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[[Committee Members]]


== Upcoming Meetings ==
== Upcoming Meetings ==
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=== February 2014 ===


=== December 2011 ===
'''LUV-Main''' Feb 04


Intermediate/Advanced - Tue 6 - Trinity
* Les Kitchen, Linux on non-Intel architectures.
* Freedom double feature
* Compilation of LCA videos
** Going Fully Free — Ben Sturmfels
** Anti-competitive Aspects of UEFI Secure Boot — Lev Lafayette


Beginners - Sat 17 - The Hub
'''LUV-Beginners''' Feb 15
* Programming Tips, Tricks and Tools for Novices — Alec Clews
** Summary: <br>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.<p> 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:
**# Issues with development: e.g. Bugs, tedium, never releasing working product
**# Useful Processes and Ideas: User Stories, Test Driven Development, Minimal Viable Product
**# Tools to support the programming process:
**## Version Control
**## Using a sophisticated editor. Editors vs. IDEs
**## Automation of testing and other things
**## Organising your code and Building software


=== January 2012 ===
* An Introduction to Slackware, by Lev Lafayette
* BBQ
(there are no meetings in January other than the BBQ)


=== February 2012 ===
=== March 2014 ===


Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 7th — Trinity
'''LUV-Main''' March 04
* Colby Swandale, Vagrant
* Suelette Dreyfus, Whistleblowers


* Be Hurd not Scene: Current Status in the other kernel — Andrew  Chalmers
'''LUV-Beginners''' March 15


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.
* An Introduction to Drupal, Daniel Jitnah


Andrew is a systems administrator, cryptographer and programmer. He is a former President of Linux Users of Victoria.
=== April 2014 ===


* A Compilation of LCA Keynotes
'''LUV-Main''' April 01


Beginners — Sat 18th — Unitarian Church
* Bianca Gibson, Preventing Volunteer Burnout
* Linux Games - Andrew Pam
* Russell Coker, Current Status of BTRFS


=== March 2012 ===
'''LUV-Beginners''' April 19


Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 6th — Trinity
* Terence Kemp, Tweaking the GNOME Desktop


* An Android Overview - Russell Coker
=== May 2014 ===


* Linux and Android: Marriage of convenience, or match made in heaven? - Aryan Ameri
'''LUV-Main''' May 06
* Russell Coker, Why I Hate OpenSSL and Heartbleed
* Sean Crosby, Linux, LHC, and distributed file systems.


Beginners — Sat 17th —
'''LUV-Beginners''' May 17
* Wen Lin, Recent Developments and Extensions to LibreOffice


* My Linux System - Daniel Jitnah
=== June 2014 ===


=== April 2012 ===
'''LUV-Main''' June 03
* Pop-up extra AGM to approve re-aligned financial statement and making mail archives public
* Martin Paulo, OpenStack Heat
* Kevin Littlejohn, Docker -- Containerize all the things!


Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 3rd — Trinity
'''LUV-Beginners''' June 21
* The Importance of Computer Science, Professor Alistair Moffat <ammoffat@unimelb.edu.au>
* The Importance of Scientific Computing, Thomas Conway <drtomc@gmail.com>, NICTA


* Daniel Jitnah, was "Options for GUI programming", but might change.


=== July 2014 ===


Beginners — Sat 21st
'''LUV-Main''' July 01
* LibreOffice - Wen Lin
* Lev Lafayette, Software and Innovation Patents
* Ewan Barr, Linux and the Square Kilometre Array


=== May 2012 ===
'''LUV-Beginners''' July 19
* LUV Miniconf, Install Fest, and Chapter Establishment in Morwell.


Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 1st — Trinity
=== August 2014 ===
* Lev Lafayette, Multicore World and Linux
* Les Kitchen, The Early Days of Linux


Beginners — Sat 19th — The Hub
'''LUV-Main''' August 05
* Scribus - Andrew Pam
* Bernard Meade, 3D Printing
* Richard Keech, Linux on Raspberry Pi for monitoring and control in a sustainable house.


=== June 2012 ===
'''LUV-Beginners''' August 16


Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 5th — Trinity
* Deb Henry, MythTV
* 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.
=== September 2014 ===


This tutorial will take users through some of the new features of the btrfs file system, including:
'''LUV-Main''' September 02


- Creating/mounting the filesystem
* Annual General Meeting
- Setting up mirroring/striping
* Lightning Talks
- Adding/removing devices
** Paul Foxworthy, auprefs.info
- Rebalancing data
** Daniel Jitnah, ICT Professionals in Schools Program
- Growing/shrinking volumes
** Andrew Pam Android
- Creating snapshots/subvolumes
** Mike Hewitt HPLIP
- 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.
'''LUV-Beginners''' September 20


* Software Freedom Day
Electron Workshop in North Melbourne with Free Software Melbourne


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.
=== October 2014 ===


*
'''LUV-Main''' October 07


* Stewart Smith, A History of MySQL
* Hank Content-centric networking


Beginners — Sat 16th — The Hub
'''LUV-Beginners''' October 18
* "Doing the naughty thing in Linux!!" - Daniel Jitnah


110 Victoria Street, Carlton
* Wen Lin, Introduction to the Command Line
Link:  http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map


Note change of venue!
=== November  2014 ===


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!).
'''LUV-Main''' November 5 NOTE MELBOURNE CUP ON TUESDAY


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 — The Hub
* 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
'''LUV-Beginners''' November 15
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 — The Hub
* Daniel Jitnah - GUI Programming in Linux


