[AUUG-Talk]: Re: Fwd: Next WA meeting - Tuesday 4th April, 2006 - Davyd Madeley on 'Cairo'

[Tom Hallam]

Steve,

Are you going?

Tom

Steve Landers wrote:
> 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.
>>
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