Next meeting ideas

[Glen Ogilvie]

Hi,

Looking for speakers, or ideas for the next aucklug meeting.  If your keen to present something, or have an idea, get in contact.

Regards
Glen Ogilvie

[Xiaoqian Cao]

Hi Glen,

When will this next meet up happen? Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is on its way. Is this a good topic to share?

Cheers,
Xiaoqian

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 27 April 2018 at 00:01, Xiaoqian Cao <xiaoqi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Glen,
>
> When will this next meet up happen? Ubuntu 18.04 LTS is on its way. Is this
> a good topic to share?

Yeah, sounds good! What topics would you like to talk about?
IMHO, would be nice to take the opportunity to talk about Ubuntu
derivatives for examples.
I've just tried KUbuntu-18.04 this afternoon, looks pretty good. I
don't like the "Gnome" Ubuntu, is there an Ubuntu with RazorQt/Lxde?

How long would you need to prepare something? How long would you like
to speak for?
I'm not that familiar with Aucklug habits, but a 15 minutes Lightning
talk would be nice, if you need a bit more, I think that's should be
OK too.

Apparently Fedora 28 has just been released, anyone would be
interested to join a shared talk?
Wanna show off Fedora 28? How Fedora copes with "derivatives"? I liked
Fedora with XFCE.

I've been reluctant to Ubuntu for years, but now i use it on desktop,
server, containers, vms, .... everywhere!
Not that i don't like alternatives, just that I prefer consistency and
familiarity (for myself or work colleagues).

As a personal note:
I would like to hear talks about containers, LXC, dockers, ...
I'm currently attempting to use docker containers to build embedded
Linux firmware for commercial products.

Chris

>
> Cheers,
> Xiaoqian
>
>
> On Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 4:34:03 PM UTC+8, Glen Ogilvie wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking for speakers, or ideas for the next aucklug meeting. If your keen
>> to present something, or have an idea, get in contact.
>>
>> Regards
>> Glen Ogilvie
>

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[Xiaoqian Cao]

Hi Chris,

I am sorry that I don't have time to try 18.04 on my laptop either. I came to Auckland recently and only brought 1 laptop with me. I would prepare for an introduction of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Most probably, I can only deliver a presentation and be focus on what's new. I hope that I can do some demo in the future.

A 15 minutes lightning talk should be good for me. I am new kiwi for no more than 2 months. This will be an opportunity for me to make friends with Auckland Linux users.

By the way, when you guys are going to have the meet up?

Xiaoqian

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 8 May 2018 at 21:48, Xiaoqian Cao <xiaoqi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> I am sorry that I don't have time to try 18.04 on my laptop either. I came
> to Auckland recently and only brought 1 laptop with me. I would prepare for
> an introduction of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Most probably, I can only deliver a
> presentation and be focus on what's new. I hope that I can do some demo in
> the future.
>
> A 15 minutes lightning talk should be good for me. I am new kiwi for no more
> than 2 months. This will be an opportunity for me to make friends with
> Auckland Linux users.
>
> By the way, when you guys are going to have the meet up?

Hi Xiaoqian,

Sorry for the delay.
Next meetup is still in preparation, Are you still keen for a
lightning talk about the new Ubuntu? Anyone else would like to join
and talk about related topics?
- ubuntu derivatives
- state of other distros (debian, fedora, opensuse, you name it)

Anyone has hands on embedded distro? Maybe some experience with
raspberry and derivatives? Fancy share? Doesn't have to be
comprehensive, slides are not even required! ;)

If nobody shows up for a part 2, i could briefly talk about creating
your own docker containers for CI/C++ purpose (it's just like
scripting a lightweight install of your favourite OS). Or maybe we
could have an open war^w chat about your favourite distro...

The goal is to secure the main talk, and advertise it on meetup.com.
So we could maybe target end of June, maybe in 3 weeks time?
How do you guys feel about this?

Chris

>
> Xiaoqian

[DR]

Please also post on google groups message to Auckland group, and as not everyone is has meetup app installed with alerts. 

This is the first time I have seen the a message to about a Auckland meeting with in a long time. 

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[Christian Gagneraud]

On 5 June 2018 at 23:35, 'DR' via AuckLUG <auc...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Please also post on google groups message to Auckland group, and as not
> everyone is has meetup app installed with alerts.

Are you talking about this mailing list (auc...@googlegroups.com) or
another one?
The event will be announced both on this ML and meetup.com, if you
have ideas for other channels, please let me know.

Chris

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[Christian Gagneraud]

On 26 April 2018 at 20:34, Glen Ogilvie <glen.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Looking for speakers, or ideas for the next aucklug meeting. If your keen
> to present something, or have an idea, get in contact.

Next meeting is on Monday the 16th of July.