* An Introduction to the Command Line - Lev
=== December 2014 ===


=== September 2012 ===
'''LUV-Main''' December 2


Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 4th — Trinity
* Paul Foxworthy : Auprefs - My quest to rescue Australian democracy with 200 lines of Javascript
* AGM
* lightning talks ??
"Above the line" voting means your favourite political party can choose where preferences will be distributed, and you may not know (or like) their decisions. auprefs is an open source web application to visualise preference distribution in Australian elections, to better inform voters where their vote might go. Paul will talk about why he did it, and how it is implemented, including force-directed graphs and the amazing d3 Javascript graphing library.
Paul Foxworthy is an open source developer whose day job is working on Australianising and customising the Apache OFBiz ERP system. He is a committer to the OFBiz project and also currently serves as a director of Open Source Industry Australia. He is very pleased to have finally done something just possibly cool enough to give a LUV talk.


[http://www.sfd.org.au/melbourne/ SFD] (in place of Beginners) — Sat 15th — location Melbourne Unitarian Church hall
*
*


=== October 2012 ===
'''LUV-Beginners''' December 20
 
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."


* Terry Kemp, The New OpenSuSE


Beginners — Sat 20th — The Hub
=== February 2015 ===
*


=== November 2012 ===
'''LUV-Main''' February 3


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


Beginners — Sat 17th — The Hub
'''LUV-Beginners''' February 21
*
 
=== 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
 
== Committee Pages ==
 
[[Committee:Contact]]
 
[[Committee:Talks]]
 
[[Committee:Meetings]]
 
[[Committee:ToDo]]
 
[[Committee:Roles]]
 
[[Committee:VenueContact]]
 
[[Committee:MonthlyChecklist]]
 
[[Committee:Media]]
 
== Admin Team Pages ==
 
[[Admin:Documentation]]


[[Admin:WikiSetup]]
* Deb Henry, Other Options in Myth TV

Latest revision as of 16:58, 13 July 2021

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

Committee Members

Upcoming Meetings

Upcoming Talks

Talk Suggestions - Talk Offers


February 2014

LUV-Main Feb 04

  • Les Kitchen, Linux on non-Intel architectures.
  • Compilation of LCA videos

LUV-Beginners Feb 15

  • An Introduction to Slackware, by Lev Lafayette

March 2014

LUV-Main March 04

  • Colby Swandale, Vagrant
  • Suelette Dreyfus, Whistleblowers

LUV-Beginners March 15

  • An Introduction to Drupal, Daniel Jitnah

April 2014

LUV-Main April 01

  • Bianca Gibson, Preventing Volunteer Burnout
  • Russell Coker, Current Status of BTRFS

LUV-Beginners April 19

  • Terence Kemp, Tweaking the GNOME Desktop

May 2014

LUV-Main May 06

  • Russell Coker, Why I Hate OpenSSL and Heartbleed
  • Sean Crosby, Linux, LHC, and distributed file systems.

LUV-Beginners May 17

  • Wen Lin, Recent Developments and Extensions to LibreOffice

June 2014

LUV-Main June 03

  • Pop-up extra AGM to approve re-aligned financial statement and making mail archives public
  • Martin Paulo, OpenStack Heat
  • Kevin Littlejohn, Docker -- Containerize all the things!

LUV-Beginners June 21

  • Daniel Jitnah, was "Options for GUI programming", but might change.

July 2014

LUV-Main July 01

  • Lev Lafayette, Software and Innovation Patents
  • Ewan Barr, Linux and the Square Kilometre Array

LUV-Beginners July 19

  • LUV Miniconf, Install Fest, and Chapter Establishment in Morwell.

August 2014

LUV-Main August 05

  • Bernard Meade, 3D Printing
  • Richard Keech, Linux on Raspberry Pi for monitoring and control in a sustainable house.

LUV-Beginners August 16

  • Deb Henry, MythTV

September 2014

LUV-Main September 02

  • Annual General Meeting
  • Lightning Talks
    • Paul Foxworthy, auprefs.info
    • Daniel Jitnah, ICT Professionals in Schools Program
    • Andrew Pam Android
    • Mike Hewitt HPLIP

LUV-Beginners September 20

  • Software Freedom Day

Electron Workshop in North Melbourne with Free Software Melbourne

October 2014

LUV-Main October 07

  • Stewart Smith, A History of MySQL
  • Hank Content-centric networking

LUV-Beginners October 18

  • Wen Lin, Introduction to the Command Line

November 2014

LUV-Main November 5 NOTE MELBOURNE CUP ON TUESDAY



LUV-Beginners November 15

  • Daniel Jitnah - GUI Programming in Linux

December 2014

LUV-Main December 2

  • Paul Foxworthy : Auprefs - My quest to rescue Australian democracy with 200 lines of Javascript

"Above the line" voting means your favourite political party can choose where preferences will be distributed, and you may not know (or like) their decisions. auprefs is an open source web application to visualise preference distribution in Australian elections, to better inform voters where their vote might go. Paul will talk about why he did it, and how it is implemented, including force-directed graphs and the amazing d3 Javascript graphing library.

Paul Foxworthy is an open source developer whose day job is working on Australianising and customising the Apache OFBiz ERP system. He is a committer to the OFBiz project and also currently serves as a director of Open Source Industry Australia. He is very pleased to have finally done something just possibly cool enough to give a LUV talk.

LUV-Beginners December 20

  • Terry Kemp, The New OpenSuSE

February 2015

LUV-Main February 3

LUV-Beginners February 21

  • Deb Henry, Other Options in Myth TV
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