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You never know who you will find at a Motorcycle Riders Association charity ride. This year CASE Patron Senator Kate Lundy, a keen rider herself and member of the Dual Sport Motorcycle Riders’ Association, led a ride of 200 motorcyclists from Old Parliament House down to Woden and back to Civic where the riders made donations of over $3,000 in blankets and cash to Canberra Community Care. CASE President Darrell Burkey, a member of the MRA in the ACT, joined Kate in supporting the great work that this group does.

CASE President, Darrell Burkey, will be one of the presenters at the Connecting Up 09 Conference in Sydney on 11-12 May 2009.

His presentation What's in a Name - Choosing the Right Domain Name (334kb pdf) will look at what makes a good domain name, how to register domain names and how to select the most effective name to represent your organisation. Darrell will also be outlining the most common problems that organisations have with their domain names and how to prevent them. Download our domain name info sheet (64kb pdf)  for additional information.

CASE has been contracted by the Australian National University to deliver a Masters level course in Free and Open Source Software. The class will be taught by CASE volunteer Dr Andrew Tridgell who currently is working for IBM and is well known for his achievements in developing free and open source software. For more info refer to the course flyer (pdf file). 

Committee member, Sam McKeon, attended this years Joomla! day in Melbourne. The event was hosted by the Melbourne Joomla! Users Group at Melbourne University. Attendees ranged from those who had never used Joomla! to seasoned gurus. Sam found it an interesting and rewarding day. He gained some valuable information and advice that will assist CASE with the management of Joomla! web sites for our members.
You can read more about it on the CASE  Blog.

For years members have identified web services as a high priority. As such, CASE submitted a funding proposal to the ACT Community Support and Infrastructure Grants Program to provide Joomla! web based content management systems and associated training. Although our application was deemed appropriate, for the second year running the CSIG budget was insufficient to meet the needs of the sector and therefore our application was not successful. The good news is that the project will go ahead. Details coming soon.

CASE is a successessful applicant of a grant under the Community Support and Infrastructure Grants Program. We applied for a grant for a UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) for our server room to replace one that failed. This will ensure that CASE can continue to safely supply services such as support for webistes and emailing lists for member organisations.