Hi Folks,
It was great to see several regulars and also several new faces at the
Melbourne Free Software Interest Group the week before last. Notes from
the discussion are below.
Ben
Discussion group notes from 21/4/2011
Getting involved in free software projects:
- important to find a
On 09/05/11 11:20, Adrian Colomitchi wrote:
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Ben Sturmfelsb...@stumbles.id.au wrote:
On 02/05/11 15:34, rdbr...@pacific.net.au wrote:
Diomidis D. Spinellis's latest IEEE Software column Choosing and Using
Open Source Components is up at his blog
Hi Folks,
Sorry for the late reminder, but this month's discussion group is on
tomorrow night 19 May, 6:30 - 7:30pm at the State Library. We meet in
the foyer
just before 6:30.
Proposed discussion topics:
- Using free software for network services
Look forward to seeing you!
Ben
On 02/06/11 11:50, Ben Finney wrote:
This week's Byte Into It program on 3RRR featured a lot of discussion of
software freedom issues. That's because I was in the rare position of
coming up with most of the content, so it was heavily slanted to my
interests :-)
Relevant to Free Software
Hi Folks!
This Thursday 19th is our next free software discussion group.
For those who haven't been along before, it's *real-life* social
networking for people interested in free software! Come along for a chat
and to get to know others who share similar interests to you.
On 20/07/11 09:02, Alex Fraser wrote:
Hi all,
On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Ben Sturmfelsb...@stumbles.id.au wrote:
I think Alex has suggested booking a meeting room at his workplace?
[...]
If that turns out to be available at some point, that would be brilliant. :)
So the Blender
Chris Samuel ch...@csamuel.org writes:
I mentioned the GTA04 project to produce a replacement motherboard
(along with new CPU, 3G, compass, etc) on Thursday night. Here's
a link to the project..
I hope it works out for them. Even though my Freerunner gave me quite a
run-around with regard to
Andrew Thornton secretel...@gmail.com writes:
Richard Stallman is an idiot to worry about ubuntu so much that it's not in
the FSF list of free software. May be much much more important things to
be concerned about. As the Iranian proverb goes:a drowning man doesn't
worry about rain.
Thanks
On 18/10/11 22:38, Andrew Thornton wrote:
1. the distance the mouse travels across the screen to use a GUI
2. the number of mouseclicks.
3. the clock time taken to do task x.
1 + 2 + 3 = user figure for a GUI. The lower the score the better.
All you guys here who make software. Do you do any
Hi Free Software Folks,
Last night saw our largest attendance yet! Ben Finney told us how to get
involved in Debian, one of the most mature and respected GNU/Linux
projects. Alex and Les brought along snacks and drinks and afterwards a
number of us headed around the corner for tasty
On 12/01/12 22:48, Bianca Gibson wrote:
Hi all,
I came across something while researching for Adacamp about how to
encourage women in linux
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/ - it would also
apply to FLOSS in general. As some of the people in Melbourne Free
Software have
Hi Folks,
The first Free Software Melbourne discussion group is on this Thursday
16 February. Look forward to seeing you there!
--
Melbourne Free Software Interest Group
--
Thursday 16 February, 6pm (please arrive 10
Hi Folks,
The video from my recent talk Ending Software Patents in Australia is
available.
First enable patent-unencumbered WebM video for YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
Then the video is available here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzz-w55D9vM
Alternatively:
On 13/02/12 12:45, Matt Giuca wrote:
Having a shorter copyright term, but keeping the long term for free
software would mean that the above clause is no longer true. In this world,
I would have certain freedoms with proprietary software that I would not
have with GPL software. For example, I
Hi Folks,
At the bottom of the Free software meeting wrap up email, I mentioned
a tentative special event coming up, but gave you the wrong date.
Please pencil in Mystery Free Software Event on the evening of Monday
5th March (not 6th March sorry). We have a special international guest
in town.
On 23/02/12 22:29, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
One recommendation discussed was to speak up if you notice bad behavior. This
is especially important for the blokes who can have significant influence in
these situations.
Notes from the discussion:
http://wiki.freesoftware.asn.au/encouragingWomen
On 24/02/12 10:00, Bianca Gibson wrote:
Mm, maybe those notes should go on the geek feminism wiki as well? Where
they are now people who would be interested are probably not going to find
them.
