PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME. It will not be possible to enter the building after 8pm. Start: Jul 7 2015 18:30 End: Jul 7 2015 20:30 Location: Trinity College (former EPA building), 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: • Andrew Pam, An introduction to Ansible • Russell Coker, BTRFS update • Lev Lafayette, Educating People to become Linux Users: Some Key Insights from Adult Education Andrew Pam, An introduction to Ansible Quoting from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible_%28software%29 Ansible is a free software platform for configuring and managing computers. It combines multi-node software deployment, ad hoc task execution, and configuration management. It manages nodes over SSH or PowerShell and requires Python (2.4 or later) to be installed on them. Modules work over JSON and standard output and can be written in any programming language. The system uses YAML to express reusable descriptions of systems. Andrew Pam first discovered an interest in boolean logic when his mother carried him in her arms at just the right height to reach light switches as they passed through doorways. He was lucky enough to go to a school with an obsolete PDP/8e: switches, lights, core memory, paper tape, punched cards and all. He first started programming on a TRS-80 model 1 level I and the first computer he owned was a Commodore VIC-20. Russell Coker, BTRFS update 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 has been working on SE Linux since 2001. He writes most of the policy for Debian. He has done lots of other Linux development over the years, mostly involved with Debian development. Lev Lafayette, Educating People to become Linux Users: Some Key Insights from Adult Education We all want people to use Linux in favour of non-FOSS operating systems. But how do we convince them to do so? Having done so, how do we convince them to become good computer users who will use their systems in an effective manner? "User education" is a much-lauded phrase in the IT world, but in many cases technology specialists have expressed a great deal of frustration in their attempts. However it doesn't have to be this way. Key insights from adult education can be applied to Linux user education successfully. In particular, educators will be successful if they take a systemic approach to the subject using andragogical techniques when evaluating the audience, the content, and the delivery. The end result is users who are motivated, who know what they are capable of, and have the motivation to find out more. Lev Lafayette is a committee member and past president of Linux Users of Victoria who collects postgraduate degrees when not being a political trouble-maker. He has been involved in computer systems education and training for quite a while, and in the past few years through his employment at the Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) has conducted such sessions for researchers at the University of Melbourne, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, La Trobe University, the Australian Synchrotron, the University of Sydney, the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the Australian Institute for Health Innovation at Macquarie University, the University of New South Wales... and many other places. 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 venue and VPAC for hosting. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.