGM is a separate LUV meeting, and is not part of the Software Freedom Day program. Electron Workshop is on the south side of Arden Street, about half way between Errol Street and Leveson Street. Public transport: 57 tram, nearest stop at corner of Errol and Queensberry Streets; 55 and 59 trams run a few blocks away along Flemington Road; 402 bus runs along Arden Street, but nearest stop is on Errol Street. On a Saturday afternoon, some car parking should be available on nearby streets. LUV would like to thank Electron Workshop for making their boardroom available for this meeting. AGM BUSINESS The only matters of business to be considered at this meeting are: * Confirm minutes of annual general meeting on 4th October 2016. * Receive and consider annual report of the committee. * Receive and consider financial statements. * Elect committee: office-bearers (President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer) and ordinary committee members. Nominations: Nominations for committee positions will be accepted at the meeting. You can nominate yourself, or another member if that other member agrees to the nomination. If you wish to nominate yourself or another member, and can't be at the AGM, you should nominate a proxy to do the nominating on your behalf. Proxies: You may appoint another member of LUV as your proxy for this meeting, to speak and vote on your behalf if you are unable to attend. If you are submitting your proxy on paper, you should sign and date it. If you are emailing your proxy, then the date and act of emailing will be taken as the equivalent of signing and dating a paper proxy. You can use the following form, which you can copy from between the horizontal rules, inserting your own name and that of your proxy as appropriate: ------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------ I, [insert your name], being a member of Linux Users of Victoria, appoint [insert name of your proxy], being also a member of Linux Users of Victoria, as my proxy to vote on my behalf at the Annual General Meeting of the association to be held on 16th September 2017, and at any adjournment of that meeting. [You can add here any specific instructions to your proxy, such as directions to vote in a particular way on a particular item. If you have no specific instructions, you can delete this bracketed paragraph.] ------------------------------ 8< ------------------------------ Notes about proxies: * You can appoint any LUV member as your proxy. However, the committee suggests that it's practical and convenient to appoint the President, Andrew Pam, as your proxy, who can be trusted to act on your proxy faithfully. * Emailed proxies should be sent to luv-secretary(a)luv.asn.au, and must be received at least 24 hours before the meeting. * Members who wish to send a paper proxy by post should contact the Secretary for the postal address to use. Such proxies also must be received at least 24 hours before the meeting. * Paper proxies can also be presented at the commencement of the meeting itself. * We recommend using the above form. However, under the new model rules, you can instead use any form that clearly identifies your proxy and is signed by you. Questions about this meeting are best posted to luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au. -- Andrew Pam, as LUV President.

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LUV Main September 2017 Meeting: Cygwin and Virtualbox
by Andrew Pam 01 Sep '17

01 Sep '17

Start: Sep 5 2017 18:30 End: Sep 5 2017 20:30 Location: The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Tuesday, September 5, 2017 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM The Dan O'Connell Hotel 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Duncan Roe, Cygwin * Steve Roylance, Virtualbox *Cygwin* is a large collection of GNU and Open Source tools which provide functionality similar to a Linux distribution on Windows. It allows easy porting of many Unix programs without the need for extensive changes to the source code. *Duncan Roe* has had a Linux desktop since 1993. A software developer, he first used Linux professionally in 1994. He has been hacking on Linux ever since. *VirtualBox* is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. It is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Food and drinks will be available on premises. Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV hardware library
by Andrew Pam 25 Aug '17

25 Aug '17

Looking for spare computer parts or free computers to experiment with? Something you can play with and nobody cares if it breaks? Come to the LUV beginners meetings every month at Infoxchange. We currently have hard drives up to 7200RPM 1TB SATA, DDR3 RAM (a couple of 2x2GB kits), several older Nvidia video cards, an entire late-90s desktop system complete with laser printer, SCSI scanner and gaming joystick, a low-power fanless VIA C3 system, a dual-PSU HP Proliant server, a large collection of cases, power supplies and motherboards (some with CPUs), some keyboards and mice, and a few older screens and laptops in unknown condition, plus more in Russell Coker's collection. Please feel free to ask if you need anything, or come and scavenge. If you don't know how to assemble or replace hardware, let us know and we could run a workshop on refurbishing older hardware to run Linux! Hope to see you there tomorrow or in the future! https://luv.asn.au/2017/08/26 Cheers, Andrew

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LUV Beginners August Meeting: Secure Shell (SSH)
by Andrew Pam 20 Aug '17

20 Aug '17

PLEASE NOTE THE DATE Start: Aug 26 2017 12:30 End: Aug 26 2017 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Secure Shell (SSH) SSH (Secure Shell) is a secure means, mainly used on Linux and other UNIX-like systems, to access remote systems designed as a replacement for a variety of insecure protocols (e.g., telnet, rlogin etc). This presentation will cover the core usage of the protocol, its development (SSH-1 and SSH-2), the architecture (client-server, public key authentication), installation and implementation, and some handy elaborations and enhancements, and real and imagined vulnerabilities. Plenty of examples will be provided throughout along with the opportunity to test the protocol. *Lev Lafayette* is the HPC and Training Office at the University of Melbourne, which includes responsibility for the cloud-HPC hybrid, 'Spartan'. Prior to that he worked in a similar role at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC). He has had a little bit to do with LUV for more than a decade. Outside of the technical world, he enjoys stirring the possum in real-world politics, playing and designing simulation games, and most recently has developed an interest in languages. 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 (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) 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 Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main August 2017 Meeting: QEMU and ARM on AMD64
by Andrew Pam 29 Jul '17

29 Jul '17

Start: Aug 1 2017 18:30 End: Aug 1 2017 20:30 Location: The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Tuesday, August 1, 2017 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM The Dan O'Connell Hotel 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: * Tony Cree, CEO Aboriginal Literacy Foundation (to be confirmed) * Russell Coker, QEMU and ARM on AMD64 *Russell Coker* will demonstrate how to use QEMU to run software for ARM CPUs on an x86 family CPU. The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Food and drinks will be available on premises. Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners July Meeting: Teaching programming using video games
by Andrew Pam 12 Jul '17

12 Jul '17

Start: Jul 15 2017 12:30 End: Jul 15 2017 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Andrew Pam will be demonstrating a range of video games that run natively on Linux and explicitly include programming skills as part of the game including SpaceChem, InfiniFactory, TIS-100, Shenzen I/O, Else Heart.Break(), Hack 'n' Slash and Human Resource Machine. He will seek feedback on the suitability of these games for teaching programming skills to non-programmers and the possibility of group play in a classroom or workshop setting. 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 (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) 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 Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main July 2017 Meeting
by Andrew Pam 02 Jul '17

02 Jul '17

Start: Jul 4 2017 18:30 End: Jul 4 2017 20:30 Location: The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION Tuesday, July 4, 2017 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM The Dan O'Connell Hotel 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: • To be announced Come have a drink with us and talk about Linux. If you have something cool to show, please bring it along! The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Food and drinks will be available on premises. Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners June Meeting: Debian 9 release party!
by Andrew Pam 14 Jun '17

14 Jun '17

Start: Jun 17 2017 12:30 End: Jun 17 2017 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Debian Linux version 9 (codename "Stretch") is scheduled for release on 17 June 2017. Join us in celebrating the release and assisting anyone who would like to install or upgrade to the new version! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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=…> (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) Late arrivals, please call *(0421) 775 358* for access to the venue. LUV would like to acknowledge Infoxchange <http://infoxchange.org/> for the venue. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main June 2017 Meeting
by Andrew Pam 05 Jun '17

05 Jun '17

Start: Jun 6 2017 18:30 End: Jun 6 2017 20:30 Location: The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map *PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION* Tuesday, June 6, 2017 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM The Dan O'Connell Hotel 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: • To be announced Come have a drink with us and talk about Linux. If you have something cool to show, please bring it along! The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Food and drinks will be available on premises. Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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OpenStack Australia Day Melbourne
by Andrew Pam 26 May '17

26 May '17

>From Jessica Field, one of the organisers: Held in Melbourne, OpenStack Australia Day is set to be the region’s largest, and Australia’s best, conference focusing on Open Source cloud technology. Gathering users, vendors and solution providers OpenStack Australia Day is an industry event to showcase the latest technologies and share real-world experiences of the next wave of IT virtualisation. Hosted by Aptira and the OpenStack Foundation, this conference will feature a range of sessions on the broader cloud and Software Defined Infrastructure ecosystem including OpenStack, containers, PaaS and automation with insights from some of the most talented members of the OpenStack community. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear real business cases, learn about new products, and participate in hands-on workshops, as well as a networking event for a less formal opportunity to engage with the community. We have a stack of prizes and giveaways available, with the chance to win a free pass to the November Sydney OpenStack Summit (valued at $600), a free registration for the OpenStack COA exam, 2 x Nespresso coffee machines, a 3D printer and more. This venue will include free event wi-fi for all attendees, a restaurant featuring the best of Victorian and Australian produce, contemporary bars and on-site accommodation. Accommodation discount codes are available upon request. For more information or to register, please visit: http://australiaday.openstack.org.au/ I hope to see you all there!

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LUV Beginners May Meeting: Dealing with Security as a Linux Desktop User
by Andrew Pam 16 May '17

16 May '17

Start: May 20 2017 12:30 End: May 20 2017 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map This presentation will introduce the various aspects of IT security that Linux Desktop users may be grappling with on an ongoing basis. The target audience of the talk will be beginners (newbies) - who might have had bad experiences using Windows OS all these years, and don't know what to expect when tiptoeing into the new world of Linux. General Linux users who don't always pay much attention to aspects of security may also find interest in sharing some of the commonsense practices that are essential to using our computers safely. Topics to be covered will include: Firewalls, System Updates, WiFi Security, User Passwords, encrypting your data, etc. We will also address a frequently asked question: Do I really need Anti-Virus software installed on my Linux computer? *Wen Lin* is currently the Treasurer of LUV (now part of Linux Australia). He has been in the IT profession for about 28 years, primarily in the system admin area - both Windows and Linux. He started to be active in the Free & Open Source Community in 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 <https://maps.google.com/maps?ll=-37.810879,144.992834&z=16&t=m&hl=en-US&gl=…> (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) Late arrivals, please call *(0421) 775 358* for access to the venue. LUV would like to acknowledge Infoxchange <http://infoxchange.org/> for the venue. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main May 2017 Meeting: The Plasma programming language
by Andrew Pam 30 Apr '17

30 Apr '17

Start: May 2 2017 18:30 End: May 2 2017 20:30 Location: The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION Tuesday, May 2, 2017 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM The Dan O'Connell Hotel 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: • Dr. Paul Bone, the Plasma programming language • To be announced The Plasma Programming Language Strong static typed, pure functional programming (FP) has a lot to offer in terms of software reliability and performance. FP also provides a strong foundation for improved parallelism and concurrency support. However FP has a well-deserved reputation for being difficult to learn, and it is yet to deliver the promises of easy parallelism and concurrency. The Plasma Programming Language is a new language that aims to address these problems. Plasma is a mix of declarative and imperative programming and aims to be familiar and easy to learn for most people while providing the safety guarantees of strong static typing and pure functional semantics. Plasma will also support parallel and concurrent programming via a mix of concurrency abstractions (queues, mvars etc), and deterministic and automatic parallelism. The project is in its infancy and is not useful. However Paul hopes to share his vision for Plasma's future. Dr Paul Bone is a programming language implementer. His interests include declarative programming, parallelism and concurrency and language runtime systems. Paul works on the Mercury and Plasma programming languages. The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Food and drinks will be available on premises. Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners April Meeting: Compiling Software from Source Code
by Andrew Pam 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Start: Apr 22 2017 12:30 End: Apr 22 2017 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map *PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE due to the Easter holiday* Lev will offer a tutorial and demonstration on compiling software from source code. This is useful when you need something not already packaged by your distribution, you need a newer version than is currently packaged, or to select your own configuration or make your own changes. Lev Lafayette is the HPC and Training Officer at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that he worked at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) in a similar role for several years. Since 2006 he has done a few things for LUV as well. 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 (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) 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 Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main April 2017 Meeting: SageMath / Simultaneous multithreading
by Andrew Pam 03 Apr '17

