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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.

• A Compilation of LCA Keynotes

Beginners — Sat 18th — Unitarian Church

• Linux Games - Andrew Pam

March 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 6th — Trinity

• An Android Overview - Russell Coker

• Linux and Android: Marriage of convenience, or match made in heaven? - Aryan Ameri

Beginners — Sat 17th —

• My Linux System - Daniel Jitnah

April 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 3rd — Trinity

• The Importance of Computer Science, Professor Alistair Moffat <ammoffat@unimelb.edu.au>
• The Importance of Scientific Computing, Thomas Conway <drtomc@gmail.com>, NICTA

Beginners — Sat 21st

• LibreOffice - Wen Lin

May 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 1st — Trinity

• Lev Lafayette, Multicore World and Linux
• Les Kitchen, The Early Days of Linux

Beginners — Sat 19th — The Hub

• Scribus - Andrew Pam

June 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 5th — Trinity

• Avi Miller, Oracle, BTRFS and Other Filesystems

Btrfs ("Butter FS") is a new copy on write filesystem for Linux aimed at implementing advanced features while focusing on fault tolerance, repair and easy administration. Initially developed by Oracle, Btrfs is licensed under the GPL and open for contribution from anyone.

This tutorial will take users through some of the new features of the btrfs file system, including:

- Creating/mounting the filesystem - Setting up mirroring/striping - Adding/removing devices - Rebalancing data - Growing/shrinking volumes - Creating snapshots/subvolumes - Booting from snapshots

On completion, attendees should be confident about using btrfs in their own environments and taking advantage of some of the new features.

Avi has been working in the Information Systems industry since 1993. He has extensive experience in networking, including server and workstation hardware; network, server and workstation operating systems; and LAN & WAN connectivity. His roles and responsibilities in several projects have included technical project management, network architecture design, network and software integration design, workstation environment development, software deployment and troubleshooting.

Beginners — Sat 16th — The Hub

• "Doing the naughty thing in Linux!!" - Daniel Jitnah

July 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 3rd — Trinity

Beginners — Sat 21st — The Hub

• OpenShot - Alex Garber

August 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 7th — Trinity

Beginners — Sat 18th — The Hub

• An Introduction to the Command Line - Lev

September 2013

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 4th — Trinity

• AGM
• lightning talks ??

SFD (in place of Beginners) — Sat 15th — 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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