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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:
- 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
- Summary:
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
- LibreOffice - Wen Lin
June 2012
Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 5th — Trinity
- Avi Miller, Oracle, BTRFS and Other Filesystems
Beginners — Sat 16th — The Hub
- OpenShot - Alex Garber
July 2012
Intermediate/Advanced — Tue 3rd — Trinity
Beginners — Sat 21st — The Hub
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