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LUV Beginners November Meeting: Website working group
by Andrew Pam 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Start: Nov 19 2016 12:30 End: Nov 19 2016 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Website working group This month we will be planning modernisation and upgrading of the LUV website. This will include looking at what features are used and what technologies are suitable for the future. 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 November 2016 Meeting: The Internet of Toys / Special General Meeting / Functional Programming
by Andrew Pam 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

The LUV committee has resolved to once again propose to the membership that LUV contact Linux Australia with a request to become a subcommittee of LA, and if successful to disincorporate as a separate entity. As previously discussed, this would allow us to take advantage of LA's public liability insurance which would give us considerably more flexibility in choosing alternative venues. It would also eliminate the need to file and pay for annual paperwork with Consumer Affairs Victoria and reduce the requirement for a large complement of office-bearers. The committee has therefore called a Special General Meeting of LUV to be held in conjunction with the next (November 2016) main meeting in order to vote on this proposal. Please either attend the meeting or send a proxy if you wish to vote. Thanks, Andrew **LUV Main November 2016 Meeting: The Internet of Toys / Special General Meeting / Functional Programming** Start: Nov 2 2016 18:30 End: Nov 2 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: * Nick Moore, The Internet of Toys: ESP8266 and MicroPython * Special General Meeting * Les Kitchen, Functional Programming *Nick Moore, The Internet of Toys: ESP8266 and MicroPython* Tiny, cheap and adaptable, the latest generation of WiFi-enabled microcontrollers put the IoT within reach. Nick Moore will look at the Espressif ESP8266 and its (mostly) open source toolchain. He will also discuss how to get started with MicroPython development to control simple hardware from the Internet, and the risks involved in doing so. Nick is a software developer and protocols wrangler who has previously presented at IETF, OSDC, LinuxConf, PyConAU and Buzzconf Nights. *Les Kitchen, Functional Programming* From Wikipedia: In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm—a style of building the structure and elements of computer programs—that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data. It is a declarative programming paradigm, which means programming is done with expressions or declarations instead of statements. In functional code, the output value of a function depends only on the arguments that are input to the function, so calling a function f twice with the same value for an argument x will produce the same result f(x) each time. Eliminating side effects, i.e. changes in state that do not depend on the function inputs, can make it much easier to understand and predict the behavior of a program, which is one of the key motivations for the development of functional programming. Dr. Les Kitchen is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at The University of Melbourne. *Special General Meeting* Notice of LUV Special General Meeting, 2 November 2016, 19:30. Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding a Special General Meeting at 7:30pm on Wednesday, 2nd November 2016, on the 6th floor of 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053. The SGM will be held in conjunction with our usual November 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: * 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. 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 (the EPA building) 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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LUV Beginners October Meeting: Build a Simple RC Bot!
by Andrew Pam 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

Start: Oct 15 2016 12:30 End: Oct 15 2016 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Build a Simple RC Bot! Getting started with Arduino and Android In this introductory talk, Ivan Lim Siu Kee will take you through the process of building a simple remote controlled bot. Find out how you can get started on building simple remote controlled bots of your own. While effort has been made to keep the presentation as beginner friendly as possible, some programming experience is still recommended to get the most out of this talk. Ivan is a tinkerer who enjoys learning, experimenting, and creating things. He's always up for an adventure and has experienced both the structured, predictable life of the corporate environment, and the chaotic, high-risk freedom of the startup world. He is currently trying his hand at writing a book on learning techniques. LinkedIn profile: https://au.linkedin.com/in/ivanlimsiukee 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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UPDATED: LUV Main October 2016 Meeting: Sending Linux to Antarctica, 2012-2017 / Annual General Meeting
by Andrew Pam 25 Sep '16

25 Sep '16

Start: Oct 4 2016 18:30 End: Oct 4 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Scott Penrose, Sending Linux to Antarctica: 2012-2017 • Annual General Meeting and lightning talks Scott Penrose, Sending Linux to Antarctica: 2012-2017 ===================================================== A discussion on hardware and software and techniques used to send hardware to one of the hardest places on earth and constantly transfer data via satellite. Scott Penrose is a Perl hacker with an interest in home automation. He has been playing with electronics since he was old enough to burn his fingers with a soldering iron. His first job was working with 6800 embedded CPUs in the early 90s. During the development of his solar powered house in 2000 he knew that the only way to be safe and not damage the batteries would be to fully automate the power and lighting throughout his home. Scott has continued hardware hacking on a causal basis, building musical toys, helping with the design and building of a sophisticated glide computer and doing design and embedded coding for buoys to measure waves in ice in the Antarctic. Although his day job involves programming complicated CPUs, mostly under Linux, he has retained a passion of for simplicity and feels that the Arduino meets those requirements. Annual General Meeting and lightning talks ========================================== Notice of LUV Annual General Meeting, 4 October 2016, 19:30. Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding its Annual General Meeting at 7:30pm on Tuesday, 4th October 2016, on the 6th floor of 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053. The AGM will be held in conjunction with our usual October Main Meeting. As is customary, after the AGM business we will have a series of lightning talks by members on a recent Linux experience or project. If you would like to give a talk, please pre-book your spot by mailing luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au. AGM BUSINESS The only matters of business to be considered at this meeting are: * Confirm minutes of annual general meeting on 19th September 2015. * 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: 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 4th October 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: * 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. 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 (formerly the EPA building) 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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LUV Main October 2016 Meeting: Linux Bouys / Annual General Meeting
by Andrew Pam 19 Sep '16

19 Sep '16

Start: Oct 4 2016 18:30 End: Oct 4 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Scott Penrose, Linux Bouys • Annual General Meeting and lightning talks Scott Penrose, Linux Bouys ========================== Details to follow in an update soon. Annual General Meeting and lightning talks ========================================== Notice of LUV Annual General Meeting, 4 October 2016, 19:30. Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding its Annual General Meeting at 7:30pm on Tuesday, 4th October 2016, on the 6th floor of 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053. The AGM will be held in conjunction with our usual October Main Meeting. As is customary, after the AGM business we will have a series of lightning talks by members on a recent Linux experience or project. If you would like to give a talk, please pre-book your spot by mailing luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au. AGM BUSINESS The only matters of business to be considered at this meeting are: * Confirm minutes of annual general meeting on 19th September 2015. * 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: 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 4th October 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: * 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. 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 (formerly the EPA building) 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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Software Freedom Day Meeting 2016
by Andrew Pam 10 Sep '16

10 Sep '16

Start: Sep 17 2016 10:00 End: Sep 17 2016 16:30 Location: Electron Workshop 31 Arden Street, North Melbourne. Link: http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ There will not be a regular LUV Beginners workshop for the month of September. Instead, you're going to be in for a much bigger treat! This month, Free Software Melbourne[1], Linux Users of Victoria[2] and Electron Workshop[3] are joining forces to bring you the local Software Freedom Day event for Melbourne. The event will take place on Saturday 17th September between 10am and 4:30pm at: Electron Workshop 31 Arden Street, North Melbourne. Map: http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ We will be demonstrating GNU/Linux distributions. You will also get to see free software games on the big screen - bring your laptops (and perhaps a mouse) if you want to help put some of them to a mutiplayer test! Newcomers will also be able to get help trying out and installing GNU/Linux on their machines, and can learn more about free software. We will have several guest speakers throughout the day with talks on Free Software in Schools, Open Street Map and more! There will be a lunch break and tea, coffee and light snacks will also be provided throughout the day. This is the a family friendly event, please invite anyone that is interested as the more people that are involved the more the positive effects can be spread. 10:00am - Doors Open 11:00am - ICT & Free software in Schools 12:00pm - Matt Cienga and Open Street Map Applications 1:00pm - Free and Open Source Community Gathering 1:30pm - Lunch in North Melbourne (not catered) 2:30pm - To be advised 3:30pm - Games and workshops 4:15pm - Round up of the day More information about the event is available on the Software Freedom Day Melbourne website: http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ The day should be both educational and a lot of fun. Please spread the word, and we'll see you there! Links: [1]: http://www.freesoftware.org.au/melb/ [2]: http://luv.asn.au/ [3]: http://www.electronworkshop.com.au/ 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 acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Trinity College venue. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main September 2016 Meeting: Spartan / The Future is Awesome
by Andrew Pam 04 Sep '16

