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LUV Main June 2014 Meeting: extra AGM + OpenStack + Docker
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 24 May '14

24 May '14

LUV Main June 2014 Meeting: extra AGM + OpenStack + Docker Start: Jun 3 2014 19:00 End: Jun 3 2014 21:00 Meeting Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/06/03 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Extra AGM, financial statement, mailing-list archives. Martin Paulo, OpenStack Heat Kevin Littlejohn, Docker – Containerize all the things! ________________________________________________________ Extra AGM, as previously announced and explained to members on luv-announce. Financial statement for financial year July 2012 to June 2013. That the LUV mailing-lists archives be made public, with the exception of luv-ctte. Dealing with this business should take only a short time. See the announcement for information about proxies. ________________________________________________________ Martin Paulo, OpenStack Heat Heat is a template driven application management tool for the OpenStack cloud. In this talk Martin will introduce Heat. His goal is to give the audience enough information to enable them to start managing their own applications on the OpenStack cloud with Heat. Martin Paulo is a software developer with V3. Way back when Martin started out writing assembly for embedded systems. From there, via grid programming, he made the move to more conventional software development, as a Java developer in the financial services arena. At V3 Martin has worked on and with the NeCTAR (National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources) research cloud: possibly the largest and most complex OpenStack deployment in Australia. ________________________________________________________ Kevin Littlejohn, Docker – Containerize all the things! A short overview of Docker – what it is, how it works, how it’s being used, and some examples of what can be done with it (and war stories of what can go wrong). Kevin Littlejohn started life as a sysadmin, has spent much of the last few years as a developer, and is now being swept up into the devops world. He spends his days working at DiUS consulting to customers for programming, ops or both as the need arises, and his evenings wrangling two small children, neither of whom care about dev or ops (yet). ________________________________________________________ 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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Revised notice for LUV General Meeting, 3 June 2014
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 20 May '14

20 May '14

Revised notice of additional Annual General Meeting, 3 June 2014, 19:00. [This is a revision of the previous notice, to add an additional item of business, and to give information about proxies.] Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding an additional Annual General Meeting at 7pm, Tuesday, 3 June 2014, in the Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Trinity College. See http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map This meeting will be held in conjunction with our usual June Main Meeting. The only matters of business to be considered at this meeting are: 1. The financial statement for the financial year July 2012 to June 2013. 2. That the LUV mailing-lists archives be made public, with the exception of luv-ctte. 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 lines of underscores, 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 General Meeting of the association to be held on 3rd June 2014, 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, Lev Lafayette, 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. Explanation: We had previously sent out a notice about the additional AGM. There are two reasons for this revised notice: A. At the last committee meeting, the LUV committee decided that, since we were holding a General Meeting anyway, we would take the opportunity to present to members the proposal to make the mailing-list archives public, as an additional item of business. B. The new model rules require explicit mention of the option of proxies to go out with the meeting notice. Questions about this meeting are best posted to luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au. -- Les Kitchen, as LUV Secretary.

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May 2014 Beginners Workshop : Recent Developments and Extensions to LibreOffice
by Lev Lafayette 12 May '14

12 May '14

May 2014 Beginners Workshop : Recent Developments and Extensions to LibreOffice Start: May 17 2014 12:30 End: May 17 2014 17:00 Location: 110 Victoria Street, Carlton Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map 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! Wen Lin will be giving a presentation on : Recent Developments and Extensions to LibreOffice LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. It was forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010. The LibreOffice suite comprises programs to do word processing, spreadsheets, slideshows, diagrams and drawings, maintain databases, and compose math formulae. It is the default office application suite in many distributions of Linux. LibreOffice supports many third-party extensions. As of June 2013, the LibreOffice Extension Repository lists more than 190 extensions. Wen Lin is the long-serving treasurer for Linux Users of Victoria and has provided several presentations in the past on Libre/OpenOffice. VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton, on the north side of Victoria Street, about 50m east of Swanston Street, opposite the north side of Melbourne City Baths. Public transport: frequent trams run along Swanston Street; VPAC is a few minutes' walk from Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Change to operation of LUV mailing lists
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 08 May '14

