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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.

• 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 — Unitarian Church

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

110 Victoria Street, Carlton Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map

Note change of venue!

In this talk, Daniel will look at options available to Linux users to use Windows applications on Linux. Why would someone want to do that? Mostly because someone else has made the choice for them and they are stuck - (Accountants are common culprits here!).

We'll look at options: virtualisation, Wine and alternative FOSS applications that provide equivalent functionality, things you may want to look for and at the end of the day, why you should really not be doing it at all!

(Also, I will not stray onto Andrew Pam's territory, ie: WIndows games on Linux)

Daniel is a long time Linux user and runs his own Open Source and Linux consultancy business GreenwareIT. He is also the Vice President of LUV and a Director of Open Source Industry Australia. (OSIA)

In a past life he was a Secondary School Teacher, and has maintained a strong interest in the use of Open Source and Linux in the Education Sector. Daniel has never used a Microsoft product as his primary operating system, and still does not know the meaning of the word "PowerPoint".

July 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 3rd — Trinity

• Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net>, Writing and Typesetting Documents in Linux, Or: The Tools which I Used to Write my Thesis

Abstract

Linux has long offered a compelling environment in which to write documents, ranging from the small scale (a CV, for instance), to the large scale (a book or thesis).

In this introductory talk I describe the writing and typesetting tools which I use regularly. These include Emacs (with AUCTeX mode), LaTeX for document markup and typesetting, BibLaTeX for managing citations, and Git for revision control.

Bio

Jason is an accessibility specialist, a long-term Linux enthusiast, a supporter of justice and human rights, a researcher in philosophy, a law school graduate and, as of August last year, a Ph.D. graduate. His thesis explores fundamental issues arising from Robert Brandom's inferentialist semantics. It therefore contributes to a foundational field of research into theories of meaning which has value not just in its own right, but implications for other areas of inquiry as well.

• Wen Len

Advanced Word Processing Using LibreOffice

Beginners — Sat 21st — VPAC

• OpenShot - Alex Garber

August 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 7th — Trinity

• Donna Benjamin <donna@cc.com.au>, Infiltration Day 853: Drupal Association Board. Confessions of a not-so-secret double agent

The Drupal Association has been through some major changes in its governance and staffing in the last few years. It recently ran its first general election for "Directors At Large" and since 2010 has increased the number of employees by 900%. It moved its headquarters from Belgium to the USA and now manages a budget of around 3 million US dollars in annual revenue.

Where the hell does all that money go? And who are these people taking "your" money? Donna Benjamin was curious enough to be part of this to put her name in the hat for nomination last year. She successfully infiltrated the board in February.

You can think of her as your mole in the hole. With over 10 years experience in the non-profit sector, Donna knows a thing or two about what makes successful organisations tick. Diving into the inner workings of the Drupal Association, Donna dares to share some of the things she discovered in the deep end.

Bio

Donna is the current Public Officer, and former President of Linux Users of Victoria.

• "Michael Schams" <michael@schams.net>, "Simon Dawes" <simon.dawes@cerebrum.com.au>

Abstract:

TYPO3 is a PHP-based enterprise content management system with a huge community especially in Europe and USA. In this introductory talk, Simon gives an inside look at this open source project and how it is organized. He also talks about his experience and the efforts and achievements of the TYPO3 community here in Australia and presents some of TYPO3's key features which make this CMS one he loves to work with.

Bio (Simon Dawes):

Simon studied Scientific Photography and managed a professional film laboratory when film was still king! He then worked as the technical lead and programmer for almost 15 years before he founded Cerebrum - a small but talented web development company in Melbourne. Simon and Cerebrum have a particular passion for open source software and have been working with TYPO3 for over 7 years. Simon is a certified TYPO3 Integrator and has never missed a TYPO3 user group meeting in Melbourne (except once when he was really sick).

Beginners — Sat 18th — VPAC

• An Introduction to the Command Line - Lev

September 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 4th — Trinity

• AGM
• lightning talks ??

SFD (in place of Beginners) — Sat 15th — location Melbourne Unitarian Church hall

October 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 2nd — Trinity

• "Mike King" <mikkel@market-research.com> - Developing Software for Android Tablets
• "Nathan Bailey" <nathan.bailey@monash.edu> - "High Performance Email: How to how to get less email, process it more quickly and achieve

more results

"Nathan Bailey has been a programmer, sys admin, tech lead and manager. He has led teams on large-scale Internet projects in collaboration, administration and education. He now runs an educational consultancy working with schools and universities in reinventing education for the 21st Century. He is passionate about delivering services that save people time, are easy to use and make work more fun."

"Mike King is CIO of Horizon Consumer Science, an International market research companies with offices in Melbourne, Los Angeles and London. Mike has B.Sc. in Engineering Science from Warwick University in the UK, and has 30 years of experience in software development, including real time monitoring systems, communications protocols and web and database technologies."

Beginners — Sat 20th — VPAC

November 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Wed 7th (due to Melbourne Cup) — Trinity

Beginners — Sat 17th — VPAC

• Daniel Jitnah "eLiveLearn" - Beginners workshop

Abtract:

eLiveLearn is a (very) long term pet project of mine! eLiveLearn is FOSS (php/linux/apache) based system designed to be a complete on learning environment. Unlike many other online learning systems (Learning Management Systems) such as Moodle, Whiteboard etc which are content management systems (CMS) with added learning support features, eLiveLearn was design designed from start to fully support the complete Learning-Assessment-Reporting process in a fully integrated system. Educators can create online lessons and assessment tasks, Students can step through online lessons and carry out assessement tasks. Educators can then mark and provide feedback on students work and generate live reports.

In this talk, I will look at some design features of eLiveLearn and run through a very simple usage scenario (hands-on). I will also talk about work that still needs to be done to make it a fully functional ready to use system and some problems with the system. Audience comment and feedback will be most appreciated.

This talk may likely be of interest to Educators at secondary and tertiary level.

December 2012

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 4th — Trinity

• Chris Samuel, VLSCI. Avoca. The most powerful supercomputer south of the Tropic of Cancer.

Beginners — Sat 22nd — VPAC

• "Terry Kemp" <terrykemp@gmail.com>. The variety of Linux Desktops

February 2013

Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 5th — Trinity

• "Mike King" <mikkel@market-research.com>. "Gamification - the process of applying gaming techniques to business applications."

"Mike King is CIO of Horizon Consumer Science, an International market research companies with offices in Melbourne, Los Angeles and London. Mike has B.Sc. in Engineering Science from Warwick University in the UK, and has 30 years of experience in software development, including real time monitoring systems, communications protocols and web and database technologies."

Beginner's Workshop - Sat 16th - VPAC

• Kathy Reid, A Wrap up of Open Source Systems conference 2012 and LinuxCon Europe 2012

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