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Author: GregGreg.Furmanek@hit.cendant.com
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Subject: [Plug-announce] June Newsletter
I would not mind helping with the web page.

I do not have that much experience with the web design
but I have marked up some stuff before (<HTML>).

The Wolf



-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: 
-> [mailto:plug-announce-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]
-> Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2000 7:11 AM
-> To: 
-> Subject: [Plug-announce] June Newsletter
-> 
-> 
-> 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
-> -------------
-> 
-> 
-> http://plug.phoenix.az.us
-> 
-> -- 
-> Jim
-> 
-> Zope is cool!
-> 
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