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LUV Needs A New Server: Please Donate!
by Lev Lafayette 15 Dec '12

15 Dec '12

Dear LUV-members, The time has come for a generous person or organisation to donate a server to Linux Users of Victoria. It doesn't have to be brand new; a few year's old is fine. As long as it's rack mountable (1RU or 2RU) and comes with rack mounting rails, that has 4 GB of RAM, 2*120 GB disks, and 64 bit CPU(s). Of course, if you can provide better than that, that's really good too. As you can imagine, LUV will be deeply appreciative of any company or individual who makes such a donate. Assuming they are not deeply embarrassed by such recognition we will sing their praises on our mailouts, on our website, & etc. Not only this, you will also be providing a benefit for Wikimedia Australia, who also share space on our system. So please, give generously. For LUV. If you have such as system available, please email luv-ctte(a)luv.asn.au All the best, -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Reminder: LUV December Beginner's Workshop - tomorrow
by Lev Lafayette 13 Dec '12

13 Dec '12

Date: Saturday, December 15, 12.30pm to 17.00pm Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Terry Kemp will give a presentation introducing the variety of Linux desktop systems, their advantages and features and how to work around the different implementations. General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginner's 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 Beginner's 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, close to the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets. It is accessible by all Swanston Street trams and is is near to Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting the workshops and our server. -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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LUV December Meeting: Open Stack and Supercomputers
by Lev Lafayette 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

LUV December Meeting Start: Dec 4 2012 19:00 End: Dec 4 2012 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Chris Samuel, VLSCI. Avoca. (Almost) the most powerful supercomputer south of the Tropic of Cancer. Chris Samuel, senior systems administrator at the Victorian Life Sciences Initiative, will be introducing Avoca - currently the 33rd most powerful computer in the world; and housed right here in Melbourne. Martin Paulo: An introduction to OpenStack Martin Paulo is a software developer with VeRSI (the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative). Way back when Martin started out writing assembly for embedded systems. From there, via grid programming, he made the move to more conventional software development, as a Java developer in the financial services arena. At VeRSI Martin has worked on and with the NeCTAR (National eResearch Collaboration Tools and Resources) research cloud: possibly the largest and most complex OpenStack deployment in Australia. OpenStack OpenStack is open source software that provides a cloud computing platform. From its early origins as a small Nasa project, OpenStack is rapidly gaining broad industry acceptance. Its ongoing development is guided by the OpenStack Foundation, a foundation backed by many key technology companies. In this talk Martin will provide an introduction to the concepts underlying OpenStack, and show how you can get going with your own personal OpenStack deployment. 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! -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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This Saturday: LUV Beginner's Workshop - eLiveLearn
by Lev Lafayette 14 Nov '12

14 Nov '12

Start: Nov 17 2012 12:30 End: Nov 17 2012 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Daniel Jitnah's Abstract: eLiveLearn is a (very) long term pet project of mine! eLiveLearn is FOSS (php/linux/apache) based system designed to be a complete on learning environment. Unlike many other online learning systems (Learning Management Systems) such as Moodle, Whiteboard etc which are content management systems (CMS) with added learning support features, eLiveLearn was design designed from start to fully support the complete Learning-Assessment-Reporting process in a fully integrated system. Educators can create online lessons and assessment tasks, Students can step through online lessons and carry out assessement tasks. Educators can then mark and provide feedback on students work and generate live reports. In this talk, I will look at some design features of eLiveLearn and run through a very simple usage scenario (hands-on). I will also talk about work that still needs to be done to make it a fully functional ready to use system and some problems with the system. Audience comment and feedback will be most appreciated. This talk may likely be of interest to Educators at secondary and tertiary level. Daniel is an educator and runs his own IT company, Greenware IT. He has been a committee member of LUV for many years. General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginner's 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 Beginner's 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, close to the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets. It is accessible by all Swanston Street trams and is is near to Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting! -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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LUV November Meeting - The Future Market Share of Linux and A Linux Roundup
by Lev Lafayette 01 Nov '12

01 Nov '12

Start: Nov 7 2012 19:00 End: Nov 7 2012 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Note that this meeting is on Wednesday due to the Melbourne Cup Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map The Future Market Share of Linux, Carl Turney Linux's share of the OS market, factors affecting its future viability, issues that come to play when organisations consider migrating or adopting a different OS platform, and steps that Linux Geeks could take to maximise growth? Carl has an Honours in Commerce, got a Masters in Public Sector Efficiency, been the GM of two manufacturing businesses, and now run a management consultancy. A Linux Roundup - Russell Coker My presentation will be a series of lightning talks about various things I'm investigating, covering new Linux PC and server stuff (including ZFS) and Android. Russell Coker does general Linux programming and systems administration. He is most well known for his work on NSA Security Enhanced Linux. Other projects he has been involved in include Bonnie++ (lead developer), Postal (lead developer), Debian (developer), Linux Security Modules (LSM) (contributor), KDE (contributor), OpenSSH (contributor) 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! -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Beginner's Workshop this Saturday: An Introduction to HTML5
by Lev Lafayette 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

An Introduction to HTML5 Start: Oct 20 2012 12:30 End: Oct 20 2012 17:00 Location: VPAC Training Room, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map In this talk, Lev will give a thorough introduction to HTML5, starting with the basics of HTML, CSS, and XHTML, before moving in to the needs and new features in HTML5. Lev is the current LUV president and has taught command-line Linux in several organisations over the past ten years. General Workshop Area: At the LUV Beginner's 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 Beginner's 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, close to the corner of Swanston and Victoria Streets. It is accessible by all Swanston Street trams and is is near to Melbourne Central train station. LUV would like to acknowledge BENK Open Systems for their financial support of the Beginners Workshops LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue and VPAC for hosting! -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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October Main Meeting: Android and Email - Tomorrow!
by Lev Lafayette 30 Sep '12

30 Sep '12

Start: Oct 2 2012 19:00 End: Oct 2 2012 21:00 Location: The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Mike King: Developing Software for Android Tablets Nathan Bailey: High Performance Email: How to how to get less email, process it more quickly and achieve more results. Nathan Bailey Nathan Bailey has been a programmer, sys admin, tech lead and manager. He has led teams on large-scale Internet projects in collaboration, administration and education. He now runs an educational consultancy working with schools and universities in reinventing education for the 21st Century. He is passionate about delivering services that save people time, are easy to use and make work more fun. 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! -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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LUV Outage Saturday
by Lev Lafayette 27 Sep '12

27 Sep '12

Dear LUVers, Linux Users of Victoria (web, wiki, mailing lists) will be offline from just after midnight on Friday evening/Saturday morning and will come back online late on Saturday afternoon. The reason for this is that VPAC, who generously host our server, will be having an outage on that day. All the best, -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Luv-Tech and SFD Report
by Lev Lafayette 24 Sep '12

24 Sep '12

LUV-Tech List Established ------------------------- Following requests and a vote at the Annual General Meeting the committee has established a luv-tech list. This list is for discussions of technical issues which are not Linux related (which should go to luv-main), such as other operating systems, devices etc. To subscribe: http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-tech Software Freedom Day Report --------------------------- Software freedom day was held in Melbourne with a series of lectures, a games room operated by Free Software Melbourne, 3D printer demonstration courtesy of the Melbourne Community Hackerspace, movies, stalls from the Free Software Foundation, Raspberry Jam, One Laptop per Child, and Linux Users of Victoria, along with a free lunch with open sauce. About eighty-five people turned up during the day, with a height of around 75 just before noon. The day was opened by Dr. Alison Parkes, a lecturer from the University of Melbourne and candidate for Lord Mayor. Other speakers included Lev Lafayette on free software and business logic, Chris Samuel, from the Victorian Life Sciences Initiative discussing, "Free Software in Supercomputers and Science", Tony Forster from OLPC discussing that project, Alec Clews on the Raspberry Pi, Andy Gleme on 3D printing technologies, Daniel Jitnah on free software in the education sector, and Andrew Pam from Electronic Frontiers Australia on data retention legislation. A big thanks to all who helped out, especially our publicity person Deb Henry. -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt

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Software Freedom Day 2012 Sept 15
by Lev Lafayette 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Linux Users of Victoria and Free Software Melbourne is hosting Software Freedom Day in Melbourne! At a conference dedicated to the theme of free software in a free society, confirmed speakers include Jon Lawrence of Electronic Frontiers Australia, Chris Samuel of the Victorian Life Sciences Initiative, Alec Clews of the Melbourne Raspberry Jam, Andy Gleme of the Connected Community HackerSpace, Daniel Jitnah of GreenwareIT, and Lev Lafayette of Linux Users of Victoria. There is a possibility that Belgian social theorist Michel Bauwens ‏will be attending. Presentations will cover the recent Internet surveillance laws, the importance of free software in scientific computing, new embedded technologies and micro-computers, free software and 3D printers, free software in education, and the business of free software. Software Freedom Day will be opened by Dr. Alison Parkes, senior lecturer in business information systems at the University of Melbourne, and Greens candidate for Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Free Software Melbourne will be hosting a games area, the One Laptop per Child project will be present, as will the Raspberry Jam group. There will be plenty of free software available, as well as copies of the OpenDisc. Software Freedom Day will come with a free lunch (with open sauce!). Software Freedom Day will be held at the Melbourne Unitarian Church hall (110 Grey Street, East Melbourne). It's about 5 minutes from Jolimont Station, or a brisk 10 minute walk from Parliament station. There's plenty of parking at the site as well! Free software has changed the world! Twenty years ago, free software advocates took on the multi-billion proprietary operating systems in the server, supercomputer, and mainframe world - and we won. Ten years ago, we took on the big online encyclopaedias with a free alternative - and we won. Now we're taking on producers themselves with three-dimensional printers. We'll win that as well. Come celebrate software freedom! For more information contact Deb Henry on 0409338182 http://softwarefreedomday.org http://luv.asn.au http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/ -- Lev Lafayette, mobile: 0432 255 208

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