[plug] SLPWA Event - Growing Your I.T. Business V1.0

[Chris Caston]

On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 15:03, Scott Middleton wrote:
>             The Society of Linux Professionals, WA
>                           announces
>                   Growing Your IT Business V1.0
> 
> SLPWA and OSWA have pooled resources to deliver a day of business and
> technical discussion aimed at sole IT practitioners, and micro to medium
> IT businesses who are working with, or interested in, Open Source
> Software in business applications. 
> 
> Motivation for the day grew out of observations of the AOSS6 event
> organised by AUUG in October 2004. The talks were informative but we
> also observed a good deal of lively discussion during the breaks. 
> 
> The format for this new event is to offer key talks about IT service
> provision from a technical and business perspective interspersed with
> longer breaks which give enough time to view demonstrations and talk
> with like-minded IT people about work and industry issues that matter to
> you. 
> 
> Matt Kemner will be giving hands-on demonstrations of OSS products for
> VoIP deployment which promises to be a lively part of the free time
> activity.
> 
> For reasons of access to speakers, the event has been booked for 6 April
> which means we'd like to hear from you soon of your intention to attend.
> The major part of your attendance fee is catering and it's important
> that we advise the catering people early that you will be
> attending.     
> 
> As we've explained in the event link, if you spend much of your time
> interacting with end users, the day is a break away from those daily
> activities and a chance to catch up with like-minded IT professionals
> and talk about the bigger picture and opportunities in OSS and IT. 
> 
> http://www.slpwa.asn.au/events
> 
> Regards

I'm definitely interested. Any possible venues?