[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCEMENT: November PLUG Meeting

[David Mandel]

                             MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                        The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                                  will meet
                          7 PM Thursday Nov 3, 2005
                                      at
                          Portland State University
                                      in
                            Smith Memorial Center
                                   Room 294
                           On the block bounded by
       SW Montgomery, SW Broadway (7th), SW Harrison, and SW Park (9th)

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                                 PRESENTATION

                      Asterisk in 3 Beer's time or Less

                                      by

                                  John Todd
                              <jtodd at loligo.com>

      
      Partial Synopsis:
         - What is Asterisk?
         - What is Asterisk not?
         - Channels and Applications
         - Hardware
         - Neat Tricks
         - Dialplan Examples
         - Implementation Gotchas
         - All Things Look Like A Nail

      John is an active member of the Asterisk community, and has built
      several VoIP service providers, infrastructure companies, and
      enterprise systems on Open-Source telephony solutions.  John has a
      background in IP networking and UNIX systems integration.

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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.

              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.
                    
          P.S.  The Eugene Linux Users Group meets several times a month.
                See http://www.euglug.org for details.

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   Portland Linux/Unix Group           http://pdxLinux.org
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