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Linux users of Victoria

This is the working wiki for Members of LUV and the committee.

To visit the website go to http://www.luv.asn.au

Upcoming Meetings

Upcoming Talks

Talk Suggestions - Talk Offers

December 2011

Intermediate/Advanced - Tue 6 - Trinity

Freedom double feature
- Going Fully Free — Ben Sturmfels
- Anti-competitive Aspects of UEFI Secure Boot — Lev Lafayette

Beginners - Sat 17 - The Hub

Programming Tips, Tricks and Tools for Novices — Alec Clews
- Summary:
  Learning to program can be a daunting activity. As well as learning a computer language there is a significant amount of other knowledge and information to absorb -- apparently much of it through osmosis. Additionally can also be very hard to organise your objectives and work to reach your end goal.
  This presentation will use real examples and demonstrations to cover some of these topics. Specific tools will be used as illustrations but the ideas will be applicable no matter what tool set is available.
- Agenda:
  1. Issues with development: e.g. Bugs, tedium, never releasing working product
  2. Useful Processes and Ideas: User Stories, Test Driven Development, Minimal Viable Product
  3. Tools to support the programming process:
    1. Version Control
    2. Using a sophisticated editor. Editors vs. IDEs
    3. Automation of testing and other things
    4. Organising your code and Building software

January 2012

BBQ

(there are no meetings in January other than the BBQ)

February 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 7th — Trinity

Be Hurd not Scene: Current Status in the other kernel — Andrew Chalmers

The suite of applications that are used with Linux were primarily developed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as part of the GNU operating system. In creating these applications, the FSF was working on a micro-kernel known as Mach, part of the Hurd operating system, however a viable Linux kernel was introduced first and this has been the norm for over twenty years. The Hurd project however has not gone way and is still under development. In this presentation, a basic understanding of the kernel and differences between Linux and *nix kernels is explored, along with the current status of Hurd.

Andrew is a systems administrator, cryptographer and programmer. He is a former President of Linux Users of Victoria.

Beginners — Sat 18th — Unitarian Church