03 Apr '17

Start: Apr 4 2017 18:30 End: Apr 4 2017 20:30 Location: The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 *PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION* Tuesday, April 4, 2017 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM The Dan O'Connell Hotel 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Speakers: • Adetokunbo "Xero" Arogbonlo, SageMath • Stewart Smith, Simultaneous multithreading Adetokunbo "Xero" Arogbonlo, SageMath ------------------------------------- SageMath is FOSS mathematics software. Big understatement! It is a confederation of some of the best FOSS tools for mathematics and scientific computing. Some of the tools that make up SageMath include: Jupyter notebook, Maxima, GLPK, Gniac, Numpy, R, Scipy, GAP, FLINT, Sympy, Macaulay2, Blas, Atlas and Lapack to mention but a few. SageMath brings all these tools (complete and successful programs in their own right) into a single environment with a uniform interface and one simple language to bind them all: Python. SageMath is used in a wide range of fields by people of varying levels of education and expertise. It is used in cryptography, mathematics research, engineering, undergraduate courses and even high school. The development of Sagemath is very active with multiple releases every year. This talk will present a broad overview of SageMath and some of its capabilities with live demos. Xero is currently doing a PhD in Control Theory. He enjoys learning as well as intellectual challenges. Stewart Smith, Simultaneous multithreading ------------------------------------------ Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) is a technique for improving the overall efficiency of superscalar CPUs with hardware multithreading. SMT permits multiple independent threads of execution to better utilize the resources provided by modern processor architectures. Examples include Intel's Hyperthreading and IBM POWER CPUs. Stewart will cover the attributes of modern CPUs, where we came from and what the future may hold. Stewart Smith 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. The Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, Carlton VIC 3053 Food and drinks will be available on premises. Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Fwd: [Announce] Cartesian Creative partners with Linux Australia Grants Program to improve open source UX
by Andrew Pam 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Announce] Cartesian Creative partners with Linux Australia Grants Program to improve open source UX Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 10:35:27 +1100 From: Linux Australia President <president(a)linux.org.au> Organization: Linux Australia Dear Colleagues, Cartesian Creative, a Melbourne-based design and software agency, are partnering with Linux Australia, offering up to $4k matched funding on Grants aimed at improving the user experience (UX) of open source software projects. Matched dollar for dollar by Linux Australia, this means that UX improvement projects could receive up to $AUD 8k in funding. Duncan Macneil, Senior UX Analyst at Cartesian Creative was excited at the value the partnership will deliver. "Open Source projects don't often get the luxury of time spent on UX concerns. By co-sponsoring this grant, Cartesian Creative recognise the contribution Free, Libre and Open Source projects make in the tech community, along with the importance of compelling user experiences." Linux Australia President, Kathy Reid, was delighted with the partnership. "User experience is an often undervalued component of software, hardware and digital projects, and time and again in the open source community we see products which are very functional, but barely usable. We're thrilled to be partnering with a company with such strong UX credentials to help improve open source UX. Innovation truly does happen at the intersection of art and science." More information on the Grants Program, including how to apply, is available at: https://linux.org.au/projects/grants <https://linux.org.au/projects/grants> Cartesian Creative is a Melbourne-based consultancy: http://cartesiancreative.com.au With kind regards, Kathy Reid -- Kathy Reid President Linux Australia 0418 130 636 president(a)linux.org.au http://linux.org.au Linux Australia Inc GPO Box 4788 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia ABN 56 987 117 479

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LUV Beginners March Meeting: node.js workshop
by Andrew Pam 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Start: Mar 18 2017 12:30 End: Mar 18 2017 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map node.js workshop ================ Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient. Node.js' package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world. Members will be invited to install and learn about node.js with peer assistance. 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 (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) 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 Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main March 2017 Meeting: Multicore World / Patching with quilt
by Andrew Pam 06 Mar '17

06 Mar '17

*PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION* Tuesday, March 7, 2017 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM Level 29, 570 Bourke St. Melbourne Speakers: • Lev Lafayette, MultiCore World 2017 Wellington • Russell Coker, Patching with quilt Lev Lafayette, Multicore World 2017 Wellington ---------------------------------------------- Lev Lafayette is the HPC and Training Officer at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that he worked at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) in a similar role for several years. Since 2006 he has done a few things for LUV as well. Russell Coker, Patching with quilt ---------------------------------- Russell Coker has done lots of Linux development over the years, mostly involved with Debian. 570 Bourke St. Melbourne, between King and William streets Late arrivals needing access to the building and the twenty-ninth floor please call 0490 627 326 or 0421 775 358. 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. LUV would like to acknowledge Dell for their help in obtaining the venue. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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March LUV meeting suspended pending new venue
by Andrew Pam 22 Feb '17

