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 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
