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Bar camp melbourne
by Bianca Gibson 11 Mar '13

11 Mar '13

Hi all, Bar camp Melbourne is back on, now down to one day on Saturday: http://barcampmel.org/ Cheers, Bianca

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Come play free software games with us on Thursday 21 Feb
by Ben Sturmfels 21 Feb '13

21 Feb '13

Hi Folks, We had such a great time at the September free software games night that we're doing it again this Thursday. Please come along and join us! Regards, Ben ----------------------------------- Melbourne Free Software Games Night ----------------------------------- Thursday 21 February, 6-9pm VPAC Head Office Training Room (see website) http://www.freesoftware.asn.au/melb/ We'll be playing a wide range of games including some casual and some multiplayer action games. Absolutely no gaming or technical experience is required. We're happy to help you get started. Please bring $10 for pizza and a laptop if you have one. Copies of the games will be available on the night.

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W3C Declares DRM In-Scope For HTML
by Brian May 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

http://slashdot.org/story/13/02/12/014257/w3c-declares-drm-in-scope-for-htm… Is this the end of open source standards complaint web browsers? -- Brian May <brian(a)microcomaustralia.com.au>

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Mailing list for Aust and NZ free software activists
by Ben Sturmfels 06 Feb '13

06 Feb '13

Hi Folks, Follow the successful "Free Software Activism" meetup at LCA 2013 last week, we've started a mailing list for discussion amongst Australian and New Zealand free software activists. Please feel free join up if that sounds like your thing: http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-au… More info about the meetup is available here: https://lca2013.linux.org.au/wiki/Free_software_activism_meetup I'll post some links to interesting talks once the conference videos are published. Regards, Ben

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Re: [free-software-melb] Successful BBQ!
by Mark Street ( Farad'n ) PPAu 30 Jan '13

30 Jan '13

Hi Folks, Just wanted to say it was great to meet and chat with you all. Was some tasty food on offer and some great conversations about the issues of Software patents and Copyrights. I'm glad we were able to contribute to your donation! For those who are interested in the Pirate Party Australia and our policies, you might be interested to know that we are now formally registered to participate in the upcoming Federal election in September ( http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Regist…) Our current policy platform can be found here : ( http://www.piratepary.org.au <http://www.piratepary.org.au/wiki/Platform> ) and we will be adding to and revising it in the coming months. We hold regular meetings in Melbourne and you can find the details here: ( http://www.meetup.com/The-Melbourne-Pirate-Party-Crew/ ) Best Regards, Mark Street ( -=Farad'n=- ) Victorian Coordinator Pirate Party Australia T: @PPAU_Melbourne fb: http://www.facebook.com/groups/ppauv http://www.meetup.com/The-Melbourne-Pirate-Party-Crew/

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November meeting and audio recordings
by Ben Sturmfels 29 Jan '13

29 Jan '13

Hi Folks, Back on the 15 November, we had two great talks by Adam Bolte and Ben Finney on running free software network services from home and privacy on the web respectively. Thanks very much to Adam and Ben. As an experiment to allow us to reach a wider audience, we recorded both the audio and video from these talks. I've edited the audio recordings and uploaded them here: http://archive.org/details/NetworkServicesFromHome http://archive.org/details/PrivacyOnTheWeb The videos and slides may also be available at these URLs shortly, just working out some logistics. We also had a gold-coin donation to Software in the Public Interest <http://spi-inc.org>. We collected $14. I've rounded the donation up to $20 and transferred to SPI via credit card. As you may have read, we ended up postponing the December barbeque and instead having a casual dinner. Despite the late notice, we ended up with around 10 people there, which was great. Plenty of interesting discussion was had (as well as some tasty Korean food). The postponed BBQ will now be held on 17 January 2013. We'll send details later this week. The games night will be held in February. Regards, Ben

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Re: [free-software-melb] [free-software-melb-announce] linux.conf.au free software conference this month
by Sven＠GMX 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

On 07/01/13 13:42, Ben Sturmfels wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Just a quick reminder that in a few weeks, Canberra will be hosting > linux.conf.au, Australia's community free software conference. > > linux.conf.au > 28 January to 2 February 2013 > http://www.linux.conf.au/ > Does anyone have an idea what the newcomer briefing on the Sunday b4 LCA starts will cover? Don't remember any briefings before the "LinuxTag" conferences in Germany. Sven, VK3SIX

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Successful BBQ!
by Alex Fraser 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Hi all, Thanks for a great evening last Thursday. We had a good turnout, with 15 people coming along despite the heat. In addition to those from FSM, four members of the Pirate Party joined in, and it was good to talk about how our interests overlap. We collected a whopping $290 from the attendees. All up the food cost just over $150, leaving $140 for the nominated charity. So tonight I donated 150USD* on behalf of the group to the Free Software Foundation's End Software Patents Coalition Fund[1]. Thanks, everyone, for contributing! As an aside, I asked for the donation to be made public, but I can't see where the FSF lists donations. Does anyone know? I guess it might not come through for a day or two, anyway. See you next month, Alex [1] https://my.fsf.org/donate/directed-donations/esp * ~141.95AUD

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Barbeque this Thursday at Birrarung Marr
by Ben Sturmfels 17 Jan '13

17 Jan '13

Hi Folks, This Thursday we're holding our Free Software Melbourne barbeque. Everyone is welcome, especially if you haven't been along before. Look forward to seeing you! Regards, Ben -------------------------------- Free Software Melbourne barbeque -------------------------------- Thur 17 Jan 2013, 6pm at Birrarung Marr public barbeques http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=-37.819999&mlon=144.974934&zoom=17&layer… We'll provide the meal including meat, a vegan and vegetarian alternative, salad, plates, cutlery and soft drink. Please feel free to bring any other drinks you'd like. The event costs $20 (full) or $10 (student/concession). This covers food and a donation to the international End Software Patents project run by Ciarán O'Riordan. Please RSVP by email ben(a)sturm.com.au by 5pm Thursday. Please mention any dietary requirements. We'll be using a permanent gas barbeque so aren't affected by a total fire ban.

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Fwd: [MLUG] Sir Tim Berners-Lee Down Under
by Bianca Gibson 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jafaruddin Lie" <jafaruddin.lie(a)gmail.com> Date: 3 Jan 2013 16:33 Subject: [MLUG] Sir Tim Berners-Lee Down Under To: <mlug-au(a)googlegroups.com> Cc: Thought you guys might be interested: > > Free event, from the event site: > > The Melbourne public event is being hosted by the University of > Melbourne. This event is scheduled for Monday the 4th February from > 6pm till 8pm. Full details will be emailed to you by January 14th. > Registrations are limited to 4 tickets per person. > > http://tbldownunder.eventbrite.com/ > > -- > Registered Linux user no. 384430 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mlug-au" group. > To post to this group, send email to mlug-au(a)googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > mlug-au+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mlug-au?hl=en. > >

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