Fwd: Next WA meeting - Tuesday 4th April, 2006 - Davyd Madeley on 'Cairo'

[Steve Landers]

FYI

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Andrew Shugg
> Date: 29 March 2006 5:56:31 PM
>
> Hi folks,
>
> We've survived the Ides of March (hopefully I speak for everyone,  
> here)
> and we are rapidly approaching the first week of April.  Our April
> meeting will be held next week, I hope to see you there!  Also please
> feel free to pass this message on to anyone you feel may be  
> interested;
> we'd love to continue to see new faces turn up to see what it's all
> about.  (And remember that SAGE-AU members who refer new members go  
> into
> a prize draw, so bring your friends.)
>
> Andrew S.
>
>
> ====================================================================== 
> ========
>
>                 SAGE-AU Western Australian April Chapter Meeting
>
>                               - 4th April 2006 -
>
>               This month's meeting is sponsored and presented by:
>
>   ** AUUG: the organisation for Unix, Linux and Open Source  
> Professionals **
>
> ====================================================================== 
> ========
>
>
> DATE:   Tuesday April 4th, 2006
>
> TIME:   6:00 PM
>
> VENUE:  Moon and Sixpence British Pub
>         300 Murray St
>         Perth 6000
>
>         Ph: 0418 831 937  (prk/SAGE-AU)
>             0423 300 444  (Andrew S./SAGE-AU)
>
> AGENDA:
>
>  6:00    Meet for drinks and chat in the rear of the Pub.
>  6:25    Migration to the Raine Room of the adjoining Comfort Inn.
>
>  6:30    Welcome & Weekly War Stories.
>
>  6:45    Meeting commences: this month presented & sponsored by AUUG.
>
> 	 This month's topic is presented by Davyd Madeley, and is
> 	 entitled "Secrets of the Pyramids: an Introduction to Cairo".
>
>
>     Cairo is a device-independent, platform-independent 2D rendering
>     package for pretty graphics. Cairo makes it possible to render
>     antialiased, vector graphics on your screen, to a printer or a  
> file
>     using only a single code path.
>
>     The talk will cover what Cairo is, the premise behind how Cairo
>     works, an overview of how to get started using Cairo in your
>     application, and given enough monkeys: what you can build with
>     Cairo.
>
>     Davyd works as a software engineer for Fugro Seismic Imaging  
> here in
>     Perth. He is also a GNOME developer and the maintainer of GNOME
>     Applets.  He is trying to complete his Bachelors of Electronic
>     Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Western
>     Australia. He has prettier desktop wallpapers than you.
>
>
>  7:30    Migration back to the Pub for beer, soft drinks, sandwiches,
>          Q&A, and General Discussion of current IT issues.
>
>
>  DIRECTIONS:
>   The Moon and Sixpence pub is located on Murray Street, between Queen
>   St and William St. It is within easy walking distance of the Busport
>   or Perth Train Station. If you are driving, Murray St is one way  
> with
>   vehicle entry available from Milligan St. Parking is available from
>   one of several City of Perth carparks located along Murray St.  (See
>   the maps at http://www.neep.com.au/first_wednesday/ for more info.)
>
>   Please pass this message on to any other sysadmins that you know who
>   might be interested in attending. This permission to forward this
>   message overrides the usual SAGE-AU mailing list disclaimer or any
>   other that may appear below. The WA monthly meetings are jointly
>   sponsored by SAGE-AU and AUUG, with this month being sponsored by
>   AUUG.  Non-members are allowed to attend up to two meetings before
>   being requested to join SAGE-AU and/or AUUG.
>
>
> We look forward to seeing you at the meeting!
>
> Regards,
>
> prk & Andrew S, for SAGE-AU.        Steve L, for AUUG.
>