Welcome to LOGIN, the Linux Owners Group in Newcastle. We are a LUG (Linux Users Group) for people in the Newcastle and Hunter region of NSW Australia. We are affiliated with Linux Australia with subcommittee status
Do you want to help promote our Linux club then please feel free to pass on the flyer or better still print a couple & place them on a noticeboard in your local area.login_flyer.pdf
Tuesday 16th September 2014 7:30pm
Looking for any volunteers for a demonstration or a talk on any Linux subject.
If you would like to contribute please use our mailing list or email info@newcastlelug.org
If no talk is scheduled we will resume to Q & A and general talk on Linux items.
Tuesday 19th August 2014 7:30pm
Looking for any volunteers for a demonstration or a talk on any Linux subject.
If you would like to contribute please use our mailing list or email info@newcastlelug.org
If no talk is scheduled we will resume to Q & A and general talk on Linux items.
Tuesday 15th July 2014 at 7:30 pm
Demo of the Makerspace 3D printer and open source modelling software (OpenSCAD, Blender, Cura).
Tuesday 17th June 2014 at 7:30 pm
Thankyou Alex and Felix for the talk & demonstrations - Ben.
1) discussion and viewing of Alex’s Chrome OS notebook using Crouton.
2) Demonstration by Felix on using Python (and IPython Notebook) to capture and visualise live “sensor readings” from an Arduino Leo, using Redis to store data, ZeroMQ to send it and Pyglet for graphics.
http://www.arduino.cc/ https://www.python.org/ http://ipython.org/notebook.html http://zeromq.org/ http://pyglet.org/ http://redis.io/
3) “Seeing Spaces” talk: http://vimeo.com/97903574
Tuesday 20th May 2014 at 7:30 pm.
Discussions on cloning hard drive using DD & Clonezilla. Discussion on Nexicore , sickbeard and github.
http://sickbeard.com/ Sick Beard is a PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support). It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them, and optionally generates metadata for them. It currently supports NZBs.org, NZBMatrix, NZBs'R'Us, Newzbin, Womble's Index, NZB.su, TVTorrents and EZRSS and retrieves show information from theTVDB.com and TVRage.com.
Suggested topics and talk proposals should be placed on the ideas page
For more information please contact info@newcastlelug.org or our Mailing List below.
Our mailing list is our most popular means of communication. You can come here for:
To sign up to the Mailing List please visit https://newcastlelug.org/mailman/listinfo/chat_newcastlelug.org
By default all new mailing list sign ups to the list are moderated, this is to avoid spam.
If you have any problems with the mailing list please email info@newcastlelug.org . Don't forget to add chat@newcastlelug.org to the white-list in your anti-spam program.
While it is not enforced on this list, it would be considered good Netiquette not to top post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post
Our members meet regularly on IRC.
Visit #LOGIN on Freenode, or follow the link irc://irc.freenode.net/LOGIN
If you have written some how-tos which are particular helpful to people in the Newcastle/Hunter area please add them here.
Have a Blog or what to see what our LOGIN members are up to. head over to Planet LOGIN
Create new pages here where we can make notes to plan events through out the year.
The Sydney Linux Users Group has multiple very active mailing lists and is a great resource for immediate help with Linux problems.
Westlakes Linux Learners meet on the 4th Monday night of each month near Morisset. The group caters especially for Linux beginners and home users.
You may also find the BSD Users Group, Sydney useful.
For a full list of other NSW Linux User Groups please visit Linux Australia's website.
Attempts are currently underway to start a SAGE-AU chapter in Newcastle. Contact Neil Glennon to express your interest.
Want to get together with fellow Open Source enthusiasts and IT workers? Australia has three high quality conferences that might suit you: