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Software Freedom Day Meeting 2015
by Andrew Pam 12 Sep '15

12 Sep '15

Start: Sep 19 2015 11:00 End: Sep 19 2015 16:00 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 19th September between 11am and 4pm at: Electron Workshop 31 Arden Street, North Melbourne. Map: http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ We will be demonstrating GNU/Linux distributions, the Raspberry Pi, Arduino and more. 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 contributing to free software, email encryption for beginners and more! There will be a lunch break and light refreshments will also be provided. 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 and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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Adjourned AGM and Software Freedom Day 2015
by Andrew Pam 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

Software Freedom Day 2015 will be held at Electron Workshop, 31 Arden St. North Melbourne, on Saturday 19 September. As the LUV AGM was adjourned due to lack of a quorum, the adjourned AGM will be held at this event. If you cannot attend, please consider sending your proxy. Notice of LUV Annual General Meeting, 19 September 2015 Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Saturday, 19th September 2015, at Electron Workshop, 31 Arden St. North Melbourne. AGM BUSINESS The only matters of business to be considered at this meeting are: 1. Confirm minutes of annual general meeting on 20th September 2014. 2. Receive and consider annual report of the committee. 3. Receive and consider financial statements. 4. 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 1st September 2015, 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, 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. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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[Fwd: [Linux-aus] OSDC 2015 (Hobart, TAS) Registrations now Open!]
by Lev Lafayette 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [Linux-aus] OSDC 2015 (Hobart, TAS) Registrations now Open! From: "Tim Serong" <tim(a)wirejunkie.com> Date: Tue, September 1, 2015 5:55 pm To: linux-aus(a)lists.linux.org.au -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings, I am pleased to announce that registrations for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2015 are now open! This year OSDC is coming to Hobart for the first time, and will be held from October 27-29, at the Wrest Point Convention Centre. To whet your appetite, the draft schedule is now online: https://2015.osdc.com.au/schedule/ Tickets can be purchased at: https://ti.to/osdc/2015 Please note that all tickets cover morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea during the main conference days, as well as the conference dinner (Tuesday evening). For accommodation, we have reserved a block of rooms at Wrest Point. You are of course welcome to stay anywhere you like :) but if you want to be right there at the venue, please see: https://2015.osdc.com.au/accommodation/ More information about OSDC 2015 can be found on our web site at https://2015.osdc.com.au/ Cheers, Tim (on behalf of the OSDC 2015 team) -- Tim Serong Lead Organiser OSDC 2015 https://2015.osdc.com.au/ _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus(a)lists.linux.org.au http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus -- 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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LUV Main September 2015 Meeting: Cross-Compiling Code for the Web / Annual General Meeting
by Andrew Pam 16 Aug '15

16 Aug '15

Start: Sep 1 2015 18:30 End: Sep 1 2015 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Ryan Kelly, Cross-Compiling Code for the Web • Annual General Meeting and lightning talks Ryan Kelly, Cross-Compiling Code for the Web The Web is a powerful application platform, but traditionally a rather isolated one. Running applications on the Web usually means that you must target it explicitly during development, encoding your application logic in JavaScript and HTML in order to run inside the browser. But with recent advances in Web technology, we can more and more treat it like a generic computing platform. Given an existing codebase in C or C++, it is no longer necessary to re-write the code in JavaScript in order to run it on the Web. Instead, you can port it using a standard cross-compiler workflow, emitting JavaScript as though it were the assembly language of a (somewhat quirky, but very widely available!) foreign machine. In this talk, Ryan will give some history on attempts to compile native applications so they will run on the Web, demonstrate the current state-of-the-art tools for doing so and the technology that makes them possible, and give a preview of the next generation of work underway to make the Web a generic computing platform. Ryan Kelly is a software developer with over 10 years broad experience, from contract development work to a failed cloud-storage startup to a stint working with logic programming in academia. He currently works on the Identity Services team at Mozilla, wrangling the code behind Firefox Accounts, Firefox Sync and other cloud services. In his spare time, Ryan has been porting the PyPy python interpreter to run on the Web, and has been consistently surprised by how well this seems to work in practice. Annual General Meeting and lightning talks Notice of LUV Annual General Meeting, 1 September 2015, 19:30. Linux Users of Victoria, Inc., registration number A0040056C, will be holding its Annual General Meeting at 7:30pm on Tuesday, 1st September 2015, on the 6th floor of 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053. The AGM will be held in conjunction with our usual September 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: 1. Confirm minutes of annual general meeting on 20th September 2014. 2. Receive and consider annual report of the committee. 3. Receive and consider financial statements. 4. 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 1st September 2015, 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, 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 (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 and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners August Meeting: BTRFS and ZFS on Linux hands on tutorial
by Andrew Pam 11 Aug '15

