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  From: Andrew Galdes <galdes1@iprimus.com.au>
  To  : Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 12:33:26 +1030

Re: Meeting Speaker Proposal

i have been wanting to go to a meeting for a while now anyway. i would like 
to go to this one regardless. is there anyone who i need to notify?

cheers,
andrew galdes

On Saturday 13 January 2001 09:57, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> At 11:37 AM 1/13/01 +1030, David Lloyd wrote:
> >Having (1) searched the SA Government web-site - obviously based on IIS
> >and ASP - it appears that the Hon. Dr. Michael Armitage, MP is the
> >Minister most likely to be able to suggest IT policy for the whole SA
> >Government.
> >
> >He is in charge of:
> >
> >* ICS
> > - a body that developes internal computing services for the Government
> >
> >* Information and Economic Policy Office
> > - the name speaks for itself
> >
> >I would suggest that he, or a speaker from the latter office I've
> >mentioned (or both) would make an interesting discussion at a LinuxSA
> >meeting. Keeping an open mind we could, quite simply, ask the Minister
> >to talk about the Government's support of IT in general and how the
> >Government views the growing (I think) Linux/BSD based IT industry...
>
> We should also ask for a speaker from Labour and the Democrats ...
>
> This would have the effect of raising the profile of LinuxSA in South
> Australia so that politicians understand that we are interested in what is
> happening, and that we vote and that we care.
>
> We will also have to ensure that the meeting is well attended!
>
> >Now, I haven't proposed this e-mail to create a discussion about IT
> >policy in the SA Government. Nor am I attempting to elicit political
> >responses based on the Minister's part affiliation, or that he is a
> >member of the current Government. Hence, if you reply on list your reply
> >should discuss the merits or lack thereof of inviting the Minister, or
> >his representative(s) as a public speaker.
> >
> >DL
> >
> >(1)
> >The original started with the word "From" but some e-mail systems escape
> >that with a > (>). Don't you hate that?
> >
> >--
> >You have a deformed comb,
> > so go suck eggs...
> >
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> Regards
> -------
> Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
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