[Melbourne-pm] Software Freedom Day - Call for Volunteers!

Jacinta Richardson jarich at perltraining.com.au
Sat Aug 22 03:57:10 PDT 2009


Howdy everyone!

Software Freedom Day is now less than a month away!

When? 11am - 4pm, Saturday 19 September
Where? Melbourne PC Club Rooms, 2nd Floor, Chadstone Place, Chadstone
Shopping Centre. (See Map at http://luv.asn.au/sfd)

Now, we need your help!

1. To help spread the word in the lead up to SFD at Chadstone.
Download the A6 fliers, print 'em out and hand 'em round!
http://luv.asn.au/files/a6fliers_0.pdf

2. To come along and participate, talk to people, do software demos,
hand out balloons and software and help give directions.

3. To staff a community table and talk to people about Open Source
Victoria and about Open Source for business and Software Freedom in general.

Brianna Laugher has put together a very shiny program of talks and
workshops...

Talks:
  * Beginning programming with Python, Minh Nguyen
      * GIMP, Andrew Thornton
      *  How to move to open source, Daniel Jitnah
      * OpenOffice, Jessica Smith
      *  Introduction to distributed version control with Mercurial,
        Duana Stanley
      *  Demo/workshop: Installing Linux on your netbook, Wen Lin (BYO
        netbook!)
      *  How to back up using Clonezilla, Wen Lin
      *  Build your own website with Drupal, Simon Hobbs

Workshops:
      * Introduction to Wordpress, Kathy Reid
      * Advanced Wordpress, Kathy Reid
      * Hands-on hardware hacking (Arduinos), Andy Gelme (limited
        places, may be a small cost for hardware)
      * Inkscape, Donna Benjamin


-- 
Software Freedom Day 2009        http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/melb
A world wide celebration of
Free and Open Source Software      Melbourne event at Melb PC Chadstone
and the community behind it.          11am - 4pm, Saturday 19 September


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