11 Aug '15

Start: Aug 15 2015 12:30 End: Aug 15 2015 16:30 Location: RMIT Building 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Russell Coker will demonstrate how to setup and use BTRFS and ZFS filesystems and recover from errors that are fatal to other filesystems. This tutorial will be run on Xen servers run by Russell. The OS images will be available on USB sticks for anyone who wants to run it on their own virtual machines. Xen and Kvm should work without much effort and other virtual machines should work with a little more effort. Russell has done lots of Linux development over the years, mostly involved with Debian. 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. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Trinity College venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main August 2015 Meeting: Open Machines Building Open Hardware / VLSCI: Supercomputing for Life Sciences
by Andrew Pam 27 Jul '15

27 Jul '15

PLEASE NOTE we are now commencing at 6:30pm, half an hour earlier than our old starting time, as it will not be possible to enter the new venue after 8pm. A sign with a phone number will be posted at the entrance of 200 Victoria St. to call and gain entrance to the building. Start: Aug 4 2015 18:30 End: Aug 4 2015 20:30 Location: 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Jon Oxer, Open Machines Building Open Hardware • Chris Samuel, VLSCI: Supercomputing for Life Sciences Jon Oxer, Open Machines Building Open Hardware The "Open" revolution has passed through a series of stages. First, Open software was built on closed toolchains such as compilers and source code management systems. Then the toolchains themselves opened up, giving us a fully Open software stack and toolchain. Then Open Source Hardware (OSH) began to give us accessible physical platforms on which to run our code, but the hardware itself was still designed on closed tools. Then the rise of FOSS CAD (Computer Aided Design) projects such as KiCad and gEDA allowed us to design our OSH projects using Open tools. But even OSH projects designed using FOSS tools are typically manufactured using big, expensive, closed-source machines such as pick-and-place robots. Now even that barrier is being broken down by Open Source. The last 12 months has seen a rapid expansion of the Open revolution into the electronics manufacturing space, with a combination of motion control systems, machine chassis reference designs, and FOSS CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) software projects maturing into credible competitors to the entrenched proprietary CAM equipment suppliers. In this talk Jonathan will demonstrate how he combined a variety of Open Source projects to build his own pick-and-place machine for about $1000 over just a few weeks of spare time, allowing him to assemble Open Hardware projects using Open machines right from the bare PCB. He'll also bring along his pick-and-place machine so you can see it in action. Jon Oxer is happiest when working right at the intersection of hardware, software, mechatronics, and magic. He's past President of Linux Australia, founder of web application development company IVT, founder of open hardware manufacturer Freetronics, and author or co-author of a number of books including "How To Build A Website And Stay Sane", "Ubuntu Hacks", "Quickstart Guide to Google AdWords", and "Practical Arduino". Follow his adventures at http://jon.oxer.com.au/ and http://twitter.com/jonoxer Chris Samuel, VLSCI: Supercomputing for Life Sciences The Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative is a supercomputer centre for life sciences hosted at the University of Melbourne and serves a wide range of projects and researchers. Chris will cover the various aspects of this site including the supercomputers (past, present and future) and other hardware and the software that's used to run them as well as some case studies into things that can go wrong. Chris Samuel has been running computer systems since the early 1990's and has been using Linux since 1993. He's run more different UNIX variants than he could shake a rather large stick at and has been working with supercomputers for the last decade. He is currently the Senior Systems Administrator with the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLSCI) based at the University of Melbourne. 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 and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners July Meeting: Ask the experts
by Andrew Pam 14 Jul '15

14 Jul '15

Start: Jul 18 2015 12:30 End: Jul 18 2015 16:30 Location: RMIT Building 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map This month we'll be asking attendees for their pressing Linux and Open Source issues, and our resident Linux experts will then attempt to explain the topics to your satisfaction! If you've got something you always wanted to know more about, or something you'd like to know how to do, come along and ask. 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. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Trinity College venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Main July 2015 Meeting: Ansible / BTRFS / Educating People to become Linux Users
by Andrew Pam 02 Jul '15

02 Jul '15

PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME. It will not be possible to enter the building after 8pm. Start: Jul 7 2015 18:30 End: Jul 7 2015 20:30 Location: Trinity College (former EPA building), 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Andrew Pam, An introduction to Ansible • Russell Coker, BTRFS update • Lev Lafayette, Educating People to become Linux Users: Some Key Insights from Adult Education Andrew Pam, An introduction to Ansible Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible_%28software%29 Ansible is a free software platform for configuring and managing computers. It combines multi-node software deployment, ad hoc task execution, and configuration management. It manages nodes over SSH or PowerShell and requires Python (2.4 or later) to be installed on them. Modules work over JSON and standard output and can be written in any programming language. The system uses YAML to express reusable descriptions of systems. Andrew Pam first discovered an interest in boolean logic when his mother carried him in her arms at just the right height to reach light switches as they passed through doorways. He was lucky enough to go to a school with an obsolete PDP/8e: switches, lights, core memory, paper tape, punched cards and all. He first started programming on a TRS-80 model 1 level I and the first computer he owned was a Commodore VIC-20. Russell Coker, BTRFS update 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 has been working on SE Linux since 2001. He writes most of the policy for Debian. He has done lots of other Linux development over the years, mostly involved with Debian development. Lev Lafayette, Educating People to become Linux Users: Some Key Insights from Adult Education We all want people to use Linux in favour of non-FOSS operating systems. But how do we convince them to do so? Having done so, how do we convince them to become good computer users who will use their systems in an effective manner? "User education" is a much-lauded phrase in the IT world, but in many cases technology specialists have expressed a great deal of frustration in their attempts. However it doesn't have to be this way. Key insights from adult education can be applied to Linux user education successfully. In particular, educators will be successful if they take a systemic approach to the subject using andragogical techniques when evaluating the audience, the content, and the delivery. The end result is users who are motivated, who know what they are capable of, and have the motivation to find out more. Lev Lafayette is a committee member and past president of Linux Users of Victoria who collects postgraduate degrees when not being a political trouble-maker. He has been involved in computer systems education and training for quite a while, and in the past few years through his employment at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) has conducted such sessions for researchers at the University of Melbourne, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, La Trobe University, the Australian Synchrotron, the University of Sydney, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the Australian Institute for Health Innovation at Macquarie University, the University of New South Wales... and many other places. 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 and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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LUV Beginners June Meeting: Getting started with Raspberry Pi
by Andrew Pam 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

Start: Jun 20 2015 12:30 End: Jun 20 2015 16:30 Location: RMIT Building 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Wen Lin will introduce the wonder of Raspberry Pi - a project that has taken the world by storm since the first RasPi SBC was introduced in Feb 2012. After some intro, he will take the audience through a brief overview of Raspberry Pi's latest development around the world as well as a quick glance of a sample of Raspberry Pi related projects in the Community. Then, in the second half of his session, Wen will go into some hands-on demos, focussing on getting a Raspberry Pi up and running as a micro computer running Linux. Wen is not really an expert in the field of Raspberry Pi, so please look at this session as one novice sharing his new found experience with other novices. Wen is currently the Treasurer of LUV. He has been in 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 since 2004, inspired by the first Software Freedom Day in Melbourne. Nowadays at work Wen is using RHEL. In his own time, his distros of choice are Ubuntu/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. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Trinity College venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc., is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.

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NEW LUV MEETING LOCATION
by Andrew Pam 28 May '15

28 May '15

>From now on, LUV main meetings on the first Tuesday of each month will be at the former EPA building at 200 Victoria St. Carlton 3053, and no longer at the Buzzard Lecture Theatre in Trinity College. We thank Trinity College for hosting our meetings all this time, and hope you will all continue to join us at our new venue starting with our June meeting on Tuesday 2 June next week! Details here: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Regards, Andrew

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