[plug] [steve at DigitalSmarties.com: [first_wednesday] October "First Wednesday" meeting]

[Kimberly Shelt]

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Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 16:43:30 +0800
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From: Steve Landers <steve at DigitalSmarties.com>
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Subject: [first_wednesday] October "First Wednesday" meeting

Hi Folks,

This month  we've got a special guest and a special event - so we've 
delayed the "First Wednesday" meeting till the second Wednesday :-)

This Wednesday, October the 8th we have a presentation by Jamie 
Gillespie, Senior Security Analyst from AusCERT in Brisbane. Jamie will 
be presenting a review of recent security vulnerabilities, exploits and 
trends witnessed in Australia. After Jamie's presentation there will be 
opportunity for discussion and detailed questions.

Jamie has worked at AusCERT, in the University of Queensland,  for the 
last two and a half years. Amongst other things, he works on Internet 
threat assessment and response. Prior to joining AusCERT and moving to 
Australia, Jamie worked for UUNET Canada in network operations and 
started their web hosting division. Jamie is also on the national 
executive of SAGE-AU.

Also at this weeks meeting, Kim Shelt will be presented with the 
Australian Open Source Community Award in recognition of her efforts in 
setting up LinMagAu, promoting the cause of open source and 
highlighting Australian contributions to the open source community.  It 
would be great to have a big roll-up from the various Perth computing 
groups to recognise Kim's achievements and help her celebrate.

The "First Wednesday" group is a monthly gathering of IT specialists 
supported by AUUG (The organisation for Unix and Open Source 
professionals) and SAGE-AU (The System Administrators Guild of 
Australia)SLPWA (The Society of Linux Professionals of WA) and PLUG 
(The Perth Linux Users Group).

It meets the First Wednesday of the month (except for this month :-)) 
at the Moon and Sixpence Pub, Murrary St, Perth. The meeting starts 
informally at 6:00pm in rear private bar of the pub, and moves to a 
seminar room in the adjoining Wentworth Hotel some time after 6:30pm.

Members of the various Perth IT groups are most welcome, including 
AUUG, SAGE-AU, SLPWA, PLUG, Port-80, Computer Network Professionals 
Association and anyone else with a vague interest in professional 
technical computing.

I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday for what should be a great 
evening

Steve

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Steve Landers                     Software Design Solutions
Digital Smarties                  steve at DigitalSmarties.com
Perth, Western Australia          DigitalSmarties.com

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