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Meetings of the LSGA

We meet on the first Wednesday of every month (except January) at

The Adelaide South-West Community Centre,
171 Sturt Street,
Adelaide, South Australia

opening at 1915, starting at 1930 and going until about 2200 or so.

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.

List of Coming Talks at our Monthly Meetings

2010 April PHP (Personal Home Page) HTML Preprocessor
2010 May WorkShop
2010 June [TBA]
2010 July [TBA]
2010 August SQL (Structured Query Language)
2010 (TBA) Real-Time Linux
???? (TBA) Wireless Security: WEP, WPA and beyond
???? (TBA) Linux on the ARM and other Embedded


The LSGA Workshops

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 May 2010 .

Tentative topics to be chosen from:


The Linux Learners' Lounge

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: List of Talks at our Monthly Meetings

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

2009: List of Talks at our Monthly Meetings

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: List of Talks at our Monthly Meetings

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: List of Talks at our Monthly Meetings

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


About the Linux Supporters Group

This link gives a summary of the history of our group for your interest.