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Hello all,<br>
<br>
The "PLUG in the pub" Quiz Night last night was a lot of fun. With
six tables playing, we ended up carrying on until around 11pm.<br>
<br>
<img title="PLUG Quiz Night 2011"
src="cid:part1.03060007.09020409@rcpt.to" alt="PLUG Quiz Night
2011" height="450" align="right" width="600"><br>
The results were:<br>
<ul>
<li>Table 6, called "I am 4", came last with 57 points - Jason N
& Steven.</li>
<li>Table 4, called "Drop table;", came 5th with 73 points -
Daniel H, James H, Seb</li>
<li>Table 3, name escapes me, came 4th with 75 points - Peter
& co.</li>
<li>Table 1,called "Not a Number" (NaN), came 3rd with 86.6 points
- Mark Tearle, Harry and Russell.</li>
<li>Table 2, called "UCC", came 2nd with 86.85 points - James A,
Bob Adamson and Chris.</li>
<li>Table 5, called "i", came 1st with 88.5 points - Nick Bannon,
Alastair Irvine and John M-D.</li>
</ul>
<br>
Yes, part points were awarded for inspiration, accuracy, and pity.
Extra points were added to table 6 due to being just two players,
but they went away with a DVD burner each (thanks to Scott Middleton
of AssureTek) and a copy of "Linux Server Hacks".<br>
<br>
Congratulations to Table 5 who won the Boffin's vouchers, and to the
UCC table who won the Yubikeys. <br>
<br>
<img title="1st prize, table "i""
src="cid:part2.00090701.05020805@rcpt.to" alt="1st prize, table
"i"" height="450" width="414"><img title="2nc place:
table "UCC"" src="cid:part3.03060900.02050806@rcpt.to"
alt="2nc place: table "UCC"" height="387" width="464"><br>
The raffle of the ticket to LCA was taken out by Mark Tearle. James
Henstridge won a prize of a Gaming mouse and mouse mat, thanks again
to Scott Middleton.<br>
<img title="LCA Raffle winner: Mark Tearle"
src="cid:part4.01030602.02000008@rcpt.to" alt="LCA Raffle winner:
Mark Tearle" height="415" align="right" width="415"><br>
A big thank you to the Moon & Sixpence who were ever so helpful
in letting us use the room for free, for putting up the signs and
generally having food and drink available! Thanks to Boffin's for
their help on funding prizes, to Josh and the LCA 2012 team in
Ballarat for the LCA ticket. And of course, thank you to the people
who turned up to have a laugh and play the quiz. Thanks to Patrick
Coleman as well for running around organising and picking up prizes.<br>
<br>
On the up side: PLUG got a bunch of membership renewals processed
(you can do this now by cruising through the PLUG web site to the
sign up form, and transferring your membership funds
electronically). I think we got around 8 memberships processed -
thank you.<br>
<br>
On the funds side - we spent around $275 or so on running the quiz
(some prizes were part paid, some were fully paid, and some were
donated, plus we got pens and small items). Our income from the
raffle in the end was around $71, so we roughly spent $200. I'm not
worried about this small loss; this was a fine turn out and I hope
it will serve to invigorate the membership. If someone else would
like to organise an event please let us know and we'll promote (and
fund) what we can to help further the goals of PLUG.<br>
<br>
Thanks also to Russell for the pics.<br>
<br>
As mentioned at the end of the night, next meeting is Tuesday 12th
April at UCC at UWA when Harry will be talking about the UWA Physics
telescope he has been working on with an Arduino, a cost Open
Hardware micro-controller.<br>
<br>
One last plug (pun intended); we need some volunteers:<br>
<ul>
<li>Workshop/installfest - basic organisation & promotion</li>
<li>Speaker wrangler - line up and organise presentations. We have
contacts, and a few months already lined up.</li>
<li>Promotions - if you have a knack for organising promotion</li>
<li>Software freedom Day - Onno's running with this, but he'll
need some help - it's in September</li>
<li>Events - some more stuff like the quiz night? BBQ?</li>
<li>Projects - got an itch and want to find other people to
scratch it with? Need some equipment to help get the itch? Come
on down!</li>
<li>Ideas and directions - tell us what you want PLUG to do. Tell
us what you DON'T want PLUG to do.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
PLUG is looking a lot heathier now (membership wise) than at the
beginning of the year.<br>
<br>
James<br>
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