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VAC - Virtual ACS Canberra - upcoming Australian Computer Society
(ACS) events in Canberra, Australia

Current as at: 
20 May 2000 

*** WHAT IS NEW IN THIS ISSUE? ***

In a context where HISA members may attend the June 2000 ACS Canberra
meeting at no charge, I send this VAC purely to the ACS HIC list, and
a range of relevant newsgroups, not to all those on the ACS Canberra
list. :-) It would be appreciated if any HISA members in Canberra
could assist with promoting the June 2000 meeting at their workplace.

** OTHER GENERAL INFORMATION **

There has been a lot of interest in the tax treatment of Information
Technology contractors, lately. There has also been a lot of interest
expressed in attending the ACS Canberra one day 'Setting up an IT
consulting company' seminar, being held on Wednesday, 24 May 2000. The
April 2000 issue of CAPITAL ACS includes pre-reading for this seminar.


That issue also includes details of sponsors of the ACS Canberra
Information Outlook 2000 (IO2000) conference, and an article titled
'Information technology in the new millennium' which focuses on the
material that speakers will be covering at the IO2000 conference in
Canberra on 10 November 2000. 

Clients and staff of IO2000 sponsors can attend the 24 May 2000
seminar at a discount price. Persons referred by ACS members can also
attend the seminar at a discount price. 

We have printed 1000 more copies of the April 2000 CAPITAL ACS. There
will be ample spare copies of these at the April 2000 ACS Canberra
meeting on 17 May 2000. One can also contact Meryl on Tele: (02) 6247
4830 or e-mail mmorgan@acslink.net.au if you would like spare copies
of April 2000 CAPITAL ACS mailed to you for your own use, or passing
to friends, staff, customers, or colleagues who you feel would find it
of interest.   

****** UPCOMING ACS CANBERRA BRANCH MEETINGS  ******

You are encouraged to re-post Virtual ACS Canberra (VAC) to your
electronic Bulletin Board, and/or Staff Newsletter Editor. 

If you are not already receiving these notices via email, and would
like to, just send an email message with anything or nothing in it to:
acscanb-l-subscribe@onelist.com
and that will start the process of you being added to the ACS Canberra
Branch email list. These is no charge for this service.

******   ACS CANBERRA BRANCH SEMINAR
Date:   Wednesday, 24 May 2000 
Time:   8.30 am registration - for a 9.00 am start
This seminar will finish around 5 p.m. 
Topic:   Setting up an Information Technology (IT) consulting company
Presenter:   Harry Bluhm, Partner of Marlow Bluhm Chartered
Accountants

Location : Ainslie Football Club, 
52 Wakefield Avenue, Ainslie, Canberra  

Registration and more information is available by ringing
Meryl Morgan on (02) 6247 4830, or by 
e-mailing mmorgan@acslink.net.au or by visiting
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/2000-05-24.html

******   ACS CANBERRA BRANCH MONTHLY MEETING
Date:   Wednesday, 21 June 2000 
Time:   7.00 pm for 7.30 pm
Topic:   TransAct - future directions
Presenter:   Robin Eckermann - Project Manager - TransAct

Location:   Computer Science and IT Building (Bldg 108)
   Room N101, North Road, Australian National University

More details on this talk are at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html
or more specifically:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html#acs

Normally it costs $10 to attend ACS Canberra Branch monthly meetings
(payment by credit cards and cheques accepted), unless one is a
member, or a guest of a member of the ACS, or the organisation one
works for is a participant in the ACS Professional Recognition Program
(PRP), in which case there is no charge to attend ACS Canberra Branch
monthly meetings.  Many organisations in the ACT are participants in
the PRP, including the ACT Government. Details on organisations which
are part of the PRP are at:
http://www.acs.org.au/services/preferred.htm

For this monthly meeting, members of the PC Users Group, the Computer
Education Group of the ACT (CEGACT), the Health Informatics Society of
Australia (HISA), and tertiary computing students may also attend at
no charge.

Software Quality Association (SQA) meetings are held on the same night
as ACS Canberra Branch meetings, at the same venue as those meeting,
from 6 pm. More details on SQA meetings can be found on the ACS
Canberra Branch Web events site at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html
or more specifically at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/index.html#sqa

The theme for this SQA meeting will be: 
" Quality and Process management"
with the speaker being Ravin Baggia  of  Rockwell  

The SQA meeting is followed by nibbles and light drinks at 7 pm.

More information is available by ringing Meryl Morgan on 
(02) 6247 4830, via e-mailing mmorgan@acslink.net.au or at
http://www.acs.org.au/act/



Regards

Andrew R. Freeman, FACS PCP   
Key e-mail: afreeman@pcug.org.au 
Location: Belconnen Canberra ACT Australia
Personal home page: http://www.pcug.org.au/~afreeman
Deputy Branch Chair, ACS Canberra Branch - 2000
Editor, VAC - Virtual ACS Canberra 
Meetings Co-ordinator - ACS Canberra - 2000

Deputy Conference Chair for the Information Outlook 2000 
(IO2000) conference being held on Friday, 10 November 2000
at Manning Clark Centre, Australian National University.
All details on the IO2000 conference, including links to sponsors, are at:
http://www.acs.org.au/act/events/io2000/index.html

Join free ACS lists via: http://www.acs.org.au/index-lists.shtml

ACS Canberra Web page: http://www.acs.org.au/act/
For more information on ACS Canberra 
Ph: (02) 6247 4830 or e-mail mmorgan@acslink.net.au