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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 talk or workshop for about an hour, followed by coffee and 'meet the 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.
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 Learner 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:
We are exploring the possibility of running a workshop in the two weeks after some of our talks, that allows people to bring in their computer and go into various topics in a practical way and in a depth that is not possible during our normal meetings.
These workshops shall start in 2009 and be held in March, April, May, (but not in our winter months) then September, October and November. We are negotiating suitable venues, and have a very good one under consideration at the moment (December 08). If you want to drop in next year (2009) to our LSGA Workshop and bring your computer we shall have a formal main topic and a few minor topics over a three-hour period on some night yet to be decided (following our normal meeting night) of the above months from 1900-2200. There shall be a small cost ($2-$3 or so) for venue hire.
Proposed topics shall be chosen from amongst our talk topics from previous months (see below) as well as ad-hoc topics arising at our meetings. They shall be advertised on our blog in advance. The tentative dates appear to be:| 2009 | Thursday 19th March | Topics: TBA |
| 2009 | Thursday 16 April | Topics: TBA |
| 2009 | Thursday 21 May | Topics: TBA |
| 2009 | Thursday 17 September | Topics: TBA |
| 2009 | Thursday 15th October | Topics: TBA |
| 2009 | Thursday 19th November | Topics: TBA |
| 2009 | February | Report on the LinuxConf 2009 | Setting up an Ad-Hoc Wireless Network |
| 2009 | (TBA) | Encryption+Decryption using GPG | |
| 2009 | (TBA) | The ARM: A look at Embedded Linux |
| 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.