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*** Update ***

As per update email to all members on 28th October 2008

The Annual General Meeting of the System Administrators Guild will take place in 21 days on Tuesday 18th November at 20:00.
We will meet at the Google offices in Barrow Street, Dublin.
There are two office buildings, please head to the one called "Gordon House".
All are welcome, so please come along and have your say!

Lee "nomad" Damon will be giving a talk entitled "Why Do We Need
Infrastructure?" on Tuesday, May 6th at 19:00 in Google's offices on
Barrow Street. Further details of Lee's talk are available at
http://www.castle.org/nomad/why_infrastructure.abstract.txt

The following benefits are available to fully paid up members of the Guild

• Reduced rate Car Insurance with One Direct
• Reduced rate Home Insurance with One Direct
• Reduced rate Health Insurance with VIVAS
• Discounted purchases on Microsoft & O'Reilly books with Micromail
• Discounted annual membership at the National Aquatic Centre

Details on how to take advantage of these offers will be made available to members shortly

This month's meeting is the last of our social sessions over the summer months. Our usual space in the Schoolhouse pub has been reserved from 19:00

If you've never been to the Schoolhouse before, please see Google Maps for directions.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Our July meeting on Tuesday the 10th of July is another social session in our usual haunt The Schoolhouse Pub. Feel free to drop by for a drink and a bite to eat.

If you've never been to the Schoolhouse before, please see Google Maps for directions.

Our June meeting on Tuesday the 12th of June is a social session in our usual haunt The Schoolhouse Pub. Feel free to drop by for a drink and a bite to eat.

If you've never been to the Schoolhouse before, please see Google Maps for directions.

Our May meeting will take place on Tuesday May 8th, when Colin Whittaker of Magnet Networks will be talking to us about "The realities of building an LLU network in Ireland".

The talk will be held in the HEAnet offices at the IFSC in the city centre and will start at 19:00. Following the talk, we will retire to
a nearby pub which has yet to be decided for food and drinks. If you are planning on attending, please email Conall O'Brien by Tuesday morning, so that building security can expect you.

Our April meeting will take place this coming Tuesday, April 10th at 19:00. Sam Johnson, CTO of Microcost will be talking to us about "Google Apps: On in 60 seconds" and will be sharing a few tips and tricks he has used, working with Google Apps.

This talk is being hosted in association with the TCD Networking Society (NetSoc) and will take place in the Robert Emmet theatre, on the ground floor level of the Trinity College Arts Block off Nassau St.

Dear friends,

The time has come; the System Administrators' Guild of Ireland is moving to a paid membership system. We've talked about this for some time, but we're ready and willing to take your money.