[SLUG] [Fwd: LINUX Consultants needed.]
Hi all, Please see below :) looks good. Pia -Forwarded Message- From: Ellis Seder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LINUX Consultants needed. Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 15:13:20 +1100 dynamic professionals Hi Pia My name is Ellis Seder the Director of Dynamic Professionals, IT Search specialists!! We have 2 high profile requirements for a Global software company looking for outstanding and experienced Linux Consultants. Your name was provided to us as a high calibre Linux professional that could put us in the right direction, if these roles are of interest to you or you know of anybody that fits the criteria we would certainly like to here from you. We reward successful candidate referrals with a $200 David Jones Voucher 1. Linux Professional Services Consultant, Manager...$150,000 2. Linux Professional Services Consultant...$100,000 Responsible for all Linux consulting project delivery activities. Technical responsibilities include problem identification, system architecture definition, hardware/software specification and/or design, implementation, testing, client training, and deployment. * High energy levels * Someone to grow the consulting business from its current 4 people to 15 people. * Linux projects consulting experience * Unix projects consulting experience a bonus * Must bring local contacts with them * Young vibrant team working there I look forward to your feedback. Please do not hesitate to call. Kind regards Ellis Seder Sales Director phone +61 (0) 2 9252 4650 fax +61 (0) 2 9484 0040 address 3 spring street. Sydney. nsw. 2000 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] web www.dynamicprofessionals.com.au -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Update - March
Hi all, We have decided to do monthly updates rather than by the meeting. We do a lot that happens outside the meetings and wanted to encapsulate all activities for your reading pleasure :) Linux Australia has been incredibly active this last month. We got a Press statement out about the FTA with some summary papers (http://linux.org.au/press/ and http://linux.org.au/papers/) and have just completed a draft Whitepaper (http://linux.org.au/papers/) on the subject. We are planning on submitting this to the Government Committees looking into the FTA so as to hopefully make a difference. Why? To protect our current freedoms to create and use software in this country, especially Open Source. Read the papers for more. We have a "What you can do" paper coming out in the next few days, and will be having a petition to help support the stance, so keep an eye out! Many thanks to Rusty for all his excellent work on this! I spoke at the Open Source Forum 2004 in Sydney a week ago, which was mainly a government gig. It was quite interesting (apart from some pretty blatant sales push talks), and I spoke about the community, who we are, why we are important, and some of the challenges and opportunities facing opensource at the moment. My slides can be found at http://linux.org.au/papers/200403-osf.sxi and http://linux.org.au/papers/200403-osf.pdf. I also touched on the FTA stuff for interests sake, sparking a good discussion. I was a bit cheeky and put up an Onion article where MS patents the numbers 0 and 1 to protect their business. It got the point across ;) We have had two meeting recently with the OSEG crew. Check out what they are up to at opensource.org.au/oseg/. OSEG is basically working on some policy and FAQ stuff, and on getting itself set up for future advisory roles. We have met with NOIE/AGIMO, AUUG, ACS and OSIA recently. We are trying to help government get information about Open Source. It is possible that we need to set up some sort of group/task force specifically to deal with government. This group should have some representation from the different Open Source groups in Aus, but more importantly, should have people that have interest and expertise in dealing with government at this level. This group would have no other function but to deal with gov, allowing the rest of us to get on with our duty directly to the community :) We need to focus our interactions with the government to a well prepared and groomed team used to their ways, rather than every man and his dog :) Especially if we want to have a lasting _postitive_ effect. The idea of merging has been floated again. We would like to get some idea on what people think about this. We tend to like having a diverse atmosphere, one with choice and different flavours, however this discussion needs to be brought out into public debate for a more thorough appraisal. The Press team has several people now, and we are organising some training for them to assure a kick-ass Press team. We have chatted to several groups for advice on direction and professionalism, and are well on the way. We have been organising the support and delegate run for the LCA2005 team. Opensource.org.au is almost finished. It has a fair bit of information up and is looking pretty good (Thanks Michael D!). Linux.org.au is on the way now. We have a Site structure and a potential new design that everyone loves. We should hopefully have the new site done within 1-2 months, with new look, easier navigation, and more information and references. What else? The March minutes aren't up yet however should be soon, so check them out. Stewart Smith, our VP is speaking at LUV this month. ATO and several other government agencies are looking at Open Source. Mailman will be fixed soon and so will our mail issues :) So much so that we need to ensure that the place of the community is put very firmly in the picture. Cheers, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] FTA petition and foo
Hi all,
Linux Australia has upped the ante on the FTA ('Free' Trade Agreement)
issue. We have pinpointed patents and anti-circumvention concerns that
would have a negative impact on both the Australia Open Source
community, and the Australian ICT industry.
The short of it is if you are interested, read http://linux.org.au/fta/
for a whole heaps of summaries, a whitepaper, and comparison sheets on
the FTA. If interested sign the petition at
http://www.petitiononline.com/auftaip/petition.html. There are lots of
other things you can do to help found at the /fta/ page.
Lets try to protect the freedoms we currently enjoy. We have been too
quiet for too long.
