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This is the HUMBUG Frequently asked questions file.  It is posted
periodically to uq.general,bne.general, aus.computers.linux, and
news.answers.  This file contains many of the questions frequently asked
about HUMBUG.  It also contains a few less frequently asked questions that
I think are worthy of inclusion.  This document is (c) Copyright Robert
Brockway 1997.  No limits are placed on redistribution in electronic
or other format of unmodified copies.  Modified copies may only be
redistributed with the permission of the copyright holder.

Version:	0.1
Last modified:	June 3 1997.

		Contents
		--------

Q1:     What is HUMBUG?
Q2:     What does HUMBUG do?
Q3:     Where are meetings held?
Q4:     When are meetings held?
Q5:     Do I have to join to attend meetings?
Q6:     How much is membership?
Q7:     What does membership provide?
Q8:     How do I join?
Q9:     Does HUMBUG provide any other services?
Q10:    Are any other services in the works?   
Q11:    Where can I find out more?
Q12:    Do you have any mailing lists?
Q13:    How do I get to meetings?
Q14:    What is there to eat at meetings?


Q1:	What is HUMBUG?

A1:	HUMBUG is the Home Unix Machine Brisbane User Group.

Q2:	What does HUMBUG do?

A2:	The club exists to get fellow Unix users in contact with each
	other, to introduce people to Unix and Unix-like operating
	systems, to and to help users in operating those systems.

Q3:	Where are meetings held?

A3:	Meetings are held at the University of Queensland, in the
	Hawken-3 lecture theatre.

Q4:	When are meetings held?

A4:	Meetings are held fortnightly throughout the year.  We do not
	breakup for an end of year holiday.

Q5:	Do I have to join to attend meetings?

A5:	No.  Under our constitution, you only need to join if you wish
	to access HUMBUG services (see question 7).

Q6:	How much is membership?

A6:	This depends on what month you join in:

	Month	Cost to join (Australian dollars)
	-----------------------------------------
	Sep	$15
	Oct	$15
	Nov	$15
	Dec	$12
	Jan	$12
	Feb	$12
	Mar	$ 9
	Apr	$ 9
	May	$ 9
	Jun	$ 6
	Jul	$ 6
	Aug	$ 3

	All memberships expire at the end of the AGM which must be held
	in September.

Q7:	What does membership provide?

A7:	Membership grants quite a bit:

	1.	Access to the HUMBUG library which includes nearly 2 years
		worth of Linux Journals as well as various CDroms (under
		the Gnu General Public License or the BSD license).

	2.	Access to our 10Mbit/sec Internet link at meetings.

	3.	Email addresses in the domain humbug.org.au.
		You can choose the email address as long as
		it hasn't been taken already).

	4.	DNS entries in the domain humbug.org.au under your
		own hostname.

Q8:	How do I join?

A8:	The easiest way to join is to approach the President (Robert
	Brockway) or the Treasurer (James Lever) at a club meeting, and
	pay them membership in cash or cheque.

Q9:	Does HUMBUG provide any other services?

A9:	We run an irc server on the irc network linpeople.org
	(http://www.linpeople.org).  Traffic on this server network
	is limited to discussion of Unix, as it provides a world-wide
	technically support service to the Linux/Unix community.

Q10:	Are any other services in the works?

A10:	HUMBUG is considering providing a Clarinet (real news via Usenet)
	newsfeed to members.

Q11:	Where can I find out more?

A11:	The humbug web pages live at www.humbug.org.au (what a surprise
	:-).  That is the primary store of information about HUMBUG.

Q12:	Do you have any mailing lists?

A12:	We sure do! :-)  We now have 3 mailing lists:
	Here is a quick run down on them.
	
		Announce
		--------
	Meeting announcements and all other important information
	is sent out on this list.  It is assumed that all members
        are on this list.  This list is moderated.
	On topic subjects:	-Meeting announcements.
                             	- Official social event announcements.
                              	- Announcements of property lost at
                                  a HUMBUG meeting/event.
                              	- Job Advertisements that are directly
                                  related to Unix and/or the Internet
                                  (Web development, C programming, perl
                                  programing,etc).
                              	- Posts concerning events that are
                                  of importance to HUMBUG members as a
                                  whole (New stable version releases of
                                  Linux or FreeBSD for example).

	This is not an exhaustive list of on-topic subjects, anything
	worthy of being on the announce list will be approved by the
	list admin.

		General
		-------

	This list is primarily for Unix/Linux questions and answers,
        but as the name suggests it covers a wide variety of topics.
        'Chat' is off topic here, and should be sent to the chat list.
        On topic subjects:	- Programing problems.
                              	- Unix configuration problems.
                              	- Answers to problems posted.
                              	- Discussion about problems posted, and the
                                  merits of posted answers.
                              	- General discussion about HUMBUG itself
                                  (organisational matters such as
                                  incorporation vs Student Union
				  affiliation are an example here).

		Chat
		----

	This is the 'social' list, and has the highest volume traffic
	of the three.  It is the same list as the old humbug-l list.
	On topic subjects:	- Unix Humour.
                              	- Other Humour.
                              	- Chat

	As a general rule, attempt to keep lengthy discussions off the
	general list and on the chat list.  It is worth considering moving
	a long discussion from one list to the other.

	Off topic for all three lists is anything commercial (except as
	mentioned for the announce list).

	When we created this new list structure recently, all people on
	the old humbug-l list were put on all three lists.  They are then
	free to unsubscribe as they see fit.  This list structure was
	setup after lengthy debate, to allow users to decide what volume
	of mail that wish to receive.

	To join the lists: Email majordomo@humbug.org.au, with a message
	body of:
		subscribe announce you@somehost.somesite
	and/or
		subscribe general  you@somehost.somesite
	and/or
		subscribe chat     you@somehost.somesite

Q13:	How do I get to meetings?

A13:	You first need to get to the University of Queensland, Brisbane,
	Australia.

	The Hawken building is building 50 on the information maps
	distributed around the campus.

	If you do not know where the Hawken Lecture Theatres are, meet
	me at the large university information map across the road from
	the University bus stop at 2:45pm, or email me and we can arrange
	to meet at another time/place.

	Here are directions to reach the bus stop:

	To reach the bus stop after entering St Lucia, drive along Sir
	Fred  Schonell Drive until you come to a roundabout.  Turn right
	into Coleridge St.  Turn left in to Carmody Rd at the T-junction.
	Follow this road until you get to another roundabout.  Turn left
	at the round about. This will put you in Chancellors's place.

	I suggest anyone not familiar with The University of Queensland
	at St Lucia consult a refedex, before attempting to find the bus
	stop.

	For further details, email me at robert@zen.humbug.org.au, or
	contact the general mailing list.

Q14:	What is there to eat at meetings?

A14:	The Schonnel Pizza Cafe is a five minute walk away - they make
	delicious pizzas or you can order in take-away for dinner. 
	A takeaway shop well known in St Lucia as the 'The Big Red Shop'
	sells delicious (yet cheap) Chinese takeway and just about
	everything else (ok, we didn't find any bnc terminators there :-)
	It is difficult to recognise as a takeaway shop though.

Cheers,
	-Robert

--Robert Brockway. Email: robert@zen.humbug.org.au, president@humbug.org.au
                          unrbrock@dingo.uq.edu.au, s316674@student.uq.edu.au
                   WWW:   http://student.uq.edu.au/~s316674

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