[plug] Mudrock meeting Tue 8 April

[Sol]

I just got confirmation from Guild veep Matt Menzel that the green light 
is on for a PLUG workshop at 7pm Tuesday 8 April. I did a more thorough 
reconnoitre of the room and found that it was very suitable. It has 19 
power points, there are plenty of tables and chairs which can be 
borrowed from adjacent rooms - tough I think the bar will be locked. ;-) 
But for the thirsty there is a Coke machine occupying the 20th power point.

Matt mentioned that he had laid his hands on some hubs and is looking to 
make a high speed connection available to us, though I don't think 
anything like this will be ready for the first meeting. I think that 
part of the quid pro quo might be that I have to form some sort of guild 
affiliated group. This will be a semi-official thing which will exist 
primarily for bureaucratic reasons, it won't do anything outside of 
running the workshops. In any case I'd appreciate it if any Mudrock 
students that come along can bump into me and let me write their name 
and email address down on a piece of paper to make it look official.

On a related note, I've emailing with the pres and veep of MINCS (the 
Mudrock computer people) and some of them seem keen to come along at 
some stage. In particular the letters "BSD" were mentioned. I said that 
I'd see what I could do about laying my hands on the ISO library. So 
Daniel, are you available to come to the meeting on 8 April? Or can I 
borrow part of the library for the evening? This could be an opportunity 
to sign up more members as well. Is there anyway that this might be 
arranged Tony?  Any chance that this workshop could be added to the PLUG 
calendar of events?

There seems to be an interest and willingness on the part of Mudrock 
people to help out. This could be an opportunity?

regards,

Sol