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

[Quintin Lette]

its cheap, read the registration page.

Although putting the date prominantly on the Events page would be helpful.

I'd love to go, but unfortunately unsure if I'll be able to make it.


On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 06:54:57 +0800, Daniel Pearson
<gpearson at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Cost?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Middleton
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [plug] SLPWA Event - Growing Your I.T. Business V1.0
> 
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 18:42 +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> > 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?
> >
> Yep its at OSWA (OpenSource WA) in Technology Park Bentley.
> www.opensource.wa.gov.au
> http://www.opensource.wa.gov.au/demo_centre/Map/image_view
> 
> They have a very cool venue.
> 
> --
> Scott Middleton
> 
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