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LinuxSA November 2008 - Wesnoth: A Free Software Strategy Game
Hi all,
Time for the November meeting announcement (note that it's one week
later than normal this month).
The usual details:
When: 6:30pm-8:30pm on Tuesday, 25th November, 2008
Where: Room G05/G06 Gerard Innovation Centre
Prince Alfred College
Capper Street, Kent Town SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Rusty will be presenting on Wesnoth: A Free Software Strategy Game:
Wesnoth is a fun strategy game for Linux, Windows and MacOS. Rusty
joined the development just after the 1.0 release; he'll demo the
game, then talk about how he got started, a bit about the community
and cover some of the improvements he made.
Getting to the Venue:
Prince Alfred College faces Dequetteville Terrace, but you need to
enter from Capper Street, closer to The Parade West than to
Dequetteville Terrace. Parking is available on-street or maybe
off-street (adjacent to the Sports Centre). Look for the two storey
stone fronted building with sign "Gerard Innovation Centre". Enter
through the double doors, first room on the right hand side of
corridor (ground floor). The external door automatically locks at
night. Should it not be propped open please be ready to knock
loudly.
There are buses that go along Dequetteville Terrace, with a stop
adjacent to Capper Street. The 143, 145, and 146 buses leave from
North Terrace, and the 141 and 142 buses leave from Currie Street
and Grenfell street.
If you are in the city, you could also catch the 99C bus to East
Terrace, then take a 10-15 minute walk to the College.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Georgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA October 2008 - Building an Electric Car
Hi all,
Time for the October meeting announcement.
The usual details:
When: 6:30pm-8:30pm on Tuesday, 21st October, 2008
Where: Room G05/G06 Gerard Innovation Centre
Prince Alfred College
Capper Street, Kent Town SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
David Rowe will be presenting on Building an Electric Car:
Until recently I had never worked with anything over 5V and 1A or
welded or held a spanner in anger. Building an Electric Vehicle
(EV) has changed all that! Over the past 12 months I have taken a
Daihatsu Charade and converted it to run purely on electricity.
My Electric Charade is faster than the petrol version, has zero
greenhouse emissions and costs a few cents a day to commute all
over Adelaide. Best of all my fuel is made right here in South
Australia. No more 80 million year old fossilised plant liquid
from the Middle East for me!
This presentation will talk about how I turned from geek to
mechanic, how electric cars work, how much it costs, what it is
like to drive, and even some business ideas based around EV
conversions.
David Rowe has 20 years experience in the development of DSP-based
telephony and sat-com hardware/software. David has a wide mix of
skills including software, hardware, and project management
including a PhD in DSP theory. He has held executive level
positions in the sat-com industry (www.dspace.com.au) and has built
and successfully exited a small business (www.voicetronix.com).
However he has decided he is better at debugging machines than
people so currently chooses to hack telephony hardware and software
full time.
Getting to the Venue:
Prince Alfred College faces Dequetteville Terrace, but you need to
enter from Capper Street. Parking is available on-street or maybe
off-street (adjacent to the Sports Centre). Look for the two storey
stone fronted building with sign "Gerard Innovation Centre". Enter
through the double doors, first room on the right hand side of
corridor (ground floor). The external door automatically locks at
night. Should it not be propped open please be ready to knock
loudly.
There are buses that go along Dequetteville Terrace, with a stop
adjacent to Capper Street. The 143, 145, and 146 buses leave from
North Terrace, and the 141 and 142 buses leave from Currie Street
and Grenfell street.
If you are in the city, you could also catch the 99C bus to East
Terrace, then take a 10-15 minute walk to the College.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Georgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA August 2008 - Interesting stuff to do with MySQL and Drizzle
Hi all,
Time for the August meeting announcement. Note that everything has
changed: date, time, and location...
Arjen Lentz is in town for the SAGE-AU conference, so we're going to
run the meeting one week earlier than usual so we can fit him in.
Ian Pilkington has organised for space at Prince Alfred College
(Dequetteville Terrace, Kent Town) for us to meet at (thanks Ian!).
Car parking should be easier than EXCOM, and it's not far from the
city. There are buses that go from the Adelaide train station to
right outside PAC for people who were training it into town.
