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Hello all,<br>
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First, thanks to everyone who turned up last night at the PLUG in
the Pub. We had a good time and some fresh ideas for things to do.<br>
<br>
<b>Logo</b><br>
I wanted to thank Peter Taekema and Jason Nichols for their entries
in our Logo competition. we're merging their entries and starting to
get material produced and the web site updated later this week.
Peter and Jason both receive a complementary 1 year membership for
their efforts.<br>
<br>
<b>A/V</b><br>
The AV project is holding a workshop next Monday for anyone who
wants to help out with producing the video streams from the
presentations each month - details in the calendar. We've just
received a new Audio mixer and associated equipment to help get
better results, and need bodies who want to help film, mix, and
produce. No experience is necessary, just enthusiasm. Join the A/V
mailing list and help out!
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/av">http://lists.plug.org.au/mailman/listinfo/av</a><br>
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<b>Rusty</b><br>
A reminder we have <b>Rusty Russell</b> coming to give a
presentation in October. This is a ticketed event at $20 for
members, and $50 for non members to cover the expense of flying him
here for this. Rusty is a very well gnown figure in the Australian
open Source and Linux community, having written ipchains, iptables,
lguest virtulaisation, and also worked as the "father of
Linux.Conf.Au", the national Linux/Open Source conference. Just to
be clear here, PLUG membership is $20/year, so for $40 you can be a
PLUG financial member and get a ticket to this event. Door sales on
the night will be $50 for everyone regardless - please get your
ticket <b>NOW </b>by reading
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/plug/2011-June/080825.html">http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/plug/2011-June/080825.html</a>.<br>
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<b>Workshop</b><br>
Nick is organising a workshop to be held at Artifactory in Osborne
Park next month on Monday 22nd August from 7:30pm. Draft details are
in the calendar on the PLUG web site. Bring along your computer to
get some help from someone who will be there to help - volunteer
"experts" welcome to come along and help out. This is a free event,
but you may want some coins to feed the drinks fridge! More details
from Nick as we get closer to this.<br>
<br>
<b>Christmas/Holiday Dinner in December</b><br>
We're looking at holding a dinner on Tuesday 13th December in lieu
of our normal presentation. We'll find a restaurant and make a
booking - with more details to come. (Again, draft details in the
calendar)<br>
<br>
<b>Lasertag</b><br>
Tim Bowden is looking at running another Lasertag session in the
next few weeks. I'm sure a theme like the previous "editor wars"
(vim versus emacs) is likely to take place.<br>
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<b>Membership</b><br>
We're at 68 financial members now, up from 22 in January this year.
We have some 344 people on the PLUG mailing list so still some way
to go to convince everyone to join up, but definitely much more
healthy than where we were. The current committee is now half way
through it's term, so we'd welcome feedback from anyone on how we're
doing, as well as volunteers to help out!<br>
<br>
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OK, enough for now.... I'm sure more stuff will come up soon.... :)<br>
<br>
<br>
James<br>
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