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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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