[Plug-announce] June Newsletter
Furmanek, Greg
Greg.Furmanek@hit.cendant.com
Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:02:07 -0400
I would not mind helping with the web page.
I do not have that much experience with the web design
but I have marked up some stuff before (<HTML>).
The Wolf
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-> From: plug-announce-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
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-> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 7:11 AM
-> To: plug-announce@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
-> Subject: [Plug-announce] June Newsletter
->
->
-> PLUG-INS
->
-> The Electronic Newsletter of the Phoenix Linux User Group
->
-> Volume 1
-> Issue 7
-> June, 2000
->
-> -------------------- PLUG is Moving ----------------------
->
-> The Thursday PLUG meeting for June will be held at the
-> Sequoia Charter School,
-> located at 1460 Horne. The PLUG website has been updated
-> with a map of the area
-> and a map of the school campus so you can't get lost. See ya there!
->
-> --------------------- Free Seminar -----------------------
->
-> TheLinuxStore.com, part of EBIZ Enterprises, and Viking
-> Systems are hosting a free
-> Introduction to Linux Seminar.
->
-> When:Friday, June 9, 1-3 pm
-> Where:The Buttes Resort, Tempe
->
-> Topics include:
-> Linux demonstration
-> Definition of terms
-> History of Linux/Unix heritage
-> The open source software development model
-> Software licensing models
-> Where Linux is being used
-> FUD Revealed & Dispelled
->
-> Space is limited, so register today at http://www.TheLinuxStore.com
->
-> --------------------- Meeting Info
-> -----------------------
->
-> PLUG
->
-> When:June 8, 2000
-> Where:Sequoia Charter School
-> Time:7:00 p.m.
-> Topic:GPG & SSH
->
-> AZSAGE
->
-> When:Tue 13 June
-> Where:IBM, 2929 N. Central Ave.
-> Time:Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
-> Topic:IBM and Open Source and building a firewall with Linux 2.2.x.
-> RSVP might be required, but they haven't moved on
-> it thus far.
->
-> STAMMTISCH
->
-> When:Tue 20 June
-> Where:Bandersnatch
-> Time:7:00ish
-> Topic:As usual, no topic, just Linux conversations
->
-> ASULUG
->
-> When:Wednesday, 21 June
-> Where:Probably Computing Commons Auditorium
-> Time:6:00 p.m
-> Topic:Presentation will be a replay of either the PLUG or
-> AZSAGE presentation.
->
-> ----------------------- Ceilings ------------------------
->
-> PLUG has come a long ways since it was founded way back when.
->
-> When I first got involved, PLUG was meeting at Shawn's house
-> and maybe a
-> half-dozen people showed up. Now we regularly have 60-75
-> people show up at
-> the Boys & Girls Club each month. Impressive, by any
-> standard! I am sure
-> that a premanent location and the new format have a lot to
-> do with the increase
-> in attendance, as does Jiva, who has guided PLUG to where it
-> is today, and
-> Wes, who got us the space at the B&G Club. The question
-> that faces PLUG
-> now is "Where does PLUG want to go tomorrow?".
->
-> As you all know, Wes is in Texas (with all our best wishes). He
-> made every attempt to insure that PLUG can still meet at the
-> B&G Club,
-> if we want. We are moving the Thursday meeting location meetings to
-> accommodate more members. PLUG has simply outgrown the room
-> at the B&G
-> Club. The ceiling is not space. So what is this ceiling?
->
-> Bodies! Plain and simple! The ceiling is bodies, bodies
-> willing to help
-> PLUG and Linux and the Open Source community in the Phoenix
-> metro area.
-> Jiva has guided the Thurdsay meetings quite nicely, but it would be a
-> unfair to ask him to accept any additional responsibilities.
-> There are a
-> myriad of other things that PLUG can be doing, but no one
-> has stepped up to
-> say "I will lead that project".
->
-> Want an example? Remember hearing that we need someone who
-> will maintain the
-> PLUG website? If you want to know the answer, take the tip
-> of your index
-> finger and place it against the tip of your thumb. See the
-> big zero formed by
-> this action? That is the number of responses we got. We
-> know that Justin has
-> run out of time to maintain the website. When no one steps
-> up to co-ordinate
-> PLUG website maintenance, what do we do? I had to give more
-> of my time to update
-> the PLUG website with information about June's meeting.
-> Guess everyone was waiting
-> until one of the people who are keeping PLUG going to step
-> up and do the webmaster job too.
->
-> Plain and simple - Jiva has told everyone that he has
-> committed all of the
-> time to PLUG that he can. I could do it, but it would put a
-> strain on my time
-> too. Hans? Ken? They have things that they are working on
-> already. Wes is
-> in Texas, so who does that leave? I think that is a
-> question that you should
-> be asking someone whose butt is sitting in your chair.
->
-> Who knows how many other things are out there that PLUG
-> could be doing? Who
-> knows how many other projects could be done to help lead the
-> Phoenix computing
-> community into the future? As of right now, we cannot even
-> get a body to
-> coordinate our own website. Guess we will never know where
-> PLUG will be
-> going until somebody steps up and says "I will lead that project".
->
-> ------------------
-> Calendar of Events
-> ------------------
->
->
->
-> June, 2000
->
-> 08 PLUG Meeting
-> 09 TheLinuxStore/EBIZ Linux Seminar
-> 13 AZSAGE Meeting
-> 20 Linux Stammtisch
-> 21 ASULUG Meeting
->
-> July, 2000
->
-> 11 AZSAGE: Bringing NT and UNIX Together.
-> 13 PLUG Meeting
-> 18 Linux Stammtisch
-> 19 ASULUG Meeting
->
-> -------------
-> The Addresses
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->
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-> http://plug.phoenix.az.us
->
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->
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