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[ Moderator's note: It's impossible for me to restrict the
  distribution of this article to Australia.  Sorry.  --liw ]


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            The Canonical List of Australian Linux User Groups

                          1993 Andrew J. Cosgriff

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$Revision: 1.0.0.4 $

$Source: /home/andrew/work/lists/RCS/AustLUGs.txt,v $

$Date: 1993/10/30 10:11:42 $

$Author: andrew $

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If you have any additions and/or comments on this list, please mail me at
the following address :

                         andrew@bing.apana.org.au

(It is my home address, and so shouldn't change for the foreseeable
future.)

The list is by no means complete, so *please* get in touch with me if you
can correct any of the info.

You can get the list from the following places
    i) off of the USENET newsgroups aus.computers.linux and
       comp.os.linux.announce
    ii) (in future) : sending mail to linux-ug@bing.apana.org.au
        (NOTE - don't try this yet, i'm having mail system hassles right
now, it'll be fixed real soon now)

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Format of each entry is as follows :

<name>

Started : <date group started>

Meeting Time : <time and date that the group meets>

Meeting Place : <where to go>

Organiser / President / Secretary, etc : <as per usual>

Contact address : <who to ask for more information about the club>

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LUV - the Linux Users of Victoria

Started : first meeting was on the 6th of July 1993

Meeting Time : 7:30pm on the first Tuesday of each month.

Meeting Place : 723 Swanston Street, Carlton. (CSIRO CITRI building)

President : Mike Battersby

Secretary : Andrew Cosgriff

Contact Address : (Andrew Cosgriff) andrew@bing.apana.org.au

Mailing List : melblinux@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au

Notes : 

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CLUG - the Canberra Linux Users Group

Started : 

Meeting Time : 7:00pm on the fourth Thursday of each month.

Meeting Place : Leonard Huxley lecture theatre, Leonard Huxley building,
                Australian National University.

Organizer : Andrew Tridgell

Contact Address : (Andrew Tridgell) Andrew.Tridgell@anu.edu.au

Mailing List : linux@arvidsjaur.anu.edu.au

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SLUG - the Sydney Linux Users Group

Started : 25th of June 1993 (first meeting)

Meeting Time : Last Friday of every month.

Meeting Place : Softway Pty Ltd
                Level 2
                79 Myrtle St
                Chippendale

President : Robert Thomas (rthomas%ozsqnt@sequent.com)

Contact Address : linux-request@defiance.vut.EDU.AU

Mailing List : linux@defiance.vut.EDU.AU

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PLUG - Perth Linux User Group

Started : first meeting sometime in June 1993 (Can't remember the exact date)

Meeting Time : 6:30pm on the fourth Wednesday of each month (may change back 
to 2nd).

Meeting Place : Edith Cowan University (Mt. Lawley Campus)
                Bradford St, Mt. Lawley
                Building 17 Room 203

Organiser : Darren Gilchrist
 
Secretary : Ditto (Although I'd like someone else to start helping out :-))

Contact Address : (Darren Gilchrist) darreng@falcon.DIALix.oz.au

Mailing List : (still waiting on info here)

Newsgroup : wa.plug

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(Queensland : ) SCA User Group

Started : ??

Meeting Time : Sundays at 12:00pm (which time of month ?)

Meeting Place : Technology building, Griffith Uni, Nathan.
								Room 0.20 (level 0).

Organiser : ??

Contact Address : Jason Kempnich ? (jkempnic@gucis.cit.gu.edu.au)

Mailing List : ??

Notes : "We support 386BSD, AmigaOS, Linux, OS/2 and MS-DOS."


PS. what's happening with respect to that other one (BLUG or whatever)
mentioned recently on aus.computers.linux - has it got off the ground yet ?)

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                          - Andrew J. Cosgriff -
 andrew@bing.apana.org.au                       ins407x@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au
                   "Be nice to me -- I'm out of Valium."