Next SLUG Meeting - Friday, 31st May, 2002 * When: 6:30pm - about 8:30pm (then dinner, etc) * Where: UTS, Central Sydney <http://slug.org.au/slugmeet.shtml>
The Usual Suspects - Starts 6:30pm * Q&A - "What has Linux done for/to me lately?" * SLUG News & Discussion Special General Meeting We will be holding a Special General Meeting this month, to vote on the committee's proposed changes to the SLUG constitution. It was announced with a summary of changes and voting information on May 9th, 2002. Please read the summary of changes so that we don't have to spend too much time on it during the meeting. It's action-packed enough already! http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/announce/2002/05/msg00002.html Lightning Talks Something new! 5 to 10 minute talks or presentations on cool new software, projects by SLUGgers, crazy hardware, news items, announcements, whatever! Quick intros to whet your appetite, for discussion on the list or during the break. * Announcement of New Meeting Format for June - SLUG Committee * CVS Monitor - Adam Kennedy Linux on the PlayStation 2 - Bill Dixon Bill Dixon from Sony Australia will be showing off our favourite operating system... running on the PlayStation 2. Their Linux kit - released here, May 27th - was only available in Japan until Linux users around the world demanded it. Yes, this was straight out of the press release. ;-) Bill will be speaking about: * What's in the kit? What's not in the kit? * Can I install my Linux applications? * Technical gotcha's * Target audience * How will it be sold? * Questions How To Read a Perl Script - Angus Lees To complete the "three P's", this talk will be an extremely brief overview of Perl, followed by a very elementary introduction to the Perl language and syntax. The hope is to dispell the "line-noise" myth often espoused by the uninitiated and show just how easy Perl really is. Dinner - Starts around 9:00pm If Boiled Television Entrails aren't seducing you to post-SLUG-meeting dinners anymore (like many of us), you'll be pleased to know that we're going back to Spice Boys this month. Hopefully we'll have a cheaper deal organised, to match the HBTE. - Jeff -- "Socks for the foot menu!" - Liam Quin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug