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The Making Links Conference 2008 will be held in Melbourne from 12th-14th November.

CASE President Darrell Burkey will give two presentations, Tail, Dog, Wag (1Mb pdf file) and Joomla! Web Based Content Management (310k pdf file). Darrell will also speak about domain name issues (65k pdf file) at the conference 'web day'. 

Making Links is a conference that seeks to engage interested people, organisations and groups working at the intersection of social action and IT - including community workers, educators, trainers, not-for-profit organisations, school teachers, environmental campaigners and activists.

CASE will hold it's Annual General Meeting on Monday 27 October 2008 from 5.45 pm - 6.30pm at the Offices of Volunteering ACT, Canberra Labor Club Community Chambers, 55 Chandler Street Belconnen.

Please join us for the presentation of annual reports to members and the election of office bearers for the next year. Agenda and related information will be on line in the near future.

On 27 October 2008 from 3.00pm to 5.30pm, prior to our AGM,  CASE and Volunteering ACT will be hosting Canberra's first One Laptop Per Child  Open Day.

Everyone is invited to come and see how volunteers and technology have combined to empower students around the world. This is rare opportunity for hands on play with these unique computers and to hear about the new Foundation making them available in Australia.

At 5.00pm Pia Waugh will speak about her ongoing involvement with One Laptop Per Child educational projects and her work with the Free and Open Source Software community. This is a unique opportunity to hear about the little laptop creating an education revolution around the world. You may even decide to join OLPC Friends.

We are pleased to inform member organisations that they can now recycle equipment at no cost simply by being selective in their choice of vendors. Dell Australia now offer free recycling of equipment being replaced when purchasing new equipment. See the Dell Recycling web site for more information.

The news gets even better now that CASE members can obtain further discounts from Dell by forwarding orders through our account manager. Contact us directly if you would like more information regarding this. It's just another example of how we all benefit from working together.

A Cooperative Approach to Shared IT Services.

A workshop presented by CASE  will be held on Tuesday 5 August 2008 from 10.00am - 12.00pm at ACTCOSS.

The overall  goal of this workshop is to ensure participants receive practical information that can be used immediately to enhance their computer network infrastructure and information systems.

The role of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and how it can be used to implement robust, secure and affordable IT systems will be discussed in a non-technical manner.

CASE President, Darrell Burkey, will be one of the presenters at the Connecting Up 2008 Conference in Brisbane on 19-20 May.

His presentation Joomla! -Take control of your online publishing with CMS (310k pdf),  will examine the pros and cons of using content management systems, demonstrating what works well and what issues exist with using CMS to create your organisation's online presence.

On day two of the conference Darrell will also present Dog, Tail, Wag - Information Technology and Non-Profit Organisations (1Mb pdf file) to demonstrate strategies organisations have used to implement robust and reliable network services.