[plug] PLUG Events & News Round-up

[James Bromberger]

Hello PLUG and Linux-Aus,

Thought we'd try and get some PLUG news out to people about the events
we're lining up at the moment. While the PLUG mailing list may be quiet,
the PLUG committee is not!

*February Presentation: Moodle*, by Martin Dougiamas, Tuesday 14th Feb
7pm @ Challenger Tafe, High St, Fremantle (opposite the markets)
Moodle (http://moodle.org/) is open source 'courseware', and is used by
education institutions worldwide; its founder, Martin Dougiamas, lives
in Perth, and his company that backs Moodle (http://moodle.com)is also
based here. /Live video stream should be available./

*Debian Bug Squashing Party:* Paul Wise, and Me!, Saturday 10th from 9am
& Sunday 11th March @ UCC, UWA (thanks to UCC)
With Debian Wheezy getting ready to ship, it's time for devs to squash
bugs and resolve stuff. This is not a presentation - but a working party
to fix things up, and share knowledge of how to do this. Come along to
find out what makes Debian work (no, seriously). Interstate DDs are
welcome to come and /holiday/ in Perth for the weekend.

*March Presentation: The National Broadband Network Panel Discussion*,
Tuesday 13th March 7pm @ TBA
NBNCo CTO Chris Roberts, iiNet engineer Gavin Tweedie, and possibly
AARNet representative(s) will field your questions to discuss and debate
the technical implementation of the largest IT project the country will
see in current times. /Live video stream should be available./

*March Plug in the Pub: The Linux & Open Source themed Quiz Night*,
Monday 26th March from 7pm @ The Moon & Six Pence
The Quiz Night was lots of fun last year! Form tables of 4 with your
friends and answer questions from the Open Source world.  We'll be
selling tickets at the door this year at $5 each to cover the costs of
some of the prizes we'll have. Come and show off what you know! (No
video stream from the pub!)
*
April Presentation: AutoFS*, by Ian Kent, Tuesday April 10th from 7pm @
City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth
Ian Kent is a PLUG member and works for Red Hat; he hacks on AutoFS by
day. /Live video stream should be available./

*May Presentation: Paul Fenwick*, Tuesday May *1st*, from 7pm @ City
West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth
Paul is a Perl hacker, and gave a keynote at Linux.conf.au 2012 in
Ballarat on programming people. He works for Perl Training Australia,
writes in The Perl Journal, contributes to Perl core, and has a bunch of
code on CPAN. *Note that this is on the FIRST Tuesday of the month, not
the second*. /Live video stream should be available./

*June Presentation: Amazon Web Services (tentative)*, Tuesday June 12th,
from 7pm @ City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth



Other than the Quiz Night, these events are free to attend - bring
friends, colleagues, or people you'd like to impress. All these events
are in the PLUG calendar on www.plug.org.au - including directions to
the venue(s). As always, we need volunteers to help organise events, and
we're constantly having to try and convince our on-list lurkers to pay
their membership fees (/hint hint/ - $20/year full, $10/year concession;
http://www.plug.org.au/membership/)!

  James
PS: Cross posted to Linux-Aus as people may wish to watch the video
streams - or come and visit!
PPS: Feedback off-list welcome
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