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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

March 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 6th — Trinity

• Stuart Young. Operating 3D Desktop Printers with Linux

Beginners — Sat 17th —

April 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 3rd — Trinity

Beginners — Sat 21st

May 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 1st — Trinity

Beginners — Sat 19th — The Hub

June 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 5th — Trinity

• Avi Miller, Oracle, BTRFS and Other Filesystems

Beginners — Sat 16th — The Hub

July 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 3rd — Trinity

Beginners — Sat 21st — The Hub

August 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

September 2013

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

• AGM
• lightning talks ??

SFD (in place of Beginners) — Sat Xth — location TBC

October 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

November 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Wed Xth (due to Melbourne Cup) — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

December 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue Xth — Trinity

Beginners — Sat Xth — The Hub

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