[plug] Last night's workshop, membership update; Rusty talk reminder; general PLUG news

Tue Aug 23 16:06:09 WST 2011

James,

This mob did our shirts at work:

http://www.bizcollection.com.au/Default.aspx

I think they were around $25 a piece, I don't think we had to have a minimum
order. My colleague designed our department logo, so it was different to
what the rest of the company was ordering.

Regards,

Leon
--
DRM 'manages access' in the same way that jail 'manages freedom.'

# cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i cats
Damn, my RAM is full of cats... MEOW!!

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Michael Van Delft <michael at hybr.id.au>wrote:

> Hi James,
>
> Wow, you're doing a great job! You have really breathed life back into
> PLUG well done. You mentioned PLUG T-shirts; I would be very
> interested in getting one, even more so if it was a nice embroidered
> polo shirt with or a "proper" shirt that I could wear to work.  I
> would be willing to part with about $50 for one or if they were less
> than $30 each I’d be looking at getting two. If there is anything I
> can do to help with these please let me know.
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:26 PM, James Bromberger <james at rcpt.to> wrote:
> > Hello PLUG,
> >
> > I made this email longer than usual because I lack the time to make it
> > shorter -- Blaise Pascal (mostly).
> >
> > Last night PLUG held its first general workshop at Artifactory. Many
> thanks
> > to Daniel and the folks at Artifactory in again letting us use their
> space,
> > power and network link for this. I think we had a total of around 15
> bodies
> > through the evening -- some getting help, some helping, and some working
> on
> > the AV project's own workshop/test. Many thanks to Nick for scheduling
> this
> > event.
> >
> > With further good news, I can report that PLUG's current financial
> > membership total has hit 70 paid up members, up from around 22 in
> January.
> > Many thanks to everyone who has contributed by becoming a PLUG member.
> While
> > over triple January's total is a great achievement, I'm now eyeing off
> the
> > 100 mark as the next milestone! Full membership is just $20/year, and
> > concession (students, pensioners, etc) is just $10/year. We still have
> > around 280 people subscribed on the PLUG list who aren't members yet
> (from
> > 350 total subscribers); I'd love to hear off-list what PLUG can do to
> tempt
> > non-member subscribers in to become members!
> >
> > This increase in membership reduces the farcical issue we had with the
> PLUG
> > Constitution in January (minimum quorum was 30, and we had 22 members, so
> > emergency measures had to be done with a repeated meeting the following
> > week, etc), but in order to avoid this next time, we will start to look
> soon
> > at amendments to make the quorum work in scenarios where membership
> falls;
> > more details on this when we have a crystal clear understanding of what
> > needs to be proposed -- trust me, even mentioning the C word gets some
> > people in a tis, so lets avoid it and stay calm -- we'll discuss this in
> a
> > later thread.
> >
> > We're getting closer to our Rusty Russell event on Tuesday 11th October.
> > This is going to be a big evening; not only is Rusty giving a talk, but
> > we're going to be running a discussion panel as well, debating the State
> and
> > Future of Linux & Open Source in Australia. This panel will have experts
> in
> > Computer Science, Intellectual Property and Law, plus Rusty and perhaps
> > more, and will be based upon the audience input on the evening. We're
> also
> > looking to do a pizza order for the intermission between the talk by
> Rusty,
> > and the panel session; for this reason, we need people to book (and pay
> for)
> > their tickets ASAP. Tickets are $20 for members, $50 for non-members, and
> > free for university computer science/IT students*; email
> tickets at plug.org.au
> > for details on paying (bank direct deposit or cash to a committee
> member).
> > On the night, door tickets will be $50 for everyone, regardless of
> > membership or being a university CS/IT student on the night. Please help
> > this be a success:
> >
> > Get your own ticket now
> > Convince a friend to get their ticket now
> > Grab the poster from the web site (PDF available) and put it up at
> > work/school/uni
> > Think of whom you would like to see give a presentation next time we fly
> a
> > speaker in!
> > Help out on the AV project (subscribe to the separate mailing list - see
> > http://lists.plug.org.au/)
> >
> > In other random news on PLUG....
> >
> > Our new PLUG banner got an outing at the last talk (thanks again to Mason
> > for the talk). Thanks to Jason and Peter for their input on logo designs.
> > We're looking now at PLUG T-Shirts, and possibly even proper shirts. If
> > you're interested in this please speak up!
> >
> > We ran a poll around people at the last meeting (and on our Facebook
> group)
> > and have settled on running a summer/end-of-year/Christmas/whatever BBQ
> in
> > early December (at this stage, Sunday 4th Dec); its in the PLUG calendar.
> > More details closer to the date.
> >
> > We have a talk by Greg Orange schedule for September on clustered file
> > systems; the venue is yet to be confirmed, and two weeks after that on
> > Monday 26th September we're back at The Moon & Six Pence for a drink. I'm
> > already starting thinking of next years Quiz Night; if you'd like to help
> > organise some of it please let me know (probably will be around end of
> March
> > time). We're also looking at running a few more panel sessions for
> > discussion/debate; let committee know if you have a hot topic and some
> > people you'd like to see debate it!
> >
> > Software Freedom Day is coming up in September, and thus far no one has
> been
> > forthcoming in coordinating PLUGs involvement. As such, sadly PLUG has no
> > solid plans. If you have time to look into SFD and think of something to
> do,
> > please let committee know. I'm sure that there's PLUGgers would would
> help
> > out, but someone needs to work out a plan!
> >
> > Our Mumble/Icecast/etc server (Bath) is about to get a tiny upgrade (a
> > second CPU) sometime in the next few weeks; we're considering having Bath
> do
> > video transcoding from high quality stream to a low quality one
> on-the-fly
> > (if anyone wants to play with it). Shameless is still in a bit of a
> state;
> > hopefully it will get a new Ethernet card in a few weeks as well and stop
> > dropping off the network every few seconds!
> >
> > Committee meeting is next Monday night at 7:30pm AWST -- online on IRC
> > (#plug on irc.plug.org.au) and Mumble (mumble.plug.org.au). You're
> welcome
> > to attend and listen in, and contribute your ideas, or volunteer to help
> > out. Before then, grab the Mumble client (version 1.2.3) for Linux,
> Windows
> > or MacOS and try connecting to mumble.plug.org.au. Grab a headset if you
> > have one, or just a set of headphones if you haven't (to reduce audio
> > feedback from any other mic you may have, like on a laptop).
> >
> > I could continue, but that's probably enough for now.  :)
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who is helping revive PLUG, especially committee who
> are
> > putting in time in meetings and discussions. There's clearly a lot going
> on.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >   James
> >
> >
> > * This is in exchange for UWA hosting this event in their lecture
> theatre;
> > Uni CS/IT students STILL NEED TO EMAIL to get a ticket. Proof of
> enrollment
> > will be required on the night.
> > --
> > Mobile: +61 422 166 708, Email: james_AT_rcpt.to
> > PLUG President 2011: http://www.plug.org.au
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> >
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