22 Feb '17

We have just been told that due to "a change in direction from the management team" of Trinity College, our regular venue will no longer be available for our meetings. The committee is currently investigating options for a convenient new location and will make an announcement as soon as we have something organised. Apologies for the short notice. Regards, Andrew

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NEW DATE: LUV Beginners February Meeting: Static websites with Jekyll, Hugo and Forestry
by Andrew Pam 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE FOR THIS MONTH ONLY Unfortunately as our host venue is having the building fully cleaned this weekend including steam cleaning the carpets, the venue will not be available on the usual date. The meeting will therefore be held on the following Saturday instead, 25 February 2016. My apologies. Start: Feb 25 2017 12:30 End: Feb 25 2017 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Static websites with Jekyll, Hugo and Forestry Andrew Pam will demonstrate a new way to make websites complete with content management that doesn't require software running on a web server. This technique enhances both performance and security. More information at: * jekyllrb.com * gohugo.io * forestry.io 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 (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) 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 Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners February Meeting: Static websites with Jekyll, Hugo and Forestry
by Andrew Pam 15 Feb '17

15 Feb '17

Start: Feb 18 2017 12:30 End: Feb 18 2017 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Static websites with Jekyll, Hugo and Forestry Andrew Pam will demonstrate a new way to make websites complete with content management that doesn't require software running on a web server. This technique enhances both performance and security. More information at: * jekyllrb.com * gohugo.io * forestry.io 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 (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) 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 Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main February 2017 Meeting: OpenStack Barcelona Summit / Data Structures and Algorithms
by Andrew Pam 01 Feb '17

01 Feb '17

Start: Feb 7 2017 18:30 End: Feb 7 2017 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Lev Lafayette, OpenStack and the OpenStack Barcelona Summit • Jacinta Richardson, Data Structures and Algorithms in the 21st Century Lev Lafayette, OpenStack and the OpenStack Barcelona Summit This presentation will start with an overview of cloud computing platforms in general and OpenStack in particular. Cloud computing is one of the most significant changes to IT infrastructure and employment in the past decade, with major corporate services (Amazon, Microsoft) gaining particular significance in the late 2000s. In mid-2010, Rackspace Hosting and NASA jointly launched an open-source cloud-software initiative known as OpenStack, with initial code coming from NASA's Nebula project and Rackspace's Cloud Files project, and soon gained prominence as the largest open-source cloud platform. Although a cross-platform service, it was quickly available on various Linux distributions including Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE (2011), and Red Hat (2012). OpenStack is governed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in September 2012. Correlating with the release cycle of the product, OpenStack Summits are held every six months for developers, users and managers. The most recent Summit was held in Barcelona in late October 2016, with over 5000 attendees, almost 1000 organisations and companies, and 500 sessions spread out over three days, plus one day of "Upstream University" prior to the main schedule and one day after the main schedule for contributor working parties. The presentation will cover the major announcements of the conference as well as a brief overview of the major streams, as well the direction of OpenStack as the November Sydney Summit approaches. Lev is the HPC and Training Officer at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that he worked at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) in a similar role for several years. Since 2006 he has done a few things for LUV as well. Jacinta Richardson, Data Structures and Algorithms in the 21st Century Data structures and algorithms are essential tools in the developer's toolkit, yet it is an area that is too easy to get behind in. The essential algorithms you learned whenever you did Computer Science probably included: * Shortest path and tree (and graph) traversals - depth-first, breadth first, cycle management * Sorting - quick sort, bubble sort, merge sort, binary sort * Searching - binary trees, B-trees, B+trees, red-black trees * Specific problems - knapsack problem, painters algorithm, decision trees * Algorithm techniques - divide and conquer, backtracking, creating NFAs You might also have learned the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), Singular Value Decomposition and the Convolution theorem. This talk will overview some of the more interesting parts of the above (such as the FFT and SVD) before providing an overview of some of the more interesting algorithms developed in the last 16 years plus some bonus reuses of old algorithms. Jacinta is a software engineer and Perl hacker, although in her day job, these days, she writes in Python for the Australian Public Service. You may know Jacinta from her many years running Perl Training Australia, organising conferences including the Open Source Developers' Conference, and generally being awesome. Venue: 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 (the EPA building) Late arrivals needing access to the building and the sixth floor please call 0490 049 589. 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 venue. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Annual Penguin Picnic, January 21, 2017
by Andrew Pam 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Start: Jan 21 2017 12:00 End: Jan 21 2017 18:00 Location: Yarra Bank Reserve, Hawthorn. The Linux Users of Victoria Annual Penguin Picnic will be held on Saturday, January 21, 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. As usual, there will be no LUV main meeting nor beginners' workshop in January. Main meetings will resume on Tuesday 7 February and the next beginners meeting will be on Saturday 18 February. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Carlton venue and Infoxchange for the Richmond venue. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners December Meeting: Internet Governance Forum report
by Andrew Pam 14 Dec '16

14 Dec '16

Start: Dec 17 2016 12:30 End: Dec 17 2016 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Internet Governance Forum report -------------------------------- Andrew Pam has just returned from the week-long 2016 Internet Governance Forum in Guadalajara Mexico and will report on the issues and topics discussed at this year's Forum, including economic, social and cultural rights, sustainable development, universal access, surveillance, encryption, privacy, security and more. 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 (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) 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 Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main December 2016 Meeting: HPC Linux in Europe / adjourned SGM / Intro to FreeBSD
by Andrew Pam 01 Dec '16

01 Dec '16

NOTE: Please send any proxies to LUV Vice-President Russell Coker who will be hosting the meeting, as I will be in Mexico all next week at the Internet Governance Forum. Start: Dec 6 2016 18:30 End: Dec 6 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Lev Lafayette, High Performance Linux in Europe • adjourned Special General Meeting • Peter Ross, Introduction to FreeBSD Lev Lafayette, High Performance Linux in Europe Linux is utterly dominant in high performance computing with 100% of the Top 500 systems worldwide using a *nix based system, and for various good reasons. As expected, different institutions have some very different configurations, maintenance, and user training. Following a whirlwind tour of some of Europe's major HPC centres, examples are provided from Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Stuttgart, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Centre Informatique National de l’Enseignement Supérieur in Montpellier, and the Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Barcelona. Lev is the HPC and Training Officer at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that he had a similar role for eight years at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing. He speaks several languages poorly and at least two reasonably well, collects degrees for find out what he doesn't know, and enjoys traditional RPGs. He's been known to do a few things for LUV over the past ten years. ------------------------- Peter Ross, Introduction to FreeBSD From freebsd.org: FreeBSD is an advanced computer operating system used to power modern servers, desktops, and embedded platforms. A large community has continually developed it for more than thirty years. Its advanced networking, security, and storage features have made FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage devices. Peter Ross is an IT Systems Engineer, Consultant and Manager currently working as an NBN data centre engineer for ARRIS. He has many years of experience as a Linux consultant and Senior Linux Engineer. ------------------------- adjourned Special General Meeting Notice of LUV Special General Meeting, 6 December 2016, 19:30. Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be resuming the adjourned Special General Meeting at 7:30pm on Tuesday, 6th December 2016, on the 6th floor of 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053. The SGM will be held in conjunction with our usual December Main Meeting. SGM BUSINESS The only matter of business to be considered at this meeting is: *That Linux Users of Victoria apply to become a subcommittee of Linux Australia and conditional upon acceptance, wind up the present Victorian association as per rule 76 and section 133 of the Act and transfer all members and assets to the newly formed subcommittee of Linux Australia.* Proxies: You may appoint another member of LUV as your proxy for this meeting, to speak and vote on your behalf if you are unable to attend. If you are submitting your proxy on paper, you should sign and date it. If you are emailing your proxy, then the date and act of emailing will be taken as the equivalent of signing and dating a paper proxy. You can use the following form, which you can copy from between the horizontal rules, inserting your own name and that of your proxy as appropriate: ------------------------- I, [insert your name], being a member of Linux Users of Victoria, appoint [insert name of your proxy], being also a member of Linux Users of Victoria, as my proxy to vote on my behalf at the Special General Meeting of the association to be held on 2nd November 2016, and at any adjournment of that meeting. [You can add here any specific instructions to your proxy, such as directions to vote in a particular way on a particular item. If you have no specific instructions, you can delete this bracketed paragraph.] ------------------------- Notes about proxies: 1. You can appoint any LUV member as your proxy. However, the committee suggests that it's practical and convenient to appoint the Vice-President, Russell Coker, as your proxy, who can be trusted to act on your proxy faithfully. 2. Emailed proxies should be sent to luv-secretary(a)luv.asn.au, and must be received at least 24 hours before the meeting. 3. Members who wish to send a paper proxy by post should contact the Secretary for the postal address to use. Such proxies also must be received at least 24 hours before the meeting. 4. Paper proxies can also be presented at the commencement of the meeting itself. 5. We recommend using the above form. However, under the new model rules, you can instead use any form that clearly identifies your proxy and is signed by you. Questions about this meeting are best posted to luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au. -- Andrew Pam, as LUV President. ------------------------- 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 <https://www.google.com/maps/place/200+Victoria+St,+Carlton+VIC+3053,+Austra…> (the EPA building) Late arrivals needing access to the building and the sixth floor please call *0490 049 589*. 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 <http://redhat.com.au/> for their help in obtaining the venue. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Notice of resumption of adjourned Special General Meeting, Tuesday 6 Dec 2016
by Andrew Pam 22 Nov '16