And, we're going to try a 6:30pm start this time. The start times
people wanted ranged from 5:30pm to 7:30pm, so there's no way we're
going to make everybody happy, but 6:30pm seems like a reasonable
compromise of balancing too-early vs. too-late.
The usual details:
When: 6:30pm-8:30pm on Tuesday, 12th August, 2008
Where: Room G05/G06 Gerard Innovation Centre
Prince Alfred College
Capper Street, Kent Town SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Arjen Lentz was employee #25 at MySQL AB (2001-2007), and then
founded Open Query in September 2007 which focuses on modular MySQL
training (developed in-house) and consulting in the Australia and
New Zealand region. Arjen also co-authored the 2nd edition of the
new O'Reilly High Performance MySQL book. Originally he was a C
programmer, with coding experience going back to the early 80s. In
his spare time, Arjen likes to cook, walk, read, grow herbs/veggies,
and explore RepRap.
Arjen will be talking about interesting stuff to do with MySQL and
Drizzle.
Getting to the Venue:
Prince Alfred College faces Dequetteville Terrace, but you need to
enter from Capper Street. Parking is available on-street or maybe
off-street (adjacent to the Sports Centre). Look for the two storey
stone fronted building with sign "Gerard Innovation Centre". Enter
through the double doors, first room on the right hand side of
corridor (ground floor). The external door automatically locks at
night. Should it not be propped open please be ready to knock
loudly.
There are buses that go along Dequetteville Terrace, with a stop
adjacent to Capper Street. The 143, 145, and 146 buses leave from
North Terrace, and the 141 and 142 buses leave from Currie Street
and Grenfell street.
If you are in the city, you could also catch the 99C bus to East
Terrace, then take a 10-15 minute walk to the College.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Georgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA July 2008 - Linux & FOSS Adoption: A case study, road map and story
Hi all,
Time for the July meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm on Tuesday, 15th July, 2008
Where: EXCOM Education
Ground Floor
191 Pulteney Street
Adelaide SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Piers Rowan will be giving a talk on "Linux & FOSS Adoption: A case
study, road map and story":
Many people use Linux as their preferred desktop. Many web sites
are hosted on Linux. But why would a "run of the mill" business
adopt Linux across desktops and servers alike?
Just over two short years ago Extrastaff had two offices with a
dependency on Windows systems for desktops and servers. Today
Extrastaff has nearly 10 offices in two countries and a big part of
this growth has been partly due to Linux and FOSS. Any business can
benefit from the lessons learned in this process.
This presentation will cover the various stages of the process,
including:
* The background decisions and objections
* How to talk to management about adoption issues
* Change management from the user perspective
* Roll your own: making your own rules & a point of difference with
your customers
* Making the System Administrator's job easier
* What went wrong, what to do when things go wrong
* Capturing innovation
The areas which Extrastaff uses Linux & FOSS
* Desktops
* Internet Kiosks
* CRM
* Web site hosting
* Candidate management
* Document storage
* Domain controllers
* Content filtering
* Email / Webmail / etc
* Payroll
* Billing system
* Messaging Services
The presentation is aimed at being interesting to everyone
interested in Linux, and also owners and managers who would like to
hear about how they can benefit from this excellent business tool.
About Piers Rowan:
I am a Director and shareholder in Extrastaff Recruitment.
Extrastaff is a 2nd generation family business which my brother and
I purchased a little over two years ago. Previous to holding this
position I was split between the roles of Marketing & IT Management.
Coming from the technical side I am always keen to tinker and get
something up and running and having the marketing background means
that I am always focused on what benefit the tinkering will have on
the customer or business.
I have been using/breaking computers since the ZX Spectrum and did
my time in the Windows 98 trenches. I'm running Ubuntu at the moment
but have used Fedora on my laptops quite a bit. For servers I've
used Red Hat 9.0, CentOS, Ubuntu, Fedora and the occasional Solaris
and BSD. Most of my "productive" time is spent writing software that
is critical to my business. I first started using Linux in 1999.
Pizza:
We'll order in pizza to have at EXCOM after the presentation. Bring
$8 if you are hungry.
