moin, moin,

the topic of this month's meetings will be 'Alternative Contributions'.

Generally, when thinking about contributing to Free Software people think
about programming, but there are many other ways to give back to the
community. The presentations will cover general methods such as helping with
documentation or providing bug reports. It will also cover specific ways to
volunteer to help PLUG and AZOTO.

Also this month we're planning an organizational meeting for the west side
meetings at GCC. The date hasn't yet been confirmed, please stay tuned if
you'd like to help build out a stronger west side presence for PLUG!

This month marks the 20th anniversary of the GNU Project. AZOTO is planning
a geek picnic in celebration.

Starting in February the developer meetings will be once a month. Watch for
the new night, the first Thursday of the month. Next month's presentation
will be on Eclipse.

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Event: PLUG East Side Meeting
Topic: Alternative Contributions
Presenter: der.hans
Location: Sequoia Charter School, 1460 S. Horne, Mesa, AZ 85204-5760
Time: 19:00 on Thursday, the 8th of January

Bio: der.hans is CEO and co-founder of AZOTO, an Arizona-based non-profit
dedicated to promoting Free Software and Open Standards in the state. He
is also a software engineer for Cisco Systems, Inc., Steering Committee
member for PLUG and founder of the GNU/Linux Stammtisch. Among other things,
der.hans enjoys geek toys, good music and speaking German.


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Event: GNU/Linux Stammtisch
Location: The Muse Cafe/Artspace, 1032 S. Terrace Rd., Tempe, AZ 85281
Time: 19:00 to 23:00 on Tuesday the 20th of January

The Muse has worked well for us the last couple of months.

Lemon and Terrace, just East of ASU's main campus.


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Saturday the 24th AZOTO is hosting a geek picnic to celebrate 20 years of GNU.

Event: Free Software Day picnic
Location: TBA
Time: noon to 18:00 on Saturday, the 24th of January


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Monday and Tuesday of the last week of January the Scottsdale Symphony
Orchestra continues its season, which is co-sponsored by AZOTO. Please
mention AZOTO when purchasing tickets.

Event: Scottsdale Symphony Orchestra, http://www.scotsymph.org/
Program: Shostakovich and Schumann
Location: Grace Chapel, 8524 E. Thomas Rd, Scottsdale AZ 85251
Time: 19:30 on Monday and Tuesday the 26th and 27th of January


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Event: PLUG West Side meeting
Topic: Alternative Contributions
Presenter: der.hans
Location: Glendale Community College, 6000 W. Olive Ave., Glendale, AZ 85302
Time: 19:00 on Tuesday, the 27th of January

Olive (Dunlap) and 59th Avenue in the High Tech 1 Teleconference Room.


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Event: AzPHP, http://www.AzPHP.org/
Topic: TBD
Location: Walt's TV & Home Theater, 55 W Southern Ave., Tempe, AZ 85282-4962
Time: 19:00 on Tuesday, the 27th of January

ciao,

der.hans
-- 
#  https://www.LuftHans.com/    http://www.AZOTO.org/
#  I chose to use the kernel sources as my documentation.  ;-)
#  -- Kevin Buettner
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