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Humbug is in the running to hold Brisbane's second Linux.Conf.Au in 2010. Chief stress bunny this time around is Russell Stuart, starting from 6pm he's going to talk about the status of our bid, what still needs to be done and what people can contribute.

James McPherson, a Senior Kernel Engineer for Sun Microsystems, will be giving a presentation on ZFS at our 12/07 meeting

James will discuss the concepts and ideas behind Sun's ZFS filesystem (and a bit about OpenSolaris). He will also demonstrate how ZFS is integrated with some of the other cool features in OpenSolaris such as the in-kernel CIFS server and NFSv4.

The presentation will start at 5pm.

The rack infrastructure that provides net and power to Humbug's server is undergoing a makeover on Saturday. All services, notably mail and web, will be unavailable from 9am to midday. We're also taking the opportunity to upgrade the Debian install.

Humbug will have an end of year holiday season dinner at afk, 616 Stanley Street, Woolloongabba from 6:00 pm on Friday, 21 December. Menu without prices at their website, but most meals are in the $15 to $20 range. They're BYO, and there's a bottle shop just across the road. Please RSVP to Clinton at clinton.roy@gmail.com ASAP.

At the meeting on 15th December, Clinton will be giving one of his infamous debriefings of both BarCamp and OSDC. It will start at 6:00 pm.

At the meeting on 1 December, James will give a talk describing what GUIDs are and how they're used in Solaris.

Another AGM produces another new executive team. Please let us know what direction you'd like the club to go in by mailing us at exec@humbug.org.au.

Clinton Roy will be giving a talk on the ANTLR parser generator at the HUMBUG meeting on Saturday, 14 July starting at 6pm. The abstract was published in the announcement on the mailing list.

HUMBUG is making a bid to host LCA 2009. There is now a Humbug LCA Wiki where you can see the details of the bid, progress reports, and opportunities for volunteers to help. Please have a look and help out where you can.

Russell Stuart will be giving a talk on Saturday the 7th of April at 6pm, about the upcoming LCA Bid for 2009. More details on the Talks page.

We now have our meeting dates confirmed for the first half of 2007. Members and visitors should note that these meetings are all scheduled to end at 11pm, rather than extending into the following morning.

Our Annual General Meeting was held on 9 September 2006 and we elected a new executive. See the details here.

The 2006 Annual General Meeting will start at 6:00 pm.

Ian Connor from ProjectLounge will deliver a talk about the development of their applications, written using a variety of open source/free software tools. The talk is scheduled for 6:00 pm. The talk will focus on the building of ProjectLounge Lite in Ruby on Rails, an open source web application framework, and how to get started putting together such an application using open source technology (Linux, Apache, FastCGI, MySql and Ruby on Rails).

Paul "Rusty" Russell, Australian Linux kernel hacker, is making a flying visit to Humbug this Saturday, giving a talk on the possible consequences of Australia's obligations under the FTA. The talk is expected to begin around six.

Members and visitors should note that, although parking restrictions are relaxed on Saturdays, there are still rules that must be followed. Please be sure to read and comply with those rules.

Stephen Thorne will deliver a talk on darcs at the meeting on Saturday, 6 May 2006 at 6:00 pm. The talk is scheduled to last 30 minutes, followed by time for questions. Darcs is a distributed revision control system suitable for small to medium projects. Stephen will introduce darcs, explain how to use it, how to admin a darcs repository and how to do simple revision management tasks. The following links might be useful in preparation: darcs home, the darcs wiki, the Wikipedia entry on darcs and the Wikibook Understanding darcs.

Andy Fitzsimon will deliver a postmortem of the Libre Graphics Meeting that was held on 17-19 March, 2006 in Lyon, France. Topics covered will include Inkscape, The Gimp and Scribus. The talk will be on this Saturday, 22 April, starting at approximately 5pm and lasting for about an hour.

Naaman Campbell will present a talk about running Ubuntu on the Sun Microsystems SunRay thin-client architecture this weekend, 25 March 2006 at 6pm sharp.

His talk will include an OpenOffice presentation and a demonstration with "server" and a SunRay thin client.

We have removed the webmaster email alias. See the Webmaster contact page for an explanation and for new contact information.

Our Annual General Meeting was held on 24 September 2005 and we elected a new executive.

The Annual General Meeting has been called for 6:00pm, 24 September 2005. We shall meet in our normal room, Room S201, Hawken Engineering Building, The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus.

We've meet successfully with UQ and expect to have network access for meeting at end of this month.

An issue has developed regarding the terms of our network access at meetings. We held an exec meeting this evening and we agreed it would be prudent for the club to forgo network access for the short term.