08 May '14

Dear LUV members and list subscribers: We the LUV committee have recently decided to change slightly the operation of the LUV mailing lists. The policy remains essentially the same: posts are generally accepted only from subscribed addresses. Up until now, posts to the lists from non-members (of the list) went to Lev and Les for moderation. Almost all such posts are spam. However, we had the moderation policy because, once in a while, legitimate members would accidentally post from a different address. The volume of spam we have to discard manually has made that untenable, wasting too much of our time. Under the new setup, now in effect, almost all our lists will automatically discard any posts from non-members. The only exceptions (for now) are luv-ctte (so people not on the committee can contact the committee), and luv-jobs (so outsiders can post job announcements). Both these lists will still allow manual moderation of posts from non-members. Currently, the amount of spam going to these two lists is relatively small. What does this mean for you? For the most part, you shouldn't notice any real difference (except that Lev and Les will seem less stressed by the drudgery of list moderation). If you subscribe to a list, you can post to it. The big change will be when you post to a list from an address different from the one you're subscribed under. Previously, such a post would have been noticed and approved by the list moderators (possibly after some delay). Now such posts will just disappear. So, when posting to LUV lists (except of course for luv-ctte and luv-jobs), take care that you're posting from the email address you're subscribed under. If you post to a list, and don't shortly afterwards see your post appear, then check the address you sent from. You can, as always, find out about our mailing lists from http://luv.asn.au/mailinglists.html. I guess luv-meta would be the best list for questions and discussion about this change. -- Smiles, Les (as LUV Secretary). -- Les Kitchen (LUV) ljk+luv at domain ljk.id.au via fastmail.fm

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Notice of additional AGM for LUV, 3-June-2014
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 08 May '14

08 May '14

Dear LUV members, This is to announce that Linux Users of Victoria, Inc. (registration number A0040056C) will be holding an additional Annual General Meeting at 7pm on Tuesday, 3rd June, 2014. The AGM will be held in conjunction with our regular June Main meeting, at the Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Trinity College (our usual venue -- see http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map) The only business to be considered at this additional AGM is the formal presentation and voting on of an adjusted financial statement. This should take only a few minutes. The rest of the evening will be our usual June meeting. Explanation: The financial statement approved at the last regular AGM, in September 2013, covered the period from the previous (2012) AGM up until that 2013 AGM. We have recently found out that we are required to submit a properly approved financial statement covering instead the financial year July 2012 till June 2013. Even though the financial statements presented and approved at the 2012 and 2013 AGMs together cover that financial year (all our activities have thus been reported to members), Consumer Affairs Victoria (CAV) requires a single financial statement, properly approved at an AGM, covering the financial year. We've been advised by CAV that the correct way of achieving this is to call an additional AGM whose only purpose is to formally approve the required financial statement, aligned to the relevant financial year. It might seem odd to have more than one Annual General Meeting in a year, but that's how it works. We are required to have at least one AGM per year, but it is permissible (and in this case desirable) to call additional AGMs if necessary to consider matters that formally require an AGM. Note, this extra AGM in June is quite separate from our normal AGM, which will be held in September as is customary. However, at the September AGM we'll know to present a financial statement aligned to the financial year, so this current problem should never arise again. Any questions or discussion about this additional AGM would be best posted to luv-meta(a)luv.asn.au. -- Linuxy greetings from your LUV Secretary, Les Kitchen.

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LUV Main May 2014 Meeting: Heartbleed + WLCG
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 01 May '14

01 May '14

LUV Main May 2014 Meeting: Heartbleed + WLCG Start: May 6 2014 19:00 End: May 6 2014 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Meeting Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/05/06 Russell Coker, Why I Hate OpenSSL and Heartbleed Sean Crosby, Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Abstract: The talk will give a brief but fascinating insight into the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), the computational backbone for the Large Hadron Collider situated at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. It will also include details on an opensource web-based read-only filesystem engineered by CERN for deployment of experimental software needed by the experiments. Bio: Sean Crosby is the Research Computing System Administrator and Developer for the Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale, based at the University of Melbourne. He has 10 years experience in high performance computing for physics research. The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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April 2014 Beginners' Workshop: GNOME 3
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

April 2014 Beginners' Workshop: GNOME 3 Event Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/04/19 Start: Apr 19 2014 12:30 End: Apr 19 2014 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map#vpac Configuring the Gnome 3 Desktop, by Terry Kemp. Terry writes: Since version 3 of the Gnome desktop environment came out a lot of us have been trying various alternative Desktops. I myself have multiple desktops, including KDE, Xfce, Cinnamon, Razor-Qt, plus a few others. Early this year I read an article about Gnome 3 and a well known person, and it piqued my interest. In this presentation I will show what I found out about configuring Gnome 3 with a hands-on session. I am a member of LUV and long-time Linux user from the early days of Slackware -- until one day I saw at a LUV install feast at MLC an install of SUSE, which I have been using since. I was on the committee of Melbourne PC, and convenor of the Linux and Open Souce SIG. General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginners' Workshop you can come along and work with Linux enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the way you want. This could include friendly advice on partitions, distributions, configurations, networking and specific applications. Bring your laptop! The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginners' Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, please come and join in! VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton, on the north side of Victoria Street, about 50m east of Swanston Street, opposite the north side of Melbourne City Baths. Public transport: frequent trams run along Swanston Street; VPAC is a few minutes' walk from Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main April 2014 Meeting: Burnout + BTRFS
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 25 Mar '14

25 Mar '14

LUV Main April 2014 Meeting: Burnout + BTRFS Start: Apr 1 2014 19:00 End: Apr 1 2014 21:00 Event Link: https://luv.asn.au/2014/04/01 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Bianca Gibson: Preventing Volunteer Burnout Russell Coker: Current Status of BTRFS ======================================================== Bianca Gibson: Preventing Volunteer Burnout In this presentation I'll be sharing practical advice for preventing burnout in yourself and those around you, drawing on my experience from years as a volunteer. I will encourage audience participation. Bianca Gibson is extremely passionate about Free Software, a current member of the Linux.conf.au 2016 Geelong team and was a member of the Linux Australia council for 2 years. As a teenager she spent years on the council of a children's nature club. She recently completed her Bachelor of Computer Science at Monash University and started work as a graduate developer at REA Group. ======================================================== Russell Coker: Current Status of BTRFS Quoting from https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page: Btrfs is a new copy on write (CoW) filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. Jointly developed at Oracle, Red Hat, Fujitsu, Intel, SUSE, STRATO and many others, Btrfs is licensed under the GPL and open for contribution from anyone. Russell Coker is currently on the LUV committee. ======================================================== The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. -- Les Kitchen (LUV) ljk+luv at domain ljk.id.au via fastmail.fm

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Party invitation Friday 14 March 2014
by Andrew Pam 21 Mar '14

21 Mar '14

Hello! I've been a Linux user and contributor for more than twenty years now, starting with adding support for 43-line EGA video mode. Our website Glass Wings is having a party from 6pm to 8pm at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne this Friday 14 March 2014 to celebrate its 20th anniversary and we'd love to invite you. Glass Wings has not only been hosted on Linux since the beginning (originally on a laptop with a 10Mbps coaxial ISA-bus Ethernet adapter in an expansion bay!) but all the content has also been created using FOSS software on Linux desktops. We'll be bringing some of our collection of vintage laptops running modern versions of Linux (including the Ubuntu 14.04 beta) along to the party so you can browse the site! More details here: http://glasswings.com.au/2014-gw-party.html Cheers, Andrew

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March 2014 Beginners' Workshop: Drupal
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 09 Mar '14

