------------------------------------------ Tuesday 6 March 6:30pm for 7pm start at The Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Evan Burge Building, Trinity College, Melbourne University Main Campus, Parkville. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Talks: * An Android Overview — Russell Coker * Linux and Android: Marriage of convenience, or match made in heaven? — Aryan Ameri * Library of LUV * After the meeting, come have dinner with us at Maria's Trattoria! 122-124 Peel St Also in this announcement: * Beginner's Workshop — 17 March 2012 * #luv IRC channel * mailing list policy * Map of the meeting location http://luv.asn.au/content/venue-maps http://luv.asn.au/2012/03/06 ** An Android Overview — Russell Coker ** All about Android, freedom, utility, the future of mobile phones, and some cool apps. 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) ** Linux and Android: Marriage of convenience, or match made in heaven? — Aryan Ameri ** This talk will focus on the history of Android as a mobile operating, its interactions with the Linux kernel and the bigger free software community, and the possible ways in which this relationship could evolve in future. It will briefly introduce the audience to Android programming, specifically porting traditional GNU/Linux applications to Android, and then ponder on ARM vs. x86 rivalry, the upcoming Windows on ARM, and the challenges that lie ahead for Linux in the embedded world. Aryan Ameri is a technology enthusiast and hobbyist. An advocate of free software, he has participated in deploying Cloud computing technologies in the enterprise. Aryan is the co-organiser of Android Australia User Group and works on Android development. ** Library of LUV ** Library of LUV is a collection of books available for loan to members. The collection is managed through the wiki and the books are circulated at the monthly LUV meetings (and the Penguin Picnic, in January). For more details, please see the wiki: http://wiki.luv.asn.au/LoL ** Dinner ** 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. ** Beginner's Workshop — 17th March ** The March Beginner's Workshop will be held on the third Saturday at the Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church, 110 Grey Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3002: Google Map location of the Melbourne Unitarian Church<http://maps.google.com.au/maps?hl=en&q=melbourne+unitarian+church&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl This event will include the usual unstructured workshop area and a talk TBC. Bring your laptop! For more info, updates and discussion about the Beginner's Workshop, subscribe to the luv-beginners mailing list: http://lists.luv.asn.au/luv-beginners The Melbourne OLPC Club meetings are co-located with the Beginner's Workshops. If you are interested in the OLPC project, please come and join in! ** #luv IRC channel ** A reminder that LUV has an IRC channel - join #luv on FreeNode to chat with fellow LUVvers in real time! ** Mailing list policy ** The committee does not generally monitor or moderate the LUV mailing lists and expects members to conduct themselves appropriately. On complaint, however, we may investigate, and if behaviour is unbecoming a member of LUV, we may remove that member from the mailing list for a period of time as deemed appropriate by the committee. ** Map of the meeting venue ** Our website now has an all-new map of the meeting venue, more clearly showing how to find the Buzzard Lecture Theatre. Just follow either of the red lines! http://luv.asn.au/content/venue-maps ** RedHat training discount ** A discount on RedHat training is available to LUV members. To obtain this discount, you need to enter: "Linux User Group member - 10% discount" in the special offer section of the enrolment form. http://www.redhat.com.au/training/ ** Acknowledgements ** LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat for their help in obtaining the Buzzard Lecture Theatre venue, BENK Open Systems for sponsoring the Beginner's Workshops and VPAC for hosting! http://redhat.com.au http://benk.net.au http://vpac.org _______________________________________________ luv-announce mailing list luv-announce(a)lists.luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-announce