Cheers,
Pia
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[SLUG] Free Trade Agreement
Hi all, for anyone that is not aware, Linux Australia has publicly stated its opposition to the IP and anti-circumvention clauses in the AUS-US Free Trade Agreement. Check out http://linux.org.au/fta/ for information on how it will affect you, and your own freedoms. Please feel free to contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] for further information, and we highly recommend you sign our petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/auftaip/ if you care. A few Linux Australia committee members will be at this months SLUG meeting to answer any other questions and discuss the issue. Cheers, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Update - April
ere to find out how they went about their FTA negotiations, and how it affects them considering their postitive approach to open source. Cheers everyone, Pia -- Pia Smith President of Linux Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Committee News - 200406
Hi all, I know I've said this the last few months, but... what a month! FTA --- We have been contacted and are in contact with several different industry representatives about the FTA issue, including PBS, and Media. We are looking at a collaborative effort to demonstrate our concerns in a public forum. This will be huge, as it will attract attention across much of the board, and show that there are common areas of concerns, and serious issues. Thus far we've been involved in meetings, and a few of us will be travelling down to Canberra this week for more meetings on this topic. There will be more news in the _very_ near future, we just need to confirm a few things first. As people may be aware, we are bringing Lawrence Lessig out to Australia to help educate our government and people about the issues surrounding the FTA. This will cost LA money, however will certainly be worth it for the attention, messages and education it will produce. Well done to Craig Warner who has done a great job contacting several politicians. We still are able to have an affect on the opinion on the FTA, so please ensure you contact your local member if you are concerned. Grants -- The line of credit for Computerbank NSW has been passed. A contract has been written up and handed to Computerbank NSW to ensure due diligence on both sides. We look forward to seeing and helping out where we can in the projects. Both travel grants from Jeff Waugh and Daniel Stone were respectfully declined, although both are encouraged to continue to submit for grants they feel will benefit the community :) FISL See http://pipka.org/blog for my WSIS Vs FISL report. I will be adding to this entry over the next few weeks with more talks, videos and slides from the conferences. Needless to say the Brazilians rock, and I hope we can learn some lessons from them, especially in our politics ;) ACS and archive issues ACS contacted us about an issue with one of our posts concerning the ACS policy work we did for them on Open Source. I mistakenly had "ACS Policy on Open Source" in the Subject, and although the message body and attachment name had draft in them, the subject line could be seen to be misleading. Unless there is any serious issues raised, we believe where erroneous data is archived, we should fix the mistake. After ctte discussion, we thought this would be ok to do under two conditions, 1) if the membership is notified and 2) if the mistake is rectified with verbosity (ie - subject will be changed to "Subject was 'ACS policy on open source', changed to 'ACS draft policy on open source' at the request of ACS"). Please notify if this is unreasonable. Website Unfortunately this got a little delayed with other stuff happening, however http://www.linux.org.au/devel/ is up. Please let us know what you think :) we have some css files happening, and some data migrated. We are 80% of the way! :) (Please don't take the news seriously, Michael Davies is very silly ;) Ghosts - We are having the Ghosts meeting in Canberra in August. This is where we transport a few people from previous LCA committees to the current committee to have a brain dump, and transfer ideas/knowledge. It should be a good weekend, and the Canberra guys are certainly on top of things :) Rock on! Misc Mark Tearle, our treasurer is doing an awesome job. We have business cards on the way, our finances are getting super organised, and he is rocking out! Jason King, the Education Officer reported to LA that he has progressed the LPI program in Australia, bringing on some affiliate training organisations, and aiming to get the TAFE LPI curriculum currently used and developed by several people around Australia, and getting it certified as a Linux course. This would make it more accessible and standardised, and certainly easier to get into TAFEs and otehr educational institutes. Go Jason! Thanks all! More to come in the next couple of weeks. Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] FTA cross-industry press conference
Hi all, Just a quick note from your friendly Linux Australia type person :) Due to recent talks between Linux Australia and several other industry representatives, we are lucky enough to now be involved in a cross-industry press conference this Wednesday. It will be at 11am, in the Jubilee room at Parliament House, Macquarie St, Sydney. We have reps from IT, the Health as well as the Media indsutries with many concerns to be expressed, including common areas of concern such as IP. The scary thing is that some of these groups have been involved with the FTA discussion for 2 years, they were at the drawing table and still received the sharp end of the stick. We are at a significant disadvantage because they _are_ the peak bodies of their industries, whereas in IT, Australian focused organisations like us are expressing concerns, and some of the bigger IT organisations have a lot of foreign companies on the board, of whom don't have to worry about the changes so much and so are embracing the FTA. It has been amusing to watch some of the orgs put out statements supporting the FTA and then withdraw their comments upon research ;) Anyway, our politicians are getting mixed messages from us which is frustrating. I hope that anyone concerned with this stuff has sent letters, or at least called their local members. They can't protect you from that which they don't understand. I'm not sure how public the press conference should be, it isn't being organised by us, however some support there would certainly be helpful :) Cheers all, Pia -- Pia Smith President of Linux Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Empty CD Cases
Is anyone interested in a bunch of empty cd cases. Probably over 100... Am doing software cleanout at a site. Regards, Pia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Luke Szymanski Sent: Monday, 29 April 2002 2:47 PM To: Pia smith Cc: 'chat slug' Subject: RE: [chat] boogie nights On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Pia smith wrote: > Changing SLUG to another night would also mean I couldn't come. Between part > time uni mon-wed and trying to participate in band type activities, friday > night is the only one free for me too :( > > I would move that it be something that slug as a group vote on, at the next > meeting Convenient sample space, wouldn't you say ;) Luke. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug-chat -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Empty CD Cases
They are taken ppl. :) Quick responses round here Pia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2
With fear of retribution in mind, I would suggest to replace all Ipex Components ;) Seriously, I actually just put debian woody onto exactly the same machine and had no problems at all. The only thing I haven't played with on my sirius box is the sound (as it is only acting as a netsaint server, so who cares ) Net mod i used was the eepro100, worked fine. Have fun Pia Smith Ipex Engineer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Simon Bryan Sent: Monday, 29 April 2002 2:16 PM To: Slug Subject: [SLUG] Are these specs OK for RH7.2 Hi all, I am looking at putting RH7.2 on the following machine and wondered if anyone had heard anything good or bad about the system. I would be upgrading to 512MB RAM and a 40GB 0r 60GB HDD. Case :Ipex Micro Office Case Motherboard :Ipex Sirius with i845 chipset CPU :Intel Pentium 4 - 1.6Ghz CPU Socket 478 Memory :128mb PC 100/133 RAM Hard Drive :20Gb IDE Hard Drive - 5400 RPM Video Card :Ipex NVIDIA M64 32mb Video Card Floppy :1.44 Mb 3.5" Floppy Drive CD Rom :Ipex 52 spin CD Rom Keyboard :Ipex 104 key PS/2 Mouse :Ipex 2 button ergonomic PS/2 mouse with wheel Network card:Onboard Intel Pro 10/100V integrated Lan Sound Chip:Onboard ADI Soundmax AC'97 audio Monitor :Ipex 15" Monitor 0.28 dot pitch V728 _ Simon Bryan IT Manager - OLMC Parramatta ICQ#:137562751 http://www.olmc.nsw.edu.au _ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] SLUG meeting summary...
Heh, I didn't see that with the Tandoori Chicken, next time could you let the rest of us know ;) I also really did like the food there, and would be happy to go back. Maybe we should start a round robin of restaurants and check out lots of places. We haven't done Thai yet, or Japanese Pia __ Ah you didn't see me then get up and take the Tandoori Chicken to the counter and ask to see the boss? The chicken inside was raw. It even had red blood filled veins running through it. A few other round me at the table saw it too. Not good. The boss was so worried when he saw the raw chicken, his eyes even bulged out more than normal :-) I just let the guy know that we did enjoy the food, we were still happy, but that it is quite dangerous to serve raw chicken - as he well knew. Given that I think they will be moer careful next time. I certainly prefered that over the chinese. A nice change and I look forward to more tandoori and butter chicken next month :-) (U, yum yum - nice yummy and very very fattening butter chicken) Mike -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Highly Technical Talk Offers / Requests?
Can I suggest a talk/debate that really highlights differences in distros. Get us some fanatics from different distros to do lightning talks/comparisons, and then crack out the WWF boxing ring ;) Seriously, I think that would be quite helpful and educational for most people, and good to see what is new in different fields, and what direction diffferent distros are taking. Could also get a StarOffice/OpenOffice comparison. Just a suggestion, Pia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Highly Technical Talk Offers / Requests?
