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Hello PLUG,<br>
<br>
Last week I attended a meeting of the people in charge of a number
of Perth "tech groups", such as Port 80 (Australian Web Industry
Association/AWIA), Perth Ruby Developers, UX Programmers, etc. These
groups have been struggling (more than PLUG has, it seems - but they
are not incorporated bodies either), and are considering holding
joint events at a central location, with break-out rooms for Special
Interest Groups (SIGs, being each of the groups) to move into for
their own meetings.<br>
<br>
While PLUG outweighs many of these organisations (80+ members), I
feel its an opportunity to cross-pollenate amongst many of the
groups. Venue space has been donated by SpaceCubbed, a startup that
has taken over the old Reserve Bank vault (!) at 45 St Georges Tce
(the little Amcom building, over the road from the Amcom tower!). Is
on the ground floor, walk through reception, past the lifts towards
the rear of the building.<br>
<br>
Much of the event will be a social networking and chatting, a small
section of notices, and then "free play", in effect. The first
"cross-tech-group meetup meeting" is scheduled for next week -
Wednesday 6th June starting at 5:45pm. I have put this in the
calendar for PLUG (and for <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://perth.pm.org/">http://perth.pm.org/</a>). There's no
charges, just come and hang out and meet more tech people from the
developer community across Perth.<br>
<br>
I don't know where this will go; I don't think it will replace our
monthly presentations, or if we'll end up merging our PLUG in the
Pub sessions into this, or just have an extra activity on the
calendar (check out the PLUG calendar, its in there). We can but
try! :)<br>
<br>
So, all welcome, see you possibly on Wednesday evening!<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
James<br>
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