
On Wed, October 30, 2013 11:29 am, Les Kitchen wrote:
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*.
Updates! Please note that the speaker is Jacinta Richardson, not Richards. Our apologies to Jacinta! Lev's abstract/bio is as follows. Lev Lafayette, MMORPGs and Linux Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) are perhaps the biggest phenomenon in video gaming history, with an estimated $1.4 billion USD spent on subscriptions to various games in 2008, and with popular games such as World of Warcraft boasting some 8 million subscribers in March this year. It is perhaps little surprise to discover that such games have a relationship, of sorts, with our operating system of choice. From small self-published books in a box entitled "Dungeons & Dragons" to the highly complex virtual worlds, this talk combines both a cultural history with aspects and examples of technical design to show how multiplayer computer mediated roleplaying games and Linux can be sensibly spoken of in the same sentence. In 1980 Lev was introduced to an early Apple II and tried to hack Lemonade. Shortly afterwards he graduated to "The Keep on the Borderlands" and managed to keep his Elf alive through several editions. He continues to suggest that New Adventure Shell is a legitimate way to submit jobs to supercomputers. When he is not in a parallel reality, he works at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing and does some stuff for Linux Users of Victoria. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GCertPM, MBA mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt