[wellylug] Administrivia: Wellylug Monthly Posting
Pedro Worcel
pedro at worcel.com
Thu Jan 3 11:51:50 NZDT 2013
Hi Guys!
Awesome! I've been willing to do some of the meetups that are around
Wellington, but not having a decent computer I can't be bothered.
hey Callum, are you one of the few working today? Always up for coffee!
Cheers!
Pedro
2013/1/3 Callum Grant <callum.el.grant at gmail.com>
> Yep, it can get pretty quiet around here. I'm a programmer at Datacom as
> well now (based at JQ at the moment), so if you want to grab a coffee
> sometime and talk open source that would be cool.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Callum
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Simon Smith <mail at simonsmith.geek.nz>wrote:
>
>> Yeah.... although,we're pretty quiet ;-)
>>
>> I'm an RHEL administrator at Victoria University.
>>
>> Simon
>> On Jan 3, 2013 10:56 AM, "Pedro Worcel" <pedro at worcel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey there!
>>>
>>> Is anyone around here?
>>>
>>> I am a programmer working at Datacom, been in wellington for a year now,
>>> coming from Uruguay!
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Pedro
>>>
>>>
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