[plug] End-of-year BBQ plans/Xmas 2025, Solar flares, was Re: What's on in November

[Nick Bannon]

On Sun, Nov 09, 2025 at 08:25:27PM +0800, Nick Bannon via plug wrote:
> It's that time again! PLUG's main November meeting is tomorrow: the
> Microbackup Server Workshop. The regular hack afternoon was today; and
> there's a couple more things coming soon.

That was fun! 6 of us on the Raspberry Pi's, and few extras that dropped
in to chat. :) We're not done and dusted, reinstalling Pi's the way
we like is a thing we can do at installfests or any other regular PLUG
workshop/hack day; and we're probably due for a regular Rasbperry Jam in
February or March 2026.

...but there's our end-of-year event to come first. No talks for December,
but we usually take our second Sunday and got for a BBQ in King's Park.
Does anyone here want to get involved?

> TITLE: Christmas Party & end-of-year BBQ at Kings Park; PLUG+POSH hack
> TIME: 1100 onwards, heading off to hack in the later afternoon.
> DATE: Sunday 2025-12-14
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Here's what we usually try to bring, some basic, some optional:
- Sausages
  - including vegetarian/vegan options by request
- Bread / bread rolls, and butter
- Onions
- Sauces
- Oil
- Cooking implements/BBQ tools
- Drinks
- Esky
- Ice
- Cheese/grated cheese
- Salads
- cutlery
- plates and serviettes
- Signage or Tux on-a-t-shirt?
- Sunscreen

PLUG will pay for the food and collect RSVP's; we can reimburse people
on the day for any receipt-provided costs that Committee has confirmed
in advance.

Later, some of us will head on to the regular second-Sunday PLUG+POSH
Hack afternoon, language/platform agnostic hack session. Bring your
favourite or interesting project and a love of code, or any other tech
project that you're interested in.

Speaking of sunscreen... we've just had some X-class solar flares;
and there's a geomagnetic storm underway, with a chance of Aurora
Australis, even from Perth. Take a look outside after sunset:
https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Aurora/1/1

I'm thinking I'll take a little drive, maybe even a roadtrip to
https://astrotourismwa.com.au/darkan-observing-site/
Anyone else keen?

Call me maybe,
Nick.
0419 957 011

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