[first_tuesday] Next meeting - Tuesday 4th April, 2006 - Davyd Madeley on 'Cairo'

[Andrew Shugg]

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.  Members of UCC, PLUG, Port-80 etc are all welcome along too!

Andrew S.


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                  AUUG Western Australian April Chapter Meeting

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                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 **

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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.


-- 
Andrew Shugg <andrew at neep.com.au>                   http://www.neep.com.au/

"Just remember, Mr Fawlty, there's always someone worse off than yourself."
"Is there?  Well I'd like to meet him.  I could do with a good laugh."
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