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA June 2008 - Open Street Map (OSM)
Hi all,
Time for the June meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm on Tuesday, 17th June, 2008
Where: EXCOM Education
Ground Floor
191 Pulteney Street
Adelaide SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Adrian Billiau will be giving a talk on Open Street Map (OSM), a
free editable map of the whole world, made by people like you.
The presentation will include:
- about the OSM project
- tools used by the project
- advice on contributing, collecting data, uploading data, and using
JavaOSM
- a demonstration
Adrian is a 3rd year Surveying student at the University of South
Australia.
Pizza:
We'll order in pizza to have at EXCOM after the presentation. Bring
$8 if you are hungry.
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA April 2008 - One Laptop Per Child
Hi all,
Time for the April meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm on Tuesday, 15th April, 2008
Where: EXCOM Education
Ground Floor
191 Pulteney Street
Adelaide SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Joel Stanley will be talking about his Adventures working for OLPC:
baking laptops in a pie warmer, an impromptu weekend trip to
Romania, being interviewed by Red Symons and making the front page
of Slashdot. After the talk there will be XO's for all to play with
-- the best way to get a feel for the collaborative software they
run.
Joel is an undergraduate Computer System Engineering student at the
University of Adelaide. He has a passion for microelectronics,
embedded systems, open source software and cool toys. In 2007, he
spent 10 weeks working for One Laptop per Child (OLPC --
wiki.laptop.org) at their offices on MIT's campus in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Pizza:
We'll order in pizza to have at EXCOM after the presentation.
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA March 2008 - Games games games!
Hi all,
Time for the March meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday). Please
note that the venue has changed.
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm on Tuesday, 18th March, 2008
Where: EXCOM Education
Ground Floor
191 Pulteney Street
Adelaide SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Tim Ansell will be talking about Games, Games, Games!:
Come and find out about some of the cool and interesting things that
are happening with FOSS and computer games. Including but not
limited to, commercial game companies dirty secrets, FOSS games
which are better than commercial games and how FOSS gaming is the
final step to taking over the world.
Tim is an avid FOSS game developer, founding the Thousand Parsec
project 7 years ago in 2001. Originally getting involved in FOSS
development via a game project called WorldForge, he now believes
that games are a very important part of the FOSS ecosystem.
Tim has given talks about FOSS gaming at a number of conferences and
organised the Gaming Miniconf at Linux.conf.au 2007 and 2008.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA February 2008 - The Winter of my Disconnect - Operating Autonomously in an ever more connected world
Hi all,
Time for the February meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 19th February, 2008
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Mike Taht will be talking about "The Winter of my Disconnect -
Operating Autonomously in an ever more connected world".
Mike Taht has worn all sorts of hats in the computer industry - he's
been a systems programmer, system administrator, oil boy, serial
entrepreneur (co-founding an ISP in 1994), database programmer
inside Borland and Sybase, embedded Linux hacker for places like
Montavista and Timesys, voip dude (various), and works on the Linux
DAW, ardour.org, in what remains of his spare time.
On the side he plays piano and chases women, and has even written a
song about the GPL.
Currently, he's recovering from working at one too many startups,
traveling the world, and recoiling from what the web is becoming.
Finding the Venue and Parking:
You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building. If you
are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
way.
If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
carpark.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
LinuxSA January 2008 - Running a business - the Linux Open Source Way
Hi all,
Time for the January meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 15th January, 2008
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Laz Davila will be talking about "Running a business - the Linux
Open Source way":
Can Linux and Open Source tools "run a business"?
What are the advantages and disadvantages?
This talk presents the case study of Davtec, a local software
development and IT support business.
Davtec's "back-office" is made up of a collection of Linux servers -
with staff using windows workstations and a variety of proprietary
and open source tools.
This presentation will give a quick rundown of the tools used to run
the business (with interactive demonstrations of any tools of
interest):
- Samba / Openldap as the domain controller
- Qmail / Clam AV / Spamassassin / Squirrelmail - Complete
mail solution
- Asterisk / PHP PBX interface - VOIP telephony
- dotProject - Project Management
- Twiki - Knowledgebase and Quality Management System
- Sugar - Client Relationship Management solution
- Journyx - Timesheet system solution
- OpManager - Network monitoring solution
- SVN / WebSVN - Version Control
- Eventum - Issue tracking
Based on this, and on experiences setting up clients with Linux and
Windows servers, the presentation will offer a set of "lessons
learnt" - what works, what doesn't, and what we would do
differently.
