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 ------------- farli@wiredglobal.com http://plug.phoenix.az.us -- Jim Zope is cool! _______________________________________________ Plug-announce mailing list - Plug-announce@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce