[SLUG] 2007 AGM meeting minutes
G'day Everyone, Here are the meeting minutes for 2007. Sorry about the delays - i'm a slacker. Have a look over them, and raise any points at the AGM on Friday. SLUG Sydney Linux Users Group Incorporated == 2007 Annual General Meeting === Friday 30th March 2007 at Level 13 IBM building 300 Pacific Hwy St Leonards Meeting opened at ?7pm Presidents report by Lindsay Holmwood Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG) President's Report 2006-2007 The 2006/2007 period was a reasonably historic one for SLUG on a number of fronts. UTS, our venue for the last 10 years kicked us out, forcing us to find a new place to hold our monthly meetings. We hosted linux.conf.au 2007, the first time an LCA has returned to a previously hosting city. We also managed to come in at a profit, due to new insurance and banking arrangements. Although it's been a turbulent year at times, I think we've come a long way. With an expected surge of new members out of linux.conf.au, the future certainly looks bright. Meetings We've been holding meetings at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) for as long as any of us can remember. UTS have always been a pleasure to deal with, and Tim Bayfield has been amazingly helpful in single handedly booking rooms for meetings and activities. Unfortunately, due to VSU and internal politiking UTS decided to start charging us $600 per meeting for using their venue. This was obviously beyond SLUG's means, so we were forced to find a new venue at extremely short notice (UTS's change of heart came one week out from a SLUG meeting). Fortunately for us, IBM stepped up to the plate and provided us a fantastic venue at St. Leonards. Although the getting into the building was sometimes tricky, SLUG has coped extremely well and we're still managing a decent turnout of at least 30 people per meeting. Unfortunately the shift to the North Shore has caused our numbers to dwindle, with the extra 20 minute journey and change of train line making it difficult for some to get home at the end of a meeting. Fingers crossed we'll be able to find a solution to this problem in the coming year. Speakers at SLUG this year included: * April: James Dumay * May: Ian Weinand * June: Mikolaj Habryn, Dave Airlie * July: Chris Deigan, Silvia Pfeiffer, André Pang * August: Pascal Klein, Jamie Wilkinson * September: Conrad Parker, Adam Kennedy * October: Ken Yap, Peter Miller * November: John Ferlito, Charles Grey * January: Holger Levsen, Mikal Still * February: James Dumay, Lindsay Holmwood Thanks goes out to everyone who volunteered to speak, some at very short notice. :-) Events == We had a broad smattering of events this year, catering to all sorts of special niches and interests. Special events included: * DebSIGs, organised by Lindsay Holmwood + Robert Collins * Codefest, organised by Mary Gardiner * SLUGaMuSIG, organised by Denis Crowdy * Videofests, organised by Silvia Pfeiffer * SydPUG, organised by Gavin Sherry * Women's Meetup, organised by Myrto Zehnder * SLUG Workshop, organised by Chris Deigan * Website codefest, organised by Silvia Pfeiffer And of course, there was linux.conf.au in January. LCA was a resounding success that wouldn't have been possible without the hard work and dedication of many members of SLUG who volunteered to make it all happen. 800 attendees. 70 speakers. 5 days. An awesome event. Other things * New SLUG website. With the old website needing a bit of love, the committee and assorted volunteers spent some time setting up a copy of Drupal and transferring all the relevant data across. This process culminated in a website codefest, organised by Silvia Pfeiffer, that saw about 10 volunteers getting together in a lovely photo studio provided by Dave McQuire and hacking on new features for the website, and fixing up the content. It's been a great success, with the site looking miles better and significantly easier to navigate. * New hosting. SLUG's server maddog suffered a series of critical hardware failures that forced us to look for alternative hosting. Solutions First kindly chipped in and provided a virtual machine on their hosting infrastructure. Thanks goes out to sol1 for providing a helping hand! As you can see, a tremendous amount has happened this year. Thanks to everyone who's been involved this last year - without your help SLUG wouldn't nearly be what it is. I look forward to another fantastic year for 2007-2008! Lindsay Holmwood SLUG President Treasurers report by Ken Wilson SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group 2006 Treasurers report Main changes in 2006 were the closing of the Credit union account as all signatories had not been updated as the paperwork was too complex, it was easier just to close the account, and the changing of insurance companies to halve the public liability cost; which changes SLUG from loosing money each year to covering
Re: [SLUG] Suse 10.3 kde 3.*