I agree that a demo of Open Office at a meeting would be great :) If we could do a versus demo of it against StarOffice even better :) Would be interesting to pull in a windows box (gasp) to show how well documents import but that could be just getting silly. > I'm not familiar with the project (just pulling keywords out of the > press release :) but I'd be interested to hear what it's like. Perhaps > someone who is part of it could tell us about it? (Ken? :) Pia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] SPAM stuff
What the faq is happening with all this spam?! :) Time to play around a bit more with SPAM assasin people! Pia PS - I just acquired a PA system, so if anyone has any functions that need one, let me know :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Bite the Troll... (Re: Anti-MS bullshit)
> Dear Kevin, > > Well that depends, you can do what I did a long time ago and work > for yourself and refuse to work with unacceptable O/S's. Or you can work > for a Boss, who controls what you do and how you do it. > > We might stress, that it is your decision what you do with your > Lives and what technologies you work with. Linux and open-source has been > very kind to us, such that it empowered us to put Redmond completely > behind us and be independant. If you are not in a position to be > self-employed, then perhaps work on convincing your employers to deploy > more linux/unix/bsd, dunno dude... thats my $0.02c Dude, you need to chill a little bit. I agree, everyone makes their own life decisions either directly or indirectly, and probably shouldn't whinge about their lot, but there are very few jobs available that are what we would call ideal for ourselves (mind you, most people are never satisfied anyway) and not everyone has the cash/ability/knowledge/whatever to get up and start their own business. There are many people on this list who work with some OS's they don't particularly like, and a lot of us _do_ try to convince employers to deploy more unicies, but why make it a religion when you need to get the references to get to the good work, and the axe is over your neck at any rate. Fact of the matter is that there _are_ other OS's out there that someone _has_ to work with, and people need to make a living to get themselves in a position to work how/where they want (plus the fact that at least if _you_ are the person working the network with 5 ms servers and 2 unix servers, you'll know that someone else isn't screwing up the unix machines ). Some of us are contract bound (by nasty big companies who take advantage of naive young up and coming professionals - ), and whatever the reason for using what you call "unacceptable OS's", I think getting on your high horse and preaching is neither encouraging, nor (to use Jaq's word) productive. If you are so interested in promoting open source and such, do a talk at a meeting, encourage people, do posts that are relevant and useful to people. I mean in the time I've been on the slug mailing list there are only 4 posts from you, all of them vaguely condescending. There, that is _my_ 2 cents worth. Regards, Pia Smith -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Free labour on offer....
Hello all, I have been on this list a while and am a (trying to be) active member. I am working for a big IT outsourcing company and am stuck here for at least another 1 1/2 years (don't ask, its all yuck). Unfortunately the company is a microsoft partner, and any attempts I've made to do interesting work has been squashed. I've managed get them interested in Netsaint, which was lots of fun (fighting against the grain for them, it was uphill to start to say the least) to implement, but I have been told that I'm not allowed to join the midrange (unix) team (who are incidentely in canberra, but I would rather get to do stuff I love and live in a crappy Canberra than not ) until I get my MCSE. Yep, it all ugly. Anyway, I am probably about 6 months off that, due to travel I am undertaking between now and then. I wish to beg and plead of people, that if they want a spare set of hands on any projects/interesting things/fests/anything involving practical work with linux/unix, that they consider allowing me to come along to learn. I am _not_ looking for paid work, and unfortunately my time is taken up 9-5 mon-friday. I am willing and eager to shift around almost everything else in my life. I merely wish to start getting some real world experience and unfortunately currently have my hands tied in my job. I am very keen to get into backend/security/networking/admin/monitoring type stuff. I wish to later on, work exclusively with opensource and learn some languages in detail (I can only do basic scripts and such now). My lifestyle till now has simply been too limited in time (mainly due to my workaholic urges and some indecision as to direction), but I learn quickly once put in a situation. Hoping this doesn't sound too desperate (I throw myself at the feet of SLUG ) and I suppose to an extent it is desperate. I _need_ so much to start getting into this field, I am sick to death of what i do and am stuck here because I am the best they have. Which is really sad when people have been doing this for 3-6 years and they still do a sloppy job. I am really keen to learn anything that people are willing to teach me. Thanks all for your attention, Regards, Pia Smith -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] gdm question
Hi all, Quick question, when gdm loads, I input the username and password, it appears to start X and then loops back to the gdm login. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance Pia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] gdm question
> I'd check the contents of ~/.gnome-errors > > GDM is doing its job, but the users session can't start up. > > Likely to be a missing gnome-session package (from experience) Thanks Tony, that was exactly the problem :) Regards, Pia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Digital Camera for sale
Hi all, Friend of mine has a Olympus E20 digital camera for sale. Basically new and going for I think $3300 ONO. If anyone's interested please email her at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pia PS - there is no point replying to me, as I'm not in the country as of Saturday ;) <> <>
RE: [SLUG] (no subject)
Hi, > I am interested in trying Linux, especially for recovery of data on NTFS formatted HDDs - WinXp seems to crash a lot > leaving often leaving my clients unable to recover data. I know this can be done in Linux as I have a boot CD from AntiVar > (a German Virus Cleaner) that will read such a partition - I just can't copy files with it or at least, I don't know how. What sort of boot disk do you have exactly? How comfortable are you with linux console tools? You could always make the hdd a secondary drive to another windows disk and copy the data across using your windows tools? That is if the crashing is due to XP and not dodgy hardware. If you are already comfortable with windows tools, and not so much with linux tools, and it is clients data, I would suggest to use windows option and learn kewl linux tools on your own disks first ;) > So is there such a boot disk or can one be made, how? There are several decent boot disks available, a good one is at: http://www.lnx-bbc.org/ Regards Pia Smith -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Linux Australia Committee News - 200408
we got through a lot including some new plans to increase LUG communication and participation, to continue the FTA research and planning, to try increase communication within the OS sector in Australia amd some other interesting things. Thanks to everyone for your time, especially after all the time already put into the Ghosts meeting. Website --- The website is almost ready to go live, as in, in the next few days. For a sneak preview see http://linux.org.au/~pia/website/. Many thanks to Janet Reid for her icons, Stewart for his excellent work (and for making sure all my html is compliant ;), Michael Davies and Jeff Waugh for their design help, and everyone else who has lent a hand. Open Source Forum - We am very interested in running an Open Source Forum, in order to increase internal commnication if you like between businesses and organisations to do with open source in Australia. The idea is to create the first ever mechanism in Australia where people can actually have the discussions about issues and opportunities in the open source space for Australian businesses. The FTA saga highlighted a few things for me personally, specifically that the ICT sector in Australia is different from the Australian ICT sector. Many businesses rely on large bodies they are part of to look after their interests, not necessarily having the resources to put into research of issues and opportunities themselves. Unfortunately sometimes there is conflict of interests and the small businesses are not always looked after. I hope this forum can be a regular occurance (perhaps bimonthly) where we have a topic, and invite 2-4 speakers from opposite points of view. Participants get to see the issue from various angles, and from where their peers see it. After the short talks, the microphone goes to the floor for opinions, questions. An open forum. They get to participate equally in the discussions and learn from each other rather than being told continually what is good for them. This is not the formal announcement of such an event, but rather a call out to the community to give some feedback on the idea. Please contact me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] with any suggestions. The first one will probably be scheduled for Sydney but there is no reason why it can't roam. Patents watch - The idea has come up to try interfacing the community with the Australian patents system. We have 3 months on each patent lodged where we can prove prior art before that patents is locked in. By finding an easy way to find and filter what may be relevant to us, we are hoping to over a period of time come up with some unmistakeable and quantifiable arguments against the patents system we have now locked ourselves into. The initial arguments and such, along with education is an important first step, but we also need cold hard figures to win this. More to come on linux-aus. LCA2004 DVD/CD -- These have been pressed and are being sent out. Many thanks to Ryan Verner and Jason King particularly, along with the many other volunteers in Adelaide who donated their time and efforts into getting these out the door. The DVD data can be found at http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2004/videos/ and the CD can be found at http://www.linux.org.au/conf/2004/eventrecord/LCA2004-cd/programme.html Rock on everyone! Also thankyou to Andrew Braund, Peter Gossner, Ben Wannan, Ian Loxton and Jan Schmidt for their video footage. LUG Communication strategy -- The LA ctte has committed to better communication with the LUGs, this was one of the main topics in our recent face to face meeting. More information will be coming on this in the half year report, as we really want to improve in this area. Information is also up on the devel website if you are interested :) Cheers all, and many thanks to everyone participating, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] New website rocks!
