====== Past Meetings ====== you can find slides and other material used at this site. http://www.newcastlelug.org/talks/ ---- ===== 2010 ===== __21st June 2010__ 7:30pm Software Freedom Day Planning Tonight we'll be discussing our plans for Software Freedom Day activities __19th April 2010__ 7:30pm "The Great Editor Shootout" See Vi/Vim, Emacs, Nano, Jedit, Gedit and Kate, vie for Newcastle-wide supremecy. How good can they be in 10 minutes? Come along and cheer your favourite on! Suggested topics and talk proposals should be placed on the [[ideas]] page __15th March 2010__ "Off-the-cuff scripting". We looked at different scripting languages and how/when they might be used. Lots of useful shell-scripting tips. __18th January 2010__ 7:30pm David and Lyle will be doing a demo of Geoserver and Google Earth (and maybe some uDig) ===== 2009 ===== __21st September 2009__ 7:30pm Cryptography with Mark, Michael and others. We will cover topics such as: * Encrypting/Signing Email * File-System Encryption * Hardware-Based Encryption * PGP and GPG Keys and Key Signing Plus, if all goes to plan, we will be doing a mass key-signing for all LOGIN members with PGP keys. If you don't have a PGP key, bring your laptop and we can help you generate one on the night. __17th August 2009__ OpenOffice.org with Jonathan. __20th July 2009__ Remote Linux management with Jonathan, and community course update with Bruce __18th May 2009__ Ubuntu 9.04 + Filesystem Frenzy Come and discuss the improvements in Ubuntu 9.04 and bring along a couple of words to say about your favourite filesystem. If you would like to talk about a filesystem in particular please post to the mailing list for discussion. * Jonathan - introduction, FUSE and more * Michael - JFS and possibly XFS __20th April 2009__ **Topic**: VOIP in Linux __16th March 2009__ **Topic**: Security in Linux - an overview Tonight we will give an overview of security issues in Linux plus have lots of time for security-related questions. __16th February 2009__ Topic 1 : “OLPC, XO and Sugar. Why should we still care ?!?” – Gabriel Noronha Topic 2 : Show and tell bring in your Netbooks we'll do a comparison – Everyone else. ===== 2008 ===== __17th November__ Topic: Virtual Box by Jonothan Coombes Virtual Box is a Virtualisation program to run Operating Systems inside your existing operating system. __20th October__ Topic: "Show and tell". Bring along your favourite app or some cool hardware and give a quick (5-10 minute) demo. As always, we'll have time for questions and troubleshooting so if you're looking for some help with a problem, bring along your machine and we'll see what we can do. __29th September 2008__ Topic: "Making Linux play nice with other operating systems" This month at login we will be showing you how to dual, even triple boot Linux with other Operating Systems. We will also discuss how to make Linux work with PC's in your home network that might be running other operating systems and how to access files on other partitions. Time: 7:30pm Where: Wallsend Enterprise Centre, Wallsend __18th August 2008__ **Pia Waugh is coming** Location Newcastle University EAG01 **5:30pm - 6:30pm** The first talk topic: __Careers and improving the world with Open Source__ **break** order pizzas, if we could all put in say $10, and some vouchers that would be great so we can get some pizzas for ourselves, Pia, and those who are staying for the next talk. **7:30pm - 9:30pm** second LOGIN talk topic: __"Open Source: The 40,000 foot view and taking software freedom to the masses"__ **__NOTE LOCATION has been changed to the University of Newcastle EAG01__** __17th March 2008 7:30pm__ Two talks on Wireless this month. Presented by Mark Wallis. 1. Going Wireless with Linux, and keeping your sanity and 2. Running Linux on your Wireless Access Point (because why not) __18th February 2008 7:30pm__ Peter Turner from Tribotix and the University of Newcastle. Will come show us some of his embedded Linux robots. Also this will include Embedded Linux lighting talks, from anyone who wishes to attended ------ ===== 2007 ===== __19th November 2007 7:30pm__ Proposed Topic Need to confirm speakers. * **Virtualisation/Emulation** * Qemu - Steve * PearPc - Jonathon * Vmware - Craig R * KVM - Andrew B __15th October 2007 7.30pm__ **Topic**: Submitting (useful) Bug Reports and getting Linux help This will be followed by a open problem solving session Please bring your Computers and anything else you may need if you have a problem. __10th September 2007 7:30pm__ **Topic** : MythTV for Aussies Overview of how to setup a MythTV install to work with Australian DVB channels and the never-ending fight for decent channel guide data. slides form the talk are available on this website http://www.newcastlelug.org/talks/ __20th August 2007 7:30pm__ **Topic**: Jonathon reports back on MySQL " I was looking at giving and update on where MySQL is going after the conference this year and some of the developments." -Jonathon __16th July 2007 7:30pm__ Gaming on Linux 2D and 3d Games. open source Linux games. closed source Linux games. Windows games in a Linux world (Wine, Cedega). A small look at graphics drivers. and anything else which is not work related. __18th June 2007 7:30 pm__ Making Music With Linux Survey of some of the key apps that can be used for audio work, including applications for audio recording/editing, midi sequencing, samplers and synthesis. __21st May 2007 7:30 pm__ Craig Ross gave a talk about Beryl and other 3D desktop applications. __16th April 2007 7:30pm__ Craig Ross gave a talk on [[http://www.clarkconnect.com/|Clark Connect]] __19th March 2007 7:30pm__ At this meeting each member in the group went through their favourite distribution of Linux. To Register which distribution you wish to talk about please sign up the the mailing list. __19th February 2007 7:30pm__ This was an informal Question and Answer and show and tell session. Steve brought his Linksys NSLU2. More information about this session is available through the mailing list. ----- ===== 2006 ===== __20th November 2006 7:30pm__ Craig Ross presented a talk on Amarok Media Player __Monday 16th October 2006, 7:30pm.__ A Python talk by Steve Lindsay