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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) 02 May '14

02 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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