So LA have our new website. Finally! :) http://www.linux.org.au. Any breakages reported would be much appreciated! Rock on Australia, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Thank your contributor
Hi all, With the Linux Australia website update, the Australian Contributors page is now much easier to find. We had a request to add Neil Brown to it recently, which is done. All future requests should go via [EMAIL PROTECTED] please :) http://www.linux.org.au/australia/auscontrib.php This is a good opportunity to either: a) put forward recommendations for Australian Contributors that should go be recognised for their sterling efforts, or b) update the information of contributors that are currently on the page and way out of date. Thank your hacker, your favourite maintainer, a Linux advocate, a rocking Australian software project, your mum. It is a good way to recognise and in a way thank these awesome Aussies for their efforts and contributions both to Linux and the Australian Linux community. Rock on Australia! and keep in mind the page is outdated, by perhaps 2 years. Please don't hold any information on it against us :) Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] RE: [Announce] Re: [Linux-aus] New website rocks!
Title: [Announce] Re: [Linux-aus] New website rocks! That's a kewl idea. I'll migrate it from the old site. I had completely overlooked that so thanks! :) Pia From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Peter GossnerSent: Fri 17/09/2004 5:07 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: linux-aus; Announce LA; LUG; SLUG; committee-LASubject: [Announce] Re: [Linux-aus] New website rocks! On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 04:52:09 +1000 wrote:>So LA have our new website. Finally! :)>>http://www.linux.org.au. Any breakages reported would be much>appreciated!It all works 5X5 here (Woodside SAu :)Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040614Firefox/0.8[Debian testing] Nice work... Very Nice.Clean navigation , content is easily understood and IMHO wellfocused. The Graphics are great, the off-site links relevant.My one small tiny observation:on < http://www.linux.org.au/linux/ >(the about page)Is there meant to be a link to an au or wav file with Linus pronouncingLinux or have I misread :While this is effectively the definitive pronunciation, Linus isreported to have said: "Call it what you like, just use it."Hmmm (wonders what could be done with SABLE / festival here :) )Pete Gossner--Message Composed: Fri Sep 17 07:02:03 UTC 2004Calendar events:Sep 17 Battle of Antietam, 1862Sep 18 Victory of Uprona in Burundi< http://www.gnu.org/software/tetum/ >< http://bigbutton.com.au/~gossner >< [EMAIL PROTECTED] >___announce mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/announce This e-mail, including all attachments, may be confidential or privileged. Confidentiality or privilege is not waived or lost because this email has been sent to you in error. If you are not the intended recipient any use, disclosure or copying of this email is prohibited. If you have received it in error please notify the sender immediately by reply email and destroy all copies of this email and any attachments. All liability for direct and indirect loss arising from this email and any attachments is hereby disclaimed to the extent permitted by law. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Data Projector
Hi all, I've managed to acquire a data projector, and I wanted to offer it for SLUG events or other open source events that people are running. If anyone wants to borrow it for such events please email me :) Cheers, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] NSW Tender meeting
Hi all, I was thinking that it would be a good idea to have an open discussion about this tender. I know a few people have already been taling about it. All that has come out thus far is essentially a call to participate, referencing what skillsets the government are looking for, and trying to put together a panel of who would be appropriate. It might be a good time to get together, look at all the requirements and put together a matrix of skills in NSW. We already have a few directories online: www.osia.net.au www.linux.org.au/ausvendors.php www.auug.org.au/directory/ but it would be useful to see exactly who can do what, to what capacity and so forth. As far as I'm concerned this is a really big pie, and many slices to go around :) We should try to find out where any gaps are as a community of skills and expertise, so we can ensure as a solution open source is quite covered by experts according to the governments need. I think Bruce Badger was able to secure a room at the ACS building for Thursday 2pm next week. Anyone interested is welcome to come along. I'm sure he'll post a follow up with the address :) This is a great opportunity for open source, and for the Australia open source community. Rock on Australia! Cheers all, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Stallman at UTS
Hi all, three posts today! :) RMS is speaking at UTS next Friday at 2pm. https://www.acs.org.au/acs_events/index.cfm?attributes.fuseaction=eventdetails&event_id=935&branch=NSW Anyone interested needs to register, but anyone that hasn't seen RMS speak I highly recommend to attend. Cheers, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Just the big guys? [Was - NSW Tender meeting]
I started a big thread, and then couldn't get back to it for 2 days, apologies. I guess the point of this "tender" is to find a panel of 10 as a primary contact for Linux and Open Source solutions. It certainly doesn't mean that no one else can play, and 10 is quite a few when you think about it so you may as well go for it :) The tender is specifically after support and training, with an option to support other aspects like integration and other stuff as opposed to hardware. There is an emphasis in government now on trying to use x% of local businesses, and so this isn't something just for the big guys. If you are truly interested register with the Dept of Commerce and get your own copy of the tender to check out. At the meeting on Thursday I'm hoping for two things: - to clarify what the tender means, all the questions and such - to create this matrix of skills (based around the tender requirements) and capacity of interested participants so that everyone knows who they can use for what. This also means we have an opportunity to identify any areas where we as a community lack skills. We need to ensure that we very specifically: - don't talk about pricing AT ALL - don't make any agreements in the meeting between parties So the meeting is an information session only. If you're interested come along, otherwise don't :) Many of the smaller companies simply don't have time or resources to research this kind of stuff, and many don't go for these kinds of tenders assuming they aren't big enough. The meeting should hopefully address any questions and help people reply to the tender with a better idea of what is out there. If small companies reply, and can only cover say 30% of the requirements, then that is still on the radar of the government. There is also the opportunity to work with bigger companies as partners. > As I see it, your concern has to tick off very strongly on > hardware; desktop to mainframe, No, the tender specifically excludes hardware, although it does talk about the LSB, which is great! > operating