Go to YaST2 - Security and Users - Local Security, click Next twice, and you should be at the Boot Settings dialog. The Shutdown Behaviour of Login Manager drop-down box on that screen affects who is allowed to shut down the computer from KDM. Automatic should work but try All Users if it doesn't. KDM should then pass the necessary permissions to KDE. David On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:30 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Sorry to bother all you guys again. I have installed Suse 10.3 and when using KDE 3.x in Suse 10.3 when I click on the power button or power off button it will only give me the option to log off and there are no options to reboot or power the computer off only to log off which takes me to the log in section and from there I can either reboot the pc or switch it off from the log on menu. Please advise. Regards, Lee --- South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za -- For super low premiums, click here http://www.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] Connecting bluetooth under Ubuntu
Hi Richard, On the basis that you're using KDE (??) this was my solution: Take the following information: 00:1D:28:CE:6E::02 Open Konqueror and enter the following information in the URL window like so: obex://[00:1D:28:CE:6E::02]:8/ this part: :8/ represents the channel for your mobile. Now, in a terminal, if you run: sdptool browse 00:1D:28:CE:6E::02 and scan down, you'll find something like: Service Name: OBEX Object Push Service Description: OBEX Object Push Service Provider: name of your device Service RecHandle: some numbers Service Class ID List: OBEX Object Push other numbers and things Protocol Descriptor List: L2CAP (other numbers and things) RFCOMM (other numbers and things) THIS is what you're looking for: Channel: 8 OBEX (0x0008) The number here is what you want to add for the channel number. Once you've entered that bit in Konqueror, treat it like a URL and hit 'GO' :) This should connect you to your mobile. If it does anything like mine, I get three icons (depending on the view you're using): Audio Picture Video. Then select 'tree' view for this window and click on the icons. It should show you the relevant bits on your phone and if you open up another window, you should be able to copy too and from the phone. Additionally I use KmobileTools to synch addresses etc. I'm using Dapper and the newer version of KmobileTools looks like it works much better. All of the above is based on you having the following installed and using KDE: libobexftp1 none (no description available) ii libopenobex-1.0-0 1.0.0-rel-3 OBEX protocol library un libopenobex1none (no description available) ii obexftp 0.10.7+0.10.8pre9-3 file transfer utility for devices that use the OBEX pr ii obexserver 1.0-3ubuntu1 Receive files with OBEX protocol ii openobex-apps 1.0.0-rel-6 Applications for OpenOBEX ii qobex 0.99+1.0beta1-6ubun Swiss army knife for the OBject EXchange (obex) protoc I *think* this is all installed using: sudo apt-get install bluez-utils I *hope* this is of some help. Get back to me if you need more help...or if this doesn't work at all :)) Regards, Patrick [SLUG] Connecting bluetooth under Ubuntu Richard Hayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:02:25 +1100 slug@slug.org.au Dear list, I am trying to connect a phone to my box. I can scan and identify both the phone and computer but it looks like I need to create a 'shared secret' for the wireless connection similar to a wifi link. sudo hciconfig hci0 Type: USB BD Address 11:11:11:11:11 ACL MTU 678:8 SCO MTU 48:10 UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN RX bytes:3666 acl:30 sco:0 events:171 errors:0 TX bytes:1564 acl:30 sco:0 commands:80 errors:0 sudo hcitool scan Scanning... 00:1D:28:CE:6E::02KAWAI@ Searching 1. How do either enable 'promiscuous' mode so I do not have any passcodes? 2. How do I configure the passcode? regards, Richard Hayes 0414 618 425 -- Registered GNU/Linux User 368634 -- 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] Connecting bluetooth under Ubuntu
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:02 +1100, Richard Hayes wrote: I am trying to connect a phone to my box. I can scan and identify both the phone and computer but it looks like I need to create a 'shared secret' for the wireless connection similar to a wifi link. *snip* The answers you seek lie in /etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf . 1. How do either enable 'promiscuous' mode so I do not have any passcodes? I *think* you can do this by setting security to none. But I've never tried it and it comes along with all the obvious potential security gaffes if you do. 2. How do I configure the passcode? I set security to auto, and set a PIN for it in the passkey option. In theory, the default setting of user for the security means ubuntu will pop up a dialog whenever anything tries to pair with it, but I don't think I've ever had that working. Once that's done, restart hcid with /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart , and initiate the pairing from your mobile device, entering the appropriate pin when it asks. http://www.thejoe.com/2007/05/17/bluetooth-pairing-and-tethering-in-ubuntu-feisty/ is very helpful when you're doing all this. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Document Freedom Day... today!
Just a reminder that Document Freedom Day is today. Google, SLUG and the Internet Society of Australia are hosting an event to celebrate the international Document Freedom Day on Wednesday March 26th. The event will be held at Google's office on level 18 of Darling Park (in the CBD), starting from 6pm. Our confirmed speaker is Senator Kate Lundy. You can get more details from: http://documentfreedomdaysydney.googlepages.com/ If you'd like to attend or have any questions about the event, please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Committee Member Sydney Linux Users Group http://www.slug.org.au signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Monthly Meeting AGM: Friday, March 28 2008
Another reminder to everyone that our monthly meeting and AGM is on this Friday. Note that committee nominations are still open. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Monthly Meeting AGM: Friday, March 28 2008 [UPDATED] Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:24 From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SLUG Announcements [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, This is an updated announcement for our next SLUG meeting, on 28 March. This is a special one as it includes our Annual General Meeting. We have also confirmed our In-Depth Talk. For a full announcement, see http://www.slug.org.au/node/94 The AGM includes elections for the 2008-2009 Committee. We need candidates! All but two of our current committee are retiring, so that leaves five vacancies that we need to fill. For a user-friendly guide to the AGM, including how to get involved in the elections, see http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/announce/2008/03/msg3.html For a better idea of what being a Committee member entails, see http://www.slug.org.au/participation If you have any questions, please ask on the lists. Sridhar -- == March SLUG Monthly Meeting == The full announcement of this meeting is at http://www.slug.org.au/node/94 When: 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 28 March, 2008 We start at 18:30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive before 18:00, as it may hinder business activities for our host! Appropriate signage and directions will be posted on the building. Where: Atlassian[0], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street) Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down along the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A map of the area and directions can be found here[1]. = About = SLUG's monthly meeting + AGM, featuring the normal AGM bits and a talk. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. = Talks = ** AGM: The 2008 SLUG Annual General Meeting ** The SLUG AGM[2] includes annual reports from the president and treasurer, a vote on constitutional amendments, and committee elections. You will need to be a SLUG member[3] to vote. We will be accepting memberships on the evening. For a more user-friendly guide to the AGM, see here[4]. ** In-Depth Talk: Pia and Jeff Waugh - OLPC Australia and awesomeness! ** Pia and Jeff will talk about the One Laptop Per Child, some of the really funky connectivity and collaboration technologies, and learning programming on the OLPC. They will also talk about OLPC Australia, what's happening, and how you can get involved. They will have a few XO laptops to demonstrate. Due to the general appeal of this talk, we will not be holding SLUGlets this month. = Meeting Schedule = * 18:15 : Open Doors * 18:30 : Announcements, News, Introductions * 18:45 : SLUG AGM * 19:30 : Break * 19:45 : In-depth Talk * 20:30 : Dinner Dinner is at Golden Harbour Restaurant[5], in Chinatown. Cost is $25 per head. We will be taking numbers during the intermission to confirm the reservation size. If you have any particular dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian), or if you would prefer to order separately, let us know beforehand. Dinner is a great way to socialise and learn in a relaxed atmosphere, so come along and have some fun :) See you there! [0] http://www.atlassian.com [1] http://tinyurl.com/35fxes [2] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/announce/2008/03/msg2.html [3] http://www.slug.org.au/membership.html [4] http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/announce/2008/03/msg3.html [5] http://www.goldenharbour.com.au --- -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Committee Member Sydney Linux Users Group http://www.slug.org.au signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- 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] Document Freedom Day... today!
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can get more details from: http://documentfreedomdaysydney.googlepages.com/ MSN Messenger is currently blocking all messages containing GooglePages URLs, so if anyone is trying to send that URL to someone via MSN, be sure to leave off the http://; bit. - James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Nomination: Anna Buttfield
I am proud to nominate Anna Buttfield for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. Anna has been an integral organiser and liaison venue for the SLUG this year. She has demonstrated an amazing interest in both the SLUG and Free and Open Source software community in Sydney and Australia. I feel Anna will be a invaluable member to this years team if elected. Anna, I would like to thank you personally for the hard work you have been doing to make SLUG @ Atlassian possible - without you we would not have been able to put on such a great monthly event. -James Dumay -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] SAGE-AU 2008 Call for Participation
SAGE-AU invites the members of Sydney LUG to submit proposals to the 16th Australian System Administrators' Conference. [Please forward this invitation to anyone you feel would be interested] Final call for presentations! Proposals are due next Monday - 31st March. 16th Annual System Administrators' Conference (SAGE-AU 2008) The System Administrators' Guild of Australia Adelaide, 11-15th August 2008 SAGE-AU was formed to advance the profession of System Administration by raising awareness of the need for System Administrators, and educating System Administrators in technical as well as professional issues. Our yearly conference provides a forum for System Administrators of all platforms and levels of experience to gather together and share their experiences. Further it provides an excellent opportunity to meet and network with acknowledged experts in the field. SAGE-AU 2008 will be held in Adelaide from the 11th-15th August. Theme - This year our theme is Greening our Computers. We particularly encourage talks on how to make carbon-neutral data centres, working with low-power devices and similar. If you have any talks or tutorials on this kind of material, please submit them! Tutorials and Papers SAGE-AU is seeking tutorials (full and half-day) and talks relevant to System Administration for the 16th Annual System Administrators' Conference. For the full Call for Presentations text please visit: http://www.sage-au.org.au/x/Xg8 SAGE-AU 2008 Adelaide - Submission Dates Call for Papers/Tutorials Issued12th February 2008 Proposals Due 31st March 2008 Provisional Notification28th April 2008 Draft Paper/Tutorials Due2nd June 2008 Confirmed Acceptance and Contracts 16th June 2008 Final Paper/Tutorial Materials Due 14th July 2008 For all information, contacts and updates, see the SAGE-AU conference web site at http://www.sage-au.org.au/display/conf/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
