** Now on THURSDAYS **

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you're excited about this month's meeting. Here's what we have in store for you at this month's TasLUG meeting in Hobart:

When: Thursday, April 18th, 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 - An Introduction to Python
  Speaker: Chris Neugebauer
  Ever heard of Python, that programming language that Chris won't shut up about at TasLUG meetings? Well, now's your opportunity to find out a bit about it!
  
  In this talk, we'll be looking at some of the features that make Python an interesting language, starting with the basics, and hopefully putting together some interesting code by the end of the talk.
  
  We'll be using Python 3 in this talk, so if you're only familiar with Python 2, you can come along to see what the differences are.
  
• 20:00 - Meeting end. Many people go to the Brunswick for dinner.

April:
27th - Launceston meeting
May:
4th - Statewide meetup, Ross (Saturday)
16th - John Kristensen: Linux Gaming
June:
20th - Julius Roberts: All Your Computers Are Belong to Ansible
July:
5-7th - PyCon Australia, hosted in Hobart.
18th - I Like Your Old Window Manager Better Than  Your New Window Manager
(x5 speakers required to spruik their favourite window manager)

Good evening freedom lovers! It's time for us to nominate people to represent us on the TasLUG committee!

Returning Officer:
We need a volunteer to be our returning officer. This role will need to:

• Track nominations and acceptances on the TasLUG list.
• Follow up privately any nominations not responded to on the list
• Run a public poll[1][2]
• Publish the results at the Statewide Meeting on May 4th[3]

The Positions:

• President
• Treasurer
• Media Muse
• Community Champion (x2)

There's 5 roles to fill in total, so get your nominations rolling in to the TasLUG list.

Timelines:
Nominations:

• Open: 09:00 Monday, April 1st
• Close: 23:59 Sunday, April 14th

Voting:

• Opens: 09:00 Monday, April 15th
• Closes: 23:59 Sunday, April 28th

Eligibility:
Committee:

• You are on the TasLUG list or
• You have an account on the TasLUG website
• Must be a Tasmanian resident

Voting:

• You are on the TasLUG list or
• You have an account on the TasLUG website[4][5]

Notes:

1. There's plenty of ways to do this. Pick one that works for you or ask the list for suggestions. Preferably available via link only
2. Email address will be a required field for cross-verification
3. This can be done remotely or via email on the 4th (preferably in some co-ordination with events of the day)
4. The committee can review and loosen / tighten this in future as seen fit. GPG signed nominations and votes would rock.
5. No, if you are on both you do not get two votes :-D

G'day all

Apologies for the last minute announcement!

This month, I'll be giving a talk about cross-platform support in the "Humble Bundle" promotions, and depending on how we go, we might also take a look at Stack.js, the javascript based presentation library which I'll be using.

2:00pm
Saturday 30th March
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
Cheese talks to himself (about cross-platform support in Humble Bundles)
Humble Bundle website
Stack on GitHub

Update: Talk slideshow

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Next Hobart meeting: 6:00pm April 18th (An Introduction To Python)
Following Launceston meeting: 2:00pm April 27th (Topic TBC)
Statewide TasLUG gathering: May 4th

** Now on THURSDAYS **

Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you're excited about this month's meeting. Here's what we have in store for you at this month's TasLUG meeting in Hobart:

When: Thursday, March 21st, 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 - OS Wars
  It's an opportunity to spruik the merits of your favourite non-Linux operating system, what makes it special and what could Linux learn from it:
  
  • OpenBSD - Scott Bragg
  • Windows 7 - Michael Cordover
  • OSX - Julius Roberts
  • Every OS Sucks - Peter Lawler
  • Plan 9 - Scott Bragg
  • Open Indiana - Julius Roberts
• 20:00 - Meeting end. Many people go to the Brunswick for dinner.

March:
30th - Launceston meeting
April:
18th - Hobart Meeting: Chris Neugebauer with an introduction to Python
27th - Launceston meeting
May:
4th - Statewide meetup, Ross (Saturday)

Hi all! It's nearly time again for the (now) Annual Statewide TasLUG Gathering, and what better way to announce it than with a block of where/when followed by a bunch of bulleted lists!


ROSS TOWN HALL
4th May
10:00am - 4:00pm
Google Maps Link

Building on from last year's event, the Statewide Gathering will be a chance for:
* Everybody to bring along something that shows off stuff that do with Free/Open Source Software (everything is interesting - especially uninteresting stuff)
* Free Software enthusiasts from across the state to catch up and get to know each other
* TasLUG communities to plan for Software Freedom Day 2013


We're also planning to have:
* Best of TasLUG talks - a recap of favourite talks from the past year (we'll have a poll up soon)
* A lightning talks session allowing people to briefly present the stuff they've brought along
* A TasLUGer(s) of the year acknowledgment, recognising people within our community who do worthwhile things


Also on the cards is:
* Finishing up early and having a BBQ
* A brainstorming session for possible collaborative hardware/software projects that could involve people across the state


Anybody who has goodies (stickers) or paraphernalia (stickers) that they want to share around (stickers), feel free to bring them. Somebody has requested stickers (stickers).

Hope to see you there!