Hi Bianca,
Would you mind summarising these notes and adding the revelant points to
the Geek
On 25/02/12 11:19, Bianca Gibson wrote:
Here's the mystery event (I'm guessing).
Yes, Brett Smith of FSF is our mystery event! :)
The reason it was a mystery was, firstly, Brett and I spoke for the
first time last Thursday - we didn't know what shape the event might
take or even if he was
Hi Folks,
I'm really excited about Brett Smith's talk this Monday 5 March at
6pm. Don't forget to register:
http://apps.freesoftware.asn.au/invite/brett-smith-fsf/
Why not use this talk as a way to introduce people to free software? Let
Brett do the hard work of explaining for you!
While
Hi Folks,
I've just migrated the Free Software Melbourne et al. mailing lists to a
new server. Please email me directly if you notice any problems.
Sorry if you received two copies of your daily digest --- I had both
systems running together for a short time.
Regards,
Ben
Hi Folks,
I've just uploaded the video of Brett Smith's talk to our website:
http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/2012/brett-smith-talk/
Thanks to Alex and Chris for recording the video. Despite technical
problems problems, they managed to catch pretty well the entire talk
between their two cameras.
Hi Folks,
At last night's discussion group, I mentioned that I'd like to see us
support the FSF's statement on Restricted Boot vs Secure Boot:
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement
If anyone has any thoughts, please let me know. Otherwise I'll email the
FSF this
On 20/07/12 13:14, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
Hi Folks,
At last night's discussion group, I mentioned that I'd like to see us
support the FSF's statement on Restricted Boot vs Secure Boot:
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot/statement
If anyone has any thoughts, please let
Hi Folks,
You'll be please to know that our Sydney correspondent Matt Giuca joined
Ben Finney, Ben's friend Pete and I in the Australian Python
conference's codewars programming event on Friday night. Our team,
named Free Software Melbourne, beat off around a dozen other teams
(including many
Hi Folks,
October already! Wow, this month has certainly crept up on me. I'm
looking forward to another Free Software Melbourne discussion group and
dinner this Thursday, same time same place. Hope to see you there!
Regards,
Ben
Free Software Melbourne
On 16/10/12 08:52, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
Free Software Melbourne discussion group
Thursday 20 September, 6-9pm
VPAC Head Office Training Room (see website)
http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb
On 16/10/12 10:04, Adam Bolte wrote:
If you have an actual MediaGoblin server configured, it would probably
be neat to demo it. Might also be an opportunity to talk about/demo
StatusNet, XMPP and any other free federated services we can think of,
time permitting.
Sure, I'm running a personal
On 19/10/12 10:54, Ben Finney wrote:
Would it be a good idea for us to pool a bunch of money and sponsor GNU
MediaGoblin, with a single large donation in the name of Free Software
Melbourne?
This is a great idea! Donations are the best way to contribute to free
software if you earn a
Hi Folks,
Join us for Free Software Melbourne discussion group this Thursday
night. We'll hear about Adam's experiments in running his own free
software network services and Ben F. will teach us about Super Cookies.
I'll also be baking some Super Cookies. Yum.
Look forward to seeing you!
Hi Folks,
Back on the 15 November, we had two great talks by Adam Bolte and
Ben Finney on running free software network services from home and
privacy on the web respectively. Thanks very much to Adam and Ben.
As an experiment to allow us to reach a wider audience, we recorded both
the audio and
Hi Folks,
Follow the successful Free Software Activism meetup at LCA 2013 last
week, we've started a mailing list for discussion amongst Australian and
New Zealand free software activists. Please feel free join up if that
sounds like your thing:
Hi Folks,
We had such a great time at the September free software games night that
we're doing it again this Thursday. Please come along and join us!
Regards,
Ben
---
Melbourne Free Software Games Night
---
Thursday 21 February,
Hi Folks,
Just a quick reminder that our free software games night is tomorrow
night at 6pm.
Alex Fraser has been working very hard on his own free software game,
Cargo. Development is currently top secret, but he's nearing a release.
I'm hoping he'll be able to give us a sneak-peek.
The
Hi Folks,
Sorry for the late announcement. I'm looking forward to seeing you all
this Thursday night for Free Software Melbourne discussion group and
dinner.
I had an amazing experience this week; a video call using free software
that worked beautifully. It's been a long wait for a free software
://melbourneblender.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/february-meeting-notes-mbs-open-movie-project/
Regards,
Ben
On 19/03/13 15:46, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
Hi Folks,
Sorry for the late announcement. I'm looking forward to seeing you all
this Thursday night for Free Software Melbourne discussion group
the shared password. Having to
use OpenPGP would somewhat defeat the purpose of this quick and
lightweight security feature though.
