[plug] Re: A lurker looking to become more active

[Jason Bainbridge]

Thanks Tony. :)

I'll be there for tonight's LCA-Helper's and I assume the next PLUG workshop is next monday with it being the 4th monday and all? Should be good timing as EverythingLinux assure me Woody will finally be in store on wednesday and hence should get to me on thursday if Express Post lives up to it's name and I'm sure I'll have a few problems by monday with it. (coming from using Mandrake in the past, but I did give Gentoo a whirl in a VM in the background at work which was quite a learning experience).

Cheers!
Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" <tony at cantech.net.au>
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:05:47 +0800 (WST)
Subject: Re: [plug] [PLUG + LCA-HELPERS] A lurker looking to become more active

On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Jason Bainbridge wrote:

> Howdy all,
> 
> I've been lurking on the list for quite a while but due to a change in my
> personal circumstances ie. I'm now single and live in the city not way out
> in suburbia, I'm looking to become more active with going to meetings and
> what not.
> 
> >From what I can make out there is a weekly LCA Helper's meeting every
> >monday night (at UCC?) and there is PLUG meetings every Tuesday that
> >alternate between UCC and UWA? Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't even know
> >what UCC stands for. I've also got a paper submitted to hopefully present
> >at LCA so does that mean that there is a conflict of interest for me if I
> >get involved with LCA-Helpers?
> 
> I'm mainly interested in attending PLUG get togethers but would like to help
> out with LCA as well if I can so if anyone can give me a quick run over of
> what's on where, I'll do what I can to be there.
> 
> Regards, Jason *eagerly awaiting his pressed Woody cd's so he can rebuild
> his system*

Well from a PLUG point of view we meet twice per month.

The second Tuesday of each month is a "seminar" meeting held at TAFE.
The fourth Monday of each month is a "workshop" meeting held a UCC.

The seminar's are slighly more formal, we arrange a speaker ans they give a
formal presenatation on a topic.  the August meeting was Leon Brooks talking
about LTSP (Linux Terminal Server Project).  The next meeting wil be Michael
Hunt on OSS in the 3rd world, held at central TAFE on Tuesday 10th Sept.

The workshop's are very informal, people are encouraged to brin along thier
computer and have a bunch of geeks try to fix the problems.

>From a LCA2003 point of view, we have weekly meetings at UCC, and converse
via the various LCA-* mailing lists.

You'd be more than welcome and any (or all) of the above.


Yours Tony

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