22 Nov '16

As the November Special General Meeting was adjourned due to lack of quorum (being 10% of the full membership), the SGM will be reconvened in conjunction with our regular December main meeting: Start: Dec 6 2016 18:30 End: Dec 6 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Adjourned Special General Meeting Notice of LUV Special General Meeting, 6 December 2016, 19:30. Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be resuming the adjourned Special General Meeting at 7:30pm on Tuesday, 6th December 2016, on the 6th floor of 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053. The SGM will be held in conjunction with our usual December Main Meeting. SGM BUSINESS The only matter of business to be considered at this meeting is: *That Linux Users of Victoria apply to become a subcommittee of Linux Australia and conditional upon acceptance, wind up the present Victorian association as per rule 76 and section 133 of the Act and transfer all members and assets to the newly formed subcommittee of Linux Australia.* Proxies: You may appoint another member of LUV as your proxy for this meeting, to speak and vote on your behalf if you are unable to attend. If you are submitting your proxy on paper, you should sign and date it. If you are emailing your proxy, then the date and act of emailing will be taken as the equivalent of signing and dating a paper proxy. You can use the following form, which you can copy from between the horizontal rules, inserting your own name and that of your proxy as appropriate: ------------------------- I, [insert your name], being a member of Linux Users of Victoria, appoint [insert name of your proxy], being also a member of Linux Users of Victoria, as my proxy to vote on my behalf at the Special General Meeting of the association to be held on 2nd November 2016, and at any adjournment of that meeting. [You can add here any specific instructions to your proxy, such as directions to vote in a particular way on a particular item. If you have no specific instructions, you can delete this bracketed paragraph.] ------------------------- Notes about proxies: 1. You can appoint any LUV member as your proxy. However, the committee suggests that it's practical and convenient to appoint the President, Andrew Pam, as your proxy, who can be trusted to act on your proxy faithfully. 2. Emailed proxies should be sent to luv-secretary(a)luv.asn.au <https://luv.asn.au/2016/12/luv-secretary@luv.asn.au>, and must be received at least 24 hours before the meeting. 3. Members who wish to send a paper proxy by post should contact the Secretary for the postal address to use. Such proxies also must be received at least 24 hours before the meeting. 4. Paper proxies can also be presented at the commencement of the meeting itself. 5. We recommend using the above form. However, under the new model rules, you can instead use any form that clearly identifies your proxy and is signed by you. Questions about this meeting are best posted to luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au <https://luv.asn.au/2016/12/luv-meta@luv.asn.au>. -- Andrew Pam, as LUV President. ------------------------- 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 <https://www.google.com/maps/place/200+Victoria+St,+Carlton+VIC+3053,+Austra…> (the EPA building) Late arrivals needing access to the building and the sixth floor please call *0490 049 589*. 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 <http://redhat.com.au/> for their help in obtaining the venue. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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