[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] FIRST AND SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: August PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                         MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                    The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                              will meet
                      7 PM Thursday Aug 4, 2005
                                  at
                      Portland State University
                                in the
                        Smith Memorial Center
                               Room 298
                       On the block bounded by
   SW Montgomery, SW Broadway (7th), SW Harrison, and SW Park (9th)

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                                 PRESENTATION

                                 Minimal Perl 

                                      by

                                   Tim Maher 
                             <tim at consultix-inc.com>

To quote Tim:

I'd be willing to give a talk on the "Minimal Perl" dialect,
which can run from 30 minutes, to 2+ hours in the deluxe version. 8-}

Attendees will be shown how they can leverage their UNIX/Linux skills
to learn basic Perl quickly and easily.

For more details, follow links at
http://oscon.kwiki.org/index.cgi?TimMaher,
or see http://minimalperl.com

The talk I have in mind is based on the 3-hour tutorial I was scheduled
to deliver at YAPC::Toronto and YAPC::Portugal, but I had to withdraw
from both of those due to the last-minute demands of the publishing 
schedule.

Stop by the Powell's Books both from about 12:20 to 1:30 today to find
me at OSCON, or call my cell phone at 206 498-1443, or leave a message at
206-781-8649.

I'm the big fuzzy orange guy wearing a Minimal Perl T-shirt.

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          Agenda:
          
              7:00 - 7:30  Business
                   We will discuss the status of our ongoing projects 
                   including PLUG's monthly Advanced Topics meetings, 
                   PLUG's monthly hands on clinics, PLUG for Education,
                   etc.
                   We will also discuss ways of finding speakers for
                   future meetings.

              7:30 - 8:30  Presentation
          
                   See above
          
              9:00 - ...  Beer
                                  The Lucky Labrador Brewing Company
                                  915 SE Hawthorne
          
          
          
                                          David Mandel
                                          Chief Activist
                                          Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                          560 SE Alexander
                                          Corvallis, Oregon 97333
                                          (541) 730-5285 mobile
                                          dmandel at pdxLinux.org
          
          
          P.S.  Biznix which specializes in Linux and UNIX support for 
                the Business Computer User meets on the second 
                Thursday of the month at the Novell offices in Tigard.
                See http://www.Biznix.org for details.
                
          P.S.  BLUEgroup (The Beaverton Linux Users Education Group)
                is a group geared toward new users or those interested 
                in learning more about Linux.  BLUE group meets on the 
                4th Thursday of every month (except Thanksgiving and 
                Christmas) at the corner of Beaverton Hillsdale Hwy and 
                Western ave.  See www.BLUEgroup.org for details.

          P.S.  PDXLUG provides a less formal alternative to PLUG 
                emphasizing the needs of new users.   PDXLUG meets 
                every second Thursday of the month in southeast Portland.
                See http://www.PDXLUG.org for details.

          P.S.  The Mid Willamette Valley Linux Users Group meets at
                Peak on 13th and Western at 6:30 PM on the first Tuesday 
                of the month.
                See http://www.lug.corvallis.or.us/ for details.
                (August meeting is canceled due to OSCON.)
                    
          P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
                See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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