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    SAGE-AU Queensland Chapter Meeting - September 1999
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*   Date:      9 September 1999 (Second Thursday of the month)

*   Time:      7:00 - 9:00 pm

    Title:     Contracting as a Sys Admin

    Speaker:   Bernadette Hyland
               Professional Services Director
               Plugged In Software

               http://www.pisoftware.com/management_team.html

    Abstract:  Are you thinking of becoming an independent contractor
               doing sys admin work?

               At the next SAGE-AU meeting in Brisbane, if you weren't
               lucky enough to get to AUUG, you can learn about your
               options as a contractor.  What is involved, the costs
               and benefits of working as a consultant.

               Bernadette Hyland, Professional Services Director of
               Plugged In Software will talk about how you can make the
               jump into being a consultant.  She worked in New York
               and Tokyo coding Unix based realtime trading systems for
               the investment banking industry before moving to Oz.
               She and David Wood founded Plugged In Software, an
               Internet startup, focused on Open Source development and
               support.

               We'll cover the types of projects that our corporate
               clients are either outsourcing or wanting to bring on
               independent contractors to implement.  What skills, in
               additional to good technical skills, are required as a
               consultant.  We can touch on how the GST may affect you
               as a consultant, and give you a heads up on some legal
               and accounting issues you should consider before making
               the leap.

##  Venue:     Room 343, Level 3
##             General Purpose South Building (no. 78)
##             Staff House Road
##             The University of Queensland
##             St. Lucia
##
##             Car parking is available on campus for free from 18:30.
##             The university is serviced by public transport with
##             frequent buses during university terms. The building
##             is situated 5 mins walk from the bus stop.  See
##             http://www.uq.edu.au/about/locations/st-lucia.html
##             http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.phtml?menu=1&z=2&id=71
##             The entrance to the room can be reached via the
##             external stairwell connected to the walkway spanning
##             Staff House Rd.

    Who:       SAGE-AU Members, System Administrators
               (Visitors are welcome. After attending two
               meetings, visitors should become members)

    Agenda:    7:00  Welcome & Business at hand
               7:15  Talk
               9:00  Meeting Close

    Purpose:   To get QLD SysAdmins/System Managers/
               PC administrators/System Programmers
               together. To lend a sympathetic ear
               to the plight of System Support.

    Drink:     Tea & coffee, O/J, soft-drink & beer

    Food:      Pizza and snacks

    RSVP:      Mark.Suter@member.sage-au.org.au