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Hello PLUG and Linux-Aus,<br>
<br>
Thought we'd try and get some PLUG news out to people about the
events we're lining up at the moment. While the PLUG mailing list
may be quiet, the PLUG committee is not!<br>
<br>
<b>February Presentation: Moodle</b>, by Martin Dougiamas, Tuesday
14th Feb 7pm @ Challenger Tafe, High St, Fremantle (opposite the
markets)<br>
Moodle (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://moodle.org/">http://moodle.org/</a>) is open source 'courseware', and is used
by education institutions worldwide; its founder, Martin Dougiamas,
lives in Perth, and his company that backs Moodle
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://moodle.com">http://moodle.com</a>)is also based here. <i>Live video stream should
be available.</i><br>
<br>
<b>Debian Bug Squashing Party:</b> Paul Wise, and Me!, Saturday 10th
from 9am & Sunday 11th March @ UCC, UWA (thanks to UCC)<br>
With Debian Wheezy getting ready to ship, it's time for devs to
squash bugs and resolve stuff. This is not a presentation - but a
working party to fix things up, and share knowledge of how to do
this. Come along to find out what makes Debian work (no, seriously).
Interstate DDs are welcome to come and <i>holiday</i> in Perth for
the weekend.<br>
<br>
<b>March Presentation: The National Broadband Network Panel
Discussion</b>, Tuesday 13th March 7pm @ TBA<br>
NBNCo CTO Chris Roberts, iiNet engineer Gavin Tweedie, and possibly
AARNet representative(s) will field your questions to discuss and
debate the technical implementation of the largest IT project the
country will see in current times. <i>Live video stream should be
available.</i><br>
<br>
<b>March Plug in the Pub: The Linux & Open Source themed Quiz
Night</b>, Monday 26th March from 7pm @ The Moon & Six Pence<br>
The Quiz Night was lots of fun last year! Form tables of 4 with your
friends and answer questions from the Open Source world. We'll be
selling tickets at the door this year at $5 each to cover the costs
of some of the prizes we'll have. Come and show off what you know!
(No video stream from the pub!)<br>
<b><br>
April Presentation: AutoFS</b>, by Ian Kent, Tuesday April 10th
from 7pm @ City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth<br>
Ian Kent is a PLUG member and works for Red Hat; he hacks on AutoFS
by day. <i>Live video stream should be available.</i><br>
<br>
<b>May Presentation: Paul Fenwick</b>, Tuesday May <b>1st</b>, from
7pm @ City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West Perth<br>
Paul is a Perl hacker, and gave a keynote at Linux.conf.au 2012 in
Ballarat on programming people. He works for Perl Training
Australia, writes in The Perl Journal, contributes to Perl core, and
has a bunch of code on CPAN. <b>Note that this is on the FIRST
Tuesday of the month, not the second</b>. <i>Live video stream
should be available.</i><br>
<br>
<b>June Presentation: Amazon Web Services (tentative)</b>, Tuesday
June 12th, from 7pm @ City West Lotteries House, 2 Delhi St, West
Perth<br>
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Other than the Quiz Night, these events are free to attend - bring
friends, colleagues, or people you'd like to impress. All these
events are in the PLUG calendar on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.plug.org.au">www.plug.org.au</a>
- including directions to the venue(s). As always, we need
volunteers to help organise events, and we're constantly having to
try and convince our on-list lurkers to pay their membership fees (<i>hint
hint</i> - $20/year full, $10/year concession; <a
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.plug.org.au/membership/">http://www.plug.org.au/membership/</a>)!<br>
<br>
James<br>
PS: Cross posted to Linux-Aus as people may wish to watch the video
streams - or come and visit!<br>
PPS: Feedback off-list welcome<br>
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<em>Mobile:</em> +61 422 166 708, <em>Email:</em>
james_AT_rcpt.to<br>
PLUG President 2012: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http//www.plug.org.au">http://www.plug.org.au</a><br>
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