== May SLUG Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement on the Web at http://slug.org.au/node/114
When: 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 29 May, 2009 We start at 18.30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive before 18.00, as it may hinder business activities for our host! Appropriate signage and directions will be posted on the building. Where: Atlassian[0], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street) Entry is via the rear on Slip Street. There are stairs going down along the outside of building from Sussex St to near the entrance. A map of the area and directions can be found here[1]. = Talks = ** General Talk ** James Purser: Thinkubating, Or How Local Government Learnt To Love Plone Some time ago I was approached to put together a quick and easy to use collaboration platform. I examined the options and Plone filled all the requirements. In this talk I'll go through the reasons why and give a couple of examples of how I am using Plone to support Local Government. ** In-Depth Talk ** Jeff Waugh: Cranking WordPress to Eleven Inside the dinky little ukelele heart of WordPress is a towering Marshall stack of grunty publishing muscle just itching to escape. Jeff will return to Sin City to take you behind the scenes of a large WordPress deployment -- the all-new Crikey website <http://www.crikey.com.au/> -- and show you heaps of stuff you can use on your own site, including: Sweet plugins, awesome theme frameworks, squeezing WordPress and your web stack for performance (much of which should be of interest to web developers of any platform), and what you can look forward to in WordPress 2.8. ** SLUGlets ** General discussion and Q&A about Linux, free software and open source. = Meeting Schedule = See here[2] for an explanation of the segments. * 18.15: Open Doors * 18.30: Announcements, News, Introductions * 18.45: General Talk * 19.30: Intermission * 19.45: Split into two groups for: o In-Depth Talk o SLUGlets * 20.30: Dinner Dinner is at Golden Harbour Restaurant, in Chinatown. We will be having the $24 Banquet[3], but we will be collecting $25 per head for ease of accounting and to cover a tip. We will be taking numbers during the break to confirm the reservation size. If you have any particular dietary requirements (e.g. vegetarian), or if you would prefer to order separately, let us know beforehand. Dinner is a great way to socialise and learn in a relaxed atmosphere :) We hope to see you there! [0] http://www.atlassian.com [1] http://tinyurl.com/35fxes [2] http://www.slug.org.au/meetings/meetingformat [3] http://www.goldenharbour.com.au/specials.html -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