04 Sep '16

Start: Sep 6 2016 18:30 End: Sep 6 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: * Lev Lafayette, Spartan: A Linux HPC/Cloud Hybrid * Paul Fenwick, The Future is Awesome (and what you can do about it) Lev Lafayette, Spartan: A Linux HPC/Cloud Hybrid ------------------------------------------------ High performance computing offers preferred architectures for tightly coupled multi-node multi-core task parallel computational problems. Cloud computer architectures offer flexible and cost-efficient options for single-node data parallel tasks. In the past these two solutions have been developed and implemented independently, however a new hybrid system called HPC/cloud architecture developed at the University of Melbourne combines the two approaches with Linux as the core operating system, SLURM as a workload manager, and OpenStack for the cloud component. This approach better suits the existing workloads, while making it easy to expand to meet the demands of the future, including plans to have heterogeneous architectures as part of the overall Spartan system. As a whole Spartan serves as a template for any future general purpose implementation of mass compute resources. *Lev Lafayette* is the HPC and Training Officer at the University of Melbourne. Prior to that he served a similar role at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing for several years. He collects degrees for fun and profit, and is an incorrigible community activist, including as a long-serving LUV committee member. Paul Fenwick, The Future is Awesome (and what you can do about it) ------------------------------------------------------------------ Technology is advancing at a faster rate than society's expectations, and can go from science-fiction to being consumer-available, with very little in the way of discussion in between, but the questions they raise are critically important: What happens when self-driving vehicles cause unemployment, when medical expert systems work on behalf of insurance agencies rather than patients, and weapon platforms make their own lethal decisions? *Paul Fenwick* is an internationally acclaimed public speaker, developer, and science educator. Paul is well known for presenting on a diverse range of topics including privacy, neuroscience and neuroethics, Klingon programming, open source, depression and mental health, advancements in science, diversity, autonomous agents, and minesweeper automation. His dynamic presentation style and quirky humour has delighted audiences worldwide. Paul was awarded the 2013 O'Reilly Open Source award, and the 2010 White Camel award, both for outstanding contributions to the open source community. As a Freedom Loving Scientist, Paul's goal is to learn everything he can, do amazing things with that knowledge, and give them away for free. 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Late arrivals, please call (0490) 049 589 for access to the venue. 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 and Infoxchange for their help in obtaining the meeting venues. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Presentation and demo notes from "File Sharing in Linux" Beginners' Workshop
by Andrew Pam 03 Sep '16

03 Sep '16

The presentation and demo notes from Wen Lin's presentation on File Sharing in Linux at the August 2016 Beginners' Workshop are now available on our past presentations page here: https://luv.asn.au/presentations Enjoy! Regards, Andrew

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LUV Beginners August Meeting: File Sharing in Linux
by Andrew Pam 11 Aug '16

11 Aug '16

Start: Aug 20 2016 12:30 End: Aug 20 2016 16:30 Location: Infoxchange, 33 Elizabeth St. Richmond Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map This hands-on presentation and tutorial with Wen Lin will introduce the various types of file sharing in Linux - from the more traditional NFS & Samba to the newer cloud-based ones like Dropbox, Google Drive and OwnCloud. The primary audience of the talk will be for beginners (newbies), but hopefully some of you who are familiar with Linux will get something out of it as well. Wen doesn't claim to be an expert in all things file-sharing in Linux, but likes to share his understanding and thoughts about this topic and also some of his recent practical experience in sharing files with a Linux computer using smartphones and tablets. The hands-on tutorial section of the talk will be "How to turn a Raspberry Pi into a Low-Power Network Storage Device" Wen is currently the Treasurer of LUV. He has been in the IT profession for about 25 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/Xubuntu, 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 (enter via the garage on Jonas St.) Late arrivals, please call (0490) 049 589 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 2016 Meeting: M.2 / CRCs
by Andrew Pam 01 Aug '16

01 Aug '16

My sincere apologies for the late notice! I have a nasty flu and probably won't be able to attend tomorrow night. Start: Aug 2 2016 18:30 End: Aug 2 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: * Russell Coker, M.2 * Rodney Brown, CRCs Russell Coker, M.2 According to Wikipedia M.2, formerly known as the Next Generation Form Factor (NGFF), is a specification for internally mounted computer expansion cards and associated connectors. It replaces the mSATA standard, which uses the PCI Express Mini Card physical card layout and connectors. Russell has been experimenting with M.2 cards for high-speed storage. Russell Coker has done lots of Linux development over the years, mostly involved with Debian. Rodney Brown, CRCs According to Wikipedia, a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) is an error-detecting code commonly used in digital networks and storage devices to detect accidental changes to raw data. Blocks of data entering these systems get a short check value attached, based on the remainder of a polynomial division of their contents. CRCs are popular because they are simple to implement in binary hardware, easy to analyze mathematically, and particularly good at detecting common errors caused by noise in transmission channels. 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Late arrivals, please call (0490) 049 589 for access to the venue. 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 and Infoxchange for their help in obtaining the meeting venues. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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