Xiaoqian was keen to talk about the new Ubuntu, but he's not sure if
he will be around in July.
So we're still looking for speakers, feel free to propose a talk about:
- A tool you particularly like and would like to talk about, this
could be technical or not
- Your pet project, either as a maintainer or a contributor.
- Latest news about anything related to Linux and open source.
- Why you switched (or didn't) from GitHub to GitLab.
- Why you think (or don't) that Microsoft now really loves Linux.
- How you convinced RMS to switch to vi.
- ...

On the other end, we're looking for ideas as well, what would you like
to hear about?
Any project or technology you're interested in and would like to know more?

Chris

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 17 June 2018 at 21:23, Christian Gagneraud <chg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 April 2018 at 20:34, Glen Ogilvie <glen.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking for speakers, or ideas for the next aucklug meeting. If your keen
>> to present something, or have an idea, get in contact.
>
> Next meeting is on Monday the 16th of July.
>
> Xiaoqian was keen to talk about the new Ubuntu, but he's not sure if
> he will be around in July.

He's definitely won't be there.

> So we're still looking for speakers, feel free to propose a talk about:
> - A tool you particularly like and would like to talk about, this
> could be technical or not
> - Your pet project, either as a maintainer or a contributor.
> - Latest news about anything related to Linux and open source.
> - Why you switched (or didn't) from GitHub to GitLab.
> - Why you think (or don't) that Microsoft now really loves Linux.
> - How you convinced RMS to switch to vi.
> - ...

Anyone?

> On the other end, we're looking for ideas as well, what would you like
> to hear about?
> Any project or technology you're interested in and would like to know more?

So what format for next meetup? Should we still hold a lightning talk
session, or go for a social evening instead?

If people are interested, i could talk briefly about our experience(at
Navico [1]) of moving from hand-maintained bare-metal and VM to
docker in a continuous integration system (Embedded Linux, C++, Qt).
This won't be any in-depth talk, i would just scratch the surface and
focus on experience lesson learned.
Anyone else would be interested to complement that?

Any feedback appreciated.
Next meetup is planned for Monday the 16th of July, that is, in 2 weeks time.
https://www.meetup.com/AuckLUG/events/251632546/

Chris
[1] https://navico.com/

[Hugo Luiz Cruz]

Hi Chris,
I am not of the type to talk in public, but if the meeting is a kind of “informal” I will be keen to talk about my Linux experience if someone are interest.
I am using Linux since 1996, and it's my main S.O. since 2000.
A 3 years ago I started work in a company 100% Windows, developing for Windows. I tried for 3 long months work with Windows, but at the end I build my Linux machine and I run Windows inside a VM only to run the development environment (Delphi). Everything else run on my Linux machine.
I have many dockers servers (MSSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, https, ftps, ...) running on my Linux machine, and I access all these server, for test, from the Windows VM.
Work like that bring a lot more to day work.
First I don’t need to deal with all Windows problems, no anti-virus, no upgrades,...
Second I have a VM backup and if Windows do ”Windows stuff” I restore my backup and ready to work very fast.
Today, the company I work for is not more 100% Windows, people talk about Linux, some use Linux and they are planning have some Linux server.
Of course use Linux machine to develop for Windows bring some problem if you don’t know what you are doing. Files generated in Windows are CR+LF, Windows is not case-sensitive, etc. Some softwares like Git, Meld, Understand, ... need to be configured to do the right thing.
I can talk about how I manage migrate a broken SVN server to Git, using Linux tools.
Let me know what you think.

Cheers, Hugo Luiz.

[Christian Gagneraud]

On 5 July 2018 at 18:25, Hugo Luiz Cruz <hugolu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,

Hi Hugo,

> I am not of the type to talk in public, but if the meeting is a kind of “informal” I will be keen to talk about my Linux experience if someone are interest.
> I am using Linux since 1996, and it's my main S.O. since 2000.
> A 3 years ago I started work in a company 100% Windows, developing for Windows. I tried for 3 long months work with Windows, but at the end I build my Linux machine and I run Windows inside a VM only to run the development environment (Delphi). Everything else run on my Linux machine.

That could be an interesting lightning talk: Software development in a
mixed Linux/Windows environment.
I do work as well in such a mixed environment, and yes, it brings
quite a few problems: EOL, casing issues, sh vs bat script, ...
And you could even throw in the Unix philosophy vs the windows
philosophy (do one thing, do it well vs one binary to rule them
all...)

What do other people think about this?

I'm all for that. The meeting will be quite informal, you don't even
have to come with "slides".


Chris

[Glen Ogilvie]

Thinking it may well be fairly informal, as we don't have a speaker yet.  Your things to talk about sounds good Hugo

Glen

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