system(s), Actually the tender only covers particular skills, not operating systems. > software development (major league) > networking (LAN to statewide) > documentation (real stuff) > project management (with proven managers of major projects) > Training (with certified trainers with the latest certification) > financial backing > comprehensive insurance, > etc. Erk! You don't need to do _everything_ to run for this. Otherwise they would be after only 3 panel members, not 10. There are many ways to skin a cat :) Cheers, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 09:39, Craige McWhirter wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 06:03 +1000, Pia Smith wrote: > > > put together a panel of who would be appropriate. It might be a good > > time to get together, look at all the requirements and put together a > > matrix of skills in NSW. We already have a few directories online: > > Sounds like OpenSkills - http://openskills.com/ - may as well use an > existing infrastructure. I'm talking specifically about a matrix of skills as defined in the tender. IE - who does postfix, spamassasin, etc. An opportunity to figure out where we may be lacking, or have many options. Cheers, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [Fwd: Free Oracle Seminar]
Hi all, FYI Oracle are running a free seminar and I didn't think it was completely off topic to send it to list. Feel free to forward it to any of the LUG/other lists you are on. If people would prefer we didn't forward these kinds of offers, let us know. Cheers, Pia -- > > Register now for Oracle Developer Days and Hear About the Latest > Technologies and Best Practices Directly from Oracle Experts FREE! > > Mark your calendar! Oracle is pleased to invite you to a FREE workshop > in Sydney or Melbourne. This one-day event includes technical > sessions, > an InstallFest, and hands-on labs. Attendees must bring their own > laptops to participate in the labs. Topics will include: > > Overview of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) > Discover what it means for organisations to move to SOA, and learn > about > key technologies and platforms that enable SOA. > > Constructing the Services Layer > Learn how to productively develop back-end business services using the > latest J2EE technologies. > > >From Web Services to Business Processes > Learn about key J2EE 1.4 technologies used to implement Web services, > and find out how to build Web services-based business processes using > the industry standard Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). > > Building SOA User Interfaces > Find out how to build an end-user presentation tier for > service-oriented > applications by using design patterns that assist in data-binding > back-end business services to the client tier. > > Afternoon Hands On Session > Put theory into practice with a hands-on lab to let you practice your > SOA skills, and an "install-fest" to get your laptop in shape for SOA > development. Please note, due to limited space for the afternoon > session, we will confirm attendance for those interested. ***Java > skills > are a pre-requisite for attending the hands on session.*** > > Space is limited, so REGISTER NOW! Register at the appropriate city at > the links listed below. > > Sydney 22 October http://www.oracle.com/go/?&Src=3321579&Act=22 > Melbourne26 October http://www.oracle.com/go/?Src=3321579&Act=23 > > AGENDA: > 9:00 a.m. - 12 :45 p.m. SOA Development and Deployment Workshop > 2:00 p.m. - 5 :00 p.m. Hands On Session (confirmed attendees only) > > Oracle looks forward to seeing you. -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Server Administrator job
Hi all, I was sent this and thought it useful to forward to SLUG. Please see below for details. Good luck to anyone going for the job :) SquizNet is doing some pretty amazing work. Cheers, Pia Forwarded Message > From: John-Paul Syriatowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Server Administrator > Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:10:56 +1000 > > > Hi Pia > As mentioned on the phone, I am looking for a Sys Admin with the > skills defined at http://www.squiz.net/jobs/Server_Administrator. > > We are looking to pay between $45K and $55K inc super depending on the > individuals experience. There is good opportunity for promotion. It’s > a full time job in Sydneywith some travel to our other offices. > > If you can point interested candidates at the form at the URL above > that would be great. > > Thanks! > > JP -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Software Patents Forum - please RSVP
Hi all, Please see below for the details about the first Open Source Forum being run by Linux Australia and OSIA. We are planning on running these every 2 months, and highlighting topical and relevant issues. We are looking at running one on the desktop, working for government, and other topics are welcome. Please see below for details and... ...MAKE SURE YOU RSVP! We have limited spots :) If you wish to attend, please reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with Subject: "[RSVP] Software forum: patents". Cheers, Pia Open Source Forum Software Patents Linux Australia in collaboration with the Open Source Industry Association (OSIA) and the Baker & McKenzie Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre at UNSW is proud to present the first Open Source Forum, which will deal with the increasingly important, but often misunderstood, issue of software patents. The Open Source Forums will be short and focused seminars on topical developments in the Open Source field. It is intended that each seminar will include presentations from invited speakers who will represent a range of views. The forums will also provide an opportunity for all Open Source participants to express their views. The Forums are intended to provide Open Source participants, including small businesses, with an opportunity to get the benefit of a range of views from leaders in the relevant fields and to contribute to the debate on topical developments of relevance to the Open Source movement. The Forum on Software Patents will be hosted by Baker & McKenzie's Sydney office on: Wednesday, 3 November 2004, 12:30pm at: Baker & McKenzie Level 27, AMP Centre 50 Bridge Street Sydney NSW 2000. The program for the Forum will be: 12:30: Introduction and Welcome Pia Smith, Linux Australia 12:35: Patents and Open Source Licences Derek Neve and John MacPhail, Baker & McKenzie 12:50: How The Australian Patent System Works Bob Kemp, R. E. Kemp & Co Pty Limited 13:00: An Industry Perspective: Les Bell, Open Source Industry Association 13:10: An Industry Perspective: Craig Laughton or Greg Keiser, Novell Australia 13:20: An Open Source Patent Experience: Rproxy, Rusty Russell, Linux Australia 13:30: Roundtable discussions 14:30: Close Attendance is free and a light lunch will be provided. We look forward to your participation. If you wish to attend, please reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" with Subject: "[RSVP] Software forum: patents". For further details see http://www.bakercyberlawcentre.org/software/patents.htm We are aiming to run these every 2 months and are open to suggestions for topics. Please send any suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Pia Smith President of Linux Australia http://linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] First Open Source Forum - a success!
