This month's meeting is special

[Carruth, Rusty]

Shoot, has it really been 'only' 25 years?

I remember when we started PLUG lo those many years ago with Eric and Dean (assuming I've remembered right!) (when we had the 'free' url.. um, lets see plug.az.us? see, I remember a little, anyway ;-)  Still somewhat upset that that URL got taken away from us)

And I guess since I was holding the PLUG meetings myself (even if I was the only attender) for a few years, we probably had the vast majority of the meetings ;-)

How many different locations have we had?  At the start, I think we just went to restaurants for lunch.  Or at least, that's what I did when I was pretty much the only active member...  

Somewhere I've saved the PLUG announcement email I sent out back then.

Couldn't find it, after a fair amount of searching, but I did find:

PLUG

Phoenix, AZ

The PLUG (Phoenix Linux User's Group) had their August meeting at the Arizona Center Food Court at 11:45am on the eleventh of August. Highlights included an InfoMagic CD give-away and a report from “The Other Side” (i.e., NetBSD). For more information send e-mail to plug at tsiung.dist.maricopa .edu.

(From https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2860)

I also found this: 

Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
From: rusty at indirect.com (Rusty Carruth)
Subject: Phoenix Linux User's Group
Message-ID: < ann-24900.776147511 at cs.cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 1994 04:32:10 GMT
Approved: linux-announce at tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)

The august PLUG meeting has been scheduled, and due to the
availability of a free cd I'd like to announce this to the
world:

> Subject: The Great August Get Together!
> To: plug at tsiung.dist.maricopa.edu (Phoenix Linux User's Group)
> 
> OK, after a subject teaser like that, it's just an ordinary meeting
> notice.  We inadvertently missed July, so how about August 11 at
> 11:45 at the Arizona Center Food Court.
>
> Featured Highlights:
>
> - Rusty has a CD set to give away (The InfoMagic 2 disk set)
> - Eric has a report from 'The Other Side', i.e. NetBSD
> - Whatever anyone else comes up with between now & then
> 
> dt
>
> P.S. For those in the North Valley, I'd be willing to share the drive;
> I'm at 19th & Deer Valley, so anything along I-17 is on the way.
> -- 
> Dean Troyer                           troyer at saifr00.ateng.az.Honeywell.COM
> Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems   72240.3152 at compuserve.com
> Phoenix AZ
> (...)

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-----Original Message-----
From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Brian Cluff
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2018 3:32 PM
To: plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
Subject: This month's meeting is special

I totally forgot to mention in the announcement that this month's 
meeting will be our 25th Anniversary meeting.

That's right!  25 years ago this month, on May 4th, PLUG held it's first 
meeting and we've been holding them monthly ever since.

In the last 25 years I can only recall one meeting, out of our regular 
general meetings, that had to be canceled.  Sadly it was a recent 
meeting this last march, but even when we lost all our planned 
presenters for the month we still managed to hold a meetings.

I met almost all of my closest friends though PLUG and  I've gotten much 
of the work I've done through PLUG, and most importantly I was able to 
do that work with the knowledge I gained through PLUG.

I'm looking forward to the next 25 years and maybe 25 years after that 
if my health holds out... Perhaps by then I'll be half robot and my body 
will run Linux <grin>

If anyone has any special memories of PLUG that you would like to share, 
please feel free to do so.

Brian Cluff

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