Laz Davila is the director of Davtec, a small business he started
four years ago, which focuses on providing systems and software
engineering services, but also deals with IT solutions and support
for local businesses.
Since graduating in 1985 from Adelaide University, Laz has taken on
many roles in software development and IT, including: software
engineering; systems engineering; IT support and project management.
Through his career, Laz has "grown up" with Unix and many of its
variants, such as AT&T Sys V, BSD, SCO, Solaris, Minix and most
recently Linux. With a "hands on" attitude and an appreciation of
the elegance of Unix based operating systems, back in 2004 Laz
decided to underpin his new business with a "Linux based
back-office". His talk tonight presents lessons learnt from this
exercise, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of
introducing Linux into the business environment (where Microsoft is
still "king").
Finding the Venue and Parking:
You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building. If you
are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
way.
If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
carpark.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA December 2007 -Christmas Dinner Breakup
Hi all,
As is the tradition, for the December meeting of LinuxSA we go
somewhere for dinner (no meeting topic, no speaker). Please register
(see below) so I can let the restaurant know how many are coming.
Last year we had it down south (Blackwood), so this year we'll be
pleasing the northerners.
The important info:
When: 7:00pm on Tuesday, 18th December, 2007
Where: Mawson Lakes Hotel
http://www.mawsonlakeshotel.com.au/
10 Main Street, Mawson Lakes
Who: Any Linux-minded people who want to eat with us!
RSVP: Monday, 17th December, 2007
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA November 2007 - Multi-Pointer X Server (MPX)
Hi all,
Time for the November meeting announcement (it's over a month
away!)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 20th November, 2007
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Peter Hutterer will be talking about his research with the
Multi-Pointer X Server (MPX). MPX is a modification of the X server
to support multiple mice and keyboards in X. It provides users with
one cursor per device and one keyboard focus per keyboard. Each
cursor can operate independently. MPX is the first multicursor
windowing system and allows two-handed interaction with legacy
applications, but also the creation of innovative applications and
user interfaces.
Peter is a PhD student at the Wearable Computer Lab at the
University of South Australia.
Finding the Venue and Parking:
You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building. If you
are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
way.
If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
carpark.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA October 2007 - Linux at the Australian Red Cross Blood Service
Hi all,
Time for the October meeting announcement (it's 12 days away)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 16th October, 2007
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Ashleigh Kennett-Smith will be doing a presentation about how and
why the Australian Red Cross Blood Service uses Linux servers and
clients for its mobile blood collection units. The system is based
entirely on Fedora 7 (servers and clients), with a standard
operating environment automatically set up through kickstart.
Ashleigh will go through various aspects of the system:
- hands-off install with kickstart
- hostapd, FreeRADIUS and SSL
- MadWifi and wpa_supplicant
- LUKS/dm_crypt for disk encryption
- repackaging Fedora with Pungi
Ashleigh has been using Unix-like systems for 14 years (including
Solaris, Tru64, SCO, Linux, HPUX, AIX) and is currently working with
the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. His role includes
developing systems for their mobile blood collection units. He was
the sole developer of their previous system which used Red Hat 9
servers and Windows 2000 clients.
Finding the Venue and Parking:
You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building. If you
are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
way.
If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
carpark.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA September 2007 - Air-Stream Wireless
Hi all,
Time for the September meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 18th September, 2007
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Daniel Moscon and Troy Vodopivec will be doing a presentation about
Air-Stream Wireless. Air-Stream Wireless is a non-profit community
group who use wireless in combination with free and open source
technologies to deploy a Wide Area Network (WAN) that supports
community participation, local content and communications. Over the
last six years the group has grown from a handful of friends to the
largest non-profit community wireless network in Australia, covering
several hundred square kilometres.
Troy Vodopivec is the chairperson of Air-Stream Wireless, primary
systems administrator and the developer of our current FreeBSD
RouterOS and captive portal system. Daniel Moscon is also a
committee member with significant experience in long-distance
wireless LAN equipment and embedded systems using OpenWRT.
Finding the Venue and Parking:
You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building. If you
are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
way.