09 Mar '14

March 2014 Beginners' Workshop: Drupal Start: Mar 15 2014 12:30 End: Mar 15 2014 17:00 Event link: https://luv.asn.au/2014/03/15 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Location link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map An introduction to Drupal, by Daniel Jitnah. Drupal is a free-software web content-management system. From https://drupal.org/about: "Drupal is a free software package that allows you to easily organize, manage and publish your content, with an endless variety of customization." Daniel Jitnah is currently vice-president of LUV. He has a particular interest in free software in education. General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginners' Workshop you can come along and work with Linux enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the way you want. This could include friendly advice on partitions, distributions, configurations, networking and specific applications. Bring your laptop! The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginners' Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, please come and join in! VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton, on the north side of Victoria Street, about 50m east of Swanston Street, opposite the north side of Melbourne City Baths. Public transport: frequent trams run along Swanston Street; VPAC is a few minutes' walk from Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main March 2014 Meeting: Whistleblowers + Vagrant
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 27 Feb '14

27 Feb '14

Start: Mar 4 2014 19:00 End: Mar 4 2014 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Suelette Dreyfus: Whistleblowers Colby Swandale: Vagrant Suelette Dreyfus is a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing and Information Systems at the University of Melbourne. Her research interests include: Digital whistleblowing; Health informatics; Computer security and hacking; Organisational change; Social media for school education. See http://www.cis.unimelb.edu.au/people/staff.php?person_ID=7291. She was a keynote speaker at this year's Linux Conference Australia, http://linux.conf.au/media/news. >From http://www.vagrantup.com/about.html: "Vagrant is a tool for building complete development environments. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases development/production parity, and makes the 'works on my machine' excuse a relic of the past." >From Colby Swandale's Linkedin bio: "I currently focus on all aspects of web development from front to backend, server administration and infrastructure design. I love working with technologies such as Linux, BSD, PHP, Ruby, Go-Lang, Perl, Python, Javascript, HTML and CSS for application development and often use frameworks/CMS such as Wordpress, Joomla, Express, Laravel, Codeigniter, Symphony and Ruby on Rails. I regularly attend PHPMelb and given talks about Vagrant, Codeception and PHP 5.5's password hash api. Often you will also find me browsing Reddit reading whats the latest r/programming or what new exploit has been posted on r/netsec whilst listening to podcasts such as BSD Now, Techsnap and The Vergecast. " The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. -- Les Kitchen (LUV) ljk+luv at domain ljk.id.au via fastmail.fm

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Step on Up: Speakers Wanted for LUV
by Lev Lafayette 21 Feb '14

21 Feb '14

Dear LUV-members, A key feature of Linux Users of Victoria is our interesting and entertaining talks. Alas, our timetable for the rest of 2014 is looking a little slim at this point. http://wiki.luv.asn.au Thus our venerable association call upon its greatest resource - its members - to step up and take the mantle to provide a talk to LUV on an appropriate subject. Please note that we even have a slot available for the next LUV-main meeting! I know there's plenty of talent out there and plenty of people who are doing some really interesting things. Wouldn't it be fun to tell everyone about it? (People who think that this is not fun may be used as reactor shielding; LUV is your friend and wants you to have fun.) Please send an email to luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au if you have an idea for a talk.. All the best, -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Public Transport Not Traffic: Tech Team Volunteers Needed
by Dan Peade 18 Feb '14

