A Brief History of Unix and General Meeting

Date
Wednesday 13 June 2018

Venue
Milson Community Centre

Cost
$2 gold coin donation.

• Agenda
  • Welcome
    7pm
  • A Brief History of Unix
    Speaker: Tom Ryder
    7:10pm
    Tom will give us a bird’s eye view of how modern Unix and Unix-like systems like Linux came to be: from teletypes hooked up to a PDP-7 in a dark corner of Bell Labs to revolutionising the whole concept of a computer operating system.

    

  • Break
    8pm
    Tea & coffee.
    Donations collected
  • General Meeting
    8:15pm
    • President’s report – Nick Skarott
    • Treasurers Report – Don Esslemont
    • Elect a new committee. Nominations for the next committee are:-
      President: John Flower
      Vice President: Nick Skarott
      Treasurer: Joseph Calkin
      Secretary: Tom Ryder
      Committee member: Don Esslemont
    • Adopt the constitution drawn up by Don Esslemont – PLUG Rules 2010
  • General Business
    8:35pm
    Confirm speakers for upcoming meetings – John Flower
  • Open floor
    8:45pm
    Talk about Linux, get help with Linux, and socialize.
  • Doors close
    9pm