If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
carpark.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA July 2007 - Hacking and mapping on OpenWRT and OLSR
Hi all,
Time for the July meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 17th July, 2007
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Kim Hawtin will be doing a presentation about "hacking and mapping
on OpenWRT and OLSR". OpenWRT is a Linux distribution for embedded
devices, such as the Linksys WRT54G wireless router. OLSR is a
routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks (think mesh networking).
Finding the Venue and Parking:
You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building. If you
are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
way.
If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
carpark.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA June 2007 - Linux on the Nokia N800
Hi all,
Time for the June meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 19th June, 2007
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Tim Wegener will be giving a presentation about Linux on the Nokia
N800 Internet Tablet.
Tim Wegener is an engineer in the microelectronics field. His day
job involves VLSI hardware design, implementation and verification,
along with writing design automation tools and gluing them together.
Tim uses Linux at work and at home; on the server, the desktop, and
now, the palmtop. In his spare time he enjoys tinkering on the
computer, writing programs and playing music, among other things.
Finding the Venue and Parking:
You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building. If you
are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
way.
If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
carpark.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA May 2007 - How to Build an Embedded Asterisk IP-PBX
Hi all,
Time for the May meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 15th May, 2007
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
David Rowe will be giving a presentation on How to Build an Embedded
Asterisk IP-PBX.
David is an engineer who is developing open telephony hardware and
software full time. At the moment he is working on open IP-PBX
hardware and an open source line echo canceller, plus a few smaller
projects.
Finding the Venue and Parking:
You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building. If you
are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
way.
If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
carpark.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA April 2007 - Linux Music/Audio Applications
Hi all,
Time for the April meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 17th April, 2007
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Kevin Hremeviuc will be giving a talk on Linux Music/Audio
Applications. Kevin has been making computer music since 1990,
starting on a Tandy Color Computer with a Lowrey keyboard. Since
1997 he has been using Linux, and these days he runs a single-boot
Linux machine on which he will be showing us the joys of making
electronic music with Linux.
Finding the Venue and Parking:
You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building. If you
are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
way.
If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
carpark.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
Planet LinuxSA - minus the weather
Due to popular request, Planet LinuxSA no longer includes Adelaide's weather.
OpenMoko (Neo1973) - the world's first integrated open source mobile communications platform
Hi all,
Time for the March meeting announcement (it's 12 days away)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 20th March, 2007
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Rod Whitby will be giving a talk on the OpenMoko (Neo 1973) phone.
OpenMoko is "the world's first integrated open source mobile
communications platform", and Rod is the proud owner of a very early
engineering sample (it doesn't place calls yet, but maybe by the
time the meeting comes around...).
Rod is currently CTO at the Australian Semiconductor Technology
Company (ASTC), and was previously the Chief Architect at Freescale
Australia, and the founding Chief Engineer at the Motorola Australia
Software Center.
Finding the Venue and Parking:
You can park either beneath or next to the SSABSA building. If you
are driving west along Greenhill road, you can turn left into the
driveway if you are going slow enough to notice the sign and turn in
time :-), or you can turn left at the next road, and left again to
go along the street behind the building to access the carpark that
way.
If you try to enter the building from street level but the doors are
locked, walk down the stairs and use the lift in the below-ground
carpark.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA February 2007 - One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project
Hi all,
Time for the February meeting announcement (it's next Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 20th February, 2007
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Joel Stanley will be giving a talk on the One Laptop per Child
(OLPC) project:
OLPC[0], a not for profit group originating from the MIT Media
Lab[1], have spent the past two years dreaming up, designing and
developing a sub-US$100 laptop for use by children, to be sold
exclusively to governments who will provide them to disadvantaged
children.
At LCA 2007, Jim Gettys[2], VP of Software at OLPC announced that
they were giving away a couple of XO[3] laptops, to those who were
willing to work on them. Joel Stanley was lucky enough to receive
one, which he will display on Tuesday. He will give some background
on the OLPC project, and talk about the current status laptop,
including some of the more interesting technology it employs.
Joel is 21, in his final year of an Electrical Engineering (Computer
Systems) and Economics double degree at the Uni of Adelaide. He runs
ubuntu, edits with vim, and doesn't care if Han shot first.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_Per_Child
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Media_Lab
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gettys
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Machine
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA January 2007 - EMACS: The only program you ever need. Also edits text.