18 Feb '14

Hi LUV members, My name is Dan Peade and I'm a Melbourne based web application developer. In addition to my day job, I am currently trying to assemble a volunteer tech team to help with execution of the online strategy for the Public Transport Not Traffic Campaign (http://www.publictransportnottraffic.org/) We're looking for technical professionals with skills in software development (any languages), sysadmin, javascript, CSS/HTML and graphic design, who would be willing to contribute even the smallest amount of time to helping make the campaign a success. We'll definitely be focused on using open source as much as we can. One example of the kind of projects we'll be doing was this GIS based community engagement tool which was featured in The Age last week: http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/myki-main-cause-of-complaints-to-public-t… The volunteer tech team initiative is sponsored by Common Code, my employer, so all volunteers will have access to our office (organic fruit and beer often available!) as well as the chance to meet and network with other technical professionals in the industry. If you think you might be interested in getting involved and helping out, or know anyone who would be, please get in touch! I'm on email here: dan.peade(a)gmail.com Thanks for reading, Dan Email: dan.peade(a)gmail.com

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February 2014 Beginners' Workshop: Slackware
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Start: Feb 15 2014 12:30 End: Feb 15 2014 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map#vpac Event Link: https://luv.asn.au/2014/02/15 Slackware, by Lev Lafayette Slackware is the oldest extant GNU/Linux distro. It aims for stability and simplicity of design. General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginners' Workshop you can come along and work with Linux enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the way you want. This could include friendly advice on partitions, distributions, configurations, networking and specific applications. Bring your laptop! The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginners' Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, please come and join in! VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton, on the north side of Victoria Street, about 50m east of Swanston Street, almost opposite Melbourne City Baths. Public transport: frequent trams run along Swanston Street; VPAC is a few minutes' walk from Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Upcoming MySQL/MariaDB backup/recovery/replication/Galera workshop in Melbourne (13-14 Feb 2014)
by Arjen Lentz 31 Jan '14

31 Jan '14

Hi all With permission, a plug for an upcoming MySQL/MariaDB workshop in Melbourne. LUV members receive a 10% discount. This workshop is only a few weeks away, so pretty much last chance to get in! Melbourne - http://openquery.com/training/location/melbourne - Thu 13 Feb + Fri 14 Feb MySQL/MariaDB Backup, Recovery and Replication Workshop incl. Galera (AUD 975 + GST, PC lab) More info on this workshop: http://openquery.com.au/course/2014-02/australia/melbourne/mariadb-backup-r… Specifically, the Galera synchronous replication system is covered and various working environments are set up as part of the workshop. Follow the links for more details and booking - if you have any questions, do ask! Regards, Arjen. -- Arjen Lentz, Exec.Director @ Open Query (http://openquery.com.au) Australian peace of mind for your MySQL/MariaDB infrastructure. Follow us http://openquery.com.au/blog/ & http://twitter.com/openquery

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LUV Main February 2014 Meeting: Non-Intel + LCA
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 28 Jan '14

28 Jan '14

Start: Feb 4 2014 19:00 End: Feb 4 2014 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Event page: http://luv.asn.au/2014/02/04 Les Kitchen: Linux on non-Intel architectures. Compilation of LCA videos, introduced by Lev Lafayette. Further details will be put on the event page closer to the meeting. The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Penguin Picnic, Saturday 18 January 2014
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 06 Jan '14

06 Jan '14

Start: Jan 18 2014 12:00 End: Jan 18 2014 18:00 Location: Yarra Bank Reserve, Hawthorn. Link: http://luv.asn.au/2014/01/18 The Linux Users of Victoria Annual Penguin Picnic will be held on Saturday, January 18, starting at 12 noon at the Yarra Bank Reserve, Hawthorn. This is just near the intersection of Bridge Road, Burwood Rd, and Creswick Street, tram route 48, stop 22, trams every 12 minutes. Roughly a 23 minute trip from Southern Cross. Google Maps: -37.819794, 145.015785 Melways : 2H H-J 6-7 LUV will be providing various items for the BBQ, e.g., plates, sausages to cater for carnivores, pouletvores, piscevores, and herbivores, bread, onions, and sauces, and fruit. Please bring salads and drinks. The Annual Penguin Picnic is a big social occasion for members of LUV, a great opportunity to see in the New Year and LUV's first meeting of the year. Also please note that linux.conf.au will be held in Perth this year 6-10 January, 2014. There'll be no LUV main meeting nor beginners' workshop in January. These will resume in February. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C. -- Les Kitchen (LUV) ljk+luv at domain ljk.id.au via fastmail.fm

