Hans - you missed the part where PLUG challenged the State of Arizona's
Microsoft purchasing practices and inspired a meeting with their CIO
back in 2002 to discuss FOSS.  IIRC, you were instrumental in that
meeting.

Regards,

George




On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 13:55 -0700, der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
> 
> working on my resume and realized I've been involved with PLUG for a
> decade.
> 
> In that time we've gone from two monthly meetings to 4 ( 5 once the
> HackFest starts ) plug two Stammtische. 7 events every month is a lot!
> 
> 3 of the 5 need presentations[0] every month and we usually get them covered.
> 
> We've greatly expanded the geographical base we cover. We've also gone
> through a few mail servers and web servers.
> 
> We still have a few people who've been around longer than I have. We can
> even thank one person who's still on the list for getting the meetings
> started.
> 
> We've had ESR in twice and Stallman in once.
> 
> We've had a couple of big InstallFests and once again have them monthly.
> 
> We're finally putting on a conference.
> 
> Overall, I think we've done well and I've certainly enjoyed it.
> 
> [0] Speaking of presentations, please submit presentation proposals for
> ABLEconf, www.ABLEconf.com  :)
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans

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