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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