Hi all, Last Wednesday Linux Australia in collaboration with OSIA and Baker & McKenzie presented the first Open Source Forum. The plan is to run these every two months tackling challenging opportunities and issues the Australian Open Source sector. The first one was on Software Patents. We had around 100 people come, and many more try to register (the venue could only really hold 80). The participation was excellent, and many lessons were learnt for the next one, such as more time is needed :) I'm afraid we didn't get recording organised in time, and at any rate that wasn't discussed with the speakers prior to them agreeing to speak. We will aim to record the event next time. Sorry to all! All the slides will be available from the LA website as soon as the speakers agree. I'll post when they are up. We had a large range of attendees, from government, to large multi-nationals, universities, developers, and of course lawyers. It was great to se some SLUGgers there, and I hope to see more at other forums we put on. The speaker breakdowns are below: * Patents and Open Source Licences Derek Neve and John MacPhail, Baker & McKenzie This talk gave an introduction to software patents from a legal perspective. It spoke briefly about how the GPL fits in, and about the clause in the GPL that if a patent is being challenged in court, the GPL loosely doesn't apply anymore, ie - you can't distribute. Please note IMNAL :) John spoke about the patents system in Australia, some of the challenges and possible issues it presents. Both were good talks. * How The Australian Patent System Works Bob Kemp, R. E. Kemp & Co Pty Limited Bob is an excellent speaker. He was kind enough to meet me for coffee about a month ago and go through the patents system. I was astounded with some of the things he said, and similarly were the Open Source Forum crowd. He works as a patent searcher, and thus has a very practical sense of the patents system in Australia, and to some degree the US. He gave us an excellent oversight, and we are hoping to get him to publish some of the figures he knew. * An Industry Perspective Les Bell, Open Source Industry Association Les has a long history in the Open Source world, from long before Linux was around. He gave some excellent insights to issues both from a personal and from an OSIA viewpoint. He covered how it affects businesses, particularly small Australian businesses who simply can't play the game. * An Industry Perspective Greg Keiser, Novell Australia Greg covered the recent Novell initiatives about Software Patents and IP issues generally. Novell offer several programs to customers to protect them from various IP threats, and interestingly enough, Novell have taken their patent portfolio, accrued over 21 years, and have pledged it to protecting Linux. Certainly worth reading up on. * An Open Source Patent Experience Rproxy, Rusty Russell, Linux Australia Rusty was his usual charming self :) He managed to successfully introduce to the crowd how software patents are a threat to developers, and to projects. Not just in word, but actually stopping projects today. He has a paper on the threat to RProxy linked from his blog, at http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/rproxy.html which makes a good read. The event was covered briefly by ZDNet at http://www.builderau.com.au/program/work/0,39024650,39131901,00.htm Many thanks to all the speakers. It was a great forum, and I think it introduced to people the fundamental need for an independent investigation into our current IP system, and how it impacts the Australia ICT sector, particularly the Australian SMEs, developers, and community. Cheers all, and make sure you come along to the next one. If anyone is interested in participating, or assisting, please let me know :) Pia -- Pia Smith President of Linux Australia http://linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] FTA book
Hi all, Just in case it wasn't posted, "It's hard to believe an Australian government could sign a deal which so betrays Australia's interests. How to Kill a Country demonstrates how the FTA as negotiated will seriously damage Australia's institutions, interests and identity." http://www.allen-unwin.com.au/rights/product.asp?ISBN=1741145856 Cheers, Pia -- Pia Smith President of Linux Australia http://linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Forensics and Linux
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out whether we can use Debian for doing forensics work on computers. RH 7.1 was certified for doing forensics work but none of the other Linux distros were. FreeBSD apparently is also certified. Does anyone know of anyone who uses Debian for forensics work, and can they give me a contact I can chat to about it? I'm trying to figure out all our options :) The funny thing about the RH thing is that you have to use the dd version that 7.1 dhipped with (4.0.36), and otherwise it could be any components, in any configuration. Weird... Cheers, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Sun Regional Delegate Program for linux.conf.au 2005
Hi all, the Sun Regional Delegate Program is running again this year, so I thought I'd forward the details :) Cheers, Pia - Forwarded message from Linux Australia Mailing List - From: LCA 2005 Sun Regional Delegate Program <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Linux-aus] Sun Regional Delegate Program for linux.conf.au 2005 Hello all. As with previous LCAs, Sun Microsystems has kindly offered to sponsor the Regional Delegates Program (RDP) for LCA 2005. For the LCA 2005 RDP, there will be ten winners: one from each of the Australian states and territories; a national winner; and a winner representing New Zealand. Each of these winners will recieve: - transport to LCA 2005 - accomodation - professional registration at the conference (including all the normal things which come with that) - special recognition as a RDP winner Additionally, LCA provides an important mechanism for developers to network with each other, and the RDP winners will have excellent opportunities to further their open source projects. This is the first year that New Zealand has been included in the competition, which has prompted some changes in how the RDP is being run this year. The timetable for the RDP is as follows: - entrants should draft a 100 word or less description of how the open source community would benefit from their presence at LCA 2005 - these should be emailed to [EMAIL PROTECTED], including an indication of where the entrant lives by midnight, Friday the 18th of February 2005 [1]. - the winners will be announced by the end of February and travel will be arranged. - RDP winners attend the conference and have a great time If a winner has already registered for the conference, then a refund of that registration will be provided. We look forward to many interesting entries, The LCA 2005 team 1: The information about where you live will be used solely for judging the competition, and will then be destroyed. -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Open Source Forum - Linux on the Desktop
