March 2004 - Muug-announce

VMware Offer - last chance to respond!
by muug-announce-admin＠muug.mb.ca 11 Mar '04

11 Mar '04

In the most recent issue of MUUG Lines, we wrote... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VMWare Offer Last chance to have your name submitted for the VMWare offer. "If you send us a list of your members' names and email addresses (with their permission!), when they support our Linux development efforts by purchasing a copy of VMware Workstation, we will send them a $100 rebate. The program for Linux group members will begin on December 22, 2003. In the next 6 weeks, we'll also be providing all registrants with a referral code. This code will both provide your colleagues with a 5% discount off of VMware Workstation and provide you with 15 VMware Points when they purchase it on our web site. Approximately every 6 weeks, we ll send you a statement of your points earned, at which point you can redeem them for various product and merchandise." If you are interested in this promotion and want us to submit your name and email to VMWare, please send us an email to vmware(a)muug.mb.ca. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To date, we've only had two responses to this request (which also ran in the January and February issues). So, on the off-chance that people are not reading the newsletter, but are actually interested in the offer, or maybe they've just been meaning to respond but needed one last nudge, here it is: This is your last chance to take advantage of this offer. We'll be collecting any additional responses we receive at the address <vmware(a)muug.mb.ca> until the end of next week, i.e. midnight on Saturday, March 20, and sending those addresses (along with the two already received) to VMware early the following week. They will then contact you with details on how to get your $100 rebate. So, if you're interested, respond now, before you forget! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609

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MUUG Meeting, Mar 9, 7:30PM -- Voice over IP (correction)
by muug-announce-admin＠muug.mb.ca 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

Sorry for the previous, erroneous posting. The correct meeting date follows... ------ Forwarded Article <c22nmh$fi7$2(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, March 9. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Voice over IP Bill Reid will give a brief intro to VoIP technology with emphasis on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Bill will also demonstrate installing and configuring Asterisk as well as a number of SIP hard and soft phones. Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our new meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15 PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or you may not get in. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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MUUG Meeting, Feb 10, 7:30PM -- Voice over IP
by muug-announce-admin＠muug.mb.ca 02 Mar '04

02 Mar '04

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <c22k9e$e1a$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, February 10. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Voice over IP Bill Reid will give a brief intro to VoIP technology with emphasis on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Bill will also demonstrate installing and configuring Asterisk as well as a number of SIP hard and soft phones. Asterisk is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our new meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15 PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or you may not get in. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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