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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 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.


The Linux Learner 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 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:


The LSGA Workshop

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


List of Coming Talks at our Monthly Meetings

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: 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.