Hi all, After the success of our first Open Source Forum last year, Linux Australia decided to continue with the Forums. The Open Source Forums take current topical issues and invite a variety of speakers from different point of views to put forward their ideas. This is extremely valuable for attendees as they are able to see a cross section of different ideas and be in a better position to make an educated decision on the issue. The next Open Source Forum will be on "Linux on the Desktop". We've invited 4 commercially supported Linux distribution companies to give a brief talk on what makes them relevant, what their differentiators are in this space, where they see the market, and a success story or two to illustrate. There will also be a generic Linux desktop speaker from a company who uses all of these desktop distributions and has practical experience if each. Date: 3rd March Place: UTS Sydney Room 4.10, Level 4, Building 2, Broadway Provided: Light lunch and refreshments Agenda: 12:00 - Introductions - Pia Smith (Linux Australia) 12:10 - Industry perspectives from 4 commercial Linux vendors: * Red Hat - Dean Samuels * Novell - Greg Kieser * Sun - Laurie Wong * Canonical - Jeff Waugh 13:30 - Break for short lunch 14:00 - An overview of Linux on the Desktop - Mark Englaro (Si2) 14:30 - Panel discussion 15:00 - Close Thanks all! I'll put details up on the website within a day or two at http://linux.org.au/projects/ under Open Source Forums. Pia -- Pia Smith Vice President Linux Australia -- http://www.linux.org.au linux.conf.au 2005 -- http://www.linux.conf.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: [Osia-discuss] Open Source Forum - Linux on the Desktop
A final note, please RSVP to pia at linux.org.au if you are attending, as we are organising some catering for the event. Cheers, Pia On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 08:36 +1100, Pia Smith wrote: > Hi all, > > After the success of our first Open Source Forum last year, Linux > Australia decided to continue with the Forums. The Open Source Forums > take current topical issues and invite a variety of speakers from > different point of views to put forward their ideas. This is extremely > valuable for attendees as they are able to see a cross section of > different ideas and be in a better position to make an educated decision > on the issue. > > The next Open Source Forum will be on "Linux on the Desktop". We've > invited 4 commercially supported Linux distribution companies to give a > brief talk on what makes them relevant, what their differentiators are > in this space, where they see the market, and a success story or two to > illustrate. There will also be a generic Linux desktop speaker from a > company who uses all of these desktop distributions and has practical > experience if each. > > Date: 3rd March > Place: UTS Sydney Room 4.10, Level 4, Building 2, Broadway > Provided: Light lunch and refreshments > > Agenda: > 12:00 - Introductions - Pia Smith (Linux Australia) > 12:10 - Industry perspectives from 4 commercial Linux vendors: > * Red Hat - Dean Samuels > * Novell - Greg Kieser > * Sun - Laurie Wong > * Canonical - Jeff Waugh > 13:30 - Break for short lunch > 14:00 - An overview of Linux on the Desktop - Mark Englaro (Si2) > 14:30 - Panel discussion > 15:00 - Close > > Thanks all! I'll put details up on the website within a day or two at > http://linux.org.au/projects/ under Open Source Forums. > > Pia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Open Source Forum - Linux on the Desktop - THIS WEEK!
Hi all, After the success of our first Open Source Forum last year, Linux Australia decided to continue with the Forums. The Open Source Forums take current topical issues and invite a variety of speakers from different point of views to put forward their ideas. This is extremely valuable for attendees as they are able to see a cross section of different ideas and be in a better position to make an educated decision on the issue. The next Open Source Forum will be on "Linux on the Desktop". We've invited 4 commercially supported Linux distribution companies to give a brief talk on what makes them relevant, what their differentiators are in this space, where they see the market, and a success story or two to illustrate. There will also be a generic Linux desktop speaker from a company who uses all of these desktop distributions and has practical experience if each. Date: 3rd March Place: UTS Sydney Room 4.10, Level 4, Building 2, Broadway RSVP: pia at linux.org.au Provided: Light lunch and refreshments Agenda: 12:00 - Introductions - Pia Smith (Linux Australia) 12:10 - Industry perspectives from 4 commercial Linux vendors: * Red Hat - Dean Samuels * Novell - Greg Kieser * Sun - James Eagleton * Canonical - Jeff Waugh 13:30 - Break for short lunch 14:00 - An overview of Linux on the Desktop - Mark Englaro (Si2) 14:30 - Panel discussion 15:00 - Close Thanks all! Details are up on the website at http://linux.org.au/projects/ under Open Source Forums. Take a moment to check out our other projects. Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SKIRMISH!!
At the risk of this being inappropriate for SLUG mail, but with the idea this _is_ a SLUG event Attention! Have anyone you want to take out? Some scores to settle? Some PAINT TO SHED!!! Skirmish Paintball! We are organising a group to go on a paintball escapade on Saturday November 16th. I need to get an idea of numbers as soon as possible to book places, but I am looking at a place at East Kurrajong. We could have the whole place to ourselves if we get more than 20 people, and the costs are: $8 - is for your entry fee, it also covers 12-14 games of paintball, equipment hire (facemask, overalls, gun/gas, ladies armour), and a BBQ lunch (BBQ meat, bread and salads) Paintballs are the only things not covered, base rate is $22 per 100, but this gets cheaper the more we buy. 2400 balls costs $400, so that makes it 16.70 per 100, so we buy in bulk :) Anyone interested who will be driving up please let me know so we can car pool people, if we can't get enough car's, we could consider renting a 12 seater and splitting the costs between those people, but I think we should be able to get enough cars. In short, please let me know ASAP if you are interested, and let me know if you have a car or need transport. Also ideas for groupings of people would be great, eg - vi VS emacs users? ;) Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pia Mobile: 0407 966 443 This e-mail may be confidential. Any opinions expressed herein are the opinion of the writer unless there is an express indication to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and immediately reply by return e-mail. Ipex ITG disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this e-mail and/or any attachments. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] RE: SKIRMISH!!