Regards,
Ben
On 24/03/13 16:13, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
Hi Folks,
Great to see you all last Thursday. Here's a summary of our meeting.
Free software video calling
Hi Folks,
This month's gathering will be dinner at Classic Curry, so hope to see
you there!
Again, sorry for the late notice.
Regards,
Ben
--
Free Software Melbourne Dinner
--
Thursday 16 May, 6-9pm
Classic Curry Restaurant
597 Elizabeth
Hi Free Software Lovers,
I'm looking forward to seeing you again next Thursday 20 June for our
discussion group. This month we'll be looking at some hardware
purpose-designed for compatibility with free software. Yay! We'll also
be discussing the H-Node hardware database (details below).
I'm
Hi Folks,
Just a quick reminder that the Free Software Melbourne discussion group
is on tomorrow evening (Thursday 20 June). Look forward to seeing you!
Regards,
Ben
On 12/06/13 12:07, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
Free Software Melbourne discussion group
On 21/06/13 21:57, Sven@GMX wrote:
I am proudly looking forward to meet you in July again after a long
time. The mid-month Raspberry Jam meetings (RMIT building 80) I went for
the past 3 month were held the same Thursday of the month but was moved
to the last Thursday. I dont think there will
. The newly elected committee is:
President: Adam Bolte
Vice President: Andrew Spiers
Secretary: Ben Sturmfels
Treasurer: Ben Finney
Our next election will be March 2015.
Meet-up day of the week
---
We also discussed the possibility of varying the meet-up day to allow
others
Dale Dickins has kindly offered to lend us her Lamassu Bitcoin vending
machine (https://lamassu.is/) tomorrow night if anyone is available to
swing past The Hub to pick it up, and drop it back Friday.
The Hub is on the corner of Bourke and Collins Street:
On 14/05/14 16:40, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
Dale Dickins has kindly offered to lend us her Lamassu Bitcoin vending
machine (https://lamassu.is/) tomorrow night if anyone is available to
swing past The Hub to pick it up, and drop it back Friday.
The machine is fairly compact: 35cm x 48cm x 27cm
On 20/02/15 13:12, Scott Junner wrote:
And lastly on the topic of workshops for getting started contributing to
free software projects. Yes please. Give me one job to do to that will get
that ball rolling. Coz I wants it. There are things I would like to
contribute to but don't know where to
On 06/03/15 18:44, Russell Coker wrote:
On Fri, 6 Mar 2015, Ben Sturmfels b...@stumbles.id.au wrote:
I'd be very happy to come along to talk at LUV or if dates don't work
out (being in Ballarat), I'm sure I could find someone to. I know that
LUV is organised many months in advance, so how
On 10/03/15 14:16, Scott Junner wrote:
It appears that yorkbutterfactory.com is available on the 23rd May But not
the Saturday before.
Can we nail down some details so I can send him information? Probably best
to create the Meetup Page for the event before hand. Guy I spoke to seemed
to
Hi Folks,
I'm heading off to LibrePlanet in Boston so won't be at the upcoming
meeting, but I'd like to nominate for President in the elections.
It's been a great last 12 months for Free Software Melbourne - very
successful Software Freedom Day, lots of interesting meet-ups and
dinners, some
On 23/02/15 15:05, Andrew Pam wrote:
As current president of LUV, it occurred to me that the interests of the
Melbourne Free Software Interest Group overlap with ours to some degree.
Are there any members of the Free Software group that would be
interested in giving a talk to LUV this year?
Hi Folks,
Free Software Melbourne is awesome because people like Adam Bolte and
Andrew Spiers make it so. We thank you both for your time and effort
organising the monthly meetups, finding interesting speakers, running
Software Freedom Day, organising campaigns, hosting games nights and
much
Hi Folks,
Bonnie wrote to say that Melb Django School began their first of 9 weeks
of free-of-charge Django classes last Thursday. If you know a little
Python, you might want to take a look at their website:
http://www.meetup.com/MelbDjango/events/223096881/
Regards,
Ben
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Hi Folks,
Sounds like we're much closer to the TPP signing than I realised -
Australia is planned to sign on 3 Feb. Please add your name to the
following online petition if you have a moment:
http://action.sumofus.org/a/australia-tpp/
Cheers,
Ben
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Hi Folks,
Congrats to our new 2016-2017 committee, Ben Minerds (Pres), Michael Verrenkamp
(Vice Pres), Damien Zammit (Secretary) and Ben Finney (Treasurer)!