Hi all,
Time for the January meeting reminder (it's tomorrow)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 23rd January, 2007
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Greg Lehey will be giving a talk on "EMACS: The only program you
ever need. Also edits text."
Greg Lehey is a developer in the FreeBSD and NetBSD projects, and a
former member of the FreeBSD core team. He has been in the computer
industry for nearly 35 years, many of them spent in Germany. In
this time he has performed most jobs, ranging from kernel
development to product management, from systems programming to
systems administration, from processing satellite data to
programming petrol pumps, from the production of CD-ROMs of ported
free software to DSP instruction set design. He is the author of
"Porting UNIX Software" (O'Reilly and Associates, 1995) and "The
Complete FreeBSD" (O'Reilly and Associates, 2003).
He is also an awful Emacs bigot.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
10 Year Anniversary Dinner
Last night I went to the LinuxSA 10 year anniversary dinner. Wow. 10 years. And Geoffrey has been very faithful, leading the whole thing the whole time. Thanks Geoffrey for your continued efforts!
So we had a good time, talked about a variety of interesting geek-related topics over some decent chinese food. The usual suspects were all there, although some piked at the last moment or couldn't make it. There were as per usual new faces to get to know too. Thanks to all who came and made it a fun night!
LinuxSA November 2006 - Ruby On Rails
Hi all,
Time for the regular November meeting announcement -- we've got a
programming talk this month. Also, don't forget about the special
November meeting this Monday (details at
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/).
Have fun,
Geoffrey.
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 21st November, 2006
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Alex Moore will be giving a talk about Ruby On Rails. Alex is a web
application developer for Valuation Exchange. He also develops
applications for personal and commercial use in his spare time in
Ruby On Rails.
Alex plans to cover the following topics in his talk:
* Demonstration - Code up a simple application from scratch in
5-10 minutes, explaining each step
* Why I switched to Rails (development in PHP etc), MVC
architecture
* Overview of key features of Ruby compared to Java/PHP/ASP etc.
* Go into Rails features:
* ActiveRecord (ORM Layer), Migrations (database stuff)
* In built scriptaculous stuff (Pretty cross-browser AJAX stuff)
* Testing (and how great it is, and how rails would convince you
to do it)
* Lollyjar and our experiences, our "best practices" we've adopted
* How to learn - overview of best books, resources etc.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA October 2006 - Building an Open-Source Segway(R)
Time for the LinuxSA October Meeting announcement (it was yesterday :-(
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 17th October, 2006
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Geoffrey D. Bennett will be presenting a talk on how to build an
open-source Segway(R):
Building a self-balancing scooter like the Segway(R) has
previously been shown to be "not actually very hard" by Trevor
Blackwell. I have replicated his experience by building my own
two-wheeled self-balancing ride-on robot using only off-the-shelf
parts, and open-source hardware and software. Some info, a video,
and source can be found here:
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/meta/
The presentation will go through how my scooter was built and the
theory and practicalities of keeping it upright, along with a
demonstration.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA September 2006 - World's First Open Movie "Elephants Dream"
Hi all,
Time for the LinuxSA September Meeting announcement (it's this
Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 19th September, 2006
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Lee Salvemini will be giving the presentation. Lee was one of the
Lead Artists for the world's first open movie "Elephants Dream", and
will be talking about the movie and open source. All his artwork
was done on a Ubuntu computer with Blender being the main software
used, as well as Gimp. The movie was produced on both Linux and Mac
machines.
He has been to San Diego to meet and worked with Tom (developer and
code writer for Blender). Made the movie in Holland, currently
doing commercials for Val Morgan and next month is off to Bollywood
(India) to work on his next project - he is 20, and has had a fairly
busy life so far :D.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA September 2006 (extra meeting) - Piratpartiet, file-sharing, privacy/freedom of speech/communication etc
Hi all,
Sorry for the last minute notice, but we've organized an extra meeting
for September (additional to the usual one on the 19th). This one
should be interesting enough to justify it though :-)
NOTE: This is for next Tuesday.
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 5th September, 2006
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Egil Moller (http://www.redhog.org) is a Piratpartiet member from
Sweden, working as a free software developer currently in Adelaide.
He'll be giving a presentation on the Piratpartiet and surrounding
issues, such as file-sharing, privacy/freedom of speech/communication,
PP's history/policies, patents, and the effect of issues concerning PP
which will have huge effect on Free Software, Opensource, Copyleft and
software developers if fully implemented.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA August 2006 - Why the law re. DRM matters: restoring the balance in Australian Copyright Law
Hi all,
Time for the LinuxSA August Meeting announcement (it's this
Tuesday)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 15th August, 2006
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Darren Kruse will be giving a presentation on "Why the law re. DRM
matters: restoring the balance in Australian Copyright Law".
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA July 2006 - Anycast DNS servers
Hi all,
Time for the LinuxSA July Meeting reminder...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 18th July, 2006
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Glen Turner, Network Engineer for AARNet, and Kim Hawtin from the
University of Adelaide will be giving a presentation on the reasons
and configuration of anycast DNS servers.
Janet Hawtin and perhaps others involved in Software Freedom Day
will give a brief presentation on what's happening with SFD this
year.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA June 2006 - Linux-based recording studios
Hi all,
Time for the LinuxSA June Meeting reminder (it's tonight!)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 20th June, 2006
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Matthew Geddes is presenting a talk on Linux-based recording
studios:
Linux is proving itself as a capable platform for handling much of
the work in a recording studio. Not only is it more-than-capable of
performance in the same league as some of the alternatives, it is
incredibly flexible, making it invaluable to the long-term lazy.
Using a session with a female duet as an example, we'll see one
example of how Linux can be used to record both live stereo
performances and multitrack recordings, as well as performing
necessary post-processing and mastering.
The studio described is incredibly modest, but capable of quite
reasonable results. It's also cheap and portable. Did I mention
cheap?
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA March 2006 - git: the stupid content tracker
Time for the LinuxSA March Meeting announcement (it happened 3 days ago :-(
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 21st March, 2006
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Paul Schulz will be giving a talk on "git - the stupid content
tracker[1]":
What is it? What does it do? How can 'git' improve the way I write
and contribute to Free and Open Source software?
If you are interested in the answers, come along to LinuxSA[2] and
find out about another program that Linus wrote.
References:
http://git.or.cz/ - A good introduction
http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi
- A gitweb listing of projects at kernel.org
Notes:
[1] - Not "GNU Interactive Tools"
[2] - GitSA?
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA February 2006 - Hacking Consumer NAS Devices For Fun And Profit
Hi all,
Time for the LinuxSA February Meeting announcement (it's in 8 days
time)...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 21st February, 2006
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Rod Whitby will be giving a talk on "Hacking Consumer NAS Devices
For Fun And Profit - An insider's view of the NSLU2-Linux project
and the Debian port to big-endian ARM devices".
Rod is the Adelaide-based project lead of the www.nslu2-linux.org
and www.debonaras.org projects, member of the Debian big-endian ARM
porting team, and Chief Architect at the Freescale Semiconductor
Australian SoC Technology Centre.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA December 2005 - Christmas Dinner
Hi all,
As is the tradition, for the December meeting of LinuxSA we go
somewhere for dinner (no meeting topic, no speaker). You'll need to
register (see below) so that we can book a table of the appropriate
size. (thanks to Janet for organising this!)
The important info:
When: 7:00pm on Tuesday, 20th December, 2005
Where: Genki Japanese Restaurant
http://www.harima.com.au/genki/map.htm
1/9-15 Field Street
Adelaide SA
Who: Any Linux-minded people who want to eat with us!
RSVP: Friday, 2nd December, 2005
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/meetings/
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA October 2005 - Transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers
Hi all,
Time for the LinuxSA October 2005 Meeting announcement...
CHANGED DATE! PLEASE NOTE BELOW!
We're privileged to have Peter N. M. Hansteen from Norway speaking at
our meeting this month on a topic that has been of particular interest
to LinuxSA members over the years (CPIP):
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/pipermail/linuxsa/2001-May/028952.html
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/pipermail/linuxsa/2001-May/029292.html
http://www.linuxsa.org.au/pipermail/linuxsa-talk/2004-December/000159.html
As Peter will be in Adelaide for only a brief time (which does not
overlap our usual meeting date), the meeting for October has been
moved from 18/Oct to 13/Oct.
