<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:'Droid Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hey PLUG members,<div>
<br></div><div>We have had 1 official meeting for a future Linux conf Australia in Perth and 1 non-official Monday night.</div><div><br></div><div>We would like to call anyone else who expresses interest in joining the LCA team in some form.</div>
<div>Or can offer suggestions or advice for a future Linux Conf Australia in Perth in the near future.</div><div><br></div><div>We will be holding another Meeting@Moon & SixPence in Perth CBD on Monday 6th Febuary around 6:30PM</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you would like to participate but are unable to make it because of commitments, please reply on the list</div><div>or contact of the people on the PLUG committee members.</div><div><br></div><div>Just to recap for a few people that were not present.</div>
<div><br></div><div>First meeting was brainstorming and seeing who want's which roles.</div><div>Second meeting was supposed to be PLUG but a bit more chat about past conference things which we can tackle differently.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Today was Luke, Nick, Ian and myself meeting Jocelyn from Perth Convention Bureau (.gov funded non profit) to help us with conference</div><div>resources, building a bid proposal document and liaising with various departments across WA for promotion and resources/funding.</div>
<div>One of they other key points what do we outsource for the conference ie Transport, Catering etc</div><div>Also discussed the idea of Software Freedom day, Open Day at LCA(to the public) and Free Open Source meets WA Small Medium Business and Open Source professionals. Various social business drinks, workshops, displays and other business networking events.</div>
<div><br></div><div>You will have to excuse any spelling, grammar. Writing is not my bes attribute. I got roped into this again Thanks Luke ;-D</div><div><br></div><div>Big Thanks to James, Mark, Nick and Ian for your invaluable guidance and expertise.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Look forward to chatting with you all next Monday night!</div><div><br></div><div>Ciao for now and keep cool</div><div>Paul Del</div></span>