[plug] PLUG next meeting, PLUG and SLPWA

[Leon Brooks]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 09:30, Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Jul 2002, Jason Nicholls wrote:
>> Do we have a meeting this Tuesday (9th)? I had a look on the PLUG site
>> but couldn't find any info.

> Sorry, Yes there is a meeting tomorrow at TAFE, James Bromberger will be
> talking about running webservices and fail-over.  James being James I'm
> certain Debian (woody) and LCA will come up.

For those who haven't been following the LCA ramp-up progress, there is a 
meeting at the UCC about that tonight. If you want to help with LCA2003, I 
striongly suggest visiting the website (http://conf.linux.org.au/ or 
http://www.linux.conf.au/ - at last) and joining the mailing list. There's 
lots of organising going on as we type, and more willing hands are needed. 
This is a BIG event for us - several hundred people from all over the world - 
and we're going to need all the hands we can find.

Also, James is a very entertaining speaker, I'd recommend your attendance even 
if you don't give two hoots about Debian, failover or LCA. (-:

> Also, there will be a young lady there taking photos of our LUG for ECU's
> campus newspaper.   So eve[n] if you're not particuly interested in the
> talk, and you can spare the time would you mind filling seats :)

As well as filling seats, the Committees of both PLUG and SLPWA will be 
holding a joint meeting shortly to make sure that the interaction between the 
two groups is as smooth and positive as possible.

For those not yet aware, SLPWA - the Society of Linux Professionals (WA) - 
held its inaugural meeting and inaugural Committee meeting recently. One of 
the objectives raised in both meetings was to feed resources PLUG's way, 
including automatic PLUG Membership passed through from new SLPWA Members.

The two Committees will shortly be getting together to discuss how that 
objective accords with PLUG's goals, and how best to realise the processes 
involved, presuming that PLUG's Committee decides that such processes are 
appropriate and beneficial for PLUG.

Now would be a good time for PLUG Members to bounce around any ideas on the 
topic, with the aim of having PLUG's Committee as well-informed of your 
opinions, hopes and fears as possible on their way in. SLPWA members (and 
whatever other loiterers happened to be present) have already had a shot at 
this at the IGM, but if they regard anything as unfinished, unexplored or 
new, now would be a good time to raise those issues on the SLPWA `discussion' 
list (to which a copy of this message is headed).

If you are not a PLUG member, tonight's meeting would be a good time to fix 
that (-: hint for Tony: bring your cashbox :-). The opinions of paid-up PLUG 
Members will necessarily carry more weight than Joe Public's, paid Membership 
is very cheap, and you get a useful account on Spark, the Linux-touting 
full-time-connected (fat pipe even) Sparc box which hosts PLUG's website and 
lists. Your address at http://plug.linux.org.au/~yournamehere/ can become a 
reality overnight!

Full disclosure: I am a PLUG Member and past President of Vice for PLUG, and 
also a SLPWA Member and SLPWA ordinary Committee Member. I'd be happy to 
throw more of my weight around (I have some to spare), but have not yet 
organised the necessary regular doses of time.

Cheers; Leon