Again big thanks to the other members of our previous committee Scott Junner,
Ben Minerds and Ben Finney. It's been a very productive year.
gt; Scott
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Ben Finney <
> ben+freesoftw...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>
>> On 14-Apr-2016, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>>
>>> In addition to our regular Gnews, we'll also be holding a brief
>>> committee election for the
On 08/03/17 12:23, Russell Coker wrote:
> This isn't really news. After Snowden's information this is something most
> people expected.
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/assange-man-in-the-news/512243/
>
> Also remember that Assange seems to be a Russian agent.
Hi
!
--
Ben Sturmfels
Director at Sturm Software Engineering
www.sturm.com.au
+61 3 9024 2467
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Hi Folks,
I'm getting into this Mastodon thing, but it'd be much more interesting
if I could follow a few more people I know. Anyone care to reply with
their Mastodon address?
I'm @bensturmfels@mastodon.social.
Cheers!
Ben
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Hi FSM folks,
Just wanted to let you know that Damien and I are organising a community
event for the Digital Innovation Festival in Ballarat that you or
someone you know might be interested in.
https://dif.vic.gov.au/event/10088280-a/contribute-to-free-and-open-source-software-workshop
It's a
/10088280-a/contribute-to-free-and-open-source-software-workshop
Cheers,
Ben
Ben Sturmfels
Sturm Software Engineering
www.sturm.com.au
+61 3 9024 2467
On Tue, 20 Aug 2019, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
> Hi FSM folks,
>
> Just wanted to let you know that Damien and I are organising a communit
Portal.
The representative told me that there's no plans to move my.gov.au to
MyGovID login for the foreseeable future.
So that solves my issues for now, but I expect it's only a matter of
time before MyGovID gets more widely rolled out.
Regards,
Ben
On 31/3/20 11:44 am, Ben Sturmfels wrote
On 10/4/20 10:49 am, Michael Verrenkamp wrote:
> FSM Apr 16th —Staying connected with Free Software —Signal and Jitsi
I'm sorry I missed this Michael, hope it went well! I've finally managed
to get Jitsi Meet going on Guix System too, which is wonderful.
I've also just created a new Matrix
ard and they
are certainly listening.
Regards,
Ben
On 24/3/20 5:44 pm, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I've just sent a letter to the Commissioner of Taxation about the
> rollout of MyGovID as the only way to log in to the ATO Business Portal.
> This is attached in case there are any bus
Hi Folks,
I've just sent a letter to the Commissioner of Taxation about the
rollout of MyGovID as the only way to log in to the ATO Business Portal.
This is attached in case there are any business owners who I can
encourage to also speak out.
Essentially the ATO is switching off the nice
t
> basically pretends to be the MyGovID app for the purposes of set-up, and
> gives you a regular QR-code to feed to your TOTP app:
> https://github.com/abrasive/mygov-totp-enroll
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020, at 17:44, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I've j
Just an update to say that this X200 now has a new home. :)
On 23/10/21 12:50 pm, Ben Sturmfels wrote:
Hi Folks,
I'm tidying up here and have a Lenovo X200 with Coreboot I'm looking to
sell for $20 plus postage (likely less than $15).
- well used, but in good working order
- 4GB RAM
Hi Folks,
I'm tidying up here and have a Lenovo X200 with Coreboot I'm looking to
sell for $20 plus postage (likely less than $15).
- well used, but in good working order
- 4GB RAM
- Coreboot installed
- free software-compatible Atheros mini-pci wifi card installed
- includes power adaptor
-
Hi folks,
Just in case you hadn't seen the announcement, ticket are now on sale
for the Everything Open conference in Melbourne 14-16 March 2023.
There's an earlybird discount of $100 while stocks last. I've just
bought my ticket, so hope to see you there!
https://2023.everythingopen.au/
Hey Folks,
Has anyone out there bought any of the Purism devices, especially the
phone (Librem 5) or the tablet (Librem 11)? I'm interested to hear your
experiences.
My old Galaxy S5 with replaceable battery and headphone jack is still
going strong but is about to be made obsolete by the 3G
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