Re: 2011 = 20 years of Linux

On Thu, 2010-09-30 at 14:52 +1000, Donna Benjamin wrote:
> Was pondering, should Linux Australia do something to mark the
> occasion?

>From the ensuing uselessness of the thread I'll assume the answer is no.

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Re: 2011 = 20 years of Linux

On 30/09/10 2:52 PM, Donna Benjamin wrote:
> 
> Less than a year until the 20th anniversary of the 'birth' of linux.
> 
> Was pondering, should Linux Australia do something to mark the occasion?

Well, in true geek fashion we could have a Hobbit's Birthday and give
stuff away, except we're already doing that with Software Freedom Day
and the like.

No doubt something will occur to someone to find a way to mark the
anniversary and get a little more press out of it.

Regards,
Ben

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lca2011 Announces more Keynote Speakers!

Ladies and Gents,

The linux.conf.au 2011 organising team is proud to announce the second
and third confirmed keynote speakers for lca2011.

Eric Allman

Eric Allman is the original author of Sendmail, co-founder and Chief
Scientist of Sendmail, Inc., and co-author of Sendmail, published by
O'Reilly and Associates. He has presented numerous papers on email and
programming and while at U.C. Berkeley, he was the chief programmer on
the INGRES relational database management project. He then led the
Mammoth project to provide large-scale research software and hardware
infrastructure. He has also designed database user and application
interfaces at Britton Lee (later Sharebase) and has contributed to the
Ring Array Processor project for neural-network-based speech
recognition at the International Computer Science Institute.

Eric has had an extraordinary effect on communications throughout the
world which can be seen to have had an impact on all of us in some way
or another.

   http://lca2011.linux.org.au/media/news/56

Geoff Huston

Geoff is the Chief Scientist at the Asia Pacific Network Information
Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry serving the Asia
Pacific region. He is an author and researcher who has been closely
involved with the development of the Internet for many years,

calendar time zone

Hey all,

I don't think the linux australia calendar has the right time zone
set, it's currently using
UTC, which makes things like the irc lug meeting happen at six thirty
in the morning..

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Planning Weekend 2010-09-25 Notes

As you may know, the council met in Sydney for the planning weekend on September 25. I've now published the
sanitised notes for that meeting on the website for you to view. There's a lot of text, so I won't include it
in this email.

You can access the notes directly at: http://linux.org.au/meeting/2010-09-25

Cheers,
- Peter.

Re: calendar time zone

----- Original Message -----
> Hey all,
> 
> I don't think the linux australia calendar has the right time zone
> set, it's currently using UTC, which makes things like the irc lug meeting happen at six thirty
> in the morning..

Doesn't everyone use UTC? 

Thanks for letting me know, my timezone settings on the site made it all looks fine :-P.  I've now set it to EST
and updated the dates on various meeting notes and events.

- P.

Council Meeting 2010-10-06

These minutes are also available at http://linux.org.au/meeting/2010-10-06

Linux Australia teleconference, and #LACTTE IRC channel

Apologies: Elspeth Thorne
Present: John Ferlito, Peter Lieverdink, Joshua Hesketh, Michael Carden, Lindsay Holmwood, Alice Boxhall

Agenda

Accept minutes of Last Meeting
Minutes of planning weekend were accepted unanimously
Previous teleconf minutes need amendment before posting

Status update on LCA2011
Sponsors are coming on board and looking good. The budget has been tidied up, so the wild guess numbers are
now more concrete.

Status update on LCA2012
Weekend of 30/31 Oct is when we'll go to Ballarat to do a team meeting and site inspection. Will discuss
logistics after the teleconf.

Status update on Drupal Down Under
Sponsors are signing up and keynotes have been announced. Registration can open once we decide on a payment gateway.

Status update on Survey
John will work on survey later today.

Diversity policy
A team list now exists.

WordCamp Melbourne 2010

G'Day Everyone,

I'm a Melbourne-based WordPress developer and I wanted to inquire about having the Linux Association
sponsor the WordCamp we are planning in Melbourne for early next year. WordCamp is a conference set around
all aspects of the popular WordPress content management system. The following quote explains from
WordCamp.orgexplains what a "WordCamp" is.

"WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal,
community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users like you. Everyone from casual
users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to
WordPress.com and WordPress.orgusers alike."

The first WordCamp in Australia was held in Melbourne on the 17th of November 2007. WordCamp "Australia" in
Sydney was held in 2008 on November 29th and 30th. I am not sure of the attendees at the first WordCamp
Melbourne, but WordCamp Australia, which I played an organisational role in, accounted for around 200
people with a large international presence.

We have been planning this WordCamp for the past several months and are planning for an attendance of around
250 people. We have looked into potential venues, including RMIT and the State Library of Victoria.

The potential dates we have set are the 26th and 27th of February, 2010. The event will be held in tandem with
WordCamp Wellington held the weekend before. The conference will consist of a formal day of planned
sessions, while the second day will be more along the lines of an unconference-like event.

The involved parties who will become members of the subcomittee are as follows: James Collins, Brent
Shepherd, Sarah Stokely, and Myself.

Regards,
Anthony

WordCamp Melbourne 2011

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Re: [OT] Tune-In To The World Amateur radio gets people talking

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:55:10 +1000
Noel Butler <noel.butler@...> wrote:

> 
> WTF has this got to do with linux-au
> 
> this is UBE
> 
> On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 22:39 +1030, Dale wrote:
> 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > The South Coast Amateur Radio Club (SCARC)[1] are having a National Field
> > Day[2] event details below.
> > 
> > If you unable to make it to the event in person at least try 'QOS' to them on
> > there group callsign listed below. And you can also RSVP on their
> > Facebook page[3].
> > 
> > Group name : South Coast Amateur Radio Club
> > Group callsign : VK5ARC
> > Operating category: Public station
> > 
> > Event Site: Bunnings Hardware Store
> > Site Address : Beach Road, Noarlunga Centre, 5168 SA
> > Site Grid Square:
> > 
> > Start Time: 10:00 UTC 23rd October
> > End Time: 18:00 UTC 23rd October
> > 
> > 
> > Regards
> > Dale
> > 
> > 
> > [1] http://www.scarc.org.au/
> > [2]
> > http://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/centenary/nfd/displayevent.php?id=52
> > [3] http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=113811248679992
> 
> 
Hi Noel,

I think there was no need for you to react like you have. I did put
[OT] meaning it is off topic. Reason I have sent this info to the
mailing list is cause there is a few Linux users that are ham radio
operators, and there is a fair few ham radio operators that run/use
Linux.

Best Regards
Dale
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