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December 2013 Beginners' Workshop: Vim
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

Start: Dec 21 2013 12:30 End: Dec 21 2013 17:00 Event Link: http://luv.asn.au/2013/12/21 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Location Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map#vpac "Introduction to vim" by Bianca Gibson Vim is an editor of choice for many power users, which allows you to accomplish editing tasks with minimal keystrokes. By the end of the session people that have never used vim before will be able to accomplish some basic editing. I will also cover where to learn more, finding plug ins, integrating it in to attendees existing workflows, some of my favourite plug ins and even a sport based on vim. General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginners' Workshop you can come along and work with Linux enthusiasts to assist you in setting up your system the way you want. This could include friendly advice on partitions, distributions, configurations, networking and specific applications. Bring your laptop! The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginners' Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) project, please come and join in! VPAC is on the ground floor of Building 91, RMIT, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton, on the north side of Victoria Street, about 50m east of Swanston Street, almost opposite Melbourne City Baths. Public transport: frequent trams run along Swanston Street; VPAC is a few minutes' walk from Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners' Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main December 2013 Meeting: Continuous Integration + Lightning Talks
by Les Kitchen (LUV) 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Start: Dec 3 2013 19:00 End: Dec 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 Stewart Smith: The Agony and Ecstasy of Continuous Integration Lightning Talks Since our planned second speaker can't make it, we're calling on our members to give "lightning talks", short talks of just a few minutes on Linux-relevant topics. Stewart Smith, The Agony and Ecstasy of Continuous Integration Abstract This a tale of the introduction of continuous integration testing into a well established development team. It covers both the highs and lows and discusses strategies to deal with both the positives and negatives and in turn improve your own software engineering practices. While setting up a Jenkins instance off in the corner somewhere is relatively simple, changing the organisation and development practices can be much harder while at the same time throwing adequate resources at CI when your budget is nowhere near infinite. While projects such as OpenStack get a lot of coverage for their continuous integration work, they also have a non-trivial number of people exclusively working on it. In this sesison, I’ll cover how to do something really close with approximately zero spare hours in your day and near zero spare dollars in your budget. We’ll talk Jenkins, parameterized builds, gated trunk, code review, development processes, automatic deployment, release checklists and a 3.7GB java process. Bio Stewart Smith is the Director of Software Architecture at Percona. He joined Percona in 2011 with a deep background in database internals including MySQL, MySQL Cluster, Drizzle, InnoDB and HailDB. Prior to joining Percona, Stewart worked at Rackspace on the Drizzle database server focusing on getting it through a critical milestone of a stable Generally Available (GA) release. Prior to Rackspace, he worked on Drizzle as a member of the CTO Labs group inside Sun Microsystems. As one of the founding core developers of the Drizzle database server Stewart has deep expertise in the code base. He had direct involvement in significant refactoring of the database server including removing the FRM, the InnoDB storage engine, xtrabackup, the storage engine API, CATALOG support and countless bug fixes. He also maintains HailDB, a shared library offering a NoSQL C API directly to InnoDB. At Sun Microsystems, and MySQL before that, Stewart was a Senior Software Engineer in the MySQL Cluster team working on core code and features inside the MySQL Server and the Cluster codebase working on projects such as: geographical asynchronous replication, online add node, online backup, NDBINFO for improved monitoring and the Win32 port. The Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Evan Burge Building, Trinity College Main Campus Parkville Melways Map: 2B C5 Notes: Trinity College's Main Campus is located off Royal Parade. The Evan Burge Building is located near the Tennis Courts. See our Map of Trinity College. Additional maps of Trinity and the surrounding area (including its relation to the city) can be found at http://www.trinity.unimelb.edu.au/about/location/map Parking can be found along or near Royal Parade, Grattan Street, Swanston Street and College Crescent. Parking within Trinity College is unfortunately only available to staff. For those coming via Public Transport, the number 19 tram (North Coburg - City) passes by the main entrance of Trinity College (Get off at Morrah St, Stop 12). This tram departs from the Elizabeth Street tram terminus (Flinders Street end) and goes past Melbourne Central Timetables can be found on-line at: http://www.metlinkmelbourne.com.au/route/view/725 Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting, and BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV November Beginners Workshop : An introduction to computer games: Why are they important to us all?
by Lev Lafayette 14 Nov '13