Linux.Conf.Au 2005 registrations are open, get in quick, places are likely to go quickly.

An executive meeting is to be held tonight, in the city. All are welcome, but please see the details here: Executive Meeting Announcement

The Gold Coast Linux Group is holding an Installfest on Saturday the 20th of November at the Varsity Community Centre, Mattocks Road Stephens, from 9am to 5pm.

All the details.

As previously announced, our AGM is at six-o'clock on Saturday, 25 September 2004 in our normal room, S201 in the Hawken Engineering Building.

Mark Suter, Club President and regular speaker, will present a talk on tools and methods for controlling unwanted email. It is proposed that a panel/Q&A session will be held afterwards. The talk will be held at 5pm on Saturday, 17th of July 2004.

Warren Togami of Red Hat and Fedora fame is in the country from the US and is coming to do a HUMBUG talk. The talk will be held at 4pm (note the time) at the upcoming meeting, on Saturday the 3rd of July 2004.

We're holding our second LCA debriefing meeting, where the Queensland Sunmicrosystems^tm regional delegate, and other attendees, go through their experiences at the conference.

This is a great opportunity for anyone wanting to know what goes on at the conference; we're hoping it'll motivate more people to attend the conference, write a paper for the conference, attempt to win the regional delegate program, and if you're really silly, think about running the conference in Brisbane again!

Linux.conf.au 2004 is pleased has announced that Sun Microsystems will sponsor the Linux.conf.au 2004 Regional Delegate Program, to assist deserving people across Australia to attend Linux.conf.au in January 2004. HUMBUG has been selected to nominate two candidates to represent Queensland. Full details are available here.

The Annual General Meeting elected a new executive for the coming year:

President

Mark Suter

Vice-President

David Seikel

Treasurer

Timothy Hitchens

Secretary

Raymond Smith

Librarian

Matthew Sellers

Thanks to Clinton Roy (outgoing Vice-President) and David Makepeace (outgoing Librarian) and welcome to our new members on the executive.

Our Annual General Meeting is set to start at six pm. Here's the agenda:

1. Confirmation of minutes of last AGM
2. Office Bearers Reports
3. Nominations and Elections
4. Motions & General Business

Arjen Lentz, a technical writer and trainer from MySQL AB will give his State of the Dolphin talk, in which he describes the many exciting developments happening in the MySQL development effort.

Tobi Graml will be talking about the march of Linux in is home town of Munich. The talk will start at 6:00pm.

Paul Gampe from Red Hat has kindly agreed to come in to talk to us about internationalisation and Red Hat Linux. Paul will cover a variety of topics including why i18n is required, Red Hat's i18n strategy, and of course, more-concrete i18n-related technical issues.

One of our members noticed a glitch with our website and alerted us. All is now well.

The March 1st meeting will feature the GPG Keysigning Party followed by a talk by Trent Waddington.

A briefing session is planned for the next HUMBUG meeting (15 February 2003) in 50-2, Hawken Engineering Building, The University of Queensland starting 7:00pm. Please bring some money for pizza. A detailed agenda follows:

• 1900 - 1930: Sun Regional Delegate, Eric Faccer, will talk about his LCA experiences.
• 1930: Pizza
• 1930 - 2200: LCA 2003 Briefing. Members will give short summaries of the talks they attended and answer any questions people might have.

This year's linux.conf.au rocked! Those of us who were able to attend will be stepping up to share our experiences with you. The session will begin at 7:00pm. Bring money for pizza.

An Executive Meeting will be held at 6:00pm on Saturday 15 February 2003 in lecture theatre 50-2, Hawken Engineering Building, The University of Queensland. This co-incides with out next regular meeting and all members are most welcome to attend.

Linux.conf.au 2003 is pleased has announced that Sun Microsystems will sponsor the Linux.conf.au 2003 Regional Delegate Program, to assist deserving people across Australia to attend Linux.conf.au in January 2003. HUMBUG has been selected to choose the Queensland Delegate. Full details are available here.

When: 6:00pm, 28 September 2002
Where: the meeting room.
Agenda:

1. Confirmation of minutes of last AGM
2. Office Bearers Reports
3. Nominations and Elections for Office Bearers

We had almost forgotten what they were like. There will be a HUMBUG executive meeting at 5pm Tuesday 30 July 2002. All members are welcome to attend as observers. Please email secretary@humbug.org.au for details.

There will be a discussion of backup strategies starting at 6:00pm and running until 7:00pm at the next meeting.

HUMBUG is proud to be associated with next week's linux.conf.au and welcomes all travellers outside of Brisbane to todays meeting. Yes this invite is a little late, but then the overlap between conference organisers and HUMBUG executive has been high. :-)

As part of today's festivities Robert Standford will be presenting his 3-hour tutorial on thin clients. See last meetings news item (below) for details.

Next HUMBUG will host the first DSIG for 2002. Robert Stanford will be presenting a 3-hour tutorial on _Thin Clients on GNU/Linux Using the LTSP_.

This is a 3-hour tutorial, where we will be covering all aspects of Thin clients on Linux, including Bootroms, Booting from flash, Building kernels, Installing LTSP, Local applications, Server tuning, Trouble shooting, works in progress and who knows what else.

This is an interactive tutorial so you are encouraged to bring a machine along.

HUMBUG Meetings are continuing over Christmas & into the new year. Die hards like us don't break for holidays! :)

There will be a presentation at 4:00pm by MySQL AB staffers in the main humbug meeting room (Hawken S201). Non-members are welcome to attend this event.

The University of Queensland is having Examinations. As there will be no rooms available, we have cancelled the meeting.

Our 24 November meeting will be held - the booking has been confirmed.

HUMBUG has held its Anual General Meeting meeting and the details will be available soon.

HUMBUG will be holding it's Anual General Meeting this Saturday at 6pm. If you can not make the meeting and you have been a member for longer than 3 months, see if you can arange a proxy vote with another voting member who is coming. If you need to, email you proxy vote to secretary@humbug.org.au.

PS Yes I know it is Grand final weekend :)

The University of Queensland is hosting the tournament of the minds competition and have cancelled all booking's on that weekend. As a result the Meeting on the 15/9/2001 has been cancelled.

Our 29 September meeting will be held - the booking has been confirmed. This meeting we will also be holding the Annual General Meeting.

The University of Queensland is holding its Study Expo on the Sunday and will be preparing the rooms before hand. As there will be no rooms available, we have cancelled the meeting.

Our 18 August meeting will be held - the booking has been confirmed.

New information is available about HUMBUG's various projects.

Tony Joblin, President of ComputerBank Queensland, will be giving a talk about that organisation's charitable activities. The talk will be at 6:00pm at the 12 May 2001 general meeting. A synopsis is available here.

Linux Australia has selected Brisbane as the host city for 2002 linux.conf.au conference; the major Linux event in Australia. Congratulations to all HUMBUG members on the linux-conf-2002 team for their successful bid . More news shortly!

Our normal room is being used for the Graduate Australian Medical Schools Admissions Test (GAMSAT) this weekend. Accordingly, we have booked a different room, Steele 329, for the 31 March 2001 Meeting. The meeting will start at the usual time, three pm.

This room change is only for the 31 March 2001 Meeting - the normal room has already been booked for the 14 April meeting.

The quorum for SGMs was lowered at the 17 March SGM. Full details of the meeting are available in the announce archives.

We promise that we will have some more interesting news soon! :-)

There will be an SGM to consider a motion to change the constitutions of HUMBUG on 17 March 2001. All financial members are urged to attend or submit proxies. The original announcement is available in the announce archives.

In an unprecedented move the Decemeber 23 meeting has been canceled in recognition of the fact that many members actually have lives outside of HUMBUG and UNIX :-)

The next meeting will be 6 January 2001.

The Executive wishes everyone a safe festive season and a prosperous New Year.

Caliburn.humbug.org.au has settled into its new home. Caliburn hosts the HUMBUG web and email services.

Thanks go to Raymond Smith and Bruce Campbell from providing the hosting space on short notice.

To celebrate Humbug's Fifth Anniversary we're holding one of our famous Humbug Dinners.

The dinner will be held at the Thai Palace, St Lucia village during our next meeting, the 30th September. The menu is available in two parts: [ one | two ]

Please send menu selections to croy@croydon.humbug.org.au.

Thank you to all the Humbug members who came along to help make the InstallFest work out so well. Pictures of the InstallFest are up at http://installfest.humbug.org.au/img/ and there is also a LinuxWorld article.

Humbug is doing it's bit for the national movement, see http://installfest.humbug.org.au/ for more details,  please consider helping us make this a great success.

There have been some major ``under the hood'' changes to the website, lots more is now automatically generated, so there should be less mistakes. The most notable change is that the sitemap is now present on all ``core'' pages. A new section for project groups has been added.

Linuxcare have been kind enough to give us a number of free passes to the Linux Open Source Expo & Conference. Contact a HUMBUG executive for one.

We launched the new webpage today, hope you like it. Please send any comments, fixes or suggestions to the Webmaster.

The Annual General Meeting of Humbug came to order at 5:40pm.

• Minutes
• Treasurer's Report
• Librarian's Report

We recently printed up some Tshirts with the Humbug logo on them, have a look at the Design and Order page.