G'day all

This month, forum user Attitude will be giving another talk this month, this time looking at comparisons of DEs in a talk titled Objectively Choosing A Desktop Manager.

2:00pm
Saturday 25th May
Royal Oak
Launceston

As usual, some of us will be meeting for lunch beforehand at 1:00pm.

Hope to see you there!

Google Maps Link

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Next Hobart meeting: 6:00pm June 20th (All Your Computers Are Belong to Ansible)
Following Launceston meeting: 2:00pm June 29th (Topic TBC)

I was abducted by the Resistance recently and forced to perform some interstate missions. As a result this month's Hobart meeting announcement is a little late:

When: Thursday, May 16th, 18:00 for an 18:30 start
Where: 69 Liverpool St, Hobart. (Map)

Agenda:

• 18:00 - early mingle, chin wagging, etc
• 18:30 - Question and answer session, plus any lightening talks
• 19:00 - I Like Your Old Window Manager Better Than Your New One
  Byobu: Scott Bragg
  Byobu is a GPLv3 open source text-based window manager and terminal multiplexer. It was originally designed to provide elegant enhancements to the otherwise functional, plain, practical GNU Screen, for the Ubuntu server distribution. Byobu now includes an enhanced profiles, convenient keybindings, configuration utilities, and toggle-able system status notifications for both the GNU Screen window manager and the more modern Tmux terminal multiplexer, and works on most Linux, BSD, and Mac distributions.
  
  Enlightenment 0.17: Craige McWhirter
  Enlightenment is not just a window manager for Linux/X11 and others, but also a whole suite of libraries to help you create beautiful user interfaces with much less work than doing it the old fashioned way and fighting with traditional toolkits, not to mention a traditional window manager. It covers uses from small mobile devices like phones (like Samsung's Android competitor, Bada) all the way to powerful multi-core desktops (which are the primary development environment).
  
  Others: You?
  Whilst there's no other planned speakers, everyones got an opinion (Unity? GNOME3?) so I think there's plenty of meat for other discussion.
  
  
• 20:00 - Meeting end. Many people go to the Brunswick for dinner.

May:
25th - Launceston meeting
June:
20th - Julius Roberts: All Your Computers Are Belong to Ansible
22nd - Launceston meeting
July:
5-7th - PyCon Australia, hosted in Hobart.
18th - 18th - WE NEED A TALK REQUEST OR OFFER

Wow, time moves quickly!

For anybody who needs a reminder, we've got out second ever TasLUG statewide gathering happening at the Ross Town Hall this weekend.

This is a chance for people from all around the state to come together and get to know/share knowledge with other Free/Open Source Software enthusiasts. People are encouraged to bring along a machine or a laptop or a mobile device or whatever's applicable to share with the community the sort of things they do with Free/Open Source Software.

Saturday May 4th
Ross Town Hall

Our rough schedule looks something like this:
* 10:00pm - 12:00pm: Mill around, get to know each other, show off any gear/projects we may have brought with us
* 12:00pm - 1:00pm: Break for lunch
* 1:00pm - 1:30pm: Housekeeping/Statewide committee stuff
* 1:30pm - 3:00pm: Presentations/lightning talks for anybody who wants to give one
* 3:30pm - 4:00pm: Pack up
* 4:00pm onwards: Go home/BBQ/whatever anybody is up for

Google Maps link

Hope to see everybody there!

Nominations for the statewide commitee have been received and we now have a poll up to confirm the uncontested positions and collect votes on the remaining ones.

The following positions were uncontested:
* President: Craige McWhirter (ruagair)
* Treasurer: Scott Bragg (mrfaulteh)
* Media Muse: Mathew Oakes

Congratulations to Craige, Scott and Mathew.

Nominees for the two remaining "Community Champion" positions are:
* Scott Bragg (mrfaulteh)
* Scott Evans (VK7HSE)
* Chris Neugebauer (chrisjrn)
* Tim Serong (tserong)


The poll can be found here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GC7TKRZ

To reduce the impact of spam/duplicate votes, we are asking people to provide an email address that is associated with a TasLUG website account, or a TasLUG mailing list subscription (both are worth having anyway, and signup links can be found on this site). These email addresses will not be used for anything other than removing invalid/duplicate votes. Addresses will also not be associated with votes and the data will be destroyed at the end of the poll.

Many thanks to "returning officer" bleeter for coordinating this!

Please discuss further on the mailing list or in the forums.

G'day all

This month, forum user Attitude will be be giving an introduction to the Free/Open Source point of sale suite uniCenta oPOS.

2:00pm
Saturday 27th April
Royal Oak
Launceston

As usual, some of us will be meeting for lunch beforehand at 1:00pm.

Hope to see you there!

Google Maps Link
uniCenta oPOS website


Update: A slideshow from this talk is now downloadable.
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Statewide TasLUG gathering: May 4th
Next Hobart meeting: 6:00pm May 16th (Linux Gaming)
Following Launceston meeting: 2:00pm May 25th (Topic TBC)