[ucc-announce] Seasonal wishes, downtime and request for donations

[Matt Didcoe]

Hi everyone,

Seasonal wishes
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A very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all. 2010 was an
interesting year, filled with it's share of problems (storm) and
victories (free internet, insurance payout). I'm hoping 2011 will be
an even better year for the club - Committee are already working on
some plans and David Adam has kindly put together a member survey that
you will all be hearing about in the next week. I would encourage you
all to provide responses (meaningful ones!) so that we can get a good
sense of what you feel we're doing right (and wrong, so we can fix
it).

Downtime
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This coming Friday, January 7 2011, all UCC services will be offline
for scheduled hardware and software works. Exact timing is still being
worked out, so I recommend keeping an eye on IRC (irc.ucc.asn.au/#ucc)
and UCC status (http://twitter.com/ucc_status).

Martello and Mussel will be having distro upgrades while Mooneye gets
moved to some more reliable (and hopefully cooler) hardware.

Request for Donations
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While I'm annoying you all, back in December, an upgrade of Martello
was approved by the Committee. While UCCs financial position is
strong, we would appreciate donations from any interested member
(large or small, every bit counts!).

If you're interested, please email newmartello at ucc with your name and
how much you'd like to give, along with your preferred payment method
(we accept direct debit, cash or coke credit).

I hope to see many of you around the club as Semester 1 rapidly approaches.

Cheers,
Matt Didcoe [MRD]
2010 President
mattman at ucc