ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual General Meeting, 22nd November
by Bruce Kingsbury
ANNOUNCEMENT: Annual General Meeting, 22nd November
In accordance with Rule 6 of the charter, I would like to announce to
all members that the Waikato Linux Users Group (Incorporated) will be
holding its Annual General Meeting on Monday, 22 November, 2010, at
7pm, at the regular meeting location of Room MS4.G.02
Several officers and committee members will be stepping down this
year. Society membership has also gone down recently. Present and past
members interested in seeing WLUG continue as an IncorporatedSociety
are encouraged to attend this years AGM to meet quorum requirements
and stand for election.
If a quorum is established and new officers step forward, a bylaw
change is proposed to be voted on. Please see the
WlugCharterDiscussion for more details.
Note:
To be eligible to vote at the meeting you must have previously been a
financial member (although not necessarily for the 2010 year) and pay
your membership for 2011 at or before the AGM.
To be eligible to vote or stand for office at the AGM members must
have paid a subscription for the 2010 year before the AGM. If you'd
like to stand for committee and have not paid for membership this
year, please do this at the October Meeting or November
SaturdayWorkshop.
An amendment about who can vote at the meeting was passed in 2008.
"That the WLUG charter be amended to allow former paid members of the
WLUG of good standing, whose membership has lapsed, to vote at an AGM
of the WLUG with the proviso that they rejoin the WLUG and pay a new
subscription at or before the AGM."
9 years, 6 months
External 56k modem
by Glenn Morrissey
Hi all
does anyone have an old external 56k serial modem for sale? I have given
up trying to make my 56k Lucent internal modem work.
Glenn Morrissey.
9 years, 7 months
Remote adminstration
by cmoman
Hello all,
Is there a tool in ubuntu that a user can start that reports the real world ip
address and configures a home router to open a port to allow remote
administration?
I have a friend or two for whom it would nice to get them to start a program,
report to me the details via MSN or Skype or telephone etc and allow me to
log in and fix or make a configuration change to their machine. I know how
to set things up using ssh etc but that relies on some initial configuration
at the their end. KDE has a nice VNC invite function but it won't do the
router config part.
It appears the likes of KTorrent and Azuereus have the ability to do some to
the router via UPnP to open ports up on the router dynamically so I am
guessing all this is possible.
Cheers
9 years, 8 months
WLUG Fixit Meeting tomorrow
by Meeting Reminder bot
A reminder; the WLUG Fixit Meeting is tomorrow.
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Saturday October 2nd, 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
SaturdayWorkshop at Te Whanau Pūtahi (http://www.wlug.org.nz/TeWhanauPutahi), the community church at the end of Oxford Street.
We'll have the usual tables, power, various ISO's, Internet, coffee and light lunch, etc.
If there's something you specifically want to work on please mention it on the mailing list in advance so we can study up beforehand or bring any necessary equipment.
Also we're paying a little extra for hall and internet now, so a gold coin donation to help cover these costs would be greatly appreciated.
9 years, 8 months
REMINDER: WLUG meeting tonight!
by Meeting Reminder Bot
There's a WLUG meeting tonight:
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Kiaora DVD
The Kiaora Project was started in 2005 by Bruce Kingsbury, as an alternative to similar CDs like TheOpenCD which were a good idea but left out many things, such as dictionaries and clipart for OpenOffice, rubber stamps for Tux Paint, and controversial software such as VLC (some codecs covered by patents) and emule (p2p == piracy?)
It project was mostly abandoned by 2007 and the kiaoracd domain given to Cairo to use as a 'download and burn' store for Free software in general..
The project was revived for Software Freedom Day 2010 and may continue to live as Kiaora DVD.
Plans for the future include having a proper disk browser and program launcher, better presentation with program icons, screenshots, and links to addons and documentation, and repackaging some of the software which is currently distributed with 'toolbars' and other crap (or at the very least the default for installing such toolbars will be changed to 'off')
Other possibilities; a directory of sample documents, and a collection of PDF manuals for some of the software.
Volunteers who can repackage software with nullsoft or similar tools, track down or redraw SVG versions of icons, and take interesting screenshots would be greatly appreciated.
September 27th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
9 years, 8 months
REMINDER: WLUG meeting is on Monday
by Meeting Reminder Bot
There's a Waikato Linux Users Group meeting on Monday:
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Kiaora DVD
The Kiaora Project was started in 2005 by Bruce Kingsbury, as an alternative to similar CDs like TheOpenCD which were a good idea but left out many things, such as dictionaries and clipart for OpenOffice, rubber stamps for Tux Paint, and controversial software such as VLC (some codecs covered by patents) and emule (p2p == piracy?)
