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We meet on the first Wednesday of every month (except January) at
The Adelaide South-West Community Centre,
171 Sturt Street,
Adelaide, South Australia
There is a main talk for about an hour, a coffee break, then another shorter talk, and 'talk-to-a-geek' discussion with the other Linux/PC enthusiasts about computers, computer problems, etc. from then on.
Our librarian has a range of donated books and recent Linux magazines for perusal at the meetings, and for loan to members.
The committee normally meets between 1800 and 1915 before the monthly meeting.
| 2010 | June | The 'MemoryBox' technology for Backups |
| 2010 | July | [TBA] |
| 2010 | August | PHP (Personal Home Page) HTML Preprocessor |
| 2010 | (TBA) | FireWall Builder: how to use it |
| ???? | (TBA) | Video Stuff: Using avidemux |
| ???? | (TBA) | Linux on the ARM and other Embedded |
The committee holds one or two workshops during the year, at our normal meeting time and venue. This allows people to bring in their computers and go into various topics in a practical way and in a depth that is not possible during our more formal meetings. Topics are chosen from amongst our talks given in previous months and from our Linux Learners' Lounge (see below). They shall be advertised on our blog in advance, in addition to ad-hoc topics arising on the night.
The next LSGA Workshop shall be held in September or October 2010.
Here are details of preliminary planningTentative topics to be chosen from:
In addition, for those in Adelaide, we are generally at the Centre from 1400 to 1600+ every Friday, from the first Friday in February thru the first Friday in December.
If you want to drop in to our "Linux Learners' Lounge" and bring your computer we might be able to help you with a range of Linux issues on the spot. No guarantees, of course. $2 covers centre costs for tea, coffee, biscuits.
Here are Recent Issues dealt with at the Linux Learner Lounge:
| 2010 | January | (no meeting; the Linux Conf. is on) |
| 2010 | February | Report on LinuxConf 2009 + Satellites and Ham Radio in Linux |
| 2010 | March | SSH Encryption Basics + Steganography & White-Noise Encryption |
| 2010 | April | SQL (Structured Query Language) and MyPHP |
| 2010 | May | Second Linux Workshop |
| 2009 | January | (no meeting; the Linux Conf. is on) |
| 2009 | February | Report on LinuxConf 2009 + Setting up an Ad-Hoc Wireless Network |
| 2009 | March | XP/Linux + Memorytest + ACER AspireOne |
| 2009 | April | Controlling an LCD + A gentle introduction to 'C' |
| 2009 | May | KDE 4 Appreciation + Configure a Linux Gateway |
| 2009 | June | First Linux Workshop |
| 2009 | July | File Permissions in Linux + A Lot about AI/Prolog |
| 2009 | August | Cryptography: Using GPG in Linux + Current State of PC Hardware |
| 2009 | September | Lots about Linux Viruses, Trojans, and Worms |
| 2009 | October | Dealing with Laptops: the internals |
| 2009 | November | Managing Booting Options: grub and friends |
| 2009 | December | Film Night and BBQ |
| 2008 | January | (no meeting; the Linux Conf. is on) |
| 2008 | February | Command-line Scripting using bash+cmd+psh |
| 2008 | March | Report on the National Linux Conference 2008 |
| 2008 | April | What ITShare Does and How it Began |
| 2008 | May | Introduction to the X Window System |
| 2008 | June | Blogging with Wiki and WordPress |
| 2008 | July | Delivering FOSS to Papua New Guinea |
| 2008 | August | Airstream Community Wireless and Linux |
| 2008 | September | Compiling the Kernel and the Synaptic Package Manager |
| 2008 | October | An Appreciation of the OpenOffice.org suite |
| 2008 | November | Mandriva 09 + Blender + Build a fast PC + Magnetic Tape backup |
| 2008 | December | Film Night: showing "Hackers" |
| 2007 | July | A Look at the One-Laptop-Per-Child Project |
| 2007 | August | Demonstration of Ubuntu 7.04, Feisty Fawn |
| 2007 | September | How to Use the Picasa Photo Program |
| 2007 | October | How to Set Up a Network |
| 2007 | November | Programming the Squeak System |
| 2007 | December | Film Night: The Pirates of Silicon Valley |
This link gives a summary of the history of our group for your interest.