[H-GEN] O-week 2008

Peter Robinson pjr at itee.uq.edu.au
Wed Feb 6 16:29:50 EST 2008


FYI - at UQ we will be using Python for our 1st year SE course 
(CSSE1001) from this semester so feel free to add pythoners to your list 
below.

Peter Robinson  (CSSE1001 course co-ordinator)

Clinton Roy wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
>
> This year Humbug will be taking an active role at University and
> College O-Weeks, and I'll be the main organiser. My main aim is to
> expose new computer science and engineering students to unix, my
> secondary goal is to increase humbug's membership.
>
> We'll be targeting UQ (18th - 25th Feb), QUT (20th Feb), having
> someone at the market day,  associated with with relevant groups
> (BITS, WIT, etc), handing out some info and CDs. At this point I think
> I'll be talking to UQ and Russell will be talking to QUT, but that's
> flexible.
>
> I'm looking for volunteers to scout out appropriate groups at the
> institutions, liaise with them, and man the stalls on the day.
>
> We're looking for local groups (php, mysql, perlmongers etc) to give
> us flyers or spiels to hand out.
>
> We're asking for donations of cds (preferably livecds, opencds) from
> local unix companies (hello ubuntu and redhat).
>
> All of this stuff can be kept over for our planned install fest and
> software freedom days for later in the year.
>
> If you've got any suggestions for the event, please let me know,
>
> cheers,
>   





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