Forwarding FYI - Software Freedom Day details for Melbourne.
Many thanks Lev for taking the lead in organising this year.
Kind regards,
Kathy
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Subject: [luv-announce] Software Freedom Day 2012 Sept 15
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 09:44:38 +1000
From: Lev Lafayette <lev(a)levlafayette.com>
To: luv-announce(a)luv.asn.au
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.orghttp://luv.asn.auhttp://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/
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Hola open source and linux-istas!
Welcome to the spring edition of the Geelong Linux and Open Source Wrap,
please find below news you might be interested in.
LOCAL
- Linux Users' Victoria will hold their Annual General Meeting on 4th
September at Buzzard Lecture Theatre, Trinity College, Melbourne
University. The AGM will include announcement of election results. To
nominate, see further information on the site: http://luv.asn.au/2012/09/04
- LUV will also be holding Software Freedom Day on Saturday 15th
September in East Melbourne. Details are not available as yet, but
should be available at http://luv.asn.au shortly
- Local arduino and open hardware types are very interested in getting a
Geelong Hackerspace off the ground. Follow the Google Group to keep in
the loop:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/geelong-hackerspace
AUSTRALIA
- linux.conf.au 2013 will be held in Canberra. If you submitted a talk
proposal, you should be notified shortly.
Costings are up already (wow!) if you want to start saving:
https://team.linux.conf.au/wordpress/?_code=301
And a number of miniconfs have been announced, including mFOSS -
http://lca2013.linux.org.au/media/news/41
- No bids were received for 2014 and much discussion on the nature of
linux.conf.au has ensued. I had originally planned to bid for Geelong
for 2014, but just ran out of time and had concerns about how much
commitment it was given the huge effort that was Ballarat 2012. You can
join the conversaton at http://lists.linux.org.au/pipermail/linux-aus/
THE WORLD
- I'm fortunate enough to be attending Open Source Systems 2012 in
Hammamet, Tunisia (http://www.oss2012.org/) and LinuxCon Europe in
Barcelona (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe) and
will send through an update when I'm back in November.
NEWS WRAP
Some of the news items that caught my eye this month;
Enterprises see growing open source cloud appeal: Jamie Yap covers how
the growing maturity of OSS and vendor support is leading to greater
uptake of OSS by big business.
http://www.zdnet.com/enterprises-see-growing-open-source-cloud-appeal-70000…
Ravinda Maurya of Red Hat recaps the definition of open source and shows
how the model can be applied much wider than just software.
"Unconstrained innovation"
http://opensource.com/government/12/7/open-source-not-limited-software?sc_c…
HP has released the beta of its open source version of Web OS:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/31/hp-launches-the-beta-release-of-open-webos/
Best open source tools for web devs:
http://www.developerdrive.com/2012/08/10-best-open-source-tools-for-web-dev…
Kind regards,
Kathy
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Kathy Reid
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0418 130 636
