Special Installfest?

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I have gotten en email from Lester Stein and Dennis McCormick of the
Tucson Computer Society volunteering to come up to work this event.
While I thought I was only acting as a contact to ask PLUG to
participate, it seems my name is being used for other purposes as
well.  That being the case, I am asking that volunteers for this event
confirm their availability and commitment to me so I can arrange for
whatever passes we need to not have to pay the conference admission
fee.  Please see the message from Sandra Hart below for location,
times, and the web site for the conference.
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Alexander,
If you are coming and bringing your usual equipment we should be good.
But if not, I will need to make other arrangements.  Would you please
send me (off list) a list of what you bring so I can do so?  Please
include any special setup info for plugging in and your UAT contact.

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From: "Sandra M Hart"
To: "'Sandra M Hart'"
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:30:14 -0700
Subject: AZacc - APCUG Regional Conference


This message is sent to the Presidents, Coordinators and Board of
Directors of the Arizona Alliance of Computer Clubs.



This invitation was sent to all the User Groups that I could find a
contact person for in Region 9.  That's AZ, CO, NM and UT.  I found
that if our AZacc clubs were in the APCUG database, most of them had
not been updated and the contact information was old so I am using the
current AZacc contact list for this message.  Bruce Jacobs delivered a
flyer to you as he did the December tour.  On that flyer is the
conference website.  Please inform your members that the address works
without the www.  Just type in phoenix.apcug.org.



Hi Region 9,



Have your heard the news ????   The Association of Personal Computer
User Groups is sponsoring a weekend regional conference in Tempe
Arizona on February 7 & 8, 2009.

The conference website is at http://phoenix.apcug.org.  Registration
will be available through the website soon. Nearby hotels will be
linked on the website, some with discounts.  Look for an article in
the next issue of Reports.  Attached is the conference flyer.  Please
print it and post it where your members will see it.



The conference will be held at the University of Advancing Technology
(UAT) in Tempe, AZ.  There is full wireless internet throughout the
building.  You can learn more about the location at http://www.uat.edu
.  It is reasonably close to the airport, very close to shopping,
restaurants and hotels.  The conference runs 9am – 5 pm with
registration opening at 8am each morning.  There will be a welcome bag
and a vendor fair running concurrently with the conference.  We have
four speaker tracks planned: User Group Leadership, User Group
Information, IT Pro Information and Vendors.  We have at least a dozen
speakers and vendors already lined up plus the national vendors that
sponsor APCUG and a Linux Install fest. This will be a multiplatform
conference!  You can find the current list of APCUG sponsors on the
www.apcug.net website under vendors.   We are inviting the
professional IT user groups and have a track for more technical
speakers. There is room in the conference tracks for any speakers or
vendors that might be interested from your area.  The letter of
introduction to your local vendor is attached if you know of a company
that might be interested in participating or donating.  The vendor
fair tables require an APCUG sponsorship fee.  The speaker time slots
are 1 hour and 15 minutes each.  If you've ever been to a conference
before, you know we could use more volunteers, vendors, speakers and
door prizes.  We have a local planning committee working hard on this
and would welcome anyone else who would like to participate by
volunteering.  Most of us are new to conference planning and it has
taken us longer than anticipated. We hope that you will make plans to
join us in Phoenix for a weekend of warm weather.  Fuel prices have
gone down…….how about carpooling?  Everyone is welcome! We hope your
club may join APCUG, but you do not need to be an APCUG member to
attend.



Just a few of the topics so far …….. Keynote by Jay Ferron on Windows
7, Social Media (Twitter, FaceBook), Speech Recognition, Q&A, Free
Software, APCUG, Remote Presentations, User Group Meeting Ideas,
Roxio, Digital Photography, Secure your home Network, Acquiring
Presenters, Security



Want more information on speaking or on sponsorship? Want to
volunteer? Have questions, comments or suggestions?  ………Just reply to
this message.

Many groups on the APCUG database have no website and no contact
person listed.  Please help us spread the word on this conference.



We are going to have a great weekend !  Come Geek with us!



Sandy



Phoenix Regional Conference Speakers Bureau

Conference Co-Chairs: Bob Nixon and Sandy Hart