14 Nov '13

LUV November Beginners Workshop : An introduction to computer games: Why are they important to us all? Start: Nov 16 2013 12:30 End: Nov 16 2013 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map#vpac "An introduction to computer games: Why are they important to us all?" by Andrew Pam This talk will discuss why computer games are important to society and the economy, describe some of the different kinds of games and briefly discuss contributing to and developing games, followed by a workshop demonstrating some games that run on Linux. Feel free to bring laptops and ask for assistance installing and playing games on Linux. Audience: Everyone, even (especially!) if you don't normally play games. 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 Main November (Wednesday): MMORPGs + Parsing/Perl
by Les Kitchen 01 Nov '13

01 Nov '13

Start: Nov 6 2013 19:00 *Wednesday* End: Nov 6 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 Lev Lafayette: MMORPGs and Linux Jacinta Richards: Don't repeat yourself. Fun with parsing NOTE: Because of Cup day, we meet this month on *Wednesday*. Lev Lafayette: MMORPGs and Linux Lev will talk about Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games and Linux. Lev is currently LUV President. Jacinta Richards: Don't repeat yourself. Fun with parsing The problem: your client gives you a document covering the specification of some weird message format they want you to handle. It's tab delimited, and pure ASCII, but actually some fields are multi-part and include tabs, and nothing is quoted. Oh, and actually there's multiple different kinds of messages you will need to parse. The solution: Using Perl 5.10+ and named capture groups we'll create a data definition. Over the rest of the talk we'll be taking advantage of a host of tactics (including re-parsing a regular expression) to see how we can take an interesting problem and make it fun again. Although Perl will be used in this talk, and code will be shown, hopefully you won't actually need to know any Perl at all to understand the ideas I run through. Jacinta says: I speak for a living. I run Perl training courses, I speak at Perl monger meetings, user groups and numerous conferences across the world. 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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October 2013 Beginners' Workshop: Webmin
by Les Kitchen 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Start: Oct 19 2013 12:30 End: Oct 19 2013 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map "Managing your Linux system using Webmin" by Daniel Jitnah In this talk I will discuss how a Linux system can be configured and managed using Webmin. Webmin is a web based tool that provides a wide range of options to manage a Linux system. It uses Perl scripts and has a plug-in architecture to add functionalities. There are also 2 cousin tools, Usermin and Cloudmin, which I will also very briefly discuss. VPAC is almost opposite Melbourne City Baths. It is close to Swanston Street trams. 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-meta and Meeting Reminder
by Lev Lafayette 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Linux Users of Victoria has established a LUV-meta mailing list to discuss all matters relating to LUV as an organisation, in terms of its structure, legal status, affiliations, and activities. The establishment of the mailing list is a result of the debate of disincorporation that occurred prior to the last Annual General Meeting and the recognition for the need for such a list, as the debates were not directly related to Linux (luv-main), but were too specific to be appropriate to the catch-all discussion list (luv-talk). All members of the committee and regional representatives are members of luv-meta by default. Any member of LUV may join by visiting the following URL: http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-meta A reminder is also given for our luv-main meeting tonight with the Simon Elisha from Amazon Cloud Services speaking on "AWS - An Overview and Useful things for Linux Users" and Jan Whitaker, "Privacy in the age of pervasive surveillance". The meeting will begin at 19:00 (7pm) at the Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, University of Melbourne Main Campus, Parkville. -- 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 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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