For Those interested: Paintball site is Adventure Quest, find info at www.paintball.com.au Remember to ignore the prices, our fees are a good $20 less than the packages there :) Oh, and balls are $20 per 100 not $17 :( RSVP > Attention! > > Have anyone you want to take out? Some scores to settle? Some > PAINT TO SHED!!! > > Skirmish Paintball! > > We are organising a group to go on a paintball escapade on > Saturday November 16th. I need to get an idea of numbers as > soon as possible to book places, but I am looking at a place > at East Kurrajong. We could have the whole place to ourselves > if we get more than 20 people, and the costs are: > > $8 - is for your entry fee, it also covers 12-14 games of > paintball, equipment hire (facemask, overalls, gun/gas, > ladies armour), and a BBQ lunch (BBQ meat, bread and salads) > > Paintballs are the only things not covered, base rate is $22 > per 100, but this gets cheaper the more we buy. 2400 balls > costs $400, so that makes it 16.70 per 100, so we buy in bulk :) > > Anyone interested who will be driving up please let me know > so we can car pool people, if we can't get enough car's, we > could consider renting a 12 seater and splitting the costs > between those people, but I think we should be able to get > enough cars. > > In short, please let me know ASAP if you are interested, and > let me know if you have a car or need transport. Also ideas > for groupings of people would be great, eg - vi VS emacs users? ;) > > Email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Pia > Mobile: 0407 966 443 This e-mail may be confidential. Any opinions expressed herein are the opinion of the writer unless there is an express indication to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and immediately reply by return e-mail. Ipex ITG disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this e-mail and/or any attachments. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Update on skirmish paintball - last email :)
Saturday November 16th all day Adventure Paintball 1200 Singleton Rd, East Kurrajong Package Prices - Special Rates (all prices include lunch, equipment, 12-14 games, and paintballs as indicated. 200 Paintballs - $44 300 Paintballs - $65 400 Paintballs - $80 500 Paintballs - $100 700 Paintballs - $120 Pia Smith Systems Engineer Ipex ITG Lvl 2, 431 Glebe Point Rd Glebe NSW 2037 Phone: 02 9209 6690 Fax: 02 9209 6696 Mobile: 0407 966 443 Website: www.ipex.com.au This e-mail may be confidential. Any opinions expressed herein are the opinion of the writer unless there is an express indication to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and immediately reply by return e-mail. Ipex ITG disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this e-mail and/or any attachments. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Re: St.George Browser Based Banking Feedback
> > This is kind of happening here as well. I have a friend who > works for the > > government, she is almost completely blind and has worked there for > > 20years, > > and when she comes across bogus web sites (ones she can't > use) she readily > > reports them. > > > > When you say bogus do you mean sites that do not support disabilities? > What happens when she reports them? When I say bogus, I mean sites that her software for the visually impaired can't deal with, or sites that throw up thousands of pop-ups, which are hard to deal with when you can't see them. Sites that you can't tab through very well (are mouse clickable only), generally sites that are hard to steer when you only have a voice to rely on. She has got a bit of notice sometimes, but generally she ends up sticking to what she knows. She works for a company that supports her very well, and they back her up with any claims she makes. Pretty sweet really :) Pia This e-mail may be confidential. Any opinions expressed herein are the opinion of the writer unless there is an express indication to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and immediately reply by return e-mail. Ipex ITG disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this e-mail and/or any attachments. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] Re: St.George Browser Based Banking Feedback
> Ive noticed in the USA people with disabilities are suing such > companies as banks etc for producing web sites that block > access by people with disabilities due to lack of fundamental > standards > in the access portal (windows IE isn't a standard). This is kind of happening here as well. I have a friend who works for the government, she is almost completely blind and has worked there for 20years, and when she comes across bogus web sites (ones she can't use) she readily reports them. Pia This e-mail may be confidential. Any opinions expressed herein are the opinion of the writer unless there is an express indication to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and immediately reply by return e-mail. Ipex ITG disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this e-mail and/or any attachments. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Skirmish Paintball RSVP's
Anyone who is considering the paintball day (see www.slug.org.au for details or my previous post) I need to get definites by friday morning at the latest. We currently have 20 or so people keen, and if we can get 5 more we get the fields to ourselves! :) Anyone who has friends or family interested feel free to invite them. We have an awesome group of people so it should be a crazy day of paint and silliness! ROCK! So come along and join in the tomfoolery. RSVP to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pia PS - if you've already confirmed with me, but have extra people to bring along just drop me an email with the number of people. Also if you have already confirmed but didn't indicate your travel plans (ie - do you have a car with extra places, or do you need a place in a car?) please get back to me on this. This e-mail may be confidential. Any opinions expressed herein are the opinion of the writer unless there is an express indication to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and immediately reply by return e-mail. Ipex ITG disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this e-mail and/or any attachments. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: eye candy, was Re: [SLUG] Configuring XF86Free 4.x for a Ti PowerBook
> Tom wrote: > > speaking of meetings > > i have never been to a slug meeting > > i should though > > i'll bring my girl for eye candy too! Can we get some male eye candy as well, please!! ;) Pia This e-mail may be confidential. Any opinions expressed herein are the opinion of the writer unless there is an express indication to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and immediately reply by return e-mail. Ipex ITG disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this e-mail and/or any attachments. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Skirmish Painball
Hi everyone, Last chance to shed some paint! We have a big group of people going to paintball tomorrow. This is the last chance to come along. There are plenty of semi-empty cars available for people to get lifts and such. Please call me on 0407 996 443 if you are interested. We are down to 35 people for skirmish paintball tomorrow, and having had 42 ppl confirm on saturday, I had the deposit paid for 40 :( (It _had_ to be paid last friday) I have two ppl who may be able to come, but basically I am up for the deposits on any left over places. We need more paintballers! :) Thanks all, Pia This e-mail may be confidential. Any opinions expressed herein are the opinion of the writer unless there is an express indication to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and immediately reply by return e-mail. Ipex ITG disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this e-mail and/or any attachments. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] a problem
> > was left with one problem. The display on my screen needs > adjusting, > > but I don't know how to do it. Can you help? I would be > very grateful > > if you can. When you say the display needs adjusting, do you mean the resolution? If so I think by default the install should have a few resolution settings. By typing Ctrl Alt + or Ctrl Alt -, you either increase or reduce the resolution. If you mean something else please let me know. Regards, Pia This e-mail may be confidential. Any opinions expressed herein are the opinion of the writer unless there is an express indication to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and immediately reply by return e-mail. Ipex ITG disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this e-mail and/or any attachments. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
RE: [SLUG] December meeting
I think on the 13th would be sweet, lock me in for A. (Work x-mas party on the 20th anyway) Alternatively 2nd choice of E: "Other" - Emu races, hardware floatation and aviation games, and then mud wrestling in spain please don't care which date. If its not too far outside the SLUG budget ;) Aahh, I love it when presented with the "Other" option so much oportunity for silliness! Pia > The last Friday of the month is the 27th, which will be > holiday time for > too many, so the Friday choices are probably the 13th (only two weeks > after the November meeting) and the 20th (leading into a weekend that > will be the start of many people's holidays). And whatever we do we're > bound to clash with people's office parties. > > So, what are your preferences among: > > A. A December meeting on Friday 13th December (for that extra special > Friday the 13th feel...) > > B. A December meeting on Friday 20th December > > C. A December meeting on some night other than a Friday (any > particular > nights that appeal?) > > D. No December meeting > > E. Other > This e-mail may be confidential. Any opinions expressed herein are the opinion of the writer unless there is an express indication to the contrary. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication please delete and destroy all copies and immediately reply by return e-mail. Ipex ITG disclaims all liability and responsibility for any direct or indirect loss arising from this e-mail and/or any attachments. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] ALP Open Source Forum: summary for SLUG and LinuxAustralia
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 23:29, Mary Gardiner wrote: > The following are my notes from the "Open Source: Where Should Labor > Stand?" forum, held at NSW Parliament House with the ALP IT and > Communications Committee on Wednesday 25th June 2003. Thanks for that Mary! :) Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Monday Night Info session
Hi all, Just a quick reminder to anyone interested in our Linux Skills in the IT Sector Seminar at 6pm, Monday evening. Come along to 5-11 Wentworth Ave, Sydney City, and don't forget to RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also please note that the exams will only be held at 10am on the Tuesday and Wednesday. Again please ensure you RSVP to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and read up on the exam prerequisites on the Linux Australia web page. Info at: http://linux.org.au/projects/lpi/ & http://www.lpi.org/nl/news_item/9 Cheers, Pia -- Pia Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
