G'day all

Apologies for the super late announcement!

This month, we will be taking a look at the game Monster RPG 2 by Nooskewl, which recently ran a successful crowdfunding campaign to support its open sourcing (along with a commitment for three months worth of bugfixing from the original developer, a comprehensive development wiki, and direct community interaction).

We will be going over the game itself, briefly looking into its codebase, and touching on the crowdfunding campaign.

2:00pm
Saturday 24th November (the last Saturday of the month - Tomorrow!)
Royal Oak
Launceston

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

Please note that there will be no December meeting in Launceston, and will instead be meeting on the last Saturday of January next year. Thanks to everybody who's joined us over the last 12 months. It's been great fun!

Google Maps Link
Monster RPG 2 Website
The Now-finished Monster RPG 2 Crowdfunding Campaign
A Recent Interview With Trent From Nooskewl (disclaimer: this was done by me!)
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Next Hobart meeting: December TBC (possibly a dinner on the 12th)
Following Launceston meeting: 2:00pm January 26th - TBC

In an effort to get more women involved in FOSS, a number of organizations are offering Outreach Program for Women internships from January 2 to April 2, 2013. The application deadline is December 3, 2012. The applicants need to get in touch with individual projects they are interested in working on and make a small contribution ahead of the application deadline. The participating organizations are:

* Deltacloud - abstraction layer for the differences between the cloud providers
* Fedora - GNU/Linux-based operating system
* GNOME - GNU/Linux-based desktop environment and applications
* JBoss - Java-based application server and related projects
* Mozilla - software that promotes the goals of the Open Web
* Open Technology Institute - democratized network infrastructure for universal access
* OpenITP - support for developers who build circumvention technology
* OpenStack - cloud deployment and management software
* Tor - anonymizing proxy network
* Wikimedia - wiki software and infrastructure for Wikipedia and related projects

Participants will work remotely from home, while getting guidance from an assigned mentor and collaborating within their project’s team and the rest of the FOSS community. The projects include software development, system administration, web development, user experience design, graphic design, documentation, and marketing. The stipend for the program is $5,000 (USD). Any woman available for a full time internship who has not previously participated in the Outreach Program for Women or Google Summer of Code is welcome to apply. College women from the Southern Hemisphere who will have a school summer break during most of this time are particularly encouraged to apply.

Please visit [url="https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen]https://live.gnome.org/OutreachProgramForWomen[/url] to learn more and apply. This program is organized by the GNOME Foundation. Please help us spread the word by forwarding this message to interested university and community groups.

The mentorship opportunities are also available throughout the year for anyone interested in getting started contributing to FOSS outside of the internship program.

Hi all

Apologies for the late announcement!

The agenda for this month's Hobart meeting is:
* General mingling
* Q&A session plus lightning talks
* Two Factor Authentication - Peter Michael Cordover
* Demonstration using the Google Authenticator PAM and their Android app

6:00pm for a 6:30pm start
Wednesday 21st November
69 Liverpool St
Hobart

Following the meeting, some will be going to the Brunswick for dinner.

Google Maps Link
Michael Cordover's Website

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Next Launceston meeting: November 24th (Monster RPG2 - F/OSS game and engine)
Following Hobart meeting: December TBC

G'day all

This month, we will be screening each of the Blender Institute's "Open Movies" and taking a look at their impact on the development of the Blender.

In order of release, they are Elephant's Dream (2006), Big Buck Bunny (2008), Sintel (2010), and Teers of Steel (2012).

2:00pm
Saturday 27th October (the last Saturday of the month)
Royal Oak
Launceston

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

Google Maps Link
Blender Website
About The Blender Institute

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Next Hobart meeting: 6:00pm October 17th - MIDI on Linux
Following Launceston meeting: 2:00pm November 24th - TBC

Hi all

A nice and early(ish) announcement for the upcoming Hobart meeting this time!

The agenda for this meeting is:
* General mingling
* Q&A session plus lightning talks
* MIDI on Linux - Peter Billam

6:00pm for a 6:30pm start
Wednesday 17th October
69 Liverpool St
Hobart

Following the meeting, some will be going to the Brunswick for dinner.

Google Maps Link
Peter Billam's Website

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Next Launceston meeting: October 27th (Blender Foundation Open Movie screening)
Following Hobart meeting: November 21st (Two-factor authentication)