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Thursday, 13th October, 2005
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
While some draft internet standards get implemented almost before
they are fully specified, it took 11 years for RFC 1149 (The
transmission of IP datagrams on avian carriers) to be implemented.
A member of the first implementation team, Peter N. M. Hansteen
presents an overview of the CPIP working group activities, including
a view to future development.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA September 2005 - Introduction to TYPO3
Hi all,
Time for the LinuxSA September Meeting announcement (it's Tuesday
week). This month we have a special guest presenter from Germany...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 20th September, 2005
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Ingmar Schlecht will be giving an introductory talk on TYPO3
(http://www.typo3.com/ and http://www.typo3.org/), an
enterprise-quality Open Source content management system. Ingmar is
a TYPO3 developer from Germany, working in Australia for a couple of
months.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA July 2005 - Using RPM and Quilt
Time for the LinuxSA July Meeting announcement (it's tonight :-)
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 19th July, 2005
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Geoffrey D. Bennett will be giving a talk on building RPMs, writing
RPM spec files and using quilt to manage patches.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA June 2005 - Building and Running Linux on Embedded ARM Hardware
Hi all,
Time for the LinuxSA June Meeting announcement...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 21st June, 2005
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Paul Schulz will be talking about "Building and Running Linux on
Embedded (ARM) Hardware": Linux (the kernel) runs on a large number
of computer platforms, from desktop PC's to Supercomputers to small
dedicated processors -- Paul is currently working with a
commercially available embedded ARM Processor platform used in
dedicated computer systems. The platform and the development
environment used are GNU/Linux.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA Apr 2005 - LDAP Overview
Hi all,
Time for the LinuxSA May Meeting announcement...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 17th May, 2005
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Matt Geddes will be giving an overview of LDAP directories under
Linux:
- what they are,
- how they can be used, and
- a bit on configuring the service and using administration tools.
Matt enjoys having his Linux and Unix powered minion hordes do the
bidding of both himself and his customers.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA Apr 2005 - Linux Workshop
This is a couple of days late :-(
Hi all,
Time for the LinuxSA April Meeting announcement...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 19th April, 2005
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
Pre-registration necessary if you want to bring a computer.
Email workshop at linuxsa.org.au with your name so we can keep
track of numbers.
Presentation:
Instead of the usual presentation this month, Janet Reid will be
running a Linux workshop with other friendly ITShare
(http://www.itshare.org.au/) people. Bring along your computer and
questions for assistance with installing, configuring, or using
Linux. Or if you don't need assistance, come along and help
somebody else out.
If you are bringing a computer, you must also bring its monitor,
keyboard, mouse, power cables, and anything else you need to make it
work.
Any questions? Email workshop at linuxsa.org.au
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: workshop at linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa at linuxsa.org.au
LinuxSA Mar 2005 - Ubuntu
Time for the LinuxSA March Meeting announcement...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 15th March, 2005
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Brian Astill will be giving a talk about Ubuntu Linux, "a Linux
distribution that starts with the breadth of Debian and adds regular
releases (every six months), a clear focus on the user and usability
(it should "Just Work", TM) and a commitment to security updates
with 18 months of support for every release."
Anyone with spare Ubuntu CDs to give away is encouraged to bring
them along (we ran out last month).
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
LinuxSA Feb 2005 - Airstream
Time for the LinuxSA February Meeting announcement...
The usual details:
When: 7:00pm-9:30pm (doors open 6:45pm) on
Tuesday, 15th February, 2005
Where: Senior Secondary Assessment Board
of South Australia (SSABSA)
Boardroom (1st floor)
60 Greenhill Road
Wayville SA
Cost: FREE
Who: Anyone and everyone.
No pre-registration necessary.
Presentation:
Robert Hart will be giving a talk about Air-Stream, a not-for-profit
organisation using open source software and 802.11 wireless to build
a broadband network across Adelaide.
Pizza:
After the meeting, please join us for pizza at San Giorgios (cnr.
Frome Street and Rundle Street in the city).
For more information:
Email: organisers@linuxsa.org.au
Web Page: http://www.linuxsa.org.au/
Mailing List: linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
IRC: #linuxsa on irc.freenode.net
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