[ubuntu-arizona] Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #53

[Craig A. Eddy]

Welcome to the Ubuntu-Arizona Weekly Newsletter, Issue #53 for the week
June 23, June 29, 2008.

 * Arizona Loco Newsletter
 * Fifty Third Edition
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 * Wednesday-July 2, 2008
 * Arizona Loco Team Wiki: ["ArizonaTeam"]

 * Next meeting: Sunday July 6, 2008  9:00PM
 * Server: Freenode: IRC Channel #ubuntu-arizona

== Newsletter ==

=== Announcements ===

Sorry I couldn't be at the meeting Sunday. As you'll read further down,
I had a family problem to take care of. My being absent brings up
another point though, we have had poor membership attendance at meetings
for the last couple of weeks. I know it's summer, and weekends are
everyones chance to get out, but with our meetings being at 9:00PM, you
should be able to attend most of the time. We are just asking that you
make the effort to attend when you can. Thanks!

=== Summary of the June 29, 2008 meeting ===

tyche called the meeting to order at 9:03 PM

johnc4510's mother isn't feeling well, tonight.  johnc4510 thinks it may
be something she ate.  So johnc4510 is spending tonight taking care of her.

The Gutsy Geek interview with johnc4510 has been taped, and should be on
next Sunday afternoon, July 6.  The show airs live on Sunday at 4pm on
1310 KXAM in Phoenix and you can hear it live here: http://www.kxam.com/
or catch the recorded version here: http://www.gutsygeeks.com/ after
they post it to the site.

We have a lot to get done for the Open Source Conference ahead of us. 
Some of it can be done by just about anyone, and it would be nice if
some of you could volunteer to see to it.  If you see something that
needs to be done, don't hesitate to see what you can do about it to help
us all out.

Some things that are needed are sponsors and speakers.  We know that
whatever LUGS show up will probably speak about what they do.  But
higher level speakers would be nice, too, to talk about Linux on the
desktop and in the commercial sector.

Advertising is a must for an event like this.  If any of you have
contacts within Television, Radio or Newspapers and would explore with
them the possibility of advertising this, it would be appreciated.

I'm sure there are other things, but I was caught a little unprepared,
tonight.

LuftHans then made the PLUG announcements.

1.  PLUG's developer's meeting Thursday, July 3, at 7:00 PM, and the
topic is subversion 1.5
    Adtron Corporation, 4415 E. Cotton Center Blvd., Phoenix, AZ 82040
    See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/node/72

2.  Debian 15 year anniversary is coming up August 16.  I propose we do
something to celebrate that milestone

3.  Software Freedom Day is coming up September 20.  That's tentatively
also the date we've chosen for the Free Software conference.

4.  A week from Thursday is the next PLUG east side meeting.  We will be
continuing with the Ubuntu desktop class.

5.  Finally, I'm really trying to promote the Avondale Stammtisch this
month.  I know the LoCo has a few people on the west side of the Valley,
July would be a good month to show up :)

The meeting was adjourned at 9:14 PM.

== Credits ==
 * ["CraigAEddy"]
 * JohnCrawford