[plug] Hours of last meeting (09 Mar 1999)

[Leon Brooks]

We came, we saw, we consumed. Vene, vidi, victuals.

Fees were collected, a venue for training was announced, David
Campbell's Gnome/KDE presentation at the UCC in two weeks was announced,
the QuakeFest at Global Warriors from 1400 on 28 March 1999 was
announced. About 25 people were present.

We departed.

About the QuakeFest: games other than Quake will be played. An IRC
server will hopefully be up at irc.plug.linux.org.au. BYO everything.
Some spare machines will be available. Festivities commence at 2PM
(1400) and proceed until late. Entry is $15 for never-been-befores and
$10 for second-and-greater-timers.

About the training: This will be a professional (but not excruciatingly
so) for-profit Linux enterprise to raise money for PLUG as well as
spreading the open source gospel. Content providers and deliverers can
expect to be paid, although probably not handsomely. David Buddridge has
done much work on a competent, modular intro to Linux. We will require
other courses, including a setting-up-your-box-from-scratch walk-through
and some apps. We will require people to actually deliver the training,
serve munchies, whatever. We will want some nice little folders for the
trainees to take home with them so that they can remember what they've
done. We will want a simple and effective promotional plan. We will want
PLUG members to do the courses for a greatly reduced fee; initially to
help bulk out the numbers and live-test the materials and procedures and
later so tha they can honestly say "I have done this and it was good."

About money: membership for PLUG is currently nominal at $10 per annum,
$5 for students, $50 for corporate. Do not expect this to last. PLUG
will require significant money to do anything useful, anything beyond a
social club. For some, the social club idea is fine, and we won't be
losing that. Some funds will be raised commercially where possible, e.g.
through the training courses mentioned above, some through membership,
some through accepting government funds which would otherwise be used
for pointless and often destructive things. This money will be used to
support Linux through show appearances and giveaways, for stationery,
licences and other such organisational costs, and finally for the
occasional charity work like ComputerBank.

-- 
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impossible to
 accomplish complex actions."  --Doug Gwyn  (22/Jun/91 in
comp.unix.wizards)