It project was mostly abandoned by 2007 and the kiaoracd domain given to Cairo to use as a 'download and burn' store for Free software in general..
The project was revived for Software Freedom Day 2010 and may continue to live as Kiaora DVD.
Plans for the future include having a proper disk browser and program launcher, better presentation with program icons, screenshots, and links to addons and documentation, and repackaging some of the software which is currently distributed with 'toolbars' and other crap (or at the very least the default for installing such toolbars will be changed to 'off')
Other possibilities; a directory of sample documents, and a collection of PDF manuals for some of the software.
Volunteers who can repackage software with nullsoft or similar tools, track down or redraw SVG versions of icons, and take interesting screenshots would be greatly appreciated.
September 27th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
9 years, 8 months
Using a laptop as an access point
by Glenn Ramsey
Hi all,
Does anyone know if there is an easy way to configure a wireless card as an
access point in Kubuntu 8.04? (I don't really want to go through the carnage of
an upgrade at this stage)
I found these instructions:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?action=printpage;topic=3096387.0
but they involve a lot of manual settings.
I think I read somewhere on my searches that the in recent versions of Ubuntu
you can do this by selecting an option in Network Manager. Ideally something
like that is what I am looking for.
Cheers
Glenn
--
Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 09 9735603
http://www.componic.co.nz
9 years, 8 months
ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot
The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today:
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Kiaora DVD
The Kiaora Project was started in 2005 by Bruce Kingsbury, as an alternative to similar CDs like TheOpenCD which were a good idea but left out many things, such as dictionaries and clipart for OpenOffice, rubber stamps for Tux Paint, and controversial software such as VLC (some codecs covered by patents) and emule (p2p == piracy?)
It project was mostly abandoned by 2007 and the kiaoracd domain given to Cairo to use as a 'download and burn' store for Free software in general..
The project was revived for Software Freedom Day 2010 and may continue to live as Kiaora DVD.
Plans for the future include having a proper disk browser and program launcher, better presentation with program icons, screenshots, and links to addons and documentation, and repackaging some of the software which is currently distributed with 'toolbars' and other crap (or at the very least the default for installing such toolbars will be changed to 'off')
Other possibilities; a directory of sample documents, and a collection of PDF manuals for some of the software.
Volunteers who can repackage software with nullsoft or similar tools, track down or redraw SVG versions of icons, and take interesting screenshots would be greatly appreciated.
September 27th 7:30pm MS4.G.02 (http://www.waikato.ac.nz/contacts/map?MS4)
9 years, 8 months
Re: [wlug] Software Freedom Day 2010... advertisement?
by Sam Lin
I think the user group could have made use of many other resources
such as Facebook or Tweet etc. I have circulated an event
advertisement (see below) to my department in university and friends
(some of which is working at HCC). Let's see how many of them will
show up.
========= Advert from here ============
This Saturday sees Hamilton's very own Software Freedom Day (SFD) event.
An annual worldwide event since 2004, SFD is designed to be both a
celebration of free software's successes and a public education effort
to help further its acceptance. It has a fairly impressive sponsor and
partner list, including Google, Canonical, Sun, the FSF, and more
Organised by the Waikato Linux User Group (WLUG), the open day will
feature volunteers showing visitors the extent of open source software
and its capabilities.
Internationally, the goal of Software Freedom Day is to educate the
worldwide public about the benefits of using high quality Free and
Open Source Software (FOSS / FLOSS) in education, in government, at
home, and in business.
In Hamilton this event was once held at Waikato University in 2008,
and this year we will be at Centreplace near Whitcouls all this
Saturday from 9am to 5pm. We will have a couple tables w/ 4-5
workstations setup running all the popular programs including
GIMP/Inkscape. We will have a new “Kiaora DVD 10.09” which we will be
giving out (a collection of Free software for Windows similar to The
OpenDisc). We will also have some Ubuntu cds and some WLUG brochures.
We may possibly have some demonstrations about how general public can
make use of FLOSS in their daily life.
For further information regarding SFD, please see the attached poster
and the SFD website: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/
Please feel free to stop by, try out, hang out and talk to people about FLOSS.
========== to here =============
Regards,
Sam
9 years, 8 months
Software Freedom Day 2010... advertisement?
by Sam Lin
Now that it's 2 days left to Software Freedom Day 2010, are there any
flyer from the user group to provide so that I could inform my
friends of SFD? (Am I wrong or there just isn't any advertisement
regarding SFD in Hamilton city or even in the university? Even I am
not quite sure what exactly will be happening through that day